What We Do

FAST invest in youth and either teaches them how to BMX, Snowboard, Surf, and other action sports or advance their established skills.

FAST provides all of the essentials needed to learn and enhance their craft.

All youth, of any gender, ages 13 to 18 have the opportunity to embark on treks regardless of income, substance abuse, sexual orientation, ability, physical limitations, and behavioral challenges. All youth from varying racial demeographics, ethnicities, religions are welcome.

 

Our Mission & Why We Do This

FAST hopes to create access to action sports and instill a purpose-driven passion. We provide all the essentials necessary for someone to learn, with no prior experience, to advance the already advanced. Whether you have the funds or not we will remove all the barriers, so everyone has access. FAST conducts group sessions with evidence-based teachings that improve the well-being of each youth. FAST promotes pro-social behavior, honorable stewardship over the earth, and emotional intelligence—understanding their emotions and managing them effectively. By providing youth access to action sports—opportunity that most normally wouldn’t have the chance - FAST instills curiosity, intrinsic motivation, and exploration. Youth overcome obstacles in foreign settings that translate to overcoming obstacles in life.

 

Defining Action Sports

Action Sports is a term used to encapsulate a group of individual sports on a continuum from leisure to adrenaline pulsating, such as BMX, Snowboard, Skateboard, Surf, Mt. Bike, Ski, Wakeboard, and any sport that derived from the core, which could include Wakesurf or Stand-Up Paddle. Action Sports can be executed in the back yard and all the way to the Olympics. Most often action sport's athletes are showcased in the X Games & Dew Tour.

Youth can learn or enhance any one, combination or all of the following action sports:

Snowboarding | Skiing | Mountain Biking | Wake Surfing | BMX

Skateboarding | Rock Climbing | Surfing | Indoor Skydiving

 

What we intend for our participants:

  • Increase physical activity

  • Increase confidence

  • Increase positive social skills

  • Increase adaptive emotional regulation

  • Increase self-efficacy (believe in ability)

  • Increase environmental awareness

  • Decrease screen, video games, computer

  • Decrease anxiety and depression

  • Decrease substance abuse

  • Decrease destructive behavior

  • Decrease reckless decisions

  • Decrease addiction