O T S E K I FROM B S R E D I R C BRON This unique, high performance training academy is geared towards action sports. Their goal? Getting you, to yours. By JENN WEBSTER Photos courtesy of BRAD CLIFFORD
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or a period of time, travelling the world as a professional bike racer offered a thrilling mix of self-discovery to a Manitoba native, hell-bent on bucking the norms. Hailing from a family firmly rooted in the ranching lifestyle, Brad Clifford grew up with cattle, bison, grain and horses all around 46 WESTERN HORSE REVIEW JULY/AUGUST 2021
him. Still, an inner calling seemed to beckon him away, as Clifford drifted instead toward action sport athletics. After the bikes, skis followed and once again he found himself hurtling towards another trajectory in life. Clifford toured the world for the better part of 15 years in pursuit of extreme sports but early in 2020, his mother would receive a cancer
diagnosis and he once again found his life charting a new course. “From an early age, my mother was obsessed with the western lifestyle,” he tells. “She showed and jumped throughout my entire childhood and still does to this day. But in early spring of last year, she was diagnosed with stage four lymphoma.”
