Adaptive Fitness Challenge at Big Tire Bootcamp — strength, movement, resilience and community, adapted for every veteran athlete.
Games week and venue come from the official 2026 Koa Challenge flyer. The competition format — the ten stations, the divisions, the age categories and the awards — carries forward unchanged, and the full course is set out below. Anything not yet settled is listed as such rather than guessed at.
The full Koa Challenge runs island-wide across this week.
Pick up a packet in person, per the official 2026 flyer.
The Koa Challenge Veteran Games are a VA event.
5001 Iroquois Ave, Ewa Beach, HI 96706 — AMVETS West Oahu Veterans Center.
The following are not yet published for 2026. We will add each one here as the official event plan confirms it.
The Koa Challenge Adaptive Fitness event is a structured, full-body fitness challenge built for veterans of different ages, experience levels and physical abilities. Athletes move through a ten-station adaptive fitness course on our field at the AMVETS West Oahu Veterans Center.
The course tests functional strength, cardiovascular endurance, coordination, balance, mobility and plain determination. The point is not to sort athletes against each other. It is to give every veteran a challenge that is genuinely hard for them, with clear instructions, safe movement options and adaptations approved on the day.
Big Tire Bootcamp coaches, VA Recreation Therapy staff, volunteers and community partners are on the course to explain the movements, guide athletes between stations and approve modifications where they are needed.
Ten stations, completed in order, fastest total time wins. The full station list is below.
Every athlete does the same work. The clock decides the result.
All ten stations have an approved seated, supported or modified option. Adaptive athletes complete the equivalent work using their designated modification, and referees are briefed to make sure the adapted movement mirrors the intent and intensity of the original.
Visually impaired athletes may use guides or tactile markers. Modifications are standardized and pre-approved rather than decided in the moment, so nobody is negotiating their own event on the clock.
This is the full course. You will be briefed on each station before you start, and a referee is posted at every one.
20 reps, with a SPRI ball
Adaptive option · Seated overhead press to the lap.
20 reps
Adaptive option · K is a kneeling push-up. B is a band press.
20 reps — 10 each side
Adaptive option · Weight adjusted on site.
20 reps, 20-inch plyo box
Adaptive option · Step around the side, or a lateral reach.
25 kcal
3 minute maxAdaptive option · Seated front position.
20 reps
Adaptive option · Pole strike or hand movement.
60 feet — one dumbbell in each hand
Adaptive option · Seated athletes carry one 20 lb dumbbell in their lap on a lap mat.
60 reps — 30 each side
Adaptive option · H is the heavy rope, M the medium. Single rope or hand strikes.
200 m
2 minute maxAdaptive option · Seated is allowed.
30 foot
Adaptive option · Weight adjusted on site. Rope modification available.
Athletes and referees will use this scorecard to track station completion, times, penalties, and the final course result. A printed scorecard will be provided during the event.
This is a display version prepared by Big Tire Bootcamp from the Koa Adaptive Fitness Challenge athlete tracker card. It is not a VA-issued document, and the printed scorecard handed out on event day is the one that counts.
A ten-station course built to test functional strength, cardiovascular fitness, balance, coordination, mobility and endurance — not one capacity in isolation.
Approved modifications support ambulatory, visually impaired, wheelchair and other adaptive athletes. Every movement has a version, and the version is not a lesser one.
You get movement demonstrations, the standards, and safety instructions before you start. Nobody is sent at a station they have not seen explained.
This is a you-versus-you event. The measure is your own effort and finishing safely, not the athlete in the next lane.
A guided warm-up before the challenge and a group cool-down after are part of how we run the day. Final format follows the official 2026 plan.
Big Tire Bootcamp coaches, VA Recreation Therapy staff, volunteers and community partners are on the course to guide athletes and approve modifications.
Athletes compete in one of three divisions, and each division is scored in two age categories.
Athletes who complete the course on foot, with or without approved movement modifications.
Athletes competing with low vision or blindness. Guides, verbal cueing and tactile markers are part of how the course is run.
Athletes competing from a wheelchair, using the seated and lap-loaded version of each movement.
Both categories run inside every division, so a Masters wheelchair athlete is scored against other Masters wheelchair athletes.
The standard competitive category, open to eligible athletes aged 54 and under.
Athletes aged 55 and over compete and are scored against each other, not against the Open field.
Not sure which division fits you? Ask a coach or your Recreation Therapist — division placement is settled before you get to the line, not on the course.
Participants may be required to have the following in place. The official 2026 registration packet is the authority on what is required this year.
Before beginning a new exercise or training program, veterans should consult their physician, VA medical provider, or Recreation Therapist for guidance.
On the day, medical support is on site, and coaches and referees can stop an athlete at any point if form breaks down. Stopping is not a failure — it is part of how the event is run safely.
Awards are presented for first, second and third place in the applicable competitive divisions and categories.
Placings are awarded within each division and age category, so athletes are recognized against the field they actually competed in. The awards ceremony schedule and location will be published with the official 2026 event plan.
Alongside the Adaptive Fitness Challenge, the Koa Challenge runs exhibition events built for veterans to try a sport rather than compete in one. Exhibitions are not scored, not medaled, and not part of your challenge result. Come and have a go.
Veterans have an opportunity to experience indoor field hockey during a separate Koa Challenge exhibition. This introductory experience gives participants a chance to learn basic skills, understand the equipment and rules, and enjoy the teamwork and fast-paced movement of the sport.
Coaches provide instruction and help participants safely experience the sport in a welcoming, supportive environment.
Location, date, time and how to take part will be added here from the official 2026 event plan. Taking part is arranged separately from the Adaptive Fitness Challenge.
The spear throw runs as an exhibition. It is a chance to try the event under coaching, with instruction and safety briefing before anyone throws.
It does not count toward your Adaptive Fitness Challenge result and no placings are awarded for it.
Throwing distances, attempts, equipment and the safety protocol will be published here once the official 2026 exhibition rules are issued.
Neither exhibition is one of the ten Adaptive Fitness stations, and neither affects your division or age-category placing.
Our coaches train Koa Challenge athletes all year, not just in November. Veterans and active duty train free with us, always.
