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I love being outdoors and trekking around.
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Outdoors
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Being an athlete, my job was to physically perform.
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Athlete
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Snowboarding has taken me so many different places.
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Snowboarding
Different Places
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Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs.
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Legs
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I'm out of my comfort zone every time I'm on the race course.
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Comfort
Comfort Zone
Zone
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I didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident.
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Snowboarding
Accident
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I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for.
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Anthem
Flag
Stands
Ton
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You know you've made it to the big time when you're on a cereal box.
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Cereal
Big Time
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Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games.
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Competing
Games
Out Here
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As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.
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Machinery
Tinkering
Always Growing Up Up
Rural
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I travel a lot. I didn't want to be stuck sitting in my office managing the business.
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Stuck
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I'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A.
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Patriot
Holds
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To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.
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American Flag
Anthem
National Anthem
Symbols
Flag
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I was in the garage fixin' things, and I'm like, what better project than building your own leg?
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Garage
Leg
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It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports.
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Accomplish
Adaptive
Mind Blowing
Athletes
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To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor.
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Representing
Carrying
World Stage
Flag
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I'm a huge fan of Fox, and I'm honored to be officially joining the FOX team with them as my title sponsor.
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Honored
Joining
Fox
Huge Fan
Officially
Sponsor
Title
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I'm helping people do things they haven't done since they had two good legs, and that's worth it right there.
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Legs
Worth It
Good People Done
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A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.
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Creating
Equipment
Fabrication
Maintaining
Metal
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Sometimes people say, 'Oh, you're doing better now than before the accident.'That irritates the hell out of me.
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Better Now
Irritates
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When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking.
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Components
Originally
Prosthetic
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I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation.
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Michigan
Leg
Subsequent
Wreck
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It's an amazing feeling when I have a customer who tries a leg on and is able to go snowboarding for the first time.
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Snowboarding
Amazing Feeling
Customer
Leg
Tries
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I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports.
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Manufacturing
Owner
Prosthetic
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To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful.
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Compete
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I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to snowboard again.
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Shattered
Heel
Leg
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Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that's kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for.
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Adaptive
Equipment
Skiing
Snowboarding
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I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a leg that I built.
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Adaptive
Medal
Silver
Leg
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Fox and I go way back... I got to know the Fox folks pretty well as the result of spending time at races with them over the years.
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Spending Time
Fox
Races
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I was always out wiping around on the farm with three-wheelers and four-wheelers. I loved the speed and the adrenaline rush that followed.
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Adrenaline
Speed
Farm
Followed
Rush
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The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it.
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Life Work Me
Stands
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It is definitely easier to deal with injuries on the mental side after you've had a few of them, since you are aware of the recovery process.
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Recovery
Injuries
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I know firsthand the way that Fox supports their athletes because they've been there for me since the beginning. I know that I can count on them.
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Me Beginning Way
Athletes
Count
Firsthand
Fox
Supports
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It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.
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Gold
Silver
Winter
Medals
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For the most part, if you're willing to work hard enough, you can recover from most injuries. Having that mentality really helps you keep moving forward.
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Mentality
Moving Forward
Injuries
Recover
Work Hard
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Once I started feeling better and healthier and learned to walk on my first prosthetic leg, I realised I'm not going to be satisfied with just walking around.
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Realised
Satisfied
Healthier
Just Walking
Leg
Prosthetic
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For riding a snowmobile, you need to have your knee bent. It needs to absorb the impact of riding over bumps, to allow yourself to stand up or sit down, balance side to side.
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Bent
Bumps
Riding
Absorb
Stand Up
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Building prosthetics that allow people to get back to the fun activities in life is as rewarding a job as I can imagine. It's just as fulfilling for me as winning at the racetrack.
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Fulfilling
Life Me Fun
Life Me People
Activities
Racetrack
Rewarding
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Having already used a Fox shock in my Moto Knee, the prosthetic leg I developed, I knew that I would take advantage of Fox's superior suspension dynamics in the Versa Foot as well.
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Advantage
Dynamics
Shock
Suspension
Developed
Foot
Fox
Leg
Prosthetic
Superior
Take Advantage
Versa
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I remember my dad telling me that if I wanted to start racing motocross, I had to get a job and pay for it myself. So I did. As soon as I was able to drive myself to work, I got into racing motocross at age 15.
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Racing
Work Age Dad
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I loved to go hunting out in the woods and hiking, and that's just not easy anymore. For me, to walk up and down hills in the rough terrain, it just doesn't work very well. It can, but it's three times as hard as it used to be.
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Hiking
Hunting
Rough
Terrain
Up And Down
Woods
Work Walk Me
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I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it.
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Bike
Dirt
Racing
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When you walk, you need the leg to swing back and forth underneath you. It needs to flex at a certain point, then extend as you follow through your gait. Now, that function doesn't really help at all while I'm standing on my dirt bike or snowmobile.
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Bike
Dirt
Follow Through
Function
Gait
Standing
Certain Point
Extend
Follow
Forth
Walk
Leg
Swing
Underneath
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The crazy part, with all of the surgeries I had, I retained water from the IV fluids, and I gained 60 pounds. I was 247 pounds at my maximum. I couldn't even touch my face because my joints were swollen. I was so big, it was ridiculous - just insane.
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Insane
Joints
Maximum
Swollen
Gained
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Having adaptive events televised in the X Games is huge. There are people out there who might want to do this but don't think they can. They can see us out here tearing it up. That's going to help people realize that if you want something bad enough, you can get there.
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Adaptive
Help People
Out Here
Tearing
Televised
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I've had several broken bones and sprains throughout my career, but the one that really changed things was when I wrecked in 2008 during a Pro Snocross competition. I was thrown from my machine and landed on my left leg and caused a 180 degree hyperextension of my knee joint.
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Bones
Thrown
Caused
Landed
Joint
Leg
Pro
Wrecked
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I'm from Minnesota and have always lived there. And my competitive career actually started in the late '90s racing motocross, which then turned into racing snowmobiles professionally. I turned pro in 2003, racing with the best in the world and living my dream as a professional athlete.
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Athlete
Minnesota
Professional Athlete
Racing
Best Always World
Best World Living
Pro
Professionally
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For my equipment, we're not about running. We're about wheels, action sports, and that type of thing. So we want range of motion and shock absorption. The foot itself has 28 degrees of ankle motion as you press into it or you put weight into it. A typical running or walking foot has kind of around 10 to 12, at max, flex at the toe.
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Degrees
Equipment
Max
Range
Shock
Typical
Wheels
Absorb
Ankle
Foot
Motion
Toe
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After snowboarding a fair bit in 2011 and 2012 to test equipment, I got pretty good at it, and some friends at Adaptive Action Sports talked me into competing at the exhibition event at the Winter X Games in the adaptive boardercross. I was able to step up my game pretty quick and compete. I took last place, but knew I could improve.
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Adaptive
Equipment
Snowboarding
Winter
Good Sports Me
Compete
Exhibition
Pretty Good
Quick
Talked
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