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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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" I'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating. "

" I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports. "

" 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. "

" I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for. "

" I didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's kind of crazy how one thing can lead to another if you keep your eyes open to it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that's kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for. "

" 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. "

" I travel a lot. I didn't want to be stuck sitting in my office managing the business. "

" I was in the garage fixin' things, and I'm like, what better project than building your own leg? "

" A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment. "

" Being an athlete, my job was to physically perform. "

" When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Moto Knee shows people what's possible. It's about guys getting back in action in a sport they love. "

" 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. "

" Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs. "

" To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "