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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I know what it takes to make myself perform. "

" I'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A. "

" I'm a huge fan of Fox, and I'm honored to be officially joining the FOX team with them as my title sponsor. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation. "

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

" I'm helping people do things they haven't done since they had two good legs, and that's worth it right there. "

" 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. "

" To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful. "