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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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" 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. "

" I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands 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'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm out of my comfort zone every time I'm on the race course. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "