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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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

" Snowboarding has taken me so many different places. "

" To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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