Amy Purdy

Well, prosthetics don't do that.

No, it's like I'm in ski boots all the time.

Everything is just set.

So I'm really just like stepping in the middle of my foot, you know, the whole time.

But with those computerized ankles, it actually pushes off the ball of the foot and it's like,

you get up the stairs so fast why don't you use those because they made me like six feet tall yeah they made me way too tall because there was they haven't figured out how to shrink the computer down to be for somebody like me gotcha they were just too tall and made me too tall and

I will say this too.

They were fun, but there's something about I like being able to control my feet instead of my feet control me.

And so actually now when I snowboard, I actually snowboard in quite, I don't want to say basic feet.

I kind of created these feet to snowboard in to move the way I need them to.

Yeah.

But they're quite dead.

They're not like shocks and springs and like super high-tech.

Well, the thing is though, even though I have my knees, if your ankles don't bend, your knees don't bend.

Because try like if you were to stand up right now, you know, yeah, like kind of it all works together.

So even though I have my knees there, the motion's limited because my ankle motion is limited.

But I tried actually the next time I snowboarded, I went up with these feet that had shocks and springs.

There are these high athletic feet.

And I bounced all over the place.

You know, I'd hit chatter and I'd, you know, bounce all around.