Amy Purdy

Yeah.

And I thought, okay, it's actually better to go back to the basic feet so that I can control them.

And I find that just with day-to-day walking and other activities, I kind of like being in control and making them do what I want them to do instead of all of a sudden them getting a glitch and like, okay, we're running.

I guess we're running.

Funny that it didn't happen until after I lost my legs.

I never had a dream to go to the Olympics.

And I think part of it is because snowboarding wasn't an Olympic sport when I first started doing it.

It didn't become an Olympic sport until – really until around the time that I lost my legs.

And –

So after I lost my legs, I was aware that snowboarding was in the Paralympics.

I can't talk, but snowboarding was in the Olympic Games.

And once I realized that I could do it, I thought, well, why isn't snowboarding in the Paralympic Games?

No.

And so my now husband, but he was my boyfriend at the time, Daniel,

we started a nonprofit organization called adaptive action sports.

Uh, we get youth, young adults and wounded vets all with permanent physical disabilities into action sports.

So snowboarding, skateboarding, wakeboarding, we even do rally car racing, motocross, um, all types of, you know, the action sports that I always loved.

We kind of just figured out, you know, I can do all of these things.

So why aren't more people doing these things?

Yet there were a lot of people, a lot of amputees that were skiing and swimming,