Amy Purdy

doing more classic sports.

So we wanted to bring, um, these opportunities to people with disabilities so they can do these other types of sports.

And part of what we had a goal of was trying to get snowboarding into the Paralympic games.

And so we kind of went on this mission, um, teaching snowboard lessons to people who have, you know, never snowboard before, but then also trying to find the snowboarders out there over the years.

I, uh,

had created kind of this not that I created it but you know you kind of attract people around you I had this like community of people who all snowboarded and had prosthetics and everybody was riding amazing but individually in their own like little mountain town or in Canada there would be somebody with a prosthetic who snowboarded so

we all started coming together and hitting up every single snowboard competition with our organization, Adaptive Action Sports.

We would create adaptive divisions to snowboard competitions.

USA is a national snowboard competition.

We created an adaptive division with that.

The ESPN X Games, we created an adaptive skateboard division.

And then we did an adaptive snowboard division to the ESPN Winter X Games, which we still run.

the border cross.

And so we started just, yeah.

And, um, and so we started, um, you know, helping to create this community of people who rode incredibly well and wanted to see it in the games.

I mean, it's amazing for years on our own dollar with literally barely any money in our pocket, we'd fly to New Zealand and, um, compete out there and fly to Europe and compete out there and

We had zero sponsors, no idea if this would ever be a Paralympic sport.

There was kind of a core group of probably maybe 20 of us that made it happen, and we were successful ultimately in getting snowboarding.

Our first Games was the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi.

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