Amy Purdy
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I used to love to do that kind of stuff when I had legs.
It's definitely a lot more complicated now.
But I'll tell you, even I'm in border cross.
It's one of the most complicated sports I probably โ an amputee could ever do because you need to be so dynamic.
You need ankles for multiple reasons because โ
So border cross, it's almost like motocross but down snow because there's four to six people who come out of the start gate at the same time.
You immediately go over these jumps as separation features.
And then you're around berms and more jumps and berms and more jumps and you're just weeding each other out.
Whoever crosses the finish line first wins, moves on to the next round.
And it's an all-day kind of thing of competing against each other until you get the winner.
And I'm the only double-leg amputee competitive snowboarder worldwide right now at that level.
This year, we actually met a couple new double-leg amputee guys who are starting to train and hopefully get โ
you know, work their way up.
But for all these years, it's just been me with two prosthetic legs.
And, um, so I race against girls who have their legs or who have one prosthetic leg and, you know, just missing an arm.
They have their own category.
So now if you're an arm, if you're kind of an upper limb impairment, you're in one category.
If you're a lower limb impairment, you're another category.
mostly it's one limb.