Amy Purdy

Very few people are double and actually have figured out their equipment and had the drive to actually like, you know, make it to the point where you can compete.

And just constant innovation, constant creativity to try to figure out how to get my feet to do that, to move the way I want them to move.

And to be honest, they're still not there.

Um,

they're not there.

I mean, the other girls, you know, they, everybody is such incredible athletes training so hard and also have at least one good leg to really do all the dynamic stuff.

And for me, I rely 100% on the mechanics of these feet and they just, they're very limited compared to what the human foot can do.

So, um,

I do realize, though, that that's what my drive is.

My drive is to figure it out.

It's frustrating, but it's also rewarding, especially when I meet, say, other young double-legged amputees who say, oh, my God, I want to go to the Paralympics for snowboarding.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

So for us, since that was the first Paralympics, it was a much smaller field.

Yes.

Our first snowboard event in the Paralympics.

It was a much smaller field.

And actually, we didn't do the typical...

four by four or, um, yeah, that it was timed.