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For the most part, if you're willing to work hard enough, you can recover from most injuries. Having that mentality really helps you keep moving forward.
Mike Schultz
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Once I started feeling better and healthier and learned to walk on my first prosthetic leg, I realised I'm not going to be satisfied with just walking around.
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Snowboarding has taken me so many different places.
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To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.
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After snowboarding a fair bit in 2011 and 2012 to test equipment, I got pretty good at it, and some friends at Adaptive Action Sports talked me into competing at the exhibition event at the Winter X Games in the adaptive boardercross. I was able to step up my game pretty quick and compete. I took last place, but knew I could improve.
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When you walk, you need the leg to swing back and forth underneath you. It needs to flex at a certain point, then extend as you follow through your gait. Now, that function doesn't really help at all while I'm standing on my dirt bike or snowmobile.
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I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for.
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I love being outdoors and trekking around.
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When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking.
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The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it.
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It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.
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As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.
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