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I was giving him tips and he could relate because he has the same disability. Landeros and Adam both lost their legs in In a tragedy that made the papers, Landeros and his best friend, Tyler Carron, were hit by an SUV while looking for tools in the trunk of a car to fix a flat tire.

Both men, high school students at the time, lost their legs in the accident. Today Carron holds a sled hockey gold medal along with Landeros. Both Adam and Landeros started riding sit-skis shortly after, but Landeros excelled in sled hockey, which reminded him of being on the wrestling mat where he competed in high school. He made the U. National Sled Hockey Team in late Adam chose competitive sit-skiing, but in he was looking for something to do off the mountain.

A friend suggested hockey, and by July he had made the Colorado Avalanche "A" team. When Colorado native Landeros visited Denver to practice with the Avalanche club team, Adam's aggressive style and passion for the game quickly caught his eye.

The two became friends when they learned of each other's passion for skiing. He was asking me all about how to get into the X Games," Adam says. Super competitive. My kind of people -- a little rough around the edges but a great guy and a great athlete. He is in the Mono Skier X competition for disabled skiers who use sit skis.

The finals are this afternoon. At Kevin Bramble Goodz, he designs mono-ski rigs — bucket-seated sleds that are propped up on one long ski. Unlike in previous years, his mother, Joyce Bramble, is not sure whether she will watch the competition live on TV this weekend.

She may go out for a short walk. In recent years, Bramble had a string of bad luck in competitions. He failed to qualify for the Paralympics in Vancouver this year. Last January — after finishing first in the Mono Skier X qualifying run — he was in the second heat of a semifinal round of the Winter X Games when the binding on his ski broke on the first jump. On the second jump, the ski flew off, flipping him through the air. In the X Games, he had a lead in the finals when his ski broke.

He finished in fourth place. Living in southern New Jersey now, Bramble acknowledges he has done less skiing than he used to, but his competitive career can last as long as he wants it to. On Feb. He went headfirst into the snow, and his spine snapped.

He knew instantly he was paralyzed. He spent 19 months in a body cast, had to relearn things that had been second nature — such as tying a shoe. At a rehabilitation hospital, he read a sports magazine for the disabled and saw pictures of a sit ski. He ordered one.

Shortly after getting out of the cast, he took it to the mountain and got better year by year. He started designing his own sit skis about eight years ago in a workshop by the family house. Joyce Bramble said her son makes it look easy — and not just the skiing part. Sign up for a digital subscription to The Press of Atlantic City now and take advantage of a great offer.

Keep it Clean. If a race with multiple competitors going as fast as they can over crazy features isn't cool enough, watching Mono Skiers hit this gap jump is one of the most exciting things you'll ever see.

Lindsey Jacobellis is the most dominant Snowboard X racer on the planet, male or female, having won a total of eight SX medals at Winter X, seven of them being golds. Nate Holland's record, at seven Winter X medals -- with six of them being gold -- isn't too shabby, either. Former Colorado ski racer Casey Puckett turned to Skier X when his time competing on the Slalom ski racing circuit was over.

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