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I think the key to trying to
overcome or manage your fears

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is confidence, trying to just
push that edge of that comfort

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zone out a little bit.

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And all of a sudden
you find something

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that you love doing that you
were terrified of before.

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I'm a professor of
orthopedic surgery

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at University of Virginia.

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I do motion analysis and
modeling of human movements.

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We're looking at
different disabilities

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and trying to come up with ways
we can help those individuals.

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I spend my time trying to
figure out how people work.

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For the last 15 years, I've
been helping people out

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at Wintergreen Adaptive Sports.

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Anybody that has any kind
of disability, our goal

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is to get them out.

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Get them on skis.

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They spend all day in a chair
being told what they can't do.

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So our main goal is showing
them what they can do.

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There's a really
unique situation

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here where I'm able to go
to a mountain resort that's

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close enough, take
the biomechanics

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and the understanding
of human movement,

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and apply that to my lessons.

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That lets me tune the
lesson to their abilities.

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My graduate students have an
interest in how people move

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and helping people out.

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So one of the things I do is get
them involved with the program.

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They're very hands on here
in the lab with patients,

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dealing with them,
interacting with them.

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But it's gratifying to see
them out on the mountain

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and having some of those
aha moments of, wow,

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this isn't just something
that happens in the lab

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or in academics.

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This is something that
has real life applications

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and changes people's lives.

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Watching these people
do things they never

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thought they would do, the
feelings you get out of that

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are just--

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you can't explain them.

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My whole idea is to get you over
that fear of trying something.

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Show you the confidence to
say, maybe something else

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is possible.

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From the top of the mountain,
you can see anything.

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