{"id":201302,"date":"2025-11-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/?p=201302"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:47:44","slug":"skydiving-becoming-a-paralympic-snowboard-champion-with-tyler-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/podcasts\/skydiving-becoming-a-paralympic-snowboard-champion-with-tyler-turner","title":{"rendered":"Skydiving &amp; Becoming a Paralympic Snowboard Champion with Tyler Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"cb-itemprop\" itemprop=\"reviewBody\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"200px\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https:\/\/player.simplecast.com\/4e3c5f7f-9b40-4b3a-9194-6efb6df7f684?dark=false\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wild-ideas-worth-living.simplecast.com\/episodes\/skydiving-becoming-a-paralympic-snowboard-champion-with-tyler-turner\/transcript\">Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tyler Turner has always been a bit of a daredevil. He grew up skiing, snowboarding, and eventually became a skydiving instructor. After a 2015 accident resulted in the amputation of both legs, he rebuilt his life around the sports he loves. Today, he\u2019s a three-time Para Snowboard Cross World Champion, a Paralympic gold medalist, and the first bilateral amputee to fly in a wingsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connect with Tyler:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tyturner.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Instagram<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/podcasts\/camp-monsters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Camp Monsters<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/1025326955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Finding Mastery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to our sponsors:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/b\/nikon\/c\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nikon<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Capital One and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/membership\/mastercard?trackingId=podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the REI Co-op\u00ae Mastercard\u00ae\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript Tyler Turner has always been a bit of a daredevil. 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