Writing this story was surreal. I had dreamt of writing for a snowboard magazine since I was in braces. When my chance came, I got to meet one of the most hard-nosed workers in snowboarding: Austin Smith. The feature documents his rise to the inner circle of snowboarding elite, only to have multiple back-to-back knee surgeries. It was a rollercoaster of sorts, except less constraints and more screaming.
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