Alex Massie

Bubz [given to him by family when he was a child. It refers to the literary character Ali Baba]. (Athlete, 07 Mar 2018; paralympic.org, 15 Nov 2016)

Ice hockey, mountain biking, wakesurfing, photography, videography, skateboarding, golf, football, fantasy football. (Athlete, 07 Mar 2018)

Winning his first Winter X Games medal, a bronze at the 2015 edition in Aspen, CO, United States of America. (Athlete, 07 Mar 2018)

Coach Mark Fawcett. (Athlete, 07 Mar 2018)

His grandfather James Cardno Massie. (Athlete, 07 Mar 2018)

After recovering from his boating accident, he fell while getting out of the shower and broke his amputated leg in three places, including two breaks in his femur. "That actually hurt more than losing my leg." (ctvnews.ca, 12 Mar 2018)

He never shaves during a competition. (NPC Media Guide, 2018)

"My big one I always say to kids is, you know the old thing about how 'the grass is always greener on the other side'? The truth is, the grass is always greener where you water it. So if you want to have a good happy life, you've got to put in that work, and go out and water your lawn." (ctvnews.ca, 12 Mar 2018; Athlete, 07 Mar 2018)

To win a medal at the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing. (cbc.ca, 14 Mar 2018)

He was involved in a wake surfing accident in 2011 at age 16. His left leg was struck multiple times by a boat propeller, which resulted in his left leg being amputated below the knee. (thebarrieexaminer.com, 26 Jan 2015; Athlete, 07 Mar 2018; xgames.com, 01 Jan 2015; ctvnews.ca, 12 Mar 2018)

BIG SNOWBOARDER
At 192 centimetres tall and weighing more than 100 kilograms, he says people are often surprised to hear he is a snowboarder. Before his accident, he played ice hockey at AA minor level in Canada and football with the Barrie North Collegiate Sr. Wildcats. "I'm not the same size as most guys [who snowboard], I'm a lot bigger so I ride knowing that I'm bigger, and that I don't get pushed around out there and so it allows me to go into a corner [strong]. I try to race smart and not do risky things that are going to endanger anyone but you know, if you're in a corner and there's a guy beside me and we touch, I know that I'm probably going to ride away and he won't." (ctvnews.ca, 12 Mar 2018; cbc.ca, 14 Mar 2018)

FAMILY CREST
He wears a ring with his family crest and motto on it. "It's my family crest. The motto at the bottom is 'Fac et spera', and it means 'Do and hope'. My dad once told me when I was a little kid, it's easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission. So, go out there, try it and hope it works out." (cbc.ca, 14 Mar 2018)

OCCUPATION
When he is based in Canada during the summer months, he works for his family's waste collection business by driving a garbage barge. "It's a business I actually inherited from my older brothers, so that's one of the kinda cool things. I live up in my cottage in the summer, and everybody that's up there lives on islands. So, there's no way really for them to get their trash to the station, and so like forty years ago someone had the great idea that there needed to be a garbage man." (Athlete, 07 Mar 2018; paralympic.org, 19 Nov 2016)