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The road to recovery has been long and difficult, says BMX vert pro Jay Eggleston, more than eight months after suffering a traumatic brain injury in the vert ramp at the Dew Tour's Pantech Open in Ocean City, Md.

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MARCH 2-3 - FILE - In this March 20, 2010 file photo, Jake Burton talks with competitors at the U.S. Open Snowboard Championships in Stratton, Vt.

Turning-it's the simplest, purest part of snowboarding. Edge to edge, side to side, it's how we snowboarders get down, literally.

TO WATCH Canadian freeskier Sarah Burke's gold medal-winning superpipe run from last year's X-Games in Aspen, Colorado, is to see that rarest of things: an athlete at the absolute peak of their powers doing something mind-bogglingly difficult and not only making it look easy, but also making it look fun.