matt stutzman was born without arms and always wanted to be a professional athlete.d his life changed forever. he won a silver medal at the 2012 london paralympics and now he's aiming for gold in tokyo. music. people ask me how i taught myself how to like eat and stuff. and i don't remember because obviously at two years old i was already holding a fork in my foot. so apparently my brain just knew how i was going to have to do that stuff before i actually realised that i had no arms. when i was younger, i wanted to be the best basketball player in the world and i spent years practising and i got pretty good at it for a guy without arms. the reality was that i was never going to be an nba basketball player, but i needed to do itjust to prove that i could. probably within a couple of weeks of getting a bow i knew what i was supposed to do with my life. i'd found my michaeljordan moment and at that point on, you know, eight hours a day sitting in a chair trying to make, you know, a paralympic games. cars and archery are very similar, as in a carjust wants to be driven a