When Amberley Snyder was told she would never walk or ride over again she could have accepted it, instead she defied the odds and 4 months later on she was back on a horse.

Snyder'southward inspiring true story is coming to Netflix in Walk. Ride. Rodeo, a picture show looking at the blow that left the 28-twelvemonth-old champion paralysed setting her down a different path to help thousands of people.

Nine years on from her accident and she'due south the only paralysed barrel racer in the USA.

"I have always just been a stubborn cowgirl who loved horses and rodeo. To have a movie made has reiterated that everything happens for a reason and the purpose I serve in this chair is well-nigh something bigger than me," she told the PEOPLE.

Snyder was 19-years-old when she crashed her truck on the way to a rodeo show. She had her sights assault higher and she was competing in rodeo with her career on the upwards.

But that all changed when the champion was ejected from her seat in an accident in 2010, which left her paralysed from the waist down.

Doctors told her she would never ride once more, but she proved them all wrong - getting back on her horse just four months later.

That fateful day

Snyder had been on her way to the Denver Stock Bear witness and Rodeo. She was passing through Sinclair and looked downwards at her map briefly. It but took a few seconds, but when she looked up she had drifted into the other lane and her car was heading for a metallic beam.

She tried to correct the automobile, only her truck slid off the road, rolled and threw her.

"I felt myself option upwardly and leave through my window," Snyder told TODAY . "I continued to hear my truck rolling every bit I'm flying through the air."

She was slammed into a fence postal service, breaking her dorsum. She immediately lost all feeling in her legs.

Synder's car flipped flinging her into a metallic axle (

Image:

Netflix)

Minutes before the crash Snyder had taken off her seatbelt as her tum was hurting.

After v hours of emergency surgery, she was told she'd never walk again. The injury to her T12 vertebrae was classified as "complete".

They told her if she'd worn a seatbelt she would still have use of her legs, Snyder was devastated, one mistake had changed her whole life.

Walk. Ride. Rodeo. shows how Synder recovered after the accident (

Paradigm:

Netflix)

Information technology looked bleak, just Snyder was having none of it.

For many people the priority would have been to walk, merely for Snyder, it was to ride once more.

Iv months after the crash she did merely that. Thanks to physical therapy and her iron will she worked on rebuilding her balance.

"Even though she was sitting in bed, if she raised her arm to brush her hair, she could fall over," said Tina Snyder, Amberley'southward female parent. "Or when we were driving, if I striking the brake too fast, she'd striking the dashboard."

Synder knew what she needed to do. She told the therapist her balance had always been best in the saddle - so they brought it in.

Information technology'd taken a lot of work, but she was given the OK to endeavour and ride. As her family unit gathered around her she was lifted onto her horse Power.

Yous'd recall Synder'southward hardest 24-hour interval would exist when she was told she'd never walk again, but information technology wasn't, it was when she tried to ride again.

As she was lifted onto her trusted horse she realised something, nothing would be the aforementioned again.

Synder tried a new saddle (

Image:

Netflix)

"It as the hardest solar day of my life," she said. "You lot call up virtually the 24-hour interval when they tell you lot you're never gonna walk once again. The showtime mean solar day I sat on my equus caballus was ten times harder than that mean solar day."

She realised her whole life was different at present - this was it.

But she wasn't to be beaten and in 2011 she tried over again and added a seatbelt to the saddle. Adjacent they added velcro straps to stablise her legs.

Eighteen months subsequently the blow Snyder was set up to compete agin. She entered her first contest, something which her mum says made her "actually express mirth and grin" for the first time since the crash.

Since then Snyder has competed in competition after competition, beating her pre-accident times.

Where is Synder now?

(

Image:

Tracy Barbutes/Zuma Wire/REX/Shu)

Snyder graduated from college with a Available's degree in Agronomics Education, she earned a Master's Degree last twelvemonth and has reached out to other people who have been through the same ordeal as her.

She began to record Bike Chair Wednesday videos, which she shared on social media, showing how she coped and adapated. She covered everything from showing how she got dorsum on her horse, to filling up her truck with petrol and carrying out everyday tasks.

Snyder now shares her inspirational story by giving talks and competes in rodeos.

"My goals have not changed...I'm just giving myself more time to accomplish them," she says.

Snyder even acted as a stunt double for Spencer Locke who plays her in the Netflix movie.

Snyder 'got back on the equus caballus'. Quite literally.

Walk. Ride. Rodeo is released on Netflix in March.

=