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" I bought my first dirt bike when I was 12, and I started racing motocross when I was 15 and started getting pretty successful. Then I started racing snowmobiles at 17 and decided I wanted to focus on that and see if I can make a career at it. "

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" It's an amazing feeling when I have a customer who tries a leg on and is able to go snowboarding for the first time. "

Mike Schultz

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" The thing that really stands out is that my parents taught me right from the start, if you want something in life, you need to work for it. "

" I loved to go hunting out in the woods and hiking, and that's just not easy anymore. For me, to walk up and down hills in the rough terrain, it just doesn't work very well. It can, but it's three times as hard as it used to be. "

Mike Schultz

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Loved

" I remember my dad telling me that if I wanted to start racing motocross, I had to get a job and pay for it myself. So I did. As soon as I was able to drive myself to work, I got into racing motocross at age 15. "

" I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation. "

" When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking. "

Mike Schultz

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Looking

" I'm a huge fan of Fox, and I'm honored to be officially joining the FOX team with them as my title sponsor. "

" I've had several broken bones and sprains throughout my career, but the one that really changed things was when I wrecked in 2008 during a Pro Snocross competition. I was thrown from my machine and landed on my left leg and caused a 180 degree hyperextension of my knee joint. "

" Sometimes people say, 'Oh, you're doing better now than before the accident.'That irritates the hell out of me. "

Mike Schultz

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People

" Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that's kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for. "

" As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery. "

" To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful. "

" To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor. "

" I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to snowboard again. "

" It's kind of crazy how one thing can lead to another if you keep your eyes open to it. "

" Having already used a Fox shock in my Moto Knee, the prosthetic leg I developed, I knew that I would take advantage of Fox's superior suspension dynamics in the Versa Foot as well. "

" Being an athlete, my job was to physically perform. "

" I know firsthand the way that Fox supports their athletes because they've been there for me since the beginning. I know that I can count on them. "

Mike Schultz

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Know

" Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs. "

" I was always out wiping around on the farm with three-wheelers and four-wheelers. I loved the speed and the adrenaline rush that followed. "

" I was in the garage fixin' things, and I'm like, what better project than building your own leg? "

" After snowboarding a fair bit in 2011 and 2012 to test equipment, I got pretty good at it, and some friends at Adaptive Action Sports talked me into competing at the exhibition event at the Winter X Games in the adaptive boardercross. I was able to step up my game pretty quick and compete. I took last place, but knew I could improve. "

" I love being outdoors and trekking around. "

" Having adaptive events televised in the X Games is huge. There are people out there who might want to do this but don't think they can. They can see us out here tearing it up. That's going to help people realize that if you want something bad enough, you can get there. "

" The crazy part, with all of the surgeries I had, I retained water from the IV fluids, and I gained 60 pounds. I was 247 pounds at my maximum. I couldn't even touch my face because my joints were swollen. I was so big, it was ridiculous - just insane. "

" I didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident. "

" Building prosthetics that allow people to get back to the fun activities in life is as rewarding a job as I can imagine. It's just as fulfilling for me as winning at the racetrack. "

Mike Schultz

People

Job

" For riding a snowmobile, you need to have your knee bent. It needs to absorb the impact of riding over bumps, to allow yourself to stand up or sit down, balance side to side. "

" I'm helping people do things they haven't done since they had two good legs, and that's worth it right there. "

" For my equipment, we're not about running. We're about wheels, action sports, and that type of thing. So we want range of motion and shock absorption. The foot itself has 28 degrees of ankle motion as you press into it or you put weight into it. A typical running or walking foot has kind of around 10 to 12, at max, flex at the toe. "