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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Mike Schultz

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

" I travel a lot. I didn't want to be stuck sitting in my office managing the business. "

" To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag. "

" 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. "

" I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports. "

" 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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" The Moto Knee shows people what's possible. It's about guys getting back in action in a sport they love. "

" I'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating. "

" Once I started feeling better and healthier and learned to walk on my first prosthetic leg, I realised I'm not going to be satisfied with just walking around. "

" Snowboarding has taken me so many different places. "

" Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games. "

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

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

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

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

" I love being outdoors and trekking around. "

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

" I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for. "

" Fox and I go way back... I got to know the Fox folks pretty well as the result of spending time at races with them over the years. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" For the most part, if you're willing to work hard enough, you can recover from most injuries. Having that mentality really helps you keep moving forward. "

" 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'm from Minnesota and have always lived there. And my competitive career actually started in the late '90s racing motocross, which then turned into racing snowmobiles professionally. I turned pro in 2003, racing with the best in the world and living my dream as a professional athlete. "

" 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. "

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

" You know you've made it to the big time when you're on a cereal box. "