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" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Bad
Sure
Leg
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" I was in the garage fixin' things, and I'm like, what better project than building your own leg? "
Mike Schultz
Better
Project
Own
" Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that's kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for. "
Mike Schultz
Market
Used
Big
" I love being outdoors and trekking around. "
Mike Schultz
Outdoors
Love
I Love
" Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games. "
Mike Schultz
Never
Competing
Games
" Being an athlete, my job was to physically perform. "
Mike Schultz
Perform
Physically
Athlete
" It is definitely easier to deal with injuries on the mental side after you've had a few of them, since you are aware of the recovery process. "
Mike Schultz
Process
Injuries
Mental
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Work Hard
Moving
Moving Forward
" 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
Think
Help
People
" Sometimes people say, 'Oh, you're doing better now than before the accident.'That irritates the hell out of me. "
Mike Schultz
You
People
Me
" I travel a lot. I didn't want to be stuck sitting in my office managing the business. "
Mike Schultz
Sitting
Business
Office
" It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S. "
Mike Schultz
Gold
True
Honor
" I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a leg that I built. "
Mike Schultz
Injury
Summer
Winning
" I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports. "
Mike Schultz
Business
Sports
Manufacturing
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Professional
Dream
Best
" I'm out of my comfort zone every time I'm on the race course. "
Mike Schultz
Out
Race
Time
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Spending Time
Back
Know
" I know what it takes to make myself perform. "
Mike Schultz
Make
Takes
Know
" It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports. "
Mike Schultz
Kind
Some
Sports
" I'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A. "
Mike Schultz
Team
Value
Patriot
" To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor. "
Mike Schultz
Our
Team
World
" A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment. "
Mike Schultz
Equipment
Building
Creating
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Yourself
Stand
Stand Up
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Want
You
Kind
" Snowboarding has taken me so many different places. "
Mike Schultz
Places
Different
Snowboarding
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Speed
Loved
Farm
" You know you've made it to the big time when you're on a cereal box. "
Mike Schultz
Know
You
Time
" I'm a huge fan of Fox, and I'm honored to be officially joining the FOX team with them as my title sponsor. "
Mike Schultz
Sponsor
Team
Title
" I didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident. "
Mike Schultz
Snowboarding
Even
Think
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Work
You
Parents
" I'm helping people do things they haven't done since they had two good legs, and that's worth it right there. "
Mike Schultz
Good
Worth
Two