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" 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
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" I love being outdoors and trekking around. "
Mike Schultz
Outdoors
Love
I Love
" 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
" To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag. "
Mike Schultz
American Flag
American
Flag
" 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
" A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment. "
Mike Schultz
Equipment
Building
Creating
" 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
" It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports. "
Mike Schultz
Kind
Some
Sports
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Walking
Started
Walk
" 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
" Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games. "
Mike Schultz
Never
Competing
Games
" When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking. "
Mike Schultz
Up
Started
Looking
" As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery. "
Mike Schultz
Growing Up
Kid
Always
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Ridiculous
Crazy
Face
" 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
" You know you've made it to the big time when you're on a cereal box. "
Mike Schultz
Know
You
Time
" When you walk, you need the leg to swing back and forth underneath you. It needs to flex at a certain point, then extend as you follow through your gait. Now, that function doesn't really help at all while I'm standing on my dirt bike or snowmobile. "
Mike Schultz
Bike
Help
Need
" 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
" 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 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
Fox
Know
Me
" 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
" 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
Time
Amazing
Customer
" 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 know what it takes to make myself perform. "
Mike Schultz
Make
Takes
Know
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Career
Broken
Bones
" I travel a lot. I didn't want to be stuck sitting in my office managing the business. "
Mike Schultz
Sitting
Business
Office
" 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
" I'm out of my comfort zone every time I'm on the race course. "
Mike Schultz
Out
Race
Time
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Bike
Focus
Successful
" 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