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" 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
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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
Time
Amazing
Customer
" 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
" It's kind of crazy how one thing can lead to another if you keep your eyes open to it. "
Mike Schultz
Crazy
Kind
Lead
" 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
" I'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating. "
Mike Schultz
People
Creating
Fortunate
" Being an athlete, my job was to physically perform. "
Mike Schultz
Perform
Physically
Athlete
" 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
" Snowboarding has taken me so many different places. "
Mike Schultz
Places
Different
Snowboarding
" 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'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 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
Work
Loved
Me
" 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 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
" Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs. "
Mike Schultz
Day
Both
Had
" As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery. "
Mike Schultz
Growing Up
Kid
Always
" 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
" A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment. "
Mike Schultz
Equipment
Building
Creating
" Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games. "
Mike Schultz
Never
Competing
Games
" 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
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Fox
Take Advantage
Foot
" 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
" When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking. "
Mike Schultz
Up
Started
Looking
" 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
" You know you've made it to the big time when you're on a cereal box. "
Mike Schultz
Know
You
Time
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports. "
Mike Schultz
Kind
Some
Sports