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" 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
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" I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports. "
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Business
Sports
Manufacturing
" 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
" 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. "
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Me
People
Job
" Snowboarding has taken me so many different places. "
Mike Schultz
Places
Different
Snowboarding
" I was in the garage fixin' things, and I'm like, what better project than building your own leg? "
Mike Schultz
Better
Project
Own
" 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
" 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
" 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 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. "
Mike Schultz
Age
Drive
Job
" 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
" A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment. "
Mike Schultz
Equipment
Building
Creating
" 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 didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident. "
Mike Schultz
Snowboarding
Even
Think
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Game
Sports
Step
" 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
" 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 love being outdoors and trekking around. "
Mike Schultz
Outdoors
Love
I Love
" 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
" I had a wreck during a race in Michigan, which led to the hyperextension of my left leg and subsequent amputation. "
Mike Schultz
Leg
Which
Race
" 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
" I travel a lot. I didn't want to be stuck sitting in my office managing the business. "
Mike Schultz
Sitting
Business
Office
" Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs. "
Mike Schultz
Day
Both
Had
" 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
" As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery. "
Mike Schultz
Growing Up
Kid
Always
" When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking. "
Mike Schultz
Up
Started
Looking
" I'm out of my comfort zone every time I'm on the race course. "
Mike Schultz
Out
Race
Time
" 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
" 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