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" 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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" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Mike Schultz
Me
People
Job
" Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs. "
Mike Schultz
Day
Both
Had
" 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 out of my comfort zone every time I'm on the race course. "
Mike Schultz
Out
Race
Time
" 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
" To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag. "
Mike Schultz
American Flag
American
Flag
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating. "
Mike Schultz
People
Creating
Fortunate
" 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
" Snowboarding has taken me so many different places. "
Mike Schultz
Places
Different
Snowboarding
" To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful. "
Mike Schultz
Team
Powerful
Colors
" 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
" When I originally started looking at different prosthetic components, most of them were just set up for walking. "
Mike Schultz
Up
Started
Looking
" Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games. "
Mike Schultz
Never
Competing
Games
" 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 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
" 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
" A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment. "
Mike Schultz
Equipment
Building
Creating
" I love being outdoors and trekking around. "
Mike Schultz
Outdoors
Love
I Love
" 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 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
" 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
" 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