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" The Moto Knee shows people what's possible. It's about guys getting back in action in a sport they love. "
Mike Schultz
Action
Back
Love
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" To be able to wear your country's colors and compete in the Paralympics for the snowboard team... it's pretty powerful. "
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Team
Powerful
Colors
" 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. "
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Bad
Sure
Leg
" 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. "
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Time
Amazing
Customer
" I'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A. "
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Team
Value
Patriot
" 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'm out of my comfort zone every time I'm on the race course. "
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Out
Race
Time
" Snowboarding and skiing are big adaptive sports, so that's kind of a market that I wanted to make our equipment used for. "
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Market
Used
Big
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 was in the garage fixin' things, and I'm like, what better project than building your own leg? "
Mike Schultz
Better
Project
Own
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating. "
Mike Schultz
People
Creating
Fortunate
" 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
" Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games. "
Mike Schultz
Never
Competing
Games
" 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
" 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 am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports. "
Mike Schultz
Business
Sports
Manufacturing
" 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 be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor. "
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Our
Team
World
" As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery. "
Mike Schultz
Growing Up
Kid
Always
" 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 take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for. "
Mike Schultz
Anthem
Our
Flag