A biography for Mike Schultzhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I'm a huge fan of Fox, and I'm honored to be officially joining the FOX team with them as my title sponsor.”
“It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports.”
“A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.”
“Snowboarding has taken me so many different places.”
“As a kid growing up in a rural area, I was always tinkering with parts and machinery.”
“I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports.”
“I didn't even think about snowboarding until after my accident.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I take a ton of pride in what our flag and our anthem stands for.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm very fortunate that I get to make people smile by creating.”