FLY Riders Earn 9 of 15 Medals at Winter X Games

Thursday night was the opening night and snowmobile freestyle was on the menu. This event is a very competitive event and has a tough group of experienced competitors. FLY riders Heath Frisby, Joe Parsons, and Colten and Caleb Moore all came out with the same goal in mind: take home medals. Caleb came out and showed everybody his smooth style and perfection of back flip variations along with several other tricks earning him the bronze medal with the 3rd best score.

For the final day of competition, FLY Racing showed its strength to the entire world in snocross, adaptive snocross and snowmobile best trick. The snocross was everything one would expect, exciting and full of action. FLY's own Ross Martin was a very determined racer hoping to take home gold and unfortunately jumped the start earning him a 10 second penalty. After the penalty, he found himself towards the back of the very talented field of racers. Ross piloted his Judnick Motorsports Polaris race sled through the largest, toughest snocross track all the way back to second place and won the silver medal.

Next came the adaptive snocross final. The adaptive snocross is a class of determined racers that aren't going to let their disability keep them sidelined. "Monster" Mike Schultz came out of the gates strong and never looked back taking the gold medal sporting FLY Racing's new developmental snow gear. Jim Wazny battled a bad wrist and fought hard all race earning him the bronze medal in this class. Both Mike and Jim are using high tech prosthetic legs and a very technical mounting system on their machines to help them maintain control of the high horsepower machines. Congratulations to Mike Schultz and Jim Wazny for taking control and showing the world of disabled people that you can truly achieve whatever you set your mind to.

Caleb came out and by the time he finished his second run, was sitting comfortably in 3rd place. Colten, driven by wanting to beat his brother, was out of medal contention after his first run. He then wanted to show what he was made of and pulled something the world has never seen or heard of. Colten started his second run as if he was going to hit the ramps but then took everybody by surprise. He ran towards his machine and at the last second, his brother Caleb came out on the track with his machine. Colten hopped on the back and away they went. In the best trick event, you get two runs but only get to hit the freestyle ramp one time. Colten, on the back of Caleb's machine with Caleb driving, hit the ramp and pulled a double person Indian air back flip! Imagine hitting a 70 foot ramp jump with somebody on the back of the machine and doing a back flip Indian air, insane, and took the entire X Games community by surprise. This trick caused quite a controversy and Colten received no points for what he did. In talking with the boys afterwards, they knew this would be extremely difficult to judge but wanted to show the world what they are capable of doing on 500 pound machines.

All in all, this was the best winter snowmachine event the industry has seen. Record crowds, extremely nice weather, and the level of competition have elevated the sport and will be remembered for years to come.