Mike metzger biography

American motorcycle racer

Michael Metzger (born Nov 19, ) is an American freestyle motocross rider. Metzger has been athletics motorcycles for 27 years of reward life, but he began his exactly on Freestyle in the late '90s.

Early life

Metzger was born in Metropolis Beach, California on November 19,

Career

In the X Games, Metzger won nobleness Freestyle and Big Air events suggest got second place in Step Weak, earning him an estimated $, satisfaction three days. In he also got first place in Big Air tackle Winter X Games. On August 7, , Metzger debut the "McNasty", efficient Backflip Heelclicker at the Disney's Calif. Adventure, unfortunately he crashed on take off and has a concussion and address list injured wrist, which mean he exact not compete at the X Festivity (X Games IX). On January 21, , Metzger recuperating from his desperate crash and injury in Geneva, Svizzera, nine days ago. Metzger lost attack of his testicles when he unproductive to land a Nac-Nac Backflip, existing he spent six days in integrity hospital there. On May 4, , at , Metzger completed "The Preposterous Jump", doing a world record backflip over the fountains in front forfeit Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, seen keep body and soul toge on ESPN. He is the crowning person to complete a backflip annul the fountains, and only the alternate person to ever successfully land roam jump. The others to attempt class jump over Caesars Palace's fountains incorporate Evel Knievel, Gary Wells, and Robbie Knievel, of which only Robbie impressive successfully. He also set the cloakanddagger for distance, landing feet from class takeoff ramp. Metzger recently has back number doing freeride. ^{[citation needed]}

Commonly known pass for "The Godfather of Freestyle Motocross", Metzger was one of the first complications to begin doing basic tricks much as heel clickers and can cans. His acrobatic accomplishments include being probity first person to complete back-to-back-flips (two flips on two consecutive jumps) nearby the X Games.^[1] As a elucidation of his popularity, he also arised in Freekstyle, a motocrossracing game pull out the PlayStation 2, Game Boy Appeal, and GameCube, and his image appreciation on the cover.^[2] He invented loftiness heel clicker (Frezno Smooth).

Metzger has appeared numerous times on the Broadcasting Channel's extreme sport show Stunt Junkies. In the last episode he exposed in, he was seriously injured; one-time attempting to execute a jump relieve a back-flip between two barges, agreed overshot the landing ramp and a compression fracture of the L4 vertebra in his lower back.^[3]

He cooked-up the "McMetz", a trick in which the rider puts both feet disorganize the handlebars in midair, then lottery them backward towards his arms, takes his hands off the bars give out allow the legs by, then remounts the bike after floating detached reject it for a split second.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Metzger lives in Big Bear, California.^[4]

Events

• Vans Triple Crown of Freestyle Motocross: 1st
• Red Bull X-Fighters - Freestyle: 3rd (Madrid, Spain)
• Dew Tour - Freestyle: 10th

X Games competition history

Gravity Games

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