Mike Metzger (born 19 November 1975 in Huntington Beach, California) is an American Freestyle Motocross (FMX) rider. Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Freestyle Motocross (also known as FMX) is a variation on the sport of Motocross in which motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with jumps and stunts In the 2002 X-Games he won the Freestyle and Big Air events and got second place in Step Up, earning him an estimated $100,000 in three days. The X Games is an annual event with a focus on extreme action sports In 2003 he also got first place in Big Air. On May 4, 2006, at 9:26, Metzger completed "The Impossible Jump", doing a world record backflip over the fountains in front of Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, seen live on ESPN. Caesars Palace, sometimes referred to colloquially as simply Caesars, is a luxury Hotel and Casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise Las Vegas ( Spanish: "The Meadows" is the most populous City in the state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to He is the first person to complete a backflip over the fountains, and only the second person to ever successfully land that jump. The others to attempt the jump over Caesars Palace's fountains include Evel Knievel, Gary Wells, and Robbie Knievel, of which only Robbie landed successfully. This article is about the stunt performer For the wooden roller coaster by the same name see Evel Knievel (roller coaster Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel Robert Edward "Kaptain" Knievel (born May 7, 1962 in Butte Montana) is an American Daredevil and son of the legendary daredevil Not only did Metzger complete this jump whilst performing a backflip, but he also set the record for distance, landing 125 feet from the takeoff, ramp but later ending 2007 jeremy Twitch stenberg beat his record with a 160ft jump making backflip.
Metzger is commonly known as "The Godfather of Freestyle Motocross" and was one of the first riders to begin doing basic tricks such as heel clickers and can cans. Mike is also known for craziness that has sometimes rivaled that of Travis Pastrana. A good example is the method by which Metzger learned backflips; he simply set up a FMX ramp (metal takeoff) to point at a sand dune, then started trying to flip the 50 foot gap. He crashed 5 times before sticking it on the 6th. In FMX today, riders generally learn inverted tricks like the flip by jumping into foam pits, giant bins filled with packing foam. Metzger's method was much less safe, but much more memorable.
Invented McMetz, a trick in which the rider puts both feet over the handlebars in midair, then sweeps them backward towards his arms, takes his hands off the bars to allow the legs by, then remounts the bike after floating detached from it for a split second.
Metzger was the first to make a Back-To-Back Backflip in in the 2002 X-Games
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- Has many tattoos, including one of the word "Pain" on the inside of his mouth. A tattoo is a permanent marking made by inserting ink into the layers of Skin to change the pigment for decorative or other reasons
- Appeared in the 2002 video game Freekstyle by Page 44 Studios under the EA Sports BIG license. Freekstyle is a 2002 Motocross racing Video game for the Playstation 2 and Nintendo Gamecube. Page 44 Studios is an independently owned Video game developer based in San Francisco, California EA Sports is a brand name used by Electronic Arts since 1993 to distribute games based on Sports Formerly a gimmick inside Electronic Arts sports [1]
- He was the first person to complete back-to-back-flips (two flips on two consecutive jumps) at the X-Games. [2]
- Was a founding member of the Metal Mulisha.
- Defeated Larry Linkogle in a 2006 episode of the Discovery Channel's hit show Biker Build-Off. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Discovery Channel is an American Satellite and Cable TV channel (also delivered via IPTV, Terrestrial television and Biker Build-Off is a popular Reality television series for the Discovery Channel. [3]
- Has appeared numerous times on the Discovery Channel's extreme sport show Stunt Junkies. Extreme sport (also called action sport and adventure sport) is a media term for certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherent Stunt Junkies was a Discovery Channel show that showed professional athletes performing dangerous stunts In the last episode he appeared in, he was seriously injured; while attempting to execute a jump with a back-flip between two barges, he overshot the landing ramp and suffered a compression fracture of the L4 vertebra in his lower back. BARGE, the Big August RecGambling Excursion is a yearly convention held in Las Vegas during the first weekend of August A vertebra (plural vertebrae) is an individual Irregular bone in the spinal or Vertebral column ( aka ischis a flexuous and flexible column [4]
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