Heath Frisby pulled off the first ever front flip on a snowmobile at Winter X-Games 2012 on January 29 at Buttermilk Mountain, Aspen, Colorado. As he took his turn he raced his snowmobile up the ramp and when he landed the goal was accomplished. "This has been everything to me really," an emotional Frisby said. "My whole family and friends have been behind me. I set a goal for myself and I always told myself I can't do two things at once but if I focus on one thing I can do it. It feels great." The joy was apparent on his face, his families face and with his fellow competitors. Many mobbed the Idaho native as he stepped foot off the snowmobile. "I feel so happy for Heath to get his gold medal and with all the work he put into it," the bronze medalist Joe Parson said. Crowd favorite Colten Moore followed up his gold in Snowmobile Freestyle with an Indie-Ruler Flip and a silver medal. "It's amazing, it awesome when everyone's into it," Moore said. "When everyone's loud and cheering it makes you that much more happy to be out there." Parsons earned the bronze with a trick he deemed the "gator wrestler." "I am just stoked I was able to slide in there with the trick I am doing," Parsons said. "It is so fun for me to do. I am just glad it worked out the way that it did."Justin Hoyer attempted a double backflip during the competition. He crashed on the landing and was carried away with arm and leg injuries, according to ESPN. The Best Trick course consists of metal take-off rams to snow landings. Riders hit a single jump to attempt freestyle tricks, such as body varials, backflips and combo tricks using 500-pound snowmobiles. Here are the scores: Name Bib No. Hometown Score 1. Heath Frisby 402 Middleton, Idaho 96.66 2. Colten Moore 405 Krum, Texas 89.66 3. Joe Parsons 406 Yakima, Wash. 88.00 4. Cory Davis 401 Soldotna, Alaska 79.33 5. Caleb Moore 404 Krum, Texas 72.00 6. Justin Hoyer 403 Ellsworth, Wis. 71.33
Photos by Stephen W Clark