What does that do to you, not only as a racer but also the way people like other racers interact with you outside the X Games? I started riding that thing and managed to roll it over enough times that I broke the hood and windshield more times than my dad wanted to fix it, so he ended up just taking the hood and windshield off so the engine and everything was just kind of exposed so he didn't have to keep replacing all the parts every time I crashed it.įor a while, you were the youngest gold medalist at the X Games. When I started out, when I was 2 years old all the way through probably 4 or maybe 5 years old, I rode a really small snowmobile called an Arctic Cat Kitty Cat, which was the mini snowmobile for little kids. And then obviously going too fast and crashing, you hit a bump or a jump or different things. A tendency people have when they're first learning is they kind of panic and grab the throttle and hold it on and don't stop until they hit something, you know? So that's kind of something you have to learn. You figure out how to ride it, you have to learn how to control the throttle.

It pretty much doesn't crash unless you make it crash. With a snowmobile, the machine will stay upright, unlike a bicycle. Is there something similar on a snowmobile? How do you learn to ride? With something like a bicycle, there's a learning curve where you learn how to ride on two wheels without falling over. So it was something I've done since a really young age. And even when I was 2, 3 years I was just super excited about and just couldn't get enough ridings. I don't really know what a snowmobile is, but fortunately my dad was into racing and snowmobiles and motorcycles, so he get me started when I was really young and it was something that I fell in love with. So obviously when I'm 2 years old, I'm not like.

It was because my dad raced himself, and I just kind of grew up in that whole atmosphere. So we talked with Snocross star (and nine-time gold and 13-time X Games medalist) Tucker Hibbert about how he got into the sport, what it’s like to compete in the X Games, and how his sled differs from what you'd ride on the trail. You've probably seen snowmobiles, but racing them might be new.

Old snowmobile games