{"id":43369,"date":"2011-01-22T08:14:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43369"},"modified":"2011-01-22T08:14:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T15:14:06","slug":"snowmobile-freestyles-motley-crew-of-diverse-talents-wont-tip-their-winter-x-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43369","title":{"rendered":"Snowmobile Freestyle&#8217;s motley crew of diverse talents won&#8217;t tip their Winter X hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Former snocross racers, quad hucksters and freestyle motocross junkies looking for something to do in the winter have jumped into the melting pot that is snowmobile freestyle. Competitions outside Winter X are very scarce and only the very best are able to call it a living. The rest bridge the gap with jobs in landscaping, auto repair, concrete and sled dealerships. One athlete describes he and his competition as a &#8220;random mix of people.&#8221; Snowmobile Freestyle is in its fifth year as a discipline at Winter X and the competition has never seen a repeat gold medalist; the talent pool is deep. Example: Heath Frisby, one of the sport&#8217;s leading innovators, has never finished higher than third. Throw in a few hungry new kids and a couple more determined veterans and the 2011 contest could easily record a fifth unique gold medalist<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Snowmobile Freestyle has become so popular at Winter X that in &#8217;09 it spun off a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/action\/xgames\/winter\/2011\/news\/story?id=6045742\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former snocross racers, quad hucksters and freestyle motocross junkies looking for something to do in the winter have jumped into the melting pot that is snowmobile freestyle. Competitions outside Winter X are very scarce and only the very best are able to call it a living. The rest bridge the gap with jobs in landscaping, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-snowmobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43370,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43369\/revisions\/43370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}