- Heath

2011 GRAVITY SLASHERS FMX TOUR

1/21-22 Fresno, CA (SaveMart Center)

1/29 New Orleans, LA (New Orleans Arena)

2/5 OFF

2/18-19 Wilkes Barre, PA (Mohegan Sun Arena – OVER ICE)

2/25-26 Lafayette, LA (Cajun Dome)

3/4-5 OFF 3/11-12 Green Bay, WI (Resch Center)

3/18-19 Hampton, VA (Hampton Coliseum)

The crowds came out in warmer weather than expected. Last year we were here it was full on winter, and this time there were no funny furry tank driver hats, but they were still drinking lots of vodka! It’s really fun to do these shows in Russia towards the end of the season. After all my practicing and touring around the USA and Canada, it’s refreshing to still see excited and happy faces. We did two shows that went off well, but there was some trouble on the horizon brewing, literally.

As anyone who hasn’t had their head in a hole knows by now, Iceland had a major volcanic eruption this weekend, and the resulting ash cloud has put a serious dent in European travelers plans, myself included. There are worse things than being stranded in Europe, but hanging out in airports gets old after awhile. Regardless of how frustrated I was, I knew there were thousands of other people trying to get home as well, so I relaxed and had a beer.

I would also like to thank everyone who asked questions on Facebook. I have copied and pasted the answers below.

What mods do you guys do to your sleds so they are ready for freestyle?

I usually put a skidoo mod engine kit on my sled. I also put on a freestyle seat, Fly mini-moto bend handlebars and a Fly 3 inch handlebar riser.

How hard was it to become what you are today? And what are some of the things you did to get where you are?

It was a lot of work there were a lot of years were I had a lot of fun but there was no money and it was very hard for me to pay my bills. I practiced and I love what I do so i just kept working hard and keeping my eyes on the main goal.. winning Winter X games.

How did you start sledstyle and how often do you hurt yourself doing it?

I started because I wanted to be a freestyle motocrosser but I couldn’t make the cut when I was younger. I have been hurt a bunch I broke my left leg tibia and fibula three times. My left ankle three times, dislocated my right elbow and shoulder, broke my jaw, broke my right heal, broke my back, collapsed my lung, and broke three ribs.

What is it like the very first time you hit the ramp? What should I start first, freestyle fmx or snowmobile?

I was really scared to hit the ramp the first time because there had only been three other people in front of me and they all crashed… I started on my bike doing tricks, it was easier to find jumps than ramps at first.

Are you filming for Slednecks 13?

We filmed some in Idaho for X Games and are going to be working more this season on my segment.

Stay tuned for a full recap with more photos and video in the days to come.  In the meantime, have a happy and safe New Year!  Thank you for your support.

Cheers, SCS and the Crew!

Be sure to also check out SCSunlimited.com

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Shortly after the three riders amazed fans for a pre-game demo, Frisby led the Beavers onto the field, escaping injury after a close call with the pyrotechnics display. The Beavers had the lead after the first half and SCS fired up the sleds for the second show. Under a downpour of rain Frisby, Kourt, and Britt didn’t miss a beat. Fans were packed in on the ground level and above on the fourth level balconies trying to get a piece of the action. The fans were amazing!

As the two teams took the field for the second half, SCS tuned up the course with the CAT equipment provided by our friends at Peterson Machinery Co. for the post-game show. Battling back the Ducks scored with three minutes left in the game, taking the lead 28-27 after a gutsy 2-point conversion. The Beavers answered right back with a field goal securing the game 30-28. Fired up fans marched out of the stadium to the Red Bull/SCS Sledstyle venue to watch the riders jump in the rain for a third time! On a course that was melting away the three riders fed off the crowds´ intensity giving the fans the best show of the day!

SCS would like to thank all of the people involved that help make this vision a reality. OSU being so open to creative ideas along with Red Bull, CAT, Peterson Machinery Co. and Parts Unlimited for believing in a group of riders that just want to make history one event at a time!!!! It´s winter and it´s time to keep raising the bar! Stay tuned.

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Thousands stand quiet waiting patiently in Whitefish, Montana accompanied by thirty degree weather and a light snow fall. The sun shines down on two, seventy foot kicker ramps that look as if they aim to shoot something straight to the heavens above. As a two-stroke engine on an Ski Doo 440 comes to life the crowd goes wild in anticipation of one the most extreme stunts about to be performed throughout the world. Immediately after Heath Frisby sparks up his snowmobile which is known to all snow junkies as a “Sled”, he propels himself around the closed off street to further gather the attention of the eager crowd. Once he has everyone’s attention, he lines himself up to the seventy foot kicker and proceeds to hold the throttle wide open catapulting his sled thirty feet into the air and lands flawlessly on a mound of snow setup as a landing. The crowd ignites with claps, whistles and cheers, however they have no idea what awaits them.

After a few jumps from the riders, Steve Miller, the owner of SCS Racing scrambles to the top the massive landing made of fresh snow and announces that a little competition is about to ensue. The name of the game is “S.C.S”, which closely relates to that of “PIG”. Including all three extreme riders; Heath Frisby, Kourtney Hungerford, and Chris Burandt, the first rider is unable to perform the trick of his peers and receives his first letter. Without skipping a beat, Chris launches himself into the air and abandons his 450 pound sled as if it were completely irrelevant to his survival. For a brief moment, he is 30 ft. above the ground, all alone up there with nothing to assist him in his imminent decent. Like an ancient Samurai warrior he is the master of the elements around him and gracefully remounts the sled in mid air to perform a flawless landing. Frisby and Hungerford both perform the same stunt as if it were a walk in the park.

The competition proceeds for the next ten minutes with no one getting a letter, largely in part to the prevalent skill provided by the renowned riders. Hungerford and Burandt are confident they can match each competitor’s trick; however there soon arises one slight problem. One of the three riders Frisby, although not yet confirmed, appears to be clinically insane, clandestinely hides one last trick up his sleeve.

Frisby wanting to put an end to this competition once and for all, kills his sled, gets off and proceeds to rip off his helmet from his head. The crowd goes wild in the background (one of the loudest we’ve seen yet), anxiously awaiting his next trick. He speaks briefly with Steve concerning how much time there is left in the event. Frisby hops on his sled, sparks it to life with one pull of the starter cord, then blasts off. Circling the track once, Frisby explodes off the kicker and mid-air pulls the sled back completely inverting himself. With nothing but 450 pounds of machinery on top of him, and the ground approaching faster and faster, Frisby pulls the Sled all the way around flawlessly landing. The crowd explodes with cheers as they have just witnessed one of most difficult tricks there is; a back flip on a sled. The other riders watch and now know that there is no way to match this and graciously take a letter. Soon after the game ends, Frisby emerges as the winner, as not many can perform this dangerous feat.

The Winter Carnival went off without a glitch, the crowd still recovering from the euphoric wave of adrenalin that washed over them during this extreme show slowly dissipated. As the SCS crew loaded up their sleds, nightfall fell and with the crowd gone they were left feeling completely content and satisfied as they just put on one hell of a show that Whitefish, Montana will remember forever.
–Tug Hanley

After the Seahawks destroyed the 49ers is when it really went down. Under the lights and with Seattle’s lit up skyscrapers as a backdrop it was time for the riders to destroy on their own terms, and they did. Frisby took it to new levels. Burandt was solid as always, Hungerford with a shoulder that does not like to stay in socket ignored it and stepped up huge and Hoyer….. Wow, are you kidding me. Not only on a brand new sled out of the box, but a completely different manufacturer then what he has ridden before hit the ramp just a half dozen times before he was upside down over concrete sticking back flips. Everyone that was there were eyewitnesses to SCS slam-dunking another marquee event that will not be forgotten As an og of this sport I have been blessed with many cool things. Growing up in Jackson I rode with a group of friends that was like a tight family, I’m stoked that I was apart of the beginning movement with SledNecks that helped change snowmobiling and I am super stoked to now be apart of another tight family that is planning, designing, and building ground breaking events that will enable riders to blow it up even more. SCS is about the riders; it is good to be back.

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