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I finally won X Games gold! I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me along the way, family, friends, and sponsors, I couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you so much.
Steve, we got it!
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After spending some time back at the Idaho homestead, I hit the road to go do the most American thing I could think of. This included driving a big truck across the wild west to just outside Jackson, Wyoming. I then followed by filming for Good Morning America. Yup, pretty damn American if you ask me. The spot will air on January 24th right before the X Games so be sure to look out for it.
It’s always good to get out and get in front of the camera but this one ended up being an interesting one. As I was ripping around a tree, a branch got jammed in my sleds throttle, unleashing everything she had into another tree. I ended up fine but did a number on the sled. Needless to say I have been tough on sleds this year and it’s only early Jan! Luckily, I was able to hop on my buddy Tobin’s sled. Thanks bro!
Now It’s back to Bozeman to kick it with the boys at SCS Unlimited and do some final training before X. Crunch time is here.
- Friz
I like to burn gasoline, actually everything I do involves burning some type of fuel. I drive a truck, I ride a snowmobile, I flip my dirt bike, and I am always swiping my card at the fuel pump. So I started my Wednesday off like any other Wednesday, I filled up my truck and am heading to Bozeman. The thermometer outside read a balmy 8 degrees, and I needed a cold Red Bull. The windchill at 75mph had to be way below zero, so I present my instant chilling method for your beverages below.
The week after New Year’s was quite action packed, and invloved plenty of air travel and a newborn baby. My brother Russell and his wife Christine had a new daughter to ring in the new year, and I was fortunate enough to be there for the fun. Best wishes to the baby, she looks great!
This week I will be back in Idaho for a bit to rest and get ready for a taping with Good Morning America in Jackson Hole on January 10th. We will be riding with them and explaining the sport a little, and I hope to scare them a bit while we are at it! X Games is getting closer and closer, and this years event is going to be insane. Without letting the cat out of the bag, I have some new tricks that are going to blow minds. Once again, thanks to everyone for their support this winter, I am fortunate to be living this life.
Friz
Hi,
As some of you know I am in California for a few days escaping the cold of Montana. Driving around the L.A. area has been quite an experience for me, especially trying to figure out the different freeways etc. Good things are coming soon that I can’t quite talk about yet, but there are three new sponsors I will be working with. Between video, clothing and optics I will be styling going into Winter X.
Practice has been going really well, and thankfully I have nailed down some new variations on some solid tricks. I am looking forward to getting home and riding in some deep snow, not on the dirt! As the holiday season approaches I would like to bring up a sad subject, but one that everyone should pay attention to, avalanche safety.
Everyone has a snowmobile with plenty of power to get into and out of scary situations, and most riders wear beacons along with shovels and probes. Everyone should carry this equipment when heading out riding anywhere to be safe. Yesterday a good family friend of mine passed away in a avalanche while riding. Joel Barrie was 24, and my thoughts and prayers go out to his family, he will be missed. Please take a look at sites like Avalanche.org and take some safety classes.
Needless to say, my trip has been cut short and I am heading home. I would like to thank all my friends and family in this stressful time, as well as my sponsors like Red Bull for standing behind me. Have a safe weekend.
Heath
Good Morning from cold as hell Montana,
Winter has arrived, the workouts are intensifying, and I am fully prepped and ready for the upcoming competition season. With temperatures here in Butte dipping below zero at night I have begun thinking about those blower powder days and the smell of two stroke fuel burning. I have been flipping and riding a ton this summer and fall and feel confident that my skills are in place for the big show, Winter X.
I was looking through photos from last winter and thinking about what is to come from the winter ahead. One thing stuck in my mind from last winter, is our trip to Russia. The shows we performed behind the iron curtain with the SCS Crew were mind blowing. One of our close friends and sponsors, Montaqua Dave, not only produces the best tasting water in all the west, he also has written a nice little synopsis of our events in Russia. So thanks Dave, I wanted to share this piece with the fans to get everyone excited about our next trip to Europe!
Excerpt
Some people hibernate during the winter but others live to play in the snow. The SCS Sledstyle Crew does more than play, they continually push the sport of freestyle snowmobiling to new heights. Most winters are pretty crazy for these guys but the last 4 months might just top them all…
Anticipation for X Games 13 had been persistently building since the close of last year’s event. The SCS Crew trained and planned diligently for the last 12 months getting ready to show the world how their sport was evolving. The preparation intensified in December & January when a practice facility was built in Idaho and white powdery flakes began to fall.
Fanatic spectators ascended upon Aspen in record numbers for X Games 13 to watch the world’s greatest extreme athletes defy the laws of gravity. The SCS Crew was in full force building the sickest freestyle course in the competition’s history and then dominating the medal podiums. SCS’s founder, Steve Miller, engineered and built the course while SCS Riders Heath Frisby & Joe Parsons won medals.
The X Games had barely come to a close when Heath Frisby received a call from Travis Pastrana. With the SCS Sledstyle motorhome loaded with sleds & Montaqua, the group headed south to meet up with Travis & his zany crew of top action sport athletes. Frisby had been invited to Utah to personally coach Pastrana on flipping a snowmobile for the Nitro Circus show on MTV.
With that in mind, I plan on bringing you the best content I can generate this winter, whether it is through social media, my new HD helmet cam from Vholdr, or through photos from all my friends and fans. I will soon be going to California to train at the Red Bull Facility and will have some awesome footage to go with it. Thanks to everyone for their help, and let’s get ready to rock this winter and make some history!
Cheers
Friz
Morning,
Well I finally awoke from my multiple day turkey eating feast and had some time to spend in the shop. Ski Doo sent me five new sleds this year, so I have to tear down each one and start bolting on mod parts. You can also see my custom seat design I make, using 8′ PVC, a foam cutter, and a heat gun. Then I take the seat down to a local upholstery guy and get it all buttoned up. They turn out pretty sweet for a home made job! I would like to introduce you to Eleanor.
Morning,
I received an email from a marketing person at the Winter X-Games office yesterday, and to my surprise I am now on a poster! They will be doing a short parody film, similar to something like the Airplane movies, to help get the word out about Winter X. Be on the look out for the ad, I couldn’t be more excited for winter now!
Later
Friz
What’s Up,
So those nice guys at SCS Vinyl Works, who do my sled wraps thought of a nice little bonus for those who order new wraps. The first twenty orders come with a autographed poster by yours truly. So give that boyfriend, husband, wife, son, daughter, or redneck neighbor a new sled wrap for Xmas, and keep the poster for yourself!
Later
Friz
What’s Up
Canada has been my new home for the last few weeks. As I’m sure you have all seen, that pretty little Astro van we bought has been serving us well. Simply to keep the miles off our own trucks, we bought that gem to abuse for our travels across the great white north. For anyone who hasn’t been to Canada I highly recommend you watch the movie Strange Brew. It accurately portrays what life in Canada is actually like.
Just kidding, we have been having a ton of fun setting up and breaking down the shows, driving all over the middle of no where, and listening to tons of music. I also got a little tattoo work done in Edmonton by Chris at Tattoo Showdown. I will keep you posted on what goes down at the events as the tour winds down. For now keep checking New Rock Live for all the contest results.
Friz
Well those nice people at Red Bull interviewed me again recently, and here is the write up. Just in case you guys wanted to know a little bit more about me! Check out their new website as well, way more video and it’s awesome.
We are heading into winter so we are stepping up the blog and mixing in some informational info with my day-to-day content.
If you’re reading this, the odds are you’re probably like me and can’t wait for the white stuff to be falling from the sky. While winter will be here in no time, you have probably spent some time sitting in your garage with your sled, staring, cleaning, and staring some more, just waiting to grab some throttle. So while you’re waiting for the cold to arrive here is a little sled history for you.
The first “modern” tracks were designed by Adolphe Kegresse for Tsar Nicholas the second, somewhere between 1906 and 1916. The crazy Russian slapped the tracks on a few cars including a Rolls-Royce and a Packard truck. These were the first to use rubber instead of metal links (can you imagine if we still had metal tracks haha). The first snowmobiles in the US were actually Ford Model T’s with tracks in 1916. And were popular for rural mail delivery.
In steps Joseph Bombardier from Quebec. Bombardier set out to make a snow machine that would kill it in both wet and dry snow. In 1937 he came out of the B-7, a seven-passenger snowmobile with a Ford V-8! They were used for Canadian Post trucks, winter school buses and even for the army in WW2. But Bombardier’s dream had always been to build a small version.
Small snowmobiles like we think of today, were tough early on because engines were so heavy. No super light Rotax, cranking out tons of hp back then. Ed and Allen Hetten and David Johnson (who eventually started Polaris) built the first smaller snow machine in 1955 but it wasn’t until 1959 when Bombardier would step back in and built what we think of the modern open cockpit sled called, you got it, the ski doo. The rest is history. Bombardier grew BRP, who now makes sleds, jet skis, quads, shifter carts and all kinds of big kid toys.
So there is a little history lesson for everyone. Pray for snow.
Canada is expensive, but hey have snow, so I like it. Even though hot wings and pizza were roughly $55, it’s good to be riding on snow rather than wood chips again. Tonight is the first night of the New Rock Live tour I have been talking about for some time. It’s a combination music/sledstyle tour across Canada. It’s a little like a winter Warped Tour for those of you in the US. I’m stoked to be a part of it and think tonight’s show is going to be sick. Isaac Sherbine and Keith Sayers are riding in the tour as well, so it’s really fun to ride with your best friends in foreign countries. Even though I think I have been in Canada every other weekend this summer. Check out this practice picture, that landing ramp is huge!
Later
Friz
Morning,
SCS Wraps has been hard at work designing the new graphics for the upcoming winter, and I finally received my full sled kit. I think they look pretty rad, with a whole new theme to boot. It has been snowing like crazy here in the Wood River Valley with almost 12 inches up north. I think we actually skipped fall and went straight to winter, which is fine by me.
I am heading up to Butte, MT now to gather up all my sleds, gear, ramps etc from Keith Sayers house and packing for the New Rock Live Tour. The first stop is October 9, 2009; Medicine Hat Arena- Medicine Hat, Alberta. So get in your truck and drive up to watch the show
Later
Friz
What’s Up,
Most of us sledstyle or FMX guys really aren’t too savvy when it comes to water sports. Sure we can sit on a boat and drink a beer or two, but most of us are snow or dirt based people. Well the weather here in Bellevue has been windy as all hell, so last weekend we headed north to Redfish Lake. This could be one of the most beautiful lakes in the west, and you don’t have to give up the creature comforts of life going there either. Some friends and family and I went up for a day in the crystal clear ice cold water, luckily right before it snowed. I gave this whole stand up paddle boarding craze a try, and I must say it is pretty fun. The balance needed to keep things upright and smooth it pretty intense. I just cruised around the lake on flat water, but after seeing those big wave videos I am more than impressed by the pros. You should give it a shot next time you give the chance.
Later
Friz
Hey guys,
I have been using this neck brace from Omega that is sweet. Normally, braces like Leatt and others are cumbersome for freestyle and don’t allow me full range of motion. This one is completely different. Everyone should be wearing these! Check out the little video on the right as well. You can get them from my good buddies and sponsors at Western Power Sports.
Hey guys,
I wanted to point out a good blog that is related to sledstyle and snowmobiling in general. Julien has been great about putting up content for me, and I wanted to give him a shout out as well. This is the kind of site we need to grow, let’s make this sport as big as we can! Thanks Julien, and keep up the good work, even is you are in college right now!
http://www.sledstyle.wordpress.com
Hello,
This past weekend was one of the most fun weekends I have had in a long long time! I spent the weekend filming with a helicopter for a new movie that will premiere in February by Steve Haughelstine. Look for it soon under the title “From the Ground Up”. Coy Cooper, Keith Sayers and I all spent the weekend pushing ourselves to look the best that we can on film! Check out my tweets on Twitter for more updates.
Later
Friz
Morning!
Wanted to let everyone know that I just signed with a new tour across Canada. Two of my good friends, Isaac Sherbine and Joe Parsons, are traveling to all the events as well. There are plenty of stops so everyone should see at least one. Bringing both music and sledstyle to events will make for a fun weekend. Check out the trailer on the right to see what’s up!
Hi,
What a week! Summer is definitely in full swing, and I have been putting miles on my truck like it is going out of style. Last night was a demo in Monroe, WA, a town outside of Seattle. Show went well, and we had the whole thing packed up as fast as ever. I am on the road right now, and thought I would toss in a quick update of my travels. Didn’t sleep last night, loaded up the truck and headed east right after the show. 592 miles to Helena, a case of Red Bull, and lots of loud music. Driving through the night gives you lots of time to think, and I think I could drive from Spokane to Butte,MT with my eyes closed now.
Sayers, Metzger, and I have been traveling a lot together this summer, and I couldn’t think of a better group of guys to work with. There is no screwing around when it comes down to business, and that’s the way we like it. I need to be in Helena at 2pm today for a private show put on by my friend Ted. He throws a huge party at his house, and invited us to ride this year. Not a bad gig! I’ll have some pictures for sure of this night. Going to grab a quick nap, and keep on driving, talk to you later.
Friz
Good Morning!
I am on the road, packed up the Frisby traveling circus, and headed west. Monroe, WA is the destination for a show this Friday, however on the way I am making a small detour to visit my good friend in Moses Lake, WA. Haven’t seen Stifler in awhile and it is always entertaining. So if you’re out in the Washington area come out and watch the show. I will post details on where the show is soon.
Here is a cool newspaper shot from the Lynden show last week! I cannot for the life of me get this thing to show up right, but here is the photo.
What’s Up,
I packed up the trailer, loaded up the truck, and look like a traveling junk show. Seattle is my next stop on my freestyle summer tour, but first I had to make a quick pit stop in Coeur d’Alene to see my good friend Mike Metzger. He has the job of finishing up my tattoo’s and putting together my sleeve. Here is a quick camera phone shot, it wasn’t easy doing the camera/while getting tattooed thing.
Friz
Hello Everyone,
As you might have heard I have resigned with SLEDNECKS for the next three years. I am stoked to be back and can’t wait to start working on our movie segment for the 2010 snow season. I have been training super hard for this season and hope to win a gold medal at X games. I am excited for the upcoming season and would like to thank everyone at slednecks for bringing me back on the team. I am looking forward to being able to represent for the brand and to be involved in the upcoming movie.
Thanks again
HF
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