How do Snocross wins compare to freestyle wins?
For me, the Snocross is more satisfying. I train for months leading up to the season, there are countless hours of testing, practicing – it seems like a lot more goes into being competitive in racing. Don’t get me wrong – the freestyle stuff, especially in the last couple of years, has really been getting out of hand. It’s getting harder for me to be a multi-sport guy because these guys are just pushing things so far. Going into Winter X Games ’09, how confident were you that you could land the double backflip? I knew I was capable of getting it around – that’s all I knew [laughs]. I practiced into the foam pit a bunch and I was getting it around, but right before we left for Aspen I tried it on snow at my house and wiped out super hard. We didn’t have time to straighten out the sled and give it another go, so we packed up and headed out there. So that crash was the last thing in my mind; I had a lot of different emotions going through my head at that time. I just kept telling myself,
