{"id":798238,"date":"2019-08-04T18:38:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T00:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=369504"},"modified":"2019-08-04T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T00:38:32","slug":"mike-minor-of-frisco-medals-at-inaugural-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/mike-minor-of-frisco-medals-at-inaugural-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Minor of Frisco medals at inaugural X Games adaptive skateboard park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.5357142857143\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-369504-912\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519-1-150x150.jpeg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519-1.jpeg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Aaron Belford | Frisco resident Mike Minor takes to a rainbow rail en route to a bronze medal at the inaugural X Games skateboard park event Saturday evening in Minneapolis.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Frisco resident Mike Minor takes to a rainbow rail en route to a bronze medal at the inaugural X Games skateboard park event Saturday evening in Minneapolis.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Aaron Belford<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Frisco resident Mike Minor takes to a rainbow rail en route to a bronze medal at the inaugural X Games skateboard park event Saturday evening in Minneapolis.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519-150x150.jpeg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519.jpeg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Aaron Belford | Frisco resident Mike Minor smiles after receiving his bronze medal Saturday evening in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive skateboard park competition.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Frisco resident Mike Minor smiles after receiving his bronze medal Saturday evening in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive skateboard park competition.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Aaron Belford<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/XGames-SDN-080519.jpeg\" alt=\"Frisco resident Mike Minor smiles after receiving his bronze medal Saturday evening in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive skateboard park competition.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/mike-minor-of-frisco-medals-at-inaugural-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-park\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/mike-minor-of-frisco-medals-at-inaugural-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-park\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mike Minor of Frisco now has an X Games medal to pair with his Paralympic medals.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Frisco resident and Pennsylvania native won a bronze medal Saturday night in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive park skateboarding event. Minor, an avid skateboarder since he was 5 years old, won his first X Games medal three years after an injury suffered in practice prevented him from taking part in his only other time at the X Games, in 2016, in adaptive snowboarding.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s gold and silver medals went to Vinicios Sardi and Filipe Nunes, respectively, who both hail from Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Minor found out this winter that he was one of eight adaptive skateboarders invited to the X Games. He credits his time of recent training and having fun on the Frisco, Leadville and Breckenridge skateparks as helping him to earn a medal Saturday night, just the second \u2014 and by far largest \u2014 skateboarding competition he\u2019s ever taken part in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn X Games medal is on the list of medals I truly wanted,\u201d Minor said. \u201cIt ranks pretty high with the other accomplishments I\u2019ve made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At last year\u2019s Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics, Minor won gold in banked slalom and silver in snowboard cross. In snowboarding, Minor competes in upper-limb competitions, as he was born missing his right forearm.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night in Minneapolis, the first-ever X Games skateboard park competition took pace in a jam-session format, with eight skateboarders taking turns dropping in for 40-second runs for 20 minutes. Along with Minor, other competitors were below-the-knee and below-the-waist amputees.<\/p>\n<p>Minor credited his ability to land a gapped backside 50-50 onto the rainbow rail, gapping off of it, in the park\u2019s central volcano island as a big reason behind why the judges awarded him the bronze.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"REPLAY: Adaptive Skate Park | X Games Minneapolis 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"about:blank\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EdX4O2PRmhA?feature=oembed\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><noscript><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"REPLAY: Adaptive Skate Park | X Games Minneapolis 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EdX4O2PRmhA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf you had done something that no one was doing, I think it was going to score really highly,\u201d Minor said. \u201cThe rail was kind of the centerpiece, and I did later in the competition, because nobody else was attempting to do the rail, no other skater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Minor is excited to continue his adaptive snowboarding career as well as adaptive skateboarding. He said he thinks the event will return to the X Games next summer, and he would like to take part. Though skateboarding will make its debut at next summer\u2019s Tokyo 2020 Games, adaptive skateboarding won\u2019t be on the official sport list. That said, Minor is hopeful it will take place as a demo event and, if so, would like to skate in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MEDAL RUNS: Adaptive Skateboard Park | X Games Minneapolis 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"about:blank\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvRhqRZLMGo?feature=oembed\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><noscript><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MEDAL RUNS: Adaptive Skateboard Park | X Games Minneapolis 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvRhqRZLMGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that the Adaptive Skateboard Park comp at X Games will help in the effort to include skateboarding in the Paralympics,\u201d Summit County local, Paralympic snowboard medalist and co-founder of Adaptive Action Sports Amy Purdy said in a press release.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike MINOR | Snowboard cross | Snowboard | PyeongChang2018 Paralympic Winter Games\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"about:blank\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKaiOU_V1PA?feature=oembed\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><noscript><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike MINOR | Snowboard cross | Snowboard | PyeongChang2018 Paralympic Winter Games\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKaiOU_V1PA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Copper Mountain-based Adaptive Action Sports partnered with ESPN to put on the first-ever competition. In its history, the non-profit organization has fieled 12 athletes to the U.S. Paralympic Team.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/mike-minor-of-frisco-medals-at-inaugural-x-games-adaptive-skateboard-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco resident Mike Minor takes to a rainbow rail en route to a bronze medal at the inaugural X Games skateboard park event Saturday evening in Minneapolis.Courtesy Aaron Belford Frisco resident Mike Minor smiles after receiving his bronze medal Saturday evening in Minneapolis at the inaugural X Games adaptive skateboard park competition.Courtesy Aaron Belford Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 19:19:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}