Mike Metzger

Mike Metzger is an American freestyle motocross rider, born on November 19, 1975 in Huntington Beach, California, and commonly known as The Godfather of Freestyle Motocross. He focused on freestyle from the late 1990s and was one of the first riders to do basic tricks such as heel clickers and can cans. At the 2002 X Games he won the Freestyle and Big Air events and took second in Step Up, and in 2003 he won Big Air at the Winter X Games. He was the first person to complete back-to-back flips at the X Games, and on May 4, 2006 he completed a backflip over the fountains in front of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, seen live on ESPN, landing 125 feet from the takeoff ramp. He lives in Lake Elsinore, California.