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  1. Michael Metzger is an American freestyle motocross rider.
  2. He won the Freestyle and Big Air events at the 2002 X Games and got second place in Step Up.
  3. He is the first and only person to complete a backflip over the fountains in front of Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
  4. He invented the “McMetz” trick, in which the rider puts both feet over the handlebars and then remounts the bike after floating detached from it.
  5. He was the first person to complete back-to-back-flips, two flips on two consecutive jumps, at the X Games.
  6. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel’s extreme sport show Stunt Junkies.
  7. On May 4, 2006 he completed “The Impossible Jump”, going a world record distance of 125 feet from the takeoff ramp.
  8. He was seriously injured during a jump on the show Stunt Junkies when he suffered a compression fracture of the L4 vertebra.
  9. He lives in Big Bear, California.
  10. He invented the heel clicker (Frezno Smooth).
  11. He appeared in 2002 motocross racing game Freekstyle.
  12. He earned an estimated $100,000 from his 2002 X Games performances.
  13. He is known as “The Godfather of Freestyle Motocross”.
  14. He was only the second person to ever successfully land the jump over Caesars Palace’s fountains.
  15. The others to attempt the jump over Caesars Palace’s fountains include Evel Knievel, Gary Wells, and Robbie Knievel.