Catching the Sky
Colten Moore
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 1501117246
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A transcendent story about risk and the pursuit of happiness, family, and the bond between brothers.
Dust and prairie were abundant on the Texas Panhandle, the land that gave birth to generations of Moores. But instead of working the landor the cattle that fed upon it, the Moore brothers, Colten and Caleb, heeded another call.
Their dreams, paired with hard work and family sacrifice, eventually became reality. The Moore brothers, with their boundary-exploding athleticism, innovation and appetite for risk, became stars on the burgeoning freestyle ATV and snowmobile circuits. If it had wheels, they could flip it—often higher and better than anyone else—leading a band of pioneers intent on breaking new ground and in a new sport before multitudes of fans at the X Games and beyond.
In this vivid, page-turning narrative, Colten Moore offers a profound and deeply moving perspective on his life and that of his brother. Catching the Sky is a clear-eyed look at extreme sports, what drives people to take wild chances, and how one man, Colten, couldn't stop even after the worst possible outcome. His story reminds us that we can dream—and sometimes achieve the impossible, that we can follow our own path, that we can lose something, lose everything, only to find it again—often in the most unlikely place.
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going to come right out and say it, God. I’m asking for your favor. We want our boys to win.” “Amen.” Caleb and I began to pack up, grab our things. It was time to ride. My mother always liked to hug us one last time. She needed that moment of closeness between mother and son, before we left. But being up first, Caleb felt pressed for time. Amid the flurry of well-wishers and back-slappers, people seeing us off, my brother slipped out the door of the trailer, crunching across the snow in his
which men build their own flying machines—never made the cut. Street luge and bungee jumping were soon phased out. And Semiao had to do something about the disaster that was super-modified shovel racing—an event in the first Winter X Games in 1997 that injured one rider and confirmed critics’ opinions of the games as a whole. Even Semiao himself had to admit it: Shovel racing required no athletic ability whatsoever, which was the exact opposite of what ESPN wanted. The sports in the X Games
better?” snowmobile expert and industry reviewer Jerry Bassett wrote of the retail version of the new sled when it first hit the market. “You like to fly? Higher the better? If this is you, meet your ride.” The IQ was lighter than most other snowmobiles. Its 121-inch Ripsaw track offered riders great handling in the snow. And its two-stroke carbureted engine was built to rev fast. Top speeds were estimated to be 80 mph. But speed, in freestyle, wasn’t as important as agility—so the IQ had that,
Frisby pleaded our case, making two key suggestions. First, they recommended that the X Games require riders to wear chest protection—a Kevlar flak jacket originally manufactured for soldiers—under their jerseys. Such protection probably would not have changed the outcome for Caleb. He was wearing a chest protector—albeit a different kind—when he crashed the year before. Still, such protection had been mandated for years in snocross. And given what had happened, it seemed like a logical, if
his native Texas home. He lives in suburban Dallas. KEITH O’BRIEN is an award-winning journalist. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times Magazine and Slate and on NPR. He is the author of Outside Shot, a book chronicling the power and meaning of basketball in rural Kentucky. MEET THE AUTHORS, WATCH VIDEOS AND MORE AT SimonandSchuster.com authors.simonandschuster.com/Colten-Moore authors.simonandschuster.com/Keith-OBrien Facebook.com/37INKBOOKS @37INKBOOKS We hope