The X-Games started this evening, which means freestyle snowmobilers are doing questionably sane stunts at the base of Aspen's Buttermilk mountain. Hey, when your sport has the spotlight, milk it baby. This is 22-year old Colten Moore -- no relative to that "other" fugitive felon Colton Moore, since this one's from Texas -- flying almost 130 feet into the air. He loses control and ditches his sled after trying a trick called "the holy grab." The crash into the snowpack is quite dramatic and looks very, very painful. So, let's watch it and get rad.
Let's watch that again, but slower and at a few more different angles:
How'd he celebrate? By Tebowing, of course. Just more proof ESPN is going to milk this thing as long as they can...
Video H/T: SB Nation
If you're not familiar with how badass freestyle snowmobiling is, watch this video from our friends at The Awl. Respect the game.




























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