Catching the Sky

Catching the Sky

Catching the Sky

Catching the Sky

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Overview

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, Colton 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501117268
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 01/19/2016
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 50 MB
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About the Author

Colten Moore is a six-time X Games medalist and a pioneer in the world of extreme sports. He has competed and performed around the world but will always consider 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, Slate, and on NPR. He is the author of Outside Shot, a book chronicling the power and meaning of basketball in rural Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Author's Note xi

Prologue 1

Part I The Flatlands

Come and Get It 11

Full-Blooded 14

The Hardest Kind of Life 20

Honky-Tonk Savior 25

Cow Palace 29

Trophies 36

College Money 44

You're Not Going to Like Me 58

Sketchy 74

To Practice and Be Safe 80

Panic Rev 86

Part II The Valley

This Darn Contraption 95

Adrenaline Era 104

Seven Hundred Pounds 113

Cockamamie 122

Follow Me 129

Rookies 135

Going Big 145

Cruel 152

As the Snow Falls 160

Twenty Minutes 171

Part III The Mountaintop

Streets of Gold 183

Stakeholders 192

Mental Lists 197

Some People Have It 205

On Board 214

Gambling 222

Epilogue 236

Acknowledgments 245

Notes 247

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