After his second X Games Best Trick front flip failure, Paris Rosen is battered and bruised -- both physically and mentally -- but if you think that's going to stop him from getting back on his bike and continuing to perfect the front flip, along with other crazy tricks he has stored in his brain, you're absolutely wrong. Still healing from his laundry list of injuries acquired at X16, Rosen is charting out his future, which includes many more front flips, front flip variations, and even the bike flip.

I hooked up with Rosen to discuss the crash, what went wrong and how he plans to do to redeem himself after his second X Games blunder. Read on.

ESPN.com: Alright man, let's get right into it. What exactly happened to you injury wise from your brutal crash at X Games?
Paris Rosen: When I went down I dislocated my hip and broke a vertebrae in my lower back. And then I broke the cartilage in front of my ribcage that holds my ribs together, which is annoying because it takes longer to heal than a bone because it's cartilage and doesn't have a blood supply flowing through it. And obviously I also broke my ribs and when I did that it severed my liver and bruised one of my lungs.

Wow, that's intense. So when you crashed, what hurt the worst? How painful was it?
Well actually, believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever be knocked out cold. I don't know, but I've taken some good hits. And every time you crash hard you immediately want to get up and walk off the pain, but when you get knocked out it's actually kind of nice because you don't feel any of it. [laughs]

Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever be knocked out cold and it was actually kind of nice because I didn't feel any of it.

-- Paris Rosen

[laughs] So what was the last thing you remember?
I remember being upside down and knowing that I'd be going to the hospital, pretty much. I thought, "Well, I might as well go out in a blaze of glory," so I threw my nac front flip even though I knew I was going down and what not -- I was like "F it dude, I'm throwing my leg out there!" [laughs]

How long were you in the hospital for?
They wouldn't let me out. I was in intensive care because my liver was severed and a lot of times people bleed to death because of those little injuries -- they're pretty dangerous. So they wanted to keep me under control for a while. For a while I couldn't sit up, like I tried just sitting up and I got the cold sweats and ended up passing out. One night -- I think it was Saturday -- I tried getting up and going to the bathroom so I didn't have to pee in that stupid thing and I ended up collapsing and passing out, and my girlfriend tried catch me and I just like took her out too. [laughs] After that they were like, "If you want to get out of here you have to show us that you're okay! You have to be able to get up and walk around this whole area!" So soon enough I just worked my way up it and got up and just started walking around.

So they finally let me out and I talked to Dr. Chao from X Games and he's like, "Hey man, everyone's really worried about you. You should come here to present the medals so that everyone can see you walking around and it'll let people know you're okay." So I ended up showing up on Sunday and handing medals out, so that was pretty cool.

What exactly went wrong? Because everyone that pays attention to the sport knows that you CAN pull the trick and did so multiple times before X, but you were so far off from pulling it that night.
From what I've gathered, you can't lay blame anyone. I don't have any excuses, but being an athlete I want to find out what really went wrong , so I can fix it and nothing like that can ever happen again. In 2009 I executed it perfect because I had the whole day to sit and focus. I had the chance to get on my bike, get a feel for the course, and sit and visualize what I had to do later that night and focus on the riding. This year I didn't get that opportunity because we were having so many troubles with that stupid 2003 CR250 that I've had now for my entire career. [laughs]

It was like boom; we're in the parking lot working on the bike, the bike came together and the next thing you know I'm up on the drop in expected to throw my trick.

-- Paris Rosen

The thing was just running so bad and once we got there, it got even worse. Oh man, it was such a nightmare. Like literally 30-minutes before I was supposed to be out there for Best Trick, my bike was completely broken down into pieces. We ended up swapping everything over to a different frame with different everything ... in a public parking lot dude! It was like 30-minutes before the event and people were walking by and taking pictures -- it was out of control dude.

My bike was running bad in practice, so I didn't have a chance to get used to the new setup, because X Games is a different setup than what I'm used to, you know? So you have to get in there, realize what you're working with and make proper changes so that you can do what you came to do, and I never really got the opportunity to feel it out, work it through my mind and envision what I had to do. It was like boom; we're in the parking lot working on the bike, the bike came together and the next thing you know I'm up on the drop in expected to throw my trick.

So when you were atop the platform, getting ready to drop in, did you know that you had it in the bag or were you thinking, "Oh man, I don't know if I've got this?"
Um, I was pretty calm because I guess freaking out isn't going to do any good. When I look back at it and what I should've done, I should've just backed out because of the bike. On top of that roll in ready to drop in, my by was still running the same way it was earlier in the day. The problem with the bike was, I would rev it out, but when I let off the gas it wouldn't quit revving even with the throttle fully chopped. It would just stay at half to three quarter throttle after letting up, and that's such a major problem. We think it was an air leak that was causing it and since that motor's been rebuilt more times than I can count, I wouldn't doubt there was a major air leak in the cases somewhere.

MODThis is probably the same face Rosen was making as he prepared to take a soil sample at X16.

Are you on some crazy budget or something? Why weren't you able to have a new bike, or at least a bike that functions?
[laughs] I don't want to whine, because there are no excuses, but I haven't had any financial backing from any companies for my entire career. And I'm trying to do something so technical, that requires so much training and focus, and trying to do it all on my own I just don't have any money. All the parts that we were swapping out in the parking lot were from two 2003 CR250 dune bikes that I bought on Craigslist for $1000. My mechanics that were helping me were trying to make champagne on less than a beer budget ... it was more like a Boone's Farm budget. Right now, that's really what I could use -- some good sponsors. I need a company that really wants to invest in me.

I don't want to whine, because there are no excuses, but I haven't had any financial backing from any companies for my entire career. I need a company that really wants to invest in me.

-- Paris Rosen

So, had you pulled the front flip off successfully, how do you think you would've placed?
I think with the front flip I would've won. I think what would've happened if I landed it the first jump is I would've stayed in first and I think I would've just stayed there because the front flip is something completely new to X. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think the double backflip is gnarly, but I think a front flip would beat it. Well honestly, I can't say that I would've won. I think Cam had something up his sleeve too, so if I would've landed that first front flip, Cam would've come out swinging throwing out some gnarly double backflip combo, and to say that would beat a front flip is very possible. So if that happened, it would've been a battle and I would've had to throw my combo too -- it would've been pretty sweet.

What have you been doing since getting back to your home in Arizona? I know you haven't been riding, so have you been doing a lot of rehab?
Yeah, my doctor recommended it, but I'm the best at knowing my own body. I think that's like my talent in the industry -- you know everyone has a special talent or skill and my talent is that I keep myself in really good shape and I've proved that I can take a hit ... a really hard hit. That's what's kept me in this game so long. That crash right there could've paralyzed or even killed other riders and their career would be over -- that would've been a career-ending crash for another rider, but for me I'll be back on my bike in three months doing front flips again.

So I take it you plan to front flip again?
Yeah, I'll probably do one or two jumps into the foam pit and then I'll take it right to dirt again.

Chris TedescoThis is about to get ugly.

Will you be doing it consistently or do you plan on saving it for a Best Trick kind of atmosphere?
Well right now, which I totally understand, my credibility in the industry is in the shitter. If there were no X Games ever again, I'm still going to go out and do front flips in the desert for fun. It's the reason I love this sport man. You can go bigger and bigger and when you get comfortable, you can do something scarier and more gnarly. Everything else doesn't scare me -- you know, all the standard tricks that I got bored of -- so the front flip is what's fun for me because it scares the crap out of me. So once the front flip doesn't scare me anymore, I'll be pulling tricks that are even gnarlier just to have fun.

My goal is to keep riding my dirt bike and doing stupid, crazy, gnarly s--t that makes me feel like I'm going to die. I want to be known as a guy that's completely fearless and doesn't care whether he lives or dies.

-- Paris Rosen

I'm thinking about just getting a normal job at a grocery store or something so I don't have to worry about sponsors or X Games or any of that stuff, and I'll just go out in the desert and do front flips, front flip variations. I've even got a few other tricks that don't have anything to do with the front flip that I want to start doing, and I will master them. Eventually people are going to be like, "Man, that Paris is actually a pretty gnarly dude." [laughs] Then maybe I'll start to regain some credibility in the industry. But my main goal is to keep doing what I love and that's riding my dirt bike and doing stupid, crazy, gnarly s--t that makes me feel like I'm going to die.

What are some of the other tricks you have in mind?
I'm going to do the bike flip before anyone else does. I'm not going to claim it, but all I'm saying is that I'm going to go do it. Someone else may land it before me, but I know I'm going to do it before next year's X Games. But like I said before, I'm not going to do it for a show -- I'm not going to do it to get into X Games -- I'm just going to go do it because I think it'll be scary and bring a jolly smile to my face.

How's it feel to be known strictly as the guy who does front flips?
I was thinking about that this morning. I'm like, "Man, I'm known as a guy that does one thing," and it kind of bums me out. I think it's just because that's what I've been working on and what brought me to the public eye, but I'd rather just be known as a guy that's completely fearless and doesn't care whether he lives or dies and just wants to go for it.