During the 1990s the sport of freestyle began to develop. He began to be a daredevil and do insane stunts. Freestyle motocross involves doing stunts/tricks off of big jumps. Since he was doing scary stunts his sponsors were worried about him because they didn't want him to get hurt. In 2002 he moved up to the 250cc class.(http://nitrocircus.com/riders/travis-pastrana/)
Travis pastrana one world freestyle xgames event in 1999. He stayed with freestyle motocross and got better. In 2004 Travis Pastrana crashed trying to jump a 50 ft jump. He had a concussion which was pretty bad. In 2004 travis crashed trying to jump a 50ft jump. He ended up having a concussion to. Sense he didn't go to that one x games he lost. Nate adams was the only person to beat travis at the time. The trick that he beat him with was the one handed 360 and a grab indian air