Chloe Kim

It's like flailing around out there.

Yeah.

So it works.

My dad was an engineer.

So he has this engineer mind and he's always thinking all these things.

And he also, this is before it was common.

So when I started doing well in competitions is because I became really good at writing switch.

So switch means I'm writing in the opposite way.

So now my left foot is forward, which is unnatural to me.

Yeah, so my dad would make me, you know, he'd get mad when I didn't do it because it was so important to him.

And in hindsight, for me as a snowboarder now to be good at riding switch.

So whenever I was getting on the chairlift, it had to be switch.

Whenever I was riding down to the halfpipe had to be switch.

Everything had to be switch.

I had to like do a whole day in the halfpipe just switch hitting all the going off all the jumps switch doing everything I could switch.

because he really wanted me to get good at writing switch.

And he recognized before I did that switch writing is going to be really, really helpful.

Yeah.

So back then though, no one was really doing that except for the Sochi gold medalist, Caitlin Farrington.

She's really good at spinning backside and was really good at writing switch.