The podcast goes live at X Games Aspen 2024 with two of the winningest women snowboarders of all time! Joining the show, 23-year-old Chloe Kim and 22-year-old Zoi Sadowski-Synnott check the vibe behind the scenes on Buttermilk Mountain with The Dingo, Danny, and Brittney.
Press play for a special episode recorded on-site at X Games Aspen 2024 featuring two icons of women’s snowboarding: Hailing from Los Angeles, Chloe Kim is a seven-time X Games gold medalist and two-time Olympic gold medalist with victories in every milestone competition of the sport. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott owns five X Games gold medals and made history as the first athlete from New Zealand to earn Olympic gold. On the eve of X Games Aspen 2024, the two decorated snowboarders share their personal X Games milestones, keys to performing under pressure, and expectations for this year’s edition – only on UNLEASHED!
Press the play button (and hit Like) on the new episode of UNLEASHED with The Dingo, Danny, and Brittney.
Make sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more UNLEASHED episodes. Regular editions of the show are recorded live inside Studio M at Monster Energy headquarters in Corona, California, and published bi-weekly. Also, follow @monsterenergy for updates.
The podcast goes live at X Games Aspen 2024 with two of the winningest women snowboarders of all time! Joining the show, 23-year-old Chloe Kim and 22-year-old Zoi Sadowski-Synnott check the vibe behind the scenes on Buttermilk Mountain with The Dingo, Danny, and Brittney.
Press play for a special episode recorded on-site at X Games Aspen 2024 featuring two icons of women’s snowboarding: Hailing from Los Angeles, Chloe Kim is a seven-time X Games gold medalist and two-time Olympic gold medalist with victories in every milestone competition of the sport. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott owns five X Games gold medals and made history as the first athlete from New Zealand to earn Olympic gold. On the eve of X Games Aspen 2024, the two decorated snowboarders share their personal X Games milestones, keys to performing under pressure, and expectations for this year’s edition – only on UNLEASHED!
Press the play button (and hit Like) on the new episode of UNLEASHED with The Dingo, Danny, and Brittney.
Make sure to subscribe and stay tuned for more UNLEASHED episodes. Regular editions of the show are recorded live inside Studio M at Monster Energy headquarters in Corona, California, and published bi-weekly. Also, follow @monsterenergy for updates.
and we are live from the Winter X-Games, Aspen. And it is looking beautiful out there. Hey, Danny, it's glorious. We're here. Colorado vibes are high. How you doing, dude? You're looking like the purple people eater. I am purple people eater, man. Trying out this new color. Full purple. You have the hat. Does it match? No, you're Matt. No. Britney. How are you, Britney? I'm good. How are you doing, Dingo? Man, I could not be better. We have two of my favorite snowboarders in the world, two superstars in the world to kick off Winter X-Games. And we've got Chloe, Kim and Joey Sadowski Sinnett. Joey, I've been I've been hanging out at your dad this weekend, and I really know I've got to I've got to get the full I got to meet Chloe's that many, many, many, many years ago. But now it's full circle for me. And I know why you are the way you are. Yeah, I can say that I'm a better person for it. Now, girls, how are we? We're doing well. Happy to be here. Yeah, so I can. I got a list in front of me, and I can start here by some achievement. Joey nine X Games medals, five gold, three silver, one bronze, one gold medal, An Olympics bronze medal at Olympics Indoor. And no, wait, How many gold medals at the Olympics? You'd have to know. I've got one. You've got one in a bronze and a silver and a silver. And then down here, Kobe, you have six X games, gold medals to Olympic gold medals, and you've won everything from the Tonys, the Keys, and you took like basically everything, everything. Two of the most celebrated girls in snowboarding, one hotpot, one slopestyle, one from New Zealand and one from the Bay Area Girls. Did we ever think that we'd be sitting here in this achieved by such a young age? Chloe Definitely not, no, but super grateful for sure. Let's take it back from the beginning. Chloe I remember I can't remember the first time we met, but it was, it was around 2016, maybe ish, 15 ish. Maybe I met Dan when you were younger, but it was when we had the monster bag and it was we were snowboarding with Steve Aoki. Yes, that was the first time we met. That was the first time we met. I was there also. I do remember that. Yeah, because I remember you hitting the bag and then Steve being like, Hey, I'm going to try a flip. We're well, you have to make it to the back. I think he did it though, right? Yeah, He's doing it on snow, right? Yeah. He's done backflips on snow now. Yeah. Wild guy. Love him, though. Chloe, let's jump into it. You have your freshly back, your back on snow. You took a year off. I mean, you are probably still snowboarding a little bit, I would say. But a year out from competitive but year set back from the scene. How are you feeling? I feel really good. I'm super excited to be back. I think that taking that time away was super. It was just really good for me. I was able to kind of reset and kind of give myself space to grow as a person as well and kind of get my priorities back straight. And now I know, you know, I'm here because I want to be here. And I think that's all I needed to know. Yeah. And at the end of the day, you know, Danny, you've been through this. You've been through, you know, the Olympics, you've been through the highs and the lows of what happens and what doesn't happen. It's important to take time to yourself. so much. And I think it's like, really important to, like, actually take time away from competitive side or switch to a different focus in snowboarding and then like come back to a half pipe or slopestyle and be like, Holy shit, I'm so good at this. Like, this feels really good. Whereas, you know, it's like a struggle to do things like school where you're like practicing how to remember things, to get, you know, Yeah, that's not easy. It's not easy. And then usually, How are you doing this year? I'm pretty good. Like mentally, not quite physically at the moment. I had a bit of an injury in December at the World Cup, so sadly, I'm not competing this year, which really sucks. But I'm so happy cause I'm the biggest fan. So what? I can't wait to watch everyone watch Chloe get back in the fight for X Games. It's going to be set. The level of competitive slopestyle riding on the females. Is that such a new level? I think in the last couple of years, no. I think that Jamie Anderson maybe stood out on her own for like some time. But now you look and there's Tess and Kokomo and and and me and Annika and Anna. And I like for the like, I am very excited for not just this weekend but the future of of where black women's slopestyle riding is going. And it's one of those it's one of those things you watch now. And I mean Kokomo is level is is has been stepping it up and we were briefly talking about it last night in the hotel room. I mean, what where is this going to end or is this just keep going for her? I don't think it's going to end. It's like this. The only way is up. And I think we'll see it here this weekend. All the girls have been working so hard and it's going to be crazy to say, you know, there's five girls now with the potential to go, 14 potential to do 14 in slopestyle. So, yeah, I'm excited to watch. And do you have any favorites right now? That's a hard question. I do have favorites, but I don't want to say of course I'm going to say my monster. Try and test from across the dirt for sure. But Kokomo. Yeah, she's pretty hot at the moment, but honestly, all the girls have such big repertoires and all have the potential to get on the podium. So I'm just excited to watch how everything comes together. And then what about you, Chloe? You kind of stepped out of the limelight for a year. Is it was it hard coming back into it? It's kind of like muscle memory for me. I think I was able to figure it out pretty quickly, but I, you know, competitions I feel is pretty strong. All the girls are killing it and it's just really cool to be part of that progression. I think, you know, women's half pipe snowboarding is not where it used to be. so many girls from all over the world just completely throwing down. And I think you guys will be able to see that tomorrow night. So guys, I have a video here that I'm going to roll of both the girls here. It's going to roll on our screen. So I have it in right now, that beeping. And this is just some highlight reel of both you girls right now. It's you on screen, Chloe. You have just some of your X Games moments. Do you have some of what year? Like what what year was your first X Games and what's the difference now from then to now? My first X Games was in 2014. I was 13 years old. I actually got silver that year, which was a big deal. I remember getting my X games invite that your actually it was right after due tour and I was screaming in the car so excited. It was a dream come true for me. So it's kind of surreal. You know, I've been coming to this event for almost ten years. That's crazy to think about. How long you been coming to this event? Danny I competed like 13 years straight, and then I think I took two years off from not competing too then. Now this is my fifth year as a full on spectator and just fans. And then we're going to jump into some clips here of you. Zoe, what was your first year at X Games? My first year at X Games was 2019. I was 17 years old and I actually got invited in big air, but it was alternate and slopestyle. And then, yeah, I, I guess a couple of the girls got hurt and I got the spot for so and managed to win that. Yeah. Which was a crazy so crazy looking back on and yeah, I've just been so grateful to be able to come back every year and compete in Aspen because it's the best event of the year We also have some backcountry footage. It just popped up on the screen there. And you're no stranger to backcountry. What's the difference for you of being able to jump from a venue like this and then go on to compete at sites, say, like a natural selection? Yeah, for sure. I mean, I'm like every snowboarder. I love riding power so much. And so any chance I get out, I'll be out there. And yeah, I guess the difference between competing in slopestyle and then in the backcountry is like you kind of have so much freedom. And so events like Natural Selection and you just got to figure it out. Whereas you show up to an event like X Games and you're like, I want to do a 1260. Yeah, this is my go. And you know what the the jumps like, can you practice on it? And then you just have to perform when the time comes. But yeah, natural selection you kind of drop in and kind of have to take everything as it comes, you know, like it's quite, it's quite unexpected. Growing up in New Zealand, who were some of your idols or who did you look up to for me, growing up in New Zealand, snowboarding, my idols were the likes of Stephanie Luxton and Christy Prior, Mitch Brown, who now coaches for the New Zealand team. I mean, I used to compete against Mitch in junior world. Yeah. So she was like one of the first kids I ever saw, like, have like, of course, praise full page spread and magazine. But the bulk of them, that's I love seeing that. And this kind of comes in to you, too, You know, Danni, you're now the head coach of the US snowboard half white team and you see people that you grew up with. You had a full career in snowboarding, obviously with your accolades and X Games and Olympics and doing your own thing with all the Grenade movies that we did in and then taking a little bit of time off, but now being able to come back and be a coach and be an onlooker, you know, and you stand around and you look at the people now they're on top of the hot pipe and you see a lot of the people that I guess you used to compete against. Yeah, I mean, definitely see quite a few, you know, like I think as an accomplished rider, you kind of get to see like a few generations as you go through it. We were like, whoa, A couple of people fade away and there's new faces and then some new faces. And then now is like this next role, like getting to coach. It's really cool because I had so many positive influences throughout my career that were like team managers and people that I got to snowboard with. Like I really learned so much from as just like a snowboarder being taken care of to then be like, you know, I really want to do this for this next generation. And then as far as style goes, it's really fun to come back into it and be like influence riders with their new tricks and new combos and like create that fun aspect as opposed to just like add another one, added another one, you got another 180. It's like, no, try this with a different grab and like start to influence a little bit more of like training sessions as in, like our old film shoot style, you know, or like backcountry jump kind of style. How do you think like X-Games has changed over the time that since when you started to now, in what ways do you think? A lot more rotations, a lot more rotation. I mean, going back to kind of like, you know, what Dingo and Zoe were talking about was in the progression of women's like slopestyle. There's tricks that like I didn't even dream about as a pro rider filming video parts that I'm watching like some of my favorite girl slopestyle was doing. And it like blows my mind, you know, that that progression has like caught up and then surpassed where like we even really envisioned it being right. I think just the elevation of these riders, the platform they're at, is so cool. It's like, you know, we were cracking into like what was superstars of America in a sense. And now it's like the whole world's eyes are on these athletes and it's like influencing so many people in so many good ways across like the world, like you see so many countries so involved in in snowboarding and skiing. Now you're like, wow, that was really cool because at that time when we were doing it, there was like a couple of nations we would compete with on the regular, you know, And like at that time and half pipe, like Finland was all over the map where it was like all these amazing half pipe riders. And now you see a lot of the Scandinavian movement, kind of like in slope and in back country and stuff. And I feel like you really have to give credit to the riders because you're so talented, you work so hard, you're really trying to like bring it up. It makes more people interested. So the growth of it is just the talent of the riders. It's it's you know, why they're watching? Because what are they going to do next? Chloe Growing up in the Bay Area, when when did you start when you first start snowboarding, was it Mammoth or Big Bear? I started on Mountain High when I was I got my best one. Yeah. Mountain High is just one. I know, I know. So many good mums are actually so many, like badass women came out of there. Hailey Langland, Maddie Mastro. That's where I met them. For the more serious. Yep. Yeah, I guess so. No high five there? No. Well, they do have one. They do? Yeah. It's just like, not rideable. It's just like a little just dirt ditch, not 25 feet. There's like, a little bit of transition and then ice block. So you actually can't even go up the walls. That's how I remember it being. But so many good memories there. And then when did you start going home? I started going to Mammoth when I was ten, so I was a little late to the party. But also that's kind of when I decided that I loved Hot Pipe snowboarding and I also love Slope at the time too. I think I competed on both tells about 14, so I was kind of able to do both there and Mammoth has such great park, great parks and yeah. What is your favorite sport besides snowboarding? I think. I think I know what you're going to say. Yeah, I just got a horse recently, so I love you know, I thought she was going to say I had no idea what you were going to say. Yeah. Say, how is your horse doing? He's good. I was just telling Dingo earlier, he got injured, so unfortunately, he's in rehab in Temecula. I need to go visit him soon. But he's so cute. I see that you bring your dog along to hang out with the horse. What's the. What's his name? Momo. My mom? Yes. What? What? Who's. Who's the leader of the pack? The dog of the horse? Definitely the dog. They don't. Well, my dog just doesn't like horses, so I don't know if they'll be able to hang out anytime soon. I've tried, but I just don't think they're going to get along. My horse is just so curious that he wants to be friends so bad, but I'm scared that my dog is going to bite him, right? Yeah. So I'm going to say my dog occupy Pluto. What about your favorite sport? My favorite? Besides, snowboarding is surfing sick. Yeah, I love surfing so much. And then closely close that is skating. I mean, I grew up skating and then I recently fell in love with surfing a couple of years ago and follow the tour, keep up with all the videos and stuff, and just like watching the girls progression in those sports has been so insane and gets me so hyped. Where's your favorite surf spot? I'm not telling you that I love the tattoo. Yeah, of surfing, right? Yeah. It's pretty shocking in New Zealand. Yeah, it's for sure. A little shock, you know, It's pretty isolated. So when you go surfing down there, especially in the South Island, there aren't a ton of people around, which makes it super sick. But then you're also isolated in away from how safe? Like there's a shark in the water and stuff. So it's pretty scary stuff for both you to I mean, probably a little bit separately, but it it all kind of happened, you know, around the same time. I think you both have had to deal with the limelight, but not just for industry limelight. You know, I think you've both dealt with the limelight on a very high level. How have you, Chloe? How was that adjustment of being Chloe Kim, the snowboarder too, then Chloe Kim Red Carpet events. Chloe Kim Face of Nike, Chloe Kim cover of all these magazines. How have you adjusted to that type of lifestyle? It was definitely a big adjustment in the beginning. I definitely wasn't expecting all of that from snowboarding, but now I see it as such an incredible opportunity to continue just spreading the love for snowboarding and getting people really into it. Because even when I am at all these events and all these campaigns, like I'm Chloe Kim, the snowboarder, and I think that's so powerful and I think I love that, you know, in doing those things, even though it's not directly like snowboarding, snowboarding, but I'm able to, you know, continue to share and spread, you know, what snowboarding is all about through these things. So I'm grateful for those opportunities for sure. What's one of the craziest events you've been to like? You're like, what am I doing here? craziest outfit. my gosh. I don't even know. I mean, even like going to the US VS is so crazy because you're like, hanging out with the most, you know, about us athletes in the world, just like sitting next to them. I went to like this Elton John party recently that was pretty sick. it's just kind of wild. I definitely get imposter syndrome. Like, I feel like I shouldn't be there, but it's cool. The food's good. That's all I ask for That order. I like what you said about, you know, being Chloe Kim the snowboarder, Right? That's. There's really something that says that. That you are there, but you're there because of what you've done for your sport and then being able to push your sport. And I think I think it's changed a lot. You know, I was there, watched Danny get his first Olympic silver medal, and that was when Ross Powers, Danny JJ swept the podium for wrong. It was the first podium sweep for the United States in 52 years, something like six years, I think some 56 years. Four years. Not bad. We didn't even know we had done. We were like, well, you did good, you did good, you did good. People were like, No, you guys, like, made history. We're like, Yeah, but we did good, you know, like that was it's snowboarding. And that's like the coolest part about it is that we can reach these accolades and none of us really started snowboarding thinking like, I'm going to go party with Elton John one day. He's like, No, I'm going to go get on a helicopter in Alaska, or I'm going to be living in Mammoth, you know, or hanging out with George Bush. The coolest thing Danny ever did was he got George Bush to sign a George Bush bobblehead. No, his own bobblehead. Yeah, at his house, the White House And I went through security with only a Sharpie in the bobblehead in the airport. It's kind of like airport security going through. They were just like, all dying last. But I think it's been important over time to have those moments and to be able to keep pushing the sport and pushing the sport to limits. YouTube being half pipe riders. And, you know, Danny, you were kind of the first person to link back to back to the eighties. And at that time it was such a huge step in a way where people were like, Holy shit. Like what is where do we go from here? And now in back to back 1080s, not even going to get you in to qualifying for any event. Well, it depends on how big you go with those 1080s, but I think, you know, it was crazy to see a level where it was like everyone kind of saw the ceiling. And for me I was like, you know, like I just want to do good, so I'm going to do more. And then I remember going back to after, like my first scenario went back to the U.S. Open and I was like, Well, I kind of want to win again. And I don't think like that last one's going to do it in my mind. So I'm like, why not do two of them? And then people are like, What are you doing? And now you look at like the level where it's like, Holy shit, Like we're seeing back to back triple flips we're seeing. I mean, there's been some history made over here at this table where my spin count has been completely broken by Chloe in the last six months. Yeah. Thing I love about Chloe too, is you go so big and you make it look so effortless. And the style you bring is like. It's, it's, it's it's it's like. It's like watching art being made, and it's. I think that it's awesome to watch you progress. And I hate it when you take time off because it's. It's not as fun without you in there I think you know I think I think like getting as I have grown up and then, you know, doing all these contests and stuff, I kind of started seeing snowboarding as like it's truly an art form and everyone's writing is, you know, their own expression of art and we use, you know, our boards and our grabs and our bodies as art. And I think that's that's really cool. Even when you watch someone go down the groomers, like, I can always tell who's writing just on how, like where their hands are, like the way they're turning. You know, I could spot Zoe from a mile away if I just saw her right down buttermilk. Right. And I think that's really cool. That is cool. So for you, after that Olympic medal, how was it going back to New Zealand? It was pretty show, to be honest. I mean, straight after winning the Olympics, I went straight to bold face and competed in natural selection and kept my season going. Filming in the back country because, you know, COVID was around, but we had crazy quarantine like two weeks in a hotel. So, yeah, I didn't make it home until a couple of months after. By that point, everyone had forgotten about it. No, that's a lie. So I think you were the first in, in, in in that stature, I think to bring home a gold medal to the country. Yeah. Yeah. In the Winter Olympics, it was it was pretty crazy, to be honest. Like I looking back, it's just mind blowing. Like, just like everyone's reaction and all the love from everyone back home. And yeah, that's crazy to think that it's it's we're X games, you know, we're being I remember coming here when you were competing right there. There was no scaffolding. There was no nothing. I had a spray Canada stencil and I was walking around the bottom of the half pipe spray painting people with grenade logos. And we used to have we had our dog up here for a while. yeah, Big Vern, Big birds out of X-Games. But the evolution of this, it's it's like no other. It's, it's like the, the excitement around X Games. Britney, this is your second X games. It's my second X games. You came up to me and she said, Happy X and I like that at the X Games. At the X Games. I mean, yeah, have the X Games, everyone. This is cool. Yeah, this is from last year. We were at the limelight. This is we stepped it up. I made some other line. Yeah, it's good and I know some people, but what about you didn't go because this is you've probably been to more X Games than all of us in a row. Yeah. Yeah. You're Mr. X Games. We can't even track you down. You text me back later, like to today. You're like, well, I brought you here at 15. I don't think you ever left. We were trying to do the math with that. With Brandon and Craig McMorris. Yeah, they. somebody really just went down big time. If I jump in. Yeah, that's because it looks like ski practice is going on the hop up directly behind us. And then to the left, you have either big air or slopestyle going on that big it just looks big. Zoe Yeah, it's pretty huge. 70 plus feet ahead. So if it's 70 plus feet, how far you travel. And I think 70 feet, I don't really know how it works. We didn't meters in New Zealand, you know, we have two meters. Yeah, but it's a pretty big jump and the landing super long. So you can go really big. I know a couple of weight went down on it. Yes. They couple, four teens from the girls were being thrown. So yeah, it's going to be pretty crazy. How do you know. Like I used to commentate snowboard events and it was pretty simple because you didn't have to count all these spins. How do you know? Like if you don't know, I like what I've been. I was watching the locks open, and if you don't know the athlete or the rider that because if you know the rider, you kind of know what tricks they're going to do. Yeah. So I find it easy. If you don't know the rider of the ski, you find it hard to calculate or watch. Do you guys have trouble watching yourselves ourselves? No, not yourself watching other people. yeah. yeah. And counting the roads. Yeah. Yeah. I've no idea. I mean, I know what a Triple Coke looks like. And then if it's any more than that, I just guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Based on, like, the reaction from people around me, I'm like, maybe that's never been done before. Yeah, but it's so hard to count, especially watching skiers. I genuinely never know what they're doing in the word. Never get, never, never get done before. Gets used a lot now. Yeah, I think that's a progression. Do you guys at some point wish we could go backwards, but like, just stay still for a minute? Yeah, it the man. We're going to talk a little bit of predictions here soon. I predict you win gold. That's my prediction. I don't really see it going any other way. So let's go to women's snowboard slopestyle and let's let's have some predictions right now. that's such a hard question, Chloe, what do you reckon? well, you're always looking. You're always my top pick. Whenever your name is on the status, I'm like, always got this. Like, whatever. I'm just going to wait. So, you know, I got proven right, But right now, I don't know. Kokomo is killing it, that's for sure. Test offensive. I don't know. I just think. I have no idea. Yeah, I have no idea either. I'm there. All my friends. I can't really say said. Yeah. Damn. I could say so many things. Like Tucker has done back to back twelves. She could bring it into this, of course, which would be insane. Mia has the most insane trials ever. And then can back it up with a 14. And I mean, she hasn't gotten an X Games medal yet and she she's due for one for sure. So it's pretty hard. What's more important? you know, obviously it starts with the rail line and then the jump line. What's, what's more important in the run, or is it something that always kind of has to flow together? Definitely all has to come together. just clean, fluid style, but also hitting those like getting up, linking the tense with the lines of the towels. and yeah, just people are adding their own individual flair to their runs as well. Like, you see Jamie did that for so long and it was so exciting to watch her ride, and that's why she always ended up on top and like, yeah, you kind of have to just face the whole thing together. It looked like this one here for especially this course, because it is so crowded with rails like right up front where you have so many options. How hard is it to like kind of pick a rail line that you feel like confident in getting, you know, like equal time where jumping you get to practice so many times. But I feel like with Rails it's always such a bummer. Like when there's like that little rail come off early and you're like, yeah, for sure. It's so hard to pick a rail line, especially one that you think will be consistent enough to go on a run. And with this course this year, there's a lot of like transfers. So I think we'll be seeing a lot of people like going for those transfers and trying to get some set tracks on them. But they're also harder, you know, like harder to make look good and find the flow. So yeah, I've seen a couple tracks go down in practice the last couple of days. so yeah, that'll be a, that'll be a factor. Do you have a favorite like go to rail trick in your line that you know you're going to get like solid Mine was a cab to 70. Yeah. I was like I could do this on any gap two down or anything. Yeah, I love a back run too, to be honest. Like, just I'm so good f back. One, two. there you go. Yeah. Q70. Ah, yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah. If I'm riding and I'm not feeling dry, if I do one of those, it'll just put me in a good mood. You know, guys, we have Chloe, Kim and Zoe Zidansek in it. I always get mixed up there because I want to say it now. I got the reason I'm one. Yeah, That's your mom's maiden name. Yeah, I love that. And that's why you kept running it? Yeah, for sure. That's so cool. I mean, it's really annoying to say and really annoying to have to write down when you're filling out a form. But I love it. Yeah. And I believe your mom's watching right now. Live from New Zealand. No. Yeah. Hi, Mom. I don't know where your dad is. Your dad supposed to roll the set at some point, but, yeah, maybe he got a little lost. Yeah, he's on his best behavior. Maybe security wouldn't let him through. You know what I saw this morning? Which was so cool? We have shuttle busses running to and from the hotel. Not going to say where. So people don't bombard our hotel, but the shuttle was a little like late today and Anika was out there and they'd been like 20 minutes. And I said something to your dad. Your dad called, you ran up, got the car keys, and then drove out here so she could not miss practice. Yeah. And I was like, super dad. Yeah, he. Dad, like you both have super dads. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it takes great parents. Yeah. To get to the mountain and start boarding early. I feel like anyone in your line of work, you have to have that supportive system because your parents, they're putting a lot. I mean, do they worry at all when you're, like, attempting these bigger tricks or they're just. Yeah, for sure. And when you were younger and you were like, okay, I want to go pro, were they just like, okay. Or yeah, full support for it actually. So inside I'm like, I'm so grateful for my parents. They would drive me up and down the mountain that was like 40 minutes away in New Zealand. Take me back down for like the last hour of school or whatever. Make sure I get in just like a little bit of education. So yeah, you really it's been really awesome to have a good support system. And yeah, my parents, yeah, I feel like my, my parents and I, we kind of learned together they knew nothing about snowboarding, snow, sports in general. So we kind of learned as we went, so like, even when I went pro, we didn't know that like I was pro. Yeah. Or anything. We were just doing what you love. So we're just kind of like, happy to be there, you know, just like, enjoying the ride and it's crazy how, how far we've come. But Dad definitely gets pretty nervous when he watches me drop in every run. He's like, Are you good? Are you okay? Like, does anything hurt? Do you need anything? But I just love having this support, which is why I always bring them with me into every contest they go to because it's just nice having them around a little piece of home. Yeah. And they're here right now. Right? Yeah, Both of them. It must be so cool. I saw you post a picture. You know, both of you have billboards all over town. There's Boston. Billboards X Games, billboards, bus, billboards. As I saw you take a picture. It must be so cool. It must be such a proud moment to them. And especially putting in the hard yards. You know, it's not easy to have to have a kid and and be full supportive from such a young age. It's like people get to see the glorification of it. The sponsorships, these big events. But pre then it was a lot of driving up and down the mountains. Yeah managing school time, figuring out this and I think a lot of people forget that the parents kind of devote their lives to it. Even your mom, your mom moved to Mammoth? Yeah, I moved to Maine with my dad. We still like we will take turns of all of our different families in New Jersey, like doing the Little USA Stays and they would just take five different kids each weekend and the parents would like take Thursday. It's awesome. Guys, We got some new events this year. where we at right here. Knuckle hawk for women's is in for snowboard and women's ski. Are you guys being a fan of the knuckle hawk. Yeah yeah. Big fan. Yeah. It's pretty crazy to watch. It's scary to watch. Yeah. The guy that brought me from the airport to the hotel was saying it's his favorite event. And I think that for a lot of people, I think we have to to to be credit. We credit Marcus Cleveland. Is he the one that kind of progressed knuckle hawk? Am I wrong? I would say so, yeah. Yeah. And then Deb really put it on the map where I feel like it's a cool event where you can watch and like somebody is going to just create something at it. Like, Yeah, in 30 minutes. Yeah, exactly. Like, I don't see these people really practicing this as much or like, just out in the normal field. Yeah. And now we're going to start seeing people just flying off knuckles doing like, new tricks. Never been done, correct? Yeah, but correct me if I'm wrong, and it goes back to the The Spectator, I think it's more relatable. Right. It's very hard to watch somebody do a 1440 and be like, I could do that. Or somebody go, you know, you help me out of a half pipe ago. Yeah, for sure. And not lot it's not saying they can everyday person can do the tricks that we're seeing in knuckle hawk but yeah it looks like it it looks like some of you may be able to do by accident. Just going way too fast in the mountain. Yeah you're like, Oops, Whoa! But it's exciting. The fans get into it. That's crazy to watch. I rode by him today, bro. Underneath him, he rides like a 117. It looks like he's riding the long ball out there. Yeah, Yeah. Every year his board gets, like, 20 centimeters bigger, which makes doing those tricks a lot harder. Does it? Yeah. I think that's kind of like part of the style of. Right? Like, I'm going to do really tech rail tricks on a toboggan the size of two snowboards. Yeah, we're going to. We're going to switch ships for a second. And let's talk men's snowboard slopestyle. Let's talk. Ready? One of our family here, a monster. He's kind of the people's champ. Your fan already. I love. And I actually met him for the first time at Youth Olympics. Youth Olympics? Yes. What's a youth Olympics? It's like baby Olympics. I think it's going down right now in Korea, actually. Really? Yeah. So it's almost like a junior world's. Yes. What do you. What was that for me, Danny? Well, it's like the next level. So I think he's like the age group between, like 14 and 16. Yeah. And all over the world, and it's like, a little bit more limited, but with, like, the whole really cool opening ceremonies, closing ceremonies and like, more limited, like entry field where you got to, like, qualify. That's so cool. Yeah. And it's going on right now. Yeah, right now. But I remember meeting Ronnie there for the first time and it's so cool because I remember just being so mesmerized by his style and his writing, and it's cool that, you know, he's out here now doing the same thing at these bigger events and getting all that recognition that it's so crazy he deserves because he's so sick. Yeah. If anybody's having fun out there, more fun than anybody, it's, it's him, you know. And yeah, I get it. It definitely it's a job. But then you also remember where you come from, and he's still that little kid that's just so stoked at any moment to be on hill. he's just got like the biggest bag of tricks. And sometimes you don't even know where it comes from. I mean, like all of his like, backside he'll, like, take off and just it's pretty incredible. Yeah. Like he bounces around. Kind of like a rabbit having fun. Yes. He's somewhat of seven. The fact that he can do tricks and you don't even know what it's called like from fun tale book like switch from Flip back to about do you know what what I'm talking about that he did it was insane. yeah like where he like pivots and then, like bounces back in. Yeah. Yeah. Like he's I mean, he's someone that I would love to go snowboarding with in, like, a very small park. Yeah, not like a giant jump. Even though I, he would ride it and it'll be fun to watch, but it's more about like what he creates on his snowboard with, like, out of, you know, the smallest amount. Yeah. I'm really excited to see him right this week I think he had last year off with an ankle injury. And so back this year, like riding the slopestyle course again, it's pretty exciting. Let's talk men's snowboard slopestyle. It looks like practice is going on right behind us. A few a few injuries there, a lot of injuries this year. But I guess that just comes with the territory, right? unfortunately, Marcus Cleveland's out. Young Dusty Hendrix is out, which it sucks. You want to see you want to see all these. You want to see everyone together. You want to see the field stacked and you want to see it spans riding. But Spence riding with a broken rib. my God. You have a lot of ribs, right? It's just floating around in there. Yeah. no, I'm making light of it. That's. That's definitely not painful, but more for sure. And Flores is here. I saw McMorris yesterday. McMorris is here. All right, here's a good one, guys. Best slopestyle rider of all time. Who's your. Who's your pick? Jamie Anderson. Yeah, I'm going to go with Jamie Anderson. Jamie, Guys, guys, Jamie, Jamie, Anderson, Jamie, Jamie. All round, guys. It has to be Mark Fisher. Mark I mean, I got. Mark Yeah. Mark I mean, I want to say something to be different. Listen, it's it's hard. It's hard to it's hard to look past it. Yeah. And then you, you say that and then you look at how difficult is he still never won a gold medal at the Olympics. Right. And it's what we watched him go through last year and I watched him limp off and but it's he for however many years now, has come here and shown up or busted or almost died and then gone through rehab and come back. And he's still he he innovates the sport. But that that's a testament like watching the last Olympics. How cold was it at that last Olympics? And that's what I don't think people really understand. You know, we are talking about off air about Nigel in the Summer Olympics and and and how hot it was in Japan. But how cold was it in China? It was really cold. And I even think Korea was really cool, too, in 2018. But yeah, Beijing was rough. I mean, you'd go outside for 5 minutes and your eyelashes are frozen, your hair is frozen, you just can't leave. But luckily they had a warming up for us up top and I practically just lived there. Lived in the warming hot. Yeah, I was there all the time. This is a little different for obviously you want a hot ice piped, right or not icy, but you want it to be. But my question is going back to jumping, landing on a hot pack ice like that really hurts, right? Yeah, it really hurts. And it's pretty hard as well. You needed like dig in your edge to and get in when it's icy. You might not get it, you know, And this goes back to it I think there was controversy on it goes back to the rotations, but there was a bit of controversy on a boot grab that happened at the Olympics. We all familiar with that. Yeah. I mean it's, it's the judges are in a tough position and especially for slopestyle how for example, I think Renee sometimes gets under judged. You see getting on the job. Why is she getting on the judge. my God, that's a heavy question. Sorry, that's a hard one. I don't know. I it's the judges for sure. Like they make this decision. At the end of the day, I can't speak for them, but I mean, it's a subjective sport, you know, like it's people's opinions. And I could say I thought this person should have won, but everyone else said this person should have won. You know, it's one of those things and everyone loves watching Rene ride. And I think that's that's why we think you get so underscored. But yeah, we'll just have to see what happens this week. I think, you know, Zoe really hit on the head is like when you watch snowboarding, you fall in love with people's styles and like even when they land a run, sometimes you're like, you put ten more points on it in your head. Yeah. And I think, you know, I think the level of snowboarding truthfully has gotten so high where I don't know if the judges capability of their own writing levels was actually at that level. Whereas like if you have never tried any double flips on your own, how can you justify what's a harder triple backside Frontside Tokyo triple right where the level is just like this insane, you know, technical zone where it's like it's kind of tricky. So you have like your favorite tricks. And I think they need to actually go out there and hit an air bag a little bit more. I think all of these judges should have to go to an air bag camp and try some of these triples seriously to be like, okay, and then be like, now grab in between your board. Okay. Was that hard? Okay, now grab your boo in your board. All right. That was still difficult, right? So maybe don't take it too hard. I don't know. Okay. I love your opinions. Yeah. Let's talk. Ben, Snowboard half pipe real quick. A you moulins. He's run, he wins. Is that is that where we're at or is or is there I mean it's the level's really high you know is up there he's created this What are we. What are we officially calling this like MC Twist river he's doing I haven't heard any names around besides a mic switch. Mic twist, pull back. Yeah. Kind of be what it is. A rewind. It's like though I love wasn't he was doing it last night I was like, my God I'm so secret. But Scott he is definitely, I would say, the most balanced as far as like spinning all directions. Where you move is definitely one of the most technical frontside and amplitude strong. So it's definitely a tough one on the judges, you know, I mean, they want to see variety, but also you got to reward whoever is going 18 feet out the whole way. And last night you practice is pretty wild to watch a human's little brother Kaiju drop in and do like a 25 foot method. Yeah, Chi Shu is on one bull said Huge bull said. So fun to watch. Those guys are definitely pushing the limits at a you triple like when he doesn't and pulls it off which he does most of the time now it doesn't you would think you would think it would look awkward. It doesn't at all. It actually looks stylish. Does that does that. What I'm trying to say is back in the day, I think even yourself and Shawn would be judged upon your runs. Do you feel like judges are still looking at it as you're being judged by your own runs or you're being judged by what's going on in the competition, which is a tough question. I mean, I think definitely like they're judging what's going on in that moment for sure. But it's really hard because they haven't done some of these tricks. So how do they know how hard it is? I think a human's gotten the triple quite a few times and now there's like this. I think the number factor comes in a little bit. We're like, okay, on paper it's a 14, but really it's like a triple court. And then you see a lot of double fought teams. But we all know I mean, watching a you over the last year, like there's still some more in the tank and he's definitely has like an MVP that I know he wants to break out Really. yeah I haven't heard about this. Really You dropping some hair? I mean, I'm not saying it's like going to happen tomorrow, but I think it could happen tomorrow. Wow. But I definitely know that watching him in the bag over and over again, that there's definitely a little bit more flavor to add. It's not a four flip. They go, it's not. No, is it MC Twist, River Vert River It is, you know. Is it? I mean, I don't I'm just saying that it really doesn't matter. Everyone's never been done before is right. It's we have a night event, we have one half pipe, we have that 40 minutes and it's like whoever pulls it out in that very moment, that's the most important time. That's a good question. Actually not Will not good point. You just put up their three runs or jam session. Jam session every time. Yeah. Is that crazy? No, I don't think so. In half pipe slopestyle, I would say three rounds. Yeah. I kind of the gym sesh. It's more fun. Like you're always moving, you know, there's no like waiting period. So that's kind of hard when you're just sitting up there for 2030 minutes waiting a jam session format. At what point do you put down your run at any point? That's the thing. It's like if I lay on the first one, great, I could keep progressing and I have so many opportunities to do something that's never been done before. I put on the best run I've ever done in my life. And like X-Games is kind of the place I want to do that, you know? I like that. Now, judges, again, I'm not trying to rip on the judges. I hope they're not listening when we get in trouble. But the judges scoring are. Are they? I've seen it happen before. Some people come out first run and do something amazing. Are you going to get a higher score doing it first? Run out the gate? Or are they going to say, hey, we got to see what the field is doing before we score those high scores? But apparently the judges come a little earlier and watch practice. okay. So so so not just post deal, apparently. So you're not supposed to then? I don't think so. I think that's like a thing, though. Yeah, because think about it. There have been times where people are put down crazy run than their first run them just go like 97th. Yeah, well that's definitely a thing like in the judging format. Like if say you're the first person to drop and you do the most ballistic run, they have to leave room in case someone does more. So at that point, like you may just get an 80 and then the rest of the field could be like fighting for what is 80 to 90. But you're saying that it's better to do it in your last run, not last year. You're number Put it down. I've seen you're the first person to draw and you're going to lay your hammer. I'm telling you, your score is not going to be what it deserves. But I do think everybody has a safety run. You know, like I mean, you you kind of put down a more mellow version of your on the first run. Get that and what want to be caught and beady don't what do you don't don't do you in bed first run Yeah no you don't land it your first run you get to try it. Yeah you know. Yeah. Just saying it looks beautiful outside right now guys. I love when the sun sets, the lights come and everyone, it's just like, majestic. I feel like there's no other place in the world that's sitting right here and watching it all unfold. I think we got some good questions for you. Questions each and ask them. All right. So in the chat, they said, what's the next bucket list trick for Chloe and Zoe? How big is big and how crazy can crazy really get as little of the tuna? And I'm no great answer. I mean, I'm not competing this year and I feel like I'm just going to jinx it. But I mean with the right woman, so winning is going big and slopestyle. I would to do Triple Coke. That's like my next big trek that I would love to cause. Yeah, compromise. Put one down. And I love Lori Burns. So yeah, that's the dream. When are you going to start? When are you able to start training again? It's looking like another like three weeks. But with the injury I have, it's a bit of bone bruising, so might be a little bit longer than that. But I'm going to take my time for sure because, you know, injuries that could linger. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Next one. Any bizarre superstitions when getting ready to compete or anything that you do to get ready to compete? Maybe not a superstition, just a prep. Yeah, I if I had a really good day, I like to try to replicate replicate that day on comp day, but I am always scared to jinx myself subconsciously, so I'll always knock on my snowboard before I drop in by myself. Not superstitious, but superstitious. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I'm kind of the same. Like definitely have things that I need to do, but not really, you know, like, it's just like things that happen in the moment. But for me, it's just breathing before I drop in for my run. I just want to be so present and like, so in tune with what's going on around me. And yeah, that's what I do. Do you ever feel like an adrenaline right before you drop in? Is it so because they asked you here if you ever feel, does it ever happen before hitting a big jump, get pent up adrenaline that doesn't subside even 2 hours prior to the trick like does. You're basically they're asking if your adrenaline drops or I don't think at X Games I don't think it ever drops. You're just in a state of adrenaline for like the whole time you're here until finals is over and you just like, yeah, you go, you go and party or you going to the next event? Yeah. Yeah. You feel that Come down for sure. Yeah. Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Thank you so much, girls. We love you here. Much energy. We love cheering you on from afar. Two of my most favorite people in the world get healthy. And let's bring home that gold medal. Let's go. Thank you very much. Woo! Woo!