Chloe Kim & Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, Multiple X Games Gold Medalists – UNLEASHED Podcast E402

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!

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And when you were younger and you were like okay I want to go pro were they just like okay or yeah full support it actually so insane like I’m so grateful for my parents um they would drive me up and down the mountain it was like 40

Minutes away in New Zealand um 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 um so yeah you really it’s been really awesome to have a good support system and yeah my parents the best yeah I feel

Like my dad 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 um so like even when I went pro we didn’t know that like I was Pro or anything we didn’t do

What so we were just kind of like happy to be there you know just like enjoying the ride and um it’s crazy how how far we’ve come but that 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 you

Need anything um but I just love having their support which is why I always bring them with me to every contest I go to cuz it’s just nice having them around little piece of home Yeah and we are live from the Winter X Games aspin 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 um the Purple People leader I am Purple People leader man trying out this new color

Full purple yeah the hat does it match no you’re Mt no Britney say how are you Britney I’m good how 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 kickoff Winter X Games and we’ve got Chloe Kim

And Zoey Sadowski Sate Zoe I’ve been uh I’ve been hanging out your dad this weekend and now I really know I’ve got to I’ve got to get the full I I got to met meet Chloe’s dead many many many many years ago but now it’s full circle

For me and I I I I know why you are the way you are and 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 achievements Zoey nine X Games medals five gold three silver one bronze uh one gold medal at Olympics bronze medal at Olympics um and then no wait how many gold medals at Olympics you have two I’ve got one you’ve got one and a bronze

And a silver and a silver and then down here chlo you have six X Games gold medals two Olympic gold medals uh and you’ve won everything from the Tonys the SPs and you two are like basic everything everything two of the most celebrated girls in snowboarding one hot

One slope style one from New Zealand and one from the Bay Area girls did we ever think that we’d be sitting here in in in in this achieved um by such a young age Chloe definitely not no but super grateful for sure um let’s take it back from the beginning Chloe I

Remember I I can’t remember was the first time we met but it was it was around 2016 maybe is 15ish maybe I met there when you were younger but it was when we had the monster airbag and it was we were snowball it was Steve Aoki yes that

Was the first time we met that was the first time we met right 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 like well you have to make it to the

Bag I think he did it though right he ended up doing it on snow right yeah he’s done back flips on snow now yeah Wild guy love him though Chloe let’s jump into it you have uh uh you you’re freshly back you’re back on snow

You took a year off I mean you were probably still snowboarding a little bit I would say but a year off from competitive a year set back from the scene how you feeling I feel really good um 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 um kind of give myself space to grow as a person as well and uh kind of get my priorities back straight and now I know you know I’m here cuz 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 the Olympics you’ve been through the highs and the lows of what happens and what doesn’t happen it’s it’s important to take time to yourself

Oh 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 bipe or slope style and be like holy 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 again you know yeah that’s not easy it’s not easy easy and then you Zoe how are you doing this year um I’m pretty good like mentally not quite physically at the

Moment had a bit of an injury uh in December at the Copper World Cup so sadly I’m not competing this year which really sucks but still happy cuz I’m the biggest fan of snowboarding can’t wait to watch everyone rip it watch Chloe get back in the PIP X Games it’s going to be

Sick the level of um competitive slow star riding on the females is at such a new level I think in the last couple years you know I I I think there Jamie Anderson maybe stood out her own for like some time but now you look and there’s Tess and cook and

And and uh Mia and anakar 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 slob style riding is going and it’s it’s one of those it’s one of those things you watch

Now and I mean cookoo’s level is is has been stepping it up and we were briefly talking about it last night in the hotel room I mean where is this going to end or is this just keep going for her um I don’t think it’s going to end it’s like

There’s a the only way is up and um 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 see um you know there’s five girls now that with the potential to do a 14 potential to do

A 14 in slope style 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 teammates um and Tess from across the ditch for sure but cooko yeah she’s

Ripping pretty hard at at the moment but honestly all the girls have such big repertoire 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 um it’s kind of like muscle memory for me I think I was able to figure it out pretty quickly but I you know competition definitely is pretty strong all the girls are killing it um and it’s just really cool to be part of that

Progression I think you know women’s halfpipe snowboarding is not where it used to be um 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 um it’s going to roll on our screen dve it in right now bang and um this is just some highlight re of both you girls right now it’s you on screen Chloe if 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 um I remember getting my X Games invite

That year actually was right after dour and I was screaming in the car so excited it was a dream come true for me um so it’s kind of surreal you know I’ve been coming to this event for almost 10 years that’s crazy to think about how long you

Been coming to this event Danny uh I competed like 13 years straight and then I think I took two years off from not competing to then now this is be my fifth year as a full-on spectator and just fan and then we’re going to jump

Into some clips here of you Zoe what was your first year at X Games um my first year at X Games was 2019 I was 17 years old and I actually got invited in beg but it was alternate in slope style and then yeah I I guess a couple of the

Girls got hurt and I I got the spot for so and managed to win that year which was 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 cuz it’s the best event of the

Year we also have some back country footage that just popped up on screen there and and you’re no stranger to Back Country what what’s the difference for you of being able to jump from a a venue like this and then go and compete at say like a natural selection yeah for sure I

Mean um like every snow waterer I love riding pal so much and so any chance I’ll get I’ll I’ll be out there and um yeah I guess the difference between competing in in slop style and then in the back country is like you kind of have so much freedom in say events like

Natural selection and you just got to figure it out whereas you Shar up to an event like X Games and you’re like I want to do a 1260 here this is my goal um and you know what the the Jump’s like and you practice on it and then you just

Have to perform when the time comes but yeah in 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 um for

Me growing up in New Zealand snowboarding um my Idols were the likes of Stephie luxon and Christy PRI um Mitch Brown who now coaches for The New Zealand team I mean I us to compete against Mitch in junior worlds when yeah SI Mitch was like one of the first kids

I ever saw like have like a full spray full page spread in a magazine think it was vome damn that’s sick I love seeing that and and and this kind of comes into you too you know Danny you’re now the head coach of the US uh snowboard half

Team and you see people that you grew up with you had a full career in snowboarding um obviously with your accolades and X Games and Olympics and doing your own thing with all the grenade movies that we did and and and then taking a little bit of time off but

Now being able to come back and be a coach and be an onlooker um you know and and and and you stand around and you look at the people now that are on top of the H pipe and you see a lot of the people that I guess you used to compete

Against uh yeah I mean definitely see quite a few you know like I think as uh an accomplished writer you kind of get to see like a few Generations as you go through it where you’re like w a couple people faded away and there’s new faces

And then some new faces and then now as like this next role of like getting to coach it’s really cool because I had so many positive influences uh throughout my career that were like team managers and people that I got to snowboard with that 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 in influence writers within new tricks and new Combos and like create

That fun aspect as opposed to just like add another 180 add another 180 add 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 what in what ways do you think lot more rotations uh lot more rotations 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 slope style there’s tricks that like I didn’t even dream about as a pro writer filming video parts that I’m watching like some of my favorite girl slop Styers doing M 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 um 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 where you’re like wow that was really cool cuz at that time when we

Were doing it there was like a couple Nations we would compete with on the regular you know and like at that time in half like Finland was all over the map where it was like all these amazing halfpipe 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 writers 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 writers it’s it’s

You know why they’re watching cuz what are they going to do next Chloe growing up in the Bay Area um um when when did you start where did you first start snowboarding was it Mammoth or Big Bear I started at Mountain High when I was oh

My God I missed one yeah Mountain High closest one I know I know um so many good mems there actually so many like badass women came out of there Haley langland Matty mro that’s where I met them for the first time you serious yep

I never knew that oh my God it’s so wild um no hop wipe there no well they do have one they do yeah just like not ridable just like a little dirt ditch not 25 ft there’s like a little bit of transition and then ice block so you

Actually can’t even go up the walls and that’s how I remember it being but so many good memories there and then when did you start going to Mammoth I started going to Mammoth when I was 10 so I was a little late to the party but um also

That’s kind of when I decided that I loved halfpipe snowboarding um and I also loved slope at the time too I think I competed in both till I was about 14 so I was kind of able to do both there and uh Mammoth has such great par great

Parks and uh yeah what is uh your favorite sport besides snowboarding I think I think I know what you’re going to say yeah U I just got a horse recently so I love you know I knew she was going to say horse riding I had

No idea what you were going to say si how is your horse doing he’s good um I was just telling dingo earlier he got injured so unfortunately he’s in rehab in Tula um I need to go visit him soon but he’s so cute and I see that you you

Bring your dog along to hang out with the horse what’s what’s his name Momo Momo yes what what who who’s who’s the leader of the pack the dog or the horse definitely the dog um 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 U my horse is just so curious that wants to be friends so bad but I’m scared that my dog’s going to bite him right

Yeah so I’m going to say my dog okay the pack leader what about your favorite sport uh my favorite besides snowboarding is surfing sick yeah I love surfing so much and then close close third is skating I mean I grew up skating and then I recently fell in love

With surfing a couple 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 oh I’m not telling you that it’s secret that’s

The taboo of Surfing right yeah uh is it pretty Sharky in New Zealand um yeah it’s for sure a little Sharky um it’s pretty isolated so when you go surfing down there um especially in the South Island there aren’t a ton of people around which makes it super

Sick but then you’re also isolated and away from help say if like there’s a shark in the water and stuff so it’s pretty scary stuff for both you two I mean probably a little bit separately but it and it all kind of happened you know around the same time I think you

Both have uh had to deal with the Limelight but not just core industry Limelight you know I think you’ve both dealt with the Limelight on a very high level how have Sor with you Chloe H H how was that adjustment of being Khloe Kim the snowboarder to then

Khloe Kim Red Carpet Events Khloe Kim face of Nike Khloe Kim cover of all these magazines how have you adjusted to that type of Lifestyle it was definitely a big adjustment in the beginning um definitely wasn’t expecting all of that um from snowboarding but now I see it as

Such an incredible opportunity to continue just spreading the love for snowboarding and um getting people really into it because even when I am at all these events on all these campaigns like I’m Khloe Kim the snowboarder and I think that’s so powerful and I think um

I love that you know in doing those things even though is not directly like snowboarding snowboarding but I’m able to you know continue to share and spread you know what snow wiing 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 or craziest outfit oh my gosh I don’t even know um I mean even like going to the SS is so crazy cuz you’re like hanging out with the most you know badass athletes in the world

Just like sitting next to them um I went to like this El and John party recently that was pretty sick um it’s just kind of wild I definitely get impostor syndrome like I feel like I shouldn’t be there but it’s cool the food’s good that’s all I ask

Fors I like what you said about you know being Chloe Kim the snowboarder right there 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 per if I’m wrong it was the first Podium sweep for the United States in 52 years something like that6 years I think since 56 years years not bad we

Didn’t even know what we had done we were like oh qu 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 what like the the coolest part about it is

That we can reach these accolades and none of us really started snowboarding things thinking like oh I’m going to go party with Elon John one day he was 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 right his own bobblehead yeah at his house the White House and I went through security with only a Sharpie in the bobblehead and the airport it’s kind of like airport

Security going through they were just like all dying laughing 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 um YouTube being halfpipe Riders uh and you know Danny you were kind of the the the first

Person to link back toback 1080s and at that time it was such a huge step in a where people were like holy like what’s is is where where we go from here and now a back toback 1080 is not even going to get you into qualifying for any event

Well it depends on how big you go with those 1080s um but I think you know it was crazy to see a level where it was like everyone kind of saw this 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 I landed like my first 1080 I went back to the US Open I was like well I kind of want to win again and I don’t think like that last run is 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 like we’re seeing backtack triple flips we’re seeing I mean there’s been some history made over here at this table where uh my

Spin count has been completely broken by Chloe in the last 6 months yeah go 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 thank you no I I think um I think like getting as I’ve grown up and been

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

It’s really cool even when you watch someone go down the groomers like I can always tell who’s riding 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 ride down buttermilk right and I think

That’s really cool that is cool Zoe for you um after that Olympic medal how was it going back to New Zealand um it was pretty chill to be honest I mean straight after uh 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 Co was around they we had crazy quarantine um like 2 weeks in a hotel so yeah I didn’t make it home until a couple months after by that point everyone had forgotten about it no that’s a

Lie 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 it’s like I looking back it’s just mindblowing like just like everyone’s

Reaction and all the love from everyone back home and yeah it’s it’s crazy to think about it’s uh it’s it’s Winter X Games you know we’ve been I I remember coming here when you were competing right there there was no scaffolding there was no nothing I had a a spray can

And a stencil and I was walking around the bottom of the halfpipe spray painting people with grenade logos and uh we used to we we had our dog up here for a while oh yeah big ver ver of X Games but the evolution of this it’s

It’s it’s like no other it’s it’s like the the the the excitement around X Games Britney this is your second X Games this my second X Games you you came up to me and she said happy X and I like that happy X Games Happy X Games I

Mean yeah happy X Games everyone this is cool yeah this is from last year we were at the Limelight this is we stepped it off I made some are this is good hey I I know some people but what about you dingo cuz this is you’ve probably been to more X Games

Than all of us probably in a row yeah yeah you’re Mr X Games we can’t even track you down you text me back later like two today you’re like oh well I think I brought you here at 15 I don’t think you ever left we were trying to do

The math with that with Brando and Craig MCM marus the other day oh somebody nearly just went down big time if I jum and yell that’s because it looks like ski practice is going on in the hotp directly behind us and then to the left you have either Big Air um or slope

Style going on that Big Air jump looks big Zoe yeah it’s pretty huge 70 plus feet I heard so if it’s 70 plus feet how far are you traveling um I think 70 ft I don’t really know how it works we do meters in New Zealand you know we have

The system um but it’s a pretty big jump and the landing super super long um so you can go really big uh I know a couple 18s went down on it yesterday a couple 14s from the girls were um being thrown so yeah it’s going to be pretty

Crazy how do you know like I 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 like what I’ve been I was watching the last open and if

You don’t know the athlete or the writer then cuz if you know the writer you kind of know what tricks they’re going to do yeah so it finds it easy if you don’t know the wrer or the SK you find it hard to calculate or watch do you guys have trouble watching

Yourselves ourselves no not yourselves watching other people oh yeah and Counting the rotation yeah I have no idea um I mean I know what a triple cork looks like and then if it’s any more than that I just guess yeah yeah yeah based on like the reaction from the

People around me I’m like oh maybe that’s never been done before yeah um but it’s so hard to count especially watching skiers I genuinely never know what they’re doing yeah the word never get never never get done before gets used a lot now and I think that’s a

Progression do you guys at some point wish we could go not backwards but like just stay still for a minute yeah for sure man um we’re going to talk a little bit of predictions uh here soon um I predict you win gold that’s my that’s my

Prediction um I I I I I I don’t really see it going any other way so let’s go to women snowboard slope style and let’s let’s have some predictions right now that’s such a hard question Chloe what are you reck it h well you’re always you’re always my top pick whenever your

Name is on the start list I’m like’s zo got this like whatever I’m just going to wait till you know I get proven right um but right now I don’t know no I mean kooko was killing it that’s for sure um Tess a fave um I don’t know I just think

I have no idea yeah I have no idea either um they’re all my friends so I can’t really say one person yeah um damn I could say so many things like coko has done back toback 12 she could bring it into the slope course which would be insane um Mia has the most

Insane rails ever and then can back it up with a 14 and I mean she hasn’t gotten an next Games medal yet and she she’s due for one for sure so it’s pretty hard what’s more important um you know obviously it starts with the rail line and then the jump line what’s what’s

More important um in the run or is it something that all just kind of has to flow together definitely all has to come together um just clean fluid style but also so hitting those like getting uh linking the 10 with the nines or the tws um and yeah just people adding their own

Individual flare to their runs as well like you see Jamie did that for so long and it was so exciting to watch a ride and that’s why she always ended up on top and like yeah you kind of have to just piece the whole thing together it looked like this one here especially

This course cuz 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 rail line that you feel like confident in getting you know like each 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 oh 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 sick tricks 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 tricks go down uh in practice

The last couple days um so yeah that’ll be a that’ll be a factor um 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 270 yeah I was like I could do this on any Gap to down

Or anything yeah I love a back blunt too to be honest like just feels so good if back blunt to oh there you go yeah a 270 off yeah wow yeah yeah if I’m riding and I’m not feeling great if I do one of those it’ll just put me in a good mood

You know mhm guys we have uh Khloe Kim and Zoe zanowski Sate I always get mixed up there because I want to say it now I got the reason and why 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 feeling out of form but I love it and I believe your mom’s watching watching right now live from New Zealand no way yeah hi Mom

I don’t know where your dad is I I your dad’s supposed to roll the set at some point but yeah maybe he got a little lost yeah he 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 buses

Running two and from the hotel not going to say where so people don’t bombard our hotel but um the shutter was a little late late today and anakah was out there and it had been like 20 minutes and I said something to your dad your dad

Called you ran up got the car keys and then drove anak here so she could not Mis practice and I was like super dad yeah he is super dad like you both have super dads yeah yeah well it takes great parents I mean 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 just yeah for sure 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 it was actually so insane like I’m so grateful for my parents um they would drive me up and down the mountain it was like 40 minutes away in

New Zealand um 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 um so yeah you really it’s been really awesome to have a good support system and yeah my parents best

Yeah I feel like my dad 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 um so like even when I went pro we didn’t know that like I was Pro or

Anything we didn’t doing what you love so we were just kind of like happy to be there you know just like enjoying the ride and um 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 um but I just love having their support which is why I always bring them with me to every contest I go to cuz it’s just nice having them around 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 monster Billboards X Games Billboards bus Billboards I saw you take a picture it must be so cool it

Must be such a proud moment for them and especially putting in the hard yards you know it’s not easy to have um to to have a kid and 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 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 Mom moved

To Mammoth my dad was still like we would all take turns with all of our different families in New Jersey like doing the little USA essay and they would just take five different kids each weekend and the parents would like take turns that’s awesome guys we got some

New events this year um where are we at right here knuckle Haw for women’s is in for snowboard and women’s ski are you guys fan a fan of the knuckle HW y yeah big fan yeah it’s pretty crazy to watch scary to watch to be honest yeah the guy

That brought me from the airport to the hotel uh was saying it’s his favorite event and I think that for a lot of people I think do we have to to do be credit with credit Marcus Cleveland is he the one that kind of progressed

Knuckle Hawk am I wrong I would say so for sure yeah and then Zeb really put it on the map where I feel like it’s a cool event where you can watch and like somebody’s going to just create something at it like 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 corre yeah but correct me if I’m wrong and it goes back to the the The Spectator I think it’s more

Relatable right it’s very hard to watch somebody do a 1440 and be like hm I could do that or somebody go you know feet out of a half pipe and go yeah for sure a knuckle Haw it’s I’m not saying they can everyday person can do the tricks that

We’re seeing in knuckle HW but yeah it looks I could call it it looks like something you may be able to do by accident just going way too fast on the mountain yeah yeah you’re like oops whoa but it’s exciting the fans get into

It um zeb’s crazy to watch I I rode by him today rode underneath him he rides like a 117 it looks like he’s riding a long board out there yeah yeah every year his Board gets like 20 cm 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 tobogan the size of two snowboards yeah we’re going to we’re going to switch uh ships for a second and let’s talk men’s snowboard slope style and let’s talk

Renee one of our family here at monster he’s kind of the people’s champ you a fan of Renee I love Renee um I actually met him for the first time at youth Olympics youth Olympics yes what’s youth Olympics it’s like baby Olympics I think it’s going down right now in in uh Korea

Actually really yeah so it’s almost like a junior worlds yes what Junior worlds was that’s for being and dny well it’s like the next level so I think it’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 um and like a 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 Rene there for the first time and it’s so cool cuz 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 um getting all that recognition that he’s so crazy deserves cuz 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 it definitely it’s a job um 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 to to be on Hill oh 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 heel like takeoffs and just it’s pretty incredible like he bounces around kind of like a rabbit having fun yes he’s similar to Zeb and the fact

That he can do tricks and you don’t even know what it’s called like front one tail block like switch front flip back flip out do you know what one I’m talking about that he did it was insane oh 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 to go snowboarding with in like a very small Park yeah not like a giant jump even though he would ride it and it’ 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 ride this week I think he had last year off with a ankle injury and see him back this year like run the SL style course again it’s pretty exciting let’s talk men snowboard slop looks like

Practice is going on right behind us um a few a few injuries there a lot of injuries this year but I guess that just comes with the territory right um unfortunately Marcus Cleveland’s out um young Dusty hen Henri is out uh which it sucks you 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 sven’s riding but sven’s riding with a broken rib oh my god um you have a lot of ribs right just floating around in there yeah

No I’m making light of it that’s that’s definitely a painful bummer for sure MC Morris is here I saw MC Morris yesterday MC Morris is here all right here’s a good one guys best slope stylist 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 guys it has to be Mark for sure Mark I mean I got Mark yeah Mark I mean I want to say something to be different though listen it’s it’s it’s it’s hard it’s hard to it’s hard to look

Past it yeah um and and and then you say you say that and then you look at how difficult it is he still never won a gold medal at the Olympics right and it’s I we watched him go through last year and I watched him Lim 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 were talking about off air about Niger in the Summer Olympics and and 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 um 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 Hut for us up top and I practically just lived there lived in

The warming heart yeah I was there all the time it it’s a little different for obviously you want a hard icy pipe right well not icy but you want it to be but my question is going back to Jumping land on a hot pack ice like that really

Hurts right yeah it really hurts and it’s pretty hard as well you need to like dig in your Edge to land good and when it’s icy you might not get it you know and this goes back to it I think there was controversy on I goes back to

The rotations but there was a bit of controversy on a boot grab that happened at the Olympics mhm we all familiar with that yeah I mean it’s it’s the judges are in a tough position and especially for slope style H how for example I think Rene sometimes gets under judged

Is he getting under Jud why is he getting under judged oh 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 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 one you know it’s one of those things and everyone loves watching Renee ride and I think that’s

That’s why we think he gets so underscored um but yeah we’ll just have to see what happens this week um 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 10 more points on it in your head yeah um and I think you know I think the level of snowboarding truthfully has gotten so high where I don’t know if the judge’s capability of their own writing levels was actually at that level whereas like

If you’ve never tried any double flips on your own how can you justify what’s a harder triple backside front side todio triple right where the level is just like this insane you know um 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 airbag a little bit more I think all of these judges should have to go to an airbag 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 boot in your board all right that was still difficult right so maybe don’t dock it too hard I don’t know okay I love your opinions yeah um let’s talk uh Ben snowboard halfpipe real quick aumu lands his 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 is is is up there he’s created this what do we what are we officially calling this like mctwist revert he’s doing uh I haven’t heard any names thrown around besides a MC switch

Mctwist pullback Yeah would kind of be what it is rewind it’s sick though I love watching he was doing it last night I was like oh my God I don’t know so SI um but Scotty is definitely I would say the most balanced as far as like

Spinning all directions where uh yumu is definitely one of the most technical front side 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’s going 18 ft out the whole way and last night

It practice was pretty wild to watch a Yuma’s little brother Kaiju drop in and do like a 25t method yeah Sho is on one full s huge full send so fun to watch those guys are definitely pushing the limits and a Yu’s triple like when he

Does it 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 was goinging to say is back in the day I

Think even yourself and sha 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 um but it’s really hard because they haven’t done some of these tricks so how do they know how hard it is and I think aum’s gotten the triple quite a few times and now there’s like this um I think the number factor comes

In a little bit where like okay on paper it’s a 14 but really it’s like a triple cork and then you see a lot of double 14s but we all know I mean watching auma over the last year like there’s still some more in the tank and he definitely

Has like an MBD that I know he wants to break out really oh yeah I haven’t heard about this really are you are you dropping some hammers right I’m not saying it’s like going to happen tomorrow but I think it could happen tomorrow wow but I definitely know that um watching him in

The bag over and over again that there’s definitely a little bit more flavor to add it’s on a four flip dingo oh it’s not no is it a MC twist revert vert revert it is not it is not I I mean I don’t I’m just saying that it really doesn’t

Matter what everyone’s never been done before is right it’s we have a night event we have one halfpipe 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 no well not good point you just put up

There three runs or jam session jam session every time yeah is that crazy no I don’t think so in half pip but for slope style I would say three runs I kind of love the jam sesh it’s more fun like you’re always moving you know there’s no like waiting period that’s

Kind of hard when you’re just sitting up there for 20 30 minutes waiting in 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 L the first one great I can keep progressing and I have

So many opportunities to do something that’s never been done before I put down the best run I’ve ever done in my life and like X Games is kind of the place I want to do that at you know I like that now at judges again I’m not trying to

Rip on the judges I hope they’re not listening I don’t want to get in trouble but the judge is scoring are they I’ve seen it happen before I’ve seen 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’s doing before we score those high scores but apparently the judges come a little earlier and watch practice oh so so so apparently practice not supposed to apparently so they’re

Not supposed to I don’t think so I think that’s like a thing though yeah because think about it there have been times where people have put down crazy runs on their first round and just get like 97s 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 H

But you’re saying that it’s better to do it in your last run not last you’re saying first put it down I’ve seen it if you’re the first person to drop 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 run the first run get that and then what do we call it NBD don’t what do you don’t don’t do your NBD first run yeah no don’t land it your

First run you could try it yeah you know yeah just saying it looks beautiful outside right now guys I love when the sun sets and the lights come and everyone it’s just like Majestic I feel like there’s no other place in the world but sitting right

Here and watching it all unfold I think we got some good questions we got some questions itching 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 guys will have to tune in find out 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 that women’s snowboarding is going in Big Air and soap style I would love to

Do a triple cork that’s like my next big trick that I would love to do um cuz yeah Cook’s put one down Anna Leila um Lori BL in so yeah that’s the dream when are you going to start uh when are you able to start training again um it’s looking like another like

3 weeks but with the injury I have it’s a bit of bone bruising so might be a little bit longer than that um but I’m going to take my time for sure cuz you know injuries I can 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 um if I had a really good day I’ll like try to replicate replicate that day on comp day um but I I’m always scared to jinx myself subconsciously so I’ll always knock on my snowboard before

I drop in jinx 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 um 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 it is it so cuz they asked 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 your 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 go to the next event and yeah you feel the come down for sure yeah yeah I’m I’m with you on that one thank you so much girls we

Love you here at mon 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