'Just trying to progress the sport is really important to me. That's what I love about snowboarding: going out there and trying new things.'
campaign about the support athletes get from their families. Instead, Kim tried a trick that had never been landed in competition by a woman — the 1260 — and used her platform and talent to push women's halfpipe to new heights.She didn't land the 1260 in either her second or third runs and admits she's still"kind of bummed" about it."I totally thought I had that trick on lock," she says."I just think I got a little too excited to do it.
"Just trying to progress the sport is really important to me," Kim says."That's what I love about snowboarding: going out there and trying new things." In fact, Kim says without hesitation that she gets a bigger thrill out of landing a new trick than winning a competition. "Winning is cool, but for me, I just really want to push myself and do new things," Kim says."That's the whole reason why I do this.
Her purpose in sport is something Kim has given a good amount of thought to. In 2019, she decided to take aand enroll at Princeton as a way of seeing"what else was out there," she says."I've been in this snowboarding bubble for so long that I just wanted to try something else." Taking that break was"probably the best decision I've ever made," she says.
Kim snowboards for the love of it, and that's why we saw her attempt those 1260s in Beijing when she could've sailed down the middle of the halfpipe with a flag around her shoulders."I wanted to make sure that I didn't regret any decisions," she says."I was like, 'Let's just do it. Why not?'"
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