White Out @ the Winter Olympics

I am an extreme sports kinda girl. I’m working on building some skills of my own in a few of them. Until then I love, love, love to watch, so the men’s half pipe at the Olympics was a treat.

Don’t ask me to explain the names of the tricks or the scoring system. All I know is when they fly over that lip and force their bodies to do those crazy rotations it’s amazing!

What’s not that amazing, because it was a bit of a given, is that Shaun White of the US won his second straight gold medal. The amplitude and ease of his runs..those were amazing! The dude didn’t even have to do his final run to win, but threw it down anyway and topped his score!

As you can imagine I don’t know the guy; but I get the feeling that part of the reason his runs are so sick is because he has so much fun!

I’m positive to be on his level you’d have to put in some serious work, but boarding for anyone is such a total body workout. The good thing is you may not even notice it cuz you’re having too much fun..until the next day anyway. Then you might encounter some sore muscles, maybe even some bruises depending how often and how bad you whipped haha.  What’s a bruise compared to gliding down a mountain or flying along the lip of a pipe?!

Probably the coolest thing about White’s win, is how stoked he was to win. The Olympic organizers pretty much could have mailed him the gold medal before the games even started. Still when he won he couldn’t believe it. There was fist pumping like nobody’s business at the end of his second/celebratory run. It’s just inspiring to see a guy who has won gold before, and is consistently number one get that amped about a victory. It’s obviously because he loves what he does.

The way I see it he loves getting outside and moving. He just gets a little (by a little I mean a lot) more height and rotation than most when he does.

Have you ever hit the half pipe to see if you’re the next Shaun White?

Kenji