It sucks. When you're a woman in sports, people want you to show some skin.
The first few years I was competing, I'd ride so well in practice, then choke and fall in competition. Now I take a deep breath and say, 'Look at me. I'm outside. I'm doing what I love.' Still, nothing's matched the pressure I felt standing at the top of the halfpipe for the first time at the Olympics.
It's okay to feel nervous before a competition because it means you care about doing well.
I run on the beach, surf, and bike.
Have a specific goal every time you hit the gym; this way, your workouts have built-in purpose.
The programs I do with my trainer are amazing for overall strength and have a major focus on building my core. We do a lot of unique exercises that shake up the nervous system, which builds my balance and propreception. That's really important for my sport.
If you take minutes a day to take care of your mouth, the odds are you'll take the next steps needed to take care of your whole body, like exercising and eating healthy. It's a building block for other healthy habits.
As a professional snowboarder, my goal is to educate and create awareness around the issues we're facing with climate change.
While everyone's purpose may be different, with social media we all have that platform to create the change we want to see in the world, and I spend a lot of time encouraging others to step up and use theirs.
What most people don't realize is that in snowboarding, there are two different aspects: the filming side and the competition side. The filming side is when snowboarders spend the entire winter season trying to document the best, most progressive and innovative riding of the year.
The Olympics have always been very special to me.
Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.
Being involved in sports, you think less about how your body looks and more how it performs.
Eliminate the energy vampires in your house. Connect all of your appliances to power strips and turn them off they're when not in use.
After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.
As a professional snowboarder, my livelihood obviously depends on snow. And for me, traveling around the world, chasing the snow, I see the effects of climate change first hand. You can tell the difference.
Every year, I push myself to do something different - and push the boundaries a little bit more.
If you're stressed at work, or before a competition, or if you need to be energized, or relaxed, there's so many scents that kind of take you there.
The Olympics, you're in front of the world, and yeah you're competing, but you want to look good. You want to have a great representation of who you are.
I want to keep snowboarding as long as I'm still having fun and progressing my riding.
