“Snowboarding brought me out of my shell.”
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“Snowboarding brought me out of my shell.”
“I grew up in Southern California. If it's snowing on a day I'm supposed to train, I'll just stare out the window in all my gear and be like, 'Hmmm, maybe not today.' I hate being cold.”
“Before I drop in, I tend to knock on my snowboard. You know how when you jinx yourself, they're like, 'Knock on wood.' My snowboard's wood, so in case I jinxed myself sometime in the past, I...”
“I genuinely only want to work with people that I agree with on certain things. There were many sponsors I didn't want to work with because I didn't agree with their messages that they wanted...”
“I love working with sponsors.”
“I was, like, talking to these kids, and I look up, and there was, like, 25 cameras around me. And I ran. I ran away. I, like, straight up ran away, and I was so scared, and then, like, it ha...”
“I moved to Switzerland when I was 8, and during our breaks, we'd go to snowboard, and he'd take me to the mountains; we'd take a train. It was kind of crazy, you know. When I think about it,...”
“I'm proud of my Korean heritage, but I want people to know I'm American. It's not important to be the Korean Taylor Swift.”
“I feel like I have this unique opportunity to represent both Korea and the U.S.”
“I just want to be that young girl from L.A. who snowboards and gets her nails done.”