Photo: Chloe Kim/Instagram
Everybody has their own spectrum of gnarly. When you’re an Olympic-level athlete, flying out of a superpipe is an everyday occurrence and falls are the price to pay for fun. But when you’re an Average Joe, hitting the lip or landing in the flats is the kind of wipeout that might haunt you forever. Chloe Kim, of course, is not an Average Joe, so her own perspective of the spills she’s taken in competition are un-relatable to most of us.
Kim shared some of the greatest hits she had buried in her own camera roll and the reactions are actually pretty entertaining. A couple of falls would end my desire to ever look at a snowboard again. Three out of 10 from Chloe. Meanwhile, like any sport, some wipeouts are sneaky. Like suffering a dislocated tailbone from what didn’t look too intense.
“Mid-air, somebody went, ‘Oh shit,'” Kim says while analyzing one of her spills.
The short video from the two-time Gold medalist is both funny and insightful. Some falls are embarrassing. Some are “cutesy.” Some pissed her off. What’s a 10 out of 10 for Chloe Kim? Check it out…
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