 Big lift on take off, arms go around, eyes up, hands forward. So that I'm living at the same time. Secretly, I'm 60 years old, combined, experienced wise. No, but that's what every minute counts. You know what I mean? We're just going, going, going. There's very little wasted time. So it's good. It's a good thing. And the next two years, I would say, are huge for me. Besides all of the actual contests that I'm working towards, X Games, World Championships, all of those big goals, I still want to retain a sense of self. And also don't forget to be a teenager, because I am 17 and it is important to do teenager things. It's called Paul Goodfield. This is where we met every day for cross-country training after school. A lot of great memories here. I actually was deciding between skiing and running. I was very close to picking running over skiing as a sophomore when I got invited to my first World Cup versus our state championship. For me, my biggest dream was always to go to Stanford. And so I was like, maybe if I run really well, maybe I can run into Stanford or run into another really great school. But eventually, I actually ended up going to the World Cup last minute. It gave me more perspective. I'm like, wow, I might actually be able to make it in skiing. And then after, I kind of got that hope and that spark when I started going on that path. And I'm glad that I did, because being a professional runner is really, really hard. School was definitely always my number one priority. I've always taken it very seriously. And I think my household has always placed a really large emphasis on school when I was four. My grandma taught me three-digit by three-digit multiplication and division. For skiing, when I was in middle school, some of my friends were starting to consider homeschool or ski schools or whatever, like alternative types of education. My mom was very firm on that. I'm glad that she was, because I'm happy with the education that I received and also the normal school experience, because I think that was really important, to have a full class of kids where none of them skied and none of them knew what I was doing. And I wasn't known as Eileen the skier. It's just Eileen from math class or whatever. And so that's really refreshing as well. Eileen F. Gu. I graduated a year early so that I could compete and train for this season and then be Olympics the season after. So I'm taking a gap year after this. I'll actually be out of school for two years. So hopefully I remember things when I actually get into school in the fall of 2022. We'll see. Today is the day. Today is December 11th. And for those of you who don't know, that is the day that Stanford releases their restrictive early action decisions. So this is my dream school. It's the school that I have literally wanted to go to since I was six years old. And it's the only dream that I've had for longer than my dream of going to the Olympics. I live with my grandma, my mom, and my two cats, which are the loves of my life. This is the shrine. And we can kind of see all of my younger medals including my track and field medals. My mom is from Beijing. My grandpa is from Shanghai. And my grandma is from 1919. I'm fluent in Mandarin. So that's always been a huge part of my life, being able to have a secret language with my mom wherever we go. My grandma is definitely the chef of the household. You will always be able to find her chefing it up in the kitchen. She's got a number of specialty dishes, but I think the dumpling making is one of our favorite. One of my favorite. It's not just about eating. It's the family, community, the hanging out. Everybody's contributing. It's a community situation. Teamwork. Woo! That's a little high. Good jingye. She said it couldn't be done. And look who did it. Jingye. Slowly. It's very good. I love dumplings. Can you give me a good set? To leave. And even though I'm really excited, always to go skiing or to go competing, it's just some kind of like a little bit of melancholy, you know what I mean? But it goes away quickly and I'm definitely really excited to head to Aspen. Mike seems to switch right as much. Yeah, thanks. So use the days like this where it doesn't matter if we go switch left or right because we can't go big. Build the confidence of when it comes sunny, then we can start elevating it. The plan is to ski switch over the right shoulder and hopefully make it up the wall. As far as cloudy weather days go, today's actually been a really good one. I mean, when you're competing, you never know what conditions are gonna be like. You always have to be able to change your run and also be able to perform in any weather condition. We can't guarantee the weather is gonna be perfect and we can't control it. So we run the contests on the days that they're scheduled and whoever can perform on that day comes out on top. It's currently 7.55. I got out of bed like five minutes ago. And we are about to go live with Olympic Channel. Yesterday I was going to media and I figured out that this is the best spot for lighting and also background. So I kind of just have to kneel here the whole time because if I haven't chaired them, it's too high. This is like genuinely, I thought it was so funny when I first got it. I was like, I'm such an influencer now. Look at me with my ring light. I do that because I don't have blush. So I kind of just slap myself and make it work. So let's bring her on and... Oh my God. To talk to you again, oh my gosh, it's been like a year or I am one of the younger people on the circuit. And so like, even though I've competed a lot now but I still think of myself and you know, I was like the rookie and like the underdog. So, and my bio was graduated high school early and got into Stanford and I was like, I look like such a nerd, like this is so funny. Stay safe. Thank you so much. My back is so sore because I've been in a weird position and kneeling but that was so fun. Being able to see all the comments and interact with people I think was really cool and people are so supportive. If I do this trick, sometimes I have a tendency to grab early because that's kind of what I do in slope. I like just use the grab to get me around but in part, you can't do that because you don't want a deck. I'm going to be patient and get around and then cross and grab, set it a little harder and then land hands in front. Fine, I'm going to see if I can do it again and put a little bit more of a flip in it. I just landed really heavily like just directly on it. You okay? Like I can feel it right now. It's like here-ish. Okay. Tender there? Yeah, yeah, that. It feels like there is a very restricted tight band of tissue just right under my thumb there. The reach forward is a killer. This is a pretty minor injury I know but like obviously I don't want to hurt my shoulders so I've got to be careful with that and with that we will be starting training tomorrow morning. I'm going to try a seven with Octo. It is a twister game. We'll see if I get it. Let's go. It's not too far off. Training is so important because it just builds that confidence to be able to actually land the trick and focus on the nerves of the competition rather than the nerves of the actual technique. Honestly, just really excited to be here. It's my first X Games. So I've been working on this pipe run all season. I feel really good about it. I feel confident. I just, I need to go and do it. I need to go lay it down.