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Hey everyone, what's up?
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I'm a Paralympic snowboarder.
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I am a free skier.
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We are bobsledders.
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Thank you, skaters.
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Today we're doing Olympic support.
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How does one try out a ski jump to find out they're any good at it?
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I'd love to do it to be the next Eddie Eagle.
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I think that it's exactly like that, you have to just try it to see if you're good at it.
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I mean, like to get to where I am in the sport or the other guys on the team, it's so many years and everything but it all started at the same spot on a tiny, tiny jump skiing small tricks and then you slowly progressed.
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So you gotta start at the bottom.
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Have you ever been stuck on a ski lift?
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It happened to me at Wolf Creek back in 1978.
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Yes, I have been stuck.
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The worst time was on Christmas Eve late at night.
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It was an hour and a half, we were sitting there.
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I had no goggles on, it was very cold.
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It's a tweet from Mrs. Jacobson: "My first-grade students are working on an Olympic project.
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They would like to know what the hardest trick in figure skating is."
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United stands one of the most difficult tricks or elements, that's the technical term, is twizzles.
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And twizzles are rotating turns done on one foot that needs to be done across the ice in unison.
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So that would be one of the harder tricks.
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Oh yeah, we're good at them.
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How in the world do figure skaters land like that???
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I'm gonna break my legs and arms and hit my head and die.
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Man, it's really refreshing to see a tweet where someone's questioning the difficulty because with figure skating you want things to look effortless but it definitely takes a lot of training both on and off the ice.
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So practice, practice.
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This tweet is from Jeff Bernard: "How hard is the bobsled?
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Feel the rhythm, feel the ride."
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Bobsled is actually very intense.
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When we go down the track, we go about 75 to 95 miles an hour and we reach up to 5 G's of pressure.
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If you never have felt a G, it's hard to explain until you've gone down and felt it.
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So we do feel the rhythm and we do feel the rhyme and we'd rather feel that than the G-forces.
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Sophia asks, "Does anyone understand how bobsled works?
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Why do they have all these heats?"
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So if you've ever watched track and field, you have heats, prelims, semifinals, finals.
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Bobsled is a very same thing but all of those heats count.
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So instead of track and field where they start new each time and then whoever goes on goes on and that fastest time counts, bobsled counts your prelim time, your semi-final time, your final time and whoever has the lowest time at the end of it wins.
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This tweet is from ASAP Nubian: "Does anyone know how the inside of a bobsled looks like or how they turn? #justwondering."
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So the inside of a bobsled looks very basic.
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There's not a lot in there, there's not a lot of padding.
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It's mostly carbon fiber and sometimes fiberglass.
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The inside the sled, as drivers, we do have a seat but the brakemen just sit in the back with their heads in between their legs, their legs stretched out and they're just along for the ride.
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So as drivers, we're doing most of the work down the track.
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We actually drive by a pulley system.
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So there's two rings in the shape of Ds.
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We hold a straight part of these and they attach two ropes in front of our sled which then attach to our runners which are blades and they move left and right.
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So if you want to move left, you move the left D-ring towards you.
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You want to go right, you pull the right D-ring towards you and it's back and forth like that.
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This is from Olivia: "A bit confused about these Paralympic categories.
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How is some of them with no legs equal to someone with one leg?"
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So I've got two prosthetic legs.
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I'm the only female Paralympic snowboarder with two prosthetic legs.
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I'm racing against girls who have one prosthetic leg above the knee.
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It's not exactly fair but they make it as fair as they can.
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Everybody's challenges are different.
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So if you're an arm amputee, they'll put arm amputee together.
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If you're a below the knee leg amputee or below the knee leg impairment, they put you together.
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And if you're above the knee impairment or you've got two legs that are impaired, they put you together.
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So they really do the best that they can.
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If anything, racing against girls who have their legs and who have one good leg just motivates me to train that much harder.
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What kinds of terrain features do Paralympic snowboarders face in snowboard cross events?
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So our snowboard cross event is the same as the Olympic snowboard cross event.
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We have berms, basically turns against the wall.
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We've got jumps.
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We've got rollers.
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We're side by side so it's pretty much exactly like the other snowboard cross you see except instead of having four people side by side, we only have two people side by side which makes it that much more competitive because you have to want it.
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No, you have to win every single race you're in to advance.
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Why is sled hockey not more popular?
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It's actually amazing.
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I'm not sure why it's not that popular.
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It is amazing.
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If you like hockey, you're gonna like sled hockey.
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It's fast-paced, hard-hitting.
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You know, we kind of joked that stand-up players got it a little easier.
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They skate with their legs and then shoot with their arms.
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So you have to skate with our arms and shoot with the arms.
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When you see a stand-up player get checked on the boards, that top part of the board's flex.
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Well that bottom part and sled hockey doesn't flex so we absorb all of that hit when you're down there on the ice.
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So definitely a popular sport and I can't wait to see it get more popular.
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Alright, so the first question is from a Graham Merritt and they asked, "In the guided skiing at the Paralympics, do the guides get medals?"
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As a Paralympic ski racer or a visually impaired ski racer, it is a team sport.
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In the able-body ski racing, it's one athlete.
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In Paralympic visually-impaired ski racing, it's two.
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So both athletes do receive a medal.
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Visually impaired downhill skiing at the Paralympics, surely that's just dangerous, it's just crazy.
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You know, skiing could be classified as dangerous for anybody whether you have a disability or not and I feel as though visually impaired skiing is probably just as safe as anybody going out there skiing on their own.
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From Wayne C. Yang: "Cross-country skiing sitting looks very exhausting.
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It is.
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How do they build up endurance?"
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The way you build up endurance actually goes way back about two years because it takes about that time to get your base up and it's a lot of cross-training.
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So I do a lot of long hour rides, a lot of long hour skis just going easy in your zone.
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Wanting to case ons from Phil: "Wonder how many skiers qualify for Paralympics through injury sustained while skiing?"
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Well, skiing, I didn't get my injury from skiing but I personally know so many guys who do alpine skiing from getting injured from alpine skiing.
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You know when you truly love something, you have a passion for it, it doesn't matter how you do it, just sometimes getting out and doing it is all that matters.
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Bella Dube: "Who knew buying a snowboard was so difficult?"
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Come on now, it's not that hard.
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There's so many user guides and equipment reviews out there.
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When I look for a snowboard, I'm looking for one that's gonna be the right size, the right width and generally for the type of snowboarding that I want to do, backcountry freeride powder, they're all sort of built into these different categories.
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So it's best to think about what kind of snowboarding you want to do and find the one that fits that category best.
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How does one get sponsored in snowboarding?
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I think the key to getting sponsorship is definitely reaching out, asking for what you need.
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You know, whether you want to compete or just do filmmaking, you just gotta have to get your name out there, spread some love.
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Chewbacca says, "So that, that is it difficult to snowboard?"
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Yes, no, people always like, "Skiing is easier to learn but harder to get good at and snowboarding is hard to learn but easier to get good at."
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So I feel like once you get the basic sound like the turning and stuff, you'll be in the park in no time.
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So there you go, you guys.
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Thank you for watching Olympic support.
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I'm gonna take my figure skates and head out of here.