Chloe Kim’s Father Used This Unique Life Hack To Stop Her Fears of Falling- ‘He Would Cut Up My Mom?s Yoga Mats”

21-year-old Chloe Kim just won her second Gold Medal. The American snowboarder won her first Gold Medal at the age of just 17 at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Now, she dominated the halfpipe finals event on a dominant run that secured her a gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 as well.

Prior to winning her second gold medal, Kim had shared how her father had been instrumental in her success. Moreover, she also revealed a ‘hack’ he helped her with, in order to make life on the snowboard easier.

Chloe Kim heaps praise on her father

Chloe Kim has now become the first-ever back-to-back Olympic champion in the women’s halfpipe event. In fact, this isn’t the first time she has created history, either. In 2018, Kim was also the youngest woman to win the Gold Medal for an Olympic snowboarding event.

Kim had shared how her father had been crucial to getting her where she is today. She described how her father used to “buy (her) oversized pants” when she was seven years old. Chloe revealed how her father would “cut up (her) mom’s yoga mats and make little butt pads out of them to cushion (her) falls”.

That is indeed a very crafty little hack to cushion a young child’s fall. Clearly, cutting up yoga mats to dissipate the impact of falling went a long way, encouraging Kim to carve her own way on the snow, unafraid of falling, as she held up her second gold medal.

Moreover, Chloe also expressed how she is “used to having her family at the bottom of the pipe” at her events. However, this time, since they are absent, “it’ll be weird not having them there,” she stated.

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Nevertheless, Chloe Kim has it all figured out. “I’m probably going to call them (her family) a thousand times a day,” Kim said. She further stated how she would call her father whenever practice stressed her out. “He’ll always be there for me,” Kim said.

Kim took a 2-year snowboarding hiatus after the 2018 Olympics

After the 2018 Olympics, Chloe Kim had made history. However, the flip side to that showed her its face when she went to Princeton. “People were running up to me asking me for photos and autographs,” Kim said.

For Chloe, that was the beginning of when she began to despise snowboarding. In her own words, she wished to be a student, not “Chloe Kim the snowboarder”.

In fact, after the Olympics, she revealed how every conversation she had circled around to her snowboarding, and nothing about herself as a person. “If that’s all you care about, then I’m out,” Kim shared how she felt about such conversations.

While at Princeton, she eventually began to miss snowboarding and returned to the Beijing Winter Olympics to defend her gold medal, and defend it she did. Of course, in the process, it sure hasn’t hurt that she made history yet again at the Winter Olympics.

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