![]() ![]() On top of this, you also won a silver medal at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. You’re known as one of the best all-around park skiers of all time, are one of the only to have podium finishes across all three disciplines (slopestyle, halfpipe and big air) and were the first to do many groundbreaking trick in each. And it was kind of around that same time that Telluride started to build its first terrain park and so that’s where I wanted to be all the time. That’s how I fell in with my friend group because they were also wanting to do that same thing. It was like this little gang of kids that were just obsessed with the train park and doing tricks and spinning around and trying to copy things that we had seen in the movies and push each other to do the next crazy thing. It felt really fun. Every day there was something new to be learned and it was exciting. But the aspect of it that I liked the most was the jumps. I just wanted to be doing tricks and spinning around in the air. I did that for a few seasons when I was young and I enjoyed it. Then I was put into a mogul program doing bumps and jumps. And so even though it’s an individual sport, it’s much more of a team mentality and a lot more discipline and there’s a lot more rules. I was initially put into a racing program and it didn’t even last for more than a month because I didn’t want to be doing the same thing as everybody else. Racing is really structured and rigid and you’re waking up really early and you’re all training in the same way. And then I had a really good group of friends that all skied and started doing competitions and it was my whole world. I’m the youngest of three boys, so it always created a healthy sibling rivalry. To be the youngest, I was always chasing them around, trying to do better than them and it allowed me to progress and get better more quickly than I might have otherwise. ![]() It just happened that we ended up in Colorado and I started doing it. My mom learned how to ski at the same time that I did and we kind of fell in love with the sport together. Neither of my parents were avid skiers, no one was pushing it onto me. Honestly, I fell in love with skiing because everyone that I loved did it. What made you fall in love with skiing, especially freestyle skiing? Gus, you were discovered by the international skiing world when you posted a one-minute video of yourself on the slopes of Telluride. ![]()
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