


Fitness is The Best for Male or Female
What exactly is "freeskiing?"
Sarah Burke: The most basic way to describe it is snowboarding on skis. Jumps, flips, spins over tabletops, riding the halfpipe and rails. If you have ever seen snowboarding it will look familiar. Freeskiing has only really gotten credit as a sport in the last five years since the contests started.
You started as a mogul skier. Did you ever have Olympic dreams and what happened?
Sarah Burke: Yeah, I did when I skied moguls, but once I started freeriding that wasn’t my dream or desire any more. The new dream became X Games and getting girls into that event. 2005 was the first year we got in. I was really annoying to the organizers until we [girls] got our way and got us in there as a medal sport.
Sarah Burke: We call Alaska "freeriding" and mogul skiing is kind of the more freestyle form of freeskiing. Unfortunately the Olympics haven't figured that out yet. They are a bit slow when it comes to progression.
"I'll leave a guy in bed if the powder is fresh," Sarah says. "Good sex is good sex, but powder days are seriously special." As is she.
Do non-skiing guys stand a chance?
Of course. He just has to like cold weather and be a good masseuse. Most guys don't believe that I m a skier when they see me at the lodge. They think I've just been lounging around all day. One of my sponsors even hit on me once; he had no clue who I was. There are always eight guys to every girl in ski towns too. I get groped a lot in ski-town bars.
Has a snowboarder ever deliberately made you cry?
No, but they can be jerks. Skiing is making a comeback. There are a lot more of us now than there was when I broke into the sport.
And who will win the inevitable showdown for the mountain?
Skiers for sure. Skiers are faster. Plus, we have our poles to take out snowboarders if we have to.