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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: How They Train: Snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler [Watch (HLS stream): How They Train: Snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wzJ6OGty.m3u8) (4:41)  _Published 2010-02-17. How does a snowboarder prepare for the Winter Games? TIME's Sean Gregory asks half-pipe pro and medal-contender Gretchen Bleiler_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:19 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Climber Kyra Condie Trains TIME's Sean Gregory on New Olympic Sport](/video/6MqlQjDZ/) ### Climber Kyra Condie Trains TIME's Sean Gregory on New Olympic Sport [How They Train: Fencing with Sean Gregory](/video/TeZ5hoMc/) ### How They Train: Fencing with Sean Gregory [How They Train: Snowboard Cross](/video/zpM21Wcu/) ### How They Train: Snowboard Cross --- ## Transcript >> Hi. I'm Sean Gregory from TIME. com and we're here with Gretchen Bleiler, the 2006 halfpipe silver medalist and hopeful for the 2010 games in Vancouver. Gretchen, thanks for joining us. >> Thanks for having me. >> The games are about a hundred days away. At this point, how are you feeling? What's your training like? >> Going into this Olympics, I feel-- it feels a lot different from the last time from going into the 2006 Olympics. Just, you know, I have more experience this time around and I'm sort of set up a different approach going into this Olympics. And have a really good support system and so many cool tools such as help me feel prepared and balanced and excited and be able to do what I wanna do out there and just push myself and push women snowboarding. >> Are you looking sweep this year or anything less than a sweep of disappointment, I mean just talk about what the team goal is for Vancouver? >> The goal is to sweep, I mean, you have the highest expectations and goals, because if you were shooting for anything less you would get less. So the goal is up there, but ultimately you're not focusing on that end result, because that's when you kind of get a little tripped up in your head, so for me my goal is to run my perfect run. >> And how many rotations can you do, I mean what's your-- >> Right now, the 900 is sort of my biggest trick. >> Cool. Is that the max in the women's game right now or people-- or some people do more? >> You're gonna see some 1080s-- >> Really? >> At the Olympics. Sure. >> Has a woman ever done a 1080 before? >> Yes. >> Okay, okay. >> It hasn't been done too many times, but it has been done and I think that, you know, the Olympics is it's the time that sort of put it all out there and go for it. >> Are you practicing that 1080 move? >> I don't know. I can't tell you that, it's a super duper top secret. >> Super top secret. All right. Okay. You did a spread, I think, for FHM which kinda got a lot of attention. And it was-- it was, you know, a talking point about women's sports, where do you stand on that whole, the sex appeal issue? >> I guess at the time, I felt like I needed to do that to gain exposure for myself and my sport. And at this point I feel like, because of the success I have had on the mountain, my results in contest, I'm able to do other things that I want to do now. I'm not necessarily interested in posing, you know, make it. So, yeah, I'm glad I had the experience but it's just, I've moved in a totally different direction at this point. >> Let's talk about your training a little bit, I mean, you know, your gym work and stuff like that. >> Well, first of all in snowboarding, it used to be the super hush, hush thing if you ever-- if you were training, because it was cool not to, but things have really changed in the sport. I've always been a huge advocate of working out because that's our job, right to be the best that we can be, so when I am in California during the summer and during the fall, I'm in the gym every single day that I can be because I know eventually I'm gonna have to travel and I'm gonna take a few days off. Definitely training like Monday through Saturday when I am consistently at home in the gym. And then besides that trying to do a couple of cardio workouts during the week, whether it's sprinting up the stairs and just doing like an hour run with sprinting involve or biking to the gym or an advantage of being in California in the off season as I get to surf, and I love to surf. >> How do you make the leap? You know, you're flipping in the air. It's a dangerous sport. Like, how do you get over that hurdle of, oh my god, now I'm gonna flip-- >> Yeah. >> and if I screw up I can really hurt myself? >> When you start snowboarding, you start at a certain level and then from there, you naturally progress into the next level, and the next level, and soon you're doing things that you never thought you would be doing. And so with every trick there's a natural like progression, whether that's spinning another revolution or another flip or whatever it is. And it's a really crazy feeling, standing at, you know, on the deck of the halfpipe knowing that you're about to go do this thing for the first time. You have no idea what's gonna happen, but you put in your homework and you know what you should do and just the feeling of acknowledging that you're scared, but dropping in and committing to it 100 percent and landing it, that's the best feeling in the world and one of the many reasons that I love to snowboard. >> Gretchen, thanks a lot for a few minutes. >> Thank you. >> All right. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How They Train: Snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler","description":"How does a snowboarder prepare for the Winter Games? 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