I'm Kelly Sildaru.
I'm a 19-year-old freestyle skier from Estonia,
and I'm competing in three disciplines,
slopestyle, halfpipe, and big air.
I was two years old when I started skiing
and then I was around like five or six
when I started doing freestyle and pretty soon
I also, like started traveling around the world to train.
Because in Estonia
we don't have like big snow parks,
when I was back at home, I was mostly training on rails.
If I had to choose like rails or jumps,
I would definitely choose rails.
And I think it's because I just like skied so many rails
back home in Estonia, and I just feel
so much, much more comfortable on the rails.
My big first competition was when I was 13.
It was the X Games in Aspen.
Yeah, it was just a super great experience,
and I won in my first really big competition.
But for me, I feel like it wasn't so big deal.
I'm still the Kelly I was before I won.
It really didn't change too much for me.
It was just like a lot of pressure on me all the time
because I was winning so much.
People in Estonia wanted me to like go
to their TV shows and stuff like that.
So I was just, like, really busy all the time,
and I wasn't, like, able to hang out so much
with my friends.
Turning 17, I was old enough to do my first World Cup.
I won the slopestyle World Cup.
It was a really big deal for me
because then I also like qualified for the Olympics.
A week or two after the first World Cup,
I crashed and I tore my ACL.
So I wasn't able to go to the Olympics.
In the beginning the recovery
was actually like really hard because we had actually
a really good winter in Estonia then.
And I was like, just sitting at home.
I'm like, "Oh, God, I really want to be there
and, like, ski with them."
I mean, it was really weird after my recovery
when I went back on snow.
I felt like some tricks are much easier to me
than they were before
and I think they came like more naturally.
But it might have been just because I was just like,
so excited and motivated to ski again.
My whole life, I've been skiing and training
with my dad and my little brother, Henry.
But at one point things got really complicated
between me and my dad so I felt like it was healthier
to like quit skiing with him.
So I changed the coach.
I feel like I'm much more free, I can do whatever I want.
I want to go ski where I want, enjoy the skiing I do.
Because like right now I feel I'm doing it for myself.
And I really like the feeling.
So this season, my biggest goal is to make it
to the Olympics and do well there.
All the other competitions are important as well,
but like just the main focus goes to the Olympics.
I think the biggest thing I've learned about myself
like in past years, that I need to have fun
or in whatever like I'm doing,
I need to have fun and enjoy it.
Because that keeps me going.
I just feel like I have to do what my heart tells me to do.