She never thought,
"Oh I'm gonna be a professional skateboarder."
I knew she could do it, she just had to know it herself.
Who is this kid just zipping around?
I gotta stay on my game here.
Future generations would look up to her
and want to skate like that.
Tony happened to be there, it was like the biggest deal.
If you had told me when I was 12
you'll be good friends with him,
I would of been like, "Hmmm...
That's funny."
I grew up in Hawaii,
I did a million things as a kid,
you know, I couldn't sit still.
This one I was seven,
another great haircut.
Yeah, you can really see the mullet.
-It's not a mullet. -It's a mullet.
It's definitely, it's definitely a mullet.
Growing up in Hawaii, all her friends
you know, it was all about the surf.
I love surfing but I was always a little scared,
a fear of the ocean kind of thing.
That's just not where I was,
and like, the second I walked in the skate park
I was like, "Whoa!
This is rad, like this is so fun.
These are my people."
We moved to California, she went to the park
and it was like a light bulb had switched.
That was the start of it.
I'm the only girl, pretty much the only kid.
There were just like dudes, doing their thing.
Jordyn showed up and was skating.
I hadn't seen many girls even skate bowls.
Would you call yourself fearless?
Nah. No, no, no.
No, she had the fear, but she would do it anyway.
It's hard, it's really hard, you fall a lot.
The second you think, "Oh, okay, I've got this,"
you're gonna eat it.
Every little moment where I would learn something different
was like a big moment for me.
Then finally, you kinda like start to land it.
Yeah!
That feeling of like, "Oh wow, that was sick."
She skated like a surfer, very carvy, very fluid.
I would want to gravitate towards Jordyn's style
like 'cause it just looks good.
She started going on a more competitive path.
At a contest, the crowd's going,
all that energy is making me stoked.
That's like what I live for.
They announced that skateboarding
would be in the Olympics.
So she kind of had to think about,
"What I do I want to pursue?"
I just said, "Follow your heart.
What do you love?"
I remember in 2018
watching my friend Chloe Kim compete on TV
at the Olympics.
In the pipe, big backside air, she's going for it!
That was one of the coolest things ever.
The frontside 1080, she stomps it!
Looking good out here for Chloe Kim.
That's like my friend, not only competing but winning.
What the heck's going on?
Is there any boundaries to what this athlete can achieve?
It definitely, like, sparked something in me.
It's the biggest stage in the world.
Being an Olympian,
now that it's a possibility is just crazy to me.
For the Olympics, you're trying your best tricks
all in a row for 45 seconds.
Then it's also the pressure.
Having the ability to turn it on
in a high-pressure environment is quite rare.
There's very few people that can just stick a run
every single time and Jordyn can.
Gotta roll in there, pump that corner to get speed,
grind the pool coping, pump that hip,
and then air this hip, then grind there.
Keep my speed up for the deep end.
Backside air on the deep.
That felt so cool and like felt so good to do.
I feel like a kid again.
That joy of like why we do it.
I think it'll be awesome for skating
because it's brought such a wider audience.
I think that's really cool to show kids that you can go
and you can express yourself, whatever that is.
You can be a nerd, you can be a jock,
you can be whoever.
We're all cool, like we're all just skating.
It's rad that something like a little wooden toy
can bring so many different people joy,
and it will hurt you and you'll fall,
but if you wanna try something like,
you just gotta go for it.