Burke is very competitive. Burke is very introverted. Burke is just always positive. Burke is a super unique personality. Burke Irving is one of the most naturally talented half-pipe skiers today. I think Burke just has a style that is just unmatched. You see a lot of people going through the half-pipe and then you see Burke and you know it's Burke. I'm Burke Irving. I'm 22 years old and I'm from Winnipeg, Colorado. When Burke was young he was a handful. Full energy. He would go 9-0 until the moment he fell asleep. We had a tramp in the backyard. That's all he would do. Jump, jump, jump, jump. He was getting the kid to read and sit down and do homework. It was really tough because he just does really hard time sitting still. So we'd read for a little bit and he'd go out and jump on the tramp and okay ready let's try some more. Read for a little bit, back out, jump on the tramp. He used to play with GI Joe's. He would go out by the river and he would build little ramps and stuff and he would act like they're on skis and just do his run. He's super home body. Like when he's here he just hangs out. He's going to be, he'll be fishing in the back river here at the house. He's fly fish is a ton. He's really good at downhilling. So he's good at everything he does. Which is annoying. Well living like where we are there's not much else to do. If you don't ski, you're going to spend the whole winter inside. Winter Park is just a super special place to me. You know, a group skiing here. Very grateful to grow up in such like a nice tight like ski community. You know, and having the parents that I have that have just like brought me into this sport and basically just giving me everything that I have today. You know, and it's just cool just being up here surrounded by these big mountains and just having so many places to go and escape. You know, like ride sleds, hit the mountain, just do whatever you know. In the summertime go bike and fishing. And then we ski town like definitely made my sister and I who we are. We're back at the stomping grounds. Winter Park, Colorado, where it all began. Berkett is down really close. He is the director of ski patrol at Winter Park. So when he goes up all the patrols are looking out for him. Right? I saw Berkett do this. He can't get away with anything. Yeah, I can't scout a bounds. And Brian knows who he is. My relationship with Berkett is we're very close. You know, I like to check in at the end of the day, find out how the day was, make sure nothing went wrong, try to keep it loose. I try to keep it calm and not add any pressure to him. It seems to be a great relationship between two of us. I never have to pull as fast. No. Never had to. I get away with murder after it comes down to. Not quite true. My dad definitely influenced my ski career just by helping me like whenever I needed it. When I was younger, he would bring me to every single contest. Like I remember him and my mom both. They would just travel everywhere with me to all the contest and like bring me places, pay the way, you know, so that I was able to do these things and get to where I am now. So if I'm a parent, I would definitely like to do the same thing for my kids. He's a really big fan base. And I think that's just because he's just like a fun, smoky kid and people just love his energy and he's just kind and he's always having a good time and he like talks to all the little rippers. Yeah, Burke has that it factor that style that you can't teach and the way he looks at tricks, the way he looks at the half-pipe or jumps or whatever, you know, he figures it out and does things the way he wants to do it. I love his approach to life. It's very nonchalant. He's quiet, filled with dry humor, loves to ski and is super passionate about his craft. If it's like just a groomer, he has, they've been through the trees and two and three sixties out of little side hits. It's just all over the place. It's up, we're out here in Copper, my home state of Colorado. We got Dutor, finals coming up on Saturday, third Olympic qualifier. Pipes run an amazing, everyone's on some insane tricks right now so it's, yeah, I'm excited. It's going to be a really good final and my family's coming up from Winter Park, come support and we got some friends. My uncle might even make it and it's going to be dope out of that sports system there to cheer me on. It's sick just with the pipe being right at the base, super dope, spectators. They did an amazing job cutting the half pipe. It's vert, it's good, it's dialed, it's smooth. Yeah, we're all hyped on it and the better the pipe is, the more you are able to do and the safer you are doing it and it definitely just makes for just a way better competition and just a safer environment for all of us as well. Qualifying and getting ready for the games this year, it's a big year. We're excited, obviously, these guys have all competed against each other but this is a diverse group. Any day can lead to one person or another and it makes for great competition. I think they all deal with it very well. I think Brooke has a good chance. I think he just stands out and he's just unique and has that style and I think the judges love that. I feel like Brooke deals really well with the pressure. He's found a way to make that work for him so that you can calm himself down and do what he has to do. Yeah, right now I think I'm sitting pretty good. I honestly haven't paid too much attention to it. Obviously that's definitely on my radar but yeah, I'm just like skiing as good as I can and just not really trying to put pressure on myself to be like alright I need you to do this here, I need you to do this here. I need more just like just ski. It's another season just with one extra comp really. That's all it is to me. We got a super dope crew in the pipe. We're all buddies. Everybody right now is really fun to watch. There's so many different varieties of skiing in the pipe. I'd love to watch Nella for sure because he's just got that smooth effortless style going down just makes everything look so easy and like flows so nice and then obviously Niko with just some big corkathons. I mean it just wasn't my day as far as equipment and all that goes but I still ended up forth which I'm happy about and I know I got a lot more in the tank and I know what I'm capable of so yeah I feel good moving forward. Yeah it's really sick to just be competing Colorado you know home state so much like family and friends out here it's just yeah it's a good scene I like it a lot. The plan after I'm done with half pipe for the years definitely get out in the back country and start filming. Not gonna get as much time in this year but it'd be sick to film like somewhat of a segment. Yeah just hanging crews and have like a pretty stress free rest of the season.