Chloe Kim’s dad bought her first snowboard for $25. 🏂 Chloe Kim | Olympic Gold Medalist | Snowboarding No money, no connections, no coaching background. He started working nights; Dishwashing, cashier shifts. Whatever it took to survive. Then his daughter stood on a snowboard. So he bought her first one for $25 on eBay. Warmed wax with melted candles, cut yoga mats into pieces stuffed them into her pants just so she wouldn’t get hurt. And every weekend, at 2 AM, he carried her to the car while she was still asleep. Six hours each way. She would wake up at the mountain. Jong Jin Kim didn’t build a program, he built access. And when she was eight, he quit his engineering job. No backup plan, just belief. While her father built the training system, her mother Boran built everything around it. Night shifts, meals packed before dawn. And when Chloe needed support outside of sport - therapy, adjustment, balance, her mother made it happen One parent built the path. The other ma...