Every winter Olympic sport ranked by how frequently your uncle thinks ‘I could do that’

6. Snowboard

Gather all dads and uncles in the family for this one because it’s story time. Everybody gather around the television during the snowboarding events and listen to your uncle talk about the hazy, seemingly similar and rather boring stories about the time he and “the guys” went to Colorado for winter break. The story will most certainly consist of three things: lots of alcohol, loads of women and learning to snowboard or ski. If they’re telling this story to an audience, they’ll say snowboard because it sounds more “rad” as the kids are saying these days.

Snowboarding is certainly fun in recreation, but it’s one of the competitive staples of the Winter Olympics each and every time. Throughout the 2018 Olympic games, snowboarding has 10 total events running the course of 14 days. Nearly 250 men and women will compete in the half-pipe, parallel giant slalom, big air, slopestyle and snowboard cross events in PyeongChang. Snowboarding is one of the most popular sports in the Winter Olympics, partly due to the recreational popularity. The event was added to the Winter Olympic games in 1998, but developed as a sport in the United States around 30 years earlier. Snowboarding based its ideals off other sports such as skateboarding and surfing.

It’s understandable as to why many people believe they could snowboard: recreational popularity. However, those who claim to be able to snowboard take their claims back once they realize Olympic snowboarding is a lot more than simply boarding down a hill. It’s usually the half-pipe that convinces the uncles watching to reconsider their bold statement.