she learned to ski when she was three years old. her older brother convinced her to switch to snowboarding when she was 7. she said: "taylor made it look like so much fun". their father said: taylor is, in many ways, responsible for arielle’s success because he ... told her: 'look, most of the girls do things the way the other girls do. you need to do things the way the guys do. you need to grab your snowboard, you need to go big, you have style, you need to have aggression in your riding.'