China vow to win a Big Air medal at Beijing 2022 Winter Games: coach

Among piles of his glowing experience, Keene guided White for ten years when the most successful snowboard rider in history won the Olympic halfpipe title twice in a row, before he helped NZ end their 26-year medal drought of Winter Games in PyeongChang.

"I did the situations with Shaun (White) as the expectation was we won every single week. That's a hike of lot pressure right there," he said. "We don't have to win every single week (with the Chinese team). We just have to come through in three and a half years."

"So we get some time. We get a strong group of young kids. And I've seen what can happen to spend three years with kids that want it. And I believe they can get it. So that's our goal.

"You know, unless you start with a goal like that, you'll never get there. So we set that as a goal and we're gonna get to work," he added.

Keene's ambition of leading China to their very first Big Air medal in Beijing 2022 got a strong support from the Chinese sports authority.

"We did every effort to have Bud Keene on our side because we really want to achieve something in Big Air," said Zhou Jin, team manager of China's Big Air and slopstyle technique squad.

"The whole supporting team has already stood by, including the physicians, the medicine group and technique staff. The superiors have also gotten our back," she added.

Keene's team are now training around the world, with their bases includes Austria's Stubai Glacier, a world class training zone, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, somewhere in South America, and Secret Garden in Chongli where some skiing competitions of Beijing 2022 will be held.

After the weekend's Air+Style Beijing World Cup, Keene and his team will travel to Austria for three weeks' training before they come back to Chongli for the first slopestyle World Cup of the season.