She revolutionised aerial skiing and put a slice of history in front of a gold medal three years ago but Australian Lydia Lassila is none too happy with the way her sport is heading.
Lassila won in just her second World Cup event back after a three-year break but struggled on the Winter Olympic Games site in Pyeongchang last weekend to finish 17th.
She also struggled with what unfolded during the event.
A change in the competition structure between the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics has left the sport, particularly the women's discipline, at a low performance ebb.
The single-jump, knockout format makes for a lot of repetition of the same trick and often athletes only have to perform basic manoeuvres in the final to win a medal.
It's in stark contrast to many of the newer snow sports such as halfpipe and slopestyle that dazzle with an array of seemingly more and more complex flips and spins.
"I just don't like the direction in which the women's field is going - I think it has regressed a lot," said Lassila, who became the first woman to attempt a quad-twisting triple somersault in competition in Sochi where she just missed the landing to finish third.
"There is only one girl doing triple (somersaults), maybe two.
"And with this format, everyone plays it safe ... but what that ends up doing is dumbs down the whole field and makes it less of a show.
"It's not that people can't do it - they are just choosing not to."
Pushing for change might be something best left for Lassila when she gives the sport away, likely after 2018 Winter Olympics.
In the meantime, she'll continue to prepare to become the first Australian woman to compete at five Winter Olympics and just the third across the summer and winter editions of the Games.
With two children, business interests, building a house and promoting her documentary, Lassila admits her hands are full.
"Number one is that the kids are happy and they're OK; number two is that our family is functioning fine; probably number three is that my business is fine and four is me - being able to do what I do," she said.
"But things are going well."
The next aerials World Cup is on February 25 in Belarus. The competition then heads to Russia before the freestyle championships begin on March 8 in Spain.
