Olympic jayson terdiman biography

My introduction to the sport of luge happened completely by chance. My mother, Kathryn, worked for Verizon for many years. Verizon, being the main sponsor of USA Luge for 33+ years, had flyers for the grassroots development tryouts on the bulletin board in the office in which my mother worked.

I got home from school one day and was asked, “Hey Jayson, do you want to go try luge in Syracuse, NY next weekend?”
“Mom, what’s luge?” – My exact response.

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“I’m not really sure, but the kid on the poster looked like they were having fun!”  And that’s all it took for me to say okay.

A couple days later, my family and I traveled the three hours north to Syracuse and I took part in a 2-hour clinic.

The first 20-30 minutes were spent learning how to steer a sled, what good body position on the sled was, and (most importantly) how to stop a sled. The rest of the time was spent putting all of that into action on modified sleds going down a paved hill weaving in and out of a c