ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It’s not everyday you come across someone who wants to be launched several feet in the air.

“Doing a bunch of like aerials off of this,” 10-year-old athlete Fiona Haley said. “I don't know. I think it's kind of cool and it's really, really, really fun.”

“It's really scary when you start like, ‘oh, I don't know if I can do this,' your body’s super tense, but when you go off of it and you do your trick, you're just fine, you’re nice and relaxed,” 9-year-old athlete Johanna Parmenter said.

For these kids, it has been a lifelong passion.

“On his kindergarten paper, he wrote, ‘I don't want to be a teacher or a dentist, I want to be an Olympian’,” parent Zuza Kwon said. “I wanted him to do racing because I think it looks safer. You know, you're on the ground. But I feel like he really loves to fly through there on skis.”

Bristol Mountain hosts the Project Gold freestyle aerial camp.

With many of its kids not ready to turn the corner on ski season quite yet, the facility is just one out of the three in the country, helping bridge the gap for summer ski camps.

“This water facility is designed to teach the kids in the summertime how to do harder tricks in the wintertime,” Bristol freestyle team head coach John Kroetz said. “It's incredibly advantageous because our kids can jump 50, 60 days a year. And in the past they were only able to jump four or five days. So instead of getting 70 jumps for a whole summer, they can get 700.”

The invitational camp is designed to target its top level freestyle aerial skiers, setting their sights on the Winter Olympics in 2034, which will be held in Park City, Utah.

“This is my first year doing it,” Hayley said. “The first time I went off just a very flat jump, I flunked out and started sobbing. But then I got the courage to go off an actual jump.”

Focusing on training and inspiring young athletes, the camp provides a unique opportunity for future Olympians to learn from the very best - inviting Olympic Gold medalist Christopher Lillis and the coaches from the U.S. ski team.

“The biggest determining factor of whether you become an Olympic athlete is whether you know,” Olympic gold medalist Christopher Lillis said. “So I started saying, "I was beginning to be an Olympian when I was nine years old and I never stopped saying it until it was true.”

Lillis has been excited to visit his stomping grounds and train the next future Olympian.

“I always consider myself a child at heart right now, so I still consider myself a member of the Bristol Freestyle team,” Lillis said. “But when I get to come home here and get back with the community, that's my favorite part of the whole summer.”

With kids just as young as eight years old, taking one step closer in getting the gold.

“When I was a kid, you would have never thought that I would become an Olympian or an Olympic athlete,” Lillis said. “No matter what your talent level is, when you start, never give up on it. And if you want it to happen, just make it happen.”

The camp is only just the beginning for these young athletes.

Bristol Mountain will be hosting its very first ‘Project Gold’ camp, making its program more expansive with more U.S. The facility will be training students for not only the 2034 Olympics, but also national championships for aerial skiing, which will be held at Bristol Mountain on Jan. 11.