Over the last 2 weeks i have been riding Snowpark and Cardrona in preperation for the Junior World Championships in Wanaka New Zealand. I have been riding and training with Jimbo and Keith. Had an awesome time staying with the Team GB boardercross team (Jamie, Tom, Alex) at Eddie Spearings house in Wanaka.
We got to parade as a team around the streets of Wanaka, with all the other contries and our flags etc and around 350 atheletes, we also had a show put on as a welcome from the locals, which was cool.
Training went well with me landing my best runs ever in Slopestyle and Halfpipe. Slopestyle bs5, cab5, fs7. Halfpipe fs air, bs air, fs5, bs5, fs7.
The champs didnt go soo well! in Slopestyle damaged my board in last training run, completely messed my 1st qualifying run up fell on everything! my second run was going well until i overspun my 7 and completey snapped the board!! this was not good as halfpipe practice was to start next day and was not happy riding my spare deck, however the Forum guys came through for me and arranged for a new board at the local Wanaka shop, sooo stoked, thanks guys..
Halfpipe training was good, pipe in Cardrona very good, my new board was awesome, Stuck my safety run in training, air air 5 5 7, me very happy. 1st qualifying run, my bs air lost control at about 12 feet out of pipe slammed hard on coping, snapped my binding :( and landed on back to flat on bottom of pipe, never see Jimbo run so fast! he ran down the pipe to check i was ok. I was shook up and hurting but wanted to do my 2nd run. 2nd run all going good until i slipped out on my bs 5, dooh.
