Friday 27 January 2012

the End off the Youth Olympics :(

The last few days at the YOG were sooo much fun..

Thursday was the first ever slopestyle competition at the Olympics! Course was really good it was a down rail or down flat down to a bonk to a canon, wall ride or flat box, to a down box or a down flat rail or a rainbow, yep thats right 4 jib sections! which then lead in to 2 jumps. It was a fun course to ride and i was sticking all my tricks in training and then in qualification i placed 7th which was good enough to get me into the finals, i was stoked on that. The finals were due to be held the next day, however as the forecast was not good they decided to run the finals straight after the qualies as the bad weather was already coming in. The wind and snow made it really hard to land a run, i think 4 riders stuck there 1st run, i was unable to land either of my 2 runs which was disappointing, i ended up finishing 16th out of 28 :)

This was me done for my events, however there was lots still going on, supporting the rest of Team GB, organised events and parties! was soo much fun and so many people from all over the world all our age group to meet and have fun with.

There was a new skate park right next door to the olympic village which only opened on the 17th December, they had a fun street section, a bowl and a sick mini ramp!! Tyler (freestyle skier), Woody (ice skater) and me spent most of our time in the mini ramp because there was nobody else skating it :) haha it was good fun i learned some new tricks in it which im stocked on and it was only 2€ to get in :). If you are ever in Innsbruck check this place out.

We went to watch Katharine who was doing the ice hockey and had a real medal chance, she ended up finishing 5th the scores were so tight the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th all had the same score, very unlucky. We did get a gold and silver medal in the short track relay and a silver in women's bobsleigh well done guys and girls!!!! It was a fun few days so gutted to be back home !! Missing every one!!

It has been an amazing experience, one i will never forget. Hopefully i can push on from here and get the chance to experience this again at the full Olympics in 2014 or 2018.. Thanks for all the support and messages everyone sent me during the games, made me soo happy!

This is me stoked to have made the finals in the Slopestyle, cool that i was allowed to wear my new O'Neill jacket from the 2012/13 collection.

These are my sick new Head bindings, they even got me them in Team GB colours! next seasons with the new soft base.

This is me in the halfpipe at Kuhtai, the setting for both snowboard comps.

Sunday 15 January 2012

The Youth Olympics so far.

I am currently at the first ever Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, when we arrived at the YOG village we got told who are room mates were and me and Tyler Harding (freestyle skier) got put in a room together with another Lewis (ice hockey)! we were so stocked!!! :D In our room the duvets were Team GB duvets and we got Team GB pillows with or names on them there so sick!!!
I have been having so much fun meeting lots of new people!! It is a really mad experience, the village is for over 1000 athletes all aged 15-18 years old, and just like being at the real Olympics, security and having to hide your sponsors etc is so strange, but amazing fun... haha

I have been riding the halfpipe in kuhtai for a couple of days which was so sick had so much fun, then it was qualies and i made it to the semi finals which was amazing, in the semis i fell on one of the easyest tricks in the book a cab 3 :( fail, oh well it happens.


The finals in pipe were sick with the American Ben Ferguson going massive and doing a double crippler, and cleaning up!!

I have now started training for the slopestyle event, we qualies on thursday, ill try my best to make the finals in that!!! :) The course setup is cool.

I plan to get to a few of the other events and support my fellow Team GB atheltes, in Bobsleigh, Curling, Ice Hockey, Ice Skating. Innsbruck is a great location and an amazing experince for me and i still have nearly a week left!!

Thursday 5 January 2012

O'Neill Evolution 2012

I am currently at the O'Neill Evolution in Davos, this year they have built a 25m jump the Biggest jump i have ever hit was so scary and it was really whippy one of those jumps where every time you get to the top you still get the same scared feeling LOL, but was fun did some back 3s off it, today comp day was really bad weather tipping it down with snow couldn't get enough speed for the big jump so they did the comp on the small one which is still 16m in practice i was landing every thing clean,
but come to first run i fell on my fs7 and second run i stomped my fs7 but did a sketchy fs board slide on the down bar finish in my heat around 20th, the other team GB guys did really good with Billy Morgan qualifying in 1st place over all and Jamie Nicholls qualifying in 2nd in his heat but unlucky to Sam Turnbull finishing 11th and Ben killner 12th when the top ten go throw!!! Its been snowing all day there has been over 50cm of snow so tomorrow POWDER DAY WOOOOOO!!!!