Board Test

Last week i was in Kauntertal Austria for the UK board test. Most of the brands and magazines and lots of industry people where there to test and review next seasons equipment. I was there to ride, meet people and help out Dan with the Head stand. I stayed with Tom and Rich Ewbank who kindly put up with me! they both used to work with my parents at Pleisure, check out their website with reviews of the latest kit etc
www.snowboard-review.com

Riding with lots of people from the UK scene was cool, park set up was good although couldnt ride much after 12 as was too slushy. Have a few weeks now to chill with my friends in Courchevel, France.

Flaine Hip

Last week i was in Flaine (France) with Dan Wakeham and the HEAD SNOWBOARDS international team. We were there to session a private hip wich got built by the park crew specially for us, was so sick. Dan and Me learnt how to fly!!!! heres a picture of the hip it was massive!! hopefully soon ill have some pictures of me flying to show you!! :)

Junior Worlds Valmalenco.

The past few days i fave been in Valmalenco Italy for the Junior World Snowboard Championships. On thursday we had training in half-pipe and slope-style, in the morning the pipe was really icy and i fell smacking my head and breaking my helmet. I was a bit concussed so i didn't go off the jumps just watched peoples speed. On friday i had half-pipe qualifications I landed my first run and in the 2nd run i fell on my hacken finished 8th in my heat and 6 qualified to finals over all I got 29th out of 70 riders so not too bad! plus i got asked for an autograph haha :D .



Slope style was on the sunday wasn't enjoying the course so first run i did bs3 fs7 bs5 landed it clean 2nd run went for a first hit sb5 and fell... i finished 10th in my heat dont now the over all results yet.



On my way back to france me and my dad stop at lake como and had an italian ice cream lol, it was 5 o'clock in the afternoon it was still 25degrees!! there was so meny poeple walking up and down the lac. it was a fun weekend all week it has been like snowboarding in the summer.

Kitzsteinhorn Austria

Im currently in Kitzsteinhorn Austria with Dan Wakeham, Nick and Greg. Today we went up the hill there was fresh powder and it was dumping it down !!! havent seen it snow this much since before Christmas!!! the park and pipe looked like they would be sick when their shaped i cant wait till a sunny day to hit them!!!!

The Brits

Have been in Laax for the last week for The Brits (the british snowboard championships). The weather has been soo sunny all week, so the comps have all gone down. It has been a real fun week and successful! as i made the mens finals (top 12) in all 3 events, Big Air, Halfpipe and Slopestyle and took 1 gold and 2 silvers in my age group. The number of riders this year seemed lower although the standard of riding has shot through the roof, double corks landed in big air and slopestyle, plus Dom and Ben trying them in pipe. I was so happy to land some of my best tricks this week, fs9 in the pipe being my highlight, it was only me and Ben Kilner (Olympian and halfpipe winner) to land a 9 in pipe. I will up load a little edit of my week later.. I am off for a few days on a photo shoot this week with Dan Wakeham and then onto the Junior World Championships in Italy next weekend.

Big Air fs7

Garmisch 720

Here is a clip of my fs7 at the Ride shakedown at Garmisch.

New Sponsors, Mayrhofen, Garmisch and UK!

So much to tell you from the last few days!..

I now have new sponsors, O'Neill for clothing and googles, Head for snowboards, bindings, boots, protection and helmet. My new kit..



I have been in Mayrhofen this week with British Freestyle Team, was really good weather for hitting the big jumps, trying fs9's, bs7's, sbs5's and sbs7's.. was real good sessions going down with Nelson pratt doing double rodeo and Jack shack giving them go and Sam Turnbull trying double 10's sick! shame the jumps were closed the last day as they were getting ready for the wangle tangle.. we all went out for a meal one night, it was a meat feast, 16 euros each for huge plate and meats and chips and veg!



fs9 in mayrhofen..


Friday we went to Garmisch in Germany for the Ride Shakedown, setup looked good with big air jump and rail in the olmypic ski jump arena. It was a bit strange though run in was long and fast with big right hand turn before hitting the jump, was difficult to judge the speed each time. Didnt go well for me, big shout out to Jamie though who took 2nd place in the rail jam and 1st place in the slopestyle..

Now back in the UK for a few days, as i received a sports aid grant through Asda and are going to a training workshop with them on Monday.. then it back out to Laax for The Brits..