Archive - March, 2009

Hard work pays off!

March 31 1 Comment Category: All, Competition, Photos, Snowboarding

Woohoo! I am so happy right now, all my hard work and the lessons I had last week worked out and I placed first in the Masters Big Air at the Brits. It was perfect weather today, bright blue sky and nicely shaped kickers meant that things couldn’t really have been better. The delay to [...]

Victorious in Masters Boardercross

March 30 0 Comments Category: Competition, Snowboarding

It’s been a mixed day for weather with heavy cloud hanging over the Boardercross course but it was well worth me heading up the mountain, although when I did my first run through the course. The first run through you get of the course is just side slipping through to check where each of the [...]

Brits Bib Collection: Total Fail

March 29 0 Comments Category: Competition, Snowboarding

Well it’s Sunday, officially practice day and bib collection for the majority of snowboarders and skiers entering the British Snowboard & Ski Championships, so after dropping my stuff off in the apartment I headed to the registration point at 2:10pm, 10 minutes after the office should have been open. I do this every year because [...]

Where'd my sun go?

March 28 0 Comments Category: All

So today was suposed to be sunny, all day was suposed to be clear until 4pm and then snow overnight and tomorrow, well everyone got that wrong, including the local weather. We headed up at 9 so that I could warm up before my lesson and it was cold, wet, windy and dumping once again….gutted! [...]

Where’d my sun go?

March 28 0 Comments Category: All, Snowboarding

So today was suposed to be sunny, all day was suposed to be clear until 4pm and then snow overnight and tomorrow, well everyone got that wrong, including the local weather. We headed up at 9 so that I could warm up before my lesson and it was cold, wet, windy and dumping once again….gutted! [...]

Jools Shredding: mini-vid

March 27 0 Comments Category: All, Photos, Snowboarding

Jools was riding down from the park today to pick up his camera kit as the sun had finally come out. He captured some of the run on my Flip Mino….until it all went a little bit wrong (skip to 1 min 35 if you’re only interested in the incident) Jools Shredding in Laax from [...]