Archive - May, 2009

Who's at fault?

May 19 6 Comments Category: All

Back at the end of March & beginning of April I blogged about a hiccup with the presentations at the British Snowboard Championships.  When the medals were presented Sam Rogers was given Gold in her age group while Becky Cullum was missed off the podium completely despite the fact that both she and Sam had [...]

Who’s at fault?

May 19 6 Comments Category: All

Back at the end of March & beginning of April I blogged about a hiccup with the presentations at the British Snowboard Championships.  When the medals were presented Sam Rogers was given Gold in her age group while Becky Cullum was missed off the podium completely despite the fact that both she and Sam had [...]

Ducklings

May 16 0 Comments Category: All

Ducklings, originally uploaded by plasticsnow aka Kat. We have ducklings on the village pond, I couldn’t get too close otherwise I’d have been attacked by our “friendly” neighbourhood goose who is self appointed protector of the pond and all it’s residents. It looks like there’s 2 or 3 broods of ducklings (about 14 in all) [...]

Sad times

May 14 2 Comments Category: All, Snowboarding

It’s with great sadness that I write this post, it’s taken me a while to get over the shock but last Tuesday, Keith McIntosh died in an avalanche at the annual board test in the Kaunertal, Austria.  Keith was the coach of the McNab Junior Development team and I knew him from the British Championships. [...]

Photos: Maverix One Day Camp

May 04 0 Comments Category: Photos, Snowboarding

While I was riding on Saturday at the Maverix One Day Camp, Jools made use of the time to take some shots of the session, well it beat sitting in the bar watching the football or wandering round the shops.  So here’s the set on Flickr

Review: Maverix One Day Camp

May 02 0 Comments Category: All, Photos, Snowboarding

Six hours snowboarding really does leave you feeling a touch achy & exhausted, well it does me anyway. In fact, I’m very nearly feeling too tired to type this post. I spent today riding at MK SNO!zone on one of James Streater’s Maverix one day freestyle courses. I was previously booked on one of these [...]