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Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by Kat Miller in All, Photos, Snowboarding

I managed to get 2 snowboarding sessions in this weekend, Friday night at the Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead and Saturday at MK SNO!zone for another all day camp with Maverix. I’m taking it easy(ish) at the moment because it’’s only 16 days before I head ot the States, so after 3 hits and 3 over-shoots of the gap kicker I was glad that @girlygeekdom & @actionlamb arrived for the inaugural Snow Tuttle! As there were 3 of us present we were most certainly quorate (according to Rule 1). It was the first time either of them had ridden at Hemel and the first time they’d ridden since their holiday earlier this year (which was pretty much Sarah’s first time on a snowboard). According to their Tweets on Saturday they both had fun and Steve even did his first boxes! Hopefully there’ll be more Snow Tuttles in the future, if anyone wants to hook up for one then let me know.

Saturday was another fun day with coaching on kickers and rails, the kicker was quite small which made it hard to really get my knees up on my spins without me feeling rushed and panicked so I took things steady and just focused on getting the take off right (which in turn meant my arms were mostly below shoulder level). The afternoon was spent on the low box rail and I worked on making sure I managed to get some new tricks under my belt. I’d tried frontside noseslides at Castleford a few weeks ago but wasn’t really committing to get them fully tweaked out. Yesterday I was really pleased because not only did I manage to get a regular frontside nose with my board at 90 degrees but I managed to get the same trick nailed switch!

I was even more pleased that I was really going for the tweak and getting the board at right angles rather than the 45ish degrees I was getting at Cas.

This week’s going to be a busy one, I’m in Nottingham on Tuesday for work and then back over to Hemel on Friday for a shred with Anna who owns Sputnik Snowboard Shop (and sponsors me). We’ll also be heading over to the shop so I can check out the shiny new toys that have been delivered so far! I’m just waiting for some new boots to come in as I noticed at the weekend that mine are starting to come unstuck around the edges, and I’m hoping the Burton Molotovs will have arrived by then too…..I love this time of year! Add to that the fact that my snowboards from Humanity are being pressed this week and I think it’s going to be a good month on the new kit front!