This Saturday was the British Snow Tour Indoor Big Air Championships at MK SNO!zone & seeing as how it’s a 2 star TTR event we were expecting the kicker to be pretty good, it turned out though that SNO!zone’s tape measure was slightly inaccurate and what should have been a 9m kicker was actually 14m [...]
I’ve just had a really hectic weekend, after a long week at work I headed 85 miles from home to Norwich Ski Centre in Norfolk for the British Artificial Snowboard Championships, nick-named the mini-Brits. This was the first of this year’s series of UK based snowboarding & skiing competitions and was ranked as a TTR [...]
What a weekend, we left for Castleford at 6am on Friday morning and eventually made it to the hotel at lunchtime. Torrential rain, a crash that closed the A1 and a project conference call (while I was parked in Asda car park) meant it took 6 hours rather than the normal 3 to get up [...]
It’s that time of year again, after a brief break between the Brits at the end of the 2008/09 season we’re now ready to start the 2009/10 season with the summer comps…first up on my to do list is the Halifax leg of the Westbeach Snowflex Series on 18th July. Get these dates in your [...]
Here’s a selection of the shots taken by Jools Smith out in Laax and the British Snowboard & Freeski Championships. These are mostly snowboarders as the 2 competitions run in seperate parts of the mountain making it difficult to cover both well.
Nearly Nose Grab!, originally uploaded by plasticsnow aka Kat. Here’s a shot Jools took of my second run in the Big Air at the Brits. After landing a clean Roast Beef for my first run I went for the nose grab on my second. As you can see I didn’t quite get the grab but [...]
