Archive - Snowboarding

Forging the path is never easy

May 25 1 Comment Category: All, General, Snowboarding

It’s not easy being self employed, and it’s even harder being part of a bootstrap funded start-up. What with the hours you put in to the business, the stresses you face when team members can’t cope with the stresses and decide start-up world isn’t for them hence leaving you to it and the pressures to [...]

Does it ever rain in Chatham?

Chatham dry slope did it again…not only did it provide the venue for this weekend’s second leg of the Southern Freestyle Series but it proved it has its own special micro-climate! Every time I’ve visited Chatham for a snowboarding comp it’s turned into the hottest weekend of the year meaning we’ve all melted in the [...]

Shred Punk Pt 2

May 12 1 Comment Category: All, Competition, Snowboarding

Here’s the 2nd video podcast from [shred]punk! Enjoy my slams in the second half ….it just goes to show that me, riding switch & permasnow just don’t mix!

Plasticslamtastic

May 09 9 Comments Category: All, Competition, Snowboarding

Everything about me pretty much aches today, from soles of my feet to my neck I feel battered and bruised, but I’m still happy.  Yesterday was the first leg of the Southern Freestyle Series at Bracknell and I headed over there despite my hatred of the Permasnow surface that covers the slope because I miss [...]

First week is over

March 22 0 Comments Category: All, Competition, Photos, Snowboarding

Well it’s been a brilliant first week out here in Laax, Switzerland.  Admittedly we’ve had the full range of weather, from 2 days white-out and powder to sunny, bluebird, Spring slush….but it’s been great to be on a mountain again for the first time in a year, and even better to spend the week getting [...]

Prepping for the Brits

It’s been a while since I’ve done a post, but all the snow shredding that friends have been getting up to has been making me exceedingly jealous.  It’s always a bit depressing posting about indoor snow while everyone else is in the mountains but after having to cancel my month away in January due to [...]