Snow Tour | New BST Park Shaper

September 08 0 Comments Category: All, Competition, Snowboarding

New BST Park Shaper Damo’s onboard! – In additional to the mass of improvements that the British Snow Tour is unleashing this year, things have been taken one step further as the freestyle-shaping prowess of UK’s best-loved snow-sculpted expert, Damian Doyle is brought onboard. Damo and crew will be creating and shaping every British Indoor [...]

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 [...]

Downs and ups

December 30 0 Comments Category: All, General

When I’m feeling down I find it really hard to blog, I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t want to seem whiny, don’t want to force people into feeling sorry for me or whether I simply can’t be bothered (probably a mix of all that and other reasons too).  Whatever it is it’s meant [...]

A good start to the 2009/10 season

September 14 0 Comments Category: All, Competition, Snowboarding

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 [...]

Brits 2009 Slide Show

April 25 0 Comments Category: Competition, Photos, Snowboarding

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.