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 [...]
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 [...]
The Brits is over and I’ve had a good year in competitions with 9 podium places from 11 starts as the 2008/9 season draws to a close. Not only that but I’ve come close to qualifying for the overall final on a couple of occasions (Big Air at the Brits is my nearest miss so [...]
I’m writing this on my way to London, on the train, heading to the office after two weeks away in Laax. It feels a bit surreal, here I am suited and booted and fighting for a seat on the train ( I won) when this time a week a go I was waiting for the [...]
No medal for me today unfortunately, but the weather was good and I was happy with my half pipe runs. I’d out a couple of runs in on the half pipe yesterday but hadn’t really done anything spectacular (let’s face it, when you only ride pipe once a year it’s hard to be spectacularly anything [...]
