Happy New Year to all my fiends, family and sponsors, its been a great year and hope 2012 is even better, if thats possible.
We went to Holland the other day and Richard Clarke put this video together.
Last night we held the UK premiere of Flow Snowboarding new movie “Was Here” at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead.
With enough sweets/candy to keep any dentist happy for years and a pair of bindings up for grabs, it was a night worth waiting for.
With one of these seats holding the golden ticket for a brand new pair of Flow bindings, neatly tucked into a Flow brochure.
All set up and ready to go.
Almost a full house, not often can you keep a room full of snowboarders quite and no one asleep. Flows International Team Micron rider Jake Terry and The Board Syndicates team manager Rich Jonas in the VIP seats.
Congratulations to MarkTrimmer of London, for finding the golden ticketand bagging himself a pair of brand new shiny Flow NXT-ATSE bindings
A great night and the best snowboard film this year, thanks Flow.
Bring on the snow and every one have a great season.
Steve T
Me in front of the Windells sign, it was huge.
Windells snowboard camp.
Well what can I say It was the best holiday of my life. I left to get to the airport on Wednesday morning and would be back the following Thursday, so I was there for 8 days. I had to fly from Heathrow to Toronto and then on to Portland. It was a long flight but I managed it without feeling tired. Once I arrived at Portland airport there was a guy from Windells camp to greet us and put us on the Windells bus. The man driving us to the camp said we wouldn’t make it back for dinner so we stopped for a Taco Bells which was sooooo good. We arrived at camp at 10 at night and I was tired. I met all the guys at Flow and then went to bed. The next morning we had to get us up at 6:30 (which I was not ready for), to get breakfast and get up on the mountain. Thursday was the day that we just shred around and have fun
After riding we headed down to camp and from there to about 9 at night it is carnage people doing back flips on trampoline people skating around and just generally having fun. I wasn’t really used to the food because it was self service and it was food like tacos and burgers and just different food but it was still nice.
Everyday was the best day getting to ride with top pros such as Tim Humphreys, Brandon Reis, Danny Buller, Pat Moore, Jed Anderson, Sarka Panchovia and Dylan Thompson. Filming with top photographers and videographers. It was a great park, everything was flowing so you didn’t have to stop all the time. Once the day finished I would get changed as fast as I could to be the fast one to the foam pit. I was in there at the end of riding until bedtime everyday. Wednesday was the last day of the US for me which I was upset about I went to the shop and I bought a few souvenirs and then packed for the trip back home. I had met some great people that I will hope to see at ISPO this year. And I can honestly say for a hyper kid like me a was so tired I could have slept for a week. My first flight back I was with a guy that was at the camp so we just talked about snowboarding and stuff and then at Calgary where I had to catch my flight back to the UK I had to run for because the flight from Portland was delayed. The flight back to the UK was 8 hours long. When I arrived back at Heathrow my Mum and Dad were there to greet me.
This is a short video that The Board Syndicate are putting together and releasing each Friday over the next couple of months, this is mine. It was filmed in Holland at Snowworld Zoetermeer and at Snow Base Terneuzen
Saturday we went to the Oakley Grom games, at Chill Factore, Manchester, we didn’t make it last year because we were stuck in a traffic jam for 5 hours, there was really bad accident. This year we managed to get up there in time, just. I started practise, on a really sick park set up. There was a donkey dick, barrel stall, a massive ribbed pipe and loads of other features. We only had 1 hour to practise and the landings were pretty icy. After there was a massive jam session for 1 ½ hours. I had a bit of a hard slam on the ribbed pipe, I was trying to do a cab hard way one on, but caught my tail, just as I left the takeoff and I slammed my ribs against the pipe, it really hurt, no pain no gain I suppose.
After the jam session had finished it was the prize giving. I got first which I was really stoked about. In the prize bag I got a pair of Oakley goggles, a t-shirt and a Oakley rucksack. Well done to Jake Binnee for getting second and Billy Cockrell for 3rd.
Yesterday we went to a comp at Ice Mountain, Komen, Belguim. Called O’neill Crazy Dayzz. We first arrived at Folkestone to catch the train to France. When we got to border control and Dad found out that he left the passports at home. We told them we left the passports, they let us through on Dads driving licence, but i didn’t have any Id. The man said we might have trouble through the French border but they were asleep, so we drove past. We arrived in France at 12. It took us about an hour to get to the dome. I got changed and practise was straight away. The practice was on for and hour then it was qualifcations and then the final. In the qualifying round I round, I rode as well as I could. I was one of 5 that made it into the finals. The final was best of threes runs. I fell on my last run after knuckling the kicker and hurt my heel. I was so happy getting second place, I won a Protect helmet, Dakine rucksack, and a O’neill goodie bag, we left shortly after that to catch our train. When we arrived at Calais, the Customs pulled us over, we had to fill in forms, to be let back home.
Me on the left.
Flow snowboards have invited the Micron team to Windells snowboard camp in Mt Hood, Oregon, USA. I am lucky enough to be going training with the rest of team. I will be arriving in Mt Hood on the 27th of July and leave on the 3rd of august. There will be a selection of Flow pros riding and training with us at the camp including Tim Humphreys, Brandon Reis and Ian Thorley.
Will be fun.
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This was filmed at my trip to Bad Gastein, Flachuawinkl in Austria and Laax, Switzerland.
