He has been snowboarding since his first snowboard lessons in November 2009 when we decided it would be lovely if our then 6yr old could join in properly when we went on the annual family winter holiday.
He had about 5 one hour lessons with an instructer and then came away with us for a weeks holiday to Val d'Isire in France. He snowboarded every morning with us and loved every moment. He easily managed mostly blue runs with the occasional red runs ,although he did get quite tired as the week wore on...
Once we came back from our annual holiday it seemed a shame for him to forget his newly aquired skill's and so around April time he joined into the Snozone "breakfast club" for young snowboarders which runs for 2hrs every Sunday although he only went every two weeks or so..
By the summer holidays William was much more confident with his riding, so we booked him into a weeks summer camp again at the Snowzone at Milton Keynes. It was then that he discovered Freestyle, as they introduced some easy jumps and simple rails for the more able snowboarders to have a go at..
So the next thing was attending the Buton training camp at Tamworth where he had a chance to get a training session taught by Burton sponsored riders on freestyle techniques..He came away from that first snowboard freestyle session buzzing with enthusiam having "won" a couple of prizes and having heaps of praise and encouragement..
Since then Will has gone on to be supported by a snowboard training company called Definition run by a lovely man called Gavin Learmonth with help from Chris Skinner, where gets free training on any freestyle courses running.
Will's ambitions have increased as his ability has and he now wants to be part of the Olympics..
So this blog is to chart how the little man progresses with his ambitions..
