Summer Antic's

Thankfully Will's arm seems to have healed really well and he's been upto quite alot these past few weeks snowboard wise.
He had a trip with The Park and Pipe crew to Landgraff Snow World in Holland, his first time away on his own with Ben Kinnear and the rest of the Park and Pipe Crew. Then whilst he was up in Scotland visiting his Nana and Grandad , Will was invited to train with the main GB Freestyle team which included the Matt McCormick, Katie Omerod , Fin Bremner and Thom Robinson. He had a great time riding the Braehead dome as well as skating and having a blast with the team.

Since then Will has been building up to starting secondary school as well as filming a new video edit with Max Presky.

Injury Update and Summer Trip

We've been quiet on the snowboarding front for Will for a number of reasons..
The most obvious one, was Will injured himself snowboarding just after the English Championships. He fell akwardly and broke his arm just above the elbow. Thankfully it was'nt too bad a break and it wasnt too painful for Will.

So Will's been having a break from snowboarding for a while until he was all healed.
In the meantime its been a busy time as primary school came to an end, with a seemly endless ream of plays, assemblies and parties for Will and his brother. He's had a radical haircut too, getting rid of his long locks in preparation for seconday school..

So due to his injury Will wasnt able to go out with Steve for his summer Why Aint you Jibbing Camp, but he is all healed now and ready  to head out for some training with the Park and Pipe Academy out in Landgraff, Holland. This is Will's first time away training independently with Ben Kinnear, but I'm sure he will have a fantastic time.

Awesome New Capita 2015 Microscope and Union Bindings

Well it has landed, Will's 2014-2015 Capita Microscope 130 with awesome mini contact bindings! Its super flexi and looks just amazing ! Will is keeping it for the mountains just for now as its slightly bigger than his current one and he wants to keep it nice before hitting the dome rails with it.

 He's taken it out to Pila with him this week to use and is super stoked with it.

World Rookie Tour

Well its been far too long since I last updated Will's Blog. He's been out  to the World Rookie Tour in Lavigno in January, where he competed in the Grom Category as one of the youngest competitors there. Will came a brilliant 23rd out of 36 riders and considering he still has another 4 years in that category there is plenty of time for him to get higher up in the rankings. To be honest this competition was  to give Will  his first  experience of a international competition . He had a fantastic time and really loved the airbag there as well as the perfect freestyle parks.

Will also turned 11 year old in January and he had a lovely birthday with a request for Cripsy Duck with pancakes followed by homemade chocolate cake. He had a great day with some cool presents too which of course included some technical lego.

Its been a good few weeks snowboarding wise for Will and I'll update really soon with some more things he's been upto. Yesterday he headed out for another weeks snowboarding in the mountains of Italy with the Why air you Jibbin crew, and he'll hopefully come home to a newly decorated bedroom. I'd better get cracking..

Its Christmas Time!!!

Well Christmas is almost over in the Gilmore house, but the boys have had a great time and Santa was very generous with presents. Typically its been the  Lego and Games that have turned out to be the favourite presents for them both. Will's loved his new iPhone and his Lego F1 car which only took him 6 or so hours to complete.

Snowboarding wise its been a quiet time relatively since Shoreditch .Will has just been doing his usual twice weekly trips to Freestyle night at Snozone Milton Keynes. He loves riding about with the usual crew and having a blast.
He has been really excited about heading out to the mountains though and yesterday we waved him off for two weeks away. He's gone out to Pila to ride with Steve Addicott and Kate Foster, and then is heading off to the World Rookie Tour in Lavigno.We will update more once we have some pictures and news.

Shoreditch Showdown

Wow, Will has been invited to ride in the Shoreditch Showdown Invitational  event in November. Looks like its going to be an awesome street rail set up and will be a  great experience for the little man and once the qualification is over he'll get front row seats to watch the event going down.

TSA Sponsor our Will

Some great news for Will is that The Snowboard Asylum ,TSA are now sponsoring the little man. It means that he joins another crew of rad snowboarders including Jamie Nicholls , Amy Fuller  and Matt McCormick to name but a few.

Its been an exciting few weeks as also got a cool mention in the latest Whitelines magazine.

Awesome picture

Picture by Jool's Smith on Who's Afraid of the Park Night 
June 15th Snozone MK

Ashbury Eyewear Sponsor Will.

Will showing off his new Ashbury Googles

Will is  really lucky to have been sponsored by super cool brand Ashbury Eyewear. They were really quick to send him a pair in time for riding up in the Van's High Standard competion in Cairngorm, Scotland. Wearing them out on the mountain proved that not only do they look super cool but also performed really well too.
Will had a blast riding up in Scotland with his snowboard friend Jake Binne. It was a bit of a struggle for Will to get the speed for the jumps and rails but they still had a blast with Will winning £20 and Jake £80 for landing cool tricks