Laax!!!

I had an awesome time out at Laax,  Switzerland. The park there was rad and I had a great time riding with the park and pipe crew. I can't wait to get back out there in April!

Winter's Coming.......

Once again I've left it too long between posts, but to be fair,not a lot snowboarding has been happening. Apart from a great night  last week at Will's home dome when Halldor Helgason and Tor Lundstrom came for the VonZipper night. It was a really great atmosphere as snowboarders came from far and wide and made it a great night for Will and the rest of the MK riders.

Tor Lundstrom and Halldor Helgason with our Will

                 James Streater has taken some great pictures of Will in the last few weeks too.

Photo credit James Streater

Photo credit James Streater

Photo credit James Streater

Photo Credit James Streater

Photo Credit James Streater

So there is some exciting times for Will coming up in the next month or so, He's heading out to Hintertux glacier very soon to train with the Park and Pipe Academy and the Main GB team, and  yesterday he filmed a little interview to appear on the TSA website which will appear really soon  . Plus  there are more other interesting opportunities developing. Its amazing what snowboarding is bringing to Will.

Trip to Mount Hood

So we are excitedly waiting for Will to arrive home tomorrow from Saas Fee.
He's been having a great time out there. There weather hasnt always been good enough to get up the mountain snowboarding, but he's been climbing, downhill scootering, swimming , skateboarding and just having fun.

He's stoked to have mastered his 720 spins though , in the little time they've had on the snow. Then its a quick turn around with washing and packing as Will and I are heading over to the States for Will to take part in session 6 of the High Cascade snowboard camp over on Mount Hood.
Its the first time I've been able to take Will away snowboarding as most of his trips are in school time.
I'm unsure of access to the internet though whilst we are out there so it may be a few weeks before our next update.

Saas Fee trip

Yesterday saw Will flying off to Switzerland to spend a couple of weeks with the Park and Pipe team. He sounds like he's having a blast riding the glacier in the morning and then mucking about skateboarding or swimming in the afternoon.
Saas fee is a really lovely place to spend with a bunch of friends having fun. We certainly enjoyed it when we all went a few years ago, so hopefully Will will do so again .

Park and pipe crew on downhill scooters

Summer jumping with a frontside spin

Will new indoor edit

Here is Will's new snowboarding edit filmed by the talented Max Presky on an unusually quiet night at Milton Keynes .

hey now...

So Will has this great picture taken by James Streater this last Thursday freestyle night in Milton Keynes .Then on Friday down at the EnviroJam in Hemel Hemstead's Snow Dome,  saw Will having a great time . He was pleased  he made the final and won the under 16 category.

Gorilla Grab, photo credit James Streater of Maverix Snowboard Coaching

This is the soap box Will's Dad made him to compete in last weekend's Soap box derby,  where he won the kids category

Soap Box Racing 

Under 16 Cup Winner

Deeluxe Spring Break Video

Wow  ! The video Will took part in filming with the Deeluxe Boots team is out . It's a great fun edit filmed at Spring Break in Kaunertal , Austria with fellow Deeluxe riders Mary Luggen, Alex Fischer, Julia Baumgartner and Living Legend Tarquin Robbins . Filmed  and Edited by Peter Rossner



 
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Just a couple Runs at the 2015 #snowboardspringbreak Kaunertal.

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Treelinechalets video edit  has landed ! filmed by Stuart Monk of Reelfunmedia  with fellow GB rider  (and heavy hitter) Jamie Trinder . Thanks to Treeline chalets,TSA and CLWR for a really fun trip for Will riding with an amazing group of snowboarding buddies.


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We invited our partners; The Snowboard Asylum, Bataleon, Switchback Bindings & Colourwear as well as GB riders Jamie Trinder & Will Gilmore, over to stay with us in Morzine in April for some end of season fun in the sun! Here's a mini edit from a sunny morning spent in the park with ReelFunMedia! Thanks Everyone!
Dunc | Treeline Chalets

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camera & edit | stewart monk | www.reelfunmedia.com

Sports Aid Award

So Will went up to Nottingham yesterday with permission from school, to collect his Sports Aid award. This is precious money to go towards the costs of Will's snowboard training. It is in recognition of his snowboarding talent and potential and is as a result of Will being nominated by his Park and Pipe coaches.

The day was a blend of workshops on healthy eating and media awareness as well as being presented with his award. The Olympic Gold medal canoeist Tim Baillie was there to chat and give advice to all 32 talented young sports men and women. It was wonderful to see main stream to the more diverse sports being represented by a wonderful group of young people. In all a tiring but rewarding day..

Treeline Chalet Trip

 Will has just come back from an ace week to Morzine as the guests of Treeline Chalets as part of his sponsorship with TSA and CLWR. He went out with Sam Nelson ,Team manager of CLWR and Dragon and rode with fellow CLWR  and TSA rider Jamie Trinder and a whole host of other snowboarding buddies. Whilst they were our there Will and Jamie competed in The Stash Gathering Competition which ended with Will getting first in the under 14 category and Jamie getting second overall .Will had a wonderful time away thanks to TSA, CLWR and Treeline.Hopefully there will be a little edit coming soon showing Will and Jamie riding in Morzine ,France.

Sam and Will

Christmas Dragon News and DOA edit's

Its the build up to Christmas and both boys are really ,really excited. The Christmas tree is up and we've gone through a tub of quality street already.
Apart from Santa's  and family presents though piling up, ready for the big day , there has been some great snowboarding events happening too.

Will has  recently changed google sponsors, so he's moving from Ashbury over to Dragon Alliance. He  has recieved an awesome care package from Dragon Alliance that  he is,  and any snowboarder in their right mind would be, stoked with.

Then today the second edit of the Capita Defenders of Awesome Tour was released. It was a great reminder of a fantastic time for Will riding with some of his snowboarding hero's.


Capita Snowboards - D.O.A 2 Stay Bad Ass UK Tour - Episode 2 from The Riders Lounge on Vimeo.
In the 2nd and last episode of the capita uk tour the guys make their way from Scotland down to Manchester for a shop signing at subvert. After Manchester it's down to Milton Keynes for a short session in the dome. The final leg of the tours takes the team to London for the biggest premiere of the entire tour.
Part one of the tour
Capita Snowboards - D.O.A 2 Stay Bad Ass UK Tour - Episode 1 from The Riders Lounge on Vimeo.
Part one of two, documenting the Capita snowboard team as they tour the U.K promoting their latest movie D.O.A 2 - Stay Bad Ass.
This episode follows the team to Tamworth for a quick demo at the dome and then on to a busy signing at The Snowboard Asylum. The following day the guys make their way to Scotland and hit up Bearden dryslope. For most of the team it was their first ever time riding anything other than real snow.
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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.

Summer Trip

Well its fair to say that Will had a great time away with the Why Ain't You Jibbin crew.

He met old friends and made new ones and just had a great time boarding, and playing about in the sun and water.

Unexpected Opportunities

Its funny how sometimes opportunities happen so unexpectedly. Earlier on this week we had a call from Ben Kinnear inviting Will along to train with most of the main GB freestyle team up in Glasgow. Even though it was totally unplanned and only a day's notice, it seemed a real shame to pass up the chance for Will to meet and ride with the likes of Billy Morgan and Jamie Trinder. So we juggled thing's as much as we could for our Will to go . So the last few days have seen Will skateboarding ,snowboarding and generally hanging out with the main GB freestyle team. He's back home now after an ace time ,where again he made us proud by being so independent and getting over any  initial shyness and fears he may have had.


Thomski Robinson, Fin Bremner, Billy Morgan, Nathan & our Will

Blitz Camp and FBBB night

Its been relatively quiet  snowboard wise for the last month or so, but then that's sometimes a good thing. Will has been doing his usual Thursday and Friday night down at Milton Keynes Snozone.
Last Friday however was Blitz camp down at Hemel Hempstead Snow Center. Will had been invited to join the Blitz camp by Mark King when we were up at the Van's Hi Standard Competition and this was the first one since then. Needless to say Will had a wonderful time, and really enjoyed riding with the other team members. Looks like we'll be heading down to Hemel more often now.
Blitz Camp May 2013 is a great video showing Will riding with the rest of the Blitz team riders..

This Friday was FBBB takeover of Park Strife at Milton Keynes, and it was great park set up with a pretty big kicker. The lovely Jool's Smith was on hand to take some great pictures of everyone riding including some great ones of our Will looking super cool in his new  CWLR gear

Not long now till the end of school and the start of the Summer Holidays. Will's really looking forward to going away for a weeks training to France at L2A with Steve Addicott's   Why Ain't you Jibbin Crew. He's going to have an awesome time out there with the other groms , going on a road trip and being away from us . Other news is that  Steve is currently working on a little edit of Will from footage taken over the winter 2012/2013, can't wait to see that..

CLWR. Sponsor Will

CLWR  sponsor Will..

So the super trendy and up and coming clothing company Colour Wear have invited Will to be one of their team riders which he is really pleased to accept. He's really looking forward to representing Colour Wear in the future and wearing their quality clothes.

We are also pleased to announce that Stance Socks have sponsored Will and a great selection of socks arrived in the post today just in time for a test run on the Milton Keynes slope.

Will's 13/14 Capita Microscope and Union Bindings

Little Man is stoked that his new season Capita Microscope and Miniflite Unions Bindings have landed at the Gilmore household. He can't wait to take it out on the slope and try it out.


13/14 Season   Capita Microscope size 125



13/14 season Union Microflite bindings

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