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.
Enjoy!

Capita Defenders of Awesome tour

Will was really lucky that school allowed him to have time off to join in with the Capita Defenders of Awesome tour. He's spent time both riding and hanging out with US Professional snowboarders Scott Stevens, Brandon Cocard, Dustin Craven and Phil Jacques as they toured the country visiting Tamworth Snowdome , SnowFactor in Glasgow, Chillfactor in Manchester and topped it very nicely in Will's home dome of Milton Keynes Snozone with his very own signature park night. The US pro's were lovely with our Will , really taking time to get to know him as he can be a little quiet. They were also very complimentary of the standard of Will's riding. .

Scott Stevens, Phil Jacques, Brandon Cocard, our Will and Dustin Craven

At his signature park night at MK Snowzone , Will had designed a super technical park ,was riding hard and having a great time, so much so he snapped his snowboard towards the end of the night! Thankfully the lovely guys at Capita are sending him a new board asap so he can go shredding again this week.

Scott Steven's was impressed with Will snapping his board

 Whitelines posted this great pic of Will on their instagram recently too 

What a week!

Eiki  and Halldor Hellgason

It's been an amazing snowboarding week for Will. Half term stated off with a trip on Saturday to London to see the Freeze Festival. It was a really cold day but he had a great time watching the Big  Air competition  and getting autographs from the Helgason brothers and Salomon team riders  Jamie Nicholls, Matt McCormick and Will Smith.. Another highlight for Will was buying himself a new skateboard from money he saved up..

Jamie Nicholls, Will Smith and Matt McCormick

Then it was a quiet few days at home before heading out on Thursday night to join in the Capita  team tour. First stop for Will was Tamworth's Snowdome , where he got to meet US Proteam riders Scott Stevens and Jess Kimura and the rest of the uk Capita team and do a little bit of riding...He was really pleased that they both signed his new snowboarding helmet.
Thursday he met up with the rest of the Capita team at XC in Hemel  to watch them have a little skate ,before heading off to have pizza with the team. Will was pleased to sit opposite Scott Stevens who shared his love of the classic margarita pizza ..That night Will rode at Hemel Snow Center  where he had a great nights riding the freestyle park.
Saturday the rest of the Capita team went along to the Ski and Snowboard show in Londons Excel Center, but Will had a rest to recover from his late nights  as he would have quickly got bored of shopping, even if it was snowboarding gear..




Scott Stevens, Will and Jess Kimura

Sunday saw Will heading out to Manchester to ride at Chill Factor . He had a really awesome nights riding with the team and enjoyed jumping the two big gas pipes getting huge height and giving his old Mum and Dad a few new grey hairs. We were really impressed with how Will coped with meeting all the new people including a few heros, and we had a few compliments on what a modest, quiet  and talented boy he is. He certainly made us proud..