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

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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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 

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.

Aosta, Italy trip

So the whole family went off to have a week in the spring snow , last week to Aosta . It was a chance for Will to see if his heel had gotten better and to try out new tricks on the soft spring snow.In all it was a lovely place to visit. Will's little brother Eddie got to grips with chairlifts and practiced linking his turns, and I got to get some much needed R&R in the sun after feeling a bit poorly the last few weeks,

New CLWR outfit ready for the Brits

It's officially spring and it's not long now till Will goes away to have a week in the mountains with Steve again before his Dad joins them out in Tignes ready for the Brits competition. He has been sent a really cool new CLWR outfit which is from next seasons collection so no one else will be wearing it... Also and he"ll be rocking his new Capita Microscope and Union Bindings too. It's amazing really how much has happened for Will since he last went out to his first Brits event. I suppose some reflection is always a good thing and makes you appreciate how much Will has developed over the few years since he first started riding and how much hard work he has put unto his passion.

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.

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 at the Brit's

It's been a really fantastic time for Will out in Tignes, its his first time out at the competition and he had to work hard to convince us that he should go.

Tuesday saw the Bangers and Cash rail jam which had no age category and a jam format. The little man really enjoys jam format competitions and he was really relaxed and enjoyed the course . He pulled off  270's on and off and a big gap to board slide on top of the wall ride. This earned Will a place in the final 8 riders and apparently it was a close run for 3rd place, but coming in 4th in an open age comp at  10 is really cool.


Bangers and cash rail jam 




Will with his 50 euro prize money for getting into final 8 in the Bangers and cash rail jam

Wednesday he rode about in the morning with his Dad and then he was  really lucky to be chosen by Andy Nudds to be in the team representing Britain to battle it out against the French team. So the team had Andy Nudds, Fin Bremner, Becky Menday, Jake Binney, and Will.. They had a real blast riding head to head against the French riders , with the British team deservedly winning with some fantastic riding. Making Will one happy lad, as he won a penny skateboard amongst other things..





Battle of Britain team with from left to right Beck Menday, Andy Nudds, Will, Jake Binney, unknown bloke and then Fin Bremner
















Thursday was the Slope style championships and the weather wasn't great , so they had shortened the course to one jump and two rail sets. Will rode really well keeping his nerve in the two run format and came away with second place in his age category.

Nathan Gray with first place, our Will in Second and Tomski Robinson took third

So in all a very successful first Outdoor Brit competition for our Will and he was right to nag us into taking him out there. Special mention must go to the people who've helped Will with his training, so a big thankyou goes to Thom Boddington at Snozone, Steve Addicott at Why ain't you Jibbin and Ben Kinnear and the gang from the GB Junior Freestyle team.

Will and Steve getting a ride upto the top of the course in the Bangers and Cash rail jam

Pictures from half term why ain't you jibbin camp

After daily lunch of curly fries at Changabang

Waiting hit the park with Gabe

Some pictures from Will's week in Morzine riding with the Why ain't you jibbin crew.
Look out for a little video edit coming soon.
He had such a great time and can't wait till he has another week out in Pila soon  and then its Will's first time at the Brits in Tignes..

Will's 10th Birthday and his first go at a video edit

 

Well its the little man's 10th birthday today and he's gone and got a flu bug which he is not happy about. But even feeling rotten hasn't stopped him from building most of his Lego presents up .
We'll post some pictures soon...  He has requested Chinese Crispy Duck and a Triple Chocolate cake which we made together yesterday..

Most of those presents were Lego !



Lego Sopworth Camel all built up!

One other thing that Will has been up to is making his own video edit. He found it a facintating process and spent a good few hours mastering the software and the edits that Thom Bodington took of him last Thursday. Apart from a couple of glitches mastering the music rights he did it all himself..

West Beach In and Out and other things

Its been a busy few weeks since the half term excitement. And Will has been having a whale of a time. So first up the was the West Beach In and Out competition in Milton Keynes Snowzone.  It was the second of a two part competition the first of which had been held up in Glasgows Bearsden dryslope. Will had not attended that one as it was a bit of a trek. but  he was definitely not going to miss a competion at his home slope.
 I do think that being his home slope allowed Will to feel much more at ease and he rode awesomely, pulling some complex tricks that earned him a place in the under 16 final. After a very long night of having fun doing what he does best,  Will came home with a sweet 3rd place and an armful of lucious prizes.

You can see a smile hidden behind the pile of prizes!

The next awesome thing to happen was that the lovely guys at Boarder Boards Snowboard shop have started a series of full page adverts in Whitelines magasine. It features some of their sponsored riders and first up was Will ! So he appears in Decembers issue which is out now !

Lastly and surprisingly the most challenging of his endevours so far was a chance to appear in a CBBC programme called the Friday Download. This was hard for the little man as he is very quiet and he was terrified of doing any talking. But the fact that he was going to be appearing with his good snowboarding friends Becky Menday and Jake Binney helped Will manage any fears he had. After some thought, he decided that he did want to take the offer up afterall.
 Its only a small riding part with very little talking ,but still it was a big deal for Will who took on the challenge and conqured some of his fears. He was told the programme is going to be part of the Christmas special on Friday 21st of December..