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 .

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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Riding with Gigi Rüf

Will and his Dad are away at Spring Break in Kaunertal , Austria this week. It's been a real blast for them both and Will has loved every minute . He's ridden  in the winning team for the Whitelines rail jam on Sunday, then on Monday he  came 5th overall and won the under 16 category for the Dragon Methodical madness competition. Will also got to meet and ride with  snowboarding superstar Gigi  Rüf which  he is stoked with ! Overall this trip has been a chance to ride with lots of old friends and make plenty of new ones too.

Photo courtesy of Sam Oetiker OnBoard Magasine

Plus we are also really pleased to announce that Will has a new Sponsor in Deeluxe Boots which he has been riding for the last few weeks and really rates , so he is pleased to represent them and be added to their awesome team

Media coverage

Sorry its been a while since we last updated about Will. Its been a  busy time for us all. Firstly when Will was travelling back from Italy we found out that Will would be appearing in a small feature in The Times, and then on Sunday, Will was featured in an online article for the Mail on Sunday.

Will's article in Sunday Mail.

Not sure where they got the figures from, I wish we had that kind of money to spend on the boys,but overall it was a positive article.

Much more importantly, Will turned 12 over two weeks ago. Can't believe he's gotten so big ,so quickly. Where oh where has the time gone.Anyway He had a lovely quiet family party and in the end he asked for some more technical lego to go with  his vast collection.

Not long till the boy heads out to Mayrohfen, Austria to train with the Park and Pipe Team , then another amazing opportunity is just at this point looking possible too. Will keep you updated .

Time away in Italy

Well our Will is  travelling home today , after almost 3 weeks away snowboarding. Its the longest he's been away and we are all missing him very much. Sounds like he's had a great time and he's managed to get some much needed practice on the larger kickers ,as that's  the only thing lacking here in the UK.

Its  going to be Will's 12th birthday on Tuesday and so he definitely needed to be home with his family for that, we may have another triple chocolate cake and request for his favourite meal- Peking Duck .

Will's got another 4 to 5 weeks before he's back out on the mountain, we're trying to get Will as much  mountain time as possible without compromising his school work . Back home he has got some fabulous opportunities coming up, ( will keep you posted on those ) including meeting the Red Bull F1 drivers and snowboarding with Eero Ettala at MK Snozone. 

London's Ski Snow Show

Last week Will was invited to come and be one of the demo snowboarders at the rail event running at the Ski Snow Show running  at London's Excel . It was both a privilege to be one of the few riders asked to attend, and a challenge since, not only does Will not ride dryslope, he was also a little intimidated at the thought of performing to a large crowd.

Christian Stevenson commentating to the latge crowd

Will had a little ride at Gloucester's dry slope to see if he could ride dry slope, and that proved positive, so the next thing was to go down to the Show . Needless to say Will rode really well and ended up riding on three days of the show.
He got to catch up with some friends down there, and make some new friends too. Billy Morgan and Jamie Nicholl's came down and caught up with Will and the rest of the guys riding who included snowboarders Cody Heiron and the very energetic Sparrow Knox as well as  some of the very talented freeskiing guys too.

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,

Picnic tables Jibbin

Well it looks and sounds like Will has been having a great time out in Pila with the Why ain't you ribbon crew. Yesterday the weather was poor , shutting the freestyle park and so they built their own park . So he heads over to Tignes , France tomorrow ready to compete in the Outdoor Brits competition. Wish I was there to see him , but at least he'll have his Dad there with him, together with Steve. Hope he has a fantastic time and will keep you posted with any results and pictures.

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.

Will's video

Well Will has arrived home after a week away in Italy riding with the Why Aint You Jibbin Crew. He's tired but stoked with his newly decorated room and glad to be home.. In Italy Will made a few new friends , managed to crack nolly front flips and work on spinning off the black jumps ,which is pretty brave given their size. We will post some pictures of his trip to Italy soon.

Whilst he was away the very talented Max Presky of FBBB fame , completed a little video edit of Will's riding in Milton Keynes Snozone . It's a super cool little edit and Will is really pleased with it..


 
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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 & Whitelines Contender Page

 So last week Will was one of the lucky few to get invited to take part in the O'Neill Shoreditch Showdown in London's East End. It was a pretty impressive set up and certainly not for the faint hearted. Will was the youngest contender by a mile and he looked so small up there with all the other riders. But he did himself proud and rode really well taking a few heavy slams along the way. He did'nt make it through to the final 12 riders but that was a huge ask considering the big name riders who included Andy Nudds, Sparrow Knox and Ollie Dutton to name but a few. There was a great vibe and the final was fantastic with Sparrow taking away the top prize.

Also the little fellow (I'm going to have to stop calling him that soon) was super stoked to be in Whitelines Magasine as a Contender.Great seeing him getting recognition for all his hard work..

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.

Slide to Sochi at Snozone MK

Today Will was part of the Slide to Sochi event at Snozone MK. It is a road show promoting the upcoming Winter Olympics. He got to meet former Olympic athletes Graham Bell , Iwan Thomas and Sir Steve Redgrave. Will was his usual quiet self and was a little too shy to do an interview with ITV , but he was happy to chat and get his photo taken with the Olympians.





With Becky Menday, Sir Steve Redgrave, Euan Thomas and Graham Bell

Signing the giant Slide to Sochi Snowball

In the Fourman Bob Sleigh

In Ellis Bigham

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.