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 

Indoor Brits

Its been a real pleasure to watch Will ride recently, he has been having a great time and really pushing the envelope. And he has proved this by doing so well at the recent indoor Freestyle Snowboarding and Freeskiing championships.

Will winning the 12 and under with Lewis Moore 2nd and Lewis Hopkinson 3rd

By riding off the scale Will won the 12 and under catergory but also came 3rd in the overall category against the very talented Matt McCormick who came first and double front flipping 2nd place Cory Copeland. It was a really exciting day and he did us and himself proud.

Will coming 3rd overall after Matt McCormick winning and Cory Copeland 2nd

To cap it all Will is in the latest video edit from team Howl, riding with Will Smith and Ollie Dutton. An awesome edit and a its great for Will to be riding with such inspirational freestyle British Riders..


HOWL UK // RWND from RWND on Vimeo.

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.

Latest News

It's been too long since the last update,so here's what's been going on the last month or so. A couple of weeks ago we headed up to Castleford Snozone, for Will to compete in the SnoDown Competition as its been a while since Will last competed . He had a blast on a great set up .  Will rode really well  and was good enough to win the under 14 category coming away with £70 prize money.

Will's prize money

Since then there has also been the English Championships up in Manchester. Will was riding really well again and managing some super technical tricks that earned him second overall going into the finals. Unfortunately he didnt have two clear runs in the finals as he kept up the technicality and didnt want to compromise his riding to have a safety run. This meant he ended up with a bronze in the under 12 category and 7th place overall. But he is happy with the fact he tried his best, consoles himself that  lots of other amazing riders were caught out by the two 

run format too.

Scott Walsh , Lewis Hopkinson and our Will

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,

Season's almost finished

Well spring is here and Will is home from the Brits, he was disappointed not to be able to compete due to his heel injury , but philosophical too. There is always next year.. It's been great to have him home and its now the Easter holidays. So we are heading out for a family holiday to Italy and a few days in the spring snow and sun will be awesome for us all. Eddie, Will's little brother is especially excited as he has just learnt to link his turns on a snowboard and can't wait to try out his moves on the mountain. Will has also promised to help him on some simple boxes.