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..

Teaser clip

So Treeline chalets have released a teaser clip of Will and Jamie's trip last week

treeline teaser video

Enjoy

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

Mayrhofen Trip with the Park and Pipe Crew

So Will has come home after two weeks away in Austria with the Park and Pipe crew. He seems like he had a brilliant time even if the weather was against them and they had very few days on the jumps due to huge powder dumps.

He had a few little edits which I'll try and add tomorrow but here is a cheeky little backflip
in the meantime
backflip vid

New 2016 Capita , Children of the Gnar Snowboard.

Will is really lucky to be sponsored by Capita Snowboards and recently he  received next seasons 2015/16 Children of the Gnar snowboard. He'll take this next week when he goes out to Mayrohfen ,Austria for two weeks riding with the Park and Pipe crew.
His new board is a hybrid cambered board and will give him some extra pop on those kickers. He's stoked with his new board and can't wait to ride it properly out on the mountains.

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.