Wham Bam Jam at Castleford

Last weekend Will went along to compete in the Indoor British Freestyle Snowboard Championships. What a difference a year makes . Will was so much more relaxed and whereas he did'nt know anyone last year, this year it felt like he was competing amongst friends as he knew so many of the competitors.

Being in the Kids cateogory he had a two run competition before getting a chance to compete in the Jam for all ages. There was  only  20 mins warm up &  Will was a little nervous and there was not much time to get used to the features. He did his two runs  and then stayed out to the Jam. This allowed the little man time to relax and enjoy the park and he really impressed a few people with his technical riding, so much so he was the only one from the Kids cateogory to survive the 50% cut of the field.  So Will ended up 4th in his age  category of 12 and under , and although he was 3 years younger that his fellow riders  he ended up  heartbreakingly 1/2 a point from finishing 3rd. Impressivelty though, by getting through the first cut of the Jam has meant that he is ranked equal 13th.

Jools took some awesome pictures of the day and it is a pleasure to include them in Will's blog..

Wow ! I'm on the poster advertising Parkstrife

I'm on the Park strife poster !

Will's latest exploits

So far it's beena very busy start to the summer holidays! This week Will went along  to Snozone  along with all the other sponsored riders to be photographed having fun on the slope doing sledging ect for new set of pictures for the company.. Watch this space Will may be the face of Snozone!
Then it was a quick dash home to pack to come up to Scotland to take part in some training with the GB team this Thursday and Friday... As well as visiting his Nana and Grandad who are lucky enough to live right next to the sea on the very beautiful South West Scottisish coast..
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Ben Kinnear took this cool picture of Will , Cameron  and Fraser  when they were bike riding  on the Scottish summer training camp

GB training camp in Saas Fee

Last week Will went along to the GB training camp in Saas Fee , Switzerland. He had a great time practicing his freestyle snowboarding and refining his technique on the glacier snow in the morning, followed by fitness training in the summer sun in the afternoon. The rest of the GB team who were very supportive and friendly, and Ben Kinnear was a brilliant coach breaking down all the elements of the tricks making it easy for William to understand what he needed to do to improve...
He worked progressively through 180's right through to FS 540 indie grabson a range of kicker sizes.
As well as snowboarding ,Will started skate boarding down in the skate park with some great tips from fellow team mates and came away some impressive brusies to show for it..The week was a definite success and Will is keen to go for the full two weeks next year..

what a view of the glacier for  afternoon training

Will's Sponsors

                                       Will's  Red Helmet all stickered up with his sponsors

Nike stair set comes to MK Snozone !

Jools Smith took some great pictures of Will on the Nike Stair set that has just taken up residence in the MK Snozone for the next month

Will Gilmore Snowboarding WAYJ

Well its been a relatively quiet few months snowboarding wise for Will, he's just been keeping his head down doing Freestyle nights at his local indoor slope mainly, but he's got a weeks summer camp of freestyle training coming up as well as a trip up to Manchester's Chill Factor next week ...


In the meantime check out Will's fab video taken from edits from his training camps with Steve Addicott over the winter.
It shows edits from Pila , Italy and Avoriaz , France.. Awesome..