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Mar 05 2012
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Polish National Champs in Krynica Zdroja, Krakow, Vienna and the long journey home

It was up early in Czech and back on the road for 4 hours to one of my favourite countries in Europe, Poland! We had a free day, as the next race wasn’t until Wednesday, so I had suggested to the rest of the team we spend a day in Krakow. The drive through Czech was mainly on back roads and we passed loads of little ski resorts on the way. Would loved to stop and get a few runs in these backend of nowhere resorts as I know the chances of me ever going back to them are slim to none!

When we eventually crossed the boarder to Poland there was a noticeable difference in the quality of roads building and everything. It might not be up there on everyone’s list of favourite countries but I was very excited to be back! After Myles managed to sneak the tomtom into taking us via a KFC for lunch we found the Pink Panther Hostel, which is a stones through from the central square. I had stayed there a few months before so knew it was perfect for what we needed. If you are ever in Krakow its worth checking out.

After dropping off our gear it was time to go out and wonder the city for a bit. It was a proper test to see how much I had remembered from my last visit but after a quick walk around the square I took the guys off to the castle. I had heard it had been pretty cold out east and Poland wasn’t letting us down, felt like –heaps degrees C but I managed to point out most stuff around the castle including the fire breathing dragon which proved to be a good source of heat!

Krakows incredible castle

Getting some energy at the shakra

Trying to steal some dolla dolla to help cover our training fees

Krakows genuine fire breathing dragon, make sure you lock up your maidens…

If you visit Krakow make sure you go inside this church.

That evening we decided to head out for dinner. After being around Polish people heaps in Edinburgh I was used to all the breaded meats and very excited to get to have some Barszcz which is a type of beetroot soup that comes in a cup with your meal. For the others it all seamed a little more exotic but thankfully as Krakow gets a lot of British tourists this place had an English menu. We were yet to realise this would be the only place with an English menu for the rest of the trip…

My Polish dinner, opted to miss out on the breaded chicken…

We only had a few hours drive the to the next resort near the town of so we spent the morning wondering around the Jewish quarter of Krakow which is definitely worth a visit. Feels like your walking around a level from a Call of Duty game! When we eventually hit the road but it wasn’t long before a tactical stop at a Tesco was need for some lunch where once again our lack of Polish resulted in more food ordering issues from the canteen.

man having a pee

the lads looking for more ways to cover training fees although I don’t think they’ll get much for this…

Buying chess boards…

Packing up the Battle Wagon ready to hit the road again.

Next destination…

One of the guys from the Polish team had been helping us sort out with accommodation near the rave venue which turned out be really nice. We had access to a garage downstairs for waxing our boards so spent most of the day catching up on internet stuff, Myles getting beat at chess, myself getting beat at chess and waxing our boards. It was pretty late by the time dinner came around and we thought we were going for the safe option by going to a pizzeria. For myself this would prove to be very wrong. Tried to order the beetroot soup and a mushroom pizza, which sound like it should be easy enough. Wrong. I ended up with some random soup with what looked like maggots in it (actually really tasty) and a pizza with whole cloves of garlic on it. I am surprised anyone would even consider having a face-to-face conversation with me for the next few days!

Next day was Polish Nationals day and some really big names had shown up fot it. The course was looking pretty fun and quite technical although there was a straight section of the course with no features so they had just put in a few GS gates, which was a bit lame. They had a butt ton of snow so I don’t know why they didn’t just build a few more rollers or a step down roller or something.

Course Run Through

  • Out the start gate into a wu-tang
  • Step up roller
  • Two fairly whippy rollers
  • Right hand berm
  • Left berm
  • Small table top
  • Ice cream cone shaped roller, off axis on a right hand corner
  • Roller
  • Left hand berm
  • GS gates
  • Step down kicker
  • Kicker
  • Left hand berm
  • Two fast whippy rollers to the finish line

It was so same format as in Czech so we had two qualifying runs and top 16 qualify for finals. I put in a fairly mellow first run so come 2nd runs I could get loose. After first runs I was just outside qualifying by 0.2 of a second so I knew I could easily make up come second 2nd runs. Put in what felt like a fast run however the snow had been slowing up as it got warmer and it turned out very few people put in faster times. Ended up 20th  but as the field was of such a high level it resulted in 24 points but still a bit pissed off. Myles ended up top 12th, Marlies 7th and Tom Bankes mixing it up with the big guns coming 3rd. We went out for steak and beetroot soup that night which cost a grand total of about 7 Euros! Score.

Myles getting ready for his heat

Day two of racing and no major course changes except for a few extra GS gates added in. The weather was much better too, super warm and no wind. Think the snow temp was sitting at like -0.2C so the snow was only just still snow! Come racing I managed to qualify for the finals by manning up and changing a few lines here and there. It was time for the heats.

First race I pulled out the gate and over the wu-tang all four of us were neck and neck. One of the Austrian guys and myself got pretty tangled up and he ended up going down. Coming into the first corner I was sitting in 3rd place knowing I could settle for 3rd and top 12 finish or keep pushing and get into the top 8. I sat right behind 2nd place waiting to make my move and I knew where I could make it. We came into the last few jumps where I knew I could get the speed to overtake. I made my move and coming into the last corner I knew I was going to pass but I got blocked off on the outside and was unable to make my turn as my board was under the tail of the other riders. Not 100% sure what happened next but I was in the air and flying out of the top of the berm. Myles and Tom saw it all happen from the chairlift and said later “it was a pretty bold move and an epic crash.” I got up as quick as could hoping that I could hop back up around the gates I had missed and get third place however as soon as I looked up the Austrian that had fallen earlier was already passed. I was so pissed off at the time but looking back it was one of the most fun races I had had all season!

2nd day rain….

As there wasn’t a load of girls they went straight into the finals and Marlies made a fantastic comeback to take 3rd place and her first podium at FIS level, massive props! Myles who was sitting in 2nd place for all of his first heat got unlucky and just missed out meant he end up 9th which is still a fantastic result. Mr Banks made a sick comeback in the finals to take his first win of the season with a photo finish. Made for some fantastic watching! Well done.

Winners with their medals

For a full list of results please check out the FIS website.

And that was that for Poland. Once again it hadn’t disappointed and we all had a fantastic time there. The people were epic and the places we visited were beautiful. Poland will always be one of my most favourite places in Europe and I really can’t wait to go back one day.

View back in to Poland from Slovakia.

It was time to start the epic journey back to Morzine. Tomtom told us it was going to take a grand total of 16 hours, which we were all dreading. Luckily for us Marlies had arranged with her parents that we could stay the night at her place near Vienna. We managed to get in some of the sights of Vienna and spent most of our time there crushing the remaining Czech coins we had left on the tram tracks which was probably the highlight. Really beautiful city though, so clean and the architecture is some of the nicest I have seen across Europe. Marlies made for an excellent tour guide and walked us round pointing out most of the city sights and points of interest including I log with lots of nails in it and signs of the resistance during WWII.

Balcony where Hitler made his famous speech on 12th March 1938.

By the time we reached her house we were all starving and walked into her house greeted by her parents and one of the most incredible smelling dinners I have ever smelt! It certainly made up for the bowls of onions we had been eating in Czech the previous week! Roast pork with apple sauce and a massive baked Alaska. So to have some proper home cooking after we have spent most the season eating pasta dishes and student-ish style food in Morzine. I massive thank you to the Neuners’ for being fantasic hosts.

The next day it was back in the battle wagon, where I am writing this now, to make the final push towards Morzine. It has been really nice to get out of resort for almost 2 weeks as it is quite easy to start to feel trapped in Morzine and I am kind of dreading going back in a way. I am looking forward to doing a few shifts and work and riding the pipe again but I’m ready for the next adventure.

Here is roughly the route of the whole trip. Massive thanks to Jimbo for doing all the driving.

7 countries

4 currencies

No getting pulled over

400 euros in fuel

Best trip of the season….

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Feb 26 2012
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Dolni Morava National Champs, FIS and my snowboarding face!

After one of the best and longest days riding in Avoriaz I’d had in a long time it was off to the national champs and a FIS in the Czech Republic. Czech is somewhere I have never been before but always wanted to go to so I was pretty excited for the trip. Not all the team were going on this trip as it wasn’t officially on the calendar so Myles, Marlies, Tom Banks, coach Jimbo and myself loaded up the battle wagon and hit the road for a mammoth 12 hour drive through to Prague. This was an almighty long trip so to the tactical choice of passing out in the back of the wagon with audio book to put me to sleep.

Standard on the road food even for athletes….

We arrived in Prague pretty late at night and were pretty knackered but wanted to go and have a well earned beer as it was Jimbo’s birthday and when beer is less than a euro a pint it would be rude not to! We asked the people in the hostel for a few recommendations and headed out. After a few cold ones and ‘a lesson in Czech culture’ it was time to get an early one and go have a gander round the city for a few hours the next day.

The team off to see the sights of Prague…

Break in Prague, a tough choice…..

Most badass statue ever!! You can’t see inside the gates proper but there is dude in there about to cut off his hands!

I didn’t really know what to expect as I had heard so much about the city but it proved to be a pretty sick place. We only had a couple hours but feel we got to see most of the old town and touristy bits. Will have to go back at a later date though and see a bit more.

Team photo in front of the castle. Their guards were actually pretty shit compared to ours. They were actually moving heaps and shivering!

Jimbo and his tired beard buddy on the Prague subway.

After a couple hours back on the road and witnessing at least 5 people being pulled over by the police, we arrived in Dolni Morava, which is where the races would be held over the weekend. None of us really knew what to expect but what a treat we were in for. Two T-Bars accessed the side of the resort we would be using and conditions resembled Scotland so it was almost like being on home turf!

It was then off to find out accommodation which was in the backend of nowhere and I think we must have been the first people to be staying at since the end of summer. First things first, get the jug on and make a brew. However for the first 5 min of running the tap the water resembled dehydrated piss. The rest of the teams were staying here too though which meant FIS standard meals and if a ping-pong table wasn’t enough we also had our own private drag lift out the back!

Trying to understand shopping in Czech.

First day up the hill was just a training day. Here is the video of the course and ‘my riding’ face. Myles was also practicing his drafting. Enjoy.

Day 1 of racing was the Czech Nationals Champs and course was slushy as however, instead of degrading it actually got better and much faster! We had 2 qualifying runs, fasted one counting towards finals and top 32 qualifying. All of us managed to get through to the finals, which was an epic effort for us all! Myles and myself both got knocked out in the first round of heats but I managed to get 3rd in the heat, which meant I finished 23rd. Best result of the season. Stoked! Tom Bankes ended up getting 4th keeping the points rolling in, Marlies Neuner got 13th and Myles 31st.

Had every type of weather possible! but eventually the sun came out….

Marlies sending it off the kicker!

Day 2 of racing was just a normal FIS race and the course was almost the same except for one small gate change which meant you would have more speed into the hip and finish jump. The sun had also come out! I didn’t do as good as first day and nowhere near as good as I wanted however still made it to the finals and came third in my heat again. Myles Mcneany put in an epic qualifying run to get him 5th fastest time and gate priority for the first few rounds. Marlies put in another solid run also and Banks improved on the previous days qualifying result getting 2nd fastest time. End results for day 2. Tom Banks 3rd, Myles 7th, Marlies 5th and myself 24th. For full list of results see the FIS site.

Tom bringing it home!

Once again we travelled to a tiny resort that we would never normally go to and once again I was so impressed with the amount of effort that the mountain put into running the event and the mountain itself. Whilst the qualifying runs were going on they had people constantly digging and shaping berms so they kept their shape and it made a massive difference. The whole mountain was also littered with mountain biking stuff, loads of north shore trails and massive dirt jumps. I would love to come back and see this place in the summer as I can imagine it would be buzzing! All the locals were so proud of their hill and wanted to know what we thought about it. The few resorts we have back in the UK could learn a thing or two from this tiny resort.

Off tomorrow to Krakow for some more cultural enlightenment and then the Polish Nationals and another FIS.

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Feb 06 2012
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Hohenems FIS race and the team gets its first silverware of the season!

Next race of the season was in some backend of nowhere place in Austria called Hohenems. None of us had ever really heard of the place so didn’t really know what to expect. We had heard a quick course description and knew that the start section had two wu-tangs so we spent the few days before the competition on the Les Gets track just hiking the start section there, which has one.  We had had a good few days of snow before this in Morzine so it was hard to drag ourseleves away from the steep and deep and spend a morning hiking a 40 meter section of a track.

We headed off early on Friday morning in the Battle Wagon and Simon’s scooby all the way through Switzerland and it probably took us about 6 hours. We’d heard in the news how cold it had been further east and how many people had died in the cold snap so the last thing we wanted to do was head east! There was snow the whole way pretty much and we just watched the thermometer in the van drop lower and lower. When we arrived in the town we were staying at near the mountain it was at -12C. Forecast for up the hill the next day was -23C!

We were staying at a place called Harry’s Home in Dornbirn which was actually really cool. Made for a nice change to stay in a proper hotel for once even if the rooms made you feel like you were on boat. But was definitely nice to come back and have your bed made for you everyday! Also experienced my first Kebab and I think it might actually of been quite healthy….

Went out for a wonder around town and so those of us that didn’t have at least two pairs of thermals to layer up could stock up on them. This is the first time most of us had been to a proper town like town in few months and the first thing most of us noticed were the lasses! They are few and far between on Morzine/Manzine and a certain someone (you know who your are) was like a kid in a sweet shop! The other thing that we couldn’t help but notice was all the random information signs. Check out this one, and yes it is a real word up top! Will let you guys annotate what you think each picture means…..

Got up and left for the hill at 8am the next day. We had heard rumours about how gnarly the road up the hill was as the Argentineans hadn’t managed to get their van up the hill the day before. As we approached the road we saw signs saying 20% incline but we knew this would be no problem for the battlewagon! To be honest the road was nothing compared to the mountain roads in New Zealand but was pretty sketchy in places.

When we arrived at the hill it was literally just a small building at the bottom of the slope with a T-Bar linked up to another separate T-Bar further up. Their website apparently boasts 10 pistes although I think they must have been counting every tiny connecting cat tracks as a pistes. The freeride potential though looked sick! So many trees and cliffs dotted about and it didn’t look like anyone had really been riding any of it! What few off piste lines that had been taken usually had 5 other lines right next to them so that people got the most out of the potential fresh tracks.

When we got up to the track it looked tiny compared to other tracks we have been racing on so far this season. Easier you might be thinking but not always the case. The first two wu-tangs, which we had read about, were tiny. We would find out this meant you had to speed check before them otherwise you would be landing to flat and then have no speed at all so it was hard to do the track fast.

Here is a quick track run through…

  • Out the gate
  • Wu-tang
  • Wu-tang
  • Set of 3 rollers, all pumps and no doubles
  • Straight glide into right hander
  • Two rollers, first one was quite vicious
  • Left hander
  • Right hander which you could cut straight into next section
  • Set of three rollers
  • Left hander
  • Glide into 2 big rollers, which were two big to double, and the second one would send a good few people flying over the weekend.
  • Glide into step down which would also cause a few incidents over the weekend.
  • Finish

Once we started practice there were safety concerns that the second wu-tang was far to whippy and catching the transition on the otherside was very tricky.  This resulted in the organisers stopping practice and getting the cat up to adjust the feature.

You might of thought we’d all be pretty annoyed about practice stopping but it meant we could go shred some pow, carve a bit and take a few photos.

 

Cheers Myles for the photo!

Once the training got back underway time for a couple extra practice runs. Jimbo was really starting to feel the cold by this time as he’d been sitting in the shade for a good 2 hours.

Managed to get a kind of clean run when it came to qualifying on first day but my head wasn’t really in it and was a bit hesitant into some of the features. Ended up finishing 46th that day but was happy I managed to stay on my board. I good few people got caught out all over the place so I managed to take some good out of that day despite not qualifying.

After the race we went and did a short 15 min hike to get few more pow shots.

Cheers Kyle for the photo!

We went home that night, waxed up and went to bed pretty early. Trying to stay warm in -23C take a butt tone more energy than you might think.

Day two the weather had warmed up a bit, which we were all stoked about! It was now only -22C so felt tropical.  Racing got underway pretty quick and managed to get in two practice runs I felt happy with. When it came to my qualifying run though I came over the first wu-tang a little twisted which made me land at about 60% loosing my valuable speed through the section I where I needed to carry as much as possible.  The middle section I was pretty solid however I came of the big rollers at the end heading straight for one of the gates so had to turn and loose speed to avoid it. End result was 1 place higher than the day before but annoyed I had so many errors in my run. This meant though that I could take photos of the heats so here is a couple for you.

Some guys managed to stay on the ground the whole time over this. This guy almost landed past the next gate which is out of frame!

Thomas and Kyle had managed to qualify for the finals and eventually Thomas ended up 2nd overall, which was a fantastic result for him. At prize giving the mayor of the town even came out to hand out the medals. For a full list of results then check out the FIS site.


Video by Coach Jimbo Foster

The whole weekend was fantastic though. One of the best things about being on the team and doing these races is getting to go to places you wouldn’t ever go to before. The resort itself made such an effort for the race. The wee race hut at the bottom of the hill had photos in it of the club when it was founded in 1927. Its still a tiny mountain but you can have so much fun there. You can tell that the few people that ride it and run it have so much love for it and put every effort into keeping it going.  If you are ever in the area the do give it a go.

On the way back it had been so cold by lake Geneva that the spray had been freezing to all the railing by and piers etc near by. Even some of the trees had been totally glazed lower down in ice!

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Jan 17 2012
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Sedrun FIS race and Les Gets training

Been another hectic week out here in Morzine. We literally arrived back from Puy St Vincent, spent a night up in Avoriaz with the Napier crew, one day training on the Les Gets track and straight off to Sedrun in Switzerland. The training in Les Gets was really good fun. Tom Farrow made this little edit of it. Most of it involves us cutting corners and getting disqualified but was good to get some 4×4 practice. The track has been improved heaps with wu-tangs, kickers, step downs, tables and rollers since we got back so I shall try make an edit in next week or so.

Bloody early start to load up the battle wagon and a 6 hour drive all the way through Switzerland to Sedrun. Stopped of at Ikea on route for meatballs and a kinder eggs but the highlight of the trip was passing a place called ‘Chur’ which all my kiwi mates will appreciate!

Chur, the dream home for many a kiwi friend of mine!

As for the race we weren’t quite sure what to expect. We were hoping for a smaller field than at Puy but another race which was meant to be on the same weekend in Isola ended up being canceled so heaps of riders came over for this one instead. We arrived a day early though so we got to head up and have a look at the track which psychologically is massive advantage. Spent a good few hours practicing rollers and starts too.

Sedrun

On Race day we had to be on the lift at 6.45 am to get up to the track which meant it was still pitch black and made the ride down to the next chairlift interesting. Was pretty cool being at the top of an Alp way before anyone else had even considered getting out of bed!

Early morning course inspection. just out of frame on the right was a 15ft wu-tang which gave you more than enough speed to end yourself in the rollers!

The clouds started to rise so during course inspection it kinda made things massively tricky to try and pick lines. Some of the features look pretty sketchy and would end up claiming a good few victims.

The course was as follows

  • Out the gate dropping into a small ‘swimming pool’ like feature which kicked you out into a steep step down kinda feature.
  • 5ft wu-tang with a 15ft drop on the other side.
  • step down rollers
  • 5 rollers. Either double first two and second two and pump the last, double first two and pump the rest or the safe bet was to just jump them all.
  • right hand berm
  • left berm into gap jump
  • rutted out right hand berm
  • big roller
  • left berm
  • step down
  • table top
  • gnarly right hander which got nicknamed ‘Jimbo’s corner’ after he scoped us a dream line!
  • fast sweeping left hand
  • 2 rollers
  • small kicker
  • Finish!

It was a pretty fast track the whole way down and Jimbo’s corner required a huge speed check if you wanted to carry any speed through to the finish straight. As practice started the first girl dropped out the gate and 40 secs later the course had to be closed for 10mins  after she crooked herself in the last section. Then the course opened again but not for long as the 3rd lass out ended up having to get choppered off the track after going down in the last section again. This resulted in the officials wisely changed the course and making it safer.

Last section, the rollers which claimed many just out of frame

Once practice got fully underway the clouds lifted and the track started to get good. After a safety run though people started to try and figure the fast line through the rollers in the first section. For about an hour is was stop and start as rider after rider crocked themselves which required another chopper and a good few blood wagons to be called. Marlies Neuner, our team mate, ended up having a pretty nasty crash in them resulting in a trip to the medical center and a broken wrist, should be a fast mend though which is good news. Due to all the set backs the organisers decided to cancel the next days race and just run 1 race over 2 days which was a good shout, slightly frustrating but right decision.

So after qualifying runs it turned out 4 of us had made it to the finals the next day with Kyle ‘G-Unit’ Wise putting in a stormer of a run! Huge boost to moral for all of us to make it through. However, this did also mean another 5 am start the next day…….

Finals Day....

So come finals the organisers had made some more changes to the course to try and cut down on people ending themselves etc. So they mellowed out the 3rd roller in the 1st section which we all thought meant we would be doubling, pump, double but after a couple practice runs doubling and pumping the rest was still the fastest option. Come the heats Kyle ‘G-Unit’ Wise put in an epic start and two of the others went down which we all thought would guarantee Kyle going through. However in the second last corner his binding strap broke and he went flying into the safety netting. Really unlucky result as this kinda stuff never ever normally happens but just reinforces the fact you should always check your kit before every run. Would turn out all four of us would get knocked out in the first round but still a good result for us. Definitely a step in the right direction and stoked for the next race. Goal now is to qualify for every race we enter. Not as easy as sounds….. trust me. For full race results check out this link.

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Jan 09 2012
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First race of the season, Puy St Vincent

Just arrived back in Morzine after the first race of the season in Puy St Vincent. I had never even heard of the place before so was pretty excited to get out of Morzine and go on a bit of a trip and see some more of France. We packed up the Battle Wagon and headed off the day before the race as its meant to be a 3.5 hour drive away but ended up being more like 6 hours due to a crazy amount of snow!

Kyle and Myles planning out le route!

this added a good few hours to the drive....

and so did this.......

Some of the guys needed to pop into Ski Clinic in Cluses to get some HF race waxes so that ended up being an expensive visit for them. The stuff is like 90 euros a block!!

Kyle 'G-UNIT' Wise off to buy some HF's!

Diet of champions! Can even order a beer with your Big Mac meal!

For most of us this was going to be out first proper FIS level race so we didn’t really know what to expect. There were 3 races over the weekend, 1 FIS and 2 Europa Cups so plenty of experience to be gained. We knew the level was going to be much higher and as it is the first race of the year there is always a heap of people there but I think it was a bit of a shock for most of us. There was 135 riders in the male category with 58 of them being of World Cup level which is a very daunting prospect especially as one of them was world number one, Pierre Voltaire!

this is what we arrived to in Puy St Vincent, a cubic butt ton of snow!

So we headed up the for inspection on first day and the course was looking sick! Really nice flow to it and pretty mellow and fairly easy to remember. Was running times of about 1.09secs on first day, 1.02 if your one of the top dogs. Got faster over the two days though.  Corse was as follows…

  • Out the gate popping straight away into a step down
  • 2 mellow rollers
  • left hand berm
  • right hand berm straight into…
  • 3 rollers. This was catching people out all weekend as the rollers came straight after berm. You had 2 options. Either pump all 3 or pump the first and double the last 2 which was the safe option. Some major crashes here this weekend.
  • step down
  • step down
  • Massive left hand berm
  • kicker
  • right berm
  • kicker
  • tight left berm
  • tight right berm
  • hip jump to left
  • massive dropping left berm
  • big roller
  • right berm
  • kicker
  • left turn into 2 rollers
  • Finish line!

The track from the chair

Track from the top and prep area at the top

Puy St Vincent

We only got one practice run to sort out your lines etc and then it was straight into timed qualifying runs so really had to make sure you had every line dialed, which I did not as was reflected in my time. I knew where I went wrong though and this was shown in the video analysis we did later that night. By the third day and after a grand total of 4 runs down the course I started to get my lines sorted and was feeling a little more confident. Everything was going sweet but my started to loose my line in some of the tighter sections so lost a good amount of time there. Goal for the weekend was to get top 100 which eventually I managed and pretty good set up for the rest of the season. For full list of all the results check out this link on the FIS site. Massive props to rest of the GB team for their results especially Tom Bankes for coming 16th, epic result!

Here is a few photos of the action in the rollers section which heaps of riders got caught out.

Lass going down hard!

Crashing into the B netting

Bankes going down hard! Unlucky this time mate but epic result.

After all the racing we were planning on staying and training on the course for few days however they decided to knock it all down as it was too dangerous which is a shame. So had a few drinks with the Dutch team and some random Slovakians which was very random but epic times! Got heaps out of the weekend though and good to get to use accelerators etc. Know exactly where I went wrong and what I need to work on so bring on the next race. This weekend its off to Sedrun for 2 FIS races and some better results! Might try put a few video clips to this post later on but can’t convert the crazy format that coach does video stuff on.

Tom and Jimbo

Kyle looking pissed off due to one of thee most minging hot chocolates ever!

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