Age/DOB: 28, although my head still thinks I'm 11, but my body feels like its 60!
Home town: Southampton, Close to Mount Calshot.
Years in sport: 5yrs, started in true british fashion, on the dryslope.
Season Base: Mount Snow, Vermont, USA - Sick
Sponsors: Mum and Dad, SevenX of course, and the student loan company
Major influence in the sport: In terms of riders, J P Walker, Lauri Heskari, Eddie Wall, David Benedek Travis Parker, Sam Cullum, Scott McMorris, Tyler
Chorlton and the Hungerpain Crew. Also, it might sound a bit crap but my friends. Good friends who taught me to ride, got me involved in the sport
more, keep me shredding every week and inspire me to ride. Friends I've made since working in the snow business, my parents, brothers and sister and all
my Cally Crew.
Favourite Resort: Hmm, tricky one. I like Les Arc cause I've got fond memories of my first ever trip riding, but overall it would have to be the L'Espace Killy region of Val d'Isere and Tignes. Huge area to ride, masses of powder fields and a couple of good parks. Shredtastic.
I started snowboarding when I joined uni, I used to ride alot of BMX and Mountain Bikes when growing up, there weren't any clubs for bike riders at uni, so I joined the Snowboard Society, the now defunt FatNads that has become YellowsnowSnowboarding. And it's kinda spiralled from there, friends I made at the club are now working with me in the industry or have gone off and shredded the world.
I've been involved with the AIM series now for two years as a snowboard judge and was lucky enough to be asked to judge the Brits in Laax, Switzerland this year which was sick. I got to work along side some awesome guys, one of which had just finished judging the Halfpipe Olympic Finals!
I've also been running independant comps for a couple of years now and as soon as I get back from the winter season I'll be continuing with a new uk comp series as well as competiting and judging the AIM Series.
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