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FREESTYLE (PARK & PIPE) SKIING

Park and Pipe is now one of the directions that Will particularly wants to take further in his skiing.

Will first tried Freestyle skiing when a Salomon Grom Camp came to Norfolk Snowsports Club. Run as an extension of the Saturday Junior Club, Will discovered he loved this too. He goes up to Norfolk Snowsports club on Sunday nights whenever possible for additional training and practise over the kickers and rails.

He has attended Grom Camps and competitions throughout the country as well as competing and training abroad. He has trained with the British FreeSki Camps, with Pat Sharples and his team, every summer, since he was 9 yrs old, as well as taking part in the “Brits” each year since 2011. In 2013 he also took part in the Cervinia Ride, achieving a Gold medal on the rails.

Since 2013, when he was selected to the England Freestyle Development team, now in the 2014-15 season called the Park and Pipe Academy, he has trained with Neil MacGrain in the UK, in Bearsden, Glasgow, and in Europe at the team base in Mayrhofen and Hintertux.  He has also trained in Tignes in 2014 with the 'Bex and Webbo ' England talent camp. He will attend as many UK and European training camps as he can. He will be travelling to the USA, over Christmas 2014-15, to train with the Mammoth Mountain Freestyle for 6 weeks - a fantastic opportunity. He hopes to really develop his freestyle skills.

His gymnastics tumbling training (three 2 hour sessions every week) at King’s Lynn Gymnastics Club complements this sport brilliantly and has really helped with his aerial skills as well as core strength and conditioning.

Will has been re-selected for the freestyle team- 'Park and Pipe Academy' for the 2014-15 season.

Will competes on plastic, indoors and on the mountains. He loves all aspects including Slopestyle, Big Air and Half Pipe.

RESULTS

2014

“The Brits, Tignes”

Slopestyle 2nd in Junior category

qualifying to overall final in second place

2013

"The Brits, Tignes"

Half Pipe 3rd in category (6th Overall)

"Farmers Jam"

Big Air 3rd in under 16's

Cervina Ride

Rails Champion (Junior category)

2012

"The Brits, Laax"

Slopestyle 3rd in category

Saas Fee Ride

Slopestyle 3rd in category

"Farmers Jam"

Big Air 3rd in under 14's

"Farmers Jam"

Slopestyle 1st in under 14's