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September 2012

The British indoor Champs and The Wham Bam Thank you Jam

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Last weekend I headed up to Castleford to compete in the British Indoor Champs and the Wham bam thank you jam!

The first half of the Competition was 2 individual judged runs, both of my runs went well and almost how I planned!

The second half was a completely different format than usual. Everybody got put on the slope for the competition. It consisted of a 1 hour long jam. The Entire field got cut in half and the people who didn’t make the cut got sent off! We then had a 20 minute jam session on the first set of features. At the end of this the field got cut in half again. This continued the whole way down the setup until there were only 4 riders sessioning the bottom features. I was lucky enough to be one of them along with Andy Collins, Chris Wadsworth and Monty Wright.

MJ Gold at the Brits youth men Jam

When Prize giving came around to my surprise I was presented with 1st Youth men. Unfortunately I didn’t make the overall podium for the Wham Bam Thank You Jam but I am more than happy with coming 4th overall out of 42 riders!

Summer Heat Rail Battle

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The Unity Summer heat rail battle went off last weekend. This year it was held at Milton Keynes rather than Castleford. Now they have introduced a new format which keeps the competition flowing and running smoothly, riders from each category get sent out onto the slope in separate heats. The top riders in each category then go into the overall final where people get knocked out every couple of minutes until the best riders are left.

In my heat everyone skied really well! Tricks were going down from the very first run. Everyone was taking some decent slams going for some of the bigger tricks!

This year I was lucky enough to get into the final and not get knocked out!

1st place in the Amateurs Summer Heat Rail Battle

When prize giving came around I found out I had come 1st in the Amateurs category and won myself a bag of swag full to the brim with sick prizes.

Thank you to Unity, Milton Keynes, and all of the sponsors of the competition for a well run and fun event!  You can check out the full report from Unity here.

 

I also came 3rd the weekend before in big air at the farmers jam in big air so it’s been another great couple of weeks!