Les 2 Alpes
Victory at Kumi Yama! Les 2 Alpes 2012!
This summer I am doing a season in Les 2 Alpes! I was lucky enough to get here in time for the 5th annual Kumi Yama Competition!
The theme for this year was ‘Super Mario Brothers’ and the course was covered in Mario props like coins, giant flowers and mushrooms!The set up was amazing and really inventive with a really impressive layout as usual from the awesome park shapers from L2A!
Me and my team mate Alex Hall competed in the amateurs’ competition on the Friday but unfortunately my ski came off in mid-air during a cork 9, even though I landed it it didn’t count as I couldn’t finish my run!
On Sunday, Alex and I also competed in the Kumi-Kids event as team “Banana” and were totally stoked to make it into the final. We laid down a couple of great runs on the rails and were amazed to be announced as the overall winners! We both skied away with the title and a brand new pair of APO powder skis!
The Kumi Yama week was a totally awesome event – it was brilliantly organised and we made a whole bunch of new ski/snowboard buddies from all over the world including people from America (Dean – the Master of Kumi Yami), Estonia (Kelly and Henry Sildaru), Switzerland (Alex Hall), Japan and a few other countries too!
Thanks to the fantastic competition that L2A have put on I have also met my number 1 idol Sammy Carlson and I’m also skiing with him up on the glacier every day this week!
My life is officially complete!
We Still Ride for Japan!!!
My New Year Edit
Spent some time over the New Year in L2A – the weather wasn’t great, way too much snow and bad visibility days but I still had a great time skiing with David Bilsland and managed to pull a bit of footage together for a short edit.
I hope you enjoy it!
Summer in L2A Ski Edit
Had a great time skiing in L2A over the summer – had a few camera issues and also lack of a camera crew to follow me but here’s a short edit from the few video sessions I had.
I hope you like it!!
Easter L2A Edit
I spent some time in the awesome snowpark in L2A over Easter – here’s the result:
Leave me a comment if you like it!!
Les Deux Alpes
I was in Les 2 Alpes for the new year. It was fantastic to be back on real snow – the park set up was awesome as usual and the pipe was absolutely amazing. It took me a few runs to get used to the proper stuff again but I was soon hitting the big kickers and the rails, laying down some sick tricks.
I met up with Jack Peppiette and the Smithy’s Tavern crew and we sessioned the kickers together. Jack pushed me to do my first 7 over the biggest kicker in the park – I stomped it, thanks Jack!!
My new K2 Silencers were riding amazingly, they are well good on snow.
The first day was a bit of a white out but my new Adidas ID2 goggles really helped me to see where I was going unlike my granddad who had to be rescued by Skidoo when he got motion sickness and started throwing up everywhere!
I had an awesome week and we got some great footage in the park – so watch this space for an edit coming soon!