April
April
As April kicked off it could only mean one thing – The Brits! Despite sweltering temperatures there was still more than enough snow left in Tignes for slopestyle, halfpipe, boardercross and two rail jams to take place. Jamie Trinder reigned supreme in the mens’, taking home well over a grand with three podiums and two golds under his belt.
As soon as the British Championships wrapped up, we rushed off to the Cairngorms for the Scottish leg of everyone’s favourite contest – The Vans Hi-Standard. With no one allowed to spin more than 720, style came very much into play with Jamie Trinder once again coming out on top and Scott Penman getting the coveted award for best slam.
The April news stayed in the Cairgorms as they made use of their brand new halfpipe to hold the first ever ‘Bag the Pipe’ event, that is until the FWT announced a controversial contest calender for 2015, all but eliminating the mainland USA and Canada from the tour and not allowing women to enter the Alaskan event.
However the States will still get one of the funnest looking events in the snowboarding calender – The Holy Bowly – which had everyone and their gran calling it ‘the best contest ever’ as it came to Park City Utah at the end of the month. Rumour has it there’ll be a sister event somewhere in France this year, ears to the ground now…