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 British Snowboard Tour
 British Indoor Big Air Championships
Young talent ruled at Quiksilver Big Air Championships The British Snow Tour hit Milton Keynes over the weekend, Saturday 27th September, to host the Quiksilver British Big Air Championships. The huge 10m kicker set the stage as over 120 of the UK’s top Snowboarders and Freeskiers threw down an impressive bag of tricks including stylish 7’s, frontfilps and textbook 9’s. The Schools Tour Team also proved to be a big hit with over 100 enthusiastic kids taking part in the FREE beginner lessons, courtesy of the Quiksilver Lesson Academies.Quiksilver Snowboard Big Air Championships The 2-STAR TTR Quiksilver Snowboard Big Air Championships kicked off the day’s competition with over 70 riders taking to the slope each receiving two qualifying jumps to impress the judges and make it through to the top eight men and five women finals. Youngsters, Tom Hunt, Ollie Jackson and Mel Kern were pushing up through the ranks, securing places into the final, keeping the older competitors on their toes. In the women’s final, Mel Kern continued to be on top form and landed a smooth 360 over the medium kicker to take home third place overall. Second place went to Lynsey Ashdown who stomped a stylish Indy over the big 10m kicker and Samantha Rogers, much to the delight of the crowd and judges, pulled out a huge and gutsy frontflip over the big kicker to take the 2008 Women’s Quiksilver Big Air Title. During the men’s final, riders were opting for a slingshot drop in for optimum speed and amplitude resulting in some of the biggest indoor airs ever witnessed. 2007 British Slopestyle Champion, Ryan Davis, threw down some of the most stylish tricks of the day, tweaking out a frontside 720 which oozed style, to take third place. Ben Knox finished in second place after he stomped a massive backside 720, almost reaching the rafters, and with a perfectly landed textbook 900, Jamie Nicholls walked away with first place and the 2008 Quiksilver Big Air Title, continuing to secure his spot as one of the UK’s top riders. Quiksilver Snowboard Big Air Results Women 1st – Samantha Rogers - Reading 2nd – Lynsey Ashdown – Manchester 3rd – Melinda Kern – East Grinstead Men 1st – Jamie Nicholls – Bradford 2nd – Ben Knox – Crouch End 3rd – Ryan Davis - High Wycombe  Quiksilver Freeski Big Air Championships The afternoon made way for over 50 of the UK’s finest freeskiers who charged the kickers with style and amplitude in the hope of making it through to the finals. The younger competitors including the three Josh’s, Josh Birch, Josh Ingram and Josh Fawcett, all made it through to the top eight men’s final after laying down some impressive switch 540’s and 720’s. In the Women’s final, 11 year old Molly Summerhayes and local ripper, Amber Connors made it through to the final and just missed out on a podium finish. Kelly O’Donnell landed a clean 540 to take third place whilst Teri Spencer’s lofty 360 over the big kicker secured her second place. First place and the 2008 Quiksilver Big Air Title went to Katie Summerhayes, who was killing it all day and landed a huge 720 over the 10m kicker. In the men’s competition, with three James’s and three Josh’s making it through to the finals the judges job was made even tougher with only points separating the top five skiers. Local MK big hitter, Ted Foster finished in third place after he threw down a technical switch corked 720 double truenose. James Webb landed a switch 900 to take second place, whilst first place and the 2008 Quiksilver Big Air Title went to a well deserved James Woods, who’d been skiing hard and going big all day, landing a massive switch 720. Quiksilver Freeski Big Air Results Women 1st – Katie Summerhayes - Sheffield 2nd – Teri Spencer - Weymouth 3rd – Kelly O’Donnell - Stoke-on-Trent Men 1st – James Woods - Sheffield 2nd – James Webb - Bracknell 3rd – Ted Foster – Milton Keynes To check out the pictures and video footage from the Quiksilver Big Air Championships, where you’ll also be able to get timings for the next event on the British Snow Tour calendar, the Trespass British Snowboard / Skiercross Championships and Slopestyle Jam, Saturday 4th October at Braehead, SNO!zone go to: www.britishsnowtour.com The British Snow Tour and Schools Tour programme would not be possible without its highly supportive sponsors:Animal, Quiksilver, Trespass, SNO!zone, Cushe, Suso, TSA and Ellis Brigham. Demo partners: Ride, K2, Line, Clif, and DC. Media partners Whitelines, Extreme Sports Channel, Metrosnow.co.uk,Snowboardclub.co.uk and Skiclub.co.uk The British Snowboard Tour event page can be administered by dunx (Dunx), stu (Stu Brass), spencer (Spencer Claridge) and office (Office). Page views: 2951 |
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