Snowflex® helps Zoe Gillings with summer training regime.

Briton Engineering Developments is proud to help UK World Cup star Zoe Gillings, currently ranked 7th in the world at Boardercross.

Briton have donated their award winning Snowflex® snowsports surface to be used on mock up “start gates” which Zoe will use during the summer months as part of her training regime.

Zoe added “For anyone who doesn’t know about my event, I am involved in boardercross (or snowboardcross as it’s also known), which involves 4 riders racing down a course at the same time. All 4 riders follow the course down a hill over jumps, rollers and around banked turns, all the way to the bottom. The first one to the bottom wins. Simple. Or is it?

For obvious reasons a very important part of this race is “the start”. Riders have a drop gate in front of them and they are given a warning in which the gate can drop any time in the next 5 seconds. The trick is to get out of the gate in front of the competition with enough power to get you the advantage at the first corner. That’s not as easy as it sounds though and is something I need to constantly practice on. So what I am doing this summer is having two start gates built, one to be put up in Bath where I am based for the summer at the English Institute of Sport and another for our training base of Champery, Switzerland. Having researched the market I am pleased to say that both of them will have Snowflex® as the surface of choice so I can train on them with my board wherever I am and hopefully improve my technique so that by the time next season comes around I will be out in front with Briton’s help.”

Terry Di Stasi, Briton’s Director of Business Development, added that Briton were pleased that Zoe recognised the benefits of Snowflex® for her training and were delighted to be of assistance to her World Cup effort.

Briton and Snowflex® are looking forward to some great results from Zoe in the forthcoming seasons.

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