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Posted on 12/12/2011
GB TEAM UPDATE
So thought is was time for a big blog to explain what I have been up to recently. If you have been reading the past blogs I have been writing you will know I am currently in the US Colorado coaching the GB Freeski team. I took this job on in September and will be working with our British Freeski athletes in Slopestyle and Halfpipe leading up the Olympics in 2014 and beyond and travelling with them to events as well as coaching them full time. I will however be still working for Salomon UK as the Freeski team and community manager which I have done for many years now and totally love.


So this week we have been training and competing at the World cup Halfpipe event which was the first big event of the season and now ere training for the DEW tour which kicks off this week and we have 3 athletes representing us in this. In the Halfpipe qualifiers we have James Machon who is the current British Halfpipe champion and Pete Speight who placed 3rd at the Brits last year. In Slopestyle we have our very own James Woodsy Woods who is now regarded as one of the Worlds best which he has proved on many occasions recently and he has even been given a wold card to compete in the whole Dew tour so this means him not even having to compete in qualifiers this year which takes the pressure off. We have been training in Keystone this week on the BIG jump line where pretty much every big name pro skiers and snowbaoder were also training and getting them selves prepared for the up and coming DEW tour and the X Games which will kick off at the end of January. Katie Summerhayes has also been training with me none stop and she has in extra hard as she is training for the Youth Olympics which will also be in January in Innsbruck Austria and she's still also training for Slopestyle events and she was not holding back on the BIG pro line of kickers the other day! Other athletes out here with us are Murray Buchan who placed in the top 30 in the Word cup pipe event last week, Joe Tomlinson, Peter Speight and Rob Taylor. They have all been training and working so hard its incredible and I could not be more lucky to have such a great group of athletes here with me. Im cooing back to the UK with Katie at the end of the week for Xmas and getting ready for the Youth Olympics which is going to be crazy!



Thanks for reading.



Pat

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