Its quite funny how UK snowboarders have spread themselves around the globe, I mean, its not funny per se, but UK snowboarding, for a small country, has a bigger influence over the world of snowboarding than you might think. I was chatting with Matt Barr this moring and both he, and Ed Leigh are on Travis Rices Natural Selection selection committe, which is quite mad, then you have Tom Willmott who is the coach of the New Zealand Ski and Snowboard teams.

From a humble beginning up on Telford Dryslope, which. by the way, produced its fair share of talented shredders, to travelling the world coaching some of the worlds best athletes, Toms journey is really one of a true love f snowboarding and the many facets of it. He takes time off from coaching to guide up in Alaska, indeed, as we talk about, would bail on a night of drinking to go hike a summit to rude down at sunrise. At the time, I couldn't get with that, but now I understand, Tom has been chasing as many experiences on a board as possible, and he has crafted a life doing so.

Its been nearly 20 years (and btw, how the fuck does time move so quickly?) since I last got to hang out with Tom, but we managed a few laps and laughs together in Laax, nicely followed by a couple of beers outside the Indy Bar, which, really sums up snowboarding for me, good mates, some fun runs, a few beers... Good times.

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