Seeing a grom grow into a really great adult sums it up for me with Tom. Our paths first crossed at a dryslope in SE London way back in the 90's when Tom was a mere 11 years old, but already quite a character. We, of course, treated him like a grom, gave him plenty of shit, but also encouraged him, always chatting to his family and I think from there, his parents could see a good community of people their son could be part of.

Fast forward many years and Tom is now the owner of Transform gloves, a great brand doing cool things in its own way, in its own time. Its got style and a sensability that isn't chasing fashion or hype, just going about business making great products for snowboarders, by snowboarders. He still has a SE London sensability but is more worldly than that, I'd like to think he would say the same thing about me, not interested in entertaining the bullshit, but getting on by doing...

If you'd like to check out Transform Gloves, you can find them here: https://transformgloves.com/en-gb There is a cool 10% off your first order or, of course, you can order them from The Snowboard Asylum who are also doing a discount off your first order: https://www.snowboard-asylum.com/

The movie Odd Man Out is on the Shred Flicks playlist on our Youtube channel, you can check that here: https://www.youtube.com/@ThankUSnowboarding

Hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did...x

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