James Woods Road to Sochi with Freestyle Team GB
Meet one of Britian's best Freestyle medal chances at the Sochi Olympics; James Woods.
Read reviews of the best Verbier events
Meet one of Britian's best Freestyle medal chances at the Sochi Olympics; James Woods.
Magical March is here. Enjoy long, warm days in the sunshine.
How the team trains for the Olympics and how they came to be a team in the first place.
Murray Buchan a skier who grew up on the finger-snapping plastic of Edinburgh's Hillend made a choice to ski rather than play rugby and hopefully that choice will take hi to an Olympic medal.
February was dominated by the Alpine Skiing World Championships, held every second year, which kicked off in St Moritz on 6th February. Over 13 days, 589 athletes from 76 countries competed in eleven competitions in front of 165,000 spectators.
Verbier/Val de Bagnes saw the arrival of the 8th Alpine Skiing World Championship on the 6th-12th February. The Championships saw the largest amount of athletes ever to compete in the competition, with 251 athletes from 23 nations including, China, USA, Japan, Norway, Italy, France, Bulgaria and of Course Switzerland.
The Boss des Bosses is one of the most lively events in Verbier and this year saw the 23rd edition of the event take place.
The Verbier Xtreme started way back in 1996 as a stand alone event and now it has become a career defining world wide tour of 6 stops and 50 qualifiers.
Verbier is synonymous around the world for its unbelievable freeride skiing, as well as the huge 4 Vallees ski area. However, it also has a well-earned reputation for being a mecca for party-goers and the hub of some unbelievable apres venues.
Only a week after the eponymous Freeride World Tour Final, on 7th April, the Verbier High Five by Carlsberg will come to town, a fantastic event aimed at getting more people involved with the competitive side of alpine skiing.
Professional Skiers & Snowboarders put their bodies through alot. This episode looks at the injuries Freestyle Team GB have suffered and the road to recovery and the Olympics.
Dom Harington is a Halfpipe Snowboarder from Leeds who has missed the last two Olympics due to injuries after winning the Europa Cup Halfpipe. Sochi is probably his last chance to be part of the Olympics and he's giving it everything he has.
The Freeride World Tour (FWT) is the biggest freeriding event on the planet and when it comes to the 'Xtreme Verbier' it's almost as if it gets bigger and This year 'Xtreme Verbier' celebrated its 20th year in resort and that made the start for a big party weekend!
As the best freeriders in the world gather in Revelstoke this weekend for the first stop on the all-new Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face, we were fortunate to be able to have a sit down with a free skiing legend, holder of the world record for the highest cliff jump and super nice guy - Fred Syversen.
Episode four of One Team to Sochi is out and it's all about the young lad from Bradford; Jamie Nicholls.
The IXS European Cup took place this weekend in Verbier and despite heavy rain on the Staurday was welcomed by the 310 riders who competed.
Katie Summerhayes from Sheffield is back on snow for the first time since her ACL injury. She talks about the freeski scene to come out of Sheffield Ski Village and how Woodsy helped to push her when she started out on the European circuit.
Ever wondered what it's really like to compete on the Swatch Freeride World Tour? In this great video diary - 'Free riding the perfect line' - American freeskier Oakley White talks us through what it is like to take part in such a huge international event.