Our Riders - Becky Menday
DEVELOPMENT RIDER
Age: 9
Discipline: Snowboarding
Freestyle: Yes
Sponsors: SNO!zone
Member of any teams: No
Where do you train?
Milton Keynes SNO!zone, on Academy night and Sunday Morning breakfast club.
Milton Keynes SNO!zone, on Academy night and Sunday Morning breakfast club.
Please list your latest achievements:
Rip Curl Girls Tour, great experience
Pink Sessions, winning two lots of prizes
Being able to hit the big rainbow rail with gap.
Riding the severest black run down from the cable car in Les Arc 2000 this year.
Hitting the big red kicker in the Apocalypse Park at Les Arc.
What are your main ambitions in your discipline?
I would like to be good enough to be in the winter Olympics, and to place in the Brits. I want to get better at my front side and backside spins
Over the coming year, I would like to enter more competitions and place better.
Who are your main influences in your sport?
My biggest influences have been my two coaches at SNO!zone Dan Wilkins and Jules Chappel. I am also influenced by Shaun White and Laura Berry, and Alexis Honisberg.
Favourite place to ski / board?
Les Arc in the French Alps (only Mountain I have been to yet) and SNO!zone Milton Keynes on a park night.
Favourite trick?
Straight air method is my favourite trick, as I can try it over most size kickers with confidence.
What is your set up?
I ride Regular stance and my angles are set up 15 degrees, so I am a real duck!! Well that’s what my Dad se’s.
Perfect day skiing/boarding?
My perfect day boarding would be when it is snowing in Canada and the powder is fluffy. My perfect day boarding so far was when I rode for the first time down the Mountain in Les Arc, it was so cool to have such a large and steep place to ride.
This is your paragraph to write whatever you like about your sport!
I started to snowboard because it was something I could do with my Dad, and he helped me to get better. I was so excited the first time I went to the mountains, and was able to hit really big kickers in the snow park. I would be really unhappy if there was no more snow due to the environment change and if the mountains started to look like a junk yard, respect the mountain, respect yourself!
Do you have any thanks?
Yes, I would like to thank Dan Wilkins and Jules Chappel for coaching me and helping me a lot! Also my Mum and Dad for all their support and love. I would also like to thank Steve Cuss for all his help on mountain and freestyle riding. A big respect to Bucks Boards for replacing broken equipment, and also to Paul at Ellis Brigham for pimping out my bindings for me.
What are your plans for the up and coming months?
