We have a student film maker from Bournmouth up doing a film about preparing for the Brits her name is Rosie, she will be hoping to do some video interviews after training so we will probably use the bar Anex for that.

Snow tubing starts at 11:00 so we will have to clear a space for that.

Look forward to seeing you all Paul , Dave , Darran & John

As most of us will be partying into the New Years eve night , so we won’t be running a club or squad session on New Years day but instead will be running the squad session on Sunday 8th Jan, all welcome.

The Bracknell has a brand new surface & underlay so should be super fast , come down & try it.

Please let us know if there is anything you need to practise or any bit of kit you want to train on – we are always happy to take requests particularly if you arrive before we have put out all the kit ! &  even more so if you are willing to help lift it into place !!

James & the gang seem to be enjoying themselves in Brek & here is their Christmas Day edit……

http://youtu.be/6IYTvmXjZuk

The good news is that the Bracknell slope is being relaid to similar standard as Swad & Chatham with new underlay & top surface + sprinkler system.

The bad news is that there is some understandable disruption while this is happening- the re-lay started this week & thus this Sunday we expect to be using the bottom half of the slope only, but we will still run our club coaching session 9-11.

We can still feature rails & small jumps ……and if there is enough adults down to help we could look at putting out the air bag.

Hope to see you Sunday   Paul & Dave

The end of September is our membership renewal point.  This ties in with Snowsports England request in October for the club to pay its registration and liability insurance.

For this year the basic fee will remain at £15 for the year.

Check out the Membership benefits page on our web site (the basic renewal fee does not include the provision of any tee shirts, these can be brought separately if required).

As an additional benefit those registering as members will have entitlement to use our Airbag when its out for club sessions.  The fee means that the club has liability insurance through Snowsports England covering its members usage of the Airbag.  Unfortunately if you’re not a member of the club you will not be able to use the Airbag.

Please note we are having to build a special jump for the Airbag which means it will not be out for general club members usage until the end of Oct.

Once the Airbag is in general usage we will have to charge a small fee of £5 per session to our members to cover repairs and running costs, but thats two hours usage for a small fee.

When renewing your membership, please complete the attached form and  either post to address below or hand to the club coaches at the next training session:

Southernfreestyle Club. 30 Cressex Close, Binfield, Berks. RG42 4DR

Membership-form-Sept-2011-1

We are working on the Snowboard squad announcement too.

http://www.freestylesnowsports.co.uk/british/fsteam.html

We have been working on hosting our own squad for the last couple of years now, showing the talent building in the South and with your membership and support we are  in a position to look at our own squad selection.  To kick this off we are announcing an interim squad which will be in-place until formal selection in May 2012 and every May after that.

The squad will also be published alongside other regional & national squads on the UK Freestyle website.

The criteria can be found at the bottom of this post.  If anyone is unsure, speak to us at squad sessions and we will be more than happy to explain.  The selection is based on riders in regular training & competition.

Intially this we are publishing skiers but will plan to add snowboarders as well.

Previous SFC skiers who have already progressed to National teams include:-

James Webb – England Squad 2007 : GB Squad 2008

Josh Birch – England Squad  2009/2010

Ed Salisbury – England Development Squad 2010 – present

Southernfreestyle ‘A’ Squad

Mike Rowlands

Tom Saunders

Monty Wright

Madi Rowlands

Southernfreestyle ‘B’ Squad

Kyle Wood

Luke Gorman

Archie Coode

James Colclough

Michael Brain

Mike Pestel

Development Squad

Ethan Prince

Callum Brown

KJ Woledge

Max Hughes

Emily Keen

Lexi Rowlands

All listed squad members will be listed for one month within which they will need to pay the club fees of £15 per annum to confirm their wish to remain in the squad.

If anyone is not listed but interested in being part of the squad please contact us directly.

SFC Nu Skool Squad Criteria 2011 V2

Check this out at www.airbag.uk.com

We aim to use this at club sessions. From a liability point all people using the airbag must be paid up members of Southernfreestyle club.