Showing posts with label Jenny Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jenny Jones. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Jenny Jones and me: the video

Sixteen second clip from BBC Points West, Monday February 24th 2014.

Shows Jenny Jones, Olympic snowboarding bronze medallist at the Mendip Snowsport Centre. Also, in the background with grey jacket and black trousers a novice skier: first descending the slope badly and waving his arms for balance; then drinking some water with his back to the camera to Jenny's right; and finally on right of picture ascending the button lift in the distance.

Dear reader, it was me!



It is steep! It is! This is the last skiing post you'll get from me for a while: promise!

Friday, February 21, 2014

Jenny Jones and me

I was that close to Jenny Jones today, as she gave media interviews to the BBC and ITN and coached (for the cameras) the kids' half-term snowboarding class at the Mendip Snowsport Centre.

Jenny Jones - slopestyle snowboarding queen

Form a sentence with the words "pride" and "fall" in it. In my brash overconfidence, I managed to crash out on the steeper lower slope and now sport a bruise the size of a hen's egg on my left hip. Some way to go before I can compete with the awesome injuries in Ski Cross though.

Here's a bonus video.


Jenny Jones and the Mendip Snowsports Centre