Last night i went up to The snow centre as i had heard from a few friends that there was going to be a few jibs and rails out to have a play on.
When i had arrived i saw that it was actually an atomic free ski night were they had
Elias Ambuhl over from switzerland to ride for the night after he had just competed and blown everyone away at the London freeze at Battersea powerstation last weekend.
To watch him ride the rails to start with he was just mucking around and you could see all the other skiers there were in ore at how good he was whilst practically doing nothing. About half hour into the night out of nowhere he decided that he would casually do a gap 450 of to the down rail still like it was no problem atall and ride away laughing. You have never seen so many kids on skis stop what they were doing and jaws hit the ground so quickly!
I think it was great to have him riding at Hemel as for so many of the younger guys, to be able to ski with such a good skier and see what if they work hard enough for they could have will really lift the level of riding indoors.
Along with skiing with the guys he also signed a few of there bits and bobs and was really easy to get on with and chat too which is always nice as so many people think that the top pro's are unapproachable!

Whilst the skiing was going on myself and a few mate snuck in a few runs and managed to hit the rails and all in all have a good night. Its always nice to get back riding with friends after a stressful weekend at a big comp.

Check Elias Ambuhl's website out
here!



~Sam~