Alex Fitch Snowboarder

Facebook Page

2012-01-25T14:48:00.001-08:00

Hey guys here is a link to my athlete facebook page, It would be great for you guys to like it :) It has all my media interviews that I have found so far so check it out, I will also be doing weekly updates :)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alex-Fitch/307622569275571

MY Winter Youth Olympic Bronze Medal

2012-01-20T20:42:00.001-08:00

OMG - Olympic Bronze Medal

2012-01-19T18:00:00.000-08:00

Fitch wins Australia's first Winter Youth Olympic medal

20 January 2012

Alex Fitch has made history today as Australia’s first ever Winter Youth Olympic medallist after pulling off a fantastic performance in the women’s snowboard slopestyle final to win bronze.
“It’s amazing!” Fitch said of her Innsbruck 2012 medal performance. “I’m so proud. It is so good to finally get on the podium and represent Australia.”
Fitch, who was fourth in halfpipe four days ago, qualified in third for the final, after completing two solid runs to get a best score of 77.75. Slopestyle is a new event where athletes ride through a course and perform tricks on rails and off jumps. The judges score both runs and the top score counts.
As the wind picked up between qualifiers and finals, conditions at the slopestyle course closed in with light rain falling and visibility worsening.
Fitch was third-last to drop into the course and pulled off a near-flawless run. She put together a combination of well-formed easier tricks at the top with a 50-50 on the first rail and a tail grab off the first jump.
With a horde of Australian fans scattered up the sides of the course, including nearly all of the athletes who have finished competition, Fitch powered down the remaining rails and jumps to huge applause.
“It was an ideal run,” Fitch said. “I got my jumps down and it felt great.”
On a score of 69.75, Fitch was in third position after the first run.
With medals at stake, the 16-year-old rider from the New South Wales central coast prepared to ramp up her tricks for the second run. Unfortunately though, she couldn’t perfect them as she would have liked.
Pulling a front 360 off the first jump, Fitch couldn’t quite get the trick down and stick the landing which lost her speed, causing her to miss the second jump and get a score of 42.50.
“I didn’t land my second run, but that’s what happens. I still got a bronze medal so I am stoked!”
With the top two ladies still to ride, Fitch was in third position from her first run score – and the medal was assured.
Canadian Audrey McManiman had nothing to lose on her second run, with the top of the podium locked in following her 84.25 first run. Her second run was also impressive with a 62.75 confirm ing her as the well deserving gold medallist.
With a score of 71.75 the silver medal went to the USA’s Arielle Gold, one of Fitch’s good friends in the snowboarding circuit who she sometimes trains with in Colorado.
The bronze on Thursday at Kuhtai Resort, an hour west of Innsbruck, continues Australia’s remarkable run of winter success.
Australia has medalled at the past five senior Winter Olympic Games.
Bright is one of Fitch’s heroes. She has also done a few dry land sessions with the News South Wales Institute of Sport squad that includes current halfpipe world champions Holly Crawford and Nate Johnstone.
It could be only two years before Fitch joins her idols on a senior Olympic Team. Slopestyle is one of the new events on the program for Sochi 2014.

Fitch was presented with the Innsbruck 2012 mascot, Yoggl, at the venue and will receive her bronze at a ceremony in the Medal Plaza at downtown Innsbruck on Friday evening (Saturday am in Australia
Alice Wheeler and Andrew Reid

AOC

Youth Olympics Games in Innsbruck are amazing!

2012-01-16T10:55:00.000-08:00

Click here for the link to my results in Halfpipe at Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck

Pretty Happy with my result 4th in Final for Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck.

I would like to thank my coach Ben Boyd, The AOC, IOC, Chief de Mission Alissa Camplin, Ramone Cooper and all the AOC support team and everyone who has supported me including Wyong & Gosford Council and The Amelia McGuiness Foundation. The Youth Olympics are awesome and I am so appreciative of this opportunity!

3 days till lift off!

2012-01-05T20:27:00.000-08:00

Hey people,
Just 3 days now till I leave for Germany then Austria for the Youth Olympic Games.. It has come so quick and the last few weeks has been some intense training but hopefully I will be fully ready for such a great experience to come...

I'll blog in Austria, so keep looking!

Love Alex P&L

long time since i've blogged

2011-12-25T15:28:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
Been a while since I've blogged. A few things have happened since then.
Last week was Copper Mountain Rev Tour. I unfortunately fell in my pipe run and in my slope style run. I didn't mind too much in slope style because I had only 1 day of training slope the day before. I was just glad I did my first 360's for the season in comp. I went into some back to basic training to help me get everything back to normal. I am almost ready for Youth Olympics and hopefully in these next couple of weeks it will bring me to where I want to be in my snowboarding. It is Christmas Day right now and I am spending it with my host family. I have had a great day so far. Just 19 days to go! :)

Merry Christmas
xox

Grand prix practice

2011-12-12T23:32:00.000-08:00

grand prix

2011-12-12T22:26:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
So on Saturday I had the US Grand Prix. I wasn't really that nervous because I knew I was up against the world's best and my coach had been telling me just to have fun and get the experience. I had a really fun practice and was dead from the hike. To put it into perspective , I had to pull myself up the deck by the fence they had put up to keep the spectators away. It was 8am in the morning and the pure colorado chill. It was so cold my googles had fogged and then frozen. I had a good practice but unfortunately fell in both my runs, My first run I fell with an alleyoop which I hadn't tried since Jnr Worlds but I thought I would have a crack at my Jnr Worlds run seeing I had nothing to lose. I ended up Hyperextending my elbow and In a fair bit of pain, but some tylonol and a quick break and I had my 2nd run. I didn't try the alleyoop again but I ended up falling on a cab 3... simple but deadly . My arm is still in abit of pain but healing quick. I had airbag on yesterday and practiced my frontside 5s which I learnt in New Zealand, I''m hoping I can do some tomorrow at Copper.

Well thats the new news...

I'll blog again while Rev Tour is on.

P&L

Grand Prix

2011-12-07T22:48:00.000-08:00

Hey guys,
I''ve been in Co for 2 weeks now and I'm all settled in.The past week I've been training at Copper for the Grand Prix which I'm competing in on Saturday. Tomorrow is the boys qualifiers and so I'm going to watch. Friday hopefully I can go ride park for the first time this season. I'll blog Saturday night.

Alex xox

2011-11-28T22:18:00.000-08:00

Hey guys,
Here in Edwards at my new home. All settled in and had my first Thanksgivings the other day.
It was pretty awesome. I have ridden 2 days so far. Just getting the hang back into snowboarding. Another week at Copper then Grand Prix is on the week after, so hopefully I can be back to normal soon enough. For now I'm still getting used to the altitude again. 45 days to go till YOG!
love Alex

Youth Olympics here I come!

2011-11-10T16:23:00.000-08:00

Hey all,

So the other week I got a letter in the mail letting me know I've been selected in the Youth Olympic team, - the only snowboarder from Australia to go. I'm so excited. A couple of weeks ago I went to the press release for the team's official launch. It was sooo cool and I got so many interviews my mouth started to hurt from smiling too much. I ended up on Channel Nine Wide World of Sports on a Sunday, which was pretty amazing because all my friends and family saw it. I'm so excited about it. I have even got a count down on my phone going :) It's going to be amazing and I'm sure to take lots and lots of photos! Here are some photos from the AOC press release.

Click here to see the interviews of all the athletes at the AOC announcement. I am on last at 3:29 minutes.
Click here for the Australian Olympic Site Announcement of the team.
Click here for snowboarder magazine article.
Click here to view the article on me in The Australian Newspaper

Youth Olympics

2011-10-12T03:28:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,
I've been nominated for the spot in the first ever Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck , January 2012.
I'm so excited to be nominated and I'm hoping I get the position. Click below to see an article about me on the Olympic website.
Click here for the AOC story on me.

Perisher Playstation Slopestyle Series - Won the Junior Girls Series

2011-10-12T03:22:00.000-07:00

Thank you to Perisher and all the sponsors for a great Series. Love my new Burton Board I won and just got new Burton bindings in the mail. How good is that! My "Feelgood" I have been riding is badly delaminating and got huge chunks out of it and I have been taking my bindings off my pipe board for my slope board - so absolutely stoked to get my favourite board and bindings. Got to love that cash as well as all the other cool stuff. Thank you thank you!! Congratulations to Lauren and Maddy tonight.

Won Thredbo Big Air and Freeride Series 2011 - Junior Girls

2011-10-12T02:48:00.000-07:00

What a great day and Series! Thanks to Thredbo - awesome Big Air Jump today. Thank you to the sponsors for the great prizes and the cash is really going to come in handy. Best wishes and hope for a good recovery for Zoe who fractured her C2 vertebrae today. Just horrible and sending you lots of healing vibes. Also healing vibes to Biba. Missed not riding with you today! Such a great jump wish I got to jump on it more!

World Rookie Fest TTR World Tour - Thredbo

2011-10-11T22:19:00.000-07:00

So stoked - First ever novelty cheque I have won. Thanks Red Bull for the Stunt Plane ride we are going on as well as this cool cheque which will be $1000 towards towards travel to compete at the World Rookie Fest Finals in Ischgl in Austria in April 2012. My great friend Henry won the guys for the second year in a row - so we will have so much fun shredding in Ischgl together!

Australain Junior Series - National Female Champion

2011-10-09T22:40:00.000-07:00

Jessie Kennedy - Male Series Winner &

Me - Female Series Winner

Winners of The Australian Junior Series Halfpipe 2011- Junior 1 Female. 1st Me, 2nd Maddy Alexis, 3rd Stephanie Dahan.

What a great Series once again! So much fun with all my friends!

Southern Season starts with Thredbo Freeride Rails

2011-06-30T06:48:00.000-07:00

hey All, Start of season comp in Freeride Rails, ended up 1st with a bit of cash to help :) Heres some photos of the day:)

Italy! Junior World Championships - 2011

2011-03-31T09:12:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,
Can't believe it! Made finals for both Slopestyle and Halfpipe Finals at my first ever Junior World Championships, from starting of not even knowing I would make it to Jnr world Champs to making finals is amazing i'm so happy with myself! I Ended up 12th in Halfpipe and 9th in Slopestyle. I was the only Australian to qualify in finals in the Halfpipe. Congratulations to the rest of my team with 3 of us making Finals in Slopestyle. Congratulations to my team members Lauren Stavely and Michaela Davis-Meehan. Go the Aussi girls!

Thanks to my patrol at Soldiers Beach Surf Club for sending me this message! Go Might number 6!!

Hey guys,
So Today was day 5 in Valmalenco, Yesterday we had our first day of pipe practice and the 3 days before that we spent watching and cheering on the AUS boardercross team. Today we had another 2 hour session of pipe practice and a 2 hour practice of slopestyle. The slopestyle course looked pretty scary and was super soft due to the extreme Italian sun but after hitting it 4-5 times I got the hang of it. By 6th run, there was only 10 minutes left of training and I decided I was comfortable spinning. I did a front 3 and landed perfect - too bad about the metre slush waiting for me as I landed, A bit of a crash but all fine no damage done. All up it was a really fun day and I'm psyched for tomorrow's pipe comp.

Heres a few photos through the competition and other events

Opening Ceremony was so much fun!!

Ciao xx

2011-03-26T14:08:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
So I'm finally in Italy with the whole Australian team.
The town Is really cute and old . We had an hour and a half drive and it was such an interesting and pretty drive. I GoProed a few villages and houses on the way just to get a feel for Italy.
It is such a nice place, we arrived in the town of Valmelenco at 8pm , We had dinner and got all our stuff ready for tomorrow. Tomorrrow we are going up to the mountain just to have a mini shred and to check out the pipe and the slope course, Then later on that night there is the opening ceremony. I'm very excited :)

Thats all the news for now,
Peace xoxo

2011-03-24T16:52:00.000-07:00

Hey all,
I have been very busy with everything and have great news.
On the 15th of March, I competed in the last stop for Rev tour . It was a great sunny day and the pipe got soft but still awesome. I made it to finals and placed 6th in the Half pipe, I later found out that the place I had made had qualified me for half pipe in the Jnr World Championships. Slopestyle day came around and I had learned a new word called vermonting, which to everyone is pretty much rain. I found out that Vermonting... was sooo terrible. Training started at 8am and it was heavily snowing and bad visibility was little. I started to train , even though I had only the jumps once the day before. I had 2 training runs and on my 1st I badly hurt my knees. Runs started and my first run was good, My knees were badly hurting but I kept going even though I wanted to retreat to the lodge with everyone else and it payed off - I qualified 4th in 1st runs. 2nd run came and it had started Vermonting. I had a good run until last run and I knuckled and hurt my knees really bad. I couldn't walk properly but I could move so I knew I hadn't done anything serious. In the end I qualified 6th for slopestyle. A storm was coming in the next day we were flying out , So as soon as the presentation was finished we hit the road and headed to albany where we spent the night and flew out in the morning.
Tomorrow I fly out to Frankfurt then to Milan for Jnr World Championships in Italy. I'm so excited and I want to thank everyone for the support they have given me.

Blogging time!

2011-02-27T17:06:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
So Many things have happened since I last blogged.
On the 1st of feburary , I started training with ISTC. I love training with them, I have a coupe of my Australian friends with me, and I have made many new friends. The training is great but still fun.
I recently competed in Boreal And competed in both slopestyle and pipe. Day 1 was pipe and I had fun the day before training for it . Unfortunatly some of the girls brought a few tricks I couldn't do and I placed 11th and didn't make finals. In Slopestyle the next day , I had only had the afternoon of pipe and a couple of runs the following day to practice for slopestyle. Slopestyle is normally my better event but with the bigger jumps that I hadn't jumped off something as big as a 30fter before so I was pretty nervous. I crashed both my runs but almost landed my spins. I ended up 12th and not making finals but I was proud of myself for spinning such big jumps.It was a fun trip and with alright results I was happy. I have just been training since and I have been selected in the Australian Jnr worlds team. So March 25th I head to Italy. I'm so excited and proud of myself to make it. I will then return from Italy on the 4th of april and come back to breckenridge and compete in Nationals then Finaly return to Australia on either April 9th or 10th. With all this excitement I'm sure it will be great to come home and see everyone :)

So thats all for now, I'll be updating more often from now on

love Alex

2011-01-19T10:48:00.000-08:00

Chest deep powder!

Our powder crew.

2011-01-19T10:45:00.000-08:00

Waiting for first lifts.

Half an hour wait for epic powder!

April and I waiting for the chair.

Chair lift time.

Highest point in Breckenridge, reachable by chairlift.

2011-01-19T10:38:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
So epic day up the mountain yesterday. 26 inches of snow.With an early morning start we were all on the mountain by 8:30, except a few who had caught a stomach bug and were at home sick as dogs. I have some photos from the day but it would have to be the most pow I have ever rode. I got home and found all the sick people were nearly better but around 5pm I had started to feel a bit sick. By 6 o'clock was continuously vomiting and by 10:30 my coach took me to the hospital. Three hours of being on a drip and I was feeling much better. I got home and the girls were feeling better aswell. So now I'm at home resting for a day or so then hopefully I'll be back and healthy in no time.

Love Alex xox

bit late..but Got 4th in Rev Tour - Mt Hood

2011-01-16T16:37:00.000-08:00

Hey guys,
Sorry I'm a little late with blogging,
At Mt Hood , I didn't get into the pipe competition unfortunately. I did however make it into finals in Slopestyle the following day and come 4th , which I was soooo happy. I then came home and had a rest day. Then the day after had practice for the Gatorade series. Yesterday I competed in Slopestyle and got 4th and today I went In the pipe and unfortunately got 9th due to some falls and the girls were very good. Back to training on Tuesday and no more comps till February.

Miss everyone lots ,
Alex xx

Mt Hood, Competition Time!

2011-01-09T18:22:00.000-08:00

Hey All,
Competition time once again and this time snowboarding has taken me to Mt Hood, Oregon . As usual, I brought the bad luck to everyone flying with me. The start of our trip began with heavy traffic from Breckenridge to Denver and had to sprint to get to check in . Once we got to the check in they told us we had missed our flight. We found out the next plane was full and so we went to a different company and they wanted a ridiculous price. So Pat, Woods and myself stayed in a really nice hotel in Denver. We woke up at 5am and caught our plane to Seattle. Our plane in Denver was then stopped because there was a snow storm and our plane had to have this special spray put on it so we could go. That took 1 hour and then we were off. We got to Seattle and we had missed our connecting flight , so we caught the next flight with plenty of time. We got on the plane to Portland and it was only a half an hour and we were in Portland. Things started to look bright. We got to the baggage collection , Pat and I got our bags but Woods was taking a little longer then we expected. We waiting half an hour and still no bag. We went to the baggage service and they had left Woods bags back in Seattle so we had to wait another hour to get his bag. We waited and waited and finally we got the bag and went and got our rental car. We drove to Mt hood found our hotel and missed out on registration for my pipe competition tomorrow. Hopefully They will registrater tomorrow otherwise I'm going to be having another slopestyle practice day :l

Another character building experience for me :)

chao xoxox

Competition time again.

2011-01-07T14:06:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
I have been training hard and having some pretty hard falls. I've been training for one of my biggest competitions so far, The Rev tour in Mt Hood. I was lucky enough for SSA to select me to go into The rev tour. I fly out tomorrow with Patrick davis-meehan ( pipe coach) and Nick Wood ( another TSC member)
We spend 3 days in Hood Snowboarding then fly back to breck and back into training. Should be Fun.

I hope everyone is warm back at home it's just reaching -10 again.

:) alex xoxox.

Here is my start of season edit. ENJOY :)

2011-01-01T21:11:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsAFNX8iQjI

Christmas day.

2010-12-27T18:57:00.000-08:00

Sitting around waiting for dinner ^^^

Dinner Begins ^^^

The lovely cupcakes that CP, Michaela and I made individually for everyone
( note some are missing due to consumption)

My chriskringle present off harry
(2 packets of skittles, the most amazing cookies ever! & a joke necklace saying one of the young boys initials)

Dinner time again ^^^

360 time!

2010-12-27T18:26:00.000-08:00

Hey all, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
sorry i'm a bit late but its been a pretty hectic couple of days.
Christmas I rode breckenridge till lunchtime then went home and got ready and helped out with everything.
Then we had christmas dinner and it was pretty good, I hadn't had roast ham since last christmas. It was so good. Boxing day, we had a sleep in and then went to see little fockers. It was pretty funny. Today we went riding and I wasn't quite in the mood , it was a cold snowing day and all my clothes were in the wash so I had no layers to wear. I got out and it was a pretty good day for park. By 3rd run I hit the last jump at park lane which means now i've hit every jump in park lane now :) after lunch time, I started spinning 180s all ways. After half an hour of hiking I tried a backside 360 and stomped it. The next half an hour was spent styling my back 3's then off to front 1s and then frontside 360s. It was sooo good to be spinning again and I love it! I have some footage but I have to organise then ill get a little edit together.We have a night shoot soon so that should be super fun.

Peace Alex xoxox

competition day..

2010-12-21T20:36:00.000-08:00

walking around breckenridge

2010-12-21T20:34:00.000-08:00

Keystone again..

2010-12-21T20:29:00.000-08:00

Hey guys,
We went to keystone again today. I was still pretty tired even though I had a day off yesterday but It wore off by 2nd run. I got a bit battered in the morning with first run tacoeing a rail and a few other stacks but In the end no harm done. I had a fun morning but after lunch was even funner. I got my front boardslides back and I now have front and back swivels on lock down. The afternoon was soooo fun and after we went to super target to by our christcringle presents... only 4 days now :) breckenridge riding tomorrow

lots of love alex :)

I havn't been putting up any photos so i'll put some up now. + I got alot of footage today that i'll get off my coach, make a little edit and put it up on here :)

my 1st run... faceplant

2010-12-19T19:01:00.000-08:00

Competition day..

2010-12-19T17:03:00.000-08:00

hey all,
Today was my first comp for the northern winter. With a 6am start and arriving at copper at 8 for registration. The comp started at 9:45 and I was at the end of the list so we waited inside for a while. My nerves were so bad cause I felt as if i had to win even though everyone kept reassuring me that was my first comp and my goal was just to do my best. The weather was horrible with hardly any visibility and I wasn't to keen on going out in the snow storm. I started practice and hiked a little. No stacks in practice and I was confident but I knew that is was very slow. Couple of hours of waiting around and my first run came. I had been watching and my googles had fogged slightly but just as I started to ride into the pipe with the visibility low and my googles totally fogged I couldn't even see where the pipe was, I did a good drop in and attempted my first hit which I later learned was pretty good for a blind women. On my 2nd hit I had no clue where I was and ended up face planting from the top of the lip it was a pretty funny stack and I recon i could send the footage into funniest home videos and win. My second run was so much better with borrowing my friend stephs googles and doing indy,melon,front 3, cab 3, nose, japan, front 3. I was pretty happy but i knew I couldn't beat another girl who was doing cab 7s. All up it was a pretty good day and I'm glad I got my first comp over and done with.

Day off tomorrow,

love Alex xoxox

2010-12-17T20:55:00.000-08:00

hey everyone,
Today I went to Copper for pipe training for my comp on sunday,
I started the day with the hour and a half bus to copper then first lap was alright. The next couple of runs were horrible and I figured out I was having a off day. A couple more runs went by and my runs weren't getting any better and I was only doing straight air no grabs. I figured after my great day yesterday this must be the opposite . I was nearly at the point of giving up and going home but I pushed on and finally after the 6th or 7th run , I got a good run in and decided to start working on my competition run. It is indy poke,melon,Front 360, cab 360, nose grab, japan :) It's the best run i've ever had and if one of my other competitors read this i'm in trouble haha. So I got my run down a couple of times and went into lunch then called the day on a good note. I caught the bus home and went to watch some aussies in the dew tour. I went home and my friend took me to yoga. At first i thought it was really good but then I found out it was expert yoga and I was getting into some tricky stuff. I vowed If michaela ever took me to expert yoga again I would shoot her , I'm about to go for a nice hot tub then off to bed .

Tomorrow i'm going to denver with everyone for shopping . I'm not going to by much just browse around.

love alex

best day so far!

2010-12-16T17:09:00.000-08:00

hey guys , I thought i'd write a post before I fell asleep!!
Today was soooo good.. it was a picture perfect day with not a cloud in the sky and the sun was a bright as ever! I started the day good with hitting all 3 top jumps at parklane, breck .. then the bottom 3 but only missing out on the last jump. This was great for me no pain and back into big jumps again. I started trying 180s on the side run by 3rd or 4th run just to help me get my feet back and by the 5th run I was doing cab 180s off the 1st jump at parklane. This was soo exciting for me but by this time it was 12 and I had forgotten lunch and also forgot my card and was pretty stoke with my morning efforts. So i decided to call the day with a couple of others cause I didn't want to push my limits. We went home had some lunch, got ready and went into breck. We walked around , got a coffee ( stupid steph .. I now like coffee) and went looking for nice jackets for me, and heath ,steph and michaela had other things to buy. I ended up buying a really nice jacket I can wear out at home and here. SOOO warm and soo nice , I also bought a breck jumper I had my eyes on last season but forgot to buy it.. By the time I had them and was very satisfied we kepted shopping and I was at the point of exhaustion. It's now 6pm and I'm very ready for bed! Just have to wait for dinner then I'm off to bed.

Had the best day was sooo great!

night night Alex xx

JUMPING!

2010-12-14T18:05:00.000-08:00

Hey all, good news...
I jumped today for the first time since I broke my back :)
It felt soooo good but a bit unco...no pain though thats the main thing.More jumping tomorrow hopefully then watching the dew tour on thursday i'm pretty stoked about getting to watch that..Today I was at breck till about 12 then off to copper to watch the girls rev tour, i got there to find that none of my friends were there and that the girls had finished by 10am. I'm really excited about tomorrow :)

peace xoxox

nothing special... just an awesome day at pipe!

2010-12-13T15:56:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
What a day I have had, I went to copper today to ride pipe. I must say it was AWEESOMEEEEE!!! overly crowed but sooo awesome. I have always loved the copper pipe but now it is a 22ft pipe which makes it so much more fun. I wasn't always so enthused. I started the day off with an hour and a half trip to copper then I had to go get my copper pass. My hopes were high until I looked at the top of the pipe. There was legit 100 people at the top of the pipe waiting for there go, about 30 coaches at the bottom of the pipe and around 50 bi-standers along the pipe. I had forgotten, that it was Rev tour the next day and that it was a training session today. So I got my pass, Got on the chairlift and headed up to a perfect pipe! It was that hectic at the top of the pipe and I was literally nearly in tears on how hectic it was and how scared I was i was going to hurt myself. I was sooo scared I was thinking about skipping pipe and going home. I pushed through and did my first run. Not going in with much speed and getting air on my 3rd hit( not much but enough to get me excited) By the bottom of the run I had a smile from ear to ear , realising how much I love pipe . It wasn't long till I was back up the top waiting in the hectic line for another thrill. The day went on and I started getting bigger and bigger and getting help from my future coach ben boyd and Pat davis-meehan was helping me out aswell. The day went on and I had only did about 4 runs because of the massive lineup at the top of pipe. It was nearing lunchtime and I was getting pretty tired and I had only hiked once and was ready to hike again . I tried to jump out of the pipe early so I didn't have to hike as far... wrong decision. I fell out of the pipe and rolled a good 10 metres hit my head and almost took a skiier out. That was the end of my training I did another lap And did a bad run through pipe then went down and ate some food... exciting day and now i'm at home chilling out with the rest of the team who had a fun day at breckenridge.

updates tomorrow :)
lots and lots of love Alex

the outlets with Steph

2010-12-12T21:25:00.001-08:00

love days off

2010-12-12T20:51:00.000-08:00

hey everyone,
sorry i've been a bit slack with the blogging lately but there wasn't much to blog since last time.
Yesterday we had day off and I went to watch the Grand Prix. It was sooooo awesome but I had to leave at 10 by myself catching the bus all the way to copper seeing I am the only one in my team to be bothered to go watch pro's on my day off. It was sooooo cold and i only stayed 2 hours then went to silverthorne with steph and met up with the rest of my team. I didn't buy anything though Today I had another day off cause I was completely dead from the grand prix because walking the whole pipe and falling down a trillion times in powder takes sooo much energy. Today was spent well with a small sleep in then movies and games with the rest of the kids who stayed home. Off to the gym I went and we did some simple stuff that would have been easy for me but I absolutley died which shows me how altitude and being so unfit can affect you with mega wheezing and alot of motivation by myself to keep going. We then came home to some food and a hot tub and soon off to bed to read my school book 'to kill a mocking bird' greatfully given to me by my godmother christine :)

tommorrow i'm off to copper for my first pipe riding since i broke my back.. I'm not going to lie i'm superrrrr excited and I'm starting to train for my 1st comp which is in 2 weeks which I may or may not go in just for the experience seeing i'm still in recovery

thanks for all looking at my blog :)

love alex xoxox

2010-12-10T18:02:00.000-08:00

Hey guys,
sorry I didn't post anything yesterday. I've been planning to do a post everyday but i have been busy with my great life :). Yesterday was pretty average, just working on my switch and spinning which needs to be done. We went home then went to woodward which was pretty fun got back on the tramp for the first time in 3 months, attempted a backflip and nearly did a double was pretty epic. Then the guy wouldn't let me try one. I then went to doing backflips from the ground to the foam pit and was doing it great. I then thought i'd be smart and not do it straight on the ground id do it to the squishy matt so I didn't hurt myself. I then tried and smashed my face in. I told myself I wasn't going to be defeated , so i tried again! almost hit my face again but luckily just kept it up. Today I was sooo dead that I could barely walk and everyone else was dead to so we rode for 2 hours and then went home then too the gym then hot tub :) goood day

il right tomorrow, i'm going to copper to watch the grand pix
im out xoxox

8th december

2010-12-08T20:45:00.000-08:00

keystone fun :)

2010-12-08T20:39:00.000-08:00

Hey Hey guys,
Another awesome day but at Keystone this time :)
Seeing I can't do jumps I spent my day doing some work on my riding skills ( switch ) just for mum who loves to nag me about it ( much love mummy)
We then went to the park and I did a couple of laps getting my feet back on rails . boxes and i was also trying some 180s on the rollers. The day went on and a couple of us hiked a box and started learning new tricks . I've almost got mine I was learning how to swivel. We then went for lunch and came back out which i was debating on whether to go riding again or go to woodward ... lucky i chose riding again cause we did a bit more on the rails and then headed over to the quarter pipe where i began to learn hand plants.. SOOOOOOOOO MUCH FUN!! such a cool trick to .. I have almost got them but I keep putting 2 hands down instead of 1 and i'm also a metre from the coping . I hope i can try them tomorrow some how. I have some photos ill put up off my last attempt of my handplant and a picture of me learning my swiveling on the small box ...

enjoy

love alex :)

POW POW!

2010-12-07T15:01:00.000-08:00

Hey guys,
epic 2nd day today.. I don't think there is words to describe how awesome it was!!!!!
Waist deep , dry powder , 1st tracks for about ALL day!!! and snowing ALL day...
We went and got first tracks on a couple of steep tree runs then went up to a high bowl and waited half an hour to get on the lift. It was pretty much spot the pro it was soooo good . There was scotty Lago, Jack mitrani, Kazuhiro Kokubo and that many others waiting in line with us and finally there was the scramble to get 1st lifts. Scotty Lago is actually one of my favourite riders so I was pretty gob smacked.
All up we Rode till about 12:30 and came home then michaela and I went on a bit of an adventure in our backyard acting all silly and getting some funny footage.. we will make a tiny edit tonight and put it up should be pretty funny!

5th of december.. no internet sorry its late

2010-12-06T20:30:00.001-08:00

Part 1-writing at Nandi

Hey all, well I’m not sure if mum and dad have told you the story so ill give you a peep into my hectic 5^th of December.

My day started out with a good start, A 8am wake up ,breakfast and I was on my way to Sydney airport. We had a bit of difficulties getting to the airport with traffic jams but we finally made it in time for my 11:50 flight that I was aiming for. We arrived to the airport with plenty of time . We searched around for the staff desk because my uncle had put me as his first of kin so I could get cheap flights. Turns out it was a terrible thing to do. I arrived at the Qantas staff desk to find I had been wait listed and I wasn’t at the front either. I had to wait till 11 to find out if I would be let onto my 11:50 flight. We went back to the desk and they informed me I was not on it and that the next flight was just as booked out as the first and that I would probably not make it out today but to wait till 2pm to find out.

So this was the point in time when myself, dad and mum all went into overdrive mode and went to work running back and forth from desk to desk trying to find flights . Two hours went by and still no hope. Dad finally went to one of the booking agents and they got me a flight to Denver, But I had to have pit stop in Fiji.We also had to change my connecting flight to Denver so now I could not get picked up by the davis-meehans to take me to my connecting flight. All this stressful time and we finally got things figured out and in 2 minutes I was on my way and into customs. I ran through everything knowing that my plane boarded at 12:15 and it was 12:25 . Little did I know that there was a massive queue leaving me waiting another half an hour when I could have been taking my time.

I finally arrived on the plane and just as we are nearly ready to go . Someone decided to get off the plane for “personal reasons” so my plane in lock down mode just in case for teorists. We got under way in another half an hour and onto Fiji. I was stressing out about all my connections I had to make but in the end it was all fine and I had 3 hours to burn off waiting for my plane. I now have another 2 hours till I board . The time has gone past and im sure ill have another little story to write about my adventure in LAX. This should be interesting.

Last night I wrote on my facebook” tomorrow another adventure begins”… I didn’t know it was going to be this big!!!

More updates to come… my back is fine for everyone who doesn’t know I just have to be careful so in about 24 hours I will be on the slopes (hopefully, fingers crossed) and back into my intense athletic career .

Love alex xoxoxo

P.s thankyou mum for all that extra stress!!!

Part 2- Writing in LAX

Hey all, im now in LA airport and boy what a stressful time to get here but I did it J, where to start. Since I wrote last I had 2 hours left, my plane was late so it ended up being 3 hours so I had 4 hours in nandi. I guess it went by quick but the last half an hour felt like 4 hours. I finally arrived on the plane to find it was just like the one I had flown to Nandi in an old plane with hardly any entertainment. I was seated at the middle of the plane and for a while had knowone beside me.

I was begging that I did not get anyone beside me and using mum and my skills started spying out places I could move to just in case. Turned out I got someone beside. Two of the biggest women on the plane so I was squashed in my seat so bad that I thought I was going to pop. Not to mention they had a 2 year old boy who was a pain. At this stage I was really feeling like ringing up mum and abusing here for putting me in this situation but I tried to calm myself down and prayed to god there was a seat somewhere near. I looked and looked but no spare seats. Just after we had taken off the lady beside me asked for a cot to put the baby in. The air host could obviously see my conditions and told me he was moving me. He took me onto the 2^nd level I thought I was being put to first class or something but it was only economy but it was great there was 14 rows of seats and only 8 people up there I got a whole row to myself. It was great I was still disappointed with the entertainment but I slepted nearly the whole way to LA.

I Arrived in LA and only with brief knowledge on what I was doing and where I was going . I asked about 2000 people where to go and finally found my way to where I had to go, by running 5 terminals in about 10 minutes with a 32 K board bag and a 10 K suit case and sweating like a pig. I got checked in and raced to my gate with only 5 minutes till boarding time.

I got there and opened up my laptop and started writing my blog 10 minutes went by and I noticed my flight had not been called I looked up to the screen to see that my flight was not on it . I raced around for about 5 minutes trying to find someone to ask but I found out that my flight had been delayed another hour.

Finally getting on the plane , I met a 17 year old girl who was seated besided me who used to be a very good snowboarder and we talked for most of the trip to Denver.Arriving at Denver was the most scariest . I didn’t know who was picking me up.. if I was getting picked up, Where I had to go and I had forgotten which carousal my bags were on. I went to get help but pat and Michaela davis-meehan and Jarad ( one of my new coaches) found me and I then I stopped stressing and knew everything was finally ok. We drove to breck and I slepted most of the way . I’ve now met everyone and settled in and now about to go to bed. So theres my epic 5^th of December

Thanks Betty Rides - Cool new gear for this coming season!

2010-11-19T16:46:00.000-08:00

Australain Junior Series 2010 - First Junior Girls Snowboard

2010-11-19T16:45:00.000-08:00

Thredbo Big Air - First

2010-11-19T16:38:00.000-08:00

NSWIS Scholarship

2010-10-10T02:27:00.000-07:00

Stephanie and I were awarded NSWIS Green scholarships for 2010 winter season

2010-08-17T15:08:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, Alex here

Sorry it has been so long . We had a bit of trouble with the blog but everything is fixed now.

I have lots of photos to put up and lots of results as well but unfortunatly I have to go in a couple of seconds because I am at dads work about to catch the tube up for another day of snowboarding...

But I will blog as soon as I get home for you :)

Thanks for everyones support :)

p.s I Have just got an email from my sponsor Betty Rides and I will soon be on the team riders section of there new site :) Thank you to Betty Rides - your gear is awesome!

ESS Billy Rail Jam

2010-05-24T05:16:00.000-07:00

Thanks to ESS and Smokin Snowboards for a great day at the Rail Jam at Erina. Great new Snowboard riding the new Smokin Snowboard, then to top it off winning the Girls Rail Jam and winning another board. My bindings were shot so so cool to get new bindings as well. Great to have all the Jindy crowd up in my territory and had a great day on Saturday, then with Steph, Amber, Biba & Mel on the jetskis on Sunday.

2010-03-31T18:00:00.000-07:00

Hey all,

Not long now....

Only 4 days till I leave and only 6 till I'm home :)

I'm definatly going to miss boarding but I guess it's only 2 months then I'm back down to Perisher again.

I hope everyone is having fun at home and the weather is good.

xxxx

1st In Pipe & 1st in Slopestyle in Aspen

2010-03-15T07:12:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys,

Blown away. We went to Aspen for the weekend to compete in the Rocky Mountain Series and I got first in both! Can't believe it! The pipe was huge 22' walls - Full Olympic size. Only had one quick run through before the comp started. Mum & Dad are here and it was great to have them in the crowd! The trip over and the scenery was awesome. Everything else good and looking forward to showing Mum & Dad around my town on my day off tomorrrow. Snowed all day yesterday and woken up to a bluebird day!

2nd in Pipe

2010-03-07T23:23:00.000-08:00

Hi Guys,
Fantastic day! We went to Copper Mountain to compete again in the Rocky Mountain Series. Apart from having a ton of fun I got 2nd in the Pipe. I fell in both runs but still managed to only be 2 points behind 1st. Looking forward now to 2 days off and then the comp in Aspen next Saturday.

Love u all

Alex

2010-03-06T16:40:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
Well today was comp day... Slopestyle. and I got 3rd
Hopefully better tomozzz in Pipe. Girl who got first was awsome. She got 48
Lauren got 2nd with score of 46 And I got 42.
I didn't hit the last jump on my first run. I didn't have the right speed so I pulled out but I did it on the 2nd run. Jumps were about 45', 50' & last one was 60'.Oh well I had a sick day with my mates. Lots of fun! Tried the big line, which I was freakkked about which only happened today!

xxx

Me and My New Board

2010-03-05T00:10:00.000-08:00

Hey All,

Been really busy training, gym and school work really. Kate is our tutor and really nice and it is all going good. Just got a new board as my Sapient died! " Feel Good" Awesome!!! We have 2 comps on this weekend. Pipe and Slopestyle. Looking forward to it! Love you all XOXO

2010-02-16T19:14:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
I havn't blogged in a while - but that was because there really wasn't anything to blog about.
The last week I have been sitting at home resting up until the next team arrived here.
So the night of the 12th came and the team was meant to arive at Denver airport at 4pm.
Unfortunatly they missed their flight and did not get a flight till 8:45 and did not arive till 12am. Luckly the crew at the house knew what we were doing and Sav went to the airport and the new crew stayed over night and woke up early morning to drive to winter park for a competition. Meanwhile back at the house Jeanie, Lauren and I had to wake up at 5:30 to make our journey to Winter Park. Unfortunatly out of the three of us only Lauren competed. Jeanie still wasn't allowed to ride and I didn't get my form in on time. So we were the cheer squad for the day.
First day went by and we stood in the cold and wind watching everyone compete in slopestyle. I was soo dead by the end of the day I slept the whole way in the van. It was an early night then another 5:30 start to the morning and sleeping in the car for everyone,(Except sav of course)
The day was just like the first getting frozen toes in the freezing cold and watching my friends do all the work then ended with another snooze in the car from lack of sleep. Yesterday we headed up to the mountain just Cam, Lukey, Jack and I. Unfortunately Lauren caught an awful cough and Henry has sprained his wrist so we are a bit of an odd bunch and today and tomorrow are days off and I'm busy doing school work :)

Thats all for now

xx

Backside 360s!!! Last photo I have at the moment - I shall go get Terri's camera.

2010-02-06T22:08:00.000-08:00

Stuck in the foam pit...my "cork 540's" that turned into normal 360's haha

2010-02-06T22:01:00.000-08:00

Sav showing me a cork 540- What I was trying to do ha ha

2010-02-06T21:57:00.000-08:00

Climbing out of the foam pit...think strong alex!

2010-02-06T21:55:00.000-08:00

2010-02-06T20:32:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
We went to Woodward today.. very fun!
Pictures up soon. It's pretty big. They have this thing called snowflex - it's meant to simulate snow and they have jumps into massive foam pits . I was trying to do cork 540's but didn't work. I ended up doing normal 360's. I did that for a while and then we went onto the inbuilt tramps and you can just jump on the tramps or onto the tramps into foam pits . I tried a double back flip ...ALMOST got it and with the slightest rotation from landing on my feet - sooo close!
It was a pretty fun day... Breck tomorrow and this camp finishes in 2 days : O time has flyed so fast and soon I'll be on the 2nd camp.

Time goes fast - soon I'll be home:)

love you all xxxx
Pics of Woodward soon.

2010-02-04T13:42:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
We are back from the mountain. This is the 2nd day we have come home early.
Yesterday Josh thought he had broken his hand so we were home by 12pm. Luckly Josh's hand is only bruised. Today Jeanie was in the pipe and hit her head and was knocked out and now has concussion once again. Saturday is getting closer with Woodward on the way. We are also going to see another movie on Sunday. We have already seen 2 whilst we have been here. We are going to the gym when Sav and Jeanie get back from the medical centre and I can then try out my new joggers which I had to get because my current ones are as grippy as a slipperly slide so Sav made me get a new pair....
Thats all for now

xxxx

2010-02-03T02:49:00.000-08:00

Hey All,

I got 360's off the big jumps yesterday with an indy grab in it. I hurt myself a lot trying though and haven't perfected them yet. I haven't quite got 3's in the pipe yet, we have just been concentrating on getting biggg air and grabs so hopefully soon I will get 3's more.......Today we are going into town. I have to buy new gloves because both my O & E gloves are horrible and cold....We are also going to a place called Woodward on Saturday which is an indoor skate park - inbuilt ramps to foam pits and fake snowboard jumps into foam pits, which should be fun.

Cheers
Alexandra

2010-01-31T20:24:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone.
Today we did a half day like we have for the past week.
We go all out in the morning and die by the arvo!
Then off to the gym for a hard work out and then off to dinner with all the NSWIS boys and Benny. I had soooo much to eat! So full I feel like a marshmellow...
Great day riding with some big air out of the pipe and the early morning hikes really do get to you haha. Another day of hiking pipe tomorrow and a heavy gym sesh!

love all xxxx

2010-01-30T18:31:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
I hope the weather is good for all of you at home! Good weather here today. I woke up at 12 for day off, then cleaned my room, then we went into town and went to Walmart and the movies to see "When in Rome". There isn't much time now till I am on the second camp.
9 weeks until i come home now! The snow is getting better.
Everyone in the house is getting on each others nerves - but are getting better.
I miss everyone a lot and hope you all are having a good time.
Tune into the winter olympics soon.... :)

Night all xxx

2010-01-28T17:16:00.001-08:00

Hey all,
I have some good news. I have been asked to stay for the 9 week program, which is pretty good because they said they chose me for how hard I have been working and that I have real potential and natural talent. If I go it is going to be hard work with schooling, training and gym sessions. It's going to be alot of work! I will miss everyone sooo much but this is a great opportunity!
Today we went to the gym and worked very hard.
That's all for now.
I have some very big decisions to make so I'm off.

love you all
miss you all
xoxoxox

2010-01-26T20:54:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
Best aussie day ever!!!
Waist deep pow, other aussie company got stuckk sooo many times alot of photos...
I'll put them up soon, Bubba gump shrimp for tea then an hour of waiting on Breckenridge main Street for our crepes and about go watch Forest Gump with everyone...
Great aussie day - just all round great!!! Hope eveyone at home had a good one

xxxxx night all

2010-01-25T19:02:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
Today would be aussie day at home, but for me it is tomorrow.
We are going to be going to Vail tomorrow to the girls and my disgust because there is no snow!
We bought 2 dollar aussie flag capes off ebay and will be flapping behind us as we ride. Unfortunately, Vail does not have a park so Pride, Jeanie and I can't act like superman. Last night we had extreme training again with Anthony. We had agility training which started with 500 jumps with a skipping rope, then a numerous amount of activites, then finished with another 500 skips it was an extreme work out and I died. We went to the gym this arfternoon and was again flogged by Anthony. The good thing about Anthony is he is also a trained Physio and I am about to go get a massage from him ... good isn't it!

Night all.
Have a good aussie day!

2010-01-23T17:29:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
Last night we went to Jeanie's parents and had American food with burgers and chips. It was sooooo nice. Today we slept in till 12 then cleaned up and went dog sledding which was sooo fun. We had two teams with two sleds and two people were riding. One was steering and the other sitting. The rest of the people were pulled in a sled behind a ski-doo it was soo fun. We are now waiting for pizza american style haha

night all

xxx

Sorry for no blogs I forget password!

2010-01-21T16:52:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
The snowboarding community is in a bit of a down at the moment.
Kevin Pierce one of the main Olympians at the Olympics is now out and nearly dying. Danny Davis is now out with a broken back, Nate Johnston from the Australian team broke his leg and all of them are now not competing in the Olympics and there is now rumors that Torah Bight has hurt her shoulder again. This is going to be a boring Olympics without all the good people. Everything is great here though. We went boarding today and I learnt all new grabs and I'm perfecting my 180's off the bigger jumps. We were home for half an hour then off to the gym and found out our personal trainer was here. We were then flogged to the bone with 1 min medium pace cycling then 1 min as fast as you can then 2 mins medium pace then so on with more minutes. Then all different core activites. I thought I was going to be coming home fit but now I'm going to be bionic women. Riding is going well. I am starting to get in the habbit of going to bed earlier then usual around 10pm. I have decided to start going to bed at 9:30 though. Everything is great here and am fully pumped for tomorrows gym sesh ...not!

Love you all
Starting to miss home
but is totally sick here!

2010-01-18T18:26:00.000-08:00

Hey all.
Another day on the snow. Started to do front side 180s off the bigger jumps today and hopefully by Wednesday it will be 360s. Tomorrow is our day off which should be good because I am soooo tired. We went to the gym today as well, I am getting more muscles by the day. haha
Night all.
xxx

2010-01-16T21:08:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
Had a very quiet day off.
We slept in and then watched a bring it on marathon most of the day and
went in the spa and watched the boys make a jib.
Very quiet haha

That's all.
Breckenridge tomorrow :)

2010-01-15T16:52:00.000-08:00

Hi all,
We went to Keystone today. It would have to be the most awesome park I have ever seen. It would be better if I could hit most of them. The park is basically made for pro's. The jumps are about 80ft and soo massive the park is set about street style it is sooooo sick. I would like to go there again in this time but for now I'll stick to Breckenridge! We went to the gym after and worked our butts off because tomorrow is day off. We are chilling in the spa, sleep ins and wondering around town which should be fun.
love all xxx

2010-01-14T15:43:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
Today was just another average day snowboarding. We went to the baby park first then over to the medium park and pipe then back to the baby park because the weather became bad. The snow is slowly dissapearing so hopefully we will get a big dump. We are scheduled for one this week - the question is when? We went to the gym by 3pm and are back now at 4:30, I am getting used to going to the gym nearly everyday and hopefully I am getting alot fitter. I have a feeling I'll come home tank. hahaha . I don't know if I told you about one of my team mates who hurt herself and has concussion, but she is able to come home tonight which is good.
That's about all was a pretty good day

Talk to you tomorrow

2010-01-12T17:20:00.000-08:00

2010-01-12T17:18:00.000-08:00

What we do when we shop? Play band stand in old navy haha

2010-01-12T17:16:00.000-08:00

When alexs is blogging

2010-01-12T17:11:00.000-08:00

2010-01-12T14:54:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone.
Sorry I haven't been in contact. I have been very busy and very tired .
We have been going to the gym nearly every afternoon and I tell you I'm deftinately not fit but I'm getting there haha. I bought a couple of things at the outlets. I got two jumpers, two t shirts and a new beanie and I wish I didnt bring so many clothes over because everything is sooooo cheap! Brand jumpers here are 20 bucks and in Australia are about 80. It is great here I am definately getting fit. We hike the pipe every day. In the park I got 360's with a nose grab yesterday but only in the baby park. Just learning but hopefully by the end of the week I will take it to the medium park. The parks here are massive. The baby park is the same as our medium park at Perisher and the medium park here is the same as our big park! Their big parks here are massive and the smallest jump would be about 80ft. Our house is massive and really nice. I share a room with Pride which at the moment is a bit messy but it's due for a clean tonight. Today was our day off and we went shopping and i got my boot fixed because my boa string broke (for anyone who doesnt know what that is its the string that does up my boots). I am having good days and bad . I have been pretty sore from the gym and crashing combined which our hot tub soon fixes . The three of us girls went for a hot tub last night at 10pm and jumped in the snow very cold we took some photos so ill try get some of them from Pride. Today we also went to bubba gump shrimp which was veryyyy yummy . I can now do 360s perfect out of the pipe. Not in the pipe - Like I exit the pipe by doing a 360. Very fun! Well that's about it and I'll try give u an update tomorrow!

love you all xoxo

2010-01-07T23:11:00.000-08:00

Oh and forgot to mention in the blog I just wrote..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANNY
Sorry I can't be there - but I'm pretty sure you understand!

2010-01-07T22:59:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
I have discovered that mum is freaking out becuase she hasn't heard from me so here it goes..
Today was our 2nd day on snow but 1st full day. I had my 1st day in the pipe and park trying to get my confidence back. I am only currently doing the 1st jump in the medium park but hope to soon get my confidence and get to doing the advanced park which may I say is massssivve. Their medium park is like our front valley advanced = so you can see why I'm scared. We spent the afternoon tuning and waxing our board and eating and now soon to sleep. So that's just a quick update and goodnight everyone!

2010-01-05T21:44:00.000-08:00

Hey all,
I'm finally in breckenridge USA!!
From 6 in the morning till 4 in the afternoon I was on planes/ at airports....The plane was fun. With only a few minor hiccups every now and then we got to LA airport which might I add was scorching hot and I was in my singlet . We finally got to Denver when we had to wait an hour for our boards but it was all good because Benny A was on the flight after so we just waited for him .. We got in our awsome streched vans then drove for another two hours. When we arrived Benny in the other van was already at the house and we only had directions which might I add was wrong - thanks google! Benny finally came to find us after an hour and a half of searching in the wrong place then we went to get our food...
Well thats about it and now I have to wait till 12 so I can go to bed because I need to get used to the timezone so
bye bye for now

the day before..

2010-01-04T01:38:00.000-08:00

I'm in Sydney. Not so excited for a 5 o'clock rise to get to the airport by 6:30.
On the other hand I'm completely excited about my 5 weeks in Colorado.
Besides the fact I have to leave my friends and family, not to mention my summer holidays I'm totally stoked to be going to Colorado for the awesomest opportunity and ride with some old friends and coach. I've been packing for about 3 weeks now and only finishing this afternoon with the help of my friend Casey ha ha - Not so good with the packing system. It's a total disaster that I have to miss out on a week of school but I guess I will live ha ha. Early bed tonight, very big day tomorrow with a massive plane trip which I'm very excited about because I love planes!!
Hope to check out the town of Breckenridge - the town I'll be living in for my 5 weeks . I don't know how much time I have to be blogging while I'm over there but I'll try to make time for it
well I'm off for an early night so I'll try blog as soon as I can.

Newspaper Article

2009-10-11T17:28:00.000-07:00

Newspaper Article - Express Advocate - Central Coast - Friday 10th Oct 2009
Click on the picture for full sized article

NZ - Day 6 Final Day of competition

2009-10-02T21:28:00.000-07:00

For full results. http://www.snowsports.co.nz/Article.aspx?Mode=1&ID=998

Just going to airport but results for yesterday are;

Pipe U 16 1st

Parrallel GS 1st

Female Snowboarding Champion U 14 Alex Fitch

Female Snowboarding Champion U 16 Alex Fitch

Overall Female Snowboarding Champion - Alex Fitch

Surfing, skating and surf club tomorrow. Will be good to get home to be with my friends! O and family too!!

Day 5 - Girls get to Cheer the boys on

2009-10-01T02:43:00.001-07:00

With the Girls Slopestyle being run yesterday instead of today - just had to cheer the boys on with their finals for Slopestyle. Have attached a photo of the boys doing Gravity X (Boardercross) to show how much fun it is. Only Pipe and Parrallel Slalom to go tomorrow. Pipe is huge! Walls are 22' here where Perisher walls are 14'. Another first will be, I have never done Parrallel GS before. Should be an interesting and fun day!

NZ Day 4 BX & Slopestyle

2009-09-30T06:03:00.001-07:00

A surprise to see Slopestyle on today as well as Boardercross. Great to do the real Boardercross. Competed again in a Division up - Under 16 instead of Under 14.
2nd in Slopestyle & 3rd in Boardercross. Congratulations Beba and Laura as well as the guys in the team. OZZI OZZI OZZI

NZ Day 3 GS

2009-09-29T15:25:00.000-07:00

I was the only girl in Under 14 so Baffy moved me into under 16. Had no chance...........I thought.............................................
Ended up getting 1st in GS Under 16!!!!!!!

Alex awarded Scholarship from Perisher

2009-09-28T16:28:00.000-07:00

Just received a letter from Perisher awarding Alex with a scholarship for the 2010 season. Thank you very much Perisher.

Day 2 NZ

2009-09-28T16:07:00.000-07:00

A report & photos from Baffy from FastRide on Day 2.

NZ Comp starts 29/09/09

2009-09-27T03:05:00.000-07:00

NZ comp starts 29/09/09.
Tuesday GS, Wednesday Gravity X, Thursday Slopstyle, Friday Pipe & Parrallel GS, Saturday home, Sunday SURF Soldiers. yippee.

Went to Snow Park today. Others went Heli skiing. I learnt new tricks. Cool. Went to the skate park in Wanaka with rest of the team when we came off the mountain. Having a rad time.

2009-09-25T23:10:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the pics Baffy!

2009-09-25T23:08:00.000-07:00

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