Becky Menday

When we saw the Dragon Team Trip pictures of Scottish shred lass Sophie Addison, along with some of our other favorite ladies appear all over our instagram we were a little jealous to say the least – sunshine and funtime is what we are all about, so we caught up with Soph for a quick [...]

Becky Menday voted the best overall snowboarder by the judges at the ‘Big Air’ event held at ‘Ski Rossendale’ dry slope – even beating the boys. This was Becky’s first competition since fracturing her elbow back in June, and was again back on dry slope. But this did not seem to deter the young 13 [...]

The fourth and final day of competition at the BRITS 2012 saw Jamie Nicholls and Katie Ormerod destroy the perfectly shaped Laax park to take home the gold in the Protest Snowboard Slopestyle Championships. The cream of British shredders saved their best for last – bathed in glorious sunshine, the level of riding was ridiculous [...]

For a third day running the BRITS was treated to scorching weather and sick riding as Katie Ormerod  took home the gold in the Snowboard Big Air Championships. The Laax shapers outdid themselves once again by building an absolute beast of a kicker, which at 20 metres was the biggest in BRITS history. After last [...]

The snowboard halfpipe competition took place on day two of The BRITS under blazing sunshine. The best of our British pipe riders went head to head in the Dare2b Snowboard Halfpipe Championships, throwing down in a perfect pipe and with MC James Thorne’s banter creating a party atmosphere for spectators. Those who came to watch [...]

A couple of years back we met Katie Ormerod at a One Snowboarding Camp in L2A, and even then it was plain to see that we could expect great things from her.  Now as if a prophecy is coming true, Katie has started to make a real name for herself on the International competition circuit. [...]

Tuesday saw the Protest World Rookie Fest slopestyle competition go off in Livigno, Italy.  The 3 star Swatch TTR World Championship event is a major competition for young shred talent to show off their skills, and the UK had Becky Menday, Nathalie Silkstone and Ayla Thidling representing. The competition was held over two days with [...]

On Friday Nike hosted the first of their Chosen series – a competition series for amateur snowboarders, giving them the chance to win a place riding with some of the worlds top snowboarders at the Nike Chosen Sessions next April.  The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead provided the UK’s biggest Kicker of the year measuring [...]

As you all hopefully know we are sending our resident Punter Victoria on a season mission to compete at the British Snowboard Championships in March in a bid to make it onto the podium.  Last week she had a session at the SNo!zone Milton Keynes and we decided to dress her in one of our [...]

With only a few weeks before the Girlylegs HQ relocates to Mayrhofen, our resident Ginger Nut, Victoria has been throwing herself into her role as the star of our newest feature Punter to Podium. For the second weekend in a row, she has been representing at the UK Snowdomes and getting in and around the [...]