He won five consecutive British national championships in slopestyle between 2007 and 2011.
Since that first title, hes added X Games and World Cup golds.
It just so happened that above that park there was a (dry) ski slope.
So why did a young skateboarder choose skiing over snowboarding?
The gang set off to Austria and carried on all over Europe.
It was the start of something beautiful for Woodsy and he still hasnt really left the mountains.
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/911570/Woodsy---Skiing-is-my-everything
Skiing still is his everything.
This one is a classic… that style!
Events would never want you, you were always the last pick… if you were picked at all.
Just because you are from the UK.
As I progressed through my career and life, it was what made me unique.
I was always fighting the stigma of, only being there because I was another nation.
Theyll want me there because I bring a whole new nation to the event.
I was always trying to prove myself on two levels.
Now I have my own career, and my own image internationallybut also Im hanging onto the British thing.
Its an advantage on one side and disadvantage on the other."
Its already raised the profile of freeskiing in Britain.
People know that skier-guy with long hair and people know Billy Morgan now (GB snowboarder).
I dont see any negativity around it at all… then that’s a win.
That just goes into my skiing bank and takes me on the next trip to New Zealand.
Skiing has a reputation for being an expensive pastime only done by certain people.
So I was always used to those cultural differences with the different classes.
I left home, I just ran away to go skiing.
Sleeping in the street half the time, just to go skiing.
I never really faced any stigma but if anyone ever said anything Id never listen to them.
Ive never had my ears open to any of the people Ive been trying to get away from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKyOBOE_kQw
His first video blog from Kimbosessions.
X Games was my lifeline, I said that same thing every year.
In terms of favorite skiers, theres only ever been one for Woodsy.
Boxing has Muhammad Ali, basketball has Michael Jordan and skiing has Candide Thovex.
Woodsy was like any other skier when he met the legendary Frenchman:
Meeting him was an amazing thing.
I never got over it and I still havent got over it.
He thought I was joking and wouldnt do it, hes such a humble guy.
Now its turned into a running joke."
Trick:360 Mute, theres just nothing else.
Track:Wildest Dreams, Taylor Swift
