EB Freeski Team - andy bennett
© Marc Shapiro (The North Face)
Name - Andy Bennett
Age - 26
Years riding - 22
Winter home / summer home - Anywhere in the world with mountains and snow. Nottinghamshire in summer.
Blog - http://www.fall-line.co.uk/blogs/verbier-blog
Sponsors - Equipment
Skis - Line
Boots - Full Tilt
Bindings - Marker
Binding mounting point - On the normal line where you are supposed to have them!
Outerwear - Oakley
Goggles - Oakley
Poles - Line
Helmet - Ellis Brigham
Favourites…
Favourite trick - An Elephant doing a bank robbery. Or a nice big piste slash!
Favourite ski movie - "Blizzard of Aahhh’s" with “Maltese Flamingo” in close second.
Favourite non-ski movie - Police academy 6.
Favourite music - Sister Sledge, Bannanarama and Shawaddywaddy.
Favourite resort - Sherwood Forest centre parks and Steamboat in Colorado.
Favourite food/drink - Donner Kebab flavoured pot noodle and lady grey tea.
Favourite park - Mammoth mtn.
You don’t need to answer all the questions below, just select any that you want to!
First skiing experience - On Warmwell dry slope. Hated every minute of it!
Favourite ski experience - Skiing the deepest day ever in Steamboat one winter. Choked on one of my face shots!
Notable achievements in skiing - Won the Verbier Ride a few times. Competed for Britain in Moguls and Halfpipe. Had no major injuries!
Any special skills outside of skiing - I’m a digger driver and ground worker when I’m not skiing. I also make furniture in my workshop at home. I’m good at pub quizzes and doing the washing up.
Who do you admire in skiing - Glen Plake, Pat Sharples and Simon Ashton
Funniest thing seen on snow - The naked guy on who fell off the chairlift in America. (Google it!)
If I weren’t skiing, I’d be …Either at home or in a digger on a horrible building site somewhere in the country that would be better off not existing at all.
Best competition you ever entered - Soldeu FIS Europa cup Moguls and Half pipe in Andorra.
Quickfire preference
Park or powder - Powder
Louie, Danni, Cheryl or Simon - Danni and Cheryl
Rails or kickers - Kickers
Poles or no poles - Poles! No pole’s is proper Steven Fry!
Skate or Surf - Surf
Beanie or helmet - Beanie
Bumps or trees - Both at the same time with powder too!
Snowblading or jester hats - One can’t be worn without the other
Tanner or Seth - Seth
Steve or Rhys - Rhys, because Steve has too many vegetables in his garden (you wouldn’t be so jealous if you saw the garden now!)
