If you want some top snowboarding action to inspire you get yourself organised for the forthcoming season, then on Friday October 14 get yourself down to the Daily Mail Ski & Snowboard Show for the Orange AIM Series Best of British Big Air invitational contest.

The show runs at the Grand Hall, Olympia from October 12 to 16 but on the Friday twelve of Britain’s

Scott McMorris in 2004 contest

top snowboarders and eight skiers (amongst them Olympic hopefuls and British champions) will hit the 15 metre big air jump in the live action arena. The qualifying sessions start at 15.30, with the best six snowboarders and four best skiers going through to the final at 19.00.

In last year’s event, the snowboarders threw down 720 rotations and freestyle skier Mike Wakefield was the first Brit to pull a full d-spin 900 rotation in a UK event – so it’s an event definitely worth checkin out.

Confirmed snowboarders are:
Scott McMorris, Tyler Chorlton, Dom Harington, Ben Kilner, Ed Gunn, Mike Austin, Dan Wakeham, Ryan Davis, Adam Gendle, Josh Wolf, Jamie Nicholls and Mollie Percival - the first girl to take part in the challenge so you've gotta be there to cheer her on!

Over in The Boardroom the centre piece is the 20 square metre grind rail area with a 5.5 metre straight box rail and a five meter rollercoaster box. This is the place where UK’s hottest jibbers will battle it out in the Orange AIM Series Best Jib Crew challenge. Five snowboard and two freestyle ski crews, handpicked through a nationwide search and each with five members, will be trying to score as many points as possible for their crews to win the title of the UK’s Best Jib Crew.

For tickets to the 2005 Daily Mail Ski and Snowboard Show, including the Orange AIM Series Best of British and Best Jib Crew, buy online www.dailymailskishow.co.uk or call 08705 900 090. Advanced weekday tickets start from £9.00 for Adults and £27 for Family groups.

But you might have the chance to save your pennies this year as we’ve got five pairs of tickets giving you entry to the show on the Friday – courtesy of the Daily Mail Ski & Snowboard Show peeps so you can check out the Best of British contest for free.

Our lovely Animal prize - you want it

If that’s not enough, Orange AIM Series sponsor Animal are also giving a fantastic ladies jacket to one lucky ticket winner. The White Ops Halo Jacket is a super high tech jacket perfect for all weather conditions. It’s a whopping 20,000mm waterproof, 20,000 gms breathable and has a fully taped shell construction. Special features include waterproof zips with welded seams, magnetic fastenings, pit zip venting, snow skirt and linking system and detachable hood. The jacket retails at £199.99 (RRP) – for more info on Animal’s 05/6 range check out www.animal.co.uk

To win a pair of tickets or a pair of tickets and this ace jacket, send us your contact details below before October 4th (only open to powderroomies in the UK).

All entrants will join the monthly powderroom.net mailing list but we promise we won’t give your details to anyone else and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Don’t forget to enter our other draw to win tickets to the show courtesy of The Boardroom – enter both and you’ve definitely got more chance of being a winner!