About Gromcamp >>

The salomon freeski grom camps are freestyle ski camps, held all over the country at indoor snow slopes and outdoor dry ski slopes. They are now known, not just for top notch coaching, but also as a community for the uk’s top young freestylers.

There is no age limit; the youngest camper so far was 5 and the oldest 60+. The camps are also for all standards of skiers, from 'never jumped before' to sponsored riders. We do require all campers to be able to ski down the slope in a controlled and safe manner but it is not necessary to have ever tried freestyle before. We also require all campers to wear a helmet (you can borrow one from the slope if you don’t have one).

We have different groups for different levels of skiers so as to make sure everyone gets the very best coaching from our professional skiers and we make it as much fun as possible. The camps are run by Pat Sharples, team manager for Salomon and Oakley, and he employs only the top name coaches in the industry including Andy Bennett, James Woods, Joe Tyler, James Webb and Becky Hammond. Check out 'Meet The Team' below for their profiles.

After each camp we show video highlights of the day and reward the campers with prizes for the most improved, hardest working and best tricks of the day. The sponsors always put in great prizes, including: t-shirts, caps, rucksacks, headphones, goggles and sometimes even ski equipment or computers!

The cost of each camp is £30 and this covers slope fees and coaching.

We look forward to skiing with you soon!

Meet The Team

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Pat started the Grom Freeski camps in 2005 and has worked hard ever since coaching kids and promoting British Freeskiing. As a former England freestyle ski team captain, he used to compete at the highest level in mogul, Big Mountain and New School freestyle events. Pat is the head coach of the Salomon Grom Freeski Camps and the British Freeski camps and is also the Salomon and Oakley UK ski team manager.

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Andy has won more British titles than any other skier in the UK. This has earned him the nickname, the Ice Man! He spends his winters away in ski resorts around Europe doing photo shoots and filming for the latest ski flicks. Andy has worked with Pat on the Grom camps from the start and also coaches the World cup halfpipe team and Olympic hopefuls.

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Woodsy, as he is known in the ski world, started off training on the Grom camps 3 years ago and now he has worked himself up to the resident coach. At only 16 years of age he is considered one of the best freestyle skiers in the UK. He has now been on the Salomon UK ski team for over 3 years and looks set to represent Britain at the highest level.

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Joe is from Halifax but has been based in Austria for the last 4 winters. He has now won the British Big Air championships twice and also got great results in the European comps. You can see Joe in all the major UK ski movies & magazines.

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Joe also started off training on the camps years ago with his 2 younger brother's Sam and Harry and now helps with coaching all the new kids who come along to the Groms. He recently got put on to the Salomon UK ski team and he is now performing tricks that have only been done by the Worlds best skiers.

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Regarded as the UK’s No1, Paddy is now a full time pro skier competing in some of the worlds biggest events along side the world’s best! He is part of the Volkl European team and is also sponsored by Nike ACG and Smith Optics. When Paddy's back in the UK he always makes sure he comes along to help coach on the Groms.

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As one of the leading ladies in British Freesking, Becky is now competing on the World cup halfpipe circuit and doing photoshoots for magazine and ski catalogues. She recently came 3rd in the Verbier Ride and she took away many medals at this years Brits.

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Andy is one of the UK’s best mogul skiers and New School freestyle skiers. He is one of only a few Brits attempting the double flips and has his own trick named after him (the ginger flip).

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Charlie is from the freestyle capital of the world Stoke-on-trent. He is sponsored by Volkl UK and this year has won some big events including the Fat Face night ski and the West beach freezer jam. He is now a qualified freestyle ski coach and works with all the up and coming kids at his home slope in Stoke and at the Salomon Grom Freeski camps.

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JP is one of the most passionate guys you can meet when it comes to Skiing & Snowboarding and is one of the highest qualified freestyle coaches in the UK. He is known for getting amazing results with skiers he coaches on the Grom Camps and is always more than happy to help all the regular freestyler's out at his home slope Chill Factore (www.chillfactore.com). JP also works in the marketing department at the Chill Factore and has been massively involved in all the major events that go on there including the Just Passing Thru (www.justpassingthru.tv) tour where the likes of Tom Wallisch, TJ Schiller, Matt Walker and Mike Clarke came over for a session which was legendary!

INTINERaRy

  • Meet the coaches for pre-camp briefing
  • Grom Groups assigned - according to your ability
  • Warm up runs
  • 3 hours (unless otherwise stated) of on-slope training with a short break in the middle!
  • A jam session takes place towards the end of the camp where you get to freeski and showcase your best new tricks for the camera!
  • Video highlights and prize-giving.

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