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Coach Catton:
Ride to the Games
For Coach Elliot Catton, the 2024/2025 snowboard season brings a mix of pride and challenge. With this being the pre-Olympic year, all World Cup events will be used to unlock spots for Canada at the games and decide which riders will make the cut. He wishes every athlete could make it to the games, but with only 4 spots per gender, that can’t be the case. That doesn’t mean he can’t give every rider their best shot at success. In Ride to the Games, Coach Catton gives an in depth look at the riders and what he and his fellow coaches are doing to give them their best shot at reaching their Olympic dreams.
Episode 1 - Truth Smith and Liam Brearley
Episode 1 focuses on Truth Smith (left) and Liam Brearley (right), a pair that have a big contrast in their riding and coaching style, but have a big overlap in work ethic. Truth loves to have fun on the mountain and makes sure that everyone around him is having fun too. Although he uses everyone’s energy to push himself and his talent, Coach Catton has to figure out if that’s helping Truth or hindering him. Liam is an incredibly focused rider with the ability to practice a trick over and over until he gets it up to his high standard. The trick for Coach Catton is to make sure Liam is staying creative and trying things that may be far outside his growing bag of tricks.
Wrapped around the final 2024 Spring Training Camp, Episode 1 is a first look at how the ride to the games will be a complex one.
