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Mia Brookes was ever going to marque a batch of sound connected the satellite stage.
A twelvemonth agone the British snowboarding prodigy was excessively young to vie astatine the Winter Olympics - present she is simply a satellite champion and landed a instrumentality that no-one had ever done successful a women's event.
The 16-year-old wakes up to Metallica, relaxes by doing adrenaline sports and is ever connected the determination - rather virtually - successful a motorhome her parents bought respective years agone to chopped down connected edifice and question costs arsenic she pursued her snowboarding dream.
A inferior satellite champion past year, she is present successful her archetypal play connected the elder planetary circuit and is surviving up to the hype that followed her agelong earlier she was adjacent a teenager.
So, however did the miss who started retired connected adust slopes and astatine snowfall domes successful the UK extremity up becoming the youngest ever snowboarding satellite champion?
Motorhome, Metallica and motocross
The girl of snowboard enthusiasts Vicky and Nigel, Cheshire-born Brookes stepped connected to her archetypal snowboard astatine the property of 18 months.
She was soon honing her skills astatine the Kidsgrove Ski Centre successful Stoke and the Chill Factore successful Manchester, portion besides experiencing the existent snowfall successful Europe for respective weeks a twelvemonth with her parents.
"We utilized to spell to the mountains successful our motorhome. I'm utilized to it now, it has allowed america to question astir a batch much and is flexible successful presumption of getting to antithetic resorts," she said.
"It has been similar a 2nd home. Your bags aren't going to spell missing successful a motorhome!"
Her performances caught the oculus of Ski Sunday commentator Ed Leigh, who said 5 years agone erstwhile she was conscionable 11 that it was "difficult not to get truly excited astir Mia due to the fact that she is undoubtedly 1 of the astir breathtaking young talents not conscionable successful the UK, but successful snowboarding globally".
After occurrence connected the inferior circuit, Brookes stepped up to elder level this season, winning World Cup metallic astatine the prestigious Laax lawsuit successful January and being 1 of lone 8 riders to get an invitation to the X Games.
And connected Monday she became a satellite champion successful Georgia, landing the archetypal Cab 1440 treble drawback - featuring 4 rotations of the assemblage successful the aerial portion grabbing the committee - successful a women's lawsuit to assertion Britain's maiden slopestyle gold.
As usual, she had listened to her favourite dense metallic euphony earlier lining up.
"Listening to Metallica gets maine hyped up and wanting to onshore each my tricks," she said.
"It gets maine successful that mindset successful the mornings. If I'm lasting astatine the apical of a slope, it helps maine visualise erstwhile I'm going to driblet in.
"I decidedly consciousness similar I'm an adrenaline junkie. I utilized to bash a spot of motocross erstwhile I was younger, and I similar going accelerated connected my snowboard!"
Remote learning and 'not fitting in'
Travelling astir truthful overmuch has meant overmuch of Brookes' schooling has been via distant learning and she has besides missed retired connected 'ordinary' schoolhouse beingness - though she sees that arsenic a affirmative due to the fact that she "never truly acceptable in".
"Snowboarding has ever felt mean to me," she said. "At home, I ne'er recovered a radical that I got on with due to the fact that we were each truthful different.
"It was maine against 5 different girls who were funny successful wholly antithetic things, we ever clashed. It is bully to beryllium distant and astir radical who stock my passion."
She is besides grateful for the enactment of her parents, who some emotion snowboarding.
"It has helped maine a batch to prosecute my dream," she said. "In the summer, we rhythm unneurotic which keeps your legs beardown for the wintertime and it is simply a bully mode to relax.
"It is hard to flight it with snowboards astir the house, but it makes maine consciousness astatine home."
'I'm surviving my dream'
Brookes' imaginable has ne'er been successful question ever since her elder planetary lawsuit debut successful December 2020 astatine the property of 13, erstwhile she placed 2nd astatine the Europa Cup slopestyle successful Corvatsch.
Now she has her sights connected the adjacent Winter Olympics astatine Milan-Cortina successful 2026, having been excessively young to vie past twelvemonth successful Beijing.
"I utilized the past Olympics arsenic a instrumentality to physique up my tricks for the adjacent one, truthful I took the positives retired of missing out," she said.
"All of my dreams person been coming existent this year. I anticipation to triumph golden astatine X Games and the crystal globe [for the wide World Cup winner].
"That would beryllium beauteous insane."
Brookes whitethorn person conscionable made history, but you tin beryllium definite she is not stopping there.
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