Top British medal hope James Woods looking for glory in new Winter Olympic sport You are free to do whatever you want and there are no rules, no one is telling you what to do or what you cannot do. It is all about self-expression and being rewarded for being completely different to everyone else. So far this season Woods has won two World Cup events, the most recent in Copper Mountain, Colorado last weekend, following on from the first event in Argentina before Christmas. The 20- year -old has now amassed enough points to secure Team GB one of the four available spots at the Winter Olympic Games. Since it was elevated to Olympic status Woods says there have been changes to the slopestyle scene, some unwelcome: "It was a bit of a lads tour, living the dream," he said. It has been a bit of a shock because the Olympics has made it more competitive, suddenly there are skiers who you have never seen before. But I want to keep going and become so accustomed to competing that the Olympics will just be another day in the office. Hailing from Sheffield, Woods eschewed more popular sports at school in favour of skiing and managed to persuade the education authorities to allow him time off to perform in competitions. His introduction to winter sports came through a family day out aged 10 at a dry ski slope. He can still recall the wonder at seeing "real" snow on a trip to Wengen, Switzerland a few years later. However Woods credits that dry slope with honing his technical skills. He says he can now perform at his best even in the most adverse snow conditions. For the past three seasons he has been based at Breckenridge, Colorado. Current tricks of choice include mid-flight ski grabs as well as double off-axis rotations, which involve spinning repeatedly while upside down. He said: "The focus for me is to work very hard on the style aspect and to make it all look so easy. When I get to a course, I look how I can bring the tricks I like into this situation. Great Britain has only ever won one Olympic medal in skiing, a bronze to Alain Baxter in 2002. The medal was subsequently stripped from Baxter after he tested positive for drugs. Woods is hoping to change this record, in a sport that promises unpredictability: All of the skiers want diversity of the course. The last thing we want is a rule book on how to win a slopestyle.