Martin, who starts for the Craigleith Ski Club, started snowboarding at the age of eight while on a winter vacation in Jay Peek , Vermont , after skiing for the first time at 18 months. At the age of 16 he made his international debut in 2002 in the Nor-Am-Cup. At the Canadian Championships in 2002 he reached 44th place. On January 20, 2003, he won his first competition in the halfpipe in the Nor-Am Cup. After another victory in the Nor-Am Cup and a third place at the Canadian Championships in 2003, he was appointed to the team for the World Cup. On December 13, 2003, he made his debut in the Snowboard World Cup in Whistler . With the 10th place he immediately achieved a good result and 260 World Cup points. He also reached the points in his second World Cup in Stoneham.
At the 2004 Junior World Championship he started in Oberwiesenthal in Big Air and reached 60th place. In Klínovec , Czech Republic , where the halfpipe competition was held, he finished sixth. After the Junior World Championship he managed to get into the points again in Sapporo , before he went back to the Nor-Am Cup after results outside of the World Cup points. At the 2005 World Snowboard Championships in Whistler, Martin finished eighth in Big Air. After the World Cup, he returned to the World Cup and immediately reached the points in Bardonecchia . At the Sungwoo Resort , he narrowly missed the podium with fourth place.
On December 10, 2005 he reached the podium for the first time in Whistler and finished third in the halfpipe. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he finished 16th in the halfpipe after being eliminated in the second qualifying round. He finished the 2005/06 season in 29th place in the overall World Cup ranking. He finished fifth in the halfpipe ranking. The 2006/07 season began for Martin with a seventh place in Saas-Fee . At the Snowboard World Championship 2007 in Arosa , he surprisingly won the bronze medal in the halfpipe. At the Canadian Championships in 2007 in Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, he won his first national championship. He did not contest the first World Cup in the 2007/08 season until February 2008 in Calgary, where he won the halfpipe for the first time. In the following World Cup in Stoneham he was again on the podium with a second place. At the end of the season, as in 2005/06, he finished fifth in the Halfpipe World Cup ranking.
At the Canadian Championships 2008 in Cypress Mountain in April 2008 he won the championship again. At the Snowboard World Championships 2009 in Gangwon , however, he was unable to confirm these successes and only achieved 19th place in the halfpipe and only 30th in Big Air. At the Canadian Championships in 2009, he won his third championship title in a row. Although he completed a few races in the Nor-Am Cup in December 2009 and finished with only mediocre results, he was part of the Canadian team for the 2010 Winter Olympics . There he reached the 23rd place after he was eliminated in the second qualifying round. At the Canadian Championships 2010 he won his fourth championship title in a row.
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