[8] He took a bronze medal at the 2011 Winter X Games Europe, and that year he scored a third place at the King of style competition in Stockholm[8] and also placed eighth on his debut at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships.

[12] Woods won the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup for slopestyle in the 2012–13 season,[4][9] winning two rounds along the way.

[14] James got a second opportunity to represent Great Britain in slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, where he again qualified for the finals.

[15] He went on to take the Slopestyle bronze in the Winter X Games Europe in Hafjell in March[16] and repeated the feat in the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in the Spanish resort of Sierra Nevada later that month.

[17] At the 2019 Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in Utah, Woods took the gold medal in the slopestyle competition in poor weather, finishing ahead of Birk Ruud and Nick Goepper, who had pipped Woods to an Olympic medal on the final run of the slopestyle event in 2018.