Gower Freestyle Comp

Last weekend saw the Curragower round of the national freestyle championship. Its great having a competition on my back door for a change intead of having to travel the length of the country for it! We even got good weather for the day, with warmth and sun being a change from some of the other recent comps! Between that, and the release that the ESB provided giving us a brilliant wave for the day I dont see why so many people disagree with me when I say that we should hold more comps at Gower! Mabey its too different to sluice for some people?!

The competition went better than usual for me too. Even though I didnt manage to paddle as well as I am able to, as always, what I did was enough to put me in fourth, behind Bowsie, Conor Bredin and Dave O'Sullivan. Since its only my second competition since I moved up to seniors I'm happy out with it! After the main comp was finished they held a biggest-trick competition. The rules were simple, drop in only, and whoever got the most air took the bragging rights. On my first run I think I got the biggest air blunt that I've ever landed on Gower, and that put me in the lead right up untill the final round, where Conor landed a massive clean air blunt, and Dave pulled off a blunt to pistol flip combo, knocking me into third. Sickened!

Bowsie

Mick mid-airscrew

Tom O'D mid airscrew

Vids by Jessica Lyddy and Conor Macken, pics from Dave P.

Looking back at the pics, those new Project X's look like there going huge! ...I need money, anyone feel like giving me a job over the summer?!