The following day I headed back out to Clifden for the competition. It was divided into two heats of eleven paddlers, I was drawn in the first heat along with Moogie, Neil Gibson, Conor Bredin and Eoin Keys from the senior men's class. When it kicked off the hole was still a bit flushy, that with some nerves on my part left me with just a loop after my first ride. Before my second ride I loosened up with some flat water cartwheels, loops and felix's which helped me put together a much better ride. I managed an air loop, split wheel, cartwheels, felix and some spins, I went for some space godzila's and mcnasty's too but didn't manage to score them.
The second heat started as soon as everyone from heat one was off the water to judge and scribe for the second heat. From senior men's there was Bowsie, Tom Dunphy, Ronnie and Dave O Sullivan. Tom put in two solid rides with some nice air loops and space Godzilla's with the others not far behind him.
As soon as the second heat was finished everyone jumped on the water and with the pressure being off, people started throwing out their best rides of the day. I definitely need to get more competition practice in as the two forty five second runs leaves no room for a slip up.
After the hole died off everyone gathered in the car park for results. I managed to finish 3rd with Tom taking the win and Bowsie second. Full results are below as I remember them. I will update them once the full results are published on Irish Freestyle if I have them wrong.
Next Weekend is the second team trials event in Sluice up in Dublin. Hopefully I can put in a decent performance and make the team again this year. Top five make the team so I have a little bit of breathing space but not much. Then the following weekend there is a Gower Event, think that could be the first round of the National Championships but not to sure on that.
Hopefully I will get out boating a few times this week before round two of team trials. Below are the results from Round one,a video Eoin Keys threw together and some more photos from the day.
Unfortunately I cant remember results from the juniors but I will add them once they are posted online.
All Photos courtesy of Eoin Keys
Results Team Trials Event 1 : Clifden
- Tom Dunphy
- Bowsie
- Barry Loughnane
- David O Sullivan
- Ronnie
- Moogie
- Neil Gibson
- Eoin Keys
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