Irish freestyle National Championship

This past weekend the Irish freestyle national championships and team selections took place on the Curragower wave in Limerick. People were very skeptical of whether or not the competition would actually take place as Ireland has not received a lot of rainfall of recent. Gower works almost like the skookumchuck rapids of British Columbia as the wave is formed when both there is a low tide and when there is a big release from a dam up river. Even with the lack of rain the competition was guaranteed a release from the dam from the ESB. Thanks guys ;)

Forty competitors from all over Ireland arrived down to strut their stuff. Men women, juniors and even C1'er... The sun was shining and moral high which made for a fantastic day.

Photos taken By Dave P



Neil Gibson spraying that water around like theres no tomorrow



Entry move to start/end things off



Tom Dunphy donkey flipping it



Moogie panam



Moe pistol fliping into first



Moe showing us the bottom of that lovely project 52 mid helix



Moe Kelleher mid blunt



Gibson loving that air-time



Mickey Barry mid blunt



Conor Bredin with a nice blunt



Len getting some flash-back action



Mark Leonard with a lovely donkey flip



Len cleaning it up



Len in the middle of a pistol flip



Sinead ripping it up



Kim in winning mode again



Caoimhe rocking herself into 1st place.



Results can be found here http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo114/adrianshanahan/Curragowereventoneresultssc.jpg


Peace out.