Flowerports WAVE



Do first surfs exist? Probably not but I'm claiming it anyway. The flowerpots wave was spotted a few years back by AS Watersports when the river flooded and the second pots weir washed out. It only took about 6 months worth of rain within a week but this weekend i got to surf it. I also got interrogated by sky news who were reporting on the recent flooding and didn't approve http://news.sky.com/story/1016089/flood-scenes-shocking-says-david-cameron (not sure if link will stay up).

 

 The upper part of the weir

 Breaking out in the beer garden

Sky news

 

2012 British Championships Results

The British Championships were concluded this weekend at Hurley.

It was decided by taking the best 3 results from the following events:

Tryweryn - May
Cardiff - Sept
Nottingham - Oct
Hurley – Nov

Mens

1 Sam Anderson
2 Ben Brayfield
3 Matt Rogers

Womens

1 Emily Wall
2 Islay Crosbie
3 Rachel Bovill

C1

1 Sam Anderson
2 Josh Wedgewood
3 Paul King

Junior Men

1 Tom Goddard
2 Jake Boswell
3 Chris Thorne

Junior Womens

1 Kim Aldred
2 Jen McGaley

OC1

1 Paul King

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Cardiff Freestyle Improvements

Cardiff International Whitewater course has recently had some modifications to it making it pretty good for freestyle.

New Feature – ‘Camera’

Its kind of a new feature, there was a little hole there before but it wasn’t particularly good. Apparently, its called Camera and its in the middle of the back straight. I paddled it on 8 and 10 cumics and at both levels it was a nice retentive hole. On 10 it becomes a bit steeper and stickier but is still fairly friendly. I wouldn’t say left or right moves go any better and even on 8 I wasn’t hitting the bottom so was pretty impressed with this new feature.

Modifications have also been made to the feature on the corner of the course by the centre. I had a few goes in it on 10 and it was definitely a lot better than when I’d previously paddled it on 8 or 12. It seemed more retentive and made it easy to get some big air on loops and godzillas. I didn’t paddle it on 8 but you could see from looking at it that it was more retentive and uniform without any waves kicking up in the middle of it.