Monday 9 August 2010

Billabong Co.Sligo Open

Saturday started small, onshore and pretty shapeless.

Ronan Oertzen made the most of it though and blazed through the early rounds

Steve, Aaron, Dan and myself made the trek and decided to have a bash at competition too. Steve looking pensive on his walk back...
Everybody loves a contest scene
Yours truly up demonstrating the versatility of a good board bag
Came up against John in my heat and got schooled as usual.

Conditions got a bit bigger on the push and so did the spray...
Ronan was the stand out surfer of the day and bagged wave of the day in the semis.
Not without some competition of course...
One under, one over
Ronan
Dan representing...
Nicole off the top and taking the title
Darkness falls for the first of the finals...


Big turn on a big board


Nose rising...
Few inches off.
Floating


Goodnight


Sorry guys. This post has been sitting in draft form for about 2 1/2 months. I don't whether it was because of the patchy coverage of the heats or my dreadful attempt at competing, that they never got published. However due to the recent publicity due to the success of the last contest at Easkey I thought it was about time these shots found the light of day too...


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