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The World freestyle championship well what can I say, altogether it was a pretty sick weekend. It started off with a well memorable car journey up there in Ollies tiny little Nissan micro, he picked us up at 12 midnight from Exeter services with our boards and everything we needed for the weekend ahead. We managed to just about stuff all of our stuff in the small car but that meant that we had pillows, bags and pads piled up on us for 2 ish hours listening to machete. We finally got there at 3 in the morning and ended up nearly beating each other up trying to set up a tent with missing poles and with only Ollie’s car lights to light us up but then in the end we finally realised that we had a missing pole and got all out stuff in and had an amassing nights sleep.

In the morning we set up our boards and had a little jib on the rails and kickers and then hit the big ones which tom obviously had to beast with flips and spins. That evening the French gave out wine, cheese and bread (my diner) which most people kicked back on but panda went a bit over the top and ended out pretty damn drunk. The next morning most people were up by 10 in the morning riding and going wild, the comp kicked of at 11-12 ish, it started with the qualifiers which has some people doing spins and flips on one or maybe two jumps but no one was doing anything mad until the finals which only 15 people got through to and then people were spinning, flipping and going wild over all three jumps and the drop. The finals of the competition was a freestyle jam witch meant you could go whenever you wanted and in what ever order you felt like, the were some pretty sweet tricks being nailed and attempted like toms run, switch 540 on the first jump to rodeo on the second and switch rodeo on the last jump and to top it all of a rodeo in the quarter also tom read did a back flip on the first to a front flip on the second to a 720 on the last and the a back flip in the quarter and Joe attempted a  double back flip but didn’t manage to land it. Everyone had a wicked time and I’m sure the spectators would have loved it.

That evening everyone sat around the fire and had a load more fun like the spew off between Tom, Tuai and Ollie and the fire fighting, walking and falling over on the fire most people stayed up pretty late but there was only a few of us battling it out till light not a good idea because the next morning we had to pack and survive the long journey back whilst watching Barry’s footage with lots of film of Barry’s shoes and the grass typical Barry moments.Im pretty sure that summed up the whole weekend of fun.

words by Mick Kirkman

Nice write up Mick. You forgot to mention you beating Tom at downing a can of strongbow (jack jhonston BFC crew member)