West Wittering Freestyle Competition: Report from Ollie Acton
This weekend saw great wind and mirror flat water down at West Witterings for the next instalment of the UKWA tour, this time Britain’s best freestylers took to the water for another hard fought competition.
Pro top three: 1st Andy Bubble Chambers, 2nd Max Rowe, joint 3rd Oscar Carmichael and Nic Hibdige.
Ollie Acton, competing in West Wittering
Boards will have a full report for you very soon, but first of all we catch up with second placed amateur Ollie Acton.
This was by far the best conditions I’ve ever competed in! 2XS at West Witterings provided the venue for the second event in the UKWA Freestyle calendar, and what a location to hold a competition in.
The wind was forecast to be marginal but by midday I was on my 4.2 Edge fully powered in the glassy flat lagoon, this set the scene for some high class freestyle action. The pro’s were on another level with spock culo’s, skopu’s and other crazy named moves while the amateurs were also pulling off big moves much as funnels, esliders and double flakas in almost every round! I entered in the amateurs and somehow managed to come second after Saturdays competition, something I can be pretty proud considering the level was really high. The pictures below are of the last heat of the day, just as the wind dropped so I changed up to my 5.5 Rock.
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