Sunbury Weir

Rich and I were up early and after some minor confusion with a fallen tree and the old bill we found the relevant car park.

There were already three others guy getting ready when we arrived and they were on before us. We therefore saw a couple of guys go into the hole before us we took some of the pressure off.


The weir pool was very high and this somewhat flattened the hole making it less grrr then it might have been. That said, water was piling in a quite a rate and the hole was pretty retentive, especially in the middle. You could feel a lot of force behind the water and it weren’t a place for the nervous. It did wash out upside down, eventually, although I saw one guy roll three times before he got washed off. A lower weir pool would, presumably, become make it even more retentive.



There was perfect eddy service due to the surfers right gate being closed. This made getting on the hole really easy, much easier than say Shepperton. The paddle to get-out was a bit of a stitch but I'll leave that as a surprise.

I thought it was really good at this level, as the number of gates (we had six of seven) and the pool level changed you'd get a different feature. Defiantly somewhere to go back.


I'm not in any of the photo's but let me assure you that I was awesome;). Dave.

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