Blowsion Up In Pacific City, OR, With The 2011 Surfslam!The 4th Annual 2011 Blowsion Surf Slam was held September 9-11, in Pacific City, Oregon. This has been one of the largest draws in the watercraft industry for sponsors, spectators and competitors...and 2011 would be another stellar year!
On Course Events produced the event and Carol Ann and Rob Guistina paid attention to detail and left everyone on the beach with a big smile as there was plenty of swag including t-shirts from Blowsion, Cold Fusion, and HydroTurf, while other sponsors had unique gifts like the SPY wraparound coozies and Pepperoni from Tillamook Country Smoker...all being tossed out by always friendly emcees, Dawn Dawson and Mikey Young.
The event featured Amateur and Professional Freeriding as well as a Ski Division Moto-Surf race. There were several vendors that had awesome products like Blowsion, Jettribe, Gasket Technologies, Massages by Jacqueline, and great food from The Q Crew and Dog Gone Good Things.
The IJSBA sanctioned Moto-Surf race featured 15 racers 10 Pro and 5 Amateurs. It was a run what you brung melee that attracted feature athletes like Jordan Fielder, movie star Mark Gomez, and last year’s champ, Jeff Troegner of California.
The first moto was taken by England’s Jordan Fielder who earned his stripes by taming the extremely rough Pacific Ocean. When asked after the race, he didn’t know that he actually won the first moto, but it wouldn’t be enough to get the Overall from Mark Gomez, who starred in I am Number Four! Gomez would take the Moto-Surf Championship after falling in the ¼ finals of Pro Freereide.
Blowsion sponsored Jordan Fielder would take second and would fill the podium! Congrats to the winner of the Amateur race!
The Amateur Freeride Competition was awesome! The younger freeriders always go huge at this particular event. Sunday was a fun day for the youngest of the freeriders, Christian Young who deposited his biggest win of his young career and made his father, Michael, a very proud poppa!
There were several amazing runs, but the podium only takes three...so backing up Christian on the podium was South Africa’s Jake Montadon, who did it on borrowed Blowsion property. Newcomer, Wesley Krautkramer, had an epic debut as he also landed a podium spot in third! Hard Luck award this weekend would go to Tanner Thomas, get well soon and if anyone finds his boat, please contact us!
The Blowsion Surf-Slam Pro Freeride was completely sick! Beginning with qualifying, this international field that featured racers from France, Brazil, Japan, South Africa, and of course the good ole USA. France would make it to the ¼ finals with Pierre Maxient representing against Taylor Curtis, who starred in an episode of MTV’s Nitro Circus, teaching Travis Pastrana to backflip a watercraft! Curtis would take that in the best showdown I have witnessed!
Curtis would work through the Semi-Finals through Banzai Takaaki Murao to face the winner of the other bracket! Speaking of the other bracket, it was stacked as well with free riders like Ross Champion, Zack Bright, and Jerry Brandon to name a few! Last year’s champion, Ross Champion, worked through the brackets skillfully as he tricked his way in to the finals against Taylor Curtis!
Curtis, however, introduced a new level of competition and degree of difficulty as he completed several re-entry variations, though he would have mechanical issues which led to his demise. Champion would complete the back to back victories and is the first free rider to win back-to-back titles at the Blowsion Surf Slam!
Special thanks to Boy Wonder John Dady, of Blowsion, Jeff at the Pacific City Inn, Jess at the Oar House, the dude who sold me the winning lotto ticket at the Shell, Mother Nature, Scott Frazier, and NO THANKS TO THE CHICK WHO KICKED US (Derek Correll and I) OUT OF SPORTSMANS FOR BEING COOLER THAN HER...CANK!!! Haha! Great times...
Hope to see everyone back in 2012!
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