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The world's greatest Watercraft Freeriders and Racers are descending once again to the ocean beaches of Pacific City Oregon for this year's top US PWC surf event, which combines the second round of the IFWA Freeride World Championship Tour with the IJSBA Freeride World Cup and Motosurf Western Championship. The Surfslam is held at Tierra Del Mar Beach access located just north of Pacific City, Oregon and is free to the public on this wide expanse of incredible beach. The Blowsion Surf Slam brings over 40 professional competitors from around the world competing for a cash purse and points towards the IFWA World title and competing for the 3rd Annual IJSBA Freeride World Cup. Joining them will be some of the best PWC racers in the world who will display high speed turns through a grueling buoy course all while being challenged by the Pacific Coast's always unpredictable waves. Returning this year to compete will be UK Pro Ski Champion Jordan Fielder as well as US Pro Freerider Ross Champion and current IFWA World Champion Pierre Maixent from France. Pro and Amatuer Freeride competitors will compete in a head to head double elimination format. A panel of professional judges will score them 50% for their wave surfing and 50% for their aerial maneuvers. The IJSBA, in its support for the IFWA, will award the winner of this round with the IJSBA Freeride World Cup. The infamous Oregon Pacific Coast surf will boost freeriders over 20 feet in the air while performing surf combinations featuring multiple rotation backflips, Madonna rolls, Superman backflips, inverted barrel rolls, floaters, look backs, aerial re-entries and no handed landings. Spectators will also witness intense personal watercraft racing with the IJSBA MotoSurf Invitational. The top 20 Pro, Pro Am and Amateur wave racers in the country will battle it out in this challenging Oregon shoreline break. Racers will compete in a multi-moto format of several laps through a buoy course requiring a balance of maintaining high speeds while making split second strategic maneuvers around buoys and other racers while being utterly pounded by the intense Pacific Coast surf. This event is a weekend of non-stop surf and beach vibe action. The Freeride Qualifying will begin on Friday September 9th. Motosurf racing will take place on Saturday and Sunday Sept 10th and 11th. The main events will take place Saturday and Sunday from 8am-4pm. K&S Kuwait is proudly presenting the second annual K&S BIG AIR SHOWDOWN on Saturday with a $500.00 cash award to the freerider exhibiting the most amplitude in this must see contest of aerial throw downs. Rounding out the amenities of this action packed weekend is a vendor and sponsor beach display area with food and beverage offerings to add to the festival surf environment. With over three miles of open beach to launch from, be sure to bring your own wave shredding machine to carve up some of the famous Oregon Surf.

The photo was taken by Seiji Uchihashi of Jetter.jp in Japan. Actually someone managed to fit a triple Kawasaki engine inside the engine compartment of the X-2. It is an interesting project and looks very nice the way everything fits inside. Well done.

The particular picture was taken by Chad Cole and it was send to us. It is nice to see that some companies that sponsor riders in a sport also take care of them. Such an ad is good for the sport and good for Monster Energy too. Companies which were involved into jet ski racing used to do it a lot in the past, early nineties, but not any more. So keep it coming.

Markus Erlach of sx-r.com has worked on his triple SX-R version. According to his sayings the project is interesting and very promising for the future. At the moment his engine set up reaches 7700rpm with 100octane fuel by using the stock pump with 33 degrees Celsius. He also works on special rde plate in order to gain approximately another mile in top speed but with this set up –the triple engine- top speed is not the key. Markus is also developing an Igni ECU for this particular engine although at the moment he is using an advent ignition. He stated that his SX-R is pretty fast and is going really well compared to other Kawasaki or tuned Stand Ups. In the near future he will work on a new triple set up with more fast goodies on it.

Sam Harvey, IJSBA Pro Runabout Open world champion of 2009 is preparing a new race craft for the World Finals. He has already made lightweight deck parts before putting the Go Fast goodies inside the engine compartment. Harvey has been very fast the last three years and he has possibly the fastest Sea-Doo at the World Finals. Expect to see him among the first three riders hunting for the win.

Japanese company Sony launched a new series of α (α series) cameras and the International Press Launch was held in Greece. Journalists and photographers from Photo magazines from all over the world were gathered in Grand Resort Lagonissi to photo shoot and test the new cameras. Multi National (of Greece) Champion and Hot Products USA authorised dealer Akis Malouchos and Race Craft tester Vasilis Moraitis (R&D, Hot Products and Jettrim supported rider) were invited along with skiers and wake boarders to play on the blue water field with one scope, to challenge the characteristics and specs of the new Sony cameras. Photographs of the two Greek jet ski riders will be featured in photo and camera magazines around the world.

Team Kawasaki will show up ones again at the World Finals with two riders, as far as we know at the moment, Craig Warner and Dustin Farthing. Craig’s race craft is being prepared from Team Kawasaki Factory Jet Ski Racing. This year the Green Team will prepare a highly tuned Supercharged version of the 300X power plant. We do not know yet how far the Team has gone with the Turbo option but as we know every year they come up with fresh ideas.