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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.

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.

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.

Pro Freestyle rider Slovenian Rok Florjancic will show up ones again at the IJSBA World Finals this year on a Rickter X-FS race craft. Two years ago Rok had introduced his famous Helicopter trick that amazed the Havasu spectators. Rok is being sponsored by RRP Rickter and X-Scream. As he had informed us he is being training hard and we hope to see him clinching an IJSBA world title this year.

Farthing and Hardwick take both wins in Pro Runbout classes. Lake Hartwell, SC – Monster Energy / Kawasaki / Mountain Motorsports teammates Dustin Farthing and Ryan Hardwick win the Triple Crown of Watercross in the Pro Open & Pro Stock Classes. Farthing, the reigning Pro Runabout World Champion, dominated the competition by winning all three moto’s in rout to his fifth overall victory in the premier Pro Runabout Open class aboard his Mountain Motorsports tuned Monster Energy Kawasaki Ultra 300X. Farthing said afterward, “Since I moved to Atlanta, this is a new hometown race for me! I could not keep winning without the support of all my great sponsors like Monster Energy, Kawasaki, Mountain Motorsports, Jet Pilot, Jet Trim, JE Pistons, Smith, Vortech Superchargers, Hot Products, AP, and Fox.” Farthing continued, “Without my sponsors, and the support of my family and team, I could not be out here doing what I love.” Ryan Hardwick also took the overall win in the highly competitive Pro-Am Runabout Stock class. This was the second victory of the season for Hardwick, and it could not have come at a better time. The win puts Hardwick in second place in the national championship points chase with only one round remaining. “This was without a doubt my best race of the year,” said Hardwick after the race. “There have only been two riders that have won in this class so far this year, and I’m proud to be one of them.” Hardwick continued, “It was great to get my second win in front of all my friends and family that were here!” Be sure to catch Farthing and Hardwick and the entire Mountain Motorsports / Monster Energy / Kawasaki racing team as they compete at the final round of the UWP / IJSBA National Tour on August 20th and 21st in Charleston, WV.

Japanese rider Minoru Kanamori has been in the sport for four decades, from the eighties and through 2011. He has been a successful rider no matter what he was ridding. He has done it all from close course racing (Skis and Runabouts) to Freestyle. This is a photo from the good olds days, the Golden Years of personal watercraft racing when Kanamori won two World Titles with the Kawasaki XiR.

Dustin Motzouris is having fun back home, in South Africa where he practices on his four-stroke Ski. He has mentioned that he rides much faster on the particular craft than on his two-stroke Ski, on the other hand he has not found any proper sponsor to race it at the World Finals. Therefore, he will show up on a triple cylinder 1200cc Kawasaki SX-R that will be prepared by Steve Webster of Kommander Industries.