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Blowsion stuff will attend the annual event of Daytona Freeride “Blowsion Performance Tech (and Toy Story character look-alike) Erik Karn will be on the beach at Daytona with Blowsion GM Scott Wheeler. Feel free to drop by and shoot the shizz with these guys. Erik has offered free spark plug gapping to those in need, and if you come bearing early morning Bloody Mary's, there may be a free cylinder porting job hammered out right there on the beach by Buzz himself, and Scott has been known to have a collection of swag to share. See you all in a few short days”

When Clayton Jacobson II invented the Stand-Up he had no other scope rather than having fun on the water with safety. He wanted to enjoy the feeling of MX bike without having the possibility to get heart easily. This was his initial idea prior designing the Stand-Up ski. However, since then –fourty years ago- many things have changed and the easy having fun Jet Skis became heavy and expensive Runabouts. In other words there were no toys left for the kids. There was never made any version of those Stand-Ups for the kids. Like what the manufacturers do for the MX bikes. MX mini bikes are the primary school of the real thing. These are the bikes which the fathers use to teach the kids how to ride properly and safe a motor bike prior entering to the sport. Popular Frenchman tuner and race team owner Pascal Barriac is most probably the only person in the world who visualized the need of such a Ski and dedicate himself to develop a Stand-Up that will enable youngsters to enter the sport at the age of 6-7 years old and get trained prior riding a heavier and more powerful Ski initially designed for adults. A light-weight low powered and very stable Ski which will enable the kids to learn the principles of Jet Skiing. After producing the carbon Freestyle IP5 and the Freeride IP5 race boats Force introduces now the kid ski KS3. It is the “how to learn jet ski riding” Stand-Up, the first ever Stand-Up that has been designed for kids. Is this the revolution of the Sport? Yes, it is. It is exactly what the sport needs in order to go one step beyond. Read more about it in the World Exclusive published in the Features section soon.

Japanese firm is bound to release its own billet aluminium fuel pick up for Kawasaki SX-R and X-2. At the moment you may look at it on the CAD screen. Soon to be released in the market.

Jettribe has just releases the news about the goggle series that the company produces. For 2013 there will be available 12 new styles and colors. Take a look at those unique goggles on Jettribe’s booth at Daytona Freeride event in January.

Bullet Racig is already on the go to produce the first S4 deck. Actually the first one was taken out of mould according to Rusty Geweke. “Now time to retool and make air ducts in the side.” Soon the first complete hull and deck will be ready. We look forward to test Bullett’s new creation since we believe that it will increase the interest and the competition in Pro Ski Open class.

These are the carbs that AMC has designed and prepared for the triple Kawasaki engines. According to Hajime Isahai these are 52mm carbs and they are already set up for this application. For the time being we do know yet why there is the need of the 52mm carbs in such application. Photo courtesy Hajime Isahai.

No matter from which angle are you seeing this sport there is only one thing that is missing and that is the Stand-Up model from the market. I would even rephrase it by saying that there is a low budget Stand-Up model missing from the market. This is the reason that the sport goes backwards or even progressively is coming less and less popular since youngsters are not able to learn hoe to ride safely on a costly powerful Runabout. When Kawasaki introduced the Stand-Up Jet Ski to the market 40 years ago it made a revolution since it was a lightweight craft, which was carried out easily by two persons from the back of a car to the shore with the scope to have fun on the water. When four-stroke appeared in the early 2000 the Gave-Over button was almost pressed by the manufactures. Will anyone invest in the near future to a two-stroke, Fuel-Injected Stand-Up model? It could even come be equipped with electric powered engine. This sport is all about having fun and you cannot have fun on an expensive Runabout. Gomez shows how havin fun looks like.