First we'd like to thank everyone for voting in the Viewers Choice awards. When the voting closed, we clicked on the "random winner" button, and the online winner of the GoPro HD Wide camera is Sierra from Maui! Congratulations Sierra!
Congrats to the Poor brothers for their sweep of the EpicSessions.tv Viewers Choice Awards from the 2010 Gorge Team Jump Off! Whit Poor claimed the prize for the viewers choice Best Crash award with his massive air which he rode all the way down to destruction at the Wall. Best tweaked air goes to Tyson Poor with his super stylish push loop.
For your viewing pleasure, here are their jumps in full HD.
With all the amazing action from the Jump Off contest, we thought we'd take a little departure from the cold hard measurements of the Shadowboxes and get the viewing audience involved with a viewer choice award for the best crash and the most tweaked jump.
We combed through all the video and selected four videos for each category and want you to vote for the best in each. We'll award the winners at the Jump Off awards party Saturday night at the Waucoma Club and you too can win! With voting, you'll be entered to win a GoPro HD Wide camera from EpicSessions.tv!
So, go clicky clicky and vote right now! Voting closes at 7pm PST Saturday July 10.
We've had killer conditions for the Gorge Jump Off the past 10 days including an amazing 3.3 day at The Wall. Mother Nature gave all she had and took a rest on the final day with light easterlies and blazing temps.
The EpicSessions.tv and Shadowbox crew are busy cranking through the hours and hours of video and Shadowbox ride data, so the break in the wind comes at a great time for us! The awards party is this Saturday night at the new Waucoma Club (formerly River City) starting at 8:30pm. If you can't make it, we'll be posting the entire video online after the party, but until then, here's the last video update to keep you occupied until we release the results.
Be sure to check back here tomorrow (Friday) as we're going to give everyone online the chance to vote for the best crash and most tweaked move. You're votes count as we'll be awarding prizes based on your votes and also, everyone who votes online is automatically entered in our drawing to win a GoPro HD Wide camera!
We had almost 400 people at Arlington watching the Jump Off competitors tear it up in their evening session yesterday! Actually there were only a handful of people actually there watching, the other 346 were tuning in to the livecast on EpicSessions.tv from around the globe.
After a bit of waiting, a few false starts and a fickle wind, our Jump Off competitors were able to get a decent session yesterday evening. Special thanks to our livecast viewers for their patience as we all waited for the wind to cooperate. (especially the folks from Europe!)
There are seven days left for our competitors to rack up more jumps before they turn in all they're backpacks. Then we'll all hook up at the awards party on July 10 at the Waucoma Club.
Conditions are setting up for a big day tomorrow (Tuesday) in the Gorge and the EpicSessions.tv crew will be headed east from Hood River to chase down the wind and webcast some of the insane action for ya! Tune in to EpicSessions.tv on Tuesday - we'll be announcing the location and time for the webcast here, on our Facebook page and also on EpicSessions.tv.
We're just kicking off the Team Edition of the EpicSessions/Shadowbox Jump Off series today and the Gorge will be delivering awesome conditions today in the corridor (Swell/Hatch) for the teams. Check out Temira's forecasts to get the daily Gorge forecast low-down!
What is the Team Edition Jump Off you ask? Take our same simple formula of highest jumps, but throw in TEN metrics instead of two and pair 12 awesome sailors into six teams of two. We give them each a backpack full of all the gear needed to record their sessions and give them 10 days to go and rack up the biggest and baddest jumps, crashes and antics. Then we'll all meet on the evening of July 10 at the Waukoma Club (the old River City) and party like rockstars as we award the teams based on the ten metrics, and also team combined awards. We'll also be webcasting the party and having some viewer choice awards so you can participate with the crowd at the party in voting for the sickest moves!
Still not sure? Just watch Casey and Jake explain it all.
Wow, what a place! Amazing conditions, beautiful scenery and friendly people. What more could you ask for in a remote windsurfing destination? Pistol River, located just south of Gold Beach, Oregon is a truly awesome location for the die hard wavesailor who doesn't mind going down the line on a 3.2. Yes, it really cranks in Pistol. ;-)
We held the Pistol River Jump Off in conjunction with the Pistol River Wave Bash from June 17-20, and once the final between Kevin and Francisco was over, we released the first heat of Jump Off riders after quickly putting Shadowboxes and GoPro's on Keith and Francisco's gear. (someone likened us to a NASCAR pit crew with the equipment swaps between riders)
We did two 20 minute heats of 7 riders per heat and took the highest stock and inverted air jumps from those heats to determine the winner after confirming that the rider sailed away from the jump(s) in order for those jumps to count.
Its interesting to note that in the Hookipa event, the stock airs were higher than the backloops, but in this event, the inverts were higher than the stock airs. Take note competitors of future jump offs - good strategy will be needed to hit the highest airs!
Special thanks to Richard Hallman for his awesome photography, and the Oregon Surf Shop for the Jet Ski and driver for Richard.
Tyson Poor takes the top Jump Off spot with his 30.8 foot backloop. UK sailing sensation Timo Mullen was sticking everything he tossed and jumped into second place and beat out the amazing style of Francisco Goya by only 5 inches!
2010 EpicSessions.tv/Shadowbox Pistol River Jump Off Official Results
INVERT JUMPS
1) Tyson Poor- 30.8ft
2) Timo Mullen- 28.5ft
3) Francisco Goya- 28 ft
4) Nathan Mershon- 27.8ft
5) Kevin Pritchard- 27.5 ft
6) Whit Poor- 27.3ft
7) Jesse Brown- 24.8 ft (Pushloop)
8) Kevin McGillivray- 21.7ft (Pushloop)
9) Russ Faurot- 21.1ft
10) Zane Schweitzer- 20.3 ft (Pushloop)
11) Skyler- 19.9 (Cheese Roll)
12) Sven Esslinger- 19.4 ft
13) Diego- 11.8ft (Forward)
STRAIGHT AIR JUMPS (Stock Air)
1) Tyson- 26.3
2) Timo- 25
3) Kevin Pritchard- 24.3
4) Kev Mc- 20.9
5) Jesse Brown- 19.6
6) Nathan- 17.8
6) Russ- 17.8
8) Whit- 17.6
9) Sven- 17.4
10) Skyler- 17.1
11) Cisco- 15.2
The Jump Off contests are a collaboration between EpicSessions.tv and Shadowbox. On the EpicSessions.tv team you've got myself and Jake Miller. On the Shadowbox side there's Casey Hauser. We're in the Gorge this summer and getting ready to launch the Jump Off Team Edition which will run from June 28-July 7. After the event, we'll be throwing a do-not-miss awards party on the evening of July 10. There will also be more individual Jump Off events this summer, so stay tuned here, on our Facebook Page (search for EpicSessions) or on EpicSessions.tv. Want to see how high YOU can go? Visit Shadowbox and order your own Shadowbox today!
