Gorge Jump Off Results and video!

Alright, here's the video and results from the Gorge Jump Off. Thanks to all the competitors for their awesome job, especially Nick Allen who is sidelined with his ankle. Thanks to Casey and the crew from Shadowbox, Bill and the crew from Dakine, Waucoma Club and our very own video guru, Jake Miller who slaved for countless hours putting all the awesome video together.

Men
Biggest Backloop- Bryan Metcalf-Perez 32.7ft
Biggest Forward- Whit Poor 16.4ft
Biggest Shove It- Bryan Metcalf Perez 19.6ft
Hardest Impact- Nick Allen 18.8 G's
Biggest Stock Air- Whit Poor 29.9ft
Biggest Shaka- Bryan Metcalf-Perez 10.4ft
Biggest Pushloop- Whit Poor 23.6ft
Biggest Double Forward- Nathan Mershon 16.6ft
Fastest Spin Rate- Whit Poor 587 deg/s

Women
Biggest Invert- Temira Wagonfeld 16.6ft
Biggest Stock Air- Ingrid Larouche 14.2
I'd write more but we're all headed to the Hatch to sail. ;-)

Jump Off Viewers Choice Winners!

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.

Tyson



Whit

Jump Off Viewers Choice Awards!

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.

Gorge Jump Off video update

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!

Jump Off Video Update

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.

ALERT! EpicSessions.tv Gorge Webcast

UPDATE - Webcast from Arlington today at 3pm PST. Click here to tune in!


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.