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Headwinds didn’t stop pros and campers from ripping on Woodward West’s Dirt Jumps during the 2015 Mongoose Jam Dirt Competition. The week’s first Jam event featured nineteen riders, including 15 of the world’s top pros and four amateur Woodward campers selected from Tuesday’s Lucky Camper Competition. Each rider was given three runs to throw down. Riders were scored by a panel of three judges who were focused on the athletes’ best run. The top two scores per team counted toward the day’s final scoring.
With the official start to the fourth annual Mongoose Jam (the second in Tehachapi, CA) tomorrow, fifteen Woodward West campers competed in an amateur park contest today for a coveted spot on one of five Mongoose Jam pro teams. Once again, each team will be captained by Mongoose athletes Steve McCann, Greg Illingworth, Paul Ryan, Ben Wallace, and Kevin Peraza. Woodward West’s Hangar was filled with campers supporting riders as they squared off. The competition was a jam format. The fifteen campers were broken out into three heats. Each heat had a chance to showcase their skills to the camp judges while the pros watched on. Riders were allowed one best trick to wrap up their sessions.
Campers threw down like the pros with backflips, double truck drivers, flairs, and more. In the end, Bryce Tryon, Chase Pauza, Jamal Nelson, Adrian Evans, and Felipe Trujillo will be riding with their team captains tomorrow starting with the Dirt contest.
Prior to camp, Adrian Evans won Mongoose’s Am Jam Edit contest,
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