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Abraham Hochstrasser

A Mexican freerider whom The Watercraft Journal reports riding the surf at Nazaré in 2017 and winning the Freeride competition at Daytona in 2018, and whom an IJSBA results post lists fifteenth in Pro Freestyle in 2018.

At a glance

Role
Racer and rider
On the record
2 years, from 2017 to 2018
Disciplines
Freeride
Titles on the record
none read off a held results document yet
In the archive
1 history chapter
  1. The early years, in print, 1981 to 1993
  2. The makers and their machines, 1985 to 2005
  3. Noise, safety and federal rules, 1996 to 2002
  4. The rule book years, 2002 to 2018 (this page's records)
  5. Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

The eras this page's records fall in are drawn solid; the others are hollow.

How we know: Each bar runs the years printed on that era's panel, and which eras a page falls in is the archive's grouping of its records, not the length of anyone's career.

Years 2017 to 2018, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 2017 2018
  • a year printed above a fact on this page

Printed above the facts, 2017 and 2018.

Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact on this page, one box a year.

How we know: the year printed above each fact below.

Riding and racing, 2017 to 2018 Two labelled rows of boxes on one scale of years, riding above and racing below; a box is solid where a year is printed above a fact in that row, or in a title row for racing, and hollow where none is. Riding outside a race Racing, results and titles 2017 2018
  • a year printed above a fact in that row, or a title year in the racing row
  • a year printed above no fact in that row

Riding outside a race, 2017. Racing, results and titles, 2018.

The same range of years in two rows, riding outside a race above and racing below.

How we know: the year printed above each riding fact, and above each results fact and in each title row.

  • Confirmed 0

  • Likely 4

  • Contested 0

The grade word on each fact on this page, counted. It grades how firmly the documents tie each fact to this person, not the person.

How we know: the word printed above each fact below, counted on this page only.

Results

2018 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of the 2018 Braap Werks Daytona Freeride in Florida, posted 23 January 2018, says the Sickest Trick competition became a five-minute show and competition for the crowd that year, names Abraham Hochstrasser in its field, and calls him the big winner of the Freeride competition; its interview question to him speaks of winning the Sickest Trick. It prints no score, and it is a magazine's report, not a result sheet.

Sources: WCJ 23 January 2018 Daytona Freeride

2018 · Likely

The association's complete results post for the 2018 World Finals, published 9 October 2018, lists Abraham Hochstrasser fifteenth in its Pro Freestyle table of 18 names, with 15 in the final column. The held text carries no column headings, and the archive reads the last column as the final place. That he is the rider of the Journal's reports is the archive's reading, from the name alone, an inference.

Sources: 2018 World Finals complete results post

Riding outside a race

2017 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's post of 13 February 2017 says that in the weeks before it Abraham Hochstrasser, a Mexican professional freerider, was in Portugal riding his jet ski in the surf at Praia do Norte, Nazaré, in a promotional freeride shoot with a video crew gathering images for a production about big waves. Its post of 3 April 2017 says he was invited to Portugal to ride for an action sports film due at the end of 2017, and prints him both as Abraham Hochstrasser and as Abraham Ho, the Mexican freerider.

Sources: WCJ 13 February 2017 Nazare freeride; WCJ 3 April 2017 filming for a film

2017 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of the 2017 Hydro-Turf/Hot Products Pro Watercross Daytona Freeride, posted 18 January 2017, was written by a rider who calls him his teammate from Mexico, so it is a fellow rider's account. It says Abraham Hochstrasser took to the air on a TC Freeride-built Rickter and put on a show on the new Rickter MX1 sport ski. Joining this rider to the one at Nazaré is the archive's reading, from the name, Mexico and the Rickter hulls; joining the 2018 winner rests on the name alone, an inference.

Sources: Watercraft Journal 18 January 2017

Names as printed

Abraham Ho (WCJ 3 April 2017 filming for a film)

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (2)

  • The Watercraft Journal's post of 2 July 2021 calls him an IFWA champion and says a ski of his joined the Surfer Wall exhibition at Nazaré in May 2021, on the strength of his own social media post. No IFWA sheet showing a championship for him is held; the research cache holds only the first five places of the association's tour standings for 2015 and 2016, copied from its website (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19), so neither is stated here as a fact.
  • The Journal's reports of Wavedaze 2016 and of the 2016 Daytona Freeride name an Abraham Ho from Mexico among the riders who came, but do not say he rode, so they are not used for a ride.

Documents cited on this page

  • 2018 World Finals complete results post (web.archive.org): 2018 Blowsion World Finals Complete Results, 2019 World Finals Announced (IJSBA post of 9 October 2018, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2018-10-09; sanctioning body, high. The association's own complete results post for the 2018 World Finals, class by class, with hometown, number, make and moto placings. The held copy keeps three classes and the Pro Freestyle table.
  • WCJ 23 January 2018 Daytona Freeride (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: 2018 Braap Werks Daytona Freeride, Presented by Pro Watercross (The Watercraft Journal, 23 January 2018), The Watercraft Journal, 2018-01-23; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's report of the 2018 Daytona Freeride: the Saturday Cherry Buster contest, the Sickest Trick session with the riders in its field, and the rider the writer names as winner of the Freeride competition. Medium; a magazine's report, not a result sheet.
  • WCJ 13 February 2017 Nazare freeride (watercraftjournal.com): Video: Abraham Hochstrasser Freerides The Nazaré Cannon (The Watercraft Journal, 13 February 2017), The Watercraft Journal, 2017-02-13; enthusiast media, medium. A trade site's post on jet ski riding in the surf at Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal, for a promotional freeride shoot with a video crew, with an embedded video. Medium for what the post says was done; a wave height given as an estimate and the post's grading words are not copied.
  • WCJ 3 April 2017 filming for a film (watercraftjournal.com): Abraham Ho Filming For The Big Screen (The Watercraft Journal, 3 April 2017), The Watercraft Journal, 2017-04-03; enthusiast media, medium. A trade site's short post saying a Mexican freerider, printed both as Abraham Hochstrasser and as Abraham Ho, was invited to Portugal to ride for an action sports film due at the end of 2017. Medium; its grading words and a quotation from a sponsor's interview are not copied.
  • Watercraft Journal 18 January 2017 (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: 2017 Hydro-Turf/Hot Products Pro Watercross Daytona Freeride (The Watercraft Journal, posted 18 January 2017), The Watercraft Journal, 2017-01-18; enthusiast media, medium. A trade site's report and gallery of the 2017 Daytona Freeride, written in the first person by a rider. The held copy keeps the paragraphs naming riders who rode, surf-rode or took to the air, the big air contest and the MotoOption Surf n' Style awards. Its grading words are not used.
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