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Kommander Industries

An Arizona business described in 2016 and 2020 as a Yamaha dealer and race builder, whose GP1 hull the IJSBA homologated in 2024, printed as a riders' sponsor on World Finals results from 2010.

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Printed above the facts, 2010 to 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020 and 2024. Printed above none, 2013, 2015, 2017 to 2019 and 2021 to 2023.

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What it made and sold

2014 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal, describing a freeride ski offered for sale on 23 June 2014, called it Kommander-powered and quoted the seller describing its engine as a Kommander Industries-built Yamaha 760 cc unit.

Sources: Watercraft Journal Matrix ski 2014

2016 · Likely

MotorActionMedia visited the company's premises in Anthem, Arizona, for a feature of 11 February 2016. It describes custom Kommander builds in the showroom, engine work on two-strokes and four-strokes, a Yamaha dealership, and the company's own stand-up hulls, the K1 and S1, on sale from the year before.

Sources: MotorActionMedia Kommander 2016

2024 · Confirmed

The association reported on 5 September 2024 that Kommander Industries, of Phoenix, Arizona, had applied to have its GP1 hull and top deck combination approved under its aftermarket hull homologation programme, and on 30 September 2024 that the homologation was complete, so that the company could advertise the GP1 as IJSBA Race Legal. Its report of 1 October 2024 lists Kommander among four applicants that had completed the preliminary application and were eligible for competition.

Sources: IJSBA Kommander hull application; IJSBA Kommander GP1 homologated; IJSBA report on remaining hull submissions

On the race sheets

2010, 2011 and 2012 · Confirmed

The association's World Finals results pages of 2010, 2011 and 2012 print the name in riders' sponsor columns, in full as KOMMANDER INDUSTRIES or shortened, and once printed KOMMONDIER IND, which the archive reads as the same name.

Sources: 2010 World Finals page 1009; 2011 World Finals page 1008; 2012 World Finals page 1007

The business on record

2020 · Confirmed

The association announced on 22 September 2020 that Kommander Industries would return as a vendor at the trade show of the 2020 World Finals and display the 2021 Yamaha SuperJet with its own products for it, and described it as a Yamaha dealership and a race performance builder.

Sources: IJSBA Kommander vendor 2020

Names as printed

KOMMANDER IND (2010 World Finals page 1009); KOMMONDIER IND (2010 World Finals page 1009)

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: The aftermarket: hulls, rule books and closures
• Event: IJSBA World Finals
• Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
• Era: The rule book years
• Era: Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

What the archive has not read (2)

• The company's own pages say it was founded in 2008, received a Coast Guard certificate of manufacturing in April 2016 and introduced the GP1 in 2017; no held document that is not the company's own dates any of these (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
• No state registry record of the company is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).

Documents cited on this page

• IJSBA Kommander GP1 homologated (ijsba.com): Kommander Industries Homologates GP1 Hull (IJSBA news post, 30 September 2024), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2024-09-30; sanctioning body, high. The association's announcement that Kommander Industries had completed its aftermarket hull homologation for the GP1 and could advertise it as IJSBA Race Legal for products consistent with the specifications it had provided. Read live on 2026-10-06.
• Watercraft Journal Matrix ski 2014 (watercraftjournal.com): Own Mark Gomez's Kommander Matrix Freeride/Freestyle Ski, by Kevin Shaw (The Watercraft Journal, 23 June 2014), The Watercraft Journal, 2014-06-23; enthusiast media, medium. A trade item on a professional rider's freeride ski offered for sale. The magazine calls it Kommander-powered and Blowsion-painted and quotes the seller's description of a Kommander Industries-built engine. Medium as trade press; the quoted lines are the seller's. Prices are omitted in the held text, which the archive has held since 7 October 2026.
• MotorActionMedia Kommander 2016 (motoractionmedia.com): SHOP STOP: Kommander Industries, by Anna Glennon (MotorActionMedia, 11 February 2016), MotorActionMedia, 2016-02-11; enthusiast media, medium. A powersports site's visit to the Kommander Industries shop in Anthem, Arizona: custom builds and engine work, a Yamaha dealership, and its own stand-up hulls, the K1 and S1, on sale from the year before. Medium as independent trade media writing from a visit. Not all of the visit is held.
• IJSBA Kommander hull application (ijsba.com): Kommander Industries Applies For Aftermarket Hull Homologation (IJSBA news post, 5 September 2024), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2024-09-05; sanctioning body, high. The association's announcement that Kommander Industries, out of Phoenix, had applied for its GP1 hull and top deck combination. Read live on 2026-10-06; the contact email is replaced.
• IJSBA report on remaining hull submissions (ijsba.com): IJSBA Report On Remaining Aftermarket Hull Submissions: Crazy House, 4 Star, and Pro Force (IJSBA news post, 1 October 2024), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2024-10-01; sanctioning body, high. The association's report of 1 October 2024 on the three remaining applicants. It says seven entities applied and four were complete, gives the association's own account of the Pro Force application and of an amnesty to 31 December 2024 for owners of used units, and says the association banned all aftermarket hulls in 1997 and reintroduced them in the mid 2000s. High for what the association says; it is one side of a disagreement whose other side is held only as a newspaper lead. (as IJSBA Kommander hull application above)
• 2010 World Finals page 1009 (web.archive.org): 2010 quakysense World Finals, results page 1009.HTM (Aquascore results, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2010; sanctioning body, high. A single day's Aquascore printout carried on the association's own site. The page lists its seven classes and then prints seven result sections in the same order, none captioned, so each section's class follows from its place in that list. Each entry lists the rider, home town, make, placing and sponsor lines. What is held here is an excerpt.
• 2011 World Finals page 1008 (web.archive.org): 2011 quakysense World Finals, results page 1008.htm (Aquascore results, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2011; sanctioning body, high. One day's results from the association's own site: four classes listed, four sections in that order with no caption, each entry a name, a hometown, a make, a placing and sponsor lines. The class of a section is read from its position in the list; the association's results release, reprinted by OzPWC, prints the same winner beside the class name.
• 2012 World Finals page 1007 (web.archive.org): 2012 Hot Products World Finals, Results Sunday October 7, 2012 (Aquascore results, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2012-10-07; sanctioning body, high. Sunday's Aquascore printout on the association's site, with twelve classes listed and twelve unlabelled sections after them. The text layer breaks the class list across lines. This text is held as an excerpt.
• IJSBA Kommander vendor 2020 (ijsba.com): Kommander Industries Returns As World Finals Vendor To Display New Superjet And Products (IJSBA news post, 22 September 2020), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2020-09-22; sanctioning body, high. The association's post that Kommander Industries would return as a vendor at the trade show of the 2020 World Finals and display the 2021 Yamaha SuperJet and its own products for it. High for the vendor announcement; the post's grading of the shop is the association's promotion and is not used.

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