Key Figures · Racer and rider
Jake Bright
A freerider whom The Watercraft Journal reports winning a Pro class freeride contest at Virginia Beach in 2015, and whom an IJSBA post and the Journal report riding at Oceanside in 2015 and at Daytona in 2017.
At a glance
- Role
- Racer and rider
- On the record
- 2 years, from 2015 to 2017
- Disciplines
- Freeride
- Titles on the record
- none read off a held results document yet
- In the archive
- 1 history chapter
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.
- a year printed above a fact on this page
- a year printed above no fact
Printed above the facts, 2015 and 2017. Printed above none, 2016. 1 fact has no year printed above it and marks no box.
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.
- 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, 2015 and 2017. Racing, results and titles, 2015. 1 results fact has no year printed above it and is not drawn.
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
2015 · Likely
The Watercraft Journal's report of Wavedaze, held at Virginia Beach on 10 to 12 April 2015, says Jake Bright won the Pro class of round 2 of the Krash Nationals USA freeride competition held there. It is a magazine's report, and the archive holds no result sheet for the round (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).
Sources: WCJ 20 April 2015 Wavedaze
The same report says a big air contest was thrown together on the Friday and came down to Jake Bright and one other rider with very similar jumps; at the awards the other rider took the big air title by inches. It prints no placing for him.
Sources: Watercraft Journal 18 January 2017
Riding outside a race
2015 · Likely
Randy Laine's account of a freeride session in the surf at Oceanside, California, on Sunday 15 February 2015, posted by the International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA) the next day, lists Jake Bright among the riders who rode with a sea lion pup that joined them. It is another rider's account, which the association printed. That the Oceanside rider and the Wavedaze winner are one person is the archive's reading, from the name and freeride, an inference.
2017 · Likely
The Watercraft Journal's report of the 2017 Hydro-Turf/Hot Products Pro Watercross Daytona Freeride, posted 18 January 2017 and written by another rider who was there, says Jake Bright displayed his style on a Krash Industries ski. Joining him to the earlier reports rests on the name alone, which the archive gives as an inference.
Sources: Watercraft Journal 18 January 2017
Elsewhere in the archive
- History chapter: Freestyle as a discipline in the rule books
- Era: The rule book years
What the archive has not read (1)
- The Watercraft Journal's report of the 2016 Daytona Freeride names him among the pro riders who came, and a Krash Industries team video of that event follows him as a team rider; the first does not say he rode and the second is his sponsor's, so neither is used.
Documents cited on this page
- WCJ 20 April 2015 Wavedaze (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: 2015 Wavedaze Spring Freeride Hits Virginia Beach (The Watercraft Journal, 20 April 2015), The Watercraft Journal, 2015-04-20; enthusiast media, medium. A trade site's report of the Wavedaze surf freeride at Virginia Beach, 10 to 12 April 2015, which carried round 2 of the Krash Nationals USA freeride competition. It prints the class winners and the runner-up in the Pro class, and describes a freestyle exhibition in the hotel pool on the Saturday evening. Medium; a magazine's report, not a result sheet.
- 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.
- IJSBA 16 February 2015 Oceanside seal (ijsba.com): Randy Laine Joined By PWC Loving Seal (IJSBA news post dated 16 February 2015), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2015-02-16; sanctioning body, medium. The association's post of Randy Laine's own account of a freeride session in the surf at Oceanside, California, on Sunday 15 February 2015, when a sea lion pup joined the riders; it lists the riders who rode with it. Medium for the other riders named; Laine's account of his own riding supports only what he says. One name is not copied.
Cite this page
“Jake Bright”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/key-figures/jake-bright/
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0 titles on the record · 4 sourced facts · 3 documents