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Ross Champion

A freerider who led a ride through Florida waterways in a 2008 magazine feature, reported riding at Pismo Beach in 2014 and named a co-founder of Champion Timepiece, whose freeride team went to ride in Baja that year.

At a glance

Role
Rider
On the record
in 2014
Disciplines
Freeride
Titles on the record
none read off a held results document yet
Companies
Champion Timepiece (founded)
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

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  • Confirmed 0

  • Likely 3

  • Contested 0

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

Riding outside a race

Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's feature dated 10 June 2008, written by Dana Barry, who rode along, says that while attending that year's Daytona Freeride the riders planned an extra day in Florida's waterways, and that Ross Champion led the way south to central Florida, just outside Titusville, and served as navigator, on new Yamaha WaveRunners provided by Scott Watkins of Yamaha, with Taylor Curtis among the riders. It says he tried a back flip off the back of the ski and landed in knee-deep water, and quotes him on riding the new skis, especially the SHO. The feature prints no date for the ride itself.

Sources: PWI 10 June 2008 Everglades Explorers

2014 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of the Pismo Spring Break Freeride 2014 at Pismo Beach, California, posted 19 March 2014, says Ross Champion and the Champion Timepieces freeride team made an appearance, and a caption describes his no handed flips and madonnas. Joining the Journal's rider to the magazine's of 2008 rests on the name and freeride, the archive's inference.

Sources: WCJ 19 March 2014 Pismo Spring Break Freeride

Business

2014 · Likely

The Journal's report of 28 February 2014 says its writer went to Mexico for a long weekend with Ross Champion for the release of the new Champion Timepiece watches, lists him among the riders of its freeride team as one of two Champion Timepiece co-founders, and says the team went south of the border to ride in remote parts of Baja. It does not say which of the team rode where. The archive takes this to be the Pismo rider from the name and the Champion Timepieces team, an inference.

Sources: WCJ 28 February 2014 Estero Beach

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (2)

  • Personal Watercraft Illustrated's report of the 2008 Daytona Freeride calls him IFWA runner up and says only that he was on hand; his own column in the magazine of April 2009 says he was the 2008 IFWA World Champion and runner-up in 2007; and The Watercraft Journal called him a multiple IFWA world champion in 2013. The archive holds no IFWA result sheet (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18), so no title or result is on this page.
  • His own feature in Personal Watercraft Illustrated of May 2009 describes a freeride trip he organised to a lake and a river below a hydroelectric plant south of Yosemite. It is his own account, so it supports only what he says, and it is not stated here as a fact.

Documents cited on this page

  • PWI 10 June 2008 Everglades Explorers (web.archive.org): Everglades Explorers, text and photography by Dana Barry (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online feature dated 10 June 2008, Wayback capture of 21 August 2008), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 2008-06-10; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's feature on a day's ride through Florida waterways near Titusville on new 2008 Yamaha WaveRunners, the day after that year's Daytona Freeride, with freeriders and a Yamaha manager whose skis they rode. Medium; the writer rode along.
  • WCJ 19 March 2014 Pismo Spring Break Freeride (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: Pismo Beach Spring Break Freeride 2014 (The Watercraft Journal, 19 March 2014), The Watercraft Journal, 2014-03-19; enthusiast media, medium. A trade site's report of the annual Pismo Spring Break Freeride at Pismo Beach, California, held the weekend before the post. Its captions name riders in the surf and on their skis. Medium; the held copy is an excerpt of the post.
  • WCJ 28 February 2014 Estero Beach (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: Champion Timepiece Riders' Freeride Weekend at Estero Beach, Ensenada (The Watercraft Journal, 28 February 2014), The Watercraft Journal, 2014-02-28; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's first-person report of a freeride weekend in Baja held for a watch maker's team: at sunset, Mark Gomez put on a flat water freestyle show at Estero Beach on a Rickter hull set up by TC Freeride. Medium; the team is the sponsor's, the account is the writer's.
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“Ross Champion”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/key-figures/ross-champion/

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