Events
IJSBA National Tour
The IJSBA's national points championship in the United States, run under sponsor names that changed with the year: the National Jet Ski Tour in 1991, the Bud Jet Sports Tour by 1994. From 2009 a New York promoter managed it, and its successor brand runs today as Pro Watercross.
- Kind
- Tour
- Years
- by 1991 (Cycle News, 19 June 1991); in its 13th season in 1994 per a Virginian-Pilot item of 15 July 1994, which counts to 1982; to at least 2009, when a promoter took over its management
Editions, as the documents give them
| Year | Name as printed | The document | Rests on | Sheet | Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | IJSBA National Jet Ski Tour | A sentence in a Cycle News supercross news brief of 19 June 1991, page 3: a rider quoted as spectating at the IJSBA National Jet Ski Tour in San Diego, California, on 9 June 1991. Not a report of the round. | the press | none | not counted |
| 1994 | Bud Jet Sports Tour | A Virginian-Pilot item of 15 July 1994 on the Virginia Beach round of 9 to 10 July 1994: the Bud Jet Sports Tour, sanctioned by the International Jet Sports Boating Association, in its 13th season, with a $350,000 professional purse and closed course, slalom and freestyle, the slalom cancelled that weekend for chop. The season count is the newspaper's, not the association's; no result is printed. | the press | none | not counted |
| 1995 | Bud Jet Sports Tour | Uploader-credited tapes of tour rounds, and a Tri-City Herald listing for round 1 at Richland, Washington, seen only as a search hit; neither is linked here. The round-1 venue rests on a newspaper listing found through a search count; the tapes' broadcaster credits are uploader fields. | a tape's title, an uploader's field | none | not counted |
| 1996 | IJSBA Bud Jet Sports Tour | Personal Watercraft Illustrated's own web archive, round 5 race report with moto placings and points standings, captured in the Wayback Machine. Read on an earlier pass, when it partly closed the round-by-round gap for 1996 and was the only round-level document held for any year; the capture was not readable by the fetch tool on 2026-09-30 and is not in this site's capture index. Re-read in full in a browser on 2026-10-02. The article, headed as round 5 of the IJSBA Bud Jet Sports Tour, establishes the series name; that the 1996 tour had ten rounds (its standings table is headed After 5 of 10 rounds); round 5 at Firebird Raceway, Chandler, Arizona, round 4 at San Diego, round 3 at Dallas and round 6 at Des Moines after a four-week break; seven Pro classes in its standings table (Runabout 785, Runabout 1200, Sport, Ski, Pro-Am Women Ski, Pro-Am Women Runabout and Freestyle); two motos per class per round, with a heat race and a last-chance qualifier deciding the final; and a perfect five-round score of 300. The seven classes are those the magazine printed standings for, not a count of the round's classes, so classesFound stays null and no entry is counted. The article names riders and staff; none is copied. | the press | web.archive.org | not counted |
None of the 4 IJSBA National Tour editions above has had its entries counted, which is why the Count column holds no numbers; the events index explains what a count waits on. This is not a calendar either: the dates of any future IJSBA National Tour are IJSBA's to publish.
- The tour's own start and end dates are not established; the record runs from the first dated mention to the management handover, with the 1994 newspaper's season count as the one pointer to 1982.
- No result sheet from the association itself was found for any year of the tour.
- Which classes counted toward the tour title in any year is not established; GEN.14.4 says only that specified classes count.
- The 1995 Richland listing and the tour tapes are not linked; the round-1 venue is unverified.
- Corrected 2026-09-30: the 1991 row first described a news item reporting the San Diego round and claimed an independent second source; the issue's OCR holds one sentence in a supercross brief and no second source was cited, so both sentences are withdrawn.
The organisations directory carries the promoter that managed the tour from 2009 and the brand it became; this record is the tour as a series of dated documents, which is thin, and says so.
People on record (2)
Each has a page on Key Figures, named for a public role a document records.
- Brian Baldwin, racer and performance shop
- Christy Carlson, racer
Documents
- archive.org: https://archive.org/details/cycle-news-1991-06-19
- scholar.lib.vt.edu: https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940715/07140163.htm
- web.archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/19961202085951/http://watercraft.com/archives/1996/10race.html
Cite this page
“IJSBA National Tour”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/racing/events/ijsba-national-tour/
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Tour · 4 editions documented · 1 sheets · 0 counted