The Liquid Force Team is in town and in Classic LF Style has been stepping it up, with the creation of the LF 4×4 Kite-Slider Mobile!
Catch full slideshow and video presentation from the LF Northwest Trip as well as other Gorge kiteboarding photos and videos!!
Where / When:
River City Saloon, Hood River – 9pm
More Info:
2nd Wind Sports – 541-386-4464
Here’s what’s been happening in the Hood!
The Words of Liquid Force International Team Rider : Davey Blair
Jason Slezak, Mauricio Abreu, and Davey Blair from Liquid Force rocked up to the Gorge in Style.. We had Ruben’s old 4×4 subie for the week and turned it into a mobile slider… Fresh paint and a solid plan the boys were off to make history..
The CGKA (Columbia Gorge Kite Association) rallied together for the Delta cleanup and and got a permit from the port to drive on the sandbar. This was needed to clean up all the debris from the flooding and glacial outburst of Mt Hood and the Hood River last fall. The melt caused hundreds of ancient logs to converge all across the sand bar… This allowed permitted vehicle access and one 3 day window when the mobile slider car could work…
Friday the action started. Most the good o’ boys showed up in there monster tucks and started the clean up process. The Liquid Force crew took there freshly painted 4×4 mobile slider down to the waters edge to begin the action.. the session started out with some sick riding.. Everyone was throwing down..
Local boy Dylan Thompson showed us his snow skills and jibed every way possible across the liquid force slider car.
Moris killed it with smooth style, his gap to blind over the car was like a tony hawk video game..
I was geting hungry watching all the action so busted a nose press pretzel to blind.
Local boy and NW Regional LF Rider Joby Cook gapped over the car spinning a solid flat three stomping it with authority! This guy rips anything he gets his hands on..
By the end of the session Morris had put his ass thru the windshield. The same time our geotto slider fell apart ending our session.. I cranked the car up and drove home to tekkos Labortory..
The rest of the pics coming first thing in the am. Too late.. time to sleep
“For real, this is the easiest slider I have ever set up”. Drive right to where you want it and turn the car off. Thats it.. Every trick in the book was being thrown by the crew of guys assembled.. This was day one witch set the pass for the next couple days..
Back at Tekkos labortory The crew repainted and gave the car some much needed TLC.. The next day the boys re invented the slider car by adding in a gap to the roof.. Wait a minute this was built with in an hour , and was not the prettyest thing.. The up ramp was two 2x4s with pvc piping up the hood.. This created a gap over the windshield to an old windsurf board we srewed to the roof.. Jason Slezak arrived the night before and was ready to ride.
Fresh off the plane Slezy set up his 138 mission with some union bindings. This guy was so charged. He was pressing every angle of that board with some solid weight on top.. I was amazed his board didnt break…Slezy is no small dude. As the session progressed our getto, up ramp, broke and so did the wind surfer.
This caused some Crazy action, I’m so stoked no one got hurt hitting our getto gap. I mean I’ve seen some getto gaps in my time but damn…. Just like the day before when the session was over I simply got in the car started it up and drove off.. thats it, no man power, no huge crew needed to lift..
After spending 2 valueable access days with ghetto crap ramps, the whole crew, was sick of this sh@t falling apart. The next morning we all assembled and went to work on the Liquid Force subie slider…. We didnt mess around this time. 200 bucks later we had 30 ft of trek. and enough lumber to build a house..Trek is the stuff we use to slide on.. you can buy it at your local hardwear store..
Joby being the sick contracter he is, scribled a plan on a table napkin.. the plan looked good so we got to work.. A couple hours later we had some legit shit going down.. No getto windsurfer, no getto up ramp.. We had a 3 trek wide up ramp. With the smotthest angle ever.. We put a 3 trek wide 20ft slide box on top of the car. These angles made for some sick action..
The car evolved from Rubens beat up whip to LF’s newest moble slider.. Sunday was the day.. We pimped the car out so hard.. No way was it going to break.. It was solid… sunday was a day for rekoning.. We placed the Liquid force slider car in positioin and started sessioning..
The up ramp was so solid. It was smooth as butter, like night and day compared to the other two days..The tricks were twice as big and twice as smooth.. Now after two days of building and painting the car evolved to something from a furturistic world.. a mobile slider.. “got doooawg thats pimp”!!!!..
The last and final day, sunday, will always be stuck in my mind.. We sessioned till dark and the slider was still strong..
We created something sick in the last three days. This last week in the Gorge has made history in the kiteboarding world. It has been one of the best trips of my life.. I love it here in hood river.. this place rocks.. The whole crew will be around all week and can’t wait to meet and session with you.. Thanks to everyone involved with the evolution of kiteboarding.. mad respect… } -DB
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