Tune in to NBC's Jeep® World of Adventure Sports on Saturday, October 16 at 2 pm EST for the special Surf and Turf episode:
SURF (Surf rescue Hawaii, Kiteboard storm chasers, and Surfing South Africa)
Surf
Rescue — Hawaiian Water Patrol: Jeep® World of Adventure
Sports introduces us to the everyday heroes of Hawaii's monster surf.
The Hawaiian Water Patrol got its start on the North Shore of Oahu in
the '80s saving lives of surfers in surf competitions. Now they provide
jet ski rescue-craft training, water patrol at surfing and beach events,
and safety for the cast and crew of film productions like Waterworld
and Point Break. Find out what it's like to be on jet ski rescue
sleds with the surfers who make up this dynamic group of local heroes.
Production assistance: Mike Stuart
Special thanks: Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau
Kiteboard Storm Chasers: A couple years ago, the primary
goal of kiteboarders—who skim across the water on a modified surf
board propelled by a paraglider wing—was simply to master the fledgling
sport. Then some of them started getting good enough to get big air and
surf big waves. Now the goal of kiteboarders like Slingshot-sponsored
Jeff Tobias and Ben Wilson is to do things no one else has done before.
That means chasing storms and swell from West Australia to Peru to Bali
and using the kite as a tow-in device to get on waves that regular surfers
need a jet ski to access. "They ask, what can we take on that's bigger
than anyone's ever done before?" says Slingshot's Tonia Farman. The answer
can be seen in this footage brought to you by Jeep® World of Adventure
Sports.
Web: www.sskiteboarding.com
Special thanks: Slingshot
Surfing South Africa — Teton Gravity Research:
Surf aficionados catagorize the legendary surf of South Africa's Garden
Route and J-Bay as some of the best breaks in the world. Follow Teton
Gravity Research's team of surfers on a tour of the waves edging this
remote and rugged landscape, plus detours into the nightlife of Cape Town
and the local culture.
Web: www.tetongravity.com
Production assistance: Teton Gravity Research
TURF (Crankworx free-ride mountain biking event at Whistler, B.C., Jeep King of Mountain bike competition in Texas)
Crankworx:
Watch as the emerging sport of free-ride mountain biking reaches new heights
(literally) on Vancouver's North Shore. In July 2004, the world's best
free-ride mountain bike athletes competed for $30,000 in cash and prizes
on the slopes and courses of Whistler, B.C. Considered the epicenter of
the free-ride mountain bike scene, Whistler featured a custom-designed
expression session park with aerial teeter-totters and the longest downhill
course in the world, dropping a total of 3,400 vertical feet. Meet the
best athletes in the sport as they tackle a variety of downhill trails
featuring jumps and rollers that provide both the riders and spectators
with new meaning to the term "massive air."
Web: www.crankworx.com
Production assistance: Freeride Entertainment
Special thanks: IMG, Whistler Mountain
Jeep® King of the Mountain: Known for the mountain
bike course that "only a crash test dummy could love," Jeep® King
of the Mountain's famed Y format pitches dueling competitors down parallel
dual-slalom tracks that converge midway through the course. We follow
top international female and male bikers to Austin, Texas where they compete
for the title of Series Champion, plus $100,000 in prize money and the
keys to a 2005 Jeep® Wrangler Unlimited.
Web: www.jeepsports.com
Production assistance: Eclipse Television
Red Bull King of the Air: This year, we follow one of
the legendary kiters, Robby Naish as he demonstrates his mastery of wind
and water at Red Bull's King of the Air event at Ho'okipa Beach, Hawaii.
BIG AIR is the primary focus as athletes concentrate on pulling off spectacular
moves, landing clean and using big waves as a natural ramp to glide through
the air. Maui is considered to be the birthplace of kiteboarding and windsuring
and has been quintessential to the popularity and growth of both. There
are few sports that rival the height and flight time of kiteboarding as
athletes reach 40-60 feet in the air and fly more than 100 feet in distance.
Hundreds flock to this "Wind Mecca" every year to experience the side-shore
trade winds, warm water and designated kiteboarding areas that the North
Shore has to offer. Come along to meet the international field of athletes
as they race after the prestigious "Red Bull King of the Air" title and
a piece of the $26,000 prize.
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