Mastercraft London Night Jump fuelled by Monster energy drink took place on the 21st August 2010 at Liquid Leisure Dachet. With the addition of a new cable system on the back lake, there was a cable competition during the day as well as the traditional late evening wakeboard boat runs and the spectacular ski jump competitions under floodlights during the evening. ExPix were down there as media partners with their new on site media base which was supplied by Canopies South West.

Take a look at some of the action fromt eh day either by watching the video or reading the article below. We hope you enjoy the action from the mastercraft London Night Jump.

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Setting off early on Saturday morning fully loaded with enough equipment to sink a battleship, the ExPix van made good time on its way down to Liquid Leisure for the Mastercraft London Night Jump fuelled by Monster. As media partners for the event this year, ExPix decided to try out  the new on site media base. Supplied by Canopies South West the industrial pop up Gazebo with it's black canvas proved to be a perfect addition as it meant that we could project images from the action throughout the day.

Back to Mastercraft London Night Jump Fuelled by Monster and to kick of the days running order was the cable wakeboard competition on the new system installed on the back lake at Liquid Leisure. With Tom Fooshee, Nick Davies, James Young, Ben Hitch, Gareth Stelfox,and Louis Cornwall among the names competing in the jam sessions there was gonna be some hot action on the water.

Heat one saw Nick Davies, Louis Cornwall, Matty Hassler, Kyle Cameron and Ben Hitch battling it out for the first two places in the final. Nick Davies made a mistake early on stacking a mobe 5 but got back on the water immediately and produced a couple of 9's, a 10 double, s bend to blind to put the pressure on the others. Ben Hitch was riding aggressively and getting some major height off the kickers whilst Connor was trying to land his signature move 'conair' but couldn't quite make the landing, Louis Cornwall was also riding well and put down a few big tricks but just couldn't quite manage to match or stop Monster, Hyperlyte and Mystic rider Nick Davies and Ben Hitch progressing to the final from heat 1.

Heat 2 saw James Young take on Tom Fooshee, Cody Johnson, Connor Jones and Gareth Stelfox. As the guys in this heat battled it out there were a few more crashes as they tried to out ride each other with some massive airs and big technical tricks. The riders to go through to face Nick Davies and Ben Hitch were Tom Fooshee and James Young with Gareth Stelfox just missing out despite his consistently smooth style.

So as the final got underway with riders Tom Fooshee, Nick Davies, Ben Hitch and James Young, the pressure was on. Nick and Tom really pushed the limits it looked like a head to head between these two.

With the crowds beginning to arrive for the evening event all eyes were on the FMX display. The riders were jumping on a mobile unit with a newly branded Monster Mastercraft under the ramps. There isn't much we can say about this other than ..... crazy!!! take a look at the pics and you'll see what we mean .

Immediately after this was the Mastercraft London Night Jump Wakeboard boat competition. As the floodlights lit up the lake, the 4 invited riders gave it all they'd got as they had one pass up and down the lake to pull their best tricks and really impress the crowd in the dark. Now this is where it gets really difficult from a photographers point of view. With lighting at the top end of the course designed more for the ski jumpers its is difficult to photograph the wakeboarders who do most of their tricks further down the course. Even with a powerful flash the lighting doesn't look quite right when you're shooting from the shore.

The same can be said for the finale of the night jump; the lighting is very difficult to handle especially as the ski jumpers move very quickly over the water to hit the ramp fast enough to project themselves over 60m. Moving around the course gave us the best opportunity to find a spot that worked in between the floodlights and the darkness and there are however some really sweet shots of the course. Now as you can imagine if we are having difficulty watching the course how do you think the jumpers coped trying to spot it to do their stuff? Well here a couple of shots from one guy, Claudio Kostenberger,  who got it completely wrong and managed somehow to walk away from it and .... have another go ....respect !

The finals carried on after this with last years winner Freddie Nightmare Krugger coming away as the victor and with the presentation from all the days competitions being done in front of the huge Liquid Leisure crowd, the event drew to a close ...... well almost .... there was still the VIP after party on the terrace but that's another story ....!!!!!!

Final results were as follows

Night Jump cable Wakeboard Final

Tom Fooshee

Nick Davies

James Young

Night Jump Boat Wakeboard Final

Ben Hitch

Tom Fooshee

Nick Davies

Night Jump

Freddie Kruegger

Ryan Dodd

Jason Seels