Since 2012, Mongoose has hosted an annual Jam event with our pro athletes. As you would expect, there have been some unforgettable moments over the years! That's why, in honor of our milestone 50th anniversary and our upcoming Jam, we picked our Top Ten Jam moments to relive from years past.
Having the campers involved is an integral part of the Mongoose Jam and they made the most of the opportunity by going in and clocking plenty of clips. Here’s a montage featuring all six lucky campers from Mongoose Jam 2018 shredding during the AM selection jam and the actual filming of the video battle with their teams.
Last years winner, Team Ryan brings you a throwback look at what it was like filming in the earlier days of BMX. Watch as Paul Ryan, Ben Lewis, Jordon Godwin and camper Blake Rankin get some amazing clips around Woodward Camp. Caluam Earnshaw captures everything in this fun video.
For the first video from the Mongoose Jam 2018 we bring you Team Ducarroz, featuring Nikita Ducarroz, Gary Young, Brad Simms, and camper Kohl Voelker. Watch to see as they throw down some serious moves all over Woodward Camp in Pennsylvania! Each rider gives you their own perspective of this amazing place.
The Mongoose Jam 2017 Mic’d Up Mix brings you Team Peraza putting the hurtin’ on a ledge, behind the scenes with Team Wallace’s filmer Christian Rigal as he sets up for Nick Bruce’s flip down the side of a mountain, and more BTS with Van Homan as Greg Illingworth clocks a banger.
BMX - TEAM BEN WALLACE - MONGOOSE JAM 2017. Go big or go home with Team Wallace. Mongoose’s Ben Wallace’s Mongoose Jam 2017 team comprised of master blaster Larry Edgar, captain nice guy Nick Bruce, camper Ren Ota, and Christian Rigal was on board to capture and cut. Check out their wild video and make sure to tune in the rest of the week for more Mongoose Jam 2017 videos.
For the first video from the Mongoose Jam 2017 we bring you Team Casey, featuring Pat Casey, Mike Varga, Jack Clark, and camper Jake Senger. These guys threw down some serious moves all over Woodward East—and from the looks of it they had plenty of fun while doing it. Check out the video filmed and cut by Brandon Means and check back here everyday for the rest of the week for videos from the rest of the teams…
One of the coolest parts of the Mongoose Jam is the camper selection session. It all goes down during the Woodward camper jam where the Mongoose teams watch the action and discuss which rider they want to have join their team. It doesn’t have to be the best riders with the hardest tricks, either—the only criteria is that all the riders have to be actual campers. The level of riding at the Mongoose Jam 2017 Camper Selection Session was super high, and in the end, the five campers who got picked to ride and film with some of the sickest pro riders and filmers were Ren Ota from Japan, TJ Ettinger, Jack Seeley, Oliver Foster, and Jacob Senger.
Mongoose Bikes, a brand of Dorel Industries, Inc., will head back to Woodward Camp in Woodward, PA, for the sixth annual Mongoose Jam. After two years at Woodward West in Tehachapi, California, the brand has decided to bring the event back East with their new Video Battle format. From August 7th through 11th 15 pros, five videographers and five amateurs will film and produce five team edits competing for a $40,000 prize purse. At the end of the week, the teams’ edits will be premiered forWeek Ten Woodward Campers. Prior to that, the edits will be judged by BMX industry veterans on originality, style and the difficulty of tricks used to determine the winning team.
Mongoose riders Greg Illingworth, Pat Casey, Kevin Peraza, Paul Ryan, and Ben Wallace will each captain one of five teams at the BMX-only event. Each captain will invite two pro BMX athletes and one videographer to join their teams. They will then draft one amateur from among the Woodward campers during the Amateur Contest to be held on August 7th.
Following the event on Monday, August 14th Mongoose will begin to release the edits on Ridebmx.com starting from last place to first where online voting will be held to determine which team gets the viewers’ choice award.
“This is our second year with the new video format for the Jam and I’m excited to see how it evolves as we switch up locations and head back east to Camp Woodward,” says Steve Wilcox, marketing
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