Jetpilot Night of Nights!
Gold Coast, QLD: JPI Distributors of Jetpilot and Metal Mulisha Clothing hosted its annual Night of Nights party this past Friday, November 9th 2012. After outgrowing the original venue of JPI Headquarters the event was moved to the bigger location of Studio 8, Village Roadshow Studios.
The Evening kicked off at 6pm with our retailers, buyers and media contacts all congregating outside studio 8 to witness Shane Tucker light up his pro stock drag car, laying down some rubber and filling the air with tyre smoke. Matt Mingay was up next on his Harley showing the crowd why he is Australia’s best stunt rider. He didn’t stop there however jumping in the Hitachi drift Ute and weaving his way in and around studio 7 and 8 and putting on a show that really got the crowd excited.
As 7pm rolled around the 600 strong crowd entered the studio to DJ Rockwell blasting out the beats from the suspended stage and Flatland BMX rider Simon O’Brien doing his thing in front of the Monster Energy truck, the food and drinks flowed freely all night thanks to the Bun Mobile, Roamin Pizza, Jack Daniels, Carlton Dry and Monster Energy.
While the crowd mingled around the illuminated furniture and the Jetpilot girls enjoyed the hot tubs the BMX riders got to work on the two hit set up created by Tim Wood, the guys went big and got the crowd excited with a combination of technical and stylish tricks, The crowd voted that the Throwdown champion on the night however went to GC Compound local Dale O’Brien with a massive double backflip off the first hit.
We finished the night off in Style with Gold Coast DJ’s The Surecut Kids descending from the roof on the suspended stage while breakers skill@will went to work amongst the crowd and got them excited for the after party at East nightclub which lasted to the early hours of the morning.
“We really wanted to show our retailers, buyers and media contacts what the brand is all about and this is the reason behind the Night of Nights concept, we also want to say thanks to the people that keep supporting the brand and are keeping it moving forward, without these people we wouldn’t be able to hold events like this” said Marketing Manager Chris Apps.
Founded in 1986, JetPilot continues it’s leading tradition producing the most progressive, innovative, technically advanced, rider-inspired products for the Action Sports industry.