We are pleased to announce the international judging panel for the 2021 TJ Products Virtual British Freestyle Championships.

Covering Difficulty, international stunt rider and owner of Prorider Watercraft Magazine, Mr Michael Ratti. Hailing from the US, Michael is a two time national champion and has previously been ranked in the top 10 in the world.

Scoring Variety, six-time world title winner Marc “The Shark” Sickerling, from Germany. Marc has also won 11 European titles and holds an entry in the Guinness Book of Records.

Covering Execution, long standing British and European Championship judge and affectionately known as “the weapon of freestyle”, Mr Keith Thomas of the UK.

Scoring Flow, three-time British champion and previous head judge for the British Freestyle Championships, Mr Mark Curtis of the UK.Adding up the tricks, co-organiser of the British Freestyle Championships and British and European freestyle judge, Mr Martin Pearce of the UK.

Advisor to the judging panel is Mr Vaclav Zacek of the Czech Republic. Vaclav is a multi-national freestyler champion, has previously placed in the top three in the world finals, and is the founder and organiser of the European and US Freestyle Championships. Vaclav, also known as Ice Man, will be providing independent validation of the consolidated scores and, in case of any tie has the casting vote. Since no ride offs are possible with Virtual Freestyle, this may be required. Vaclav is also a reference point for the other judges in case of questions around riders and scores. As usual we are following the European freestyle judging system with each judge scoring the riders within his or her designated category. This is a high calibre and experienced judging panel, with the highest freestyle credentials, and we are extremely grateful to all six who are giving up their time for free in the interests of growing our sport. The judges will be asked to view the routines in the last week of June and provide their scores via a private link, independently of each other and prior to full production effects and commentary being added.

Please give a virtual round of applause to all of our judges!