Jet-skier Hards suffers rare failure

Hards has riden the gravy train of success over the last year but it de-railed temporarily at Fosse Hill in Yorkshire at the weekend.

Much of the disappointment in the second national freestyle tour (professional section) event of the season was beyond his control though. Perhaps the writing was on the wall when the pole bracket that holds the steering pole onto the ski snapped when he attempted a big aerial trick called an E Jump during Saturday practice.