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| The day I can reach this stage, I can almost taste heaven, but considering the amount of 'air' (snowboarding and wakeboarding term for the height they can achieve) this guy's got, he's almost in heaven. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| I recently started my interest in Wakeboarding last year, April. As an avid snowboarder, I got the hang of this sport really quickly and in turn, got addicted to it. This day, on the 15th of August 2002, I went with some of my good friends, Daniel, Paul and Rachel, to Pro-air at Sembawang. As per usual, I rented the X-star. Its one of the cheaper boats there, S$80 an hour. And I'm rather familiar with Tony who brings us out. |
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| We were waiting for Tony to pump in the fuel, so here's our first photo, when everybody's still dry. On the left is Daniel Tan, my ACJC Orientation Group friend, and to the right of him, is Paul. |
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| Nice knowing you, Daniel. Farewell *chuckle* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| As you can tell from the huge grin on his face, Daniel had his first run of the day and he managed to cross a wake and return back. Great job. Keep it up. Soon, you'll be like the pro up there, almost in heaven. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| There's Rachel on the left, doing her signature pose, with Daniel. I think Paul must be out there, with the other three of us on the boat. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paul's done it too!! He crossed the wake. He's feeling rather sore, after encountering a few unavoidable faceplants (wakeboarding terminology: when a person falls face first, hitting the water, thats when a person 'plants' his face into the wake). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Haha, now its my turn to take a picture with the pretty girl. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Joker me, trying to make a funny face, while trying to cross the wake. Thank goodness I managed to recover otherwise I would have performed a faceplant. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Daniel and Paul playing around on the boat... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| We just finished our two-hour wakeboarding session, which was more than enough for the four of us. To remember it all, we took a group photograph. Photographer: Tony (not Dr Tony Tan lah) |
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