Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Yesterday, I headed to Launch 2002 in Punggol, Singapore’s largest wakeboarding area. Joined up on a boat with 4 others through the invite from a friend of a friend - we had had all-types on-board from ‘never done-it’, ‘done it a few times’ to ‘local pro!’.

Here’s a short TGU video from the trip:

TGU Wakeboarding, Singapore from Robin Blandford on Vimeo.

We headed out to the lee of one of the islands on the Malaysian border into (at times) total flat calm. It was great to have a proper boat and tow line as the wake was fantastically formed for jumps for some big air.

The hired driver was only ok, good at the driving - but didn’t give much instruction for the new starters. Apparently some of the instructors at this school are fantastic, so there is credit due.

I got a few wake-to-wakes and we snapped some great pics! I took out my new Olympus m790 waterproof camera and it worked well enough although many photos were missed due to shutter-lag. It’s certainly not the Canon EOS D-SLR I’ve got used to!

Cost:
We got a taxi from Orchard road to Punggol Marina Country Club costing S$14 (20mins costing £5 split between 3). The wake-boarding boat hire, all equipment and a driver was S$110 an hour (£35), we had it for 3 hours (S$330 split by 5).

Full flickr Set here.

-Robin

(Image Credits: Author & friends at Launch 2002 Wakeboarding, Ponggal.)