Was told that this form of sports’ the only way you go if you want consistent waves any time of the year and still get the same adrenaline like the real thing.

What I’m talking about? Flowboarding, a sort of new form of sports that’s hitting the beach around the world. At present, only 4 venues which includes Wave House San Diego, Wave House Durban, Wave House Santiago and the new Wave House Sentosa, as well as in many independent water parks and retail locations.

Flowboarders ride on artificial waves that are technically called “sheet waves.” Known technically as the WaveLoch FlowRider® and the FlowBarrel®, these sheet waves are the patented constructions of Wave Loch, Inc. which is headquartered in La Jolla, California. Powerful pumps project a three-inch layer of water at speeds ranging from 20 MPH to 30 MPH. The water flows up and over surfaces engineered to replicate the shape of ocean waves. Sheet waves are stationary waves, in that the wave does not move forward, and the movement is derived from water flowing over a stationary surface. Flowboarders get their speed from the energy of the water flowing at them, and can perform basic to sophisticated turns and tricks within a relatively small area.

The technical descrīption for sheet wave from patent application 5,401,117, dated March 28, 1995 reads: “A sheet flow is where the water depth is sufficiently shallow such that the pressure disturbance caused by a rider and his vehicle are generally known as the ‘ground effect.’ This provides for an inherently more stable ride, thus requiring less skill to catch and ride a wave.’”

I managed to catch up with some participants from the USA and South Africa recently when they came to South East Asia for one of their Championship Leg. South Africa goes into the history book as the inaugural title holders for the 2009 International FLOW (Flowboarding League Of the World) Championships with three scintillating finals that carved a new era in the phenomenal sport of flowboarding. Here’s some photos from the Finals. Do let me know what you think of the photos. More photos available here

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Recently had an opportunity to shoot with Baby Yvonne. This is the first part of 2 sets, titled simply as Office Wear. Won’t write much on what we do and all so enjoy the following photos.

Do feel free to critic on the photos. Always is a great tool to help me improve on photography. The rest of the collection can be viewed here

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Any of you remember this series titled V from the mid 80s? Grew up watching it. Even had a toy gun which looks just like the one in the series. Here’s a clip if you don’t know what I’m talking about or remember the series.

Here’s a low down on what the series is about. The Visitors are a fictional invading alien race from the V franchise. The “Visitors” are reptilian humanoids who disguise themselves to look human but prefer to eat live prey, such as mice. In the 1983 and 1984 miniseries, but not the 1984 TV series, the disguised Visitors can be told apart from humans by a reverberating echo in their voices.

A new version was made and the first episode was recently aired in the USA. One thing that’s different from the 80s version is the reimagined 2009 versions lack that vocal attribute and thus makes the aliens appear more human. All Visitors are given human names for the humans’ convenience. They are never heard to use their home-world names.

I have been wondering when they’ll release a re-worked version of this series, well, I guess my question has been answered with this new series. Here’s the trailer from the new release.

With this series shown, we now have The Knight Rider and V reworked. A-team’s in the pipeline so now if only they’ll create a new version of The StreetHawk and AirWolf. That’ll be great. Don’t you think?

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Recently, I received a little package from the World of Sports people. Lo and behold, when I open up the package, this is what stares back at me.

All I can do at that moment was to pick up my jaw that has dropped to the floor looking at this bag of goodies. Then the following question came to me, what are those guys thinking? Trying to make me get back into running or more precise cross country running?

These guys at World of Sports lectured the other day about me using the wrong type of shoes as when we first met, I was in my basketball shoes. The first question they asked was, “You do a lot of walking right? Why are you wearing the wrong type of shoes?”, of course I countered with “I love these shoes, they are comfortable! Furthermore, to me a sports shoe is a sport shoe. Does it really matter if it’s a basketball shoe or a running shoe?”. Let’s just say that after talking to the 8 times World Grand Prix Mountain Running Champion, Jonathan Wyatt and a few other avid runners. My perception towards wearing the right type of shoes for the right activity is crucial.

The shoes that I was presented with is the Salomon XT-Wings. It’s Red, has these cool Kevlar® Quickfit™ lacing system that takes just one pull for a precise fit and there’s lace pockets to hide the lacing! It also have reflective detailing that helps increases visibility of the users in low light.

Having used it for the last 3 weeks, I must say that whether you are walking or running in it, the shoe’s very comfortable. It’s also grippy especially when you’re running through patches of slippery concrete areas so your footing remains firm and you don’t feel like you’re going to fall off.

Running through terrains also feels much more comfortable and secure as the bottom part of the shoes provide great cushioning and protective armor. I was running through some patches of loose gravel as well as some rocky area recently and while I could feel the stones trying to poke their way through the shoes, the XT-Wings remains firm and well, I felt much more assured in running through instead of slowing down not wanting any stones to finally break through upon impact.

I’m no shoe expert or a professional runner to write about all the technical stuff. All I can say is my own personal experience with the shoe. So all I can say is, the styling is cool even though I was told by some that it’s too red! Very comfortable, it’s lightweight with Aggressive, forward-tilted weight balance and has a Secure grip and traction on rough and tricky surfaces. Did I mention that you don’t have to tie laces with the shoe? There’s this cool Quickfit system that can be hidden away after you tug on it to ‘lace up’. With that, there’s no worries of the laces coming loose in the middle of a run. Cool right?

The Salomon XT-Wings are available at all World of Sports outlets, just head towards the Salomon section of the outlets. It’s presently retailing at RM529 in Malaysia and SGD229 in Singapore.

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Following suit from the Nuffnang Awards, the Bloggers from outside of Singapore was given a tour of the island city to the various parts to soak in the cultural and technological extravaganza. Following are photos from the tour.

Sorry if your photos are not in here as I could only go into the tour with 2 groups and could not join up with the other groups and shoot from there. Hopefully you’d get photos from the various bloggers that is in your group yah.

For all the photos from the Tour, head on over to the official album here. I’ve also uploaded the photos onto facebook for you tag as well.

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