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Breaking the Plateau

For the longest time, I have been at my plateau with wakeboarding. Stuck at trying to do 2-wake jumps is not a pleasant place to be in. You are in a state of being better than average yet having nothing really to show for it and being laughable in that proper wakeboarders have mastered this essential skill. My frustration broke when I was able to nail my heelside 2-wake jump. My instructor¹ pushed me to the toeside wake jumps almost immediately which I appreciated since it pushes me to keep trying something new. I think he wants to make use of the new found confidence I have.

Quite right as now I am finally trying to pull off grabs and 180 wake jumps. Thankfully El Revez was in town to shoot some good shots of me pulling off something a little more spectacular than bunny hops. I am a little gutted that the Wakeboard World Cup² is taking place in Singapore this coming weekend and I’ve agreed to help my old company with their event. Not only am I missing out on some excellent displays of waterbourne aerial acrobatics but also a prime photo opportunity.

Gutted, gutted, gutted.

1. Bobby Mah, Lauch Wakeboard at www.launch2002.com [↩]
2. Wakeboard World Cup in Singapore. [↩]

Nailed Heelside 2 Wake Jump

Last week I posted about how I am approaching my 2-wake jump¹, which has taken me a grand total of 4 years to perfect². This week at Ponggol, I finally managed to have a decent ride where I nailed quite a few of my heelside 2-wake jumps and even try a few toe-side 1-wake jumps. Needless to say I’m chucking fuffed with the result and for all those long-suffering supporters of Eshin in the wakeboarding community that patiently kept training me³, I thank you.

1. Pulling Off the 2-Wake Jump. [↩]
2. Read:”Clear the second wake” [↩]
3. And secretly thought I perhaps should take up golf… [↩]

Pulling Off the Two Wake Jump

I think they really should call me “Two-Wake” Eshin because I have embarrassingly stayed on the same trick for the last few years. It’s something that I still haven’t nailed although I am hopeful at this rate that it will be before the end of the year. So you could call me “Two-Wake” Eshin to poke fun at my elusive holy grail of wakeboarding or when I finally do pull it off flawlessly each time, that will be a badge of honor since, at the rate I am going, my next trick will be mastered by the time I am forty.

Here’s is how I am pulling off my heel-side two wake jump (and this is more for my own reference than anyone else’s). Some photos at the end for those patient enough to have read through the post.

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My Bike Revealed

I have to hand it to my parents in that they are quite perceptive and smart about certain things. I spent a good thirty minutes preparing them for the news that I had a tattoo which was rewarded with a rather smirky confirmation that they already knew.

This time around they already knew about my motorbike although they had the good grace to ask me to come clean and tell them if I had a bike or not. So now that they know, I can reveal to the world at large that I indeed do have a motorbike and can show pretty pictures of my Honda CB400 Super Four Revo.

This one was rather hastily done in the dying light yesterday, but I’ll post more up when I get the chance.

Wakeboard Sunrise

This is a second test post using Shozu to see how it handles larger photos. The original is 350k.

**Update**

1. I’m not sure I like the added advertising (but it’s free) and the fact that it sits on someone else’s server.
2. No tags added
3. No option to choose category to post in.
4. Facebook integration is playing nicely with ShoZu though.