Bohol Wakefest 2012 Pandanon Island

Image courtesy The Board Shop

The beautiful Pandanon Island will be the venue for Bohol Wakefest 2012 – a month long wakeboarding and wakeskating festival for everyone interested to get into the sport of boarding in the Philippines. Bohol Wakefest 2012 also includes a two–day Wake Jam. The Wake Jam is where invited, top–class wakeboarders and wakeskaters, from all over Asia and the Philippines, will be demonstrating their skills and performing some astonishing tricks, for the entertainment of spectators and to motivate local enthusiasts to excel.

The Bohol Wakefest 2012 is enabled by a new, straight–line wakeboard cable system (Sesitec System 2.0), which is a mobile wakeboard and wakeskate facility that could be located across almost any short stretch of river, lake

Image courtesy Teddy Aquino

The first organized Deep Water Soloing (DWS) venue in Busuanga was climbed this week. Teddy Aquino, the owner of Juju Island (about 20 minutes by speed-boat from Coron town), invited a group of climbing friends from overseas to join him in exploring the craggy limestone cliffs and walls of Sangat Island (and similar islands in the Calamianes Islands Group), for the purpose of identifying the best locations for Deep Water Soloing in the Philippines.

What is Deep Water Soloing? It is essentially rock-climbing with the objective of an eventual rapid descent into deep water. The word "soloing" is included because you are not tied to any other climbers in your ascent and you jump into the deep water at the moment that you decide is right, without reference to other climbers who may be ascending at the same time

Image courtesy Lago de Oro Wake Park

The annual Asian Wake Park Tour 2010 comes to Calatagan, Batangas, in November to Lago de Oro wakeboarding park. This is the third and final leg of the 2010 Asian Wake Park Tour and it will to be an action filled event with top professional wakeboard riders from across the Asian region.

The Lago de Oro cable ski facility is the first in the Philippines and together with the Deca Wakeboarding Park in Davao and the Camsur Waterstports Complex (CWC) in Pili, Naga, makes the Philippines one of the most popular wakeboarding destinations