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Magic of wakesurfing
Football may be Singapore's No. 1 sport but there are other sporting love affairs around the island. In this fortnightly series, The Straits Times seeks out less popular games and discovers that a country's passion for sport, even in this time of Covid-19, burns brightly. Sport gains traction as more S'poreans turn to it to satisfy need for adventure
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Marcus Lee doing the kind of tricks that helped him clinch the gold at the 2017 Manulife-Flash Wakeboard and Wakesurf Championships.
ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Rebecca Mah
Struggling to balance school work alongside two part-time jobs, it was hard for Marcus Lee to find spare pockets of time to do the sport he loves best: wakesurfing.
But, once a week, he set off in a towboat from Marina Country Club in Punggol, travelling over 10 minutes to a stretch of calm waters just off the coast from Yishun Dam - a designated spot just for wakesurfing.
