Saturday, May 5, 2012


Learn the safe way to have Fun with Wakeboard Towers
If you like to catch a gust of air while wakeboarding, wakeboard towers can help you a lot. Wakeboard towers are designed to provide you extra height and time for remaining airborne and having fun with the various tricks. With more air caught up between you and the wakeboard, the suspension time or 'hangtime' increases, giving you more scope to perform in mid-air.
This is the reason why you find a wakeboard rope usually fastened with a ski pole or a tow hook at the lower part of the wakeboard boat tied to an 8 feet high wakeboard tower. This gives the rider of the wakeboard the advantage of being pulled from a higher tow point that changes the angle of towing and creates better chances of a 'loft' during the air jump.
If you have ever seen a rider performing without wakeboard towers, you will find them being pulled back down toward the water's surface immediately after being airborne. This mainly is due to the low tow point that creates a problem. However, if you venture to get your wakeboard rope attached to a high wakeboard tower, you can have much more fun in air before the tow point pulls you down.
Wakeboard towers are helpful structures formed by attaching unused boards to the tower in a wakeboard rack and solve the problem of cluttering in the boat. You can find wakeboard towers in various sleek and robust shapes and designs and generally in black and steel colors. Because of their contribution to the excitement of wakeboarding experience, wakeboard towers invariably come with all boats.
While considering buying a wakeboard tower, you must pay some attention to the material of which it is made. The make up of the wakeboard and its design will determine its durability, utility and coordination with your boat. Think twice before going for a wakeboard tower put to sale on the internet stores since a slight defect can endanger your life. Always view the complete picture details and specifications of wakeboard towers before investing so that you get your money's worth.
Although wakeboard towers were initially meant for sports professionals only, new age daredevils have picked up the craze of riding high behind their boats. In order to minimize the risks of using wakeboard towers the wrong way, many companies have come forward to build a customized tower according to your demands and install it the proper way. Custom made wakeboard towers may be a little expensive but they ensure better safety of both the rider and the boat than pre-made ones.
You can find many of these companies online offering to build wakeboard towers for you. Before placing a custom order for a tower, you can consult these companies to know what they have to offer. You will love to know that customized wakeboard towers can be attached with waterproof speakers that can help you listen to your favorite music even amid the gush of water and the noise of the boat.

Friday, April 27, 2012


Talk about visiting Cambodia and a lot of individuals might think about three areas, that of the world renowned temple of Angkor Wat, the capital city Phnom Penh, home of the killing fields plus some of the darkest monuments of the Khmer Rouge days, and then finally the seashores by Sihanoukville aka Kompong Som. To this collection one could squeeze in a fresh destination, the régional capital of Battambang.

The area has become a magnet for visitors, who come to see a more authentic version of Cambodia, away from the tour groups and clicking cameras that have come to define the more well known destinations.

The initial thing which will strike anyone regarding Battambang will be the wealth of colonial era French buildings which makes up most of the old city, with anything from lines of terraced shop houses which are everywhere you go throughout the grid arrangement in the heart of the area, to some bigger privately owned villas previously lived in by the colonial elite and many imposing community complexes, all of these produce a really interesting walking excursion. The most wonderful as well as imposing of those can be the former governors’ household, the city hall, train station and also the primary post office.

Positioned on the shores of the Sangker waterway , the city center is on the eastern side, with the improving western bank home to several big hotels. Go for a walk round the Art Deco period central market where you can grab a liunchtime bowl of soup

Further away from town centre there are many idiosyncratic and different things to find, the main one of those would be the bamboo train also known as the norry. Cambodia’s train system is these days in a condition of disrepair and no longer offers any locomotives operating in it, therefore the villagers located around the train tracks chose to put this to their benefit and developed their personal locomotives. Nothing at all like real size locomotive, the bamboo train is really a easily portable wooden wagon driven by a gasoline motor which has small wheels and can operate along the older train lines. You can go to the train set off point by taxi and take a trip for several kilometres, this costs 5 bucks, which will ultimately arrive at a brick manufacturing facility prior to making the returning trip. Battambang stands out as the location of Cambodia’s only vineyard and wine maker they usually welcome tourists with a wine sampling event. One other unconventional sight is the old Pepsi plant, that was left behind by its proprietors as soon as Khmer Rouge occupied the region. It is possible to step indoors and discover the systems and also countless empty Pepsi bottles just as these were left in 1979.

In addition there are Angkor period wats close to Battambang known as Wat Ek as well as Baset temple, which are worthy of an outing, even though undoubtedly lack the dimensions of Angkor Wat. Baset temple rests atop a hillside that additionally contains two big caverns. Prasat Banan is a present day temple that's on the peak of a four hundred metre high mountain and the cliff top scenery of the rice farms of outlying Cambodia are an amazing vista to view.

After going through Battambang, a good number of visitors' following destination will be siemreap, quickly gotten to on a coach in 5 hrs, or even on a motorboat down river.