It was a day of flips and jumps, as the crowd were left enthralled by the contestants’ amazing stunts at the pro-qualifier leg of the Asia Flow Tour 2016 held at Sunway Lagoon recently.

Asia Flow Tour 2016 saw over 35 talented flowboarders from around Asia, mainly Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Singapore, and Indonesia competing in five different categories. These included the men and women series of the International Women’s Flowboard, International Mixed Bodyboard, International Mixed Flowboard, National Pro Bodyboard, Open Mixed Flowboard, Open Mixed Bodyboard.

The winners of this Asia Flow Tour 2016 pro-qualifier leg in Malaysia are now one step closer to competing at the Asia Tour Grand Finals, which is set to take place at Sunway Lagoon on the 16th to 17th of September. Following which, the winners will then battle it out against the world’s best at the 2016 World Flowboarding Championships, of which details of the competition will be released soon. 

Full list of all the winners at the Sunway Lagoon Asia Flow Tour 2016 per category, are as below:-

Flowboarding – or flowriding, as it is also generally known – is an alternative boardsport which gained popularity in the last 20 years incorporating elements of surfing, bodyboarding, skateboarding, skimboarding and wakeboarding. 

Flowboarders ride on artificial waves comprising of a three-inch layer of water pumped at high pressure. The water flows up and over surfaces engineered to replicate the shape of ocean waves. These “sheet waves”, as they are known, are stationary and do not move forward as natural waves do. Flowboarders garner their speed from the energy of the water flowing at them, rendering them the ability to perform basic to sophisticated turns and tricks within a relatively small area.

Despite being a relative newcomer to the sport, Malaysia is already making waves in international flowboarding circuits, thanks to local competitors who are putting the country on the world flowboarding map. Now, these enthusiasts may ride on Sunway Lagoon’s waves and tear it up together.

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