1st Kadayawan Wakeboarding Competition!

A TOTAL cash prize of P60,000 is up for grabs when the 1st Kadayawan Festival Cup (KFC) Wakeboarding Competition plunges into action on August 20 at the world-class Deca Wakeboard Park (DWP) in Barangay Tacunan, Mintal and P30,000 worth of giveaways are also at stake for the participants.

Some 60 adult and kid competitors in the one-day free admission event that will have varied categories for different age-groups are expected.

The holding of the events in celebration of the Kadayawan sa Dabaw Festival will give awareness to Dabawenyos and Mindanaoans on the sport of wakeboarding.

The participants will be judged according to their tricks and stunts and how they go about all the obstacles.

A photo competition for photographers will be a side event. Cash prizes will also be awarded to the winners of the photo contest.

Deca Wakeboard Park is the third wakeboard park in the Philippines and the only one in Mindanao. The first one built was the Lago de Oro in Batangas and second was in Camarines Sur.

Entry fee for the wakeboard competition, which is presented by DWP with 8990 Housing Development Corporation, is P500 for all categories.

"Deca Wakeboard Park" opening soon?!

It has been reported here that "Deca Wakeboard Park" will open before the Kadayawan 2009 Festival. But up to now the biggest wake board park to rise in the Philippines has not opened yet. They got into trouble for pushing the project without prior reclassification of their land, so the opening of the park was not pushed through.

However last Tuesday, November 10, 2009 the Davao City  Council approved four applications for land reclassification with all councilors voting affirmative and that includes the land where "Deca Wakeboard Park" is located.

Approved are the land reclassifications of:

* A parcel of 7.43 hectares at Barangay Tacunan, Tugbok District embraced by transfer certificate of title (TCT) T-414958 and T-414962, from "light industrial zone" to "parks and recreation zone" to accommodate the proposed "Deca Wakeboard Park."

We are hoping to see the park opening soon!

This will surely help help Davao City's tourism and more work for the unemployed Davaoeños.