Recently the papers carried the news of PUB's plan to turn canals and waterways of Singapore into pretty places where people can hang out under the "Active, Beautiful and Clean Waters" project. Paddlers will tune into this piece of news and rejoice at the paddling opportunities in the future, especially with the building of a viewing gallery for rowing competitions at Lower Seletar. A few other reservoirs mentioned that the there will be walk-in kayaking rental facilities offered to the public too.
All these developments actually still regards kayaking as a miscellaneous recreational activity in which people can take part in for a bit of paddling fun, and not proposed to create facilities to develop kayaking sport as a whole. I'm sure SCF will laud these projects for the good of paddling sports, but then is it intending to educate a country of inland paddlers? Maybe it will be admirable if a whitewater stadium is in the works, but not otherwise. It might help canoe polo to take off with the establishing of a few permanent canoe polo courts, such that more independent teams can be formed because there is a training ground for them.
Serious paddlers should save to buy foldables and tour the world in them - there's no future in paddling in reservoirs.
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Hear hear!
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