Name The Sentosa FlowBarrel® And Win...

Cool Prizes Up For Grabs...

The naming of new spots has always been a major part of alternative sports, and carries a lot of bragging rights with it. Generally the discovery of a new surf, skate, snow, wakeboarding or BMX location is veiled in a degree of secrecy and the right to name that spot falls on the discoverers. A lot of the time these names simply refer to the place’s location, hence breaks such as Waimea Bay, Nias, Bells Beach or Malibu; and skates spots such as Chaffey High School, Wilshire Boulevard, Love Park and The Brooklyn Banks are not the most creative.

But for each of these spots there is one with an equally descriptive or imaginative name, and with almost all of these comes an interesting story. Names of surf breaks such as Dungeons, Cyclops, Cloudbreak, Restaurants, Ours, The Box, Gas Chambers, Log Cabins, Lance’s Right, Macaronis, Periscopes, Jaws, and Ghost Trees each involve an interesting history, as do skate spots such as El Toro, The Dog Bowl, The Ghetto, The Fruit Bowl, The Hubba Hideout and Leap of Faith.

For instance, Uluwatu, the infamous long, barrelling left in Bali, Indonesia literally translates as “Evil Water”, while Pasta Point in the Maldives was named by Tony Hussain after he was shipwrecked on the island in December 1973. Hussain named the wave because its barrel shape resembled Penne Pasta, and kept his discovery a secret for over 15 years…

Well the sport of flowriding is no different, and while the spots are created for your use and enjoyment instead of being stumbled across like surf and skate spots, there is still a lot of importance focussed upon the naming of each FlowBarrel®. The first wave built was the double-barrelled Durbanicus Rex at Wave House Durban, and the macdaddy of flowriding is now affectionately known as the D-Rex by the locals. Similarly the FlowBarrel at Wave House San Diego has followed suit, and is known as Bruticus Maximus, or the B-Max if you’re on friendlier terms…

So now the challenge has been thrown down with the opening of Wave House Sentosa in Singapore. What will the latest edition to the Wave House family – Singapore’s left breaking FlowBarrel – be named? For the past few weeks various names have been bouncing around the Wave House offices, and then someone had the bright idea of opening the naming process up to the flowriders – the people closest to the waves and the ones who will invariably use the name the most often.

Aside from the honour of naming the new wave, the person who suggests the winning name will also receive $100 worth of Food and Beverage Vouchers, and five hours of free riding on their newly named FlowBarrel or the FlowRider®.

To enter visit the Wave House Sentosa fan page on Facebook, become a fan and then enter your suggestion in the comments section. Entries close 20 December so get thinking right now!

So far the top 10 suggestions are (in no particular order):

Sentosa Superflux or just Superflux

Siloso Prime

Fluxinator

N.E.R.B. (Never Ending Rad Barrel)

Fluxious Dolorious

Flux Master

Loch Ness

Big Blue

Magnus Fluctus (Latin for "huge wave")

Loch Vortice