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Hundreds of hours of falling, and I loved every one
How it all started
Windsurfing is hard to learn. I fell, bruised, drifted away and got into trouble more times than I can count. Determined to plane like the pros, I took a 1.5-hour bus ride from the west and hitched the rest of the way to the beach.
I’ve always lived for training and competing — track and field from secondary school through NUS, triathlon, biathlon, road cycling, and Laser sailing in junior college. I was too light for the Laser, and I loved the speed and physical grind of windsurfing.
I was drafted into the national windsurfing team while at NUS. After graduating I joined ESPN, then quit after a year to windsurf full-time. Money was tight — I tutored, taught at the gym and wrote freelance to pay for equipment, overseas training and races.
I loved the daily grind of full-time training. I won silver at the 2001 SEA Games, raced slalom and formula across Asia, and took my first PWA World Tour race in 2007 — then found out I was two months pregnant. My son had done his first race before he was born.
Passion, business and family
From then on I built a business that let me raise my kids at the beach. For years I ran a pro shop at East Coast with my children beside me every day. Today the shop lives online at windkitesurfsup.com, and I spend my time where the action is: coaching wingfoiling, windsurfing and SUP.
None of it would be possible without my husband’s support. And both my kids now wingfoil — my daughter has raced in the Wingfoil World Cup.
Kids are not an excuse not to do it. They are my reason.
MY VISION
I want to inspire people to live healthy, strong and full lives through sport. It is possible to get fit. It is possible to win a race.
It is possible to be a sporty mum. With determination, faith and resilience,
there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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Windsurfing with my 2-year-old Samuel in Alaçatı, Turkey
Wingfoiling with my daughter Victoria in Anilao