MANILA, Philippines - Five celebrity wakeboarders will grace the opening of Republic at Westgate, Alabang, Muntinlupa this weekend in an event dubbed “Republic Movement Down South.”
The wakeboarders – Nick Davies (UK Wakeboard World Champion 2009); Kim II Young (Korea, Asian Wakeboard Champion 2009); Shawn Watson (US Red Bull Winch Rail Master Champion 2007); Shane Bonifay (US, voted as 2009 Wakeboard Move of the Year), and Phillip Soven (US, King of Wake 2009) – will do a demo in a 7m x 100-meter winch pool set up in the middle of Filinvest Avenue. A skate park shall also be open to the public.
Westgate Center, located at the Filinvest Corporate City in Alabang, is a master-planned retail, fitness, dining and automotive complex in the south. It now houses Republic which is touted to become a haven for skaters and wakeboarders in the south of Manila with its array of funky sports gear and active urban streetwear inspired by LA and New York brands.