Getting the kick in Subic

Off to a rousing start.

That's how I describe it. The F1 Events vehicle got off to a podium finish right on the first race of the season. I love the blinding speed at how things happen lately. Never mind some trips to the pitstop for some limp. But that's putting things rather on a figurative note.

The F1 Event crew spent the weekend at Subic Bay's Boardwalk Waterfront area for the kick-off leg of the 2011 Kicksand Beach Football Series. The event is a regular menu of the Beach Football Association of the Philippines (BFAP) and has been played in Subic since 2000. This year, BFAP President Mike Athab and his able sidekick Rea Villa are thinking of bigger things ahead. With F1's lift, BFAP is expanding its tournaments to the south with a swing in breath-taking Boracay and disarming Davao this May and June.

Before we move away from Subic though, here's looking back the kind of kick we got in Subic.

Talk about the competition? Tough. Real tough. The action was as simmering as summer. It was as close as it could get.

From the eliminations to the finals, the games were classic mano a mano.

When the sand cleared at Subic sundown on both Saturday and Sunday, Libertas FC frustrated a fighting Kick Me FC in the women's side while the Mama Sitas spiced-Manila FC escaped with a narrow win over Amihan FC via shootout in the men's competitions.

Beach football is fast and the action is limitless with the soft pitch. Very exciting. Can't wait to the next stop in Bora and Davao where a lot of teams should be starting to prepare by now for Kicksand.

See you at the beach.