The Red Bull Qiantang Surfing Shootout is the first international river
surfing competition.
Surfing in a river is quite different from surfing
in the sea.
The height and the speed of river waves are not as high but a
tidal bore can run for more than 10 kilometers.
It requires good jet
ski driving skills for surfers to chase
the tidal bore and find a wave
to surf.
The Qiantang River has the world’s largest tidal bore,
which
reaches its peak on Aug 18 of the lunar calendar
and be up to nine
meters in height.
The final of the surfing shootout this year fell on
Sept 12, the peak day for the tidal bore.
The tradition of riding waves
on the Qiantang River dates back to the
Northern Song Dynasty
(960-1127), when literary works of that era described wave riders.
Modern surfing wasn’t introduced to China until the 1980s and 1990s,
when some Chinese studying in Hawaii and California returned to the
motherland having
picked up the sport, according to Bao Xuping, CEO of
Surfing China,
the organizer of the Shootout.
There are quite a number
of surfing clubs in Hainan and Shenzhen.
The annual surfing shootout in
the ...more
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