September 1930
Announcement of autumn's surfing in China
Hello everyone (who is still here)! I was a month erased from my ordinary life. Yeah, the feeling that this time in Vladivostok, I spent some separate little life. About how the trip was the American pro-surfers in Vladivostok, I will write (with characteristic frankness I certainly did), but now I want to talk about what interesting surf events waiting for us in China in autumn 2009. About 
for this year turns out very rich in water extreme. There is no crisis.
October 1-3 in Lyuychzhou (Guangxi Province) will host a FIFA World veykbordu and water skiing. Organizer: International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation. Website: http://www.iwwfed.com For information thank the steering Shanghai Wake, James Cornell (Thanks to James Cornell for the information).
October 5-7 in Qianjiang (it's near the city of Hangzhou) will take place - attention! - The first in China International Exhibition and Conference on surfing and Tarket sports. In addition, the planned first in the history of China surf contest on the Chinese river with the world's largest tidal wave! Invited to attend top surfers, including the famous rider big waves, Mark Healey. A map of the exhibition even seen a pool for surfing. Organizers: impressive . Website: http://www.unique-expo.com/surfingchina/surfingchina.html Thanks to Elena Domashnev for this interesting news! Who will go - write impressions.
30 October-1 November, Hainan will be the regular raskolbas from Santa Cruz Surf Jam. You can first get on board or go with more experienced surfers and have a great time in a cosmopolitan surf company. Organizers: Icon X , Surfing Hainan
Last year's shortboard champion Nathan Mettler
About that, how the camp in April 2009, you can read here .
November 6-8 in Hainan is the second competition Surfing Hainan Open . Organizer: Surfing Hainan
August 1919
What I see!
Once, not so long ago I walked in Google for keywords Surfing + China (= Love?), And unexpectedly stumbled upon a site called Surfing China, not mine. URL: www.wabsono.com Type:
From this site I know that on May 27 this year in Hangzhou, in a neighborhood which is naughty world's largest tidal wave took place first. International. Meeting of the Summit. By surfing. In China. Wow!
The main topics of the summit:
1) organization of surfing on the same tide-record holder.
In general, most Chinese are pragmatic people in the world, and there is good disappear - a free river wave! Sooner or later they will organize there any rental fee, not otherwise.
2) surfing and economic and cultural development of the region.
What does it mean?
3) understanding of culture and lifestyle, driving surf-business.
Well this is another question, who's moving. Please note that items serfing subculture gradually penetrate into the visual reality of China: conquering the cover of glossy magazines, shelves, space advertising billboards and TV ads. Here for example:
Covers of the Chinese version of the magazine on the active leisure OUTSIDE
More - more.
August 12
Adventures typhoon
Today, they expected Typhoon Morakot "come to Shanghai, but this did not happen. "Mora-Cat" rather nabedokuril in the eastern provinces of China. Who else but surfers can enjoy typhoon? "I do not know. What brought" Mor-a-Cat "Celestial surfers? In Shenzhen, was calm and sunny, as reported nihao.ru . Ferries to about. Tao Hua (promising new surf spot, among other things) canceled because of the storm warning, so we now know there is not. What happened in Taiwan, too, can only guess (there are witnesses?), But the forecast since last Saturday to even look scary (see right). Who finds it difficult to recognize Taiwan - see top right corner spot 30 feet? Here, there is Taiwan.
A pair of intrepid surfers from Shanghai and Ningbo able (!) To reach about. Chzhutszyatszyan (I think by the end of a geographic name is still no one reads), beat stubborn Chinese lifeguards (!!), honestly performed their duty not to let anyone in the storm, and poserfit (!!!) in such openly challenging environment:
I looked at the picture and think that I would ride in such waves are now probably would not go on to: still too fresh sensation of smooth, smooth, warm, clear azure waves in Bali. Get used to good quickly.
And in Hainan on August 8 have opened a new break with the right waves and rode very well (photo Surfing Hainan ):
More photos from this trolley - here . Thank you and respect to all those who surf, photographed and described how it was.
Under the cut - a lyrical post-Bali.
August 6
Monster Swell
This morning I started receiving reports of a powerful typhoon is coming on the southern Japanese islands. Then came a letter from Ningpo: "Urgent come Friday morning, to us is something great, I'm going to the island of Tao Hua! Then I saw the status of Brendan with Hainan on Facebook: «Holy shit! Typhoon coming! Six meters showing for Sunday. Rest up boys, this could be insane! ». Then I guess check forecast itself. Seen:
15-20 feet in the south of Hainan on Sunday. Milo so.
We are staying in touch.
May 1928
New spots on WindGuru!
Recently, in view of forecasts for China was surprised to find that WindGuru appeared as much as 2 new Chinese spot: Qinhuangdao (Qinhuangdao - that the brain does not break with the reading) and a sort of Da Peng !! To understand where it is located geographically, you can go to the tab in the Map window WindGuru. I do not really understand why the object of attention was Qinhuangdao and why WindGuru does not have projections for the more interesting in terms of waves of Hainan. Maybe because it's all the same guru wind. Qinhuangdao is located off the coast of Bohai Bay in north-western part of the Yellow Sea. Waves should be more fairly to try to get there.
In Qinhuangdao, I was in the last year and after that trip zareklas ever have to go there: we were met by pre-Olympic 2008 and the devastation ubiquitous construction sites, which killed all impressions. According to legend, the first emperor of unified China, Qin Shi Huang stayed in these places in search of immortality, hence the name of the place - Qinhuangdao (in the lane. "Island of the Emperor of Qin"). Many of these places I have linked a number of very different but pleasant memories. In winter, years 9 ago, I came to Shan Hai Guan, which is not far, walk on the Great Wall in the arms of a loved one, watch as Wall majestically into the sea and the cold waves of greedy and powerful break on her firm, pointed, drenching spray of two who had climbed here in bad weather people, as if to pull the depth in another piece, another brick, another gaping soul. And in 2007, rising to the board in San Diego and returned to Beijing has a little different, I came to the beach microcosm Nandayhe, which is also near Qinhuangdao, in windsurfing. They then lived positive Russian windsurfer Alex and gave lessons. Try windsurfing was interesting, but it is naive of me to be hoped that it could replace my net surfing. I was still a child was bitten by a wave of Vladivostok.
China, Long Peng
What a spot this second Da Peng , I did not even know. It turned out - an ancient city (as well as something else in China), founded in 1394, which served as a naval fortress and defended the empire from the pirates, mostly Japanese. The road to Long Peng lies on the route from Shenzhen to spot Sichun / Dunchun . Forecast WindGuru shows that from Thursday to Saturday are to be expected waves from 1.8 to 2.5 meters. But the direction of these waves some very inappropriate. Nevertheless, the news may be interesting surfers from Shenzhen, and these waves - their property, almost:)
May 1911
X Games Asia 2009
Andy Macdonald, the winner in the discipline of skating in the ramp / Photo kickerclub.com
From 30 April to 5 May in Shanghai were the Asian competitions in extreme sports X GAMES ASIA 2009 . More than 200 athletes from 20 countries competed in four disciplines: Aggressive In-Line (rollers), BMX (bicycles), the brother of surfing - skateboarding and rock climbing. Among the top-10 members AIL, BMX and skateboard not seen a single citizen of China, they were leaders of extremals States, Brazil, Australia and, of course, Japan. But first place in rock climbing at the rate earned Russians Sergey Sinitsyn and Valentine Yurina. And in the final Sergei walked winner X Games Asia 2008 - Indonesian! Somehow, this fact is that Indonesian yielded Russian, I was pleased most. Let not surfing, well here in climbing but! Generally speaking, the great May Day celebrations took place - we caught a wave (a wave caught us) in Hainan, friends from Shanghai, rode on the cabin (and some even learned a new trick), conquered the ancient Chinese mountain near the town of Hangzhou, Shanghai received X Games and finished all the brilliant victory of our hockey team! We are the champions!
Fabrizio Santos - Brazil. Cute!
April 1924
About the "Sea breeze"
Current Music: Olesya Liashenko - "Sea Wolves".
In early February, received a message from Skype Dima Illarionov : "Here the plague! I am thinking on a yacht to sail Qindao -> Hong-Kong or Shanghai -> Hong-Kong (if you take), see here (from the message number 14). Dima in the crew, of course, have taken (well, more would have). On his adventures aboard the Sea Wind ", Kamchatka cruising sailing yacht, to travel from the Kuril Islands to Hong Kong in the autumn of last year, you can read in his journal . Somewhere on the road covered with snow yacht had come up cycle, and Qingdao guys decided not to go, and keep track of - right! - In Shanghai, where much warmer than in the beer capital of China, Qingdao. Of course, I rejoiced, because the intentions were in Shanghai to join the crew of the Sea Wind ", swim finally up on. Zhoushan / Chzhutszyatszyan , where Dima land by type of surf landings, poserfit, they also somehow his way back to Shanghai, where Dima was going to fly back home to Australia.
March 2005
Fr. Chzhutszyatszyan / Island Zhujiajian
O. Chzhutszyatszyan朱家尖岛 Type: Beach break
Best season: spring-autumn
The direction of wave: right and left
Article from the magazine «The Surfer's Path» about surfing, including, on this island.
Zhujiajian Island朱家尖岛
Type: beach break
Season: spring-fall
Direction: left & right
Article from 'The Surfer's Path' magazine Which Mentions Surfing in this island.
March 2005
Fr. Zhoushan / Island Zhoushan
O. Zhoushan舟山岛 Type: Beach break
Best season: spring-autumn
The direction of wave: right and left
Article from the magazine «The Surfer's Path» about surfing, including on the island.
Also known as Fr. Sheng Si
Zhoushan Island舟山岛
Type: beach break
Season: spring-fall
Direction: left & right
Article from 'The Surfer's Path' magazine Which Mentions Surfing in this island:
Also known as Sheng Si Island
February 1925
Hainan - from the rain in waves
If you'd like to turn rain into the waves. You can do this slight movement of the bank card to pay fares at 10 o'clock dank rainy Shanghai in the evening, and already at 11 am melting under the warm sun of a warm winter day Hainanese. Most importantly, as usual, make a decision. The hardest thing - to collect the bag.
I am writing this note on board HO1177 (hereinafter abbr. Airplane CW), takes me back to Shanhan with Fr. Hainan. I was lucky: the airline seems to have sold tickets in economy class more than the seats in the usual salon and I got a place in business class. I just realized that today, February 23 - Russian men's day, and I have no-to-first not congratulated ... Time 21.00. Today I had the best barrow of 3 days on Hainan. I do not feel tired, on the contrary, the forces seem to arrive each taken a wave, but I have not felt that I was shipped off. "So, just a pleasant state of high spirits and red eyes from the sea water as a bonus. But when the plane CW, heavy behemoth a run on the runway, heavily off the ground and I started to tune in Shanghai - in memory surfaced about a holiday. I do not remember such a forgetfulness - all the same surf has not passed unnoticed. So, why our plane was dropping? We are in the air until only 2 hours, and the flight should take about 3-3.5 hours.
Yes, I hear the voice of your third warning about the shutdown the laptop, now closed, yes. Do you even there are still children running around the aisle, a girl.
Dear Men, my congratulations on February 23!
Protect what you dearly. Defend favorite.
Keep the warmth of your home. I wish you success and victory!
I can already see the lights of Shanghai under the wing of the plane XO.
Shanghai, you're glad?
I feel - happy.
Well, what would be even with the rain storm.
Aloe! *
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