Randy W Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 (edited) How surfing suddenly became cool in Hong Kong, and its ’70s expat roots Long a marginal sport in Hong Kong, surfing has gone mainstream, with girls and young women in particular taking to the boards and bringing civility to a sometimes rowdy scene Quote Now the self-confessed “office girl turned surfer” lives and breathes surfing. It’s a lifestyle – and a healthy one at that. “Eat healthy. Go to bed early. Rise early. Catch waves. Repeat,” she says of her routine. . . . “The surf season in Hong Kong is winter so we have to go into the cold water. Or we have to wait for a typhoon swell in summer, so we can surf only for a few months – it’s sad,” says the 24-year-old. . . . Although there has long been a small underground surf scene in Hong Kong, the sport only recently made a big push into the mainstream. . . . “Back then the surfing scene was tiny – the club never had more than 13 members before I left in 1986,” Hownam-Meek says from Gibraltar, where he has retired. “Only two girls surfed but more came for the ambience and privacy for nude sunbathing. . . . “During that time we found that Hong Kong has a world weather record; it has the largest change in seawater temperature anywhere in the world – or at least in the surfed world – from 13 degrees Celsius in February to 30 degrees Celsius in August.” . . . Despite some anxiety over a shark sighting off Lantau this month, surfers’ biggest worries today are marine pollution and waste. Edited January 3, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history) Link to comment
Mick Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 All they need is Jan and Dean, Beach Boys, Safaris, and the Ventures. Link to comment
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