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Taking part in the Surfing Hainan Open at the Wanning International Surf Festival

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January 6th 2011
An International Surfing Festival came to town. This was actually back in November but I've only just put up this blog. I was somehow enrolled in the competition and these are the clips of my waves. The competition has been run successfully by Surfing Hainan for a few years but this year the government threw tens of thousands of pounds at it to turn it into a b ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more