During the last week of October, some of the best noseriders in the world - including Sam Bleakley, Wingnut, Matt Cuddihy, Harrison Roach, Harley Ingleby, Bay Bay and Chou Wen Ling - were surfing Riyuewan's waves. Have a look to some noseriding photos:
当10月的最后周, 一些在世界的最好的noseriders* - 包括Sam Bleakley, Wingnut, Matt Cuddihy, Harrison Roach, Harley Ingleby, Bay Bay and Chou Wen Ling- 冲浪日月湾了。
*To noseride (动), noserider (名): 在长板上走到长板的鼻子。
Besides being an incredible longboarder, Sam Bleakley has also explored many surf destinations and written numerous books about his travellings. Check his website out here.
除了是一个惊人的长板着，Sam Bleakley 还探讨了在世界的很多冲浪目的地和写了关于他的一些旅行的书。看一下他的网站这里。
Perfect longboard conditions at Riyuewan - 日月湾非常好长板的浪。
Wingnut
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Photos, translation and text by Julieta Hepner
Riyuewan hosted some of the best pro longboarders in the world to define the winner of the ASP 2011 Women's World Longboard Title, the first ever official surf competition in China.
Local surfers participated at the event too; Darci Liu had got a wildcard to represent China. She did a great performance but had got defeated by double world champion Jennifer Smith on the first round. Monica Guo participated at the trials and compete with two of the best Taiwanese female pro surfers, Bay Bay and Wen Ling Chou. Wen Ling won the heat but had got eliminated on the first round by Lindsay Steinriede, who later became the 2011 women's lonboard world champion.
Click here to watch some videos about it.
Most of local surfers got a job during the event; I coordinate the surf lessons for the media and worked at the registration desk hosting the VIP.
Of course this event had positives and negatives repercussions. Have been part of such an important episode in the history of surfing in China was, of course, a very interesting personal experience. Eventhough Riyuewan is not the same authentic cosy spot anymore. Hopefully the development of the surfing industry in China will be controlled in some way to protect the small local businesses and the environment.
It is said that the ISA is also planning a surf contest by January in the same spot. Hopefully a men's one.
Have a look at some pictures of the event. Girls crowd in South China Sea:
Quiet morning
Rosie Locke getting into the Hainan trend
Unusual crowded wave at Ruyuewan beach break
Thank you and come again
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We drove to remote areas, where we found broad beach breaks and empty point breaks.
我们开车过到一些边远地区，广沙滩和主穴浪，都没有人的地方。
Sadly many 5 stars resorts and ugly holiday tall buildings were under construction there. The amount of speculation in this Island is frightening and unsustainable.
可悲的是许多5星度假酒店和丑陋的假期高楼大厦正在建设中随处可见。 炒作在这个小岛上是可怕的和不可持续的。
We entered in one of those hotels and checked which waves they were hiding.
我们进入这些酒店之一`，检查他们藏身的这波。
The waves weren’t big enough so we decided to go back towards south.
海浪不够好，所以我们决定去向南。
To find the perfect spot was more difficult than what we thought:
为了找到最完美的浪比我们的想象的更困难：
Some were closing out
一些浪close out。
Some seamed messy and breaking too close to the shore.
Some seamed too far and dangerous to reach.
Fortunately Mike knew about a secret spot and took us there. We found head high, powerful, clean waves… Check them out on Part 3!
幸运的是，麦克知道一个秘密的地方，带我们。我们找到头高，功能强大和干净的浪...... 在第3部分检查它们出来！
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Photos, translation and text by Julieta Hepner
3rd of October, we are all surfed out after three days of head high waves that Typhoon Nesat gave to us. Typhoon Nalgae is predicted to hit Hainan Island on that same afternoon too.
10月3日， 三天有着台风Nesat头高的浪之后，大家都非常累。据预测，在那个同日下午，Nalgae台风也会打到海南。
North-west strong winds and a 4m east swell were pretty good conditions to explore the south-east coast potential.
西北强风和一个4米高的东波浪是相当不错的条件为探东南海岸的潜力。
Jan didn't wast time and got us together in his car for it...
Jan也没有浪费时间了，我们一起在他的车去冲浪...
The four “J” car: Jan, James, Jeremy and Julieta -
Mike, Jack, TZ, Chouge, Chouzhuo, Elena, Xiaojing and Ika also up for the mission -
The usual spots were blown away, big, messy and mostly closing out -
Riyuewan point -
Jeremy and the beachy beach break -
So we decide to check out other spots up to the north:
We did some fun cross country on the way
Didn't last long though...
The norther spots looked beautiful, empty clean lines everywhere -
But the rocks and the long paddle out distance made us look for a better option.
The river mouth was pretty beachy too and the currents there were very strong -
So we kept on exploring new areas we have never been before, check them out on Part 2...
Photos, translation and text by Julieta Hepner
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