in the black lives matter spot, my own racially motivated to leave my things. so marriage is being legalized in more and more countries, discrimination, inequality, or part of everyday life. for many we ask why? because life is diversity. to make up your own mind. w need for mines. ah ah, the southern chinese island of my non it's home to the countries, new surfing industry. china and he used to be just a winter travel destination for retiree. basketball changed surfing

offers a laid back lifestyle for some, for others. a chance at international sporting success in 2007. darcy lee, you moved to high non from her home province and central china. she learned to swim and then took, i'm serving. it was the best move she'd ever made. a change. anything. if there wasn't anything i might be leaving a normal life that mary, to have a cd. yeah. just a basic nice but she ended up on a tropical island in the south china sea, 1300 kilometers away from home. the waves now determine the course of her

life. darcy made for its history in china. she was the 1st woman to take part in a professional, international surfing competition. today she's brought us to her favorite practice spot, but we're not allowed to tell you where it is. i think there are no hotels here and no tourists, but it's a long way down to the water. the base calm surface is deceptive. there are large rocks below, and if you fall off your board and land on one, you could injure yourself. ah, darcy paddles out quite a way to find the good ways. but the effort is definitely worth it. the darcy prefers to use

a long board about 3 meters in length. this board allows her to ride smaller waves for longer periods of time, so she can improve her technique. darcy retired from competitive surfing in 2014, to focus her attention on cleaning up china's polluted coastal areas. but she can't imagine a life without surfing. and this is the perfect place to do it. for any cell for that you know, you don't want to serve some where does sobre crowded so this the no one's out there and what are 2 mergers? good ways are consistent. so i got a lot of wasting our yeah. then i that was quite a workout. that evening darcy arrives at a local club where she works as a d. j. the place is packed with young people,

both local residents and tourists from the mainland. the weather is nice and people are laid back. now in the future to enjoy life to working. i love it. in the club is a great place to relax and have fun. darcy introduces us to a young man named joe who's just moved to hi not. and he's glad he did it. well, there are lots of problems with living in a big city, but there's no stress here. i feel relaxed and happy. all right, well, go by wearing, the darcy started her shift at midnight. she's got a long night ahead of her. i like to share my music to people. i want to

people to my music from manhattan is and be free and come back with their cell with their body that day. the dorothy wants the crowd to get the most out of her music and to make sure that they do, she has to set the right move. she calls herself the medicine woman and burns dried, said ruth, to give herself and her audience more energy. the party continued until dawn the later that morning. surfers are already chasing the waves that g usa they include members of china's olympic team, which was founded just a few years ago. a rigor this training

program attracts young people from all over china. joe washington is from fish one a mountain is province in south west china. the provincial government is picking up the tab for him and several other boys to train here. the thing is, and i want to do well, if i work hard, i could win the national championship some day. these young people develop their skills here for 6 to 8 hours every day. mm. other provinces are also taking part in the training program. when some of these kids arrived here, they didn't even know how to swim. let alone serve say

is just 9 years old. but after 2 years of training, he can ride the waves like a pro. joe has also made a lot of progress. the kids have to learn how to stay ahead of a moving wall of water yet i can just go to online. during practice. you have to deal with lots of different ways in different conditions. you'll see me that will help you later on in competition because you'll know which waves are the good ones. talk to me in the morning practice session is over now. joe and the others have worked up quite an appetite for lunch. there is no ball meat and vegetables coach. whoo. yeah. link says proper nourishment is a key part of the training program. made him out on the law. oh, actually get up at 540 every morning to seek cells. how is the way to go?

everyone goes. how long, how long will you go running behind the house? all the family perhaps these young athletes will one day compete and international surfing tournament. the best of them will join china as olympic team. another member of the tish one team 11 year old young c cheese has already made the olympic squad because i want to win the national championship. and i can go i tried last year, but i just wasn't good enough. so i couldn't get the title of young has the kind of determination that chinese sports officials just love to see

. and there athlete right now i not as getting ready to host to the national serving championship, china's head coach. my lie, know that his team will play stiff, international competition. you in other countries have strong staffing programs. we're just getting started. when we put together our 1st olympic staffing team in 2017 and we've still got a lot of work to do. i mean, no job, we'll get better all know, and we want to qualify for the 2024 limbeck. know for oh, you know, we hang out a young athletes like jen and joe are part of china future when it comes to international surfing competition. and the coaches have to scout and develop even more new talent. 4th official have been scouring the

country for promising candidates. the practice is over for the day. now the athletes will clean their boards and take care of other maintenance path. most of these kids come from poor families, so surfing may provide them with a more prosperous future. but fish, one head coach and leaching says that only the best of them will be allowed to stay at the camp and leave a lot of young people with me, which is getting started to realize the whole county or some of them just didn't make the coffee high off where someone knew all they didn't like the training program. so you so so they let the gen and joe share a room in the dormitory. they say that their coaches are like parents to them.

joe says he hasn't seen his mom and dad since he arrived at the camp. it's been 4 years now. from them. do you missed them? sure. but every sunday the coach gives us a cell phone and we do a video chat with our families. at evening roll call, the coach analyzes the athletes performance. then everyone heads off to dinner afterward. it's time for bed. joe is one of 21 members of team fish. one. many parents can't afford to visit their children here. but joe knows that his mom and dad are proud of him. that gives him confidence and keeps him working hard on his surfing skills.

now we're going to leave the bay where the surface practice and visit a different part of high knob. this is lee hung young, a retiree, who lives in beijing, but spend a lot of time on the island. tonight, lee is having dinner with friends. they propose a toast to the joy of living on a tropical island. all of these men are retired and they spend a few months on high non every year we worked for a state own food industry company and can afford to live well in retirement. so can the other here are ha, why don't i come down here every once in a blue sky, white cloud, the sea and why you and what more could he want? especially now during the winter, you can take if you want to live a long life,

come to high, not all the food is great and outside the weather is warm. 25 degrees celsius lee and his friends meet almost every evening. life is good and at least for lee it's anything but boring. the next morning he shows us why. he's packing up for a trip to the beach where he'll show us a different kind of surfing. you'll know there are 2 kinds of people. those who wait to dance or sent those who define term, i prefer there's humour in that statement, but also a bit of truth. the wind is up today, so lee and his dog head off for the water, li won't let us take pictures of his apartment. he says people might get jealous the tie nuns, real estate market. his booming

a lot of older buildings have been torn down to make room for a new residential complex's. a 100 square meter apartment on the popular south coast costs the equivalent of 800000 euros. construction companies are arriving here. lee has traveled widely for business and for pleasure. he's been to europe and the united states. on one of his trips he saw people kite surfing and decided he wanted to try it. he made his 1st attempt here on high non 5 years ago. lee and his friends can afford these kinds of vacations because they benefited from china. spectacular economic growth over the past several decades.

ah . conditions today or near perfect air temperature? 26 degrees? water? 25 degrees. ah. i dun dun has been waiting patiently for lead to return. there since shock a year. i feel happy and free. gone, you know, like a sailor are no, it's like i'm connected to the sea gardens are hardly so you can, you're floating over the water watch or talk these people are also enjoying the breeze. a lot of seniors like to come the beach to cool off

the butt, lee once more out of life. the weather report for tomorrow calls for more wind. so he'll be back the news until just a few years ago about the only people you'd see on the water at whole high bay were fishermen. now the place is hacked with servers who chung, they have been here for a decade. don't. would you know, joe, when we 1st came here to serve, the villagers were very friendly and keith, they thought we were crazy to go out on the water every day. they thought that life on the bay was really boring amazon. so they were curious about how to,

how she knew now makes his living as a surfing instructor kennedy me one year he's showing you fun how to properly paddle out to the waves and then stand up on the board. afterward he grades her technique, paddling good, standing up to needs improvement. woo says the best way to keep your balance is to place your feet properly. and looks great ahead. thought this thing that we went to. china didn't have extremely like this whole. but not until changed. now people have experience nothing in this and that's all yeah stuff. so i just wanted to give a trying how that was the local service community includes children and grandparents, 6 year old jo. one has just made us 1st visit. you know,

it's great for the youngsters around side all day and they get plenty of bank. 7 vacation, so i'm lots of time. in the meanwhile, you is working on her technique. instructor woo stays close in case she needs help . you tries to focus on standing up despite being tossed around by the waves. i know that it is a challenge. this is helping me to overcome any inhibition you the

me view is proud of the progress that she's made so far. will you tell me clearly? oh, then when you press on loud them, you can things individually long. that's a whole you. on the more 10 to me if lightning, the sound the door, i still make a mistake. but when you finally sounds up on the floor, it's a great scene in the face of whole, high village has changed since the surfers arrived. now there are beach bars and other businesses that cater to young, hip customers the the serve tourists are welcome here, provided that they spend lots of money and don't criticize china's communist government. you can see them everywhere. the

some of the older residents sell beetle, not on the sidewalk as they have for years. and lots of stores and restaurants are making good money. ah, some people here are still making a living by catching fish. their boats are tied up in a lagoon not far from whole high bay. today we'll meet one of those fishermen. one shall buy one about he and his wife and son live on their fishing boat. the. the family can't afford to buy a house on land. they don't make enough money from fishing to qualify for a mortgage. so they've been living on this boat for more than

a decade. we set off across the lagoon and we have to stay there because it's too windy right now on the open sea. it's a lot of work to keep the boat in good shape. lungs wife has mending finance. they'll try their luck at the fishing and the look. does him live under? we're not making any money. so we have to borrow from friends and relatives. when dies down, we'll start fishing again and pay them back and get the now they're hauling the net back on board as long son wants to pump is helping out. he's 17 and as finished school, the family didn't catch many fish today. life for these people is

hard and want to pung says he doesn't think much of the local surfer community. i've never talked to any of them. if they stay here, prices will go up and that will cause problems. ah, surfers on one side of the lagoon golfers on the other and between them, the fishing boats with these groups seem to have nothing in common. all that one knows is that it's tough right now for him to make ends meet with those guys most all the more and more people from the mainland coming here to spend the winter thinking what it is specially people from the northeast. what the, what i envy them and we do is work hard every day and they come down here and eat in restaurants and have a good time and hulu,

but the family has enough to eat and over all their life on the fishing boat is okay. and as soon as the winds on the open feed died down, they'll go back out and do some real fishing mega chip come at long. said that if he had more money, he'd like to provide a better education for his son. but for now, the 3 of them will stay on the boat and hope for a change in the weather. meanwhile, darcy has lots of new business ideas. she's building a skateboard track here, and also rent serve for the tourist. she plans to open a cafe as well. darcy is working with her friend, lee ging to try to get young people to eat healthy foods like vegetables, smoothies, and organic abra condos. she thinks the idea, john,

we're leaving the lifestyle i have is very healthy and very keening and very empowering. i will love to have anyone who come there and serve and to officer out these not just sending and therefore it would be like, how would you travel you? good flight. we asked darcy to call her mom, back home in jose province. how. what does she think of her daughter's new life? we're going to be in the you, lisa, now you don't want to live like we do. what can we do? what i mean, we don't understand, you know, somehow we do it today. yeah. darcy's parents would like her to get married and have children. yeah. but her rejection of that lifestyle is reflected in these paintings in her cafe. darcy says that surfing has broadened her horizons. it's thank you're in town or that you can see life. but when showed out,

you see the light them my, it's a lighthouse, i had a direction what i want to go. what i want to complete, darcy says that the skills she learned from surfing have helped her to navigate the twists and turns of everyday life. me young, the chief from the olympic team is a little nervous right now. she's made it to the finals of the under 15 competition for the national championship. young will have to serve as many waves as possible to stay on the board for as long as she can and successfully perform a number of turning maneuvers. and she has to do all that over 20 minutes. but she's confident that she can when i feel good about my chances dungy i could the next stage of the competition will get

underway soon. ah, the finals for the under 18 group at the age of just 11 young manages to come out on top young female cheer as he waved their sore. today, every hour of practice that she's put in over the past 2 years has paid off the she owes a lot of her success to her coach with me when you, when we can a well the whole the same, we discuss things and then you get it back out, i've been training non stop for 2 years now and i'm thrilled to it today. and

now it's time for some food. and for the 1st time in days, young doesn't have to deal with the pressure of competition. later we talk with team high non coach michael weaver, he's one of several foreigners hired to turn chinese surfers into champions. weaver is optimistic about china chances for what the effort of the government is putting in the amount of money being invested. the quality of waves here, i think by the time the next lympics comes around, i think china will be ready to compete in the world class level. now it's time for the national service championship awards ceremony. young as the star of the fish one team. she took part in 3 competitions, one them all, and earned 3 gold medals for her efforts.

i joe and jen are in the audience with their team. me. joe didn't win a metal this year, but that makes them want to train even harder. the morning i'll have to give it everything i've got so i can win next year. the head coach is proud of her team, but young says that winning the national title is just the 1st step in her career. the. yeah, i want to be the best in china and compete in the olympics and then join your professional team. got me these young athletes planned to take the surfing world by storm. and that's just what the government wants them to do. china has discovered surfing both as a competitive sport as a way of life. mm

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