in the voice, the only way i can be ups office to create my own. ah, see they're standing stories, me. women in asia as weekend on d w. i on the southern chinese island of high non, it's home to the countries, new surfing industry. used to be just a winter travel destination for retiree, but that all changed. surfing offers a laid back lifestyle for thumb, 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 surfing, and it was the best move she'd ever made. a change me anything. if it wasn't working, i might be leaving a normal life that you know, married. have kids in st. louis city? yeah. just a basic lifestyle who's but she ended up on a tropical island in the south china sea, 1300 kilometers away from home. and the waves now determined the course of her life. darcy made 4th history and china. she was the

1st woman to take part in a professional, international surfing competition. today she's brought us to her favorite practice box, but we're not allowed to tell you where it is. i was to figure it there are no who tells here and no tourists. but it's a long way down to the water. the bays, calm surface is deceptive. there are large rocks below, and if you fall off your board and land on one, you could injure yourself in darcy paddles out quite a way to find the good ways. but the effort is definitely worth it. 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 area. 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 those to burg, crowded so. 1 this is the best, no ones out there and what are some of our jurors, good ways or countries then? so i got a lot of wasting our yes. 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 back by now and the better suited to enjoy life than it is to working. i love it all. 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 job. well, there are lots of problems with living in a big city already, but there's no stress here. i feel relaxed and happy. all right, but go wearing ties in the darcy started her shift at midnight. she's got a long night ahead of her. i like to share my music here, people i want to people to my me and say from that happen is and be free and come back with herself with their own 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 dr. sage route to give herself and her audience more energy. the party continues until dawn the later that morning. surfers are already chasing the waves at g u a bay. they include members of china's olympic team, which was founded just a few years ago. a rigorous training program attract young people from all over china. jo washington is from tish one, a mountainous province in south west china. the provincial government is picking up

the tab for him and several other boys to train here. sure 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 surf i'd 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 shed. i should just go to online. during practice, you have to deal with lots of different ways in different conditions. go see, i mean, that will help you later on in competition because you'll know which waves are the good ones. taught them 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. links, as proper nourishment is a key part of the training program. made him out. so. oh, actually get up at 540 every morning. i'll 1000000 to 6. if the waves, the good, everyone goes. how long? how long can you go running the engine? yeah. what about

a $30.00 balance in perhaps these young athletes will one day compete an international surfing tournament. the best of them will join china's olympic team. another member of the one team, 11 year old young c cheese has already made the olympic squad once when the national championship and says, you know, i can go quandary i tried last year, but i just wasn't good enough by trying to get the title. use young has the kind of determination that chinese sports officials just love to see. and there athlete right now, why not is getting ready to host to the national serving championship. china's head

coach ma lie knows that his team will face stiff. international competition in other countries have strong staffing programs. we're just getting started to go when we put together our 1st olympic staffing team in 2017 and i still got a lot of work to do. i mean the job will get better all know and we want to qualify for the 2024 limbeck. no, oh, you'll get out of the 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, officials 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 tasks. most of the kids come from poor families, so surfing may provide them with a more prosperous future. but fish one head, coach, leaching says that only the best of them will be allowed to stay at the camp and leave a lot of young people when we were just getting started to realize that some of them just didn't make the coffee high off where someone new, 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. 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. afterwards. it's time for bed. joe is one of 21 members of team since 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 surfers practice and visit a different part of hi non 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. the work for a state own food industry company and can afford to live well in retirement. so can the others here, are you? well, i come down here every once in a blue sky, white clouds, the sea, and that the high end, you know, what more could he want, especially now during the winter, you can stay here or if you want to live a long life can come to high now 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're the, i don't. there are 2 kinds of people. those who wait to dance, all sent those who define it. 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 in li won't let us take pictures of his apartments. he says people might get jealous the tie non real estate market is booming. a lot of older buildings have been torn down to make room for new residential complexes. a 100 square meter apartment on the popular cell coast cost,

the equivalent of 800000 euros. construction companies are thriving 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 vacation because they've benefited from china. spectacular economic growth over the past several decades. ah, conditions today are near perfect air temperature 26 degrees water,

25 degrees. ah. a dung has been waiting patiently for lee to return their c sharp a year. i feel happy and free gone, you know like a sailor are no, it's like i'm connected to the sea gardner and either you or you can, you're just floating over the water watch or talk. these people are also enjoying the breeze. a lot of seniors like to come to the beach to cool off the but lee once more out of life and 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, where fishermen now the place is packed with servers route young. they have been here for a decade on what they're doing when we 1st came here to serve. the villagers were very friendly and they thought we were crazy to go out on the water every day. they thought that life on the bay was really boring. and so they were curious about this. how did you hope she knew now makes his living as a surfing instructor. here 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 needs improvement. woo says the best way to keep your balance is to place your feet properly and look straight ahead. oh boy, this is me when i was a kid child and didn't have extremely like this whole. but that's all changed now, i'll hold the hands or even have experience this thing in this stuff. so i decided to give a try and give it to the local surfing community. includes children and their grandparents, 6 year old jo. one has just made us 1st strong, it's great for the youngsters around side all day and they get plenty of hello

vacation. so i'm lots of time. in the meanwhile, you is working on her technique. instructor will stays close in case you need help . you try to focus on standing up despite being tossed around by the way i know that it is a challenge which is helping me to overcome any inhibition you the me view is proud of the progress that she's made so far.

believe me clear your then when you saw land them, you can things individual law. that's a whole lot to move lightly on the go. i still make a lot of mistake, but when you finally sounds up on the floor, it's a great feeling. on 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, communist government. you can see them everywhere. 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 that he and his wife and son live on their fishing boat. 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 some nets. they'll try their luck at fishing in the lagoon without him and we're not making any money. so we have to borrow from friends and relatives. when dies down, we'll stop fishing again and pay them back on the now they're hauling the nets back on board long sun long. so paul is helping out. he's 17 and as finished school, the family didn't catch many fish today. life for these people is heart. and want to palm 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 problem in my, me, surfers on one side of the lagoon golfers on the other. and between them, the fishing boats the these groups seem to have nothing in common. all that one knows is that it's tough right now for him to make and meet with those guys must all to target more and more people from the mainland are coming here to spend the winter as it is, especially people from the northeast. like what the control when i envy them and we do is work hard every day. i mean that, 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 fi died down,

they'll go back out and do some real fishing mega kept them at once. 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 surfboard, 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 alva condos. she thinks the idea will catch on leaving the lifestyle i have is very healthy and very keening and very empowering. and i would love to have anyone who come there served and to observe all these non just

sending the circular, it would be like, how would you travel, you could fly. he asked darcy to call her mom, back home in jose robins. what does she think of her daughter's new life? we're going to thank 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. a darcy's parents would like her to get married and have children, but her rejection of that lifestyle is reflected in these paintings in her cafe. darcy says that surfing has broadened her horizon. it's like you're in town or that you can see life. but was there please show that you see the light than my it's mega 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 in young c, g 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 win again, i don't feel good about my chances. the next stage of the competition will get underway soon.

the finals for the under 18 group at the age of just 11 young managers to come out on top. young teammates cheer as weighed their sor. 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 with me when you, when we did a well the whole machine, we discuss things and then go back out and 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 hi, non coach michael weaver. he's one of several foreigners hired to turn chinese surfers into champion. weaver is optimistic about china's chances with the effort of the government's putting in the amount of money being invested, the quality a wave here. i think by the time the next, the lympics comes around. i think china will be ready to compete in the world class level now it's time for the national surfing championship award 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. joe and jen are in the audience with their tea. me. joe didn't win a metal this year. that makes him want to train even harder the

morning. i'll have to give him 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 the well yeah, i want to be the best in china, then compete in the olympics and then join a professional team. me these young athletes plan 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 and as a way of life. mm . what does daily life are jews in europe like beyond the framework of political

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