discrimination, inequality or part of everyday life for many why? because the life is diversity. and make up your own mind the w for mine's ah, the southern chinese island of high non it's home to the countries, new surfing industry on used to be just a winter travel destination for retiree. that's 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 our service and it was the best move she'd ever made. a change me anything. if there wasn't a surfing 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. and the waves now determined the course of her life. darcy made for 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 ho healthier 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. ah, darcy paddles out quite a way to find a 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 a 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 that no one's out there and what are some of our jurors? good ways are consistent. so i got a lot of wasting our yeah. and 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 made back by now and is better suited to enjoy life than it is to working. i love it. 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 me job. 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, 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 happiness and be free and come back with their, with their own body that day. the doors the 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 called herself the medicine woman and burns dried, said ruth, to give herself and her audience more energy. the party continued until dawn later that morning. surfers are already chasing the waves that 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 fish one. a mountain is province in south west. china,

on the provincial government is picking up the tab for him and several other boys to train here. surfing it. 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 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 during practice, you have to deal with lots of different ways in different conditions. you'll see, i mean, that will help you later on in competition because you'll know which waves are the good one. talk 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 as a key part of the training program. made him out on the last to actually get up at 540 every morning. 1000000 to 6. if the waives the good, everyone goes. how long? how long you go running the hybrid. what about to

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 fish, one team, 11 year old young c cheese has already made the olympic squad my job is that i want to win the national championship and you know, i can go quandary i tried last year, but i just wasn't good enough. but i didn't get the title of young has the kind of determination that chinese sports officials just love to see and their athletes right now by non is getting ready to host to the national serving championship. china's head coach ma lie knows that his team will play stiff

. international competition in other countries have strong staffing programs. we're just getting started. when we put together our 1st olympic staffing team in 2017. and i've still got a lot of work to do. i mean, no job. we'll get better all know that we want to qualify for the 2020 for linda. no. oh, you'll get out of the young athletes like jen and joe are part of china's 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 these 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. cleo young people with me, which is getting started to realize the whole family and just didn't make the coffee high off where someone knew all they didn't like the training program. so they let the gen and joe share a room in the dormitory. they say that their coaches are like parents to them. the 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 harvey. that evening role 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 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 surfers practice and visit a different part of my non this is lee hung young, a retiree,

who lives in beijing. let's 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 others here are well i come down here every once in a blue sky, white clouds, the sea, and i and you know what more could he want, especially now during the winter, you can take it if you want to live a long life, come to high now the food is great and outside the weather is more 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 surface your. there are 2 kinds of people. those who wait for dance, all send those who define the term. i prefer there's humor, and that statement, but also a bit of truth. the wind is up today, so lee and his dog head off for the water, me li, won't let us take pictures of his apartment. he says people might get jealous the tie knowns, real estate market is booming. a lot of older buildings have been torn down to make room for new residential complexes. 100 square meter apartment on the popular cell

coast costs 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 or near perfect air temperature? 26 degrees water?

25 degrees. ah i dun dun 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 garden, easier for you. so you can, you're just floating over the water watch or talk. all 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, the weather report for tomorrow calls for more when 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 server route young. they have been here for a decade. i don't want, you know, joe, when we 1st came here to serve, the villagers were very friendly and teeth aren't 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 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, we're going to need them proven. woo says the best way to keep your balance is to place your feet properly. and look straight ahead. towards me when i was a child and didn't have extreme like this whole since that's all changed now, i'll hold the 200 or even have experience thing in the center. so i decided to give the thing a trying how the different the local service community includes. children and their grandparents, 6 year old gentle one has just made us 1st strong. it's great for the young, around side all day and they get plenty of 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 try to focus on standing up despite being tossed around by the waves. i know that this is a challenge. this is helping me to overcome any inhibition. the view is proud of the progress that she's made so far. let

me clear you then when you saw land them, you can things individual law. that's a whole more to me. like on the go, i still make a mistake. but when you finally found that it's a great thing 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, 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 in their boats are tied up in a lagoon not far from whole high bay. today we'll meet one of those fishermen long 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 and the lagoon does him live and we're not making any money. so we have to borrow from friends and relatives. the lesson plans when dies down. we'll stop fishing again and pay them back on the now they're hauling the net back on board with the long sun long. so palm 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 pon says he doesn't think much of the local server 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. 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 the what are those guys most all the more and more people from the mainland coming here to spend the winter . as it is specially people from the northeast. what i, 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 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 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 vegetable 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 serve and observe our days,

not just sending the circular, it would be like, how would you travel your good flight? he asked darcy to call her mom back home in her bay province. how. 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? well, that mean we don't understand, you know, somehow we do. you did a darcy 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 horizons. it's like you're in town or that you can see nice. but when surgery showed, you see the light them 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. 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 ways 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 didn't feel good about my chances. dungy, i call you the next stage of the competition will get underway soon.

the finals for the under 18 group at the age of just 11 young manages to come out on top. young teammates here as waves are sore today. every hour of practice that she's put in over the past 2 years has paid off. she owes a lot of her success to her coach with with me, john, when we did a well the whole the thing we discuss things and then you get 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 champions. weaver is optimistic about china, the chance that what the average, the government's 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 on a new world class level. now it's time for the national service 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 effort. he failed joe and jen are in the audience with their t me. joe didn't win a metal this year. that makes him want to train even harder. saturday

morning i'll have to give him everything i've got so i can win next year. coffee on 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 other i want to be the best in china and compete in the olympics and then join a professional team goes out to 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 as a way of life. mm . ego india.

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