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March 03, 2021
The Battle at the Silver Dragon with Hangzhou Tianyuan Tower in the background – the same site of surfing competitions today and 1,000 years ago.
Wabsono International
Surfing may have started in China, long before anyone elsewhere picked up a board to ride a wave.
The origin of surfing is usually traced to Polynesia, but research by Italian surfing historian, writer and coach Nicola “Nik” Zanella, points at a wave-riding culture in China that existed at least since the Song dynasty (960AD to 1279).
Zanella, who graduated in Chinese studies and learned Mandarin in China, came across descriptions of wave riding in classical Chinese literature, and then told the story in a self-published book Children of the Tide.