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Darrick: It's the ocean the only place you can ride a wave. Hey! Welcome to www.watchmojo.com I am your host Derrick and today we are going to discover a bit about river surfing. So let me what exactly is river surfing?
Corran Addison: River surfing is surfing. It's the exact same thing as regular surfing except there is nothing like it. Wrap your brain around that one. In the ocean what happens is you have a wave that is moving towards the beach and when it hits the shallower area of rock or sand, it then jacks up on itself and get steep and then breaks and moves across towards the coast, towards the beach line.
What happens in the river is rather than the wave moving across the water, you have the water moving and then it goes over the same sort of shelf of reef and then it jacks up on itself and then creates a wave.
In the ocean, once you are on your board, the wave would be moving forward say 10 miles an hour which means that you are moving over the water surface at 10 miles an hour. In the river, the wave or the water would be going over the rock at 10 miles an hour. So while you are according to a GPS coordinate stationary, you're still moving over the water surface at 10 miles an hour. So the fueling of your boat is identical, but the mechanics are complete difference. You can surf an hour on the river and when you are done surfing you are in the exact same spot that you were when you started. Where as in the ocean you would be 10 miles down the beach.
Darrick: So where exactly did it originate?
Corran Addison: I don't know if anybody really knows where it originated. I mean, for sure, there was some guy in the 40s somewhere he took his board and probably dove into a river somewhere and surfed away. So everybody claims they were the first to surf in a river, there are full of it. The first time I saw it was in France in about 87 or 88 maybe 89 somewhere around there. There was this guy in south of France on the Orbieu river and he had this really funky looking boat, and he dove and he stood on his wave that was about two feet wide, and about three feet tall he stood there. He wobbled like this for five minutes and then he actually fell of his boat and that was my first experience of river surfing and I just went, that looks stupid.
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