Surfing champion from a desert – Tie Zhuang

Title: Surfing champion from the desert – Tie Zhuang

Tie Zhuang Iron Stake is from Inner Mongolia
He was once a boy who herded sheep and farmed in the desert.
To him, ocean was a place so far away
As his destiny, by chance
He came to Hainan
And found his first job near the sea.
It was to lead a horse and take photos for the visitors at the scenic sites.
One day,
He saw some foreign surfers surfing on the sea,
Took a borrowed surfboard with full confidence
Started surfing for the very first time
Ever since then,
Tie Zhuang represents Surfing
He began his surfing career in 2009.
Live a surfing life became his dream from that moment.
With continuous efforts and practise,
His skills became more exqusite,
and he had made a lot of friends worldwide.

He started to participate some surfing competitions in Hainan.
In 2012, he took the 4th place in the Men’s Long-board at Hainan Open Surfing Championship
was the only domestic athelete qualified for the World Men’s Long-board Wild Card.

While continual taking part in various surfing competitions,
during 2014 to 2016,
he became the first Chinese to participate in the Asis-Pacific Open Long-board Surfing Championship in Australia.

On July 27th, 2016
as the first chiese surfer who went to Japan
to take part in the 2017 Seven cross Tokyo Surf Masters