Press Release:
Huntington Beach “Surf City” to be represented in China by Ryan Turner and Tosh Townend.
August 25th, 2014 – Huntington Beach’s Ryan Turner and Tosh Townend will team up together as a surfing jet-ski team to compete in the 2014 Red Bull Qiantang Surfing Shoot Out September 8th through 11th.
The Qiantang Surfing Shoot Out is the only event of its kind in the world where a professional competition is held a tidal river bore in the city of Hangzhou, China.
Turner and Townend will compete against three other teams from around the world for $25,000.00 in prizemoney, with the winning team splitting $10,000.00.
Teams will be represented from Honolulu, Hawaii with their team being Jamie O’Brien and Jamie Sterling, and for the first time ever a team representing the host city Hangzhou which will be lead by Australian Phil “Macca” MacDonald(2012 Champion of the Red Bull Qiantang Surfing Shoot Out) with one of two Chinese surfers Toumei or TZ. It will be the first time that a Chinese surfer has competed in this event. The final team of Dean Morrison(Australia) and Mikala Jones(Hawaii) with represent Team Pacific Ocean.
Townend has already been to China earlier this month as a celebrity skateboarder to exhibit his skills and judge the Dragon SK8 one of China’s preeminent skateboarding competitions.
More about the contest
The Red Bull Qiantang Shootout is the first of its kind surf contest that pits teams of surfers against each other for a $28,000 purse, on the most unusual wave in the world.
It presents numerous challenges as the Qiantang wave is unusual in its size (recorded at 9m), its variety of workable faces and its path through the middle of the city of Hangzhou.”
It is a unique venue that brings with it Chinese mainstream media that wouldn’t normally cover surfing or for that matter any “Action Sports”.
