Surfing: Marcachd an Tuinn (Riding the Wave)

BBC Alba

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Wednesday 2 October

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Part one of two. Keen surfer Ceitlin Lilidh Russell Smith recounts the world history of surfing. Much more than a sport to the people of Tahiti where surfing was born, it is an expression of a culture, the culture of the people of the water, the Polynesians. Thanks to guardians like Tom Pohaku Stone, the traditions of dancing on wooden boards was passed on to future generations and to the rest of the world where it is now practised by tens of millions of enthusiasts. Surfing has now for the first time earned its place at the Olympics