Surfing near the point in M-puram
India’s east coast saw a rare display of surfing when the first Ocean and Earth Surfing Championship was held at Mamallapuram yesterday. The surf contest drew 70 competitors to the resort town 30 km south of Chennai, IBN reported. It was an unexpectedly large turnout in a region that has very few surfers.
“The surfing community in India is small, but very tightly knit and so we are quite excited to be here,” said Ishita Malaviya, the country’s only female surfer. Ms. Malaviya had flown in from Manipal for the two-day event.
No mention of the conditions in the IBN story, but that part of Tamil Nadu can get some nice little waves. See Jon Bowen’s report in Coastalsurvey titled Surfing in India, Part 1: Tamil Nadu for more. Also check out the soon to be released doco called Surfing 28 States, a film about surfing — or trying to surf — in all of India’s 28 states.
