The most unusual sport – bamboo fast and furious on the water Bashny.Net

Every year in China in the town of Guizhou (Guizhou) spend an unusual competition in Bamboo Drift Racing — race on the bamboo trunks in the water. The essence of the contest is not only how to quickly sail to the finish line, but also the ability to balance on a very narrow surface of the bamboo stem. For over a hundred years the inhabitants of the town are addicted to Bamboo Drift Racing, and the skill is really astounding.

In the circus, with bated breath, looking like tightrope walkers at the height of moving the rope, and just wonder how this is possible? But even harder to imagine how people maintain balance on the water, at the same time demonstrating various tricks. With its uniqueness, this sport can only be compared to liquid mountaineering.

 




First, bamboo stalks served as a simple means of transportation. The Chinese people, as we know, can with the invention to refer to anything, even to no gas in the houses and this problem has been for them. They were just rubyvale trunks of bamboo and dropped them down the river.

 




A little later, when the problem with the flood decided this was the sport, not the mass, of course, but more traditional. "Riding" on the narrowest in the world the boat the Chinese scammers are doing an incredible acrobatic stunts. Now place the bamboo stalks came of fiberglass pipe with a length of 6.5 meters, as this material is more lightweight, durable and gives you the opportunity to develop greater speed.





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