While claiming to be the first person to do anything in the world is getting more and more difficult, Jafar Alam, 25, says he’s the first Bangladeshi surfer. And now he is sharing his love with the Cox’s Bazar Surf Club which he founded in 2002..
This month he will hold his fourth annual surfing competition, when a group of 15 American surfers will descend on the beach to compete against locals. . . . He now has 48 students, including 12 girls. Although home to a 125-kilometre (78-mile) stretch of unbroken coast, it was only the occasional intrepid international tourist who would test the waves, he said.
It would probably be an easy contest to win. Better start packing.
[Link: Daily Times]
