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Rafting in the Waves

——from an advertisement man to top athlete of whitewater rafting.


“Excellent!”

I heard the compliment of my Canadian teammate when I passed the end. There were images in my head: a desk, raft, PPT, I fell in the water, design entirely changed by the first party, champion of Red Bull Kayak Mania competition, rafting alone, rafting with other people, clear ripple, and rapid waves.


To rise abruptly based on its accumulated strength and rafting in waves.

After getting the first few ACA Level 4 which is the level 4 trainer of whitewater rafting of the America Canoeing Association in China, I went to join the ACA whitewater rescue lesson in North America as soon as possible. I felt the deep love of the people in North America for drifting when I was in the United States and Canada. Floating already is part of their lives. I felt the Youghiogheny River Lake in the Savage River National Park which located in the intersection of three states of the United States, toured sports school, school clubs, teenager training center and other places with the guidance of the local teammates. Whitewater sport is more mature in the North America. When can this scene be seen in China? (Photo of lessons in Chengdu)


People say that time moves as fast as running water, time on running water passes more quickly. I have been canoeing for seventeen years or eighteen years. I started with inflatable boat, then the canoe, then canoeing freestyle. I was a beginner who knew nothing, I have become a whitewater predecessor from a teenager. I began this to balance my busy work as an advertisement man and wanted to stretch my arms and legs desperately. This sport provided me enough pleasure and release. This is how canoe appeared in my life. Its charm made me chase it and study it. There is no more deadline. It is all about the driven inside.


There were not much teaching resources about canoeing, but I couldn’t be stopped because of my enthusiasm. I learned from videos, competed with my friends. This primal and clumsy way of learning seems unimaginable now. I fell, drank water, and my face and body were bruised. But it was happy; I enjoyed the quite and thrillling green mountains and white water while trying to level up my canoeing skill. More importantly, I have found teammates who also love this sport, we have tried to understand the whitewater sport in our ways and tried to experience drifting in more broad rivers. My arms wave the paddles instead of typing a keyboard. The paddles control the speed, fast or slow and they crash and pat the white water splash. The old wounds have become scars; maybe this is vicissitude. (Photo of training.)


Now my role as a whitewater athlete has covered my original role, a creative director. When people heard the name Zhuangzhuang, they think of the canoe athlete. I am happy about this. I changed. My skin color which can’t be white again can’t make people connect me with a person who has a history in the advertisement industry. Yes, after I have enough experience, I started to do free-training in the river every weekend. I love to enlighten children who are interested in water sports so drifting with kids and dogs become my daily life. Even my dog would answer my callings, and it has become a dog which can canoeing and popular on the internet. It would be upset if it didn’t enter the water even for one day. I had become the VO Lifestyle Close Ambassador due to the invitation of Vanke real estate. My job is to join the construction and training of more professional teenager camp. When I join activities to promote canoe, I would tell the younger sister and brothers that my name is Zhuangzhuang, I am a canoe freestyle athlete, but I used to be an advertisement creativity director. As long as you want, devote, and insist, you can become who you want to be. (Signin VO contract.)


Insistence is the right option.

When I started to study canoe freestyle in 2009, I would go training in rivers, joining a competition, communicating with the teammate when I don’t have a deadline. Any sports with freestyle, figure and synchronized is different such as figure skating, synchronized swimming. Just like an old saying, make something out of it. Since I started canoeing freestyle, I truly realized the broadness of the Jinsha River, the speed of the Nujiang River, the depth of the Yellow River and the clearness of the Dulong River. It all made me more fascinated in this sport. I get to enjoy the beauty of all kinds of rivers. But you have to fell enough times and choke enough times. A minute on the stage takes ten-year practice is true. A minute on the canoe needs to be splashed by the whitewater thousands of times before that. (Photo of doing canoeing freestyle.)


The first Red Bull Kayak Mania was held in the Nujiang River which is near the Ancient Tea Horse Road in 2014. It was a fantastic journey for me. The legendary of canoeing freestyle the Jackson family which I had admired when I was learning through videos voted me to be the champion. You have no idea how excited I was; my heart was like water splashes. Before the competition, all I had thought about was to behave normally and don’t roll over during a huge competition like this. But the outcome was so surprising. I had a championship. This championship encouraged me so much. It told me that I could do this and there was a long way ahead of me. During that competition, the rich experience and precise technical operation of the foreign competitors had blown my mind. What touched me more was that they were not shy to share their experiences. They told us patiently how to read the routes when we read water, enter the mainstream and water caves precisely, choose where to drop from the waterfall and other things. Their technical system was scientific. It is the best medicine in whitewater sport which you need to react fast. This made me want to study abroad thoroughly and this idea rooted in my brain. Now, I am finally learning ACA rescue in the origin of world whitewater sports in the United States. This is my insistence and the expectation of my students. (Photo when I won the championship.)


In the passion, no one is alone. Just like the old saying, the happiness of everyone is much better than the happiness of oneself. Whitewater sports are the happiness of oneself and the happiness of everyone. Especially so when you have good teammates, the joy is beyond words. I and my five brothers who love canoeing finished our documentary the Last Dulong River in 2016. We used the way most close to the nature to visit the last face tattooed woman. Entering the distant Dulong tribe through a unique way on the water. Among the dangerous mountains of the eastern Yunnan, there is a mysterious international river, the Dulong River. It originated from the Chayu District of Tibet and then rushes into Burma through Yunnan. The river is calm sometimes and furious sometimes; it is cold and breathtaking. The scenery on the sides of the river is less known. The primal Dulong tribe’s tattooed face woman culture is no way to pass on. If one day it disappears, we hope we can at least pass on these memories. We want to tell the world that canoe freestyle athletes can do this for the world. We wave our paddles, drifting on the surface of the water and use our body to record and witness. Sports can show us nature and culture. Nature, culture and sports are inseparable to each other. Let’s start with the babies. (Documentary, the Last Dulong River will be shown on CCTV 9, the documentary channel.) (Photos of Dulong River.)


After canoeing in the clear water of the Dulong River, the lovely people and transparent water have touched me until now. I am eager to do more or let more people understand whitewater sports. I want more people to protect the source of our lives. I want more people to know that whitewater sports are not as dangerous as they seem and to make more people care about the quality of the water. Whitewater canoeing gave me a chance to touch the world with my body and heart. The world and I opened to me. Whitewater canoeing made me become a canoe athlete from a guy working in the office; now I am a canoeing coach. (Photos of me in the river)


Float in the river.

The magnificent natural view in North America is attractive, and locals did a great job protecting the rivers. Human and nature living together or even to that humans rely on nature touched me. But we have to come home and back to our rivers. We will continue float in the river and company with nature when we finish our learning and came home. It is our job to promote whitewater canoeing in China. You can come, and I will be in the river.


Zhuangzhuang (Xiaoqing Li) Profile:

Senior advertisement creative supervisor; Volunteer.

Top athlete of whitewater canoeing and senior coach.

The leader of teenager nature education.

The campaign of the first Red Bull Kayak Mania, etc.

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