Surfing dogs make a splash in California competition

The Manila Times

Surfing dogs make a splash in California competition  Hundreds of spectators gathered on Saturday in Pacifica, California to watch the annual World Dog Surfing Championships. Several of the contestants are previous winners with prior experience in the water, like 6-year-old Iza, a French bulldog who lives in Pleasanton. This year is Iza’s fifth year competing. Among the spectators was 28-year-old Allan Liu who just moved to San Jose in April from Toronto, Canada. Liu came to enjoying the beach with his wife and marvel at an experience that to many feels quintessentially California.   REUTERS VIDEO  Check out our Streaming Channel: https://streaming.manilatimes.net/  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net  Follow us: Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion  Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital  Check out our Podcasts: Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #WorldNews

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00:18Yeah, we wanted to stay out there longer.

00:21Okay, so Isa's six years old, since she's been about six, seven months old.

00:27We just went to the beach around then COVID was happening.

00:29So she learned her way around the ocean and right after that I got a surfboard, put it

00:34in the pool.

00:34She learned her balance and then I kind of put the two together and here we are.

00:38I didn't wake up at 50 years old one day and say I'm going to surf my French Bulldog.

00:41So it kind of organically happened and yeah, now we're, this is our fifth year.

00:46So we surf every, up and down the whole West Coast from Huntington Beach to Pismo to Santa

00:52Cruz to San Diego to Pacifica.

00:55Here we are in Pacifica and yeah, we do it all summer long.

00:59Once a month, all summer long we're on vacation.

01:01So I mean, what a great, what a great thing to do all summer long.

01:21Oh my gosh.

01:22Well, I mean, surfing is amazing anyways, right?

01:24Because you're, you're community with nature.

01:26It's, you've got the solitude, you got the Indian, you got the excitement and then you

01:30mix in your best friend because then you're working together as a team to accomplish something.

01:37Let's go.

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02:10yeah the the dogs surfing is actually really surprising and seeing how well they're doing

02:14and how well trained they are staying on the surfboards catching these awesome waves i'm

02:19really surprised at how well they're doing and all these dogs have like signs they have merch

02:24they have all this support system uh everyone's cheering and the energy is great here uh coming

02:29from canada i never really expected dogs to surf uh we don't really have these like big waves or

02:34anything surfing's not a really big thing we're from toronto canada so this is a pretty awesome

02:40experience

02:42the longer name okay

03:07I just think they're so so talented these dogs like when you see them I can't even

03:12surf I don't know how they do it and the waves are really big

03:28all right guys let's go let's go Charlie

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