Almost two hours on the windy Sunday in February, Henry Hurren is beating in the waters from the mostly uninhabited island in Hong Kong, trying to surf a short wave for a few moments for a while.

The half -hour ferry ride from the main island of Chinese territory was hectic with daily trips. Mr. Hurren, 32, passed the restaurants and outdoor families that camped overnight as he hiked to the site of which he paddled in a suit.

But he was alone in the water, trying to prove that there are new surfing places in the city without many of them.

The wave of Tung Plung Chau is known as a board, a quick breaking on a rock. This is not the kind you paint the Surfer that is smoothly driven by the Shore in a world class like Bali. Again and again, Mr. Hurren caught him for a few seconds before returning to cold water.

Many surfers never surf the plates, said Mr. Hurren, a nature guide that teaches surfing and shares some of the waves he finds His Instagram page. “It’s like a really concentrated version of surfing,” he said.

The scene of surfing in the Hong Kong-Titory, which includes more than 250 islands in the southern Chinese sea-concentrated on several beaches that lack consistently all the time. But these beaches are relatively available to a city of about 7.5 million people.

The most famous and easiest to access is Big Wave Bay on the eastern coast of the island of Hong Kong, the main in the territory. It is a small, imperfect part of the sand next to the village, which can be up to about 20 minutes from high climbs that are most famously infinite Skyline Hong Kong. The waves are usually not that big there there.

The beach also use swimmers and standup rowers, and tensions can flow high if there are too many people in the water. Last year, the government began to occasionally spend the rule against the surfing on the beach, according to people who surf there.

One store near the beach ordered a sign that explains the Surf label, along with the illustration of a surfra that shouted Canton explicit after hitting the head with a foreign committee.

Mr. Hurren has been going to Big Wave Bay since he was a year, but says that he has never felt completely comfortable there and that it can be hostile to the newcomers. Any secret surf of places that he did not find himself was not sharing.

If he wanted more people to surf, he would have to find other places. Waves like the off Tung Lung Chau are not for everyone, he admitted, but he found about ten more places suitable for a series of skills levels.

“What is Hong Kong Surf does so special is that you have to believe in order to succeed for you and everything around you,” said Mr. Hurren. “I would say that we turn anything into something that is our Hong Kong spirit.”

The sport had such a low profile when Mavis Lai, 41, grew up in Hong Kong that she didn’t even know she could surf there. She first took it on a weekly camp on the Canary Islands after moving and working in London.

After Mrs. Lai returned to Hong Kong 2015, she worked as a surfing coach a few years before becoming a sports therapist. She recalled she was going to Thailand and admired how many local surfers were despite, like Hong Konger, they didn’t have much surfing all year. The waves were much better there, she said.

“Maybe in Hong Kong we have the worst conditions ever,” she said she remembered how she was thinking.

But Mrs. Lai makes the most of it. In winter, the main surfing season in Big Wave Bay, she goes there three or four times a week. He tries to schedule his job around the forecast and train to stay enough to last a few hours whenever surfing is good.

Other surfers in Hong Kong go on, moving across the border to the Chinese province of Guangdong.

Clark Wang, who runs a surfing hostel and surfing surfing in Shanwei, told Bali on the phone that he had noticed the influx of people from Hong Kong. 2023 was only one or two, he said. Now Mr. Wang estimates that Hong Kongi make up about a quarter of Shanwei’s surfers.

Rohan Rajpal, 27, who spent the weekend in Shanwei at least six times since October, still surfing at Big Wave Bay during the week. Mr. Rajpal, who works in financial technology, said he thought the wave in Shanwei was fun, but that the water is more beautiful in Hong Kong.

Mr. Hurren said it took him a decade to surf waves he saw “just because I didn’t think it was feasible.”

He said he first noticed a wave riding from Tung Lung Chau as a teenager, but he only started surf last year. Before that, he spent the years paddling to look for a rock he pierced.

In that windy Sunday in February, experienced Surfer saw him carrying his committee and stopped asking where the waves were.