Lou Harris is changing people’s lives by teaching surfing, though he stumbled across the sport by chance.
Lou Harris has been riding the waves in the Rockaways, New York’s only spot for surfing, for more than 15 years. Photos: dpa
The Rockaways, a peninsula at the southern edge of the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island - the only spot in New York were surfing is allowed. Now 50, Harris moved to the Rockaways some time ago. “I just liked it so much I didn’t even want to take the train ride back.” It takes around an hour to reach the Rockaways from Manhattan, riding the A line. The closer you get, the more people you see carrying surfboards as the Rockaways are the only place in New York where surfing is allowed.
Swimming lessons are often prohibitively expensive in the United States, however, and millions of children often don’t learn, with ethnic minorities disproportionately affected.One day, Harris read about a 13-year-old boy who set a mattress on fire in Coney Island, a beach district in Brooklyn, killing a police officer. The boy said he was driven by boredom.
For a while, Harris also worked as a doorman part-time on Manhattan’s wealthy Upper East Side, but thanks to donations and media coverage, he can fully focus on teaching surfing now.saying Harris has “reinvented surfing”, while Vice magazine wrote he has “made the waves of New York more inclusive”.
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