River surfing combines white whitewater with surfing, allowing participants to ride standing waves or tidal bores in flowing water. While riding these standing waves, surfers don’t travel up or down the river. Rather they stay put, cruising in the same area of the river the entire time.
Professional surfer Jamie O’Brien took a trip to Canada where he surfed a wild and large river wave created by a 20 foot tide surge. Important to note that this is not a tidal bore, in which a leading edge of an incoming tide creates a wave of water that travels upstream. Instead this wave stays put in the river, formed by the water flowing over objects under the water.
