#36 Nida Soe 🇲🇲 - Leading the first wave of surfers in Myanmar

<p>🇲🇲 Nida Soe is a surfer who led Myanmar’s first-ever surfing delegation at the South East Asia Games in 2019.&nbsp;</p><br><p>🌊 As her surfing journey built her confidence and created so many opportunities, she believes that surfing can help the youth connect with their power of action and co-founded the Surfing Association of Myanmar to fulfil her mission.</p><br><p>🏄 She dreams to build a professional surfing ecosystem in Myanmar through which the youth can learn the values of hard work, develop their resilience, connect with the nature, get exposed to new opportunities and become professional athletes. &nbsp;</p><br><p>💪 She shares how she organised the first surfing trainings in Myanmar, how she can identify the best surfing spots with Google Earth, how she collected half-broken surfing boards from all around the world and how she prepared the national surfing team for the SEA Games.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Hope it makes you keen to start your own surfing journey! :D</p><br><p>❤️ <strong>TIMELINE:&nbsp;</strong></p><p>10’ - Discovering new surfing spots in Myanmar with Google Earth</p><p>15’ - Growing up as an athlete</p><p>27’ - Choosing between the national basketball team or pursuing university</p><p>34’ - Learning surfing the hard way on California’s beaches</p><p>49’ - Training the first wave of surfers in Myanmar</p><p>62’ - Representing Myanmar at the South East Asia Games 2019</p><p>88’ - Surfers’ connection with the oceans and the environment</p><p>106’ - Helping people understand complexity through data with Thibi</p><br><p>🗒️<strong> REFERENCES:</strong></p><p>About the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SurfMyanmar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Surf Association of Myanmar</a>.</p><p>About the startup <a href="https://thibi.co/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thibi</a>.</p><p>Connect with Nida on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidasoe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.</p><p>To read about her story, click <a href="https://www.myanmore.com/2019/09/thwe-t