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Chris Bullzini, a funambulist or high-wire artist, performs on a tightrope above the courtyard of The Piece Hall in Halifax, northern England on September 14, 2018.
The performance features as part of The Blondin Gala, an event celebrating of the historic moment in 1861 when Charles Blondin completed a tightrope walk across The Piece Hall, which will take place on September 15, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Oli SCARFF

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Young surfer Rickson Falcao, 10, waits for a wave at Saquarema's beach in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on November 29, 2017.
Despite its vast Atlantic coastline, Brazil has few areas with world class surf. Until recently, it also had too small a middle class to grow a sport that had few roots. One main hotspot has always been near Sao Paulo, the other is Saquarema, a sleepy seaside city famous for a beautiful church on a rocky promontory, dividing two long beaches -- each lashed by consistently good waves. At the core of that local culture is Luiz Augusto de Matos, a burly retired firefighter who opened the Saquarema Surf School in 1990 and dedicated himself to turning generations of skinny toddlers into wave wizards. Today he has 30 students. / AFP PHOTO / LEO CORREA / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Sebastian Smith

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Swedish surfer Pontus Hallin walks into the water with his ice surfboard partly melted at the Delp surfing spot, near Straumnes, in the Lofoten Islands, over the Arctic Circle on February 18, 2019. - Images can be found on www.afpforum.com with the slug : Surfing-Lofoten-Ice board-Photo essay (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP)