{"id":11755,"date":"2009-05-08T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T17:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11755"},"modified":"2009-05-08T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:39:13","slug":"kiteboard-kitesurfing-on-the-prairie-wind-permitting-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=11755","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboard &#8211; Kitesurfing on the prairie, wind permitting of course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Although some may not be familiar with kitesurfing, this extreme sport gets into the blood of its devotees and becomes a way of life, says Kirk Hoffman, avid kite surfer and director of Force10 Boardsailing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Next to my wife and kids, kite surfing is the next most important thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To further his point, Hoffman, CAO of the Village of Nobleford, adds he even has a wind clause in his contract; if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blowing, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going, and he hopes that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case this May long weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 As long as the wind picks up, Force10 Boardsailing (http:\/\/www.force10.ca\/) will host the Annual Keho Canadian Windsurfing and Kiteboarding Speed Trials, site of 14 past speed trial events as well hosted by the club.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Southern Alberta has very good winds. Keho is recognized worldwide for its winds.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To envision the sport in action, imagine a huge kite with a control system rigged out of &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairiepost.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=3780&amp;Itemid=27\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although some may not be familiar with kitesurfing, this extreme sport gets into the blood of its devotees and becomes a way of life, says Kirk Hoffman, avid kite surfer and director of Force10 Boardsailing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Next to my wife and kids, kite surfing is the next most important thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Hoffman. To further his point, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11817,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions\/11817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}