{"id":12050,"date":"2009-05-11T20:41:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T03:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2020-03-21T19:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T02:06:32","slug":"bodyboard-top-bodyboarders-compete-for-10000-in-the-2009-shark-island-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12050","title":{"rendered":"Bodyboard &#8211; Top bodyboarders compete for $10,000 in the 2009 Shark Island Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12051\" title=\"shark-island\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/shark-island.bmp\" alt=\"shark-island\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For over 20 years Cronulla\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shark Island has been a proving ground for high performance Bodyboarding in Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1997 this proving ground was extended to a selected international contingent, when a hardcore group of Cronulla locals created a competition format they named The Shark Island Challenge. The concept was simple: Invite the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best riders to Cronulla to surf Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s original wave of consequence to compete in a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153winner takes all\u00e2\u20ac\u009d shoot out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over the past 12 years the Shark Island Challenge has become one of the most prestigious events in the world, synonymous with some of the most breath taking competition images in bodyboarding history. For many years the &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2 \u00c2 \u00c2 \u00c2 \u00c2 For over 20 years Cronulla\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shark Island has been a proving ground for high performance Bodyboarding in Australia. In 1997 this proving ground was extended to a selected international contingent, when a hardcore group of Cronulla locals created a competition format they named The Shark Island Challenge. The concept was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050","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=12050"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156551,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions\/156551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}