{"id":122205,"date":"2016-09-02T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T03:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122205"},"modified":"2016-09-02T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T03:58:41","slug":"video-red-bull-waa-takes-outrigger-canoe-paddling-by-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=122205","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Red Bull Wa&#8217;a Takes Outrigger Canoe Paddling by Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before endurance and water sports existed, there was canoe paddling. Initially a vehicle used to hunt and fight has now become one of the largest growing fitness and endurance sports in the world. The U.S. outrigger canoe paddling team from Kona, the Red Bull Wa\u2019a, have taken the age-old sport by storm and challenged the tenure of the Tahitian paddlers.<\/p>\n<p>For the Red Bull Wa\u2019a, paddling isn\u2019t just a means to peak personal strength &#8211; it\u2019s spiritual. Team captain, Kainoa Tanoai, says &#8220;When you\u2019re paddling for four hours a day, you\u2019re focused on the goal of competing at the highest level, but you\u2019re also focused on being one with the ocean and respecting the canoe, your teammates, and the sport.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z1-I97_Y6TU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before endurance and water sports existed, there was canoe paddling. Initially a vehicle used to hunt and fight has now become one of the largest growing fitness and endurance sports in the world. The U.S. outrigger canoe paddling team from Kona, the Red Bull Wa\u2019a, have taken the age-old sport by storm and challenged the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122205","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=122205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122207,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122205\/revisions\/122207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}