{"id":12769,"date":"2009-05-21T19:51:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12769"},"modified":"2009-05-21T19:51:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:51:47","slug":"surfing-new-surfboard-design-faces-uphill-battle-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=12769","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; New Surfboard Design Faces Uphill Battle in SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12770\" title=\"board\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/05\/board.bmp\" alt=\"board\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">San Francisco&#8217;s lust for design innovation stops with its surfers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s unfortunate since Thomas Meyerhoffer, a San Francisco-area surfer and inventor, has designed a surfboard that has so radically reshaped longboarding, a month after it hit the market in March it&#8217;s already changed at least one man&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Nothing has changed the game like my 8-foot Meyer,&#8221; 35-year surf veteran Tom Hansen of Florida wrote in an email to the inventor. When Meyerhoffer wondered if the surfer wasn&#8217;t teasing his pear-shaped invention, which had already drawn heckles during tests at his home breaks &#8212; Hansen sent a follow-up email with two photos of his 30 boards made by top shapers, which he says are all &#8220;going bye bye&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, Hansen wrote, &#8220;I rip like a kid.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sfappeal.com\/culture\/2009\/05\/meyerhoffer.php\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 San Francisco&#8217;s lust for design innovation stops with its surfers. That&#8217;s unfortunate since Thomas Meyerhoffer, a San Francisco-area surfer and inventor, has designed a surfboard that has so radically reshaped longboarding, a month after it hit the market in March it&#8217;s already changed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-surf-products-tests","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769","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=12769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12773,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769\/revisions\/12773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}