{"id":127899,"date":"2017-02-01T07:41:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=127899"},"modified":"2017-02-01T07:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:41:37","slug":"kiteboard-video-king-tide-a-tale-of-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=127899","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboard Video &#8211; King Tide &#8211; a tale of high winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned at perigee and perihelion, their closest distance to earth, a King Tide occurs. Together with strong onshore winds the ocean flooded the entire Brouwersdam beach and turned it into a thin carpet of flat water. Perfect conditions for a epic kiteboarding session!<\/p>\n<p>Steering the kite in a loop while airborne, when perfectly executed, will make the rider travel at the speed of the wind in an instant. To fly horizontally, in 8 beaufort of wind, and suddenly hear all noise disappear because you are catching up with the wind.. That&#8217;s a surreal moment.<\/p>\n<p>Riders: Evan Kruger &amp; Rykiel Fijn<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/201316680?color=ffffff&#038;title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned at perigee and perihelion, their closest distance to earth, a King Tide occurs. Together with strong onshore winds the ocean flooded the entire Brouwersdam beach and turned it into a thin carpet of flat water. Perfect conditions for a epic kiteboarding session! Steering the kite in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127899","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=127899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127900,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127899\/revisions\/127900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}