{"id":132014,"date":"2017-05-23T06:59:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132014"},"modified":"2017-05-23T06:59:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:59:37","slug":"breath-hold-training-isnt-just-for-big-wave-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=132014","title":{"rendered":"Breath-hold training isn\u2019t just for big-wave surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>Almost every surfer has been there. On the paddle out or in a wipeout, at least one wave has pushed each of us deep underwater and held us down too long, so long that a little panic crept in: \u201cI need to breathe. I <em>have<\/em> to breathe.\u201d And if the hold-down continued, \u201cAm I going to drown?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That time underwater can feel like an eternity, but in fact, most hold-downs last only five seconds. In large surf, that may stretch to 12 seconds. Even a big-wave surfer subjected to a two-wave hold-down will be underwater only for about half a minute. Objectively, it\u2019s not that long\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/surf\/breath-hold-training-isnt-just-big-wave-surfers\/#1hlOPS6dipkUkmgU.97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every surfer has been there. On the paddle out or in a wipeout, at least one wave has pushed each of us deep underwater and held us down too long, so long that a little panic crept in: \u201cI need to breathe. I have to breathe.\u201d And if the hold-down continued, \u201cAm I going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-nutrition","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132014","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=132014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132015,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132014\/revisions\/132015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}