{"id":14801,"date":"2009-06-17T13:18:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T20:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14801"},"modified":"2009-06-17T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T20:18:04","slug":"sailboard-windsurfers-and-kiteboarders-celebrate-21th-anniversary-of-the-aruba-hi-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14801","title":{"rendered":"Sailboard &#8211; Windsurfers and kiteboarders celebrate 21th anniversary of the Aruba Hi-Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since its early years in the mid-eighties, when windsurfing greats like Robby Naish and Bjorn Dunkerbeck raced in Aruba year after year, the Aruba Hi-Winds has remained one of the biggest names in windsurfing events in the Caribbean, including freestyle windsurfing and Kiteboarding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aruba is blessed with almost ideal wind- and water conditions for windsurfing and Kiteboarding. Whether you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a traditional down-wind slalom racer, a fearless freestyler or if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve joined the newest craze in watersports: kiteboarding, the Aruba Hi-Winds is there for you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Besides being a first-rate windsurfing and Kiteboarding event, the Aruba Hi-Winds is renowned for having an extensive and exhilarating entertainment and social program for its competitors and friends. Participating in the Aruba Hi-Winds means partying from start to finish! Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t miss the fun!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aruba Hi-Winds: A short History<br \/>\nThis year the 21th anniversary of Aruba Hi-Winds will be celebrated at the Fisherman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Huts. The organizing committee plans to make it another sportive festivity during the day; all-out partying during the cool evenings is once again scheduled on the program. After 21 years we would like to look back a moment to see where we came from.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Aruba Hi-Winds was first organized in June 1987. Local entrepreneurs Antony Blok and Ruben Croes took the initiative for the sailing event and &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/windsurfing\/1508-windsurfers-and-kiteboarders-celebrate-21th-anniversary-of-the-aruba-hi-winds\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since its early years in the mid-eighties, when windsurfing greats like Robby Naish and Bjorn Dunkerbeck raced in Aruba year after year, the Aruba Hi-Winds has remained one of the biggest names in windsurfing events in the Caribbean, including freestyle windsurfing and Kiteboarding. Aruba is blessed with almost ideal wind- and water conditions for windsurfing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801","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=14801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14802,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions\/14802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}