{"id":160928,"date":"2021-04-30T21:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160928"},"modified":"2021-04-30T21:33:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T04:33:16","slug":"video-mike-stewart-bodysurfing-teahupoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160928","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Mike Stewart Bodysurfing Teahupoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch nine-time world bodyboarding champion, Mike Stewart, bodysurfing the waves of Teahupoo in Tahiti, in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary bodyboarder ended up suffering a painful injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was having a great session until the end of my last wave when good things came to an abrupt halt,&#8221; explained Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I rode my last wave I found a new technique that took me faster, out of the barrel and onto the shoulder. I then tucked both arms in, attempting to go faster still, to get out in front of the white water snow ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The idea being to better penetrate the waves face and cut out, avoiding the dreaded inside suck over onto the dry reef. It was a miserable fail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I dove into the wave face I soon felt that inescapable, eerie anxiety of my body getting sucked over backwards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RIFicPObMaY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch nine-time world bodyboarding champion, Mike Stewart, bodysurfing the waves of Teahupoo in Tahiti, in October 2018. The legendary bodyboarder ended up suffering a painful injury. &#8220;I was having a great session until the end of my last wave when good things came to an abrupt halt,&#8221; explained Stewart. &#8220;As I rode my last wave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160928","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=160928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160929,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160928\/revisions\/160929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}