{"id":162286,"date":"2021-12-13T19:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T02:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162286"},"modified":"2021-12-13T19:50:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T02:50:24","slug":"video-brazilian-skimboarder-faces-monster-wave-for-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162286","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Brazilian Skimboarder Faces Monster Wave for World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian surfer Lucas Fink is hoping to enter the Guinness Book of Records having surfed a monster wave on a skimboard off Nazare, Portugal. Fink says a wave he rode was close to 20 metres high.<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8221;I came here (to Nazare) focused on the mission to surf the biggest waves of my life and catch the biggest wave in the world with a skimboard if possible and make history, have fun, overcome my limits and do what I love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A skimboard is smaller than a surfboard, measuring approximately 131cm x 50cm and is no more than 2.5cm thick. It does not have fins to help with stability like the bigger board or the leash that ties the surfer&#8217;s ankle to the board.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQ40jyDSeo0\" 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>Brazilian surfer Lucas Fink is hoping to enter the Guinness Book of Records having surfed a monster wave on a skimboard off Nazare, Portugal. Fink says a wave he rode was close to 20 metres high. He says, &#8221;I came here (to Nazare) focused on the mission to surf the biggest waves of my life [&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-162286","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\/162286","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=162286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162287,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162286\/revisions\/162287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}