{"id":16420,"date":"2009-07-13T12:46:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2012-08-05T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T22:53:11","slug":"surfing-bodyboard-huge-swell-hits-the-first-round-of-the-2009-nomad-shark-island-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16420","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Bodyboard &#8211; Huge swell hits the first round of the 2009 Nomad Shark Island Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16421\" title=\"bodyboard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/bodyboard.bmp\" alt=\"bodyboard\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After an agonising wait the first Round of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe 2009 Nomad Shark Island Challenge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 finally got underway in what some are claiming to be suicidal conditions. The anticipated Easterly swell delivered waves in the 2m range with its direction causing some major headaches for some of the riders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nThe first two heats saw some incredible action and commitment with competitors copping the full fury of an angry Shark Island. With the swell hitting the reef straight on wave knowledge was the leading edge to success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To open up proceedings Heat 1 saw a massive wipe out from Glen Thurston.\u00c2\u00a0 Arguably un-makeable, Thurston lined himself up for a date with the reef which resulted in &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/bodyboarding\/1709-huge-swell-hits-the-first-round-of-the-2009-nomad-shark-island-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 After an agonising wait the first Round of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe 2009 Nomad Shark Island Challenge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 finally got underway in what some are claiming to be suicidal conditions. The anticipated Easterly swell delivered waves in the 2m range with its direction causing some major headaches for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","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=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67981,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions\/67981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}