{"id":1830,"date":"2009-02-26T20:52:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2009-03-17T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:08:28","slug":"tampa-bay-area-kiteboarders-take-aim-at-distance-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboarding &#8211; Tampa Bay area kiteboarders take aim at distance record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1831\" title=\"kite\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/kite.bmp\" alt=\"kite\" \/>At first, Eckerd College student Alex Moore and his buddies just wanted to take a long kiteboard trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have heard of a surfing safari,&#8217; &#8221; said the 22-year-old anthropology major. &#8220;Well, we wanted to do a kitesurfing safari.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kitesurfing, which many consider to be the fastest growing &#8220;extreme&#8221; water sport, requires a high level of fitness and technical skill. Pinellas County happens to be a hotbed for kitesurfers, and Moore and fellow Eckerd students Tripp Hobbs and Matt Sexton and USF&#8217;s Chase Kosterlitz are at ground zero of this movement.<\/p>\n<p>On a good day, an experienced kitesurfer can reach speeds up to &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/sports\/outdoors\/article979557.ece\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first, Eckerd College student Alex Moore and his buddies just wanted to take a long kiteboard trip. &#8220;You have heard of a surfing safari,&#8217; &#8221; said the 22-year-old anthropology major. &#8220;Well, we wanted to do a kitesurfing safari.&#8221; Kitesurfing, which many consider to be the fastest growing &#8220;extreme&#8221; water sport, requires a high level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","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=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}