{"id":19385,"date":"2009-08-20T20:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T03:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19385"},"modified":"2009-08-20T20:38:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T03:38:37","slug":"kiteboard-the-history-of-kiteboarding-began-25-years-ago-with-the-legaignoux-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=19385","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboard &#8211; The History of Kiteboarding began 25 years ago with the Legaignoux brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The History of Kiteboarding or Kitesurfing is a story of two French brothers &#8211; Dominique and Bruno Legaignoux &#8211; with a strong determination and a loving passion for water sports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Their story started winning sailing titles at the age of 10, such as the French Junior Championships in 1979.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1984, inspired by &#8220;Jacob&#8217;s Ladder&#8221;, a catamaran pulled by flexifoils, Dominique and Bruno thought of a dual line kite propulsor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first kite was tested with two water skis in their feet&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/kiteboarding\/2003-the-history-of-kiteboarding-began-25-years-ago-with-the-legaignoux-brothers\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The History of Kiteboarding or Kitesurfing is a story of two French brothers &#8211; Dominique and Bruno Legaignoux &#8211; with a strong determination and a loving passion for water sports. Their story started winning sailing titles at the age of 10, such as the French Junior Championships in 1979. In 1984, inspired by &#8220;Jacob&#8217;s Ladder&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19385","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\/19385","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=19385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19387,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19385\/revisions\/19387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}