{"id":22472,"date":"2009-10-31T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T20:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22472"},"modified":"2009-10-31T13:42:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T20:42:40","slug":"sailing-kiteboard-alex-caizergues-peaks-595-knots-in-the-luderitz-speed-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22472","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Kiteboard &#8211; Alex Caizergues peaks 59.5 knots in the Luderitz Speed Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The winds on Wednesday went nuclear. Hennie, Basil, Sebastien, Alex, Charlotte, Christophe, Manu, Sophie and Tim all hit the water. Brave, because the wind was gusting to almost 55 knots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Everyone experienced the biggest challenge for speed-sailing with a kiteboard: while almost no other watercraft can race in wind as strong as this, it brings its own limitations. Going really, really fast is easy (for a highly trained expert\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6). Crashing very hard is even easier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The challenge is &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/kiteboarding\/2497-alex-caizergues-peaks-595-knots-in-the-luderitz-speed-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winds on Wednesday went nuclear. Hennie, Basil, Sebastien, Alex, Charlotte, Christophe, Manu, Sophie and Tim all hit the water. Brave, because the wind was gusting to almost 55 knots. Everyone experienced the biggest challenge for speed-sailing with a kiteboard: while almost no other watercraft can race in wind as strong as this, it brings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-kiteboard","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472","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=22472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22486,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22472\/revisions\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}