{"id":688,"date":"2009-02-06T04:19:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T00:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2009-02-25T04:22:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T00:22:19","slug":"warp-speed-on-the-water-time-to-stand-up-for-great-ski-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Warp speed on the water: Time to stand up for great ski race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-691\" title=\"water-ski\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/water-ski-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"water-ski\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>FLYING down the Murray River on a ski at 160kmh is second nature for Hamilton&#8217;s Mason Vaughan.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old apprentice builder is facing one of the ski racing calendar&#8217;s most gruelling events this weekend, the Southern 80.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s race comes after a rigorous six-months on the water and in the gym for Vaughan where he has been building the leg strength needed to handle 125 turns between Torrumbarry and Echuca.<\/p>\n<p>Today he and ski partner Rhys Duggan, of Ballarat, will race behind a Melbourne-owned boat called Spinal Tap in the single motor, open cockpit (SMOC) class, alongside 20 other boats&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.net.au\/news\/local\/sport\/general\/warp-speed-on-the-water-time-to-stand-up-for-great-ski-race\/1427117.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLYING down the Murray River on a ski at 160kmh is second nature for Hamilton&#8217;s Mason Vaughan. The 17-year-old apprentice builder is facing one of the ski racing calendar&#8217;s most gruelling events this weekend, the Southern 80. This year&#8217;s race comes after a rigorous six-months on the water and in the gym for Vaughan where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-water-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}