{"id":7179,"date":"2009-04-03T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7179"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T21:10:26","slug":"kayak-kayak-krazy-rogue-river-man-hopscotches-the-globe-to-put-firsts-on-whitewater-resume-get-it-all-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7179","title":{"rendered":"Kayak &#8211; Kayak Krazy, Rogue River man hopscotches the globe to put firsts on whitewater resume, get it all on film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Paddling atop a 60-foot waterfall \u00e2\u20ac\u201d while inside nothing more than a glorified milk jug \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Chris Korbulic&#8217;s mind calmly analyzes the speed, trajectory and technique that make kayaking over mega-waterfalls more about precision than insanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Korbulic envisions launching his kayak over the waterfall lip, then bear-hugging his 9-foot plastic boat as he plunges vertically at more than 45 mph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Together they either will slip cleanly into the pool below like an Olympic diver, or they will fall flat and turn his pelvis into pick-up sticks&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090402\/LIFE\/904020301\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/placeholder-3701092?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddling atop a 60-foot waterfall \u00e2\u20ac\u201d while inside nothing more than a glorified milk jug \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Chris Korbulic&#8217;s mind calmly analyzes the speed, trajectory and technique that make kayaking over mega-waterfalls more about precision than insanity. Korbulic envisions launching his kayak over the waterfall lip, then bear-hugging his 9-foot plastic boat as he plunges vertically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179","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=7179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7179\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}