{"id":75864,"date":"2013-02-24T21:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75864"},"modified":"2013-02-24T21:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T04:00:51","slug":"surfing-real-power-at-mavericks-from-a-offshore-powerboat-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75864","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Real Power at Mavericks (from a offshore powerboat guy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When a big-wave surfer falls on a big-wave, he rarely penetrates the water immediately. First, like a water-skier, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going too fast so he bounces off the surface. Second, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wearing a slick and buoyant wetsuit, a life vest and maybe even, if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the cutting edge of the sport, an integrated automatic buoyancy device that will inflate and drag him up from the depths he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll eventually get pounded to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what usually happens: He skips down the face of the wave on his head, back, stomach or whatever part of his body makes first contact with the water and ends up at the bottom of wave. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where the real fun begins\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/speedonthewater.com\/commentary\/1089-commentary-real-power-at-mavericks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a big-wave surfer falls on a big-wave, he rarely penetrates the water immediately. First, like a water-skier, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going too fast so he bounces off the surface. Second, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wearing a slick and buoyant wetsuit, a life vest and maybe even, if he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the cutting edge of the sport, an integrated automatic buoyancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75864","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=75864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75866,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75864\/revisions\/75866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}