{"id":8585,"date":"2009-04-10T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2009-04-10T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T18:04:59","slug":"bodyboard-shark-island-is-out-of-the-2009-iba-world-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8585","title":{"rendered":"Bodyboard &#8211; Shark Island is out of the 2009 IBA World Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8588\" title=\"ibasharkisland1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/ibasharkisland1.jpg\" alt=\"ibasharkisland1\" width=\"553\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ibasharkisland1.jpg 553w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ibasharkisland1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official, Shark Island is no longer part of the 2009 IBA World Tour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mark Fordham stated that due to the economic climate he would not be able to stage an IBA rated event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Negotiations with promoter Fordham failed to reach both IBA World Tour and IBA Specialty event sanctioning so sadly the event will be black-listed and off limits to contracted riders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This includes all the riders that competed in the Turbo Pipe Pro and those who compete in the upcoming Brazilian events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The riders board voted against the speciality event status because we need to work with promoters that will follow the minimum requirements\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said IBA General Manager Terry McKenna. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Its that simple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/bodyboarding\/1171-shark-island-is-out-of-the-2009-iba-world-tour\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official, Shark Island is no longer part of the 2009 IBA World Tour. Mark Fordham stated that due to the economic climate he would not be able to stage an IBA rated event. Negotiations with promoter Fordham failed to reach both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585","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=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8589,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions\/8589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}