{"id":8802,"date":"2009-04-11T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8802"},"modified":"2009-04-11T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:06:53","slug":"snow-skiing-paragliding-trying-out-the-extreme-sport-of-speed-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8802","title":{"rendered":"Snow Skiing Paragliding &#8211; Trying out the extreme sport of speed riding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This hybrid of paragliding and skiing whose pioneers include Antoine Montant is unregulated, dangerous and exhilarating<\/p>\n<p>As the ski season draws to a close, there is one contest that is only just getting started. No, it is not between snow\u00c2\u00adboarders and skiers, but be\u00c2\u00adtween a new breed of ex\u00c2\u00adtreme sportsmen and, well, everyone else on the piste.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sport is called speed riding and it is a hybrid of paragliding and skiing. It needs, ideally, wide-open slopes with no crowds, so conditions now are some of the best. To take part you need a wing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it looks like a stunt parachute \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and a pair of skis. Oh yes, and an almost total disregard for your own safety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The wing is dragged behind you while you descend the slope. As you pick up speed, it catches &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/men\/article6072962.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hybrid of paragliding and skiing whose pioneers include Antoine Montant is unregulated, dangerous and exhilarating As the ski season draws to a close, there is one contest that is only just getting started. No, it is not between snow\u00c2\u00adboarders and skiers, but be\u00c2\u00adtween a new breed of ex\u00c2\u00adtreme sportsmen and, well, everyone else on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,55,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-skydiving-base-jumping-hang-gliding-paragliding","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802","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=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8804,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}