{"id":90405,"date":"2014-02-11T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90405"},"modified":"2014-02-11T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:16:06","slug":"handling-fear-in-extreme-sports-a-kiteboarders-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90405","title":{"rendered":"Handling fear in extreme sports: a kiteboarder\u2019s perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you thought entrepreneurship was a scary prospect, imagine balancing a start-up with training to compete in the most prestigious kiteboarding contest in the country. It\u2019s a daily reality for 25-year-old Sensi Graves, a Hood River, Oregon, native in the midst of designing an\u00a0eponymous swimwear brand\u00a0while simultaneously preparing for this summer\u2019s Triple S Invitational in Hatteras, North Carolina\u2014arguably the toughest contest for freestyle kiteboarders, in which Graves has placed third overall for the past two years. Short for \u201csurf, slicks, and sliders,\u201d the contest is a three-part event wherein kiteboarders battle it out on a series of obstacles like rails and kickers to score points, all set against the famously windy backdrop of North Carolina\u2019s Outer Banks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/lifestyle\/pro-active\/post\/handling-fear-in-extreme-sports-a-kiteboarders-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\">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>If you thought entrepreneurship was a scary prospect, imagine balancing a start-up with training to compete in the most prestigious kiteboarding contest in the country. It\u2019s a daily reality for 25-year-old Sensi Graves, a Hood River, Oregon, native in the midst of designing an\u00a0eponymous swimwear brand\u00a0while simultaneously preparing for this summer\u2019s Triple S Invitational in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90405","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=90405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90406,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90405\/revisions\/90406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}