{"id":94038,"date":"2014-05-12T19:52:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=94038"},"modified":"2014-05-12T19:52:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:52:58","slug":"surfing-five-reasons-why-michel-bourez-won-the-billabong-rio-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=94038","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Five reasons why Michel Bourez won the Billabong Rio Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stop No. 4 of the 2014 Samsung ASP World Championship Tour saw Tahitian surfer Michel Bourez win his second event of the year at Rio\u2019s Barra da Tijuca. The 29-year-old regularfoot got past Joel Parkinsontriathlon.competitor.comJoel Parkinson, Jordy Smith, Taj Burrow, and Kolohe Andino on his way to a $75,000 payday. Here are five things that propelled him to the podium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His fitness<br \/>\nThe lateral current at Barra da Tijuca was running like a river during the final day of the Billabong Rio Pro, and while Jet Skis were on hand to ferry competitors back out to the lineup after a ride, the future pro surfers Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson\u00a0surfers had to paddle continuously just to stay in place. But that didn\u2019t bother nor tire Bourez\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/five-reasons-michel-bourez-won-billabong-rio-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop No. 4 of the 2014 Samsung ASP World Championship Tour saw Tahitian surfer Michel Bourez win his second event of the year at Rio\u2019s Barra da Tijuca. The 29-year-old regularfoot got past Joel Parkinsontriathlon.competitor.comJoel Parkinson, Jordy Smith, Taj Burrow, and Kolohe Andino on his way to a $75,000 payday. Here are five things that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94038","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=94038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94039,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94038\/revisions\/94039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}