{"id":96748,"date":"2014-07-29T06:26:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=96748"},"modified":"2014-07-29T06:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:26:20","slug":"kiteboarding-amateurs-rule-the-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=96748","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboarding &#8211; Amateurs Rule the Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The second day of the 2014 Bridge of the Gods Kite Festival kicked off on Saturday with warmer weather and lighter breezes as amateurs of all ages competed for over $10,000 in cash and prizes. From the grassy spectator knoll at Stevenson, Washington a crowd of 150 watched a diverse show of massive air, technical wakestyle tricks and unforgettable crashes. Up for grabs was the grand prize of a week long stay at Vela Resorts and a Best 12m TS kite as well as a deep selection of kiteboards and other gear by North, Naish, JN, Best, Slingshot, and Liquid Force as well as harnesses and backpacks by Dakine. Almost everybody walked away with a solid piece of kiting hardware.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Men\u2019s division was loaded with an incredibly talented group of boys and men between the ages of 15-34. The six-men final heat featured insane technical handle pass tricks by all contestants, starting fast and furious with the first move thrown by\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekiteboarder.com\/2014\/07\/ameatures-rule-kotb-kitefest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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>The second day of the 2014 Bridge of the Gods Kite Festival kicked off on Saturday with warmer weather and lighter breezes as amateurs of all ages competed for over $10,000 in cash and prizes. From the grassy spectator knoll at Stevenson, Washington a crowd of 150 watched a diverse show of massive air, technical [&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-96748","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\/96748","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=96748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96749,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96748\/revisions\/96749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}