{"id":97707,"date":"2014-08-25T20:28:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T03:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97707"},"modified":"2014-08-25T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T03:28:59","slug":"surfing-how-to-duck-dive-in-5-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97707","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; How to duck dive in 5 easy steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For beginners, paddling through the surf is one of the most arduous and challenging aspects of the sport. Think about it\u2014to get to where the waves are breaking, you have to fight your way through them. If there\u2019s a nice wide channel, no problem, but the majority of us surf beachbreaks where there\u2019s no clear-cut way to get past the breakers. This is where the \u201cduck dive\u201d comes into play. It\u2019s an overlooked and under-appreciated part of surfing, but something you need to do well to increase your overall stoke level and wave count. Here are five quick tips to get you through the surf like, well, a duck\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/action-sports\/surf\/post\/duck-dive-5-easy-steps\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For beginners, paddling through the surf is one of the most arduous and challenging aspects of the sport. Think about it\u2014to get to where the waves are breaking, you have to fight your way through them. If there\u2019s a nice wide channel, no problem, but the majority of us surf beachbreaks where there\u2019s no clear-cut [&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-97707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97707","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=97707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97708,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97707\/revisions\/97708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}