{"id":1335,"date":"2008-08-04T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T16:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2008-08-04T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T19:00:37","slug":"brucie-wins-the-rip-curl-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"Brucie Wins The Rip Curl Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bilde-3.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bilde-3.jpeg','popup','width=298,height=199,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bilde-3-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bilde-3\" \/><\/a>If he was planning on waiting for his first win on the <strong>ASP WCT Tour<\/strong> Kaua&#8217;i&#8217;s <strong>Bruce Irons<\/strong> couldn&#8217;t have chosen a better event as he edged <strong>Fred Patacchia, Jr<\/strong>. in the finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of my goals when I joined the tour was to win an event and I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was going to happen since I&#8217;ll be stepping away after this season,&#8221; Irons said. &#8220;But the waves pumped this event. This is what the Dream Tour should be like all the time. I&#8217;m definitely stepping away from the ASP Tour at the end of this year, but I&#8217;m not retiring. I&#8217;m still planning on competing at Pipeline and Teahupoo and at venues that I can get into.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how different the results look when contests are held at new spots. For the record: <strong>Kelly Slater <\/strong>went out in the third round, but it still in the lead. Looks like Trestles is going to be a fun one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080804\/SPORTS10\/808040351\/1032\/SPORTSFRONT\" target=\"_blank\">Honolulu Advertiser<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If he was planning on waiting for his first win on the ASP WCT Tour Kaua&#8217;i&#8217;s Bruce Irons couldn&#8217;t have chosen a better event as he edged Fred Patacchia, Jr. in the finals. One of my goals when I joined the tour was to win an event and I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}