{"id":1356,"date":"2008-08-12T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2008-08-12T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T21:00:42","slug":"twiggy-and-long-land-an-sa-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"Twiggy And Long Land An SA Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like <strong>Grant &#8220;Twiggy&#8221; Baker<\/strong> and <strong>Greg Long<\/strong> may have landed an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabongxxl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">XXL<\/a><\/strong> monster while out Saturday, August 9, 2008 about a kilometre outside Dungeons in South Africa&#8217;s Hout Bay.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The waves were definitely the biggest I&#8217;ve ever seen in South Africa and possibly the biggest anywhere,&#8221; Baker said. &#8220;Greg towed me into one giant wave that was so big I was terrified and started hyper-ventilating. . . .  Later, when we saw the photos taken by <strong>Craig Kolesky<\/strong> with a large lens from Chapman&#8217;s Peak, we realised that those were possibly the biggest waves ever recorded, on a par with the rides we had a Cortes Bank in January which were measured at well over 70 feet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess we won&#8217;t know until <strong>Bill Sharp<\/strong> gets out his ruler.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/News24\/Sport\/More_Sport\/0,,2-9-32_2374677,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Grant &#8220;Twiggy&#8221; Baker and Greg Long may have landed an XXL monster while out Saturday, August 9, 2008 about a kilometre outside Dungeons in South Africa&#8217;s Hout Bay. &#8220;The waves were definitely the biggest I&#8217;ve ever seen in South Africa and possibly the biggest anywhere,&#8221; Baker said. &#8220;Greg towed me into one giant [&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\/1356"}],"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=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}