{"id":136,"date":"2008-01-03T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-01-03T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T16:31:12","slug":"two-man-snowboard-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Two-Man Snowboard Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steve Klassen<\/strong> and his brother had a &#8220;tandom board&#8221; back in the day, but now <strong>Butch Brady <\/strong>and <strong>Eric Sweet<\/strong>, a pair of snowboarders from Jackson Hole, may have ridden a snowboard built for two into the <strong>Guinness Book of World Records<\/strong> for the longest snowboard.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It seemed initially like going down a mountain in a canoe without a paddle, but after taking a few runs, a light went on,&#8221; Sweet said. &#8220;You&#8217;re splitting the duties, so it feels like a marriage. You give up half of the control, and if it&#8217;s a good one you don&#8217;t crash.&#8221; . . . The snowboard, called the &#8220;XJ-13,&#8221; is 9 feet, 7 inches long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow we&#8217;re more comfortable with these kinds of boards being ridden by brothers. You know?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5ilwLA1Xaokeq9u3dyvSORcHZncXgD8TTVT800\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Klassen and his brother had a &#8220;tandom board&#8221; back in the day, but now Butch Brady and Eric Sweet, a pair of snowboarders from Jackson Hole, may have ridden a snowboard built for two into the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest snowboard. &#8220;It seemed initially like going down a mountain in [&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":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}