{"id":1931,"date":"2008-09-23T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2008-09-23T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T19:59:08","slug":"the-battle-of-sup-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of SUP Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/picture1-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/picture1-1.jpg','popup','width=607,height=320,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\/09\/picture1-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"226\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Picture1-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/backstory\/2008\/09\/23\/battle-of-the-boards-erupts-over-paddle-surfing\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Christian Science Monitor <\/a><\/em><\/strong>is paddling into the &#8220;battle of the boards&#8221; as things heat up at the &#8216;Bu thanks to stand up paddlers invading the lineups. And who is the go-to guy for all thing SUP? San Diego surf talk radio host <strong>Scott Bass<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;SUP is a throwback to what true watermen all aspired to do, and once you try it, you&#8217;re instantly hooked,&#8221; says Scott Bass, a San Diego surf talk radio host. &#8220;But it&#8217;s also a curse.&#8221; . . . Mr. Bass, who prefers stand-up surfing when the waves aren&#8217;t big enough for shortboarding, says SUP is like having too much of a good thing. . . . &#8220;People see stand-up riders catching waves and suddenly they&#8217;re everyone&#8217;s enemy,&#8221; he says. &#8220;There are some beaches where there&#8217;s such a negative vibe that stand-up surfers don&#8217;t even step foot in the water.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s true. Malibu City Councilman <strong>Jefferson Wagner<\/strong> thinks they should be banned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Stand-up paddle boarders should be banned from the surf zone,&#8221; says Mr. Wagner, who owns <strong>Zuma Jay<\/strong>, a surf shop that is a Malibu icon. &#8220;SUPs are too large and bulky for a person to control around other people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the rest of what&#8217;s SUP, click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/backstory\/2008\/09\/23\/battle-of-the-boards-erupts-over-paddle-surfing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor is paddling into the &#8220;battle of the boards&#8221; as things heat up at the &#8216;Bu thanks to stand up paddlers invading the lineups. And who is the go-to guy for all thing SUP? San Diego surf talk radio host Scott Bass. &#8220;SUP is a throwback to what true watermen all aspired [&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\/1931"}],"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=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}