{"id":22066,"date":"2011-03-09T22:05:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T06:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22066"},"modified":"2011-03-09T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T06:20:17","slug":"volcom-awards-zoltans-flip-10000-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22066","title":{"rendered":"Volcom Awards Zoltan&#8217;s Flip $10,000 After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/zoltan600-11.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/zoltan600-11.jpg','popup','width=600,height=362,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\/2011\/03\/zoltan600-1-tm1.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Zoltan600-1\" \/><\/a>The pressure from the world surfing community appears to have paid off. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volcom<\/a><\/strong> has now announced that they have <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21930\" target=\"_blank\">flip-flopped on their original ruling<\/a><\/strong> and <em>will <\/em>pay Santa Cruz\u2019s <strong>Zoltan Torkos<\/strong> the $10,000 for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21843\" target=\"_blank\">his kickflip<\/a><\/strong>. Not only that, they are now upping the award on the first high performance, above-the-lip kickflip to $20,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After further review Volcom has decided to reward Zoltan the $10K for his groundbreaking maneuver, and at the same time redefine the rules and double the prize money on the elusive &#8220;above and off the lip kickflip&#8221; now worth $20,000. . . &#8220;We really want to celebrate Zoltan&#8217;s successful kickflip, and continue to push the concept of futuristic surfing. Zoltan was the first and we feel shouldn&#8217;t be the last,&#8221; said Volcom&#8217;s Director of Surfing, <strong>Mike Guarino<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice. We kind of figured they&#8217;d come around. Volcom will release a video later this week that outlines the new kickflip competition more clearly defined rules. Looks like Zoltan has the chance to double down as he&#8217;s obviously already the closest surfer to the next $20,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pressure from the world surfing community appears to have paid off. Volcom has now announced that they have flip-flopped on their original ruling and will pay Santa Cruz\u2019s Zoltan Torkos the $10,000 for his kickflip. Not only that, they are now upping the award on the first high performance, above-the-lip kickflip to $20,000. After [&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\/22066"}],"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=22066"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22073,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22066\/revisions\/22073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}