{"id":3119,"date":"2008-12-11T08:27:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2008-12-11T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T16:27:44","slug":"snap-together-surfboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3119","title":{"rendered":"Snap-Together Surfboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/surfboard-wideweb-470x3130.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/surfboard-wideweb-470x3130.jpg','popup','width=470,height=313,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\/12\/surfboard-wideweb-470x3130-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfboard Wideweb  470X313,0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jared Smith<\/strong>, a 19-year-old surfer from Australia thought it might be nice to have a quiver without having a quiver. So he designed a surfboard which snap-out switchable tails.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Using a 20-cent coin, the surfer can unscrew the joint at about a third of the board&#8217;s length and connect a different tail to suit the break. . . . Mr Smith&#8217;s board earned the Best Potential for Commercialisation award at an exhibition of HSC Design and Technology projects for 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the Chinese company <strong>Headside Surf Gears<\/strong> has &#8220;expressed interest&#8221; in making the boards for Smith, he would much rather license the technology to a company like <strong>Billabong<\/strong> or <strong>Rip Curl<\/strong> and &#8220;get paid royalties.&#8221; Sadly, we&#8217;re going to bet that never happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/enterprising-young-surfer-has-a-retail-brainwave\/2008\/12\/11\/1228585025710.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Smith, a 19-year-old surfer from Australia thought it might be nice to have a quiver without having a quiver. So he designed a surfboard which snap-out switchable tails. Using a 20-cent coin, the surfer can unscrew the joint at about a third of the board&#8217;s length and connect a different tail to suit the [&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\/3119"}],"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=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}