{"id":3139,"date":"2008-12-11T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T17:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2008-12-11T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T17:03:59","slug":"louie-vito-gets-up-in-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"Louie Vito Gets Up In USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/vitox-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/vitox-1.jpg','popup','width=245,height=290,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\/vitox-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"236\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Vitox-1\" \/><\/a>The nations newspaper gets the details on how snowboarder <strong>Louie Vito<\/strong> added two feet of sprokage to his halfpipe runs. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Louie just needs 2 more feet.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t a comment on how much bigger he needed to grow (now 20, he stands 5-5). It was an assessment of how much bigger he needed to go \u2014 off the lip of a snowboard halfpipe. . . The Ohio native had all the flips, turns and style to be one of the best at negotiating the slick troughs that serve as snowboarders&#8217; playing fields. He just needed more height on his tricks \u2014 amplitude, in snowboarder-speak \u2014 to win the judges&#8217; highest marks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now it looks like he&#8217;s done it. The secret: &#8220;a no-holding-back start for optimum speed.&#8221; Ah, yes. Speed. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/olympics\/2008-12-10-snowboard-vito_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nations newspaper gets the details on how snowboarder Louie Vito added two feet of sprokage to his halfpipe runs. Louie just needs 2 more feet.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t a comment on how much bigger he needed to grow (now 20, he stands 5-5). It was an assessment of how much bigger he needed to go [&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\/3139"}],"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=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3140,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}