{"id":8569,"date":"2009-06-07T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2009-06-07T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T20:24:33","slug":"sup-surfings-economic-savior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8569","title":{"rendered":"SUP:  Surfing&#8217;s Economic Savior?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sup-0529.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sup-0529.jpg','popup','width=525,height=294,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\/2009\/06\/sup-0529-tm.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sup 0529\" \/><\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1901908,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> checks in on Stand-up Paddling and discovers that even though it is stupidly expensive, the sport is growing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s completely blown up in the past five years and every spring it just blows up even more,&#8221; says <strong>Jim Brewer<\/strong>, 45, a painting contractor who, in October 2008 and in spite of everyone calling him nuts, opened <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluelinepaddlesurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blueline Stand-Up Paddle Surf<\/a><\/strong> in Santa Barbara, Calif., the first fully dedicated SUP shop in the country. &#8220;We thought it was phasing out, but then we realized that it&#8217;s just beginning. It&#8217;s going mainstream.&#8221; . . . Three weeks ago, for instance, while regular surf shops around the country were struggling to stay afloat, Brewer&#8217;s store sold 16 boards \u2014 which start at about $1,500 \u2014 in one day. &#8220;If I had opened a surf shop eight months ago, we would have been out of business right now, no doubt,&#8221; he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems it&#8217;s always good to be in a market where the customer has more money than. . . well, let just say, more money than they need. And leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1901908,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine checks in on Stand-up Paddling and discovers that even though it is stupidly expensive, the sport is growing. &#8220;It&#8217;s completely blown up in the past five years and every spring it just blows up even more,&#8221; says Jim Brewer, 45, a painting contractor who, in October 2008 and in spite of everyone calling [&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\/8569"}],"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=8569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8569\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}