{"id":891,"date":"2008-06-07T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T15:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=891"},"modified":"2008-06-10T07:41:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T15:41:26","slug":"bobby-martinez-leaves-channel-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Martinez Leaves Channel Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/martinez.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/martinez.jpg','popup','width=616,height=406,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\/06\/martinez-tm.jpg\" height=\"283\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Martinez\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since <strong>Al Merrick<\/strong> sold <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisurfboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Channel Islands Surfboards<\/a><\/strong> to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Burton Carpenter<\/a><\/strong>,  Santa Barbara&#8217;s &#8220;biggest and brightest&#8221; surfer Bobby Martinez has been &#8220;less than thrilled&#8221; according to the Santa Barbara Independent. Now he has official  left the company to join Australia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basesurfboards.com\/boards-dhd.htm\" target=\"_blank\">DHD<\/a><\/strong> label<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . this spring, after test-driving some of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basesurfboards.com\/boards-dhd.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Handley&#8217;s DHD<\/a><\/strong> shapes during the Australian leg of the WCT, Martinez became an official convert. In a statement announcing the arrival of his newest team member, Handley said, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t one of those million-dollar deals that you read about&#8230;We just felt we were heading in the same direction, things clicked, and it just made sense.&#8221; Not only did Martinez ride a DHD board to a third place finish at the Bell&#8217;s Beach event in April along the south coast of Oz, but both the Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s 2007 World Champions, <strong>Mick Fanning<\/strong> and <strong>Stephanie Gilmore<\/strong>, also ride for Handley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe one Kelly Slater is enough for Burton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.com\/news\/2008\/jun\/07\/bobby-martinez-trades-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Barbara Independent<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Al Merrick sold Channel Islands Surfboards to Jake Burton Carpenter, Santa Barbara&#8217;s &#8220;biggest and brightest&#8221; surfer Bobby Martinez has been &#8220;less than thrilled&#8221; according to the Santa Barbara Independent. Now he has official left the company to join Australia&#8217;s DHD label . . . this spring, after test-driving some of Darren Handley&#8217;s DHD [&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\/891"}],"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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}