{"id":9662,"date":"2009-08-05T16:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T23:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9662"},"modified":"2009-08-05T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T23:43:09","slug":"all-hail-the-costco-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9662","title":{"rendered":"All Hail The Costco Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/costco-470.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/costco-470.jpg','popup','width=470,height=353,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\/08\/costco-470-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Costco 470\" \/><\/a>On his blog <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadventurelife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Adventure Life<\/a><\/strong><strong> Steve Casimiro<\/strong>, the former editor of <strong><em>Powder <\/em><\/strong>magazine and now West Coast Editor of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/adventure.nationalgeographic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic Adventure<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, has written an essay on how wonderful it is that so many people are out in the line up on $100 <strong>Costco<\/strong> surfboards.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, for a fraction of what you\u2019d spend sending your kid to a surfing camp, you can have a board on call. Because they\u2019re cheap and ultra-durable, you don\u2019t have to worry about them getting lost, stolen, or damaged (my sister in law lost hers off the roof of her car on the freeway\u2014it didn\u2019t get a scratch). Even for adults, too, the Costco board is a great option for learning\u2013though not a true longboard, it\u2019s plenty long enough to get you in and on a wave. And if you discover surfing isn\u2019t your thing, so what\u2013it\u2019s only a hundred bucks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can&#8217;t say we disagree, actually. Follow the link for the rest of Steve&#8217;s logic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadventurelife.org\/2009\/08\/costco-sparks-a-surfing-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Adventure Life<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his blog The Adventure Life Steve Casimiro, the former editor of Powder magazine and now West Coast Editor of National Geographic Adventure, has written an essay on how wonderful it is that so many people are out in the line up on $100 Costco surfboards. Now, for a fraction of what you\u2019d spend sending [&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\/9662"}],"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=9662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9664,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions\/9664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}