{"id":24293,"date":"2011-07-12T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T23:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24293"},"modified":"2011-07-12T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T23:31:31","slug":"the-end-of-paddling-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24293","title":{"rendered":"The End Of Paddling As We Know It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"452\" height=\"287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2CWgyLp1P4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, July 11, 2011 the crew from Santee, California based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wavejet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wavejet<\/a><\/strong> was at the Oceanside harbor showing off their new water jet powered longboards. Forget paddling with your arms, or standing and paddling with a paddle. Now we can all just flip the switch to on and let the surfboard do the paddling for us.<\/p>\n<p>If Wavejet really works (which is difficult to tell from the video) all those with physical limitations (and those too lazy or fat to paddle for more than a minute) will be able to catch waves no problem. We can&#8217;t wait until these things are zipping around the line-up dropping in outside the SUPers. Follow the jump for more photos.<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0933-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0933-1.jpg','popup','width=640,height=480,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\/2011\/07\/IMG_0933-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0933-1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Wavejet is built into the board and appears to fix inside a conventional longboard quite nicely.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0932.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_0932.jpg','popup','width=640,height=480,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\/2011\/07\/IMG_0932-tm.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Img 0932\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe intake and output is all based in this little insert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, July 11, 2011 the crew from Santee, California based Wavejet was at the Oceanside harbor showing off their new water jet powered longboards. Forget paddling with your arms, or standing and paddling with a paddle. Now we can all just flip the switch to on and let the surfboard do the paddling for [&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":[6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24294,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293\/revisions\/24294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}