{"id":53500,"date":"2019-01-17T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T23:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53500"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T23:39:42","slug":"the-action-sports-world-according-to-sal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53500","title":{"rendered":"The Action Sports Announcing Life With Sal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53501\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/masekela_sal_outside-450x257.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/masekela_sal_outside-450x257.png 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/masekela_sal_outside-200x114.png 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/masekela_sal_outside-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/masekela_sal_outside-1024x586.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/masekela_sal_outside.png 1135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=sal+masekela\"><strong>Sal Masekela<\/strong><\/a> has come a long way since we first met him in the water at our home break. He was paddling out we were coming at him on a wave. And he started laughing his deep, infectious chuckle, &#8220;That&#8217;s the slowest I&#8217;ve ever seen anyone surf in my life.&#8221; We took it as a compliment. Then, he reappeared as receptionist at <strong>Transworld Media<\/strong>, then singing karaoke at an industry conference. Next thing we knew he was the voice of action sports. And he was exactly what mainstream action sports coverage needed &#8212; a surfer\/snowboarder who could think, talk, and hold a mic all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2380521\/unlikely-preacher-action-sports-sal-masekela\"><em><strong>Outside Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> just posted the official Selma story written by <strong>David Shultz<\/strong>. It&#8217;s titled <em>Unlikely Preacher of Action Sports<\/em> and it goes a little more like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sal Masekela steps off a helicopter onto the white sands of Tavarua Island Resort, a tiny speck in the Fiji archipelago, and walks into a gorgeous open-air restaurant that overlooks a world-famous reef break appropriately dubbed Restaurants. He greets the Fijian staff by name, hugging them, asking them about their lives since his last visit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn. Still a baller after all these years. For the rest of the celebrity profile\/career reset piece please, by all means, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2380521\/unlikely-preacher-action-sports-sal-masekela\"><strong>click the link<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2380521\/unlikely-preacher-action-sports-sal-masekela\">Outside Magazine<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sal Masekela has come a long way since we first met him in the water at our home break. He was paddling out we were coming at him on a wave. And he started laughing his deep, infectious chuckle, &#8220;That&#8217;s the slowest I&#8217;ve ever seen anyone surf in my life.&#8221; We took it as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500"}],"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=53500"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53507,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53500\/revisions\/53507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}