{"id":5738,"date":"2009-02-26T07:33:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2009-02-26T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T15:36:01","slug":"kelly-riding-slatercrafts-at-snapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5738","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Riding Slatercrafts At Snapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/250-slater-narrowweb-300x3530.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/250-slater-narrowweb-300x3530.jpg','popup','width=300,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\/02\/250-slater-narrowweb-300x3530-tm.jpg\" height=\"235\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"250 Slater Narrowweb  300X353,0\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve heard rumors that <strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> has been spending a lot of time at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisurfboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Channel Islands&#8217;<\/a><\/strong> headquarters lately and we&#8217;re beginning to understand why: he was shaping a new quiver for his campaign for number 10, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/news\/sport\/experimental-slater-the-shape-of-things-to-come\/2009\/02\/26\/1235237826308.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m in experimental mode right now. I bought a bunch of boards that I&#8217;ve actually shaped. Little boards. I&#8217;ve been riding some four-fins. I think I&#8217;ve found something for me that feels really good, really fast and responsive with a lot of drive,&#8221; Slater said. . . .&#8221;Hopefully I can feel confident enough on those boards to ride them. If not, I can use the equipment I&#8217;ve been on for my whole career.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilverpro.com.au\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Quiksilver Pro<\/a><\/strong> starts at Snapper Rocks on Saturday (which is tomorrow in Australia) so we&#8217;ll all know soon enough if these new boards work, or if they&#8217;re just more mojo from the master of mystery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/news\/sport\/experimental-slater-the-shape-of-things-to-come\/2009\/02\/26\/1235237826308.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve heard rumors that Kelly Slater has been spending a lot of time at Channel Islands&#8217; headquarters lately and we&#8217;re beginning to understand why: he was shaping a new quiver for his campaign for number 10, according to a story in the Brisbane Times. &#8220;I&#8217;m in experimental mode right now. I bought a bunch of [&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":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738"}],"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=5738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5740,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}