{"id":8960,"date":"2009-07-02T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T23:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2009-07-02T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T23:45:13","slug":"kelly-rides-a-board-that-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8960","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Rides A Board That Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/6617607.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/6617607.jpg','popup','width=751,height=502,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\/07\/6617607-tm.jpg\" height=\"287\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"6617607\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> actually made it out of a round 3 heat against Ben Dunn on one of his own boards in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspworldtour.com\/2009\/news_show.asp?rEvent=aspwct&amp;rcode=12785\">Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro<\/a><\/strong> (stop number four on the 2009 ASP WCT). According to the ASP press release it was a  &#8220;self-shaped, asymmetrical quad-fin.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI seem to be riding a new board every time I go for a surf,\u201d Slater said. \u201cThis one I just rode was an epoxy swallow-tail and seemed to go really well in these conditions. I\u2019ve spent the lay days hanging with some friends here in Brazil and having a few fun surfs around town. I\u2019ve pretty much just been cruising and testing out some equipment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reminds us of the old &#8220;million monkeys typing&#8221; bit. Eventually, something has to work, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfinglife.com.au\/news\/asl-news\/938-kelly-shakes-the-17th-place-monkey-off-his-back\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Surfing Life<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Slater actually made it out of a round 3 heat against Ben Dunn on one of his own boards in the Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro (stop number four on the 2009 ASP WCT). According to the ASP press release it was a &#8220;self-shaped, asymmetrical quad-fin.&#8221;. \u201cI seem to be riding a new board [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960"}],"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=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}