{"id":268,"date":"2008-04-30T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-07-07T23:32:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T21:32:28","slug":"wavejunkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/personal-columns\/wavejunkies\/","title":{"rendered":"Wavejunkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my trip in Western Australia I noticed with pleasure that kitesurfing after many years of being regarded as \u2018gay\u2019 amongst surfers, suddenly is the coolest, most trendy thing to do &#8230; niiiice!!  Yeah, I also was thrilled meeting big-wave charger Damon Eastaugh, Winner of the Oakley-Big Wave Awards and his tow-partner Courtney Gray, who both are totally frothing on learning to kitesurf these days and can\u2019t wait to tow themselves with the help of a kite into the monster waves of the west coast.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah sweet&#8230;one of the sweetest experiences, though, for me back there in Western Australia was when I gave tow-in surfing a shot &#8230; siiiick feeling, got totally hooked, can&#8217;t wait for my next go at it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my trip in Western Australia I noticed with pleasure that kitesurfing after many years of being regarded as \u2018gay\u2019 amongst surfers, suddenly is the coolest, most trendy thing to do &#8230; niiiice!! Yeah, I also was thrilled meeting big-wave charger Damon Eastaugh, Winner of the Oakley-Big Wave Awards and his tow-partner Courtney Gray, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,46],"tags":[41,60,62,72,73,44,61,43,42],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-columns","category-various","tag-australia","tag-courtney-gray","tag-damon-eastaugh","tag-kite-the-planet","tag-kiteboardingde","tag-oakley-big-wave-awards","tag-russell-ord","tag-tow-in-surfing","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}