{"id":1702,"date":"2011-09-22T07:44:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T14:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2011-10-23T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T17:58:22","slug":"no-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2011\/09\/no-wax\/","title":{"rendered":"No Wax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LM-09-22-11.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1724\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2011\/09\/no-wax\/lm-09-22-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LM-09-22-11.jpg?fit=612%2C612&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"612,612\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LM-09-22-11\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LM-09-22-11.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LM-09-22-11.jpg?fit=525%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LM-09-22-11.jpg?resize=525%2C525\" alt=\"\" title=\"LM-09-22-11\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LM-09-22-11.jpg?w=612&amp;ssl=1 612w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LM-09-22-11.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LM-09-22-11.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surf: Thigh to Waist high. Clean. Slow. <\/p>\n<p>My 7&#8217;0 is in the shop, and my 9&#8217;4 had a ding I&#8217;ve been meaning to repair. With new swell supposedly on it&#8217;s way, I grabbed my 9&#8217;0 and headed down to the beach. <\/p>\n<p>As I unzipped my bag, I had the sinking realization that before I&#8217;d sent the 9&#8242; to Alex for a bunch of work I had stripped all the wax. Stripped all the wax and not put any back on. <\/p>\n<p>Crap.<\/p>\n<p>I found myself standing in the lot with a very smooth and shiny board gleaming back at me. There was no way I was going to turn around and head home. I dug half a bar of wax out of my bag and spread that little lump of wax as thin as I could trying to cover the board. <\/p>\n<p>I wore the wax down to a tiny tiny nub, but it worked. <\/p>\n<p>The first half of the session the tide was too high and things were slow and plodding. The second half, things picked up. Kinda fun to see what I&#8217;ve started to learn on the quad translating to a try fin. I managed a few tighter cutbacks digging in.<\/p>\n<p>Not an epic day for sure, but happy to have made it work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf: Thigh to Waist high. Clean. Slow. My 7&#8217;0 is in the shop, and my 9&#8217;4 had a ding I&#8217;ve been meaning to repair. With new swell supposedly on it&#8217;s way, I grabbed my 9&#8217;0 and headed down to the beach. As I unzipped my bag, I had the sinking realization that before I&#8217;d sent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2011\/09\/no-wax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Wax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,36,58,6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-rs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}