{"id":1852,"date":"2012-02-06T07:38:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2012-02-06T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T06:04:10","slug":"74-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2012\/02\/74-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"7&#8217;4 practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-LM-02-06.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1855\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2012\/02\/74-practice\/2012-lm-02-06\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-LM-02-06.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,640\" 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=\"2012-LM-02-06\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-LM-02-06.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-LM-02-06.jpg?fit=525%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-LM-02-06.jpg?resize=525%2C525\" alt=\"\" title=\"2012-LM-02-06\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-LM-02-06.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-LM-02-06.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-LM-02-06.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surf: Small, clean, and a little peaky. WNW 6.9 ft @ 12.9 sec<\/p>\n<p>The winter swells have been swinging wildly from huge to teeny. The buoys were looking medium-ish so I pulled out the 7&#8217;4 for more practice. <\/p>\n<p>Rolling up to the beach&#8230;it was nearly flat. Crap. I put my doubts aside and paddled out. <\/p>\n<p>While today would have been pretty fun on a log, it was still fun on the 7&#8217;4. I got a handfull of waves and several successful dives. Yay! No wobbling! <\/p>\n<p>I still need plenty of work, but I&#8217;m satisfied. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually a little surprised this narrow 7&#8217;4 is working better for me that the 7&#8217;0 stub. While narrow, it&#8217;s really full out to the rails and a little thicker than my 7&#8242;. The extra rocker is probably helping in Linda Mar closeouts. Either way, having fun figuring it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf: Small, clean, and a little peaky. WNW 6.9 ft @ 12.9 sec The winter swells have been swinging wildly from huge to teeny. The buoys were looking medium-ish so I pulled out the 7&#8217;4 for more practice. Rolling up to the beach&#8230;it was nearly flat. Crap. I put my doubts aside and paddled out. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2012\/02\/74-practice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;7&#8217;4 practice&#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":[21,5,36,58,6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-tS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852"}],"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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}