{"id":3148,"date":"2013-08-11T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T17:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2013-08-16T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T21:09:15","slug":"cross-stepping-success-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2013\/08\/cross-stepping-success-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross stepping success! :D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3149\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2013\/08\/cross-stepping-success-d\/2013-bo-08-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-BO-08-11.jpg?fit=2448%2C2448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2448,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1376219653&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00050709939148073&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2013-BO-08-11\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-BO-08-11.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-BO-08-11.jpg?fit=525%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-BO-08-11.jpg?resize=525%2C525\" alt=\"2013-BO-08-11\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-BO-08-11.jpg?w=2448&amp;ssl=1 2448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-BO-08-11.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-BO-08-11.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-BO-08-11.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-BO-08-11.jpg?w=1575 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surf: 3.0 ft at 10.8 s from the NW at 310\u00c2\u00b0. Incoming tide. Sideshore wind. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve neglected Bo this year. The forecast has been so small or the winds so high that I haven&#8217;t felt like making the haul. <\/p>\n<p>A couple of the girls wanted to give it a shot and needed a drive, so I agreed, despite the feeling that it might be flat.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, there was a bit of a wave at the patch that was perfect for my longboard practice (peeling, nice little wall, super low consequence but not total mush.) Plus sunshine, so much sunshine. Wow. <\/p>\n<p>The big highlight of the day was actually completing a full cross step up the board (4 whole steps!) without falling on my face. The waves were a little short so I didn&#8217;t get to walk back to center before I ran out of water, but it&#8217;s a huge improvement. I&#8217;ve never been able to get the second step in without losing my balance. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m super stoked!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf: 3.0 ft at 10.8 s from the NW at 310\u00c2\u00b0. Incoming tide. Sideshore wind. I&#8217;ve neglected Bo this year. The forecast has been so small or the winds so high that I haven&#8217;t felt like making the haul. A couple of the girls wanted to give it a shot and needed a drive, so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/2013\/08\/cross-stepping-success-d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cross stepping success! :D&#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":[49,5],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YKrJ-OM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148"}],"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=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traceythompson.com\/surfing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}