{"id":13887,"date":"2019-02-18T11:48:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T04:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/oxbow-asp-world-longboard-champion-decided-at-makaha\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T04:48:45","slug":"oxbow-asp-world-longboard-champion-decided-at-makaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/2019\/02\/18\/oxbow-asp-world-longboard-champion-decided-at-makaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxbow ASP World Longboard Champion Decided at Makaha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxbow ASP World Longboard Champion Decided at Makaha<\/p>\n

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\nPictured: Taylor Jensen (USA), 27, is a top seed in this year’s Oxbow ASP World Longboard Championships. <\/p>\n

MAKAHA, Oahu\/Hawaii (Wednesday, October 27, 2010) \u2013 The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Oxbow ASP World Longboard Championships is headed to Makaha on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu from October 30th through November 7th, 2010 to decide this year\u2019s men\u2019s ASP World Longboard Champion.<\/p>\n

The Oxbow ASP World Longboard Championships will see an assemblage of the world\u2019s finest competitive longboarding talent flock to Oahu\u2019s west-coast the with winner taking this year’s ASP World Longboard Title.Kai Sallas (Waikiki, HI), 29, who enters the Makaha event as the No. 2 seed on his native island, is out to capitalize on his familiarity of the wave and the comfort of competing at home to post an impressive result over the international competition in front of his home crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s always nice to compete in the comfort of your own home,\u201d Sallas said. \u201cYou get to sleep in your own bed, eat food that you’re used to unlike foreign countries, and of course the big advantage is just knowing the wave more than the guys from around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sallas, who won the last Oxbow ASP WLT event in the Maldives last year, enters the Oxbow ASP World Longboard Championships with a growing confidence from his last win and the gained experience of the tricky man-on-man format, but still feels pressure to perform at one of his local breaks.<\/p>\n

I Kind of feel a bit of pressure entering this event as the top Hawaiian,\u201d Sallas said. \u201cI really want to do well in this event, but as the top rated Hawaiian I also feel more confident this year then I have in past WLT events. I’ve never had much man on man experience. I learned a lot from last year\u2019s win.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the comfort of competing on Oahu, Sallas also feels that the wave at Makaha suits his polished style.<\/p>\n

\u201cI surf Makaha quite a bit,\u201d Sallas said. \u201cI love that wave and I think it’s a great wave for longboarding. It’s a long wave that isn’t hollow but still gives you a lot of speed to work with. It isn’t too fast down the line either which allows you to do really big drawn out turns. Especially round house cut backs which I feel are one of my strongest maneuvers.\u201d<\/p>\n

For live scores, photos, info and more on the Oxbow ASP World Longboard Championships log on to http:\/\/www.oxbowavesliders.com\/<\/p>\n

For additional ASP information log on to www.aspworldtour.com or www.aspnorthamerica.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oxbow ASP World Longboard Champion Decided at Makaha Pictured: Taylor Jensen (USA), 27, is a top seed in this year’s Oxbow ASP World Longboard Championships. MAKAHA, Oahu\/Hawaii (Wednesday, October 27, 2010) \u2013 The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Oxbow ASP World Longboard Championships is headed to Makaha on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu from October … Continue reading “Oxbow ASP World Longboard Champion Decided at Makaha”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-13887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asp-surfing-news","tag-surfing-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saltwater-dreaming.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}