{"id":9837,"date":"2013-04-29T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T05:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=9837"},"modified":"2013-05-01T11:31:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T06:01:13","slug":"trivandrum-to-host-surfing-and-sup-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrum-to-host-surfing-and-sup-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum to host India&#8217;s 1st Surfing and SUP competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun kissed <a title=\"Kovalam \u2013 The Paradise Found\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/kovalam-the-paradise-found\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kovalam Beach<\/a> will soon become the venue of an exciting festival as the Surfing Federation of India (SFI) will be hosting the<strong> india&#8217;s first official Surfing and SUP competition<\/strong>. The <strong>Spice Coast Open\u00a0<\/strong>will take place from <strong>May 2nd to May 5th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Also Read:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Kovalam Samudra Beach to undergo renovation\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/kovalam-samudra-beach-to-undergo-renovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kovalam Samudra Beach to undergo renovation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Varkala and Kovalam listed in the \u2018Top 25 beaches in Asia\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/varkala-and-kovalam-listed-in-the-top-25-beaches-in-asia-by-trip-advisor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Varkala and Kovalam listed in the \u2018Top 25 beaches in Asia\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The best time of the year to hold surfing competition and other surfing related events is around May, just before the onset of monsoons. Jonty Rhodes the surfing ambassador of SFI will be attending Spice Coast Open.<\/p>\n<p>It is a perfect getaway for people who love sand, sea and surfing. Indian surfers, from states along India&#8217;s long coastline, will come together to take part in three-day festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to encourage oneness among all types of surfers and coerce them to become change makers. The<strong> India Surf Festival<\/strong> promotes wholesome surf culture in India with a mission to take water sports to a new level through SUP as a sustainable alternative towards building an eco-friendly adventure,\u201d said Sanjay Samantaray one of the men behind the India Surf Festival.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Shanghumugham Beach \u2013 Run your toes through the sand\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/shanghumugham-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shanghumugham Beach \u2013 Run your toes through the sand<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All participants should bring their original ID documents (Passport, Ration Card, Voters ID) to the event to be verified by SFI officials. Holders of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) and Person of Indian Origin (PIO) are not allowed to participate under local categories and are limited to open categories only. SFI will provide fee food and accommodation for registered participants, starting from 2nd of May till 5th of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun kissed Kovalam Beach will soon become the venue of an exciting festival as the Surfing Federation of India (SFI) will be hosting the india&#8217;s first official Surfing and SUP competition. The Spice Coast Open\u00a0will take place from May 2nd to May 5th. Also Read: Kovalam Samudra Beach to undergo renovation Varkala and Kovalam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[88,452],"class_list":["post-9837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-kovalam","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}