{"id":20610,"date":"2015-06-28T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20610"},"modified":"2015-06-28T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T05:40:09","slug":"july-stand-up-paddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/july-stand-up-paddles\/","title":{"rendered":"July Stand Up Paddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/julracz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-standup-paddle-races.html\">SUP\u00a0races and events<\/a>\u00a0offer great adventures, exercise and a little competition to get your heart pumping. \u00a0 If you live near or can visit a body of water where SUP board rentals are available you can give the sport a try before diving head first into the expense\u00a0of purchasing the basic equipment. \u00a0Though the sport requires a lot less gear\u00a0than many other\u00a0sports, you will need a board, paddles and in most areas a personal flotation device (PFD), as the US Coast Guard classifies stand up paddle boards as vessels (when used outside the narrow limits of swimming or surfing areas), so it is required that you wear a PFD.<\/p>\n<p>Here are several\u00a0fun events in California this July:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NEWPORT BEACH: NAC Friday Night Brights Races on Friday, July 3, 2015\u00a0in Newport Harbor. Paddlers must wear red, white and blue to this race!\u00a0paddleguru.com<\/li>\n<li>TIBURON July 11, 2015 \u00a0Tiburon Waterfront SUP Race &#8211; desolationoutdoors.com<\/li>\n<li>BIG BEAR LAKE: \u00a0Big Bear PaddleFest\u00a0July 18, 2015 at the lake &#8211; bigbearpaddlefest.com<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Love Long Beach SUP Race \u00a0July 18, 2015 at Granada Beach, part of the LOVE Long Beach Festival, \u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Open Ocean Paddle &#8211; AlfredosBeachClub.com<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUP\u00a0races and events\u00a0offer great adventures, exercise and a little competition to get your heart pumping. \u00a0 If you live near or can visit a body of water where SUP board rentals are available you can give the sport a try before diving head first into the expense\u00a0of purchasing the basic equipment. \u00a0Though the sport requires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}