{"id":14788,"date":"2016-08-11T21:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T21:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theperfectwave.com.au\/blog\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2016-08-11T21:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T21:30:58","slug":"watch-taj-burrow-shane-dorian-machado-jamie-o-and-other-pros-ripping-at-sultans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/magazine\/maldives\/watch-taj-burrow-shane-dorian-machado-jamie-o-and-other-pros-ripping-at-sultans\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Taj Burrow, Shane Dorian, Machado, Jamie O and other pros Ripping At Sultans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 my-3\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cj9RtsC-W9U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"> height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Every year some of the world\u2019s best former touring pros gather in the Maldives for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/surf-trips\/maldives\/north-south-male-atolls\/four-seasons-resort-maldives-kuda-huraa\"><strong>The Four Seasons Resorts<\/strong><\/a> Maldives Champions Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>This year Taj Burrow, Shane Dorian, Rob Machado, Jamie O and Bethany Hamilton are among the invitees.<\/p>\n<p>It is a super cool event whereby surfers compete on single fins, twinnies and thrusters in the beautiful, sometimes hollow walls at <em>Sultans<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Competition in the single fin event got underway yesterday in pumping 3 to 4 foot clean right-handers at Sultans.<\/p>\n<p>Burrow, who had never ridden a single fin before yesterday\u2019s comp, won in stylish fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Burrow came up against former Pipe Master Rob Machado in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Taj came out on top.<\/p>\n<p>Burrow said. <em>\u201cThat was just so much fun, the waves are sick and my board felt really good. It\u2019s a bit bigger than what I\u2019m used to but you could really push it through turns. I\u2019m just having such a sick time here on Kuda Huraa we\u2019re all being so spoiled.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/surf-trips\/enquire\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/images\/en-GB\/enquire-online.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"66\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/66;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/images\/en-GB\/enquire-online.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"66\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14789 lazyload\" alt=\"hp-taj\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hp-taj.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"210\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/210;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14789\" alt=\"hp-taj\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hp-taj.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"210\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14790 lazyload\" alt=\"machado-homepage\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/machado-homepage.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"208\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/208;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14790\" alt=\"machado-homepage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/machado-homepage.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"208\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>height=&#8221;360&#8243; width=&#8221;640&#8243; allowfullscreen=&#8221;&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243;> Every year some of the world\u2019s best former touring pros gather in the Maldives for The Four Seasons Resorts Maldives Champions Trophy. This year Taj Burrow, Shane Dorian, Rob Machado, Jamie O and Bethany Hamilton are among the invitees. It is a super cool event whereby surfers compete on single fins,<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/magazine\/maldives\/watch-taj-burrow-shane-dorian-machado-jamie-o-and-other-pros-ripping-at-sultans\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,178,63],"tags":[439,256,251,440,412,441],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}