{"id":5357,"date":"2021-09-23T10:05:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2022-04-15T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T19:49:54","slug":"dicking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/dicking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Dicking About &#8211; Swelly Rock Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An easy training week coincided with spring tides and a little sunshine. A pleasant combination.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Swelly Rock wave in the Menai Straits, North Wales. Here the flood tide is squeezed through a narrow channel, increasing the flow speed. And as it runs over the top of the Swelly Rock a wave is formed, providing a great place for kayak surfing.<\/p>\n<p>The boat is &#8216;Pinky&#8217;, the oldest Rockpool Taran in my &#8216;fleet&#8217;, and my favourite.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iZ3ww3u_pfs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy training week coincided with spring tides and a little sunshine. A pleasant combination. This is the Swelly Rock wave in the Menai Straits, North Wales. Here the flood tide is squeezed through a narrow channel, increasing the flow speed. And as it runs over the top of the Swelly Rock a wave is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/dicking-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video &#8211; Dicking About &#8211; Swelly Rock Wave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,25],"tags":[68,63,37,39,35,62,67,38,40,36,65],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-menai-strait-paddling","category-videos","tag-anglesey","tag-john-willacy","tag-menai-straits","tag-performance-sea-kayak","tag-rockpool","tag-rockpool-kayaks","tag-sea-kayak","tag-surf","tag-swellies","tag-taran","tag-taran-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.performanceseakayak.co.uk\/Archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}