{"id":180258,"date":"2014-09-26T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=180258"},"modified":"2014-09-26T04:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T18:00:55","slug":"40-join-asia-flow-series-pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/40-join-asia-flow-series-pic\/","title":{"rendered":"40 to join Asia Flow Series at PIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_180263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180263\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"180263\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/picpix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/picpix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A local rider practices for this weekend\u2019s 2014 Asia Flow Series at the Pacific Islands Club. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180263\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A local rider practices for this weekend\u2019s 2014 Asia Flow Series at the Pacific Islands Club. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOrganizers of the 2014 Asia Flow Series will be pushing through with this weekend\u2019s tournament where 25 off-island competitors will be challenging 15 local riders.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Islands Club (PIC)-Saipan Sports, Entertainment and Activities director Glenn Policare said rains wouldn\u2019t stop Friday\u2019s preliminary round that will stretch to Saturday\u2019s finals. The qualifying round begins at 5pm, while the final day of the weekend tournament will be held from 9am to 6pm. The 25 off-island competitors are from Japan and Korea. This will be the fourth leg of the Asia Flow Series with the winners earning berths to the regional finals in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Policare said that some of the riders trained for more than a year for this event.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s men\u2019s flowboard champion Dan Westphal, runner-up Keoni Ichihara, and 2013 men\u2019s pro and men\u2019s open bodyboard titlists Ray Babauta and Francis Hartman are among the top local riders who are expected to win in their respective divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Westphal and Ichihara will be carrying the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands\u2019 flag in the 2014 Series Finals set from Oct. 3 to 4 in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the Series Finals in Thailand will earn the right of representing the Asia-Pacific region to the Flowrider World Championships later this year at the Yas Waterworld in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Policare said they are expecting all participants to bring out their best form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpect the participants to do rodeos, lazy 3s, kickflips, shuvits, backside AL\u2019s, fast plants and a long list of other tricks performed at the highest level,\u201d Policare said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Policare at 237-5148 or email him at glenn.policare@picsaipan.com. (Jon Perez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers of the 2014 Asia Flow Series will be pushing through with this weekend\u2019s tournament&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":180263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[170,159,409,269],"class_list":["post-180258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-japan","tag-pacific-islands-club","tag-pic","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}