{"id":284408,"date":"2018-09-13T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=284408"},"modified":"2018-09-13T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T20:00:58","slug":"pic-hosts-2018-asia-flow-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pic-hosts-2018-asia-flow-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"PIC hosts 2018 Asia Flow Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_284409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284409\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/picpix-300x200.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-284409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young participant in last year\u2019s PIC Point Break Championships shows some moves at Pacific Islands Club Saipan\u2019s Point Break facility. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PIC Saipan will be hosting the 2018 Asia Flow Tour and 12th PIC Point Break Championships this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Competitors are from Japan, Korea, Russia, and Germany, while local riders are also joining the event. Preliminary matches will start this Friday at 5:30pm, while Saturday will be the main event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still welcoming more people to join in.  We have different categories for riders from beginners to pros.  It would be a great opportunity to come in and just have a blast.  Come out and watch riders perform skateboarding- type tricks and acrobatic tricks on the boogie board and stand up boards on PIC\u2019s artificial wave machine, Point Break,\u201d PIC Saipan Sports and Events manager Keoni Ichihara.<\/p>\n<p>This years\u2019 event is sponsored by Pacific Trading Company, Bridge Capital,  E-Land, Kensington Hotel, Coral Ocean Golf Resort, Marianas Visitors Authority, 670 Rock Steady (Magas), Kanoa Resort, Fiesta Resort, Triple J Wholesale, T-Galleria, and Saipan Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Cash prizes, trophies, and other prizes from the event sponsors await the winners.  Limited edition shirts and lunch  will also be provided to participants this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Entry fee is $50 for pro divisions, $20 for Grometts 11 and under, and $30 for all other divisions.  Entry forms can be found at the PIC Front Desk. For more inquiries, call 237-5174 or email at keoni.ichihara@picsaipan.com. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIC Saipan will be hosting the 2018 Asia Flow Tour and 12th PIC Point Break&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":284409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2943,1098,7154,22646],"class_list":["post-284408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bridge-capital","tag-fiesta-resort","tag-keoni-ichihara","tag-point-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284408","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}