{"id":12631,"date":"2016-06-14T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12631"},"modified":"2016-06-14T13:03:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:03:25","slug":"virgin-kitesurfing-armada-festival-returns-to-hayling-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/virgin-kitesurfing-armada-festival-returns-to-hayling-island","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Kitesurfing Armada Festival returns to Hayling Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Virgin Kitesurfing Armada Festival is UK&#8217;s biggest kite-surfing event and will be held from 17h to19th June, in the coming weekend. The event will see an attempt at a Guinness World Record title, music, family-friendly activities on-shore, with great kitesurfing. It will also have fund raising for local youth and rescue charities, plus local school children get a chance to experience the sport.<br \/>\nThe fourth Virgin Kitesurfing Armada Festival opens at 11am on 17th June (Friday). Year 6 and 7 children from the local schools, numbering some 250, will hear Lewis Crathen, pro-kitesurfer. He&#8217;ll talk on Kitesurfing, general fitness and wind energy. Kitesurfing taster sessions will be offered on Sunday (19th June) to school children and families free of charge.<br \/>\nOver the weekend the kitesurfing festival in Hampshire will feature the best brands in kitesurfing exhibiting latest equipment and also talks by pro-kiters and industry experts. On shore there will be lots if entertainment with food stalls, DJs and music, a chill-out zone and a jumbo screen. The Volvo Family Zone will have family-friendly activities. Entry is free to on-shore activities. The 3 days will have recreational kiting, air competitions with foiling clinics and a challenge. People of all ages will be at kitesurfing and there are free taster sessions for beginners. The whole festival is practically a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutmyarea.co.uk\/Hampshire\/Portsmouth\/PO6\/Whats-on-in-Portsmouth\/Special-Events\/300160-Virgin-Kitesurfing-Armada-Festival-Brings-Top-Athletes-and-Family-Fun-To-Hayling-Island\">free event<\/a> for all to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virgin Kitesurfing Armada Festival is UK&#8217;s biggest kite-surfing event and will be held from 17h to19th June, in the coming weekend. The event will see an attempt at a Guinness World Record title, music, family-friendly activities on-shore, with great kitesurfing. It will also have fund raising for local youth and rescue charities, plus local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}