{"id":850651,"date":"2026-08-10T20:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850651\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:56:11","slug":"mason-ho-and-a-desert-point-padang-padang-cup-warm-up-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850651\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Ho and a Desert Point Padang Padang Cup Warm-Up Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328583\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-328583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mason-670x388.jpg\" alt=\"Mason Ho surfing Desert Point\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-328583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This isn\u2019t a normal way to stall for most people, but Mason Ho isn\u2019t most people. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rip Curl\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/surf\/rip-curl-cup-padang-padang-won-by-two-16-year-old-indonesian-surfers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Padang Padang Cup<\/a> is one of surfing\u2019s best events. Right now, it\u2019s on high alert for an August 11 start, so the invitees are hanging around, surfing as much as possible both because surfing is the best thing ever and because they want to get as familiar as possible with the wave before the horn sounds.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LRO1Z6CF9I4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">this particular day<\/a>, Mason Ho, James Kusitino, Kya Heuer, Lucy Darragh, and Westen Hirst hopped on a speedboat courtsey of Uluwatu Surf Charters and headed to Desert Point to get their feet in the wax \u2014 even though they\u2019ve all got very waxy feet.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This isn\u2019t a normal way to stall for most people, but Mason Ho isn\u2019t most people. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,421270,103541,421271,105],"class_list":["post-850651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-desert-point","tag-mason-ho","tag-padang-padang-cup","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}