{"id":427927,"date":"2026-08-09T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427927\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:36:18","slug":"some-20-dogs-make-a-splash-at-world-dog-surfing-championships-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427927\/","title":{"rendered":"Some 20 dogs make a splash at World Dog Surfing Championships in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some 20 dogs competed in the 10th annual World Dog<\/a> Surfing Championships at Linda Mar Beach in California last Saturday.<\/p>\n

The sport was first conceived in 2006 by K. Reed, author of “The Dog’s Guide to Surfing.”<\/p>\n

In the years since, the sport evolved into what it is today, and has inspired similar events across the world, including many in California, Florida, Australia<\/a>, and the United Kingdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s overall winner was five-year-old Labrador retriever Rippin Rosie, followed closely by Iza, a French bulldog from Pleasanton, and Bradley \u201cShortboard\u201d Cooper, a mixed-breed from Long Beach.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Rosie – alongside her owner, Steve Drottar – took first place in the stand-up paddleboarding category.<\/p>\n

The winners were announced by Rep. Sam Liccardo, former San Jose mayor, to a crowd of hundreds, who cheered for the pups all day from the shore.<\/p>\n

The oldest contestant was 11-year-old Charlie, a yellow Lab from the San Diego area, whose surfing journey actually began by accident when owner Jedd Niebor placed the dog onto a surfboard for a quick photo, which turned into an impromptu surf<\/a> lesson.<\/p>\n

Spectators are encouraged to sponsor contestants each year, with a portion of all proceeds going to a number of local charities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some 20 dogs competed in the 10th annual World Dog Surfing Championships at Linda Mar Beach in California…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,2116,4822,5931,13006],"class_list":["post-427927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-dogs","tag-pets","tag-summer","tag-surfing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}