{"id":766,"date":"2018-07-02T19:52:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T18:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/?p=766"},"modified":"2018-07-02T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T18:54:34","slug":"the-italian-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2018\/07\/02\/the-italian-job\/","title":{"rendered":"The Italian Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of three rods for the Italian Team at the World Champioships bringing their total to six! Which means at a minimum\u00a0Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Japan and Jersey will all be wielding Hot Torpedos in the 5WT distance event.<\/p>\n<p>For the first three World Championships, all held in Norway, I cast using the HT6 blank (Instructor and Comp5 variations) for this event. Twice I reached the finals &#8211; ie the top six competitors &#8211; and once narrowly missing the finals. No medals however and a bit of a lottery with the wind!<\/p>\n<p>For the most recent World Championships, held in Estonia in 2016, we had just launched the Hot Torpedo 10 weight fitted with Torzite Rings. This rod is our Competiton 5 V2 and has been our top seller because it\u2019s both a fantastic 10WT (it\u2019s my go-to Snakehead rod) and also a remarkable 5WT competition distance rod. In the Estonian World Champships I came third and received the Bronze Medal.<\/p>\n<p>This coming August the World Championships are to be held in Cumbria. I suspect and hope\u00a0we will have a few HTs in the final and fingers crossed the Gold!<\/p>\n<p>If a rod is going to explode chances are it will be at this event&#8230; I will have a backup HT10 for all HT owners in case of such a scenario.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/0488A829-F1EF-4F60-95E3-330E191B4117.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/0488A829-F1EF-4F60-95E3-330E191B4117-559x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/0488A829-F1EF-4F60-95E3-330E191B4117-559x1024.jpeg 559w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/0488A829-F1EF-4F60-95E3-330E191B4117-164x300.jpeg 164w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/0488A829-F1EF-4F60-95E3-330E191B4117.jpeg 699w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 85vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of three rods for the Italian Team at the World Champioships bringing their total to six! Which means at a minimum\u00a0Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Japan and Jersey will all be wielding Hot Torpedos in the 5WT distance event. For the first three World Championships, all held in Norway, I cast using the HT6 blank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2018\/07\/02\/the-italian-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Italian Job&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}