{"id":1649290,"date":"2022-09-20T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649290"},"modified":"2022-09-20T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T17:55:06","slug":"surfing-champ-dead-at-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/surfing-champ-dead-at-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Champ Dead At 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsurfing-champ-dead-at-24%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1649290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Twenty-four-year-old surfing champion Kalani David reportedly died while surfing over the weekend in Costa Rica after sustaining a seizure stemming from a heart condition.<\/p>\n<p>David, full name Kalani David Feeney Barrientos, stunned the surfing world since he was 14 years old with his impressive\u00a0aerial maneuvers and competed in top skateboarding competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was surfing when he apparently suffered some type of epileptic seizure and drowned,\u201d Costa Rica\u2019s Judicial Investigation Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Muere-en-Costa-Rica-excampe-n-mundial-de-surf-17450690.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe death is still under investigation,\u201d the agency added.<\/p>\n<p>David had a congenital heart disease called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/wolff-parkinson-white-syndrome\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20354626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome<\/a>, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/beachgrit.com\/2022\/09\/tributes-flow-for-hawaiian-surf-skate-prodigy-kalani-david-dead-at-twenty-four-rip-brother-kalani-you-were-always-such-an-inspired-and-stoked-grommet-through-all-that-life-threw-at-you-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diagnosed<\/a> at age 18 when his heart stopped beating. The condition impacted his impressive sports career.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2016 incident, the athlete underwent successful open-heart surgery after sustaining a six-hour seizure that landed him in a medically-induced coma for two days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mensjournal.com\/adventure\/pro-surferskater-kalani-david-has-successful-open-heart-surgery-after-6-hour-seizure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Men\u2019s Journal.<\/p>\n<p>David opened up about his condition to his followers in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith these seizures I keep having my neurologist said no driving and no surfing until I stop having them,\u201d he wrote in an Instagram post. \u201cI mean I could surf but, if I was to have one and don\u2019t get saved in time, I\u2019ll either die or become a vegetable because I don\u2019t have enough air to my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep getting lucky,\u201d he continued, \u201cI had a seizure driving and the other in the water within a couple months. The past couple years [I\u2019ve] been having seizures sleeping and just Angels watching over me cause [I don\u2019t know] how I keep getting so lucky and living [through] it all.\u00a0Time to get this stuff in order so I can move ahead in life, at least I can skate and fish!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeen getting asked a lot about my situation, so wanted to let everyone know how it is for me right now,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019ve been putting these health issues to the side because I couldn\u2019t believe it, but doing that has made it worse. My life has completely changed and it\u2019s not rejection, it\u2019s redirection \ud83d\ude09 haha thanks everybody for the love just stoked to be alive and well. It\u2019s not about what you want it\u2019s about what you have and making the best out of it\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc <a class=\"qi72231t nu7423ey n3hqoq4p r86q59rh b3qcqh3k fq87ekyn bdao358l fsf7x5fv rse6dlih s5oniofx m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk srn514ro oxkhqvkx rl78xhln nch0832m cr00lzj9 rn8ck1ys s3jn8y49 icdlwmnq _aa9_ _a6hd\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/godisgood\/?hl=en\">#godisgood<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/beachgrit.com\/2022\/09\/tributes-flow-for-hawaiian-surf-skate-prodigy-kalani-david-dead-at-twenty-four-rip-brother-kalani-you-were-always-such-an-inspired-and-stoked-grommet-through-all-that-life-threw-at-you-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tributes<\/a> have been posted online since David\u2019s passing, including the surfer\u2019s brother, who posted about missing the \u201cbest brother\u201d over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Peter King expressed his condolences online, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh man,\u201d King said via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CinxeZXBzQS\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cLove you Kalani. Only God knows His timing. Life isn\u2019t easy. Always battling. Always Learning. Heartbreaking News.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-four-year-old surfing champion Kalani David reportedly died while surfing over the weekend in Costa Rica after sustaining a seizure stemming from a heart condition. David, full name Kalani David Feeney Barrientos, stunned the surfing world since he was 14 years old with his impressive\u00a0aerial maneuvers and competed in top skateboarding competitions. \u201cHe was surfing when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1649292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}