We stumbled across her story while reading a blog written by Adam Goldstein, the President of Royal Caribbean<\/a>. In reality, his blog was written by her. It related how she was coaxed by the hotel director on Liberty of the Seas<\/a> to try out the ship's <\/span> No, we didn't know there was a World Flowboard Championship either, but there is. It comes at the end of each year's Carbon Flow Tour<\/i> that in 2013 began in Phoenix and wound up in Beach Haven, New Jersey. Just 15, Xana-Kai went undefeated and became the youngest world champion in history…finding how deep "history" goes is somewhat debatable.<\/span><\/p>\n But the story stands, as she explains in the Goldstein blog — check here<\/a> to read it for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n Whether Royal Caribbean's FlowRider<\/i> led to world championships for the sport isn't clear. What is clear is that the 10-year-old, somewhat-intimidated cruise ship rookie of 2008 is now a professional at the craft, with three sponsors (not Royal Caribbean), a self-styled cause (Support Young Women<\/i>) and a school schedule that is "virtual" because of her travel schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n Five years ago, when her parents took Xana-Kai on Liberty of the Seas and stayed on the ship that fortunate day she was introduced to FlowRider<\/i>, could they have ever imagined this?<\/span><\/p>\n "It changed my life," she told Goldstein.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Norwegian Sun<\/a> Sometimes you wonder how life can continue to be stranger than fiction, and yet it does. Many times, in a nice way. Like the story of Xana-Kai Nash, a Florida teenager who parlayed a first-time experience on a cruise ship into what are — as of this season — two world championships. We stumbled… Continue reading How Liberty of the Seas Launched the Career of a Teenager from Florida<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[728,45,912,72,35,1448,831,126,367,33],"class_list":["post-19291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-adam-goldstein","tag-alaska","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruises","tag-flowrider","tag-liberty-of-the-seas","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-sun","tag-royal-caribbean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Xana-Kai](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Xana-Kai-Nash-1.jpg\")
<\/a>new FlowRider<\/i> in 2008 and how five years later she is the two-time World Flowboard Champion.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tMay 26, 2014<\/span>
\n\tVancouver<\/a>, <\/span>Ketchikan<\/a>, <\/span>Juneau<\/a>, <\/span>Skagway<\/a>, <\/span>Glacier Bay<\/a>, Hubbard Glacier, <\/span>Anchorage<\/a>
\n\tInside: $499<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $71<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"