Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
Just months ago surf fin manufacturer FCS had it all. Victory after victory after victory on the World Surf League tour, money jangling in pockets from a 23 million dollar sale to StabStitch, the respect of the entire industry!
But oh how the Wheel of Fortuna turns! Oh how she spins from the happiest times to the darkest depressions!
John John Florence, riding a steed of Futures, lanced every FCS riding knight around, StabStitch unloaded FCS for pennies on the dollar as its stock crashed and the industry, the fickle industry, turned its nose up at the stink.
But how to stop the bleeding? How to climb back on top?
Maybe by releasing a tailpad that looks exactly exactly exactly like an Astrodeck tailpad?
Astrodeck is, after all, the most core company in all of surf. Founded and owned by the Fletchers, inventors of surf traction etc. So good that professional surfers purchase for full retail price and affix to their boards even if their sponsors make their own traction. Etc.
So how could it go wrong to release a tailpad that looks exactly exactly exactly like one of those? Like, exactly same color, shape, cut-outs, size… so exactly that no one, not the bastards on the World Surf League tour, not the bastards from StabStitch, none of the bastards in the industry will know that it is not an Astrodeck pad.
Sunny days are gonna be here again!
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dumpster diving at Astrodeck was sport in the early 90s. Custom pads
isn’t old herb a flog?
I wouldn’t mind seeing Adidas at least Cease-and-Desist those fins with the 3 stripes.
Derek! Just me n Derek staring down the barrel of an angry, paranoid gun!
OMG, wow, a surf company’s tailpad looks like another surf company’s tailpad! Shocking development! In bringing this to the attention of the public, you, sir, deserve the Worth Bingham Prize.
Chas, if you were to have a good old fashioned scrap with Stab who would win? Biting is allowed.
Like me vs all of Stab or BeachGrit vs Stab?
how about you vs. morgan
You can pick out one member from BG and then you have to choose two people from Stab for a good punch up. I reckon Morgan would go down like a sack of shit with a good old fashioned boot to the bollocks.
Such a great idea! I would pick Derek, of course, and the only person I know from Stab is Sam, who is a wonderful fighter. And I’ve seen Morgan Will on video too and he looks like he has a ball of repressed rage in his gut. So Derek and I would get smashed good but write the better post fight debrief!
Now I bet you wish you’d kept Rory, huh?
Blood Feud: BG vs Stab and Inertia and WSL and …
Nope!
And we would get smoked by Stab and the Inertia (Zach is a professional wrestler I think!) But we would hammer the WSL good.
As much as I’d like to see the WSL hammered, you’d be 0-3.
Zach is a professional wrestler and a Black Belt Kook? Impressive