Dane and Craig's Former knocked around by Thrasher!
Former has been live, now, for almost a week and have you watched Craig Anderson’s Luxury29.99? Is it not the surf edit of the year? It totally is! Near perfect! Oh the clothes themselves may be a touch uninspired/uninspiring but early days and let’s hope it is smooth sailing from on out. Let’s hope no more bullying from the nasty surf media.
But wait. What’s that I hear? Is that the skate media piling on? Oh drat. And this news just came in from our wonderful reader Cap’n Haddock.
Thrasher magazine, extreme sport’s only thriving media property thanks to Justin Bieber etc. loving the Thrasher look, gave Former a knock on their news show Skateline. You can watch the host twist those nipples here or just read the transcript:
Shakas up high give it a wiggle, go head touch it. Wiggle it, yeah. Austyn Gillette starts a brand called Former with some surfers. And I know you’ve got surfer buddies but they got you here looking like a douche, my nigga. Embarrassing us n shit. No more of this! Look how ridiculous you (Austyn) looks in this photo. I’ve never laughed at your face before!
Dane and Craig have both shifted heavily toward the skate look over the years, embracing the hard + cool urban vibe and so I wonder if this unkind bullying from a magazine respected by Ryan Gosling etc. hurts twice as much?
I hope not. I hope they feel comfortably superior in their hearts knowing that surfers have always been better and always will be better.
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I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but skating bores the shit out of me. I watched that Skateline thing and thought: ok, that’s all probably very hard to do and then I watched the first wave from Ando in the above clip and I immediately stopped caring about skating even harder.
HAHAHAHA doesn’t take long for somebody (core skaters in this case) to point out that the emperor wears no clothes.
Surfers and Skaters have never been further from each other than right now. Do you know any skate kids? I’m not talk mall skate kids, I’m talking lofi, grimey, dad hat, ciggy, shitty art, skate kids. Now put them next to surf kids, I’m talking strength training, clean cut, hurley stripes, mom/dad videoing surf groms. There is literally no synergy.
Trasher is now a General Pants brand in Australia. Which means… No one gives a fuck what they have to say anymore.
Former, isn’t that past tense? You can buy black t shirts by the box full online for like a buck each. Probably what they are doing, these were formerly from Walmart. Now they have Danes website receipt though..so rad!
Dig Deeper Boys – the other issue at Reunion is from their island’s garbage dumping that is near the ‘protected areas” and where most of the attacks happened.
This is me!
In Reunion they call those ‘sharkas’
I just don’t know what to make of that expression on Craig Ando’s face.
He looks like a cocker spaniel with tick paralysis.
Really Chas? Have a sense of humor. Thrasher is awesome. Here I made you a new article image. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
You are the greatest ever! This image is so good it gets its own article tomorrow….
Its in vogue. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I’m fully on the FORMER train (goods purchased), but The Mighty Gary Rogers Jr. is unimpeachable.
but I don’t have any Former stuff.
Thrasher calls a man holding a Hayden a douche. It’s amazing how the correlation is even recognized outside the surf world.
Giving shit to Hayden boards is sooo 2015!