Is Rip Curl's Reign of Conservative Terror officially over?
You, of course, know that the acronym SIMA stands for the Surf Industry Manufacturer Association and you might know that the group, including executive vice-presidents and team managers from across the surf industry spectrum (Billabong, TufLite, Bad Boy, etc.) gathers each year in Los Cabos, Mexico to pretend things are still rad but you probably didn’t know that SIMA’s president, John Wilson, opened the festivities with an impassioned plea.
“Be bold and take risks, stay committed and passionate to surfing and the industry that surrounds it, embrace change as opportunity, and you guys better have fun.”
My heart, for one, could not be more encouraged.
Boldness, risk-taking, passion and fun are pretty much my modus operandi. Ask Zach Weisberg, founder-in-chief of health and fitness blog The Inertia.
And can I assume this dawn of a bold, risk-taking and fun new era means that Rip Curl’s Reign of Conservative Terror is officially over?
That the cloistered, buttoned-up, afraid-of-revealing-any-fun(drug)-truth, passive-aggressive, dull, duller, dullest, bland, lying, boring, paranoid surf industry of the past decade plus has been put asunder?
Has Rip Curl’s Neil Ridgway been pushed to outer darkness? Has the World Surf League’s Graham Stapelberg been slapped from his job by the open hand of good times?
And can I also assume that some “vice-president of global marketing” positions are now open?
May I submit my resume?
Chas Smith
Career Objective:
Bold. Risks. Passion. Fun.
Core Competencies:
Can wax a surfboard above average. Etc.
Professional Experience:
Mick Fanning
References:
Neil Ridgway
Graham Stapelberg
I’m waiting by the phone and thrilled.
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Looks like The Search is officially over.
Why not apply for the job of WSL CEO? From what I hear, the job description will cause you to close Beachgrit for fear of being out-satirized by reality.
Have you actually seen job description? I’m searching now! Get it? Searching?
Global VP of Rip Curl marketing? I would work for free!
Are you suggesting Fanning wear a tight fitting brown shirt?
Chas just being Chas. Great rip my beloved friend. I am oh so near your home right now I can almost taste your boner. But I’ll take this article as payment. Keep ’em coming.
R.I.P Rip Curl Market St Sydney store…. closing down sale on at the moment. Where will I buy my next Rip Curl brand tuff lite mini mal and Mick Fanning below knee board shorts?
Triple upvote, one for the comment, two for the photo!
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we all know that RC are the only surf Co actually making profit and that the owners are Trump supporters , and they employ surfers , Reign of Conservative Terror , ROC-T , could be the real answer to surfings demise as just a lame sport that loses money on every level , which brings me to the rich media parasites feeding off a sport that no longer has much meaning !!??
Maurice you fucking legend, I hope you have a biography in the pipeline!
I second the hope for a tell all biography that lays bare the inner workings of this fucked up “industry “
Have you heard of the upcoming hit Cocaine + Surfing: a love story! ?
Come on Chas, don’t hold out on us, what’s this story about everybody’s favourite Costa Rican Volcom rider that the surf splendour / down the line guys are getting at? Do avid beachgrit readers get dibs on advance copies? Will the inertia publish a story “Why Chas Smith’s new book may be the greatest surfing book ever, and I may walk 500 miles away from my tropical wave rich paradise to get a sneak preview!” Many questions, give me something? 1.35 am here, on the piss all day – as you may have guessed!
I don’t know… but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t just the time honoured tradition of “young dude has to much of a good time”
I am already almost crying with laughter in anticipation of the Inertia’s review of this book
how about Parasites , pedophiles , penis’s , please suffef me ! , a story of lust , lunacy and liars the true story of how to make a buck out of surfing!
All right Chaz, we know you smoke crack so you don’t have to keep telling us. That’s how you keep your girlish figure.
Fuck a biography. We need a Special Counsel Investigation!
As a deal sweetener, I’d be prepared to come onboard. Obviously I’d let you be my PA Chas.
Experience isn’t a issue… when I was 15 and thought working in the industry would be “Rad” I did High School work experience once a week for afew months in a Surf Shop.
You could get Sunny Garcia to do up the accounts, what could possibly go wrong?
You just got yourself out of a free pair of my Hitler youth board shorts range with that dig.
I’d be honored to serve!
here’s a story for you – Sebastian ‘Baste’ Duterte: The rebel surfer son of a president
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/w…
Rip curl could make you head of manufacturing in their North Korea plant, they might throw in a confederate flag and a bullwhip to sweeten the deal!
Neon wetsuits would be back in vogue in short order
Chas Smith: VP Global Marketing of OuterKnown