Moralist takedown of Jack Robinson's daddy.
Stab magazine featured a very odd story today titled Go Home Pops, You’re Drunk. It was a savage description of Jack Robinson’s dad, Trevor, getting drunk in a Tahitian bar and behaving poorly. The writer, Jake Howard, went over Mr. Robinson’s various offenses, twisting the knife this way and that, summing it up:
The scene was heartbreaking. Jack’s a great kid. He’s clearly got the talent to be one of the best surfers in the world. When I first met him some years ago, he was bright-eyed and eager to learn and see the world. It was so clear he possessed everything he needed to go far in his surf life. Now that he’s on the verge of stepping into the big leagues, he deserves better than his old man swindling free beers on his sponsor’s dime.
And then writing about how he wished he’d said something about Andy Irons’s issues when Andy was still alive.
Very odd indeed and I don’t know that I’ve ever read anything quite like this. A real gut punch to an extremely periphery figure who hadn’t actually done anything other than getting drunk and bragging about driving drunk. Not too cool, to be sure but worth a story about the evils of drink and stage parenting?
I suppose it is a demand for action but what action is supposed to be taken? Is Billabong supposed to hammer…Jack for… his dad’s behavior in order to… get him into rehab? Or… hammer Trevor directly by… firing his son? Or… what?
Maybe it’s not a demand for action just a snapshot of life on tour… of parents.
In any case, this is BeachGrit and we’re nothing if we’re not anti-depressive! So here’s a happy Trevor Robinson annecdote!
The man once told me a long but funny story, standing at North Point, about how the magnetic properties of Western Australia’s rocks gave Jack surfing super powers. I found it to be one of the most wonderfully eclectic things I had ever heard in all surfdom and wonder if there is any truth in it and if I should move to Western Australia.
Later that day I got drunk on many Carlton Draughts.
Carlton Draught is the best beer in Australia.
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Carlton draught blows chunks
Yeah way to make me question everything, Chas
Get those sticky little fingers out, they’re getting smelly. And Jacky boy should go QuikRipaBong
Your comment makes no damn sense at all and fu,, you to!!
Not since your comment was deleted sweetness.
If billabong has fired Jack for what has happened that is not is fault than I will do them assholes just like quicksilver and never even by as much a sticker of there team name ever again!
Buddy ya’ all got ya selves some mighty problematic educational issues. Ya’ all might wanna slap ya teachers over the head.
This piece is so barrel. I might even go so far as to say, even ‘laird barrel’ – Which is reserved for the ultimate. Like eating lairdsuperfood.com, while on a foil, in a huge Tahitian barrel, barrel. Just call it like it is, dude has bought fucking 30 billabong pieces of clothing in his life, and finally he can take them deep on free beers. I like picturing Jack’s dad as a bit of a pirate, smashing beers. Makes me want to see Jack AND his dad do well in the biz and get even more free beers, and billabong bandannas and shit.
I’d say jakes article was absolutely spot on. Trev is a yobbo knob. I think the only reason jack surfs is just as personal therapy to relieve the shame of having a fuckin fruitcake as a dad…
I feel deeply let down by the Stab comments dept, this was a rare visit to SurfStitch Adjacent on my part and there seemed to be 10 or so people all with a range of IDs yelling tediously at one another. #isthatallthereis
Couldn’t give a flyin’ fuck about JR. The new over hyped blah blah boy from BBG, fuckin’ please. He should go grab that Noah Deane poser, Dane Reynolds hipster millionaire, and fuck em selves…….
If the magnetic rocks make you a better surfer, why are there so many kooks in WA? #checkmatedeepstate
well duh! they come from the parts of WA without the special rocks! #checkmateredux
Or maybe the Robbos come from the place with the special plants. #whatwasthequestion?
#StabEnews
#STABaratzi
I was hoping there would be a rebuttal to that Bananas article. Real Surf Dads of Oz brought to you by STAB
If this encounter confirms Jake’s father as a drunken asshole does my encounter with Jack’s parents confirm them as concerned parents? Jack was out surfing crappy Pipe, hit the Reef and came up the beach bleeding. Mom and Dad were at the Quik house (maybe we now know why Quik let him go?) and ran right down to help him out of the water and tend to his bleeding. They looked seriously concerned so I was actually impressed that they were both there watching their son and reacted so quickly when he got banged up.
FFS ,” I was a friend of Andy’s , and if I had have told the real story , maybe he’d be alive today!”
So taking that line he’s trying to justify one of the lamest stories about Dad having a few ales on the Billabong account , and then draws a very long bow in how bad parents can be for their kids…..and then carlton draught …..ah the world is lost!!!
Yes I saw this via the FB feed this morning and thought it was so gritty it must be fake news, if not then beach grit is not only getting it’s writers stollen by stab but is also losing some grit.
I don’t know if I would really consider the Jake Dad story “gritty.” Unless by “gritty” you mean “shitty.”
I don’t disagree the delivery is a bit clumsy but everyone knows Trev is a bit disjointed and maybe people are feeling Trev is becoming a hinderence as jack try’s to transition from child star to CTer. Has jack got past the 1st round of a QS this year? talking about the untalkable in the surf industry is apart of what the grit is about and as Neg commented below stab is developing an opinion, by publishing this Stab made a big step heading in that direction. BG v STAB part um lost count.
Sure sure and I love the low hanging fruit etc but the the Stab story was ridiculously easy and cheap…
Did chas smith just claim stab story was cheap and easy? Out cheap and easied BG? Uh oh … quick, go for a sibling … you can go lower!
So what’s the best Australian beer if it’s not Carlton Draught?
Coopers Sparkling Ale.
No, no, no, stupids, he means the ROCKS, like fucking Uluru and Stonehenge. They make you rip, dummies. It’s the iron content from the meteorites and dinosaurs.
Yes! That’s it! That’s what Mr. Robo told me!
Pretty fucking gold star hey. #FreeTrev
Pops drinks beer on the sponsors dime….thats nothing but a sign of good taste.
Pops brags about drink driving and ditching a renta…..maybe not so good but he could’ve been just making up a good story to ameliorate what appears to be very boring company.
Mums and Dads who get drunk and make fools of themselves are damaging kiddies while team managers are innocent angels with nothing but love in their hearts>?
~Jake might have that arse backwards.
Who gave Herro and Powelly all the coke while they were shacked up with blinds drawn in Hawaii?
Was it a: Mum or Dad ?
or b: someone else?
I really am interested now, but more importantly, how did you get non iced coke in Hawaii?
Seriously, right?! I would be dubious of any Mum or Dad who didn’t get wrecked on an industry bar tab. As a sidenote, skateboarders are notorious for showing up at the premiere and then immediately disappearing when the bar tab ends. And why not?
Sounds like Jim Jefferies is mocking seppos again…
Dear ol’Jaky couldn’t handle the truth!
I would love to think Kelly’s people got those two all sideways so they couldn’t take him on. But that would be bloody ridiculous wouldn’t it.
Gotta be something deeper in this. Jacks old mans generally ok, somewhat weird an into conspiracy theories but not worthy of a character smear like this. Hope someone slaps the dick that wrote that story wen he gets to Hawaii
You need to experience more Australian Beer. Carlton Draught is fermented toilet water.
Long ago I went to a teenagers birthday party. Kid’s parents chose Fosters Light as the celebratory beverage
The underage teenager partiers declined to drink the free alcohol, or even take it home. They literally couldn’t give it away
That has to be the definition of bad Australian beer
maybe Jake Coward should host the next tournotes
Someone’s old man got loose on a surf trip? Fuck me, that’s disgraceful.