Free handouts and meals from Costco!
It is Sunday morning in America and the Pipeline Masters may run in a few hours. It also may not but, irregardless, I’m taking these moments in, enjoying each and every because this is the end. Once the remade tour comes online and the season starts on the North Shore instead of finishing things will be… different. Not as intense. Not as… important. Oh, I’m just a sucker for the seven-mile miracle, I suppose.
An old nostalgic queen.
Did you know that the entire Triple Crown season pumps an estimated millions of dollars into Oahu’s economy? Hawaii Business Magazine writes:
A economic study of the 2010 Triple Crown calculated the series pumped $21 million into Oahu’s economy. The study, directed by Lenard Huff, a marketing expert in the Business Management Department of Brigham Young University Hawaii, was commissioned by Vans. Huff estimates that this year’s event will have a similar economic impact, which will include money spent locally by organizers and sponsors, and money spent locally by people who come to see the event.
What do you think happens to this number when the Triple Crown loses its status and the Pipeline Masters simply becomes the first event on the calendar? Will the 21 million figure be halved? Thirded? Will the small businesses weep?
Apparently not all of them will for it was revealed in the same article that professional surfers are not only cheap but have bad taste:
A frustrated Haleiwa restaurant owner had a different perspective. “Families are more likely to come to the North Shore and spend money than a sponsored surfer who is looking for free handouts and meals from Costco,” said the owner, who asked to remain anonymous because he was speaking negatively about an event that is loved by many people on the North Shore. He said vacationing families are priced out by the rates paid by event sponsors and other companies.
Free handouts and meals from Costco seems slightly less than what Hawaii’s burgeoning homeless population expects. Is the surf industry truly in this bad of shape or are pro surfers just cheap with bad taste?
i used to work cholos on north shore. i got wayyy better tips in the summer than during the circus time during nov-dec. pro surfers and their handlers are chodes
Are you actually bitching about a $5 beer? In California thats happy hour price. Usually pay 7-10 for a pint depending what it is.
sounds like too much Pliny the Elder, edition so limited its only this one six-pack, type craftthink
I won’t lie, I enjoy a craft beer every now and then but I usually go with mexican imports or watery swill like Coors Light
Tecates por vida carnale
I don’t know man… $15 at teds for rice, a hamburger patty and an egg seems like the best way to spend money when I only have enough to sleep on couches and hitch hike around. I spread the aloha with my non existent cash while the locals spread their aloha by burning me and telling me to go home. Hawaii is a beautiful place and surfing actually does need Hawaii, not the other way around.
I’m super cheap but if my buddy brings by some crip I somehow always find 50 bucks.
idk about the money part but i was really hopin’ they’d surf today. instead of i have to work on things which is much less fun.
$21 million? Wow, that’s almost enough for a wave pool!
I once saw Dane Reynolds walk out of PABS with a slab of Melbourne Bitter on his shoulder. Cheap cunt.
Fuck maybe the Pro’s are smarter than I thought , saving their money from their careers , as they know deep down, the Gravy train, called sponsorship is fast coming to an end , and the WSL’s new Elite tour, should 1/2 the number of places available on tour .
Hawaii is less relevant now , can’t wait to see the Pipe Masters in Feb , then Peniche Portugul , then maybe Snapper ( at this stage if the Govt doesn’t step in with a lot more $’s , gone!) , its called the Jetlag/Hot, Cold hot tour!
Pro Surfers work in the aggregate. Be a half wit, surround yourself with half wits. In the aggregate they thrive but alone it would be messy.
ha, so if Dirk Ziff pulled out of surfing , there would be a messy mess , and yes be careful of mediocrity breeding mediocrity!
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Well can you blame them? They only win $100 grand an event.
Poor diddums. Life’s a fuckin struggle isn’t it?
In whatever sport that rolls into any town, the coin is spent by the spectator not the athlete that’s for sure!! Any athlete seems to work on a divine right to get a “deal”!!
As a rule, Pro Surfers are cheap. On the other hand, the People’s Pro Surfer – – you’re still a Pro right Chas? – – loaferly scoffs at cheapness. Confusing times I tell ya.
This story is a fascinating combination of Voodoo Economics™️ and horrible grammar.
Does anyone know if Nick Woodman is allowing camping on his Rocky’s property?
Well if that’s what it takes to qualify as a ‘pro surfer’, I should have been on tour for the last 6 years.
The top 35 or whatever it is now stay in air bnb’s. That’s not a sign of growth.