Glide, shred and bounce!
Although they may deny it, Sam Coombes and Jim Mitchell, are one of the few real geniuses of the surf biz.
Jim was one of the original Mambo artists (1990 to 2001). His wonderful, and now frightfully expensive, pieces included a rabbit with its head split asunder by an axe (Splitting Hares) and a tropical shirt that made the wearer looked like he was festooned with tattoos (Show Us Your Tats, Back).
In 2009, Sam and Jim started The Critical Slide Society. For years, the company dominated Stab magazine’s board short of the year contest. Their 2013 short, I think it was, is still my favourite-ever pair of trunks.
Recently, TCSS opened a store up the hill from Bondi beach. It is classic Mitchell/Coombes. A mural of Point Break’s Bodhi (the Patrick Swayze) version festoons the eastern wall; tiles at the entrance are laid to read Beach Business.
Earlier today, TCSS announced they had a quiver they wished to give away, three boards from Thomas Surfboards, Josh Keogh & Catch Surf. The sleds, they say, reflect, the swinging aesthetic of the company.
Here’s the spiel.
Dreamed of walking into the garage and having your pick of 3 fresh slices of foam? A longboard from the king himself Thomas Bexon (Doc), a perfectly hand shaped fish from Josh Keogh and a soft top from Catch Surf for those smaller fun days.
Free boards aren’t something we take for granted, in all honesty, we’ve never got any freebies, and why should we. There’s definitely been the barter economy, a nice piece of art for an addition to the quiver. So the labour cost should roughly balance each other out! In this case..you don’t have to be on the world tour… just be the lucky name that gets drawn out of the hat.
Simple as that.
Want to win? All you have to do is sign up below, the winner will be drawn close of biz Friday the 14th of December.
Winners receive ~
– 9’9 Thomas Step Deck
– 5’6 Keogh Fish
– 8′ Catch Surf Plank
Obviously, it’s a play to get a few more eyeballs on their mailing list. Which ain’t a crime, I think, and a very small price to pay for your shot at the boards.
The contest is international, too, so let’s toast TCSS’s mail-order powers.
Sign up, maybe win, here.
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Aren’t all three of those boards for the “smaller days”?
I live for smaller days!
I chucked in $20 to that Pyzel Cali fire thing and ain’t heard shit from the donations website so I suppose that was a scam too. Might as well sign up to all this stuff. life’s too short to turn my nose up at the potential of free boards.
Three sleds for a few clicks? It ain’t bad, I think.
Why not try? I’m pretty certain these guys ain’t too evil.
Two of the nicest boys you could ever shake hands with! I have a little Jim Mitchell painting on my wall, as it happens. Bought it for a song ($500) almost twenty years ago.
Not part of the settlement, then?
It was the house in Bondi or the painting and sculptures by, mostly, former Mambo artists Jeff Raglus, Jim Mitchell and Paul McNeil, with a cameo from Steve Gorrow. An easy choice, if fiscally naive.
i chucked in for that too (nasty business going down there), got a confirmation email, board winner announced on dec 2nd. check your spams.
Good call OOT!
Was in junk folder.