A lifetime of free velvet tracksuits for Pipe Trials and Volcom Pipe Pro winner!
The Australian surfer Jack Robinson is, to yank a phrase from a popular nineties song, something like a phenomenon.
Ain’t nobody in Australia, most of the world, if we’re to be frank, who can throw on the brakes and ride a ten-foot tube like twenty-one-year-old Jackie.
A fantasy of mine is eight-to-ten Teahupoo and it’s Jack v John John v Kelly.
Jackie’s won the Pipe Trials, he’s won the Volcom Pipe Pro.
Why’d he ditch Billabong for Volcom, a company who was recently sold to velvet tracksuit pioneer Juicy Couture?
Money? Love?
(And, read, here, where Chas Smith responds.)
All very odd.
It’s as if his parent sponsor was pushing him away.
Anyway,
He’s on the Stone, now, and What Youth founder and sometime BeachGrit writer Travis Ferré has written the presser.
Jack Robinson is no stranger. Not to us in the collective surf world or any of the surrounding seas. We all know him. We know his straw-like blonde hair from miles away. We can identify his stylish and powerful turns from way down the beach. And we recognize his world class and mysteriously intuitive tube riding even with the sun in our eyes. Simply: Jack’s been blowing our mind for a very long time. But Jack is only 21 years old! Which is surreal to read because we’ve all known his surfing for so long. That’s because Jack was blessed with preternatural talent since boyhood and we’ve been watching him grow up right before our eyes. For more than a decade now actually. At Teahupoo. At Pipeline. At the Box. At North Point. All over the world. And in movies. With standout performances at world-class waves. Always on the one. Growing up. Proving himself. And now, it’s official: Jack Robinson is no longer the boy next door. He’s ready to carve his way into the place in the surf pantheon we’ve been holding for him since he was 8 years old. It’s time. And to kick off Jack’s new chapter, he will be joining the most eclectic, authentic and legitimate surf family on the planet: Volcom.
Yeah, Jack Robinson rides for Volcom now.
Don’t call it a sequel or a comeback, call it the beginning for Jack Robinson and Volcom.
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Seems when this lad was with BBG lots of folks that follow these things very carefully commented on Jack’s career quite freely and how he was Australia’s surfing saviour next CT champ being held back by the QS etc etc now he has left BBG it’s like he has already dropped of the GAF list
Interesting.
I think we have moved on from caring what stickers surfers have on their boards. Hell, 1/4 of the CT surfers don’t have any. Will it make him surf any better? It’s not like F1 where changing teams may well be the difference between winning and losing.
Surfing isn’t cool anymore, and the reason why it’s not cool is that shopping malls are full of lame surf shops that are actually fashion stores like Abercrombie & Fitch or Lululemon or SuperDry.
Until surfing becomes underground again it’s not going to be cool for kids to wear. So who really GAF which stickers Jack Robinson has on his board?
Epic hopefully this will shut Trev up so we can finaly get some peace and quite down the Point
Depends on the brand and the job!
Jack won’t get on CT. he’d have to learn to do reos, cut downs and slash backs first.
Just stick to riding barrels
As Occy said… Fucking Seppo cunts.
I have the definitive solution to Jakko Robbo and the WSL classification problem!!!
Thanks to L’inertia, the venezian group of vikings mormons from Venice, Italy… ops! sorry… California
https://courses.theinertia….
Why didn’t Billabong demand him the ‘Mikey Wright Full Year Wildcard’?
Goodbye wildcards now his new sponsor doesn’t back any tour events
Because now days brands dont own the WSL , so its now up to the surfers to make it , not a corrupt few pretending to be a Proffesional organisation.
Ps anyone remmber the head judge Hatchett and the shit he got up to.
did you even read what I typed before you replied?
…or set foot in one of their shops?
I sometimes confuse the logos on the nose of the team riders boards. I won’t and I would say the vast majority will not buy any of the crappy board shorts, clothes, wetsuits etc made by these shit cunt surf companies regardless of who is or isn’t on their teams. Ain’t the 90’s/ early 2000’s; times have changed Good luck Jack! Thanks for the update Del
Can be surf the shit QS qualifiers though?
It’s pretty cool!
When you click on the link to Chas’ response, the last article in the grouping of 5 articles from 2 years ago is the moment Chas got inspired to put pen to paper, or hen peck to keyboard key, and tell his Yemen story.
Two years later and here we are, Jack riding for the Stone like the magical rocks of Western Australia knew he’d do, and Chas about to release his Yemen book “Welcome To Hell”.
That’s pretty darn rad.
I just read that Noah guy gets half a mill for taking 10goes to make one air
And then party till the break o dawn and pissing in his plastic $100 boardies
Good gig!
Willy cardoso is on the C fuken T. Can’t be that hard.
One small contractual change, one giant leap towards novelty boards, deck grip and chain-smoking video parts.
Volcom will be laughing at bong.
Fucks sake – ya don’t drop one of the best proven barrel riders on the planet and one who’s looking in their best competitive form ever. The corpo fuckwit at bong that made this decision is a moron. Knows nothing.
OTOH – the corpo fuckwit at Volcom has an each way bet ….
Most likely Volcom stole him by offering more.
Haha you really don’t have much of an idea how contractual negotions work in the sponsorship world , did you see any merchandise with Jack’s name on it nah that’s right because his name does not sell product.
So his contract won’t be to flash mate Mark my words they will release a deck grip some boardies and he will pick up a minor royalty same with the flicks but he won’t be arround for long none of the second tier ever are .
What were you saying about him not being around for long mate?
the corpo fuckwit at Volcom maybe has a thing for dudes who like big barrels?
And so he should, B.
That commitment should be prized over all, esp in the heavy shit.
Fuck all the roters at Dbah. Interesting because of conditions but meaningless.
When the heavy shit rolls in …. let’s see. Jack will be there. CT, QS 100%
Stupid bong.
Daily Tennis ball squeezing exercises to enhance middle finger extensions.
“I don’t want to be part of this wannabe tennis tour!” he shouts at the mirror.
A blonde Ozzie Wright. If my avatar wasn’t already rolling it’s eyes, I’d roll my eyes
Double roter eye roll, or is it a 540?
He’s looking the best he’s ever looked competitively… I think he’s a shoo in this year.
After all those years of sponnoship/investment – bong kicks him out to touch. Duhhh
Leo fukshisauntie is on the C fuken T
Can’t be that hard.
Bex, if you weren’t such a filthy fucken troll I might, just might think about a reply.
But you’re not – Negs to Waco ! Bex to the Bondi Shorey !
Goin for a surf in Wacko is like doing the local bike sans conny.
Spend the next week in shameful fear
Plumbers are used to that.
Mail off their bill and sweat like fuck that no one questions it.
Well that was a bit over the top.
Ditches or encouraged to leave by offering a sub par new contract ? in line with poor return on performance insensitive ?
Might’ve been the play, and a common one at that. It does tend to leave both parties’ honour intact.
Yes the marketing people are a lot smarter now days brands can’t afford to put there target demographic on the back foot as brand identification is no longer a major consumer factor BBG sacks Robinson and then cops a public castration is not a sound marketing play.
Possible offering Volcum an incentive to take him is though…
A lot smarter… So you work for quikbong marketing dept?
No i leave that to the Carroll brothers
Close though… You got a few emails and accounts here, but one address is quite telling.
Fresh stickers and new people to impress. Jack will blow up in 2019 !
Those old ones are hard to get off
I’ve still got a Tony for PM on mine and it’s staying.