Opportunity Knocks: With surf contests cancelled for the foreseeable future, professionals turn to the “adult toy” industry for job security!

"A handsome, gentle soul, grower of vegetables, maker of music."

In normal, happy, pre-pandemic days, professional surfing seemed like a fine enough thing. Fun to watch. Fun for the professionals to water dance. Fun for the judges to score. Fun for the 1989 World Champion Martin Potter to let words fall out of his mouth. Fun for Strider Wasilewski to show off his attack dog tits in various and sundry ways.

In these odd, generally unhappy, mid-pandemic days, professional surfing has been laid bare. It is all of the above but it is, or was, also a small industry paying mortgages, rents, credit card bills etc.

In another word, work, and with that work dried up professional surfers are out looking for and/or participating in other trades.

This morning, I was sent a moving Instagram clip of Santa Barbara great, and current world number 20, Conner Coffin selling what appears to be “an adult toy.”

The design is sleek, the product looks effective and Conner seems perfectly comfortable in his spokesperson role.

“There are so many signs of a future sex guru in that clip…” the kind sender wrote “…I think Conner is a Netflix docu in the making. A handsome, gentle soul, grower of vegetables, maker of music.”

I could not agree more and it makes me wonder what path other professional surfers might take, assuming professional surfing is cancelled forever.

What can you see Jordy Smith doing?

Pip Toledo?

Wade Carmichael?

Let’s help them see possibility as opposed to problems.

More as the story develops.