Intense.
What a time to be alive and to be a surfer. Hurley finally making the products we deserve, Lemoore snagging the title Douche Capital of the World from longtime holder Menlo Park, a professional surfing fantasy league that finally makes sense and an olde-school blue collar vs. corporate/California vs. Australia/locals vs. blow-ins war raging in Oceanside, the sunny place for shady people.
But let me catch you up.
Australia-based JS Industries, a surfboard behemoth, recently purchased a warehouse in the very heart of Oceanside’s board building district, painted it black and stocked it with pristine, high-performance Monsta Boxes etc. flown in from Australia and Thailand.
The locals were not pleased, tagging the black paint with, “you fuk up! fuck ozz. O’side. Get out!!!”
The U.S. president of JS Industries’ California operation, Heath Walker, responded that the graffiti, “…hurts a lot, I’m not going to lie. It really took a chunk out of my armor. But we are here for the long term and I know getting acceptance will not happen overnight… We’re living in a world of shit sandwiches right now. Our objective is to be a positive person in the community. It takes time.”
Well, the locals are still not in an accepting mood and have opened up a new front with wheat paste posters, in Christmas colors, being spread all over town demanding, “STØP THE TRACTOR” and “OSIDE SUPPORTS LOCAL SURFBOARD MFG.”
A vicious purposeful slap by using “TRACTOR” instead of JS’s preferred “TRAKTOR.”
An intense ratcheting up of tensions but do you think that the campaign will force JS to relocate? To hire local board builders?
Will there be retaliation in Australia?
Tit for tat?
I, for one, have a bib around my neck and am licking my lips, enjoying every delicious bite of this shit sandwich.
More as the story develops.
how about the friends and families of the 2200 who died today?
oh FFS stop it, all glass shops are full up , can’t make enough locally , blank drought here already , FCS can’t deliver……..the whole Trump idea of bringing manufacturing back to the USA……to dads army of surfboard workers , how the fuck would you make an extra …even 100K bds in the USA , there are not the workers…mission impossible , so get over your locals only bullshit , or find a way to interest a whole new generation of surfboard makers ….or watch the industry collapse , because younger guys and gals just don’t want to get their hands dirty…..so is the beginning of the end of the industry?
The local oceanside movement is a joke. Grew up surfing there and moved away once the community let big hotel chain corporations take over the downtown area. Everyone there is a dumb wannabee lords of dogtown douche. Every kook in the Valley is moving there too because you can still by a home a few miles from the ocean for less than a million. Just have to live with those Fire Mountain roaches. Its no longer a sunny place for shady people. Just another place for hoards of rich whities to sun bake there pasty asses. Fuck em. Fuck Oside. Use to be something before you locked up all the gang memebers.
Imagine the first Chinese Laminator thinking to himself,,,, what am I building? What a weird craft that everyone is so tempermental about.
It’s like Chinese factory workers making Xmas ornaments???
And the reason the Oside good ol boys don’t do the same thing to the 2nd biggest board seller in the world Global Surf industries is???
There once was a boy who was obsessed with farm machinery and the main ploughing / hauling vehicles were his favourites. Massey Ferguson, John Deere, you name the brand and he had a poster of it and a model and knew all the stuff.
As he grew older he realised that he was bored of all that, so he sold his collection to other enthusiasts and moved on with life.
One day he saw a house with smoke billowing out of the windows and screams issuing from within. Firemen were standing helplessly outside, exclaiming loudly about how the lack of visibility in the building made it too difficult to get the trapped family out.
The young man quickly dashed into the doorway, hung his bare arse out a window and using a combination of inhalation and farting, quickly sucked all the smoke out of the building, allowing a rescue of the poor people deep in the house.
Once the fire was being tackled and the family packed off to hospital, the fire chief approached the lad, praising his amazing talents for clearing such a large volume of fumes.
“Oh it’s nothing really,” said the young man. “I’m an ex-tractor fan.”
Who the fuck is “ Heath Walker “?
A accounting executive from Dallas?
The tractor isn’t core- it’s a whore
Who cares. The Goldy and Aus Is full of Blow in kooks that ride Pyzel, Mayhem and CI.
Also a pop out JS is probably 20 times better than anything a ghost shaper puts out for the Seppo brands here in Coolangatta.
Seppo brands in Cooly?
Why?
Was blown away how many Pyzel’s there were in Kiwiland. Did not expect that.
Conflict for clicks!
Need more BLOODFEUDs around here.
Oside! 👊🏼
That sign needs to go up at Ponto and D St and Seaside and the other pop-out patrol hot spots in North County.
Never had issues with on time delivery from Chem Surfboards, Jason B and team are good guys, fair pricing, high quality product. I went back to custom poly boards after many years of epoxy, FireWire and other pop-out Thai made crap.
Yes, it feels good to support the local community of surfer-shapers and stop exploiting cheap labor in the developing world but bottom line, it’s a superior product.
Why would you want a high quality j.s, straight of the rack, when you could order a custom of a local aloof, semi grumpy, spinner of a shaper and you only have to wait 2-3 months
Ironic that the U.S surfboard industry is the new home of communism and anti capitalism
Nah…they dont. Chinese glass jobs are fucking awful. Their solution is to either double filler coat to hide their sins or paint over the filler coat and protec the whole mess. Absolutely fucked and pretty heavy. The Thais on the other hand are pretty reasonable glassers, but they’re weakness is that they use terrible quality block foam so they’re pretty prone to snapping.
I’m sure Connor will steer clear of Ocide and that secret turn He has will still be Gerr’s secret.
If people patronize their local shapers, JS will close. Simple as fuck.
Most people today buy a “model” from a menu instead of custom ordering.
And if JS succeeds at the expense of Oside builders, maybe the surf manufacturers will accept some blame from decades of late production.
Order a board from your local guy and he tells you 2 weeks, which turns into 6 when you stop in and your board is not in the lam room or in the sanding bay. It hasn’t been started. Happens every day for decades and generations.
At that frustration point, walking into CI or JS and walking out with a state of the art board is very attractive for most surfers. It’s the shapers fault more often than not.
How true, I’ve been buying Customs since about 1972 ($69!), I have never had a board materialise on ETA!: –
“How long?”, “Oh, about 2 weeks” – 8 weeks later……..?!!
“Building a relationship with your shaper” – hahahahahar
I’ve been fortunate to make close friends with my shapers and they always make sure I get one of my boards on time… used to be as soon as a few days in the 80’s. The problem was, and still is, is that all the orders for my friends drag on forever and I”M the one taking all the “Hey Hip, did you see my board when you picked up yours?”… because the answer was always no.
So I’m surfing my newie at the local and 5 guys going on trips are watching me wondering/hoping/expecting their boards at any minute knowing that I placed the order at the same time.
Then I have to visit the shaper at his home and have to ask…. “Where?”
The excuse train is as long as a Tractor and never sounds plausible with a beer in their hand telling me that they’ve been “so busy” that they can’t even surf themselves.
I couldn’t give 2 shits about JS coming to town. The guy who’s buying a Thai pop out is never gonna buy a local custom board anyway. There’s room for both.
The country is recording close to 200,000 Covid cases a day & the country is more divided than the civil war & this is an issue?!
Are you Mr or Mrs Chicken Little? Or is that in question as well, so are the times …
Thoughts and prayers….thought and prayers …. Except for those vegimite stinking Aussies!!!
don’t forget the beetroot!
Unfortunately they deserve it for Mr. H Walker and his misuse of the saying “to have a ‘chink’ in your armour” (meaning that someone has a vulnerability similar to an ‘Achilles heel’ etc), by talking about having chunks taken from their armour in a wrong context, after the first graffiti incident…
Heath’s head hit the reef at Backdoor ….. very hard ….. it is possible this was a glitch in the matrix .
The Detour – The Conquistador Restaurant
https://y.yarn.co/f23c6698-…
BUILD THE WALL , AROUND OCEANSIDE ….. LETS MAKE A NEW EAST BERLIN …. or Hollister Ranch ?