A rebel yell!
Three days, Project Ibelli was announced to the world. An audacious plan to wrest the levers of professional surfing power back to The People™. To radically alter professional surfing’s dull, ultra-bland current path. To support a professional surfing hero who has battled rottenly unfair injury wildcard fiascos, dirty water tactics, sponsor shortsightedness/cheapness.
How?
By crowdfunding Caio Ibelli’s surfboard nose, of course, and in a move that shocked the staid surf industry, the idea became reality then caught steam with over $5,000 of the needed $15,000 raised in only two days.
The only issue, a minor one all things considered, is that we (David Lee Scales and I), had not fully thought out what should go on his nose. A sticker advertising the podcast, where the idea was hatched, seeming more and more out of place as momentum built.
So the decision has been made to turn it all over to The People™. What would you like to see up there? What image or message?
What rebel yell do you want to reverberate through all the surfing lands?
(Nothing rude or directly anti-WSL of course.)
The only other issue, we still have $10,000 to go and must get before April 1.
Dig deep comrade.
Or shallow.
There’s no minimum.
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Don’t underestimate the power of an appropriate font.
“Charlie don’t surf”
With a picture of Charlie Medina
A picture of Medina kissing Neymar in the style of the famous
socialist fraternal kiss between Brezhnev and Honecker https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Or:
Drop in on me if you love me
Nice synergy with Ibelli Burger.
A slice of cheese with a cherry on top.
“Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?”
Or
“Who shot JR?”
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Or… How about a fist being raised so now it retroactively looks like Tyler Wright was supporting Beach Grit’s People Power movement?
The animated slap logo from the podcast in brilliant yellow.
Don’t do it CAIO
You need real sponsors and you know it
They’ll run to the hills
Lookin out for ya, surfistinho
Schroff chain sawing a Hayden in his under wear.
Haha I was thinking “FTW” as a little nod to Bobby’s inafamous tirade.
Maybe an elusive question, like those ‘wanna lose weight ask me how’ bumper stickers. Something to tear down the cone of silence which will be dutifully fitted to the board’s nose during the webcast.
Just “VAL.com” which then redirects to BG.
“UHSC” ?
Although that might get confused with University of Hawaii in Southern California which isn’t a thing (yet)
That looks damn tasty.
I know this a long shot! My initials “LSW” in the shape of DR favorite sex toy..
“Medina’s bitch”
Some good ideas here. How bout something with the Statue of Liberty? Holding up … Beach Grit? I’m tryin…
Should have done a go fund me. It’s like the participation trophy of crowd funding. “Didn’t reach your goal? That’s okay here’s money anyways”.