Two words: surfing boards.
Yesterday, it was revealed that world famous surfboard shaper Matt Biolos had drastically changed his look, transitioning from Orange County bad boy to cool mom chic. Today, we maybe learn why. Yahoo! Finance, in partnership with market analysis organization Report Linker, has projected that the “global surfing board market” is on pace to balloon to $11.5b by 2027 and WHOA let us study the details together:
– Global Surfing Boards Market to Reach $11.5 Billion by 2027
– Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Surfing Boards estimated at US$7.8 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$11.5 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 5.7% over the period 2020-2027.
– The U.S. Market is Estimated at $2.1 Billion, While China is Forecast to Grow at 9.2% CAGR
– The Surfing Boards market in the U.S. is estimated at US$2.1 Billion in the year 2020. China, the world`s second largest economy, is forecast to reach a projected market size of US$2.5 Billion by the year 2027 trailing a CAGR of 9.2% over the analysis period 2020 to 2027. Among the other noteworthy geographic markets are Japan and Canada, each forecast to grow at 3.1% and 4.5% respectively over the 2020-2027 period. Within Europe, Germany is forecast to grow at approximately 4% CAGR.
And WOW do you think co-Waterperson of the Year Dirk Ziff wishes he bought …Lost Enterprises instead of the World Surf League? I’d imagine or at least hope.
Also, China. If we had our wits about us, we’d move there, open a shaping shack and get in on some of that $2.5b. We could live in Fuzhou, described by noted travel writer Bo Brennan thusly, “When I stepped outside of the Fuzhou train station last year, I felt an overwhelming sense of apathy.”
Perfect.
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To the lame-o that wrote this article, the product is called a surfboard, not surfing board.
‘Surfy-board’ if you’re really hip with it, daddy-o.
I think you’re on the wrong forum … this is for surfing board fans
Welcome to Beach Grit.
I kinda like surfing board so get fucked
Two knee-jerk reactions from this piece of surf journalism:
1. Had Dork Ziff swallowed up …Lost, that brand name would have had a deeper meaning.
2. What does this mean men’s skin care products if more surf brands now survive and avoid capitalist swine from buying the industry?
Pingtan County, on the coast a very short drive from Fuzhou, has some very good waves.
This is so good!!
Happy days are here again!!
Expect to see few more surf companies diversifying by buying back Rossignol again
I think I’m gunna get one
JOB has so much fun on them, I’d say he’s on them 70%of the time, same with Grzvy.
dropping in on the Chinese val will definitely affect your social credit score.
who. cares. ….slow news week ‘grit?
Where does all the dust go?
It’s stockpiled in a secret warehouse and then delivered to my brain overnight when I have more than 2 beers. This is why it’s worse now than a few years ago.
I reckon Hurluley should try to float an IPO and leverage the synergy in the chocolate starfish, to gain the confabulation of the rising liquidity in apathy towards traditional non-gendered offerings like haircuts and underperforming underpants in the growth macro-bubble. It truly is a strong day for us in the virtual space of digital ‘dropping-the-kids-off-at-the-pool’ communication.*
Hurluley Strong. Don’t Follow Your Nightmares.
*This should not be taken as financial advice.
I wanna see Jonah shut us all up, head out on a pumping day with a 90s thruster and belt the fuck outta some poor lip
18 million boards with an average price of 400$ in that article. you guys think that is right, or an average price of say 350 increases that even??? hmmm.. we are a good environmental bunch
I really want to know how they define “surfing boards” because their list of market players include Billabong, Quik, and O’Neill.
Maybe they include wetsuits/leashes/boardshorts/etc but not t-shirts?
It’s complete bullshit mine.mine.mine.
Is everything in surfing inflated? Wave size, tube time, crowds, viewers, projected participants, company value…
I don’t think so. Go surfing! Does the coastal water movement feel inflated? This comment world is 90% bullshit.
I can’t surf you bastard! I broke my foot.
Kelly? Is that you?
Whatever, at least I’m not in quarantine.
Like fishing.. but fisherman are smart enough not to sell out their sport.. they fucking hide their holes..
Fish lit!
Surfboarding, so hot right now
Hey Chas, Patchy O just announced he is becoming president of Florence Marine whatever that is.
Florence Marine X is the apparel/gear Co. JJF started with Hurley, after Hurley got swished then face cream swirled into life beyond Hurley.
Hopefully they won’t let John John make any decisions, I heard he failed his drivers test five times.
Can’t blame him too much, he was mostly raised on a boat. Imagine the back and forth JJF was having with the guy during the test.
Test guy: “Take this next right.”
JJF: “You mean starboard?”
Test guy: “What? Turn right.”
JJF: “You mean starboard?”
Test guy: “Jeezus fucking Christ! Turn right and remember to use the turn signal. It’s on your left.”
JJF: “You mean port?”
John: “Should I stop by the office today to see how things are going?”
Patchy: “Nah you can go sailing today, and tomorrow too”
“Hey what’s MPH? Do you have one of these clock things in knots?”
That’s why i don’t place blame nor denigration on the jet ski pilot who fucking launched off that huge one at Himalayas. Can’t blame him too much, he was raised obviously on land in cars. Maybe even raised on the monster truck rally circuit? But on the real, 5 times is an awful lot of failure in a test of “man uses machine”, not “man versus machine.” I love JJF and Gerry, but today my heart would be lying to you if I did not say that their stock prices have dropped on my index. I can feel just how many fuck$$$ they give to someone like me’s opinion, though. Particularly with their new lines’ respective launches! I’m going to Costco now….
That parallel parking can be quite the obstacle to a successful test. It’s no wonder they have cars that do it themselves now.
With a name like Marine x, they’re already off to a bad start.
Yea it sounds like a company that makes boat paint.
The “X” must be some sort of collaboration lure, or troll. Tough to figure which.
let’s take a wild swing shall we, “X” is for “expedition”
Who has time for expeditions but a soon-to-be eX-CT’r?
ex Hurley.
X-pialidocious
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and what’s the cut for shapers and glassers if the 90% of boards are soft tops or factory pop outs? should I be investing in plastics producer focused on UHMW PE’s like Isosport or is it safe to assume the surfboard explosion will ride on the back of the “cheap to produce, short lifespan” model? where is old mate with his Tesla stock update? he would be able to help me out on this one.
Armacell
The most surprising thing about this article is that people will pay $5,600 for a PDF that analyzes the “global surfing boards” market
The last thing this world needs is more German surfers!
Did you know there are 102 cities with over a million peeps in China?
I can name 3. Fuzhou has 7 mil and Ive never heard of it.
there is one that has been in the news lately but the name escapes me. apparently has a top shelf wet market. best pangolin on the market they say.
China needs a new publicist, or an instagram
that what tik tok was intended for. unfortunately it was ruined by Covid when stuck at home sports stars starting hijacking their kids dance vids.
China also has now many infamous ghost cities, fully built-out and completely or barely inhabited, turns out “build it and they will come” is bullshit.
thats for when pole reversal happens and lower areas flood they have premade city!!!
Those sneaky Chinese always one step ahead.
I saw a new line of VAL inspired surfboards at Costco this weekend, so be on the lookout for those this summer. Coming to a lineup near you.
I didn’t know Chas was in the surfing board industry
Is it the Gerry Lopez soft top? This kook is pretty happy with his.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Can I attach a foil to it?
You can attach anything to it if you are brave enough.
Foils. Saranwrap. Wax Paper. Paper Towels.
Hooo brah, all crazy-kine l’dat.
That was gold, Wilbur.
Thanks!
This is where $10.5 Billion of the $11.5 is going to come from – soooo sad. Went into a Costco in Carlsbad in mid-February. Saw 3 people coming out back to back with these boards in carts. Must have just stocked up.
who says the “waves were like 1-2 foot”? does he mean shin high? are there sections on shin high waves. folks truly have zero self reflection these days
the single to double concave with accelerated vee out the “tail block” as he described it just make it drive off the bottom and wrap huge finners at the lip, dude, on those rare bluebird days when it’s metatarsal-lower ankle joint at his local
“It was like, fully Double Over Bunion dude”
you won’t catch me out there when it’s that pumping…I’ll take the chargers words for it and watch safely from my fogged-in beach’s parking lot, talking about G. Lo tailblocks
I know right?
Last weekend I got to the beach and it was a solid 1 and a half foot on the face with occasional 2 foot bombs out back.
I shat myself.
But that’s normal for a Saturday.
I was also too scared to go out.
nightlong coke binges do that to even a seasoned waterman (of the year)
he’s been long-confused as to the differences between tow-in surfing and when he puts his toes in the barrel on shin-high offshore days.
And also…I’ve gotta ask: Gerry, are you that hard up in Bend these days? Did they raise season pass prices at Mt. Bachelor this winter? And what if I could take this footage, from the future, back to to your Moneytrees tree house at Grajagan in the 70s to show this to you, what would feral Gerry say? Love you nonetheless, Gerr. But what I saw above won’t easily be erased. And your signature features prominently.Let’s talk it out?
If not Gerry making an honest dollar, then who? A Ho nest dollar?
And on this, I concur. For sure, I don’t want to come between a man and his honestly-produced-in-a-likely-environmentally-and-socio-econmoically-toxic-sweatshop-honest dollar, haha! Whatever tho, Gerry better than say…E LO or Laird. That’s for damn sure!
Don’t stress too much. Selling out or “cashing in” is the natural trajectory of artists or those naturally gifted. If Jimi was alive today he’d probably have Vegas residency titled “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” with his band members wearing sequined tuxes and occasional guest duets with Tom Jones. Actually I might have paid to see that.
I think Prince was a better axeman.
You ever see him?
I never saw Prince but do recognize that he could play guitar OR drums OR bass OR keyboards with equal virtuosity. Jimi probably wasn’t as well schooled in various instruments as Prince but his R&B and blues chops were amazing….and then LSD took him to a different realm. I have a friend who worked for Prince at his LA house in the 2000s and said Prince would spend hours playing classical music on his piano. He also said his house was decorated EXACTLY like you think it would be.
In the mid 80s I thought Prince was a kook what with the big hair and the lame motorbike. Then I heard how he had his own nightclub and would use internal cameras to zoom in on hot chicks for his music videos. Thought that was pretty bloody cool. By the 90s I started paying attention. Man that guy was amazing. There’s a cool youtube where Dave Grohl talks about meeting Prince for the first and only time “my 80s brain exploded!”
Saw him in 93
Faaaarrrkkk!!!!
Blew my mind
In the mid 90s I was an occasional half assed house party dj in San Francisco lugging crates of vinyl. Three songs that would ALWAYS get the cute Filipina and Latina girls up dancing were Prince”s “Erotic City” or the Prince produced “Nasty Girl”and “A Love Bizarre”. They couldn’t give a shit about my predilection towards underground house or hip hop!!!
My old roommate and skater John Howard became a well known DJ in SF in the nineties. He ended up getting paid to do raves all over the world.
I may have swallowed a little white pill or two and danced spastically to John Howard’s sets. Although I preferred the Wicked Crew parties. Full Moon at Bonny Doon!!!
I shared a house with him and four other skaters called the pit, haha. Crazy times.
that’s fucken obvious !!
That’s a bit more civilised.
Very good.
He wrote a lotta hits for others too.
Easily the best concert I have ever seen, small small venue.. he kept us waiting an hour and half, came out with branford marsalis and who knows who else in his band. In this club in Worcester Ma in 1999 or 2000. He ripped through a first set of hits in a medley for like 1 -1.5 hours.. came back after a break and played 3-4 songs over an hour. Fucking incredible.. coming from a semi-touring 80’s Dead Head…
he did like a 20-night stand at the Forum in Inglewood perhaps 10 years ago. A chick took me night 1, and I proceeded to go 6 more times. Each show he brought up a new handful of all-stars for a song or two, so I saw him jam with Stevie Wonder, Bootsy Collins, Mary J. Blige…too many others to remember. Mind-blown. And now, I strut proudly around in my black Prince t-shirt with sparkly gold trim.
Case in point: Jefferson Airplane begat Jefferson Starship begat Starship. The cash is hard to pass up when yer ageing out I suppose. I wouldn’t mind having that philosophical dilemma.
Going from “white rabbit” to “we built this city…” is the perfect metaphor for all idealistic hippies that became yuppies in the 80s. I can’t even imagine Starship playing any of their late 60s stuff. That would just look, sound and feel weird!!!
i think he would be more like Bob Dylan than Mick Jagger. More Jerry Garcia (if jerry was alive, so Phil Lesh) than Bob Weir..
Gerry & Co made so much cash when they developed the hollow fin at gland , one of surfings great innovations, that and mass marketing lightning bolt.
was just wondering how Patagonia market the New Gerry range of clothing with el cheapo from China?
Patagucci, the get a new jacket every season company.. such bullshit.. consumer crap.. sold the farm… I fucking hate their shit quality to boot.. got a set of winter mitts years back.. felt amazing.. all fleecy and shit.. paddled first time.. the fleece sucked water up into the glove.. i was carrying 2lb weights on every paddle.. sent back saying this is shit.. and they gave me 14$ toward a new purchase.. was so pissed.. sold all my patagonia xmas gifts on eBay.. fuck them
Same as everything they will just bullshit and lame need a logo types will buy it.
VAL inspired *Surfing* boards.
“Hey! What VALume are you riding?
Infinity liters!
Fatt appreciates those “Chinese Commie motherfuckers… if they buy my boards and not those Commie Wavestorms… fucking communists… what? This isn’t Communist China… oh, I mean, well, still, they’re opening up… no Commie bullshit, buy American!… what the fuck is Gegenpressing? Why is everyone asking me this now? Fucking com…”
right, did the “he-titties”come before the haircut?
it’s so fucking funny when you consider the biggest problem facing the local surfboard industry in Australia/Europe/USA right now is the lack of workers and lack of production space in Glass shops…everywhere….it’s really bad in California…the manufacturers/glass shops are backed up for mths….and it’s winter..stories of 3-4mth waits , no tint work being done ( takes too long)….so we have a full blown boom going on …not enough kids coming into the industry..is surfboard making the highest age demographic of workers in the Western World?
Matt got that weird color wig ( can’t be real!), do asian s/bd buyers want to see a red blonde and not a slavic neanderthal?
Hey Mo, let me affirm your EXACT points. Here in America, corporate welfare is king. Small shops eaten up by big shops eaten up by China. Point being, EATEN UP. And dudes are earning $15/USD max while living in places like Ventura & Santa Barbara working for CI and Patagucci, renting 1-2bdrm dumps for $2500/month while truly producing world class “surf craft” and arty as fuck with the right shoppy resin-tint layer, on an hourly scale. What young grom wants in? Here, in the Ventura & Oxnard region, the answer is: about the same amount of young surf cats itching to pick strawberries: zero.
Hence the slave round up on the border
I often wonder why the younger guys don’t pick up and try surfboard making…it’s like an apprenticeship …work a couple of years , get your craft down ie; Glassing and sanding , you can travel the planet making bds and a good living…….but I guess being a graphic artist or….?????
Surfboard factories used to be incredible places of Innovation/creativity and the foundation of Surfing Culture /lifestyle and a career…..so what are they doing?
I’d give it a bash if I had a time machine to go back to my mispent youth.
Is there any money in it though (serious question), and also, how long does it take to train up to be any good at it?
Some people pick it up really quick a couple of mths depending on volumes and the Teacher /environment…..
When you get to piece rates and not hourly work…….a good Glasser that can do tints etc…should be capable of earning $300 – $800 per day…depending on numbers..and the quality of the work…
I have a part time glasser does 2 a day 6 days a week , 15 hrs a week on piece rates…$1000 pw…..
So the money’s not bad …