Freedom through sustainability!
The billionaire-owned World Surf League has had its environmental bona fides again called into question following the inking of a deal with Great Wall Motors, the Chinese manufacturers of cheap SUVS and utes.
“World Surf League sees a great synergy in this new partnership with GWM,” WSL APAC General Manager Andrew Stark says in the presser. “GWM produces vehicles that are robust and suitable for the outdoors and the surfing lifestyle so WSL sees it as a partnership that makes sense.”
GWM ambassador, the Olympian Sally Fitz, has been given one of its few hybrids, her truck powered by a dirty petrol engine married to an electric motor and battery, and is, therefore I suppose, kindly disposed towards the vehicles.
“I’m constantly seeking environments that inspire me to perform at my best,” says Fitzgibbons in the same presser. “Brands like GWM allow me to do this by providing me with a mobile home base that supports my every move in a day. The state of the art built in technology allows me to be efficient and hit my goals in comfort and style. My Haval H6 Hybrid also allows me to ride the green wave of environmental change with a more fuel efficient car. This is one small daily action that we can all do to create a bigger wave of change.”
Don’t get your hopes up too high, kiddo.
Teslas they ain’t.
It isn’t the first time the WSL’s environmental bona fides have been called to question.
Two years ago, it announced a billion-dollar development on 510-hectares, or 1200 acres, of “highly constrained land” near the Queensland beach town of Coolum. The proposal included a Surf Ranch wrapped in a 20,000-person stadium, a six-star eco-resort, restaurants, bars, a retail village and “an environmental education centre based on the site’s wetlands and nearby waterways.”
At the time, the WSL’s Andrew Stark said the local surfing community was “ecstatic and excited.”
Steve Shearer wasn’t nearly as thrilled.
“I see trees and bush. Birds, insects, frogs. I feel sad that surfers will be the ones behind the bull-dozers, erasing this wildlife, this bush from history.”
Will watch it later.
I miss Longtom
Prepare yourselves for a Chinese wildcard.
Carrot bum to the rescue
But Sally what we really need to know is can we get mid heat adverts including an ancient board with a weird outline and an OCD inducing pressure ding in an unlikely place?
Are waves the not the only thing it surfs? Can it surf the air, lanes roads and alleys? Can it drop in on mountainsides and carve through valleys and when you surf adventure, do you surf it all?
Is this bullshit real? A mobile home base supporting every move? They must be employing the world’s shittiest marketeers. 45mpg that’s fucking groundbreaking. C***TS.
Related question: who is the biggest corporate whore bag in the current WSL roster?
Sally Fitz is definitely top 5.
Medina?
Fanning?
What’s one of those hybrid Havals go out the door for?
And fuel bill per week?
Fitzy may have got me on this one.
Mate I’d buy hers just to sniff the seat
oil will always grease the green wheel .
Feels like Sally really sold her soul on this one. She’d be better off shilling tooth whiteners
No Way our Sal said any of this… But if she did, I want audio!
“I’m constantly seeking environments that inspire me to perform at my best,” says Fitzgibbons in the same presser. “Brands like GWM allow me to do this by providing me with a mobile home base that supports my every move in a day. The state of the art built in technology allows me to be efficient and hit my goals in comfort and style. My Haval H6 Hybrid also allows me to ride the green wave of environmental change with a more fuel efficient car. This is one small daily action that we can all do to create a bigger wave of change.”
How about WSL “Athletes” only using 5 boards a year?
This is a great idea – force manufacturers to come up with longer lasting equipment – not sure they would like it though – goes against their business model !
BG should push this hard. Wozz.. You’re reading, make it happen. – offset some of the bullshiz with some actual changes that make environmental sense.
No, environmental sense is pick up your trash. Otherwise, its all just a construct to steal our liberty, and money.
The dominos are falling. Next we might see a CT comp near the new Solomon Islands navy base the Chinese are establishing.
Up in the commie islands.. nothing is what it seems..
Nah…Solomon Islands said no Chinese military bases to be built.
So we’re all good.
This seems a fair ranking on the sponsorship scale.
MF – Merc, Steph – Audi and Sally F – GW. Mikey W should probably get a deal with Holden or Ford.
fucking hell, was there someone stage left with a sniper rifle trained on her temple?
“Brands like GWM allow me to do this by providing me with a mobile home base that supports my every move in a day. The state of the art built in technology allows me to be efficient and hit my goals in comfort and style. My Haval H6 Hybrid also allows me to ride the green wave of environmental change with a more fuel efficient car. This is one small daily action that we can all do to create a bigger wave of change.”
Sal’s social credit score in the East is looking healthy. She’s safe, as long as she doesn’t say Taiwan, or Hong Kong deserve independence , blame the wheeze on the CCP, or acknowledge the atrocities of the CCP perpetrated on the Uighurs up there in Xinjiang.. They probably stitched the seats of the H6 while being re-educated.
She is a minor league version of Lebron.