Mick Fanning, Tyler Wright, Gabriel Medina, Morgan Ciblic et voila!
You, most likely, are thankfully too young to remember the evil payola days of old. I’m too young too but once thought about watching the film American Hot Wax which focuses on the end of an era when record labels would pay radio stations to spin their artists, regardless of talent, in order to juice sales.
The practice was made illegal in the early 1960s, without disclosure of aforementioned monetary exchange, as everyone’s tastes must have gone to absolute shit.
Dangerous the sort of nonsense a morally bankrupt corporation masquerading as arbiter of art will ram down an entertainment-starved public’s throat.
Cue Rip Curl.
The universally praised television program Make or Break, which began broadcasting just days ago with all of endemic surf media falling down to rightly worship, has featured Torquay’s favorite surf brand almost exclusively over the first three episodes.
Tyler Wright.
Gabriel Medina.
Morgan Ciblic.
Matt McGillivray.
Rip Curl Narabeen Classic.
Each wonderfully inspiring but maybe inspiring with some voodoo financial magic playing out behind the scenes?
Oh I accuse Rip Curl of absolutely nothing. I love the brand more than ever. But do love because I’m sheeple and easily voodoo’d?
Neil Ridgway (RIP*) I turn my dumb eyes to you.
*RIP meaning forcibly Retired in Peace.
What kind of Rip Curl sponsorship is Matt McGillivray on if he still has to sleep in the back of a pickup at some contests?
KS wins pipe , some local wins the chicks , locals take sunset , TW wins Bells , i have sausages on Bronte winning Margs , its all soo scripted.
Hahahar – that’s the internets for ya.
Total misunderstanding…. Hahahahar
Yep good call on the Endless Summer.
The whole bullshit surf marketing image is based on that.
Woozl with its Dream Tour. Rip with The Surch. Bong with its Life’s better in boardies etc etc ….
Not as user friendly but ok is Windfinder.
Windyty. Its all ya need.
good call on the logo rip off, copyright infringement usually makes people pissed off!, wonder what happened there?
Awesome pic of mick. He’s so casual on that wave! Big smile, hair dry, and wearing a tshirt instead of a rashie, and he’s carrying a spare board like a boss.
Why don’t more surfyboardingers carry spare boards while they compete, like Mick’s good example here?
The problem with Mick is he isn’t carrying one of his soft tops that Surfline Man craves
I guess you could look at it that way or you could focus on morgs going to to the rugby the night before the comp then getting on the piss to the point he went out to the clubs after the match, when his coach picked him up in the morning he was hungover as fuck and walked out with some hot chick he picked up at the clubs then during the training session he spat the dummy and told the cameras to fuck off and then he broke his toe and beat JJ, clearly this is the greatest pro moment since davo beat kelly pissed and with no leggy at bells, the fact that rip curl still sponsors aussie piss heads is testament to a great aussie company, who gives a fuck how they make the margin to pay for these pro pissheads!
Chris Davidson was a very talented surfer – too bad he had a brain the size of a pea, no education to speak of and extensive substance abuse did not help him make rational decisions.
Just another idiot.
Just like me i guess i posted this on the wrong story
A question about Neil big face ridgeway.
Did he finally get booted on a duty of care call after putting sarge on indo boats with teenager surfers or was it just a “ your fucked at your job call “?
Clown on the jetski almost pushed wake into his takeoff.
Can’t wait to watch the wamen “surf” it!
JMP won’t know what to do.
Seriously.
Cripple the Men or make the Women look stupid.
My moneys on Cripple the Men just like she did at Sunset.
Wokeist agenda will prove this true.
Big or small
Scarred for life
Elon bought it and is renaming it, “Fist Girl”.
Since it’s a private business, they have no obligation to be ‘fair’ in this regard. If RC paid them to feature their surfer more than others, then so be it.
I’m not paying for the privilege of watching it all anyway, so I’m doubling down on not giving a poopity-poop.
yes and bribing politicians is illegal in the USA — what a joke — big campaign “donations” ARE bribes — of course radio stations still take money to play music — that’s why they are so awful
Are you lost?
No but I think you are. Lost and anonymous. From the article: “The practice was made illegal in the early 1960s…”
Is that you Tyler?
I’ve got nothing…try again tomorrow.
It’s making me not hate Kanoa and Leo as much, I don’t like that feeling…
If the Producers of “Make or Break” are favouring Rip Curl, then why was the logo taken off Gabriel Medina’s board in the image used for the promo trailer for the series?
There is no logo on his board – removed.
Get on the case Detective JSC!
That’s what they want you to believe! Wake up sheeple!
The real conspiracy is why in the history of pro surfing hasn’t a kebab food truck ever been present at a event?!?
When did you last see a Turkish surfer make a final?
The lack of Baklava on offer
Have they only ever done açai bowls in the thousand years of Turkish surf comps?
https://www.ft.com/content/…
Woozl must be starting to sweat on the outlook for Margs.
Off today, wind shit tomo then real big swell with se then e wind for the last 2 remaining days.
Interesting.