"It’s a state of mind, always being ready to try something new, curious to seek out knowledge and learn the rules – and break them."
The Kathmandu-owned former surf icon Rip Curl has joined a conga line of Australian swimwear companies in pivoting to the growing trans-woman market.
In an Instagram reel on Thursday as part of Rip Curl Women’s Meet the Local Heroes of Western Australia campaign, Rip Curl Women featured the inspirational T-girl Sasha Jane Lowerson.
The beauty of the Rip Curl post is its complete acceptance of Lowerson into the sisterhood. ie. no transition talk.
Meet Sasha – a West Australian waterwoman who loves the freedom found in surfing, disconnecting from the mainstream, and the feeling of dancing on constantly changing waves. When we were adventuring through Western Australia recently, we were keen to know what The Search means to the surfers who crossed our paths. These surfers live on a wild stretch of coast where there’s always a new wave or campsite just a little further down the road or off the beaten track. It’s a state of mind, always being ready to try something new, curious to seek out knowledge and learn the rules – and break them.
“Sometimes it isn’t even the actual surf, it’s the journey itself, the chats that we have in the car on the long straight roads here in WA and the campfire afterwards,” Lowerson says. “Friendships grow on the search and I love that.”
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Other Australian swimwear companies pivoting to the gender-bending market include Sea Folly, who collaborated with non-binary influencer Deni Todorovic and Moana Bikini with Jake Young looking fab in a white string one-piece.
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Tear Down The Trabby…
can I park it here? https://youtu.be/9kECD0S3IL…
Men masquerading as women getting crowned for achievements as women and…women continue to get the shit end of the stick. That ain’t right right folks.
yuck. why would you even bother. are we expecting more and more trannies to pop up with the mass formation psychosis brainwashing of our kids? i call boycott them all and see how many sales they make with their new audience. I know mick will take the politically correct road but deep down you know hes rolling his eyes and watching the legacy he helped create fall apart. yuck.
Mason Ho will be switching teams soon to keep his RipCurl sponsorship. You heard it here first. No HamSammish for RipCurl.
I’m going to withhold judgement on the blog & comments, for now…this be best at happy hour…7- 1/2 hours and countin…ya know, just a delayed gratification effort for both topics. stayin’ strong…sheer will power!
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Tonsil Hockey Tournament at the Moose Knuckle Bar and Grill!!!
At least when Kelly transitions he won’t need a name change.
Post of the day my friend. You’ve earned a Hamsammish!
*Kellie
Im struggling; the whole guy pretending to be a woman knee paddling out with a massive wolfknuckle prodding through some high cut bikini has me shook. And to think in more glorious times that deprodding tech fabric, providing brother Sasha said support, was once the Alana Blanchard line.
E-string
Isn’t Rip,Curl the operation procedure?
GO WOKE… GO BROKE !!!!!!
trump is on the ballot for california. vote garvey~sharp fins…like George! https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx….
Well I’m happy to feed back to Ripcunt WA , that Ripcunt the search , means nothing to me other than a very cleverly thought out advertising campaign championed by the so called father of sole surfing in Australia Mr Wayne “ripcurl to the bones” Lynch , all put together to do one thing put cash in to the pockets of the key orginal Ripcunt players , and they did it so well , it became the model for paid so called sole surfers , hence allowing large corporations to exploit surf culture to the very bones of our lifestyle. Bunch of cunts.
Agree with all except the W.L. part. Ripcurl have been money grubbing maggot scum for a long time,and all Christmas parties were full of the above and sycophants.
Geez you still getting over not getting a spono pack in the 80’s
No,a broken watch in the thousands
The Search was dreamt up by Derek Hynd in the late 80s / early 90s when firstly Gary Green quit the tour and then not long after, Curren took a sabattical.
Wayne Lynch was used by Rip Curl as a vehicle to push their wet suits but come the early 80s Wayne wasn’t surfing much (he was into wind surfing) and then he took off to Arnhem Land for a year. When he came back (mid 80s) he was sponsored by Beach Crew out of Anglesea and then when beach crew went belly up early 90s, he ended up being sponsored by Quiksilver and now Patagonia.
You can link Wayne to Rip Curl until about 1985 (max) and that’s it.
As to whether Wayne really believes the whole “rugged outdoorsman” thing, I really can’t say. I suspect like a lot of environmentally conscious surfers, his heart is in the right place but the absolute hypocrisy escapes him. I mean Rasta is just the bloody same, only difference is he wasn’t the second coming from the age of 14.
Lynch continued to have a curious back-and-forth relationship with the surf industry and media. While he’s been an eloquent spokesman against surfing’s commercialization, he’s also benefitted from surf company sponsorship throughout his career, most notably by Rip Curl wetsuits and Quiksilver beachwear. His disinterest in the surf media seems genuine enough, but he’s nonetheless turned up regularly in surf videos and documentaries, including Legends: An Australian Surfing Perspective (1994), Litmus (1997), Great Waves (1998), and Biographies (2001). In 2000 he became the long-distance president and head designer of Evolution
evo…the movie was a game changer for this once-young goofy drawing new lines on a shorty. his wetsuit ads were ineffective tho
What might one’s identity be if their balls were held firmly in a vice grip by their wife? Or you’ve voluntarily let her chop your dick off? Is there such thing as forced a-sexuality?
Asking for a friend… of course… 👀
Yes
I’d already bailed on Rip after their E5 debacle.
Xcel now and I ain’t going back.
We had a surf shop for 17 years. Rip Curl used to be the best wetsuit maker – by far. Their rubber was just so much better than the cardboard crap the others were using. But these days almost all wetsuits come out of the same huge factory in Thailand and there’s barely any difference in the rubber stretchiness. Even shit wetsuits are good these days, and I don’t think RC realise this.
Rip Curl bought Peak so that it could be their product that competed against the low price point suits, but Need Essentials and Vissla are just so much cheaper than RC that you’d be mad not to buy one. Why would you pay $200 bucks more for a suit that’s not even as good?
I used to be a 100% Rip Curl wetsuit guy but right now I’ve got a nice O’Neill, a custom billabong and a really nice Vissla. Used to have a really nice nine plus smoothie but with the exchange rate they are getting pricey. Came very close to buying an Xcell. I still try on a Rip Curl from a sense of loyalty but fuck, times change and they have really fucked up.
Ben Gravy
In his defense, it is Pismo.
wherever you stand on this issue – we’re doing it wrong.