The growth of surfing in China: At what cost?
Surfing corporations and governing bodies see China as a huge new market and potential audience. Former Association of Surfing Professionals CEO Brodie Carr recently claimed by way of a press release, "China is a powerful athletic country, a vast country and marketplace with a potential billion-strong audience for us." By 'audience' I reckon Carr means 'consumers'. Given declining surf product sales in the West eyes have turned to the emerging middle-class and new rich in China. To enter the Chinese market and generate interest in surfing consumption competitions have recently been held on Hainan Island, in the South China Sea.
I went to Riyuewan Bay, Hainan Island – where the contests were held - following the last competition. As an expat surfer living in China I have been to Hainan four times – three times prior to any competitions. My recent observations have led me to have some concerns and suggestions I would like to express to the broader surfing community. These are matters you will not read in the surfing organisations' press releases and see in the surfing corporations' advertisements and advertorials.
The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) and International Surfing Association (ISA) have run The Swatch Women's World Longboarding Championship; and The Hainan Wanning Riyuewan Bay International Surfing Festival Presented by Quiksilver – made up of the International Surfing Association's (ISA) China Cup and the Association of Surfing Professionals' (ASP) World Qualifying Series' Hainan Cup.
The ASP and ISA have claimed that the move into China is about the sustainable development of surfing and sharing the 'surfing lifestyle'. The male and female competitive surfers are to be role models for Chinese youth. When professional surfer Cori Schumacher boycotted the 2011 Women's longboard championship in China on human rights grounds then ASP CEO Brodie Carr contacted her and suggested that Cori, "proactively go there as an ambassador of a sport that possesses the unparalleled ability to empower people". Following the competitions, President of the ISA, Fernando Aquerre, said, "Without a doubt I can say that China has made a grand entrance into the surfing family."
So what does this "grand entrance" and "unparalleled ability to empower people" look like on the ground at Riyuewan Bay?
One of the most significant effects of the contests I noticed has been the building of a permanent contest site. The contest site includes large sheds, media centre, competitor 'hang out' area, and judging building. A large bitumen car park has also been built. The natural shoreline has been turned into a built environment (see images 5-8 in gallery).
These facilities are only used during the contests. There is no access to them or use of them otherwise. I am sure the locals could find a 101 uses for these facilities for the 48 weeks of the year these eyesores ruin the scenery for every other surfer, tourist and local.
A local homely restaurant owned by 'Mama' has been torn down, and her land reclaimed by the government – a common practice in China when government officials can see money being made and want a grab at it themselves. Mama was compensated. However, she lost her income stream.
Mama now runs a small drink stand in a new 'surf club' (owned by a businessman/government official) built on the site of her old place. This warehouse-type structure houses a large new restaurant and the 'Surfing Hainan' surf shop.
One of the local surfers is now part owner of the restaurant. That could be seen as a benefit stemming from the development borne of the surfing competitions. However, the restaurant is doing poorly. Outside the contest periods there are not enough customers to support such a large restaurant facility. Poor trade at the restaurant has caused friction between the co-owners, and the restaurant is likely to close down after only one month of business.
This transformation of natural environment into a built environment and small businesses into large commercial enterprises is consistent with the growth of Hainan Island in general. A new resort and condominium complex seemingly opens each week. New highways cut across paddy fields. Private beaches have been established. Golf courses cover huge swathes of land. The goal in the government propaganda brochures is to make Hainan the 'new Waikiki'.
Many surfers would not appreciate the model of development being pursued.
Further to changing the natural environment into a built environment, another environmental effect of the competitions has been trash from the competitions ending up on the headland. Piles of garbage have been dumped a few metres into the vegetation (see images 2-4 in gallery). This environmental vandalism is barely a blip on the radar of the environmental destruction taking place because of over-development on Hainan (and industrial waste and construction in China, more broadly). Yet, it doesn't cry out 'sustainable development' either.
Surfing companies, organisations and competitors had (and still have) the chance to show how the environment can be managed to benefit tourism, rather than be destroyed because of it, as tends to be the case in China. To date, they have failed to do so.
In addition to the environmental concerns, I also saw how insufficient effort is being made to make sure benefits flows directly into the local community and the development of a grass-roots surfing culture.
A lot of money was sourced to pay for the meetings, trips by Chinese government officials to Australia, buildings, competition running costs, publicity, car park, etc. One extravagant example is how for The Swatch Women's Longboard World Championship the competitors, media, officials, organisers, and the like were housed at Le Meridian Resort. This is a five star resort located a few kilometres north of Riyuewan Bay. One hundred rooms were booked. The cheapest room at this resort costs five hundred U.S. dollars.
Money was sourced from the local Government and the Chinese Central Government, as well as corporate sponsors. As tends to be the case in China, quotes for services were over-priced and the excess government money ended up in a few wealthy individual's pockets. These businessmen tend to be the ones who have government connections (some successful businessmen also tend to be part of the government). This is common practice in China. It is not called 'corruption'. It is simply 'doing business'.
I am not saying the surfing organisations can avoid this way of doing business in China. My point is more about how the local people received no direct benefits despite the spending of government funds drawn from their taxes.
A way to address this failure to provide direct benefits to the local community is to make demands for increased accountability. This will help ensure that as many benefits as possible can directly reach the local community. This demand can be driven by the surfing organisations. A bit of pressure from outsiders has been known to work.
Very few locals were employed for the contests. Event management and other staffing requirements were primarily supplied by non-local companies and businesses, some from as far away as Beijing. It can be argued that the locals do not have the necessary skills to work at these contests. However, it can be countered that these contests would have provided valuable training and experience for those wishing to learn, and so in future be able to have the contests driven and controlled by the local community.
I didn't hear of any money going directly into developing a grass-roots local surfing community. The young people of the area cannot afford surfboards. Most cannot swim. No surfboards were donated or left behind for the young people to use. No swimming lessons paid for. No money was invested in a community-driven surfing collective whereby young people could come to learn ocean safety, hang out, learn how to surf, learn about how to care for their local coastal environment, get to ride a surfboard, etc. Again, it was/is a case of the surfing corporations and organisations simply wanting to take rather than given anything back.
ISA president, Fernando Aquerre, said about the ISA move into China, "Bringing it [surfing] to 1.3 billion that barely know surfing is part of our mission. Surfing is good for the world". However, surfing is not inherently 'good'. Any benefits from surfing must be worked on and developed. Planned and thoughtful action and decisions have to be taken in conjunction with surfing. Reason works better than blind faith.
For surfing communities to grow and be sustainable they must be grass-roots to begin with. Thinking that the emerging Chinese middle-class will see a contest or two and suddenly have the interest, money and leisure time to take up surfing is misguided.
The majority of the new rich in China exist in cities far away from beach culture. Young people are still encouraged to put leisure last, and education and work at the forefront. They are, after all, the first generation with such wealth, consumption ability and even a modicum of leisure time. Mind you, the vast majority of the Chinese population are far from being middle-class. The fact is, young Chinese of whatever class still have considerable family responsibilities that militate against hanging at the beach and surfing. Beach culture, as those in the West know it, is still very foreign to many Chinese, and even if they do know about beach culture it is a distant dream.
Surfing is still an exotic curiosity, and will remain so for a long time. Evidence for this is that there was only a smattering of spectators at the contests. Spectator numbers were at their highest when they were bussed in by the government, including schoolkids. VIPs were driven to the contests to observe the first day of competition and the festivities, never to return.
If the surfing organisations and the governments really want to sustainably develop surfing in China then barging in with surfing competitions is not going to cut it. They have to invest in building a grassroots surfing community.
Another thing I heard about was the presence of drugs at the ASP WQS contest. Now, I make no moral judgment about drugs. Personally, I don't care if people do drugs or don't. But it is hypocritical that the ASP recently touts their Drug Testing and stand against drugs. A word of warning, in China drug penalties can be as severe as the death penalty. You get caught in China and the offence cannot be swept under the carpet or covered up by the ASP or your surf sponsor.
Look, I am not saying surfing competitions are inherently bad or that developing surfing in China can only be negative. Some local surfers and expat surfers enjoy the opportunity to surf in these and participate. However, there are various ways the entry of surfing competitions can be less exploitative and more beneficial.
Surfing competitors and organisations have an opportunity to set an example by demanding environmental care before, during and after their presence. Money can be set aside to directly support the development of a local coastal care and surf tourism organisation. A surfing for development program could be set up for the young people of the area e.g. do well at school, come see us, and you get swimming lessons and to use a surfboard. Documentation of ethical international surf tourism examples could be brought in to show local officials and community members what can go wrong if the built environment is not managed and how surfers prefer eco-friendly and community-driven development. Surfing representatives also have a rare opportunity to have a word in the ear of government officials about such matters. It's an opportunity most of the local community will never have.
On Hainan there is an expat surfing population and a dozen or so local surfers who could be paid to manage this process. In my humble opinion, this is a group of people who have not adequately been incorporated into the development of surfing on Hainan. This group of surfers understand local ways of getting things done, can provide on-the-ground reports, and already have wonderful ideas about how to move surfing forward on Hainan in a sustainable and ethical way. For example, Brendan who owns the surf shop 'Surfing Hainan' and runs the Surfing Hainan Open – a locally-driven contest – has shown how a surfing competition on Hainan can be responsibly run, community-sensitive and environmentally sound.
What now?
One could begin with a series of workshops with the expat and local surfing population, as well as local community elders, to work out what is good for the grass-roots community.
I write this article to serve as a warning and a faint hope that a necessary discussion amongst key stakeholders regarding the development of surfing on Hainan can ensue.
Thankfully, it will be a long time before the surf industrial complex find some of the other locales my stickerless friends and I surf in China - beachies that are carbon copies of South Straddie/Duranbah/Blacks, pointbreaks that peel for hundreds of metres, and a few reefs that'll keep you on edge. Surfing is already in China, just not as the corporations/organisations know it.
Acknowledgment: I would like to thank Cori Schumacher for her discussions with me about the matters in this article. You can read some of Cori's opinions about China and surfing here and here and also here.
Clifton Evers is a researcher/writer living in China. He works for universities, government departments, sport organisations, and community groups. He is the author of Notes for A Young Surfer (2010, Melbourne University Press).
Comments
Can someone make sense of this for me:
"You been suckah punched by a hillbilly using your own medicine and you not smart enough to realise it. Your a smart little bunny."
If I've been sucker punched, then you better swing harder because even though I'm frail, I didn't feel shit. Everyone from Surf Media 1.0 has fled Twitter or created other names so they can "follow" those who have something to actually say because its exposed their every flaw. 1 out of 900 followers is 0.1%.
Barton Lynch is a smart fellow. You'll be hearing from him soon, methinks.
That's not even ASP math.
I have never been involved in insider trading. Nor have i ever as rottkamp claims, have been in court for insider trading. Hells bells, other than as a juror, i have never been in court period.... So, one more example old rottkmap has become unhinged, and standing on a ledge..... such actions seem to happen to pilled up boozers suffering mental delusions.... on the verge of "making the leap"...
So, back off the edge old boy, get some help with your addictions and illusions, and get some professional help.... Your kids deserve it.
As to corporations experiencing variable earnings reports, welcome to the real world. Where nothing moves in a straight line. And corporations come and go in the surf industry....
Anyone remember OP? Or a whole list of other previous corps providing sponno money?... yea, sponno money even for the minor league players, you know those same folks who old rotty "proofreads for?... including the editor of Trans World Surf...... good capitalist, rottkamp, good capitalist you are.
And one remember when Coca Cola was a sponsor of surf contests?.... It was a great deal for them. At the time, forked over several grand from their massive pile of crumbs allocated to advertising only to have their name brand fixed to some historical contests in question in perpetuity.
Rootkamp, it's going to be a long 5 or 10 years while you wait for your next wrong call!
Ka-ook!...
The only thing left?.... wondering who the big name sponsors will be on the impending Kelly Slater Brand man made waves?..
And as all the crumbs fall into the lap of the hard working innovators and doer's?.... the minority of whinging neggies will still be there, flapping their pie holes.
SurferJoe,
I got a copy of the interview from my IT guy this morning. He says I'll get some mileage out of it if I can get over all the "I think this" "I think that" "me" "me" "me"... that's just his opinion. He knows nothing about surfing.
I'll give it a whirl this afternoon.
DM me on Twitter or email me if you want the file.
You are right S-Joe,... the Aussie Open of Surfing is a complete success.... surf. skate. music....three forms of entertainment wrapped up in one.
What a genius mash-up.... Titans of Rock, and Sneaky Sound System!
Too bad grandpa rottkamp can't buy a clue up in here.
Rottkamp Frail?
pffffft.
More like Epic Fail!
You needed your IT guy to get you the file, my brother?
WTF???
you need your IT guy to click on the link from the frontpage of swellnet for you???
you're not the sharpest tool in the shed are you buddy?
as for mileage...i predict you'll take one of two tracks, either the usual puerile rants that roughly translate to:
"Miss, they're copying me!"
"i said it first! i did!"
or secondly, the self-deluded tack of:
"my message is getting through and I'm proved right again, even if they won't admit it."
i predict you'll completely miss the fact that youre just catching up to the intelligent world on this stuff. it can't possibly be true that anyone without an IT guy could have worked it out, unless of course they had the the help of your invaluable contributions.
How about this prediction:
Stu Nettles will not say anything that will keep him and Ben from landing any of the Big Surfing sponsors. He will espouse all the ideas that everyone else has talked about ad nauseum, and never once cite a single article he's written that comes anywhere close to be called "Real Journalism."
And yes, my IT guy is named Rochester and he also cooks for me and gets me dressed in the morning.
He also can hack into any computer he wants and has access to files that people thought were deleted from the internet.
All around good bloke to know.
Just because everyone's been "talking about" the problems in surfing doesn't mean anyone of Stu Nettles stature has DONE anything about it.
That's the embarrassing thing.
I'd rather say, I knew nothing until yesterday, than say, yeah, I've known all about the dark side of surfing but never did anything REAL to stop it.
That's where Media 2.0 comes in.
Just regular surfers asking those who write for advertisement websites like this, to take their job seriously. Just as we in Media 2.0 take our own jobs seriously... be it engineering, writing, investing, killing people, and raping small animals.
When old rottkamp says media 2.0, he's really taking about him rummaging around the neighbor's recycle bins, and setting up a blanket at the local boot sale.
Oh, once he gets permission from his blech-tech guy.... and cashes his paycheck from Big Hollywood.
In the mean time, professional surfing, whether it's contest surfing, or minor leaguers paid to free surf, will continue to roll....
And drug addled schizophrenics will continue to illegally mix their sauce with prescription drugs, and continue on pissing up their own leg.
Right Rottkamp?
rotty,which other forums give you uncensored access???
I think you are a plant by swellnet,to keep us all entertained...you are worth a fortune to them,as is any court jester,
but seriously are there any other forums you visit that has such a great group of antagonists and frothing bubbling intellects,that rise to your baiting and your obvious passion for long chit chats,about .....the downfall of democracy and capitalism!
keep it up rotty,you are actually now part of the entertainment industry......
@Surferjoe,
If you want to listen to the interview you'll have to get Brewser's IT guy to hack the emails of the ABC, find the password to their server, stealthily download it while bragging about Anonymous contacts, and then upload it to your computer.
Or you can just listen to it here: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/surfing-journa…
@Brutus,
Brewser IS a plant on Swellnet. Only he doesn't know that yet. I mean, really, if Ben Matson or myself felt threatened by his words do you think we'd let him comment? We'd do what STAB, ASL and many other sites have done and ban him.
But that's not going to happen, Brewser is good entertainment plus he doubles as our social media marketing chimp on Twitter. I just wish he could get more followers. In six months he's added just 30 followers - The Wiggles add that many each day! Seems people aren't tuning into Brewser's rants.
I'll have a word with him about that...
Apparently while Brew "questions authority" he only appeals to those paragons of virtue at the top of the heap.
Yep, those dastardly revolutionary enemies of the status quo : " doctors, financial advisors, bankers, engineers, architects, builders, entrepreneurs,"
Those paid top dollar to "think".....and boy haven't they made a fine fist of it.
Questioning authority by those at the top of the tree making big bank by ripping off the little man.
Now, THATS a piece of conceptual cobweb spinning that'd make a propagandist in China blush with pride.
Ignorance is strength.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery.
The big money elite are challenging the status quo.
Fits perfectly.
I actually feel far more sympathy for the 400 workers getting the sack from Bong, than some scumbag prescribing ritalin to the kid who can't sit still in class and taking his free lunches from Big Pharm.
But no dentists in there Brew? No man can be happy with a busted grill.
Pass me those oxy's, I can't afford a root canal.
Stu,
You more than right on in this last post of yours.
Unlike here at Swellnet.com.au, on his now defunct site?... old Rottkamp banned, blocked, and barred many people who had opposing viewpoints than his.... Me being one of them.
Heh.
stu,my conspiracy theory is, rotty is too much of a draw card and enormous entertainment ,once ya get by his personal insults etc...
at the end of the day,being insulted by rotty is sorta a compliment....so is rotty really Tim baker or nick Carroll....join the dots.....???
sid sees Clifton Evers, Cori Schumacher, Blasphemy Rottmouth and Stu Nettles co-parenting a Love Child in the not too distant future.
@Stunet
Thanks Stu I will listen to it on your link but Brewsters Biggest Fan @HuskyShan insists on BR's IT guy waitng on her Hand and Foot... She never "follows" the "crowd"... She is an Independent, Non Label Wearing Husky who sees all and Bows to Nobody.... Therefore She Was a Shoe In for the "Industry Plant" Position recently Advertised on dare I say it... Surf Media 1.0... As we Speak She is on Code Red Alert Shadowing BR's every move like HMS Ulysses Shadowing The German Fleet... Be Afraid... Be Very Afraid Mr Blaspemy Rottmouth, who is casually and unsuspectingly, sitting on his Porch Slurping on another Bottle of Maynard James Keenan of Caduceus Cellars - excellent Primer Paso Caduceus Cellars 2008, in a Nyquil Induced Illusion... Because We the Saviours of the Surf Industry... are watching your every move!!
Steve,
Your sympathy for the "little man" is as transparent as who you decide to publish your words. Little ol hillbilly awe shucks bald add bloke from Lennox just trying to make some innocent change writing propoganda that's eaten up like Skittles by The Industry.
Pity.
If you saw how much money I donated to real charities last year you'd shit your pants.
You are a tool of The Industry.
And Stu thinks I'm trying to gain followers on Twitter... just like my blog. Provide some evidence Stu.
You will, however, find many instances of me asking people NOT to follow me. The only people I care about following me were doing so long before I reached 500 followers. And I'm on lists made by everyone in the industry.
So my war was won long ago.
This year is the ticket tape parade.
If I wanted more followers on Twitter I'd just link to my work account. Which has 1.5x as many followers as Kelly Slater.
Kelly has 150,000 followers in Tweet and Shearer thinks 2 million people watched Chopes.
Bwahahahahaaaaaaa.
BTW Brew
Pleased to hear that You Listen and Learn... Last time You me And Shan were talking... I mentioned Barton Lynch and you said Pardon? Que? ... I had to School You... Then Shan patiently explained... like a Mother explains to her errant Rug Rat... Affable and witty yet uncompromising Barton was 1988 Billabong Pro and the World Title Holder in the same year.... Did your people... Your Research Team Fail You on this one Brew?
joe, shouldn't huskyshan have a swellnet account ?
Sid The Fish,
Do your spurs match your Gaybling Saddles?
Did you blow the sheriff but you didn't bent the deputy?
Have you ever been ravaged in the Wild Wild West at your own behest?
Do you enjoy chewing tobacco and smoking cock?
Is it true you were the first Goatranny in your family's long line of Cowboys?
When your spurs spin does your asshole cling?
Did you come here for your usual spurious accusations?
When you ride Perez Hilton do you wear swarovski spurs?
I heard they electrocute retards in Australia. Are you a fugitive?
Meanwhile,
Joe,
I've been in touch, vicariously, with Barton for some time. He's got some potential. Could be The Man. If not... there is a laundry list building of people willing to talk.
And it won't be published here.
Ye Gods!
What a suprise.
Rottkamp,
forget us here,... PLEASE, for the sake of your wife and kids, buy a clue and get a hold of yourself and get some professional help with your drug and alcohol addictions, before someone blames us all, and stick with the blame for your serious drink and pill addictions.
https://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/in-which-chris-farleys-de…
'I've been in touch, vicariously, with Barton for some time. He's got some potential. Could be The Man'
Oh yeah? Keep talking.
Rottkamp.
He not only quite clearly lives in his fantasy world, he makes his living writing meaningless fantasy.... Paid in full by Hollywood elitists.
And quite clearly, he IS a full time pathological narcissist.
This link will explain it all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_(psychology)
Oh, and arguing with a crazy person is nuts!
Rottkamp, get help before it's too late.
Boxright,
I don't say anything here that hasn't been said on Twitter... days ago.
@Sid @Ben @Stu...
Good Idea... Unfortunately Shan is a Fickle Pretentious Diva who will demand "Appearance" Money$... Yes She is a Wanton Mercenary... I will have My People Speak to Your People Ben and Stu re the delicate "Negotiations" Necessary to Attract a Personage of Her Stature
For the dumb cunts who need their IT guys to email the MP3 of Stu's RN foray....
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/surfing-journa…
By the way Steve,
Since when are regular, everyday surfers, who decided to get educated, and become doctors, engineers, architects, and professional writers, not entitled to rip on the "little men" who willingly work as cum receptacles for an Industry awash in bullshit?
You seem to think everydady surfers have to be retards like you who can't do anything besides clean toilets and mimic Jeff Spicoli when they walk into a room.
The 1%.
The rest of surfing... the 99% is made up of normal people. That includes the educated class that NOW has a voice that's not controlled by the Cartel.
You keep writing for the Cartel. It's all you got.
The rest of us have more options.
Enjoy those veggies.
I just drank a half pint of whisky. Because you and I are dying since the day we were born. So fuck the liver. And fuck The Industry.
They've done SHIT for me.
And there you have it folks, the "industry" creates all sorts of useful products. all of which not one consumer makes the free choice to make a purchase unless they think the product is better for them than keeping their crumbs in their own pocket.
Not only that, on offer are free local entertainment events, as well as FREE online streaming of test matches from all parts of the globe.
All the while, kooks like rottkamp whinge on and on that the conditions were not perfect.... the eaves were not epic,... and that the minor league sponsored guys who he's been "proofreading" for could not make the competitive cut, are not included in the top shelf events.
What a fucking freeloading loser!
Know what?... I feel sorry for his wife and kids,... (as Rottkamp downs yet another fifth of sauce with his prescription drugs).... After all, even George Carlin explained it all to old rottkamp decades ago,.... and due to his narcissism, once again rottkamp epically fails to heed his advice.....
I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. "Warning! Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was."
-George Carlin
Incidently, the 1% in surfing are mostly uneducated, barely coherent, mostly unemployable outside The Industry neophytes who cling to the lie they've been sold for three decades.
The same lie Stu Nettles bkathers on about in his interview, yet has done ZERO to change... because then he may be relegated to driving a bus with Shearer.
I don't feel bad for a single person laid off from Billabong... a company profiteering on slave labor in Brazil and Indonesia. Off the death of its biggest asset, and run by coke heads trained by Michael Tompson to keep their champion narcotically sedate.
Go ahead Shearer, feel bad for those test suckling employees of the Snake. Most were ex industry hose jobs doing nothing anyway.
Feel bad for the fucking millions out if work because of politicians fucking over your immigrants... and mine (see Arizona).
Cry yourself a river for your beloved Bong Shearer. Just enjoy the fact that Ben can now afford their adds on this blog.
be honest joe, you just don't want to share huskyshan.
I understand, she's a bewdy and I bet she's a real good kisser.
Classic Brew
'cramps, how many kilowatts has the hamster wheel generated in the past 24 hours?
what's the going rate for the green rebate over there?
@Sid
She @HuskyShan is a Jealous Wench... and if you could see the Assassin like Methods by which she Dispatches Possums to that Great Tree in the Sky you would not take her Covetousness Lightly
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'cramps, I know your on the piss, but you'll have to tweet harder, the volts in the grid are waning, so-cal will suffer brown outs worse than the enron days.
Sid,
I write for a living. I do this in my spare time. We are in the process of writing Season two of a successful cable show and I have a bi-weekly column for a SyFy website that gets 30x the unique views of Surfline.
This shit is the easiest gig I ever had.
That's why I've never asked a dime for it.
'cramps, that's all good, but can you peddle and tweet faster please.
There have been many surf companies over the years that have come and gone..... Yet, the surf industry, and competitive surfing is still here. And will be for generations to come. Note, BKS -Bob Kelly Slater and partners will soon own and operate the field in which many of the comps will go down.... Man Made Wave Machines and the arena in which they are held.
And if the folks running Billabong happen to curtail or discontinue sponsoring surf test matches, that just provides opportunities for other competitors in the biz to step in.... the gaming breaker opportunity many other companies have been looking for.
So yea, rottkamp?.... And at the end of the day, which of the big ten multinational entertainment corporations signs your checks?
Glass house. Meet stones.
Rotty,the only cartel is in your mind.........
By Rotty........
You keep writing for the Cartel. It's all you got.
The rest of us have more options.
Enjoy those veggies.
I just drank a half pint of whisky. Because you and I are dying since the day we were born. So fuck the liver. And fuck The Industry.
They've done SHIT for me
********** Profiling our rotty is becoming rather easy,when he lets slip the above comments.....
you see the glass half empty,so you are dying,barely living,and fuck the industry because they have done shit for you...shows an egomaniac hell bent on badmouthing the industry,because he has been rejected....by Michael Tomson.....thats me putting a few dots together based on what rotty has said over the last week.
bloody entertaining... blasphemy jestermouth...especially his comments about BL having potential......he's actually working for nike/hurley doing commentary on Fuel TV on the aussie open.....is he infiltrating the cartel on rottys behalf,as an undercover ......court jester.....?
Rotty,the only cartel is in your mind.........
By Rotty........
You keep writing for the Cartel. It's all you got.
The rest of us have more options.
Enjoy those veggies.
I just drank a half pint of whisky. Because you and I are dying since the day we were born. So fuck the liver. And fuck The Industry.
They've done SHIT for me
********** Profiling our rotty is becoming rather easy,when he lets slip the above comments.....
you see the glass half empty,so you are dying,barely living,and fuck the industry because they have done shit for you...shows an egomaniac hell bent on badmouthing the industry,because he has been rejected....by Michael Tomson.....thats me putting a few dots together based on what rotty has said over the last week.
bloody entertaining... blasphemy jestermouth...especially his comments about BL having potential......he's actually working for nike/hurley doing commentary on Fuel TV on the aussie open.....is he infiltrating the cartel on rottys behalf,as an undercover ......court jester.....?
Oh we have been marginalised?
B.R.E.W. @Rottmouth
People who think I am trying to win over hearts & minds in The Surf Industry have completely missed the point. Fuck You & All That You Love!
Rottkamp,
Love you and all that you fuck!.
Signed, That long, long list of those Hollywood folks who've OD'd on drugs and alcohol, (which outnumber the one person who have done the same in ALL of professional surfing)... (and yet, Hollywood still carries on)....
Yup, Hollywood's entertainment corporations, the same one's who signed Rottkamp's massive checks....
BOOYAH!
Rottkamp,
( Who's relegated to playing the part of the Nancy Grace of surfing on surf blogs the world over),...
Funny thing? I can only find one single surfer on this long list of entertainers succumbing to drug and alcohol overdoses.
Don't hold your breathe though.... Even though he never actually surfs, old Rotty is my prediction to turn up to be the latest addition. to the list...
It's just a matter of time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drug-related_deaths
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rottkamp