It is hard to imagine a time that the tour moved product to anyone outside of the surf world...it has tried for its entire existence, but the fact that hollister absolutely dominated most surf brands in sales tells you all you need to know about the effectiveness of pro surfing as a marketing tool.
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Pro surfers/no insurance/begging for money on GoFundMe
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You're right. Pro surfing has no point. I'm going to leave this revolver on your desk and walk out of the room. You know what to do.
Pro surfing's point is to make money and move BillaQuikVolHurlaBong product.
football - yes UCSB had a team lol
It’s pretty damn unconscionable for a company like Vans to sponsor a surf contest at a dangerous spot like Pipe and not provide the competitors with basic insurance protecting against injury while competing and paying medical expenses arising from such an injury. It’s actually absurd. Terrible business practice
If I was good enough to surf pipe and could get it with just three other people out I would enter. Id probably just sit on the shoulder if they were holding it in proper conditions.
When I worked at Surfer long ago, our group was led by Doug Palladini. He went on to become prez at Vans. I didn’t agree with everything DP did at Surfer pubs—he helped orchestrate its ultimately ruinous sale to Petersen pubs. But he was a very, very smart and detail oriented dude who knew action sports. Heck, he started up Snowboarder mag, which made Surfer publicatoons millions. From what I gathered, Doug kept Vans pretty much on its A-game during his tenure there. I have a hard time imagining this shitshow would have happened with someone at the helm who understood the surf, snow, skate world like Palladini did. I threw the Tahitian kid a few shekels. Y’all should too.
Just ask yourself if a sponsoring company run by actual surfers would leave these costs for the injured surer to pay.
Surfers, especially those in the surf industry, tend to be very ethical, responsible, selfless humans. Of course they would pay.
fair point. Lol
it’s strange that a presumably sophisticated company like Vans would run an event without securing injury insurance for participants. I’m sure that Vans remembered to have the surfers sign waivers though
The problem is this kid is a French citizen who purchased US travel insurance. That insurance just excluded injuries from a competition …. because those should be covered by the event.
Vans is under no legal obligation to provide insurance. They’re entitled to leave a potentially paralyzed traveling surfer without coverage, which they apparently did here.
Vans is under no legal obligation to provide insurance. They’re entitled to leave a potentially paralyzed traveling surfer without coverage, which they apparently did here.
First there was the guy that got hurt at Chopes, then the Peruvian guy the got hurt at Pipe, now the Tahitian guy that got hurt at Pipe.
What a bizarre world we're living in.
I'm sure they would donate to your GoFundMe and would throw you some waves at their local.
Get a fvcking job!
Bro ngl kinda agree but the kid has to get out of the hospital and back to France Polymnesia first.
This is well documented with out-of-state and foreign students because they pay much higher tuition
Legislators Want The University Of California To Enroll More In-State Students. It's Been Slow Going
Years after an audit disparaged the University of California for not enrolling enough in-state students, the numbers have barely budged. But there are signs that change is ramping up.
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Once Kelly Slater is done gargling JFK Jrs balls, I’m sure he will be donating to the youngsters cause.
before i discovered surfing