Re: Bong in big trouble
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 2:14 pm
I blame Kony, personally.
good point Bp tho i only used tennis a s one of heaps of activities that people participate and which garner huge following and massive $$$ returns for those companies that are the core foundation suppliers.Beanpole wrote:Dunno hollohout, to compare a surf session to a game of tennis is to miss the point of surfing. Its got more in common with fishing and hunting. Thats the romance of the activity.
I would have to say I dont mind watching a heat occasionally you can get a better appreciation of the way better surfers select and ride their waves that you don't get from the highlights that pop up on the news or in DVD's etc. As for fishing/surfing I am not sure if any of the big lifestyle brands have incorporated the two before but a lot of surfers are into fishing as well.steve shearer wrote:U know it's funny Fong.
I took the kids fishing in a little tidal causeway the other day (secret spot right in the middle of the burbs where if you go the right tide you can catch surprising fish).
Bloke named Steve who helped me get up the carpark after I fin slashed my foot and couldn't walk came down for a fish.
Salt of the Earth bloke.
First thing he asks me after enquiring after the fishing was whether I was watching the comp in France. He really wanted to yak about it.
Just a normal bloke who loves his surfing and fishing and enjoys watching Pro Surfing.
Apparently they do exist.
alakaboo wrote:Well, that's obviously the banks fault. They can be pretty insistent, lord knows I didn't want to buy a house but they just kept sending me money.
Oh I'm not saying Matthew Perrin isn't a cokcsucker...though he's not part of this pictureHollowed out wrote:My point Nick ,is that if you don't 'get it' in any business ya gunna struggle to run it well and the fact that non surfers filled the board seats of Bong when it became listed simply started driving for a 'profit at any cost ' mentality which overlooks the very nature of the industry.
Surfers understand that 70% of the time surfing is in poor to average conditions and time actually spent riding a wave in a one hour session may be only a few minutes. try and tell a tennis player that the court would be only reasonably playable 70% of the time and they would only actually 'play ' tennis for a few minutes for every hour on court. It is an analogy that also transends into the surf industry and is probably pretty unique in that nearly all the success stories in the industry revolve around simple individuals as surfers who grew cottage businesses without fancy education or qualifications.
Enter the likes of Perrin, Kunkel and greedy institutional investors demanding ever increasing profits and that lull in swell, weeks of onshore winds we all expect and cater for, sees a dip in sales and these guys start freakin out.
Do you really think it was all Derek or Gordons fault Bong loaded up on debt for retail
Well exactly.fongss wrote: i sense the surf culture chasin it tail here :?