HYPOTHETICAL CONTEST

budgie · Post by **budgie** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:09 pm

Hi All

Imagine a kneeboard contest circuit and the prize money was US$100 000.

The contests was held at premier waves around the world, just like the PRO FOOTBOARDERS.

As always, there is a catch...............here it is.

The sponsor wants control over the whole contest and the competitors.

The rules for the contest are the same as they are now, with paid judges, lots of world media coverage...............sound great so far.

The catch is ................every competitor will have to ride the sponsors board, a new type of mass produced kneeboard and there is only one model.

WHAT SIZE AND SHAPE AND WIDTH AND HOW MANY FINS ETC?

Lets face it, it will be a compromise for some and some will get some of their own way and some lucky competitors will get their own style of board possibly.

Would love some feed back on this, I know it is a bit far fetched, but lets see where it leads us

Budgie

budgie · Post by **budgie** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:14 pm

Hi all

I see ya lookin, some input would be good, even if it said "are you on wacky weed? "

budgie

ScottMac · Post by **ScottMac** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:25 pm

Why?

Why a contest where everybody has to ride the same hemmeroidal,
fvcked up mass produced board?

What ever has happened to individuality?

Sh!t, I still have a hard time thinking about anybody who keerides
and chases after trophys.

hart · Post by **hart** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:48 am

2 cool Scotty Mac

fooj · Post by **fooj** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:34 am

Are there hot babes involved?

SFKneelo · Post by **SFKneelo** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:49 am

In the spirit of contests I'd like to see, but would rather not enter...

1. Lower Trestles, no crowd control, criteria to start contest is over-broadcast, over-hyped New Zealander after a long flat spell in the middle of Summer, and Uli's. 12-person heats. No drop-in rule. No protective gear allowed.

2. The 'Roy Stewart' speed trials. No drop-in rules. Stopwatch determines the victor. Board dimensions are 10' by 22" by 3"

3. SurfTech-sponsored Pipeline contest, all contestants using the closest footboard proxy of a kneeboard... 5'6" by 21-and-change-fish.

4. JBay demolition derby. Not only no drop-in rule, and the winner is determined as the first person to reach the inside of the bay only riding waves. First wave of the set is important...

... a little wacky weed would improve the creativity...

RMcKnee · Post by **RMcKnee** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:21 pm

SFKneelo, you're a cruel man.

Kauaikneelo · Post by **Kauaikneelo** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:26 pm

Or this:

Come here when its goin off (10'-12' local scale)

Each kber must to tell the Kinimaka clan to f@@K off before getting in the water.

First one to get a wave wins! (Drop-ins will count and body bags are free)

THAT would be a contest of surfing skills!

PEPO · Post by **PEPO** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:16 pm

if, if, if, if it falls more sticks is the one who wins and who gives the most beautiful girl in the place

ScottMac · Post by **ScottMac** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:27 pm

budgie · Post by **budgie** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:40 pm

Hey weirdo le kneelos

I take my craft seriously and have asked advice and only SCOTTMAC in his first posting has taken me task, his last picture posting proves the rumours about the love affair,

and all other stuff is blithering blah blah nonsense, not like my SERIOUS quest.

Please stick to the question at hand, or is that in my hand?

Budgie

Look forward to putting a face to a post name at the NZ worlds

SFKneelo · Post by **SFKneelo** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:28 am

I apologize.

My serious answer to the question is the same as Scotty's. I'm thinking that probably represents the majority opinion...

On the contest thing... what I like is the prospect of surfing good waves with just a few guys and hanging with the crew... enjoying the diversity.

It's also a motivator for improving skills... more heats = more surfing.

On the flip side, it's always been a passion, and things like getting nervous about upcoming contests are about as diametrically oppososite the release in it's pure free-surfing form.

On the custom vs. mass-produced board, I learned pretty early on. I had a Small Faces kneeboard, when my Mom surprised me with a brand-spanking-new 7' Morey Doyle ('74?.) It came neatly packaged in cellophane.

I didn't want to hurt my Mom, who really tried to make it special. I would have to sneak around my Mom with the kneeboard, and kept the Doyle in the yard where my younger brothers beat the tar out of it (not surfing, just typical young guy stuff.)

The last I saw the board, it had faded to pink.

My Mom caught on, and I saved and bought my next kneeboard.

We were square from that point on...

OK... now can I offer up a K-U-P contest? Knee-up-Paddling?

Or, how about drinking a resin bucket full of beer after each heat? Oops, that's been done!

Sorry again

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:50 pm

fooj wrote:Are there hot babes involved?

sorry Greg
you wanted serious hypothetical stuff
oo...mmmm
let me channel Geoffrey Robertson here

$$$$$ on offer
but you have to ride this board with big sponser thingies and funny fins etc

how many $$$$$
more than enough $$$$ to get over any issues

there will be entrants

and IF the best guys don't enter
I will
and surf like crap and might even win some low level $$$
and get my picture taken being hugged by the hot babes mentioned above

Ler · Post by **Ler** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:59 am

I would rather be dead than lose my indentiy for a mass produced event. I dont care if its a million and one dollars and some coldcuts.

Ler

surfhorn · Post by **surfhorn** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:06 am

I was always partial to staking out a point way down Baja way and holding a Vitamin L 'contest'......

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