Surfing Waves

Surfline and Quicksilver are taking over Barra de la Cruz in Southern Mexico near Puerto Escondido. They are going to close it down and have their own private surf trip. No contest. A private little surf trip. They say they are donating $20,000 to the community so that their 15 surfers can surf there for 5 days during a big swell without the riffraff (you an me and the locals who don’t have a car to go someplace else). We all know that $20,000 is chump change for these corporations and millionaire surfers and all they are doing is paying for an exclusive surf trip to one of the best point breaks in the world. It’s the point where they had the Rip Curl Search contest last summer. You saw the photos and the unbelievable waves. Just think if they decided to rent Steamer Lane or The Hook or Rincon or Trestles or Malibu for five days during a big swell for $20,000 and throw a few bags of cement to the local homeowners (that is what they are doing). Do you think the community of surfers would stand for it? Surfline and Quicksilver are tossing a few pesos to a poor community down in Mexico and think that it is just fine. If they were giving the community $200,000 then maybe they could call it goodwill but as it is it is just a rip off of the surfer community for chump change. How much do they charge to join Surfline Premium? They are using these fine people in Southern Mexico as chumps for their own selfishness. Now think about this. If you had your trip planned to Huatulco/Puerto Escondido and spent $5000 and pulled into Barra de la Cruz and were told to not bother getting out of your rental car because Surfline will not let you surf because they have bought the point for five days how would you feel? Five days they picked out of a window of 4 weeks. You go try to do that with a few of your friends. Who do these guys thing they are. How pissed off would you be if your trip was paid for and you arrived and the waves were 8 feet and perfect and could not surf because these guys bought off some Mexican officials? Pass this along to everybody you know. Let them know what these slime balls are doing. This is not a contest. This is a private surf trip and you are aced out.

The slippeery slope has started...

i really hope this isnt the start of some thing...........................................

I didnt know that you could rent reefs. I guess with enough money you could do anything.

Eh whatever.. they rent the beaches during swells for the surf competitions. and the ASP.. what's the difference?

greg@hoodatsurfco wrote:Eh whatever.. they rent the beaches during swells for the surf competitions. and the ASP.. what's the difference?

its tempoary

Unless they've bribed the government, they don't own the water, only rented the land access to it. You could still surf there if you turned up in a boat...

The same has been true for cloudbreak and restaurants for a long time now. You can only surf there if you stay on the island surf camp.
This kind of thing is nothing new.

KS

kitesurfer wrote:The same has been true for cloudbreak and restaurants for a long time now. You can only surf there if you stay on the island surf camp.
This kind of thing is nothing new.

KS

^^exactly what im saying.

just because its more public now doesn't mean its a new poison..
its the way it is.

kitesurfer wrote:The same has been true for cloudbreak and restaurants for a long time now. You can only surf there if you stay on the island surf camp.

A few of my friends and I took a two day camping trip in tavarua and got to surf restaurants without any hassle. I don't know about cloudy.

Anyways, the ASP have the events scheduled a whole year in advance, they usually have a maximum of 7 surfing days, and they also let people surf it when it's lunch or early in the morning and late afternoon.

$1000 dollars each for you and 19 mates to book out a quality surf spot to get to surf on your own for 5 days - bargain. Start saving those pennies

Sorry but how many breaks are there in the world, how many super rich surfers?

Its not a good thing, goes against the whole surfer thing, but most people dig that and its not an easy thing to get into, money doesnt often help.