Tesco

[ILee]

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-1496.aspx

Not cheap but just shows how popular surfing is getting when a chain store starts selling sticks

[kitesurfer]

TWF surfboards, it should be WTF surfboards!

[northswell]

Argos used to do a foamie, not sure if they still do?

[Stone Fox]

Anyone know TWF?

[essex sucks]

found this

http://www.surfmaster.co.uk/shopping/surfboards.htm

but thats all i could find

[eastcoaster]

OMG its happened!!! I said in another thread a week or so back that if surfers do not support the British surfboard industry then we would all be buying our board from Tesco or online.

Yeah TWF are another one of those Chinese imports -"Signed by each individual Shaper" apparently. Poor Kuang Pen Ren, he's 14yrs old, he lives above a factory in China, he gets up in the morning at 6am goes downstairs to the shop floor, whips out his piece of wet & dry and starts sanding down a TWF board. at 12 he breaks for 15mins for a bowl of rice. Once he's finished he whips out his we & dry again, spits on the board and continues sanding until 6pm, where he stops, goes upstairs & falls asleep until he wakes up again at 6am. He has no proper safety equipment and spends all day breathing in fibre glass and epoxy. He's never seen the ocean and hasn't got a fleshin' clue what a surfboard actually is.

Surfers (in the most part) are mellow, well travelled, dudes with great respect for their enviroment, surroundings and ther cultures. I only spent a month in China & surfed WatWat and a few other breaks, but I managed to see some of these factories, they are everywhere. I saw the same in Thailand, Bali, India, everywhere.

We are surfers, don't feed corporate companies. Support the little guys. Tesco do great brown sauce, but don't let them fleshin' up Kuang's life. He should be on the beach looking at chicks & getting barrelled not stuck in some grotty factory for the rest of his days.

You have a choice, you can make a difference, you are a surfer - act like one.

Rant over. Peace.

[eastcoaster]

go here & ask the question

http://www.swaylocks.com/

its a forum for amateur & professional shapers, you will get a very informed answer.

[MorseyB]

i feel sorry for the poor kid who has to sign all those boards as they come off the production line- must get serious hand cramp!

[drowningbitbybit]

Next time the guy on the BIC or the NSP is sitting in the line-up, feeling a bit self-conscious, he'll have someone to look down on - the kook that bought his board from Tesco's....

[Dec]

i feel sorry for the poor kid who has to sign all those boards as they come off the production line- must get serious hand cramp!

Imagine if he screwed up his signature..or the pen smudged! Would they have to throw it away?

[pault]

Imagine if he screwed up his signature..or the pen smudged! Would they have to throw it away?

What throw away the kid or the board?

[Dr Rev]

I hate Tescos !

Why cant they stick to selling food !!!!

[Tom-Irons]

I hate Tescos !

Why cant they stick to selling food !!!!

You Clearly hate them with passion

[drowningbitbybit]

I hate Tescos !

Why cant they stick to selling food !!!!

They do great cheesey rolls.

Rubbish for surfing though - they go soggy.

[chris fixxy]

The new graphics for the tesco 2008 line.

[Dr Rev]

I do hate Tescos ,

Round here we have a Great Horse Sanctury, been here for years, tesco have bought the land, kicking off the owner and everything, just to stop other supermarkets from buying it, they have no plans yet to build on it !!

I hate the way that they are ruining small companys with there buying power !

[drowningbitbybit]

[chris fixxy]

Nice photoshop.

Endless shelves of tesco value products make me imagine of life behind the iron curtain in the mid 80's.

[drowningbitbybit]

Endless shelves of tesco value products make me imagine of life behind the iron curtain in the mid 80's.

Makes me think of being a student again

[kitesurfer]

*thinks about respraying paul's new board*