Eddie Aikau and Mavericks Championship Rings

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Fellow Swaylockians,

I have a question for all of you and would like some input from the family here. I have became friends with the owner of a company that makes the championship rings for the NFL, NBA, MLB and the NHL. There are two companies that makes the rings, but my friends are the most sought after because he makes only the rings for the players and owners, he never sells a remake of the original like the other company does. I am enclosing a pic of the Eddie Aikua and the Mavericks rings that we have designed.

The question to you, would you want one of the rings plus the prize money or just the prize money?

Please let me know,

Surrfdaddy

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Here is the ring for Mavericks…

Surrfdaddy

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The most important thing I forgot to say, These rings will cost about $3,850.00, this price is AT COST! so market value would be around $6,999.00 if you were even able to find the ring on the market.

So let me know…is there room for a Championship Ring in surfing?

Aloha,

surrfdaddy

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Do they have a ala moana bowl ring (well I just paddled out and sat there, but at the last play of the day, the home team added me to the starting roster and I scored).

Or a Supertubes ring. I scored against San Jose’s offense, it was pretty cool. For some reason the gray suits let me paddle out there and score on them easy.

Does it help if I have a break named after me: Junior Hiro’s Restaurant? Everyone calls it Restaurant for short though.

Also this dude called Sauron wants a ‘ONe Ring’ I never head of that championship ring, but he keeps sending his lame shadows to screech at me every time I paddle for set wave. Oh wait, those are locals.

Oh yeah don’t shape with your ring on. Or glass. Oh it’d be cool to win a ring and then make a board with a leash loop that has your ring in it, sell it for like 100 G’s and dontate proceeds to charity. That would be sick. Limited edition Evo balsa with Supertubes championship ring leash loop.

but on serious side that’s pretty cool. Email contest directors and major surfers . . .

I think the rings would be more applicable to Brad Gerlach’s ’ THe game’ surf contests because they are more closer to team action stuff like football . . .

the mav’s top part is nice. For the Eddie top, instead of quicksilver logo (put it on the side) have a sic icon of Waimea breaking. And the Eddie logo with the surfboards, make them look like Rhino chasers, they look like thruster funboards in there (same with the Mavs one).

What about pipe masters? Or the triple crown.

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I cant believe it, here I look for some input about a design and I get this. its a good thing that there are screen names…

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please tell me that this is a joke!

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The question to you, would you want one of the rings plus the prize money or just the prize money?

Surfdaddy. I like the designs. I think most winners would like the ring plus the prize money. Those rings will age and appreciate very well. I think it would be cool to have one, perhaps a lesser ring, for each contestant. I think anyone that competes in one of those contests deserves more recognition than a line or two in a surfmag.

Good luck.

Swaylock

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NO, IT IS NOT A JOKE, We took a lot of time designing these rings and feel that if you ride a wave in the 25 to 35 foot range and win the event, you should have something to have. Just as SWAYLOCK stated, it is worth morre then just a page or two in the magazines. I can be honest and say I dont have what it takes to ride those waves, But if I did, I would want to have some prize money and a ring to show people that I am only one of the few that has the chance to be in the contest.

Surrfdaddy

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I think the ring designs are great! I’m just not sure that they should be given for a one contest win. Even though those two contests are very significant, and the Eddie has a sentimental history also, I just don’t think so. The Triple Crown winner? Maybe. But in keeping with the world champion status associated with those rings, I think they ought to be given to the ASP World Champion, if given at all.

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Now I guess I could give you some feedback that you actually asked for. ha!

I think it would be a personal decision that each winner would want to make for himself. Maybe if you offered to subtract the ring price from his winnings to have a ring made.

{Edit} I only say ‘personal decision’ because a winner may be poor, and money to pay the rent or bills, or feed himself and his family might be more important to him. {/ediT}

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Oh, fookin great. More “lifestyle” shit. Take them rings and … melt 'em down. The sports for which those “other” rings are made have nothing in common with surfing. Let’s keep it that way. Surfing was an intensely personal experience, until marketing came along… it still can be…

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Hey Ozzie,

That is the best feedback that I have recieved yet. You are right, We were talking about an ASP ring and also a Triple Crown winner. I would have liked some more feedback, at the time of writing this subject 291 people had viewed the rings, but ONLY nine have 4 wrote back and I had 4 inscerts myself.

I would really like some more input …

Surrfdaddy

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OK. If I won one of those contests, I would NOT want a ring like that.

Sorry, but that’s my honest feedback.

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I cant believe it, here I look for some input about a design and I get this. its a good thing that there are screen names…

I did not mean to belittle the surfers that do those events. I believe those who participate in Mav’s and Eddie deserve alot, and have my respect for paddling out in crazy conditions like that.

Bling bling and surfing don’t mix IMHO. But hey its your deal, and go for it. I did offer some input for the design after the jokes.

I did post something similar, but maybe sometimes I need to drop it twice:

Email contest directors and major surfers for additional input.

Game rings would be more applicable to Brad Gerlach’s ’ THe game’ surf contests because they are more closer to team action stuff like football . . .

On the ring design itself: The mav’s top part is nice. For the Eddie top, instead of quicksilver logo (put it on the side [of the ring]) have a sick icon / pic of Waimea breaking. And the Eddie logo with the surfboards, make them look like Rhino chasers, they look like thruster funboards in there (same with the Mavs one). Or the Eddie one have a silhoutte of Eddie himself somewhere on the ring.

What about pipe masters? Or the triple crown rings?

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Yep !!!WELL SAID

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OK NOW I AM PISSED OFF!

ambrose why didnt you persue a life in competition

you wimpering sot

if you only had a wring to show for yore wasted life

devoted to some bullcarp zen lifestyle jive

dieing of some debilitating chemical induced

black lung tuberculosis bird flu std virus

If only a Ring were on your finger

as you lay crumpled in a long cold ward in a

hospital overlooking mile rock

the afternoon sunset peeking under a offshore fogbank

sending a ray of light arround the farralones

zeroing in on that hyper polished guilt

that through a star filter in the camera

blinds the audience for time imemememorial’

I coulda bee up there with cagney, bogart.mike purpoise

brad mc caul.and bob purvey.

helk, a wasted life…

I guess I’ll have to be content with the three generations of wedding rings

I wear exclusively

56 years for my dads ring

60 some odd for my grandads ring

and 32/37 for my wedding ring

if only my life had not been wasted on this krap

I could be wearing a

COOL SPORTS JOCK RING

this zen bullship has got to go

now that it costs millions to surf

on tour,in the hamptons,on a yacht

on a converted russian trawler with super model

waitresses and exotic concubines everrywhere

surplus landing craft surf assult vehicles

as well as small fleets of jet pump skis

running on an inexaustable fuel source.

WE ALL NEED RINGS

I FOR ONE APPLAUD

these efforts to design and bring forth

art pieces so well done to last for many lifetimes

making this tthankless pursuit of the greatest wave of all time

become greater than just a guy out after dark

at close out waimea on acid

riding the 70 foot wave that no one ever saw.

…ambrose…

nice wave john

all this touchy feely slow lane crap has to end some where

tthere is money to be made out there

and why the helk should another generation of

surfers be denied the wealth they deserve

for having fun under the corperate banner

why dosent somebody make a beat somebody up ring?

or they allready did that I’ll bet

for ali?

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I think there is a place for the ring as a trophy for any contest. but to be honest i think these ring designs are not really applicable to surfing. I think your best bet is to maybe look at the jewellery worn by surfers and make them fit more in with culture of the sport. Most surf inspired jewellery is much more simple, not so much bling.

i hope this helps.