NIKE BUYS SURFING WEBSITE, SWAYLOCKS FOR $US 4.27M

Shit this surely must be a joke, no wonder the new web page was released, looks like he just doodied it up and sold us out!

This sucks!!!

Rocky…angry as hell

I think Mike deserves it, after all the hard work he’s put in…

What I don’t like about the deal is the occasional Nike pop up, but I think it’ll become more transparent after a while…

Where did you get the info on the price, the press release doesn’t mention it at all…

Hey Hicksey,

Gotta be a bit careful here…you know how Nike tried to buy Jordy Smith for a shit load…well let me say i have an inside contact within that circle.

At least Jordy had a conscience and told em “no thanks”…doen’t say much for Mike tho, …you say :deserves it’…I’ll tell you what he &%%$#@ deserves…and it might pop up his ass and out his head!!

Riled Rocky

Hicksey,

Just got an update (excuse the pun)from my insider. The deal to buy Sways was put together over a bunch of Caronas at the QS pro a few weeks ago when a Nike exec met Harris and realized what an incredible job he was doing influencing the whole global surf industry with his Swats reports.

They went…shit why spend millions on Jordy when we can buy Sways and have Harris and the rest of us for free!!! Smart thinking I guess and I still trying to find out if Bert Burger had a hand in it…he seems to have gone to ground and …well he has experience dealing with the big boys.

Keep you posted…wonder what Harris has to say?

Hey is this an April Fool’s Joke?

oh man, if only…if only…

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Hey is this an April Fool’s Joke?

Monty,

Man don’t make it even worse than it is by, even like, suggesting this is a joke!!

Geez how sick do you think we are?

Nothing more as yet on Bert.

Rocked

I want my cut !

“If a nickel bag goes down in the park…I want in !”…(from the movie,“King of New York”).

H

well then. I guess we are going to finally see the money thrown behind riders to ride innovative equipment…or they will silence the underground!!!

VIVA LA RESISTANCE!!!

Do the Mods get paid now Mike???

Have Nike made arrangements for this???

Just Shape it!

Howzit HerbI think Mike would inform us if this is true. But I’m with you,if it weren’t guys like us there would be no Swaylocks. If it is true I will probably delete all of my posts and replies and say see ya. The funny thing is I was working on a website similar to Sways but when I found Sways I thought no need. The mods should get paid and when we post tips and tricks we should charge Nike for giving the info. Aloha,Kokua

Here;s a link to the site I was playing with as practice for the real one I was going to do

http://kokuafiberglass.homestead.com/Kokuafiberglass.html

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Howzit HerbI think Mike would inform us if this is true. But I'm with you,if it weren't guys like us there would be no Swaylocks. If it is true I will probably delete all of my posts and replies and say see ya. The funny thing is I was working on a website similar to Sways but when I found Sways I thought no need. The mods should get paid and when we post tips and tricks we should charge Nike for giving the info. Aloha,Kokua

Here;s a link to the site I was playing with as practice for the real one I was going to do

http://kokuafiberglass.homestead.com/Kokuafiberglass.html

Kokua,

Shit man that is brilliant. If I was you I would sell it to Nike’s main competitor…Adidas…geez they owned Salomon and backed the S-Core blue board thing, maybe you could do a Mike/Nike (maybe thats why they bought it) and be filthy rich!

I invite all you guys to join forces and help me create a new FREE site. We are not going to bow under any multinational company, are we? Sways was a free place but I don’t want to have anything to do with that new organisation. Can’t understand why Mike is keeping silent. I’m waiting for suggestions from you all about a new name, what should be kept, what should be changed and so on. Didn’t someone suggested “SwaysUNlocked”?

Howzit Rocklobster, I have nothing against Mike P.selling the website. But what makes me mad is the fact that our posts were being highjacked and a person was paid to do it. I have been giving advise for years to our Sway brothers so they could learn the art of buiding boards with out having to find some one to tutor them like I had to. I have enjoyed and felt good about doing this but now I feel different about Swaylocks or should I say Nikeslocks. Might be time to wish my brothers a dear aloha and move on. I will miss the people I have met and communicated with here but I will stay registered so anyone who wants to get in touch can always find me and email me through a PM. Will think on it tonight before deciding.I want to add that visiting Sways dayly to see if I could help has always been a great way to start my day. Aloha,Kokua

Well it’s not completely for free, I got a few dinners and a boat trip. Have been that busy lately, this is the first time I’ve seen a computer in weeks. What’s 4 mill to Nike, just hope they let us argue freely. Looking forward to getting my computer back, H.

Harris,

Good to see you fessed up, now what about that Bert…ya think he is in this up to his neck??

AND…if you had not done such a good job of reporting the QS pro…well none of this would have happenned!!

Howzit Rock, OK it’s April 2nd and the joke was on us so let’s just drop the this thread. Like I said before I got the inside info that this was the April fools joke for 2008.Aloha,Kokua

Any guesses what this site is really worth?