So there’s this contest for you to win a Firewire on “Surfing” magazine. All you have to do is sacrifice your board by burning it. I was tempted to grab my compsand, my denatured alcohol and have at it.
Hey its for a Firewire I reckoned. But I just couldn’t do it. Not because I loved my compsand that much but I just couldn’t justify the toxins that would dissipate into the atmosphere. So, I guess the point of this post is to say that Surfing should have thought of a more eco-conscious contest.
You’re kidding right? - a company that is selling itself on low environmental impact is promoting toxic bonfires? Perhaps the marketing genius who thought that one up will chime in here and explain.
Yeah, they said DO NOT burn them…but show sacrifice in some way…i don’t even think it has to be the destruction of a board. It seemed kind of like an open ended photography assignment.
Grom1: hey let’s sacrifice a board and win a Firewire!
Grom2: yeah! but not my …Lost thruster!
Grom1: or my Merrick…how about that old board in your garage?
Grom2: Oh yeah, that old diffenbanger or whatever it is, my dad never rides it. Let’s chuck it off the overpass… I’ll grab my camera…
Good marketing, perhaps, but very wasteful. Might I suggest sacrifice or “donate a board to a kid who needs one” as an alternative? Yes, there are kids out there that would like to surf but don’t have the $$…
Oh by the way I was surfing a few weeks ago and chatted with a guy riding one of those Firewires. I asked him how it felt and he said “stiff”. Hardly the answer I was expecting… he said he was surprised too.
The Firewire standard fin sets (F3 F5 F7 inside foil) imo could be drastically improved. A combo of those fins maybe and without the inside foil. Just a thought. “Stiff” is a very hard one to determine without a bit more info, almost not worth bringing up.
Ahh, looking at the ad again it seems that I’ve missed a few lines. Although they don’t explicitly say “Don’t burn your boards”, they do say that “board burning is a cliche and it’s an environmental nightmare”. So I guess they are conscious about the environment. But why show a board burning in your ad? For sensationalism maybe? I’m over it. I hope a Swaylockian wins.
