Well I tried to change it to pizza , bolloks and apendages . t turns into a hang shit on Lynchy and how can you. He knows as much about surfing and everything to do with it that has ever happened. He is more respected in the surfing community than anyone else. This thread started because someone couldn’t count or add up. Whether it be Tudor or some clown for surftech who doesn’t even surf.
Lynchy hasn’t sold out .
If anyone remembers Ian Dury and the block heads “@##holes, %^$tards,c%^ts and dirty pricks”.
Kudos to you guys (and others), for trying to redirect the thread, but like Stingray said, when SurfTech was added to the thread title it went ballistic. It’s my problem and I’m sorry for bringing it up or sounding like I’m shaking my finger at people, but sometimes you just gotta say ‘enough’, let’s put things into perspective.
I’m the one who called him an artist… that’s my opinion and that of many others.
Aside from the fact that your definition of artist, in many people’s minds and not just my own, fits Tudor’s expressive self, both in the water and in the various “artforms” that are evident in his handmade boards…
And aside from the fact that I find it interesting that you’ve literally codified something as undefinable as “art” or “artist”…
Isn’t art still “in the eye of the beholder?” Do you really have to change the the way people see the world to be considered an artist of any merit? I work in a school filled with the kinds of kids most people consider hoodlums hooliagans… many of them are fantastic artists. Few of them will change the world.
Does making money at what you do make you less of an artist?
Kudos to you guys (and others), for trying to redirect the thread, but like Stingray said, when SurfTech was added to the thread title it went ballistic. It’s my problem and I’m sorry for bringing it up or sounding like I’m shaking my finger at people, but sometimes you just gotta say ‘enough’, let’s put things into perspective.
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Teddy Roosevelt, speaking at the Sorbonne in Paris, April 23, 1910
Good insight. I don’t mean to try to turn the thread around into a bunch of ‘defenders’ as so much as to say “it’s just a difference between an advertisement and the end product”. What is 4"? …that was said in the first few replys.(!) An email to the Surftech website could have started the correction or clarification without the “OMG I’VE BEEN SCAMMED” b.s. . . .
Solo, I only scanned your post (and others) but it sounds like mucho reality – Joel got the bloody nose, and for what? how many dollars? because he loves the surf industry?, that’s what he gets for the love of the sport, eh?
I hear Bush and Cheyney have decided Pizza is better to export to Iran than cigarettes. Getting them fat mellow them out with estrogen or will kill them quicker…Har Har Har…
i just think it’s funny that just cause JT rides single fins, he automatically
gets compared to Wayne Lynch, Nat Young, Gerry Lopez.
Especially since Cheyne rode them longer and up to high level competition more than anyone else ever. Including Joel. Cheyne barely left the top five for almost a decade. Still rides singles today…almost forty years later. We will see about Joel and singles in another 20 years. No cut on Joel…He deserves credit he is due…but I’m just saying…when talk of singles comes up.
