Monday, November 23, 2009

Laggers... all of em'

I am now going to attempt to write a critique of the bodyboarding industry's time management skills.

Time and time again you are promised magazines to arrive on shelves, products to be in stock, DVD’s to be released, podcasts to be available to download and even premiers to be in a certain month of the yr... But in some form of unspoken ritual, bodyboarding always has to have the lag factor.

Examples are as follows:

*Movement magazine will always have a lag time of approx 1-2 weeks before it’s available in newsagents

*The new range of Redback bodyboarding equipment as advertised in Riptide magazine was not available at my local bodyboarding store

*The "Mitch DVD" was released a whole year late…. which Mitch Rawlins actually spoke about in his riveting introductory interview on the DVD as some form of comedic piece, and then had the hide to ask at the end of the interview "did that sound gay?" (To which I replied back to my TV screen, yes)

*The Dave-Winny-mini-series podcasts were due in October, the first episode was realeased mid November.

And finally the CRAZY premier was promised for December.... and now in an exclusive press release I break the news that it will be in January.

I am afraid that I, a punctual man the prides himself for not lagging has fallen into the trap of making broken promises. For this I deliver my sincerest apologies.

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