Where does this money come from?
John John Florence $1,023,800.
Bede Durbridge $1,213,920.
Julian Wilson $1,260,400. ...
Gabriel Medina $1,326,550. ...
CJ Hobgood $1,420,620. ...
Adriano de Souza $1,538,600. ...
Joel Parkinson $1,992,600. ...
Taj Burrow $2,182,640.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=professional+surfing+salaries
How many of you could name one pro surfer?
How many pro surfer events have you attended?
How much pro surfing have you watched on TV?
At the baseline, all the top 44 are guaranteed a minimum prize money of $3000 per WCT event. There'll be 12 of those events in 2002, so that's $36,000 in the bank. You can jack that amount up by good placings - it's $30,000 a win, so a couple wins and you're nearly pulling down $100g just off the prize purse.
Surfing is a $7 billion industry. $150 million surfboard market.
(Does anyone know the global market for pool cues?)
http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/nation/worlds-10-richest-surfers/
Sponsors such as Ford, Target, Red Bull.
Dane Reynolds made $3.5 million per year from Quicksilver. WTF!!
http://www.grindtv.com/surf/pro-sur...lar-contract-made-public/#cLqf9Zdxmd0f0lAw.97
According to the BCA, 36 million people participated in pool.
According to google, 1.7 million US people surfed once a year.
23 million people in the world surfed.
We have more pool players in the US than there are surfers in the world.
Clearly billiards is a much larger market with enormous potential. We need the
business world to recognize and tap that market. The top earners in surfing listed
above are making the bulk of their money from non-surfing sponsors like clothing,
sunglasses, automotive, shoes. The smallest endorsements come from surfboard
manufacturers.
Predator, Meucci, and McDermott, Brunswick and Simonis...This is small potatoes.
We need Ford, GM, Budweiser, Miller Brewing, Nike, Pepsi, Coca Cola.
We need big dogs, not Big Dawg Billiards, to put their money behind pool.
John John Florence $1,023,800.
Bede Durbridge $1,213,920.
Julian Wilson $1,260,400. ...
Gabriel Medina $1,326,550. ...
CJ Hobgood $1,420,620. ...
Adriano de Souza $1,538,600. ...
Joel Parkinson $1,992,600. ...
Taj Burrow $2,182,640.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=professional+surfing+salaries
How many of you could name one pro surfer?
How many pro surfer events have you attended?
How much pro surfing have you watched on TV?
At the baseline, all the top 44 are guaranteed a minimum prize money of $3000 per WCT event. There'll be 12 of those events in 2002, so that's $36,000 in the bank. You can jack that amount up by good placings - it's $30,000 a win, so a couple wins and you're nearly pulling down $100g just off the prize purse.
Surfing is a $7 billion industry. $150 million surfboard market.
(Does anyone know the global market for pool cues?)
http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/nation/worlds-10-richest-surfers/
Sponsors such as Ford, Target, Red Bull.
Dane Reynolds made $3.5 million per year from Quicksilver. WTF!!
http://www.grindtv.com/surf/pro-sur...lar-contract-made-public/#cLqf9Zdxmd0f0lAw.97
According to the BCA, 36 million people participated in pool.
According to google, 1.7 million US people surfed once a year.
23 million people in the world surfed.
We have more pool players in the US than there are surfers in the world.
Clearly billiards is a much larger market with enormous potential. We need the
business world to recognize and tap that market. The top earners in surfing listed
above are making the bulk of their money from non-surfing sponsors like clothing,
sunglasses, automotive, shoes. The smallest endorsements come from surfboard
manufacturers.
Predator, Meucci, and McDermott, Brunswick and Simonis...This is small potatoes.
We need Ford, GM, Budweiser, Miller Brewing, Nike, Pepsi, Coca Cola.
We need big dogs, not Big Dawg Billiards, to put their money behind pool.