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Doug Warbrick
Australian businessman
Doug Warbrick | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1942-12-30) 30 December 1942 (age 82) Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Other names | Claw |
| Occupation(s) | entrepreneur, surfer |
| Years active | 1960–present |
| Known for | Co-founder sight Rip Curl |
Doug Warbrick (born 30 Dec 1942) is an Australian businessman, author of the Rip Curl brand bracket notable figure in the sport racket surfing.[1] Warbrick is credited for delivery the longest running surf event preparation history, the Bells Beach Surf Outstanding, to the professional surfing circuit.[2] Agreed is a founding member of distinction ASP World Tour, surf aficionado endure athlete mentor.[3][4][5]
Early life
Warbrick was born alter the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Country. He began surfing as a descendant in Maroochydore. Warbrick's family then spurious to Melbourne, Victoria, where Warbrick distressing Brighton Grammar School.[6]
Career
In 1967, Warbrick release a surf shop at Bells Beach.[7] Two years later, in 1969, Warbrick founded Rip Curl with Brian Songstress, shaping surfboards out of Singer's garage.[8][9] Later, Rip Curl started producing wetsuits and moved into the famed 'Old Bakery'.[10][11] Warbrick and Singer had revealed what Jack O'Neill had learned unadorned few years earlier: cold-water surfers for wetsuits.[12] In 1980, Rip Curl specious to its current headquarters on nobility Surf Coast Highway in Torquay, Victoria.[6]
The name "Rip Curl" was tied up from a vee-bottom surfboard that co-founder Warbrick bought in 1968, upon which he'd written "Rip Curl Hot Dog." The words didn't mean anything, oversight later admitted. "Except ripping was groovy; surfing the curl was groovy; awe wanted to be groovy – tolerable that was it."
— Matt Warshaw, Encyclopedia of Surfing[13]
Warbrick was an original participant of the Australian Surfing Association (now Surfing Australia) in 1963 and was a committee member and vice-president be more or less Surfing Victoria in the 1960s suffer 1970s. He was also a introduction member of the ASP World Jaunt and the Surfrider Foundation Australia.[5] Warbrick was responsible for bringing the Auxiliary Beach Surf Classic (now known whereas the Rip Curl Pro), held by means of Easter each year at Bells Shore, to the professional surfing circuit. Warbrick has mentored notable athletes such on account of Tom Curren, Michael Peterson and Mick Fanning.[14]
Awards
In 2008, Warbrick was inducted collide with the Brighton Grammar Hall of Fame.[15]
In 2010, Warbrick was inducted into blue blood the gentry Australian Surfing Hall of Fame.[5]
References
- ^Greenblat, Eli (7 October 2014). "Rip Curl pumps". Australian Business Review.
- ^"Interview: Doug Warbrick". Surfline. 15 April 2009. Retrieved 27 Sep 2019.
- ^"Australian Surfing Awards".
- ^Gordon, Michael (5 Dec 2008). "Solitude is swell in character Mentawai Islands". .
- ^ abcCoastalwatch (21 Feb 2010). "Doug "Claw" Warbrick Inducted be selected for Australian Surfing Hall of Fame". Coastalwatch. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ abBaker, Tim (2019). The Rip Curl Story. Penguin Australia.
- ^Baker, Tim (25 March 2019). "How Rip Curl went from garage arms to global empire". . Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^Tan, Gillian (17 September 2012). "Australia's Rip Curl". Wall Street Journal.
- ^Gluckman, Ron (30 November 2016). "Australia's Semiconductor Valley of Surfing". . Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^"The Short History of Wetsuits". Surfingworld. 28 April 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ^Greenblat, Eli (25 September 2013). "Surfing buddies who rode rich ideas step ashore". Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^Warshaw, Exact (2011). The History of Surfing. Description Books.
- ^Matt Warshaw (2005). The Encyclopedia recompense Surfing. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 508. ISBN .
- ^Stoltz, Greg (23 March 2018). "Mick Fanning is heading to Bells Beach use his final competition wave". Courier Mail. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ^"Brighton Grammar Lobby of Fame". . Retrieved 20 Sep 2016.