SUNNY'S BACK
We've been quiet for almost four years on this blog...We gave Chris "LOST WEIRDO" Ward a hall pass for being a drunken dickhead looser to the chicks in Mammoth.

Now here's Sunny Garcia again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lQDaMToSI

We read his facebook page where all his supporters justified him beating a local down at BH. Their justification is that any father should protect his own child. That's very true. But how do you define "protect"...Maybe Sunny could've stood in the way and asked who wanted to mess with his kid.

Instead, witnesses say Garcia sprinted 100 meters (intent) and went agro, throwing the first punch, choking and dunking the guy (malice).

The clones in Garcia's corner condemned his critics for making judgments when the critics weren't even there to see the events unfold for themselves. It's kind of like of like defending the LAPD for Rodney King. We now live in the media age where everything can be recorded. We've seen the video and expect full discipline from the ASP. We expect Garcia to get permanently banished from the ASP.

And it was a mistake he will regret. You just can’t do that when you’re a representative of your state, country and a handful of commercial entities, especially if you’re an ex-con.

Garcia To Serve 3 Months In Prison

SAN DIEGO CA-Sunny Garcia narrowly escaped a thick, overhead closeout lip today in Federal Court on his tax fraud case. Garcia was sentenced to a brief 3 months in Federal Prison, a far cry from the maximum of 3 years for his guilty plea. On top of the 3 month stint in weightlifting camp, he’ll do an additional 7 months of house arrest and then a year of supervised release (another way of saying probation).

There will be no fines. However, he has agreed to fully cooperate with the IRS now, which means he’ll be held to pay all of his back taxes including interest and some penalties. Garcia has been quoted as saying he expected jail time for his little oversight.

Reality Surf Check (RSC) is happy to put this case to rest but not before summarizing our original interest in the story. We had to get up Garcia’s ass after a Chris Mauro interview ran in SURFER last year. In that interview, Garcia denied any fault and harshly blamed his accountant and other advisors for his federal tax woes. And for that, RSC had to put the hammer down on his bullshit.

***All professional surfers be advised that if you fuck up and/or are a fuck up, Reality Surf Check will take up a second residence in your large intestine. In other words, we’ll be up your ass. The simple reason for this (and RSC’s existence) is because the mainstream mags won’t tell you everything you should know. They just tell you what they want you to know.***

Garcia's Sentence Postponed

Sentencing for Vincent Sennen "Sunny" Garcia has been postponed until October 18th, 2006 at 10:30 at the San Diego Federal Courthouse. The minimum sentence is 10 months and $100,000 in fines. He pleaded guilty to tax evasion back in June. His sentencing date was previously set for yesterday.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cas/press/cas60605-2.pdf#search=%22sunny%20garcia%2Bsentencing%2Baugust%2028%22

Sunny Garcias Radical Snapback

It appears that former world champ and future inmate Sunny Garcia has done a 180 on his account of what caused his current plight with the US Treasury. In a recent SURFING interview, Garcia finally cops to his own oversights with income taxes.

Previously, as reported by Chris Muaro in SURFER, Garcia contended that his tax woes were the product of his slimy and malicious advisors (ie: CPA). Now, Garcia has owned up to his key role in holding out on income tax payments. Looks like he’s heading to the can, but Reality Surf Check will pardon Garcia’s prior BULLSHIT excuses about how his problems were caused by anyone other than himself.

Garcia is scheduled to be sentenced in five days and will likely be heading to federal weight lifting camp for a minimum of 10 months. As far as RSC is concerned, Garcia knew that he was trying to sneak the income by the IRS from day one, as in: He knowingly committed fraud. Time to pay up.

Scotty Breauxman
Reality Surf Check

The Following Text was submitted by Desmond Jones in response to Reality Surf Check...
he has a good point


... perhaps the wretced vanity and all-consuming pursuit of mass-hypnosis on the part of the surf-world-glitteratti , er : theWAVERATTI is the natural progression of the inter-relational dynamic of any sub-culture characterized by the regrettable but inevitable human group-think-realization of idolotry.Your once-beloved , now-detested SIRFKULCHIR magazines are , as history provides , the OPIATE TO THE MASSES. And the masses of SIRFKULCHIR kids will always , as has occurred in all primitive sub-cultures , dutifully , hypnotically , align themselves , eyes agaze , in proper placement and demeanor as to the strict dictates of idolotry:idols to the fore , idolizers to the aft , and those of us born keen observers first , participators second , off to the side.So , my friend , as the idols parade , as the idolizers idolize , and the clever merchants of the Opiate of Idolotry purvey to the assembled masses, i suggest that the best seat in the house , this house of the silly-but-exahlted human experiment not of our doing , is the seat you take and I take , off to the side , where the beer is cold and within reach, the sun is just as shiny, and the love affairs we create among loving and beautiful women are characterized by ... what else ? : egomania and self-delusion. Afterall , when you are the Founder , Chairman , President , CEO , COO , Investor Relations VP, and Fanclub Secretary of you very own ILOVEMYSELF , Incorporated , the aforementioied parade never disappoints -ever delights." LONG-live-THE-parade ! jonesing.for.zen@gmail.com

Sunny Garcia's White Collar Wipeout
A Brief Critique of the Interview in the New "Pro" Surfer Magazine

Please excuse Sunny Garcia for trusting CPAs and financial managers who ruined his standing as a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen of the US. According to his own words published in a Chris Mauro/Surfer interview, he "...might have to go to jail."

Partial kudos to Mauro (an RSC first) for turning up the heat on Garcia in the interview and publishing quotes of Garcia describing his plight with back-taxes and how he has an IRS agent is up his ass.

Garcia explains to Mauro how he got screwed over by trusting his manager and CPA and how it's their fault. RSC calls bullshit but credits Mauro and his BBA (Bro-Brah Association) constituents for at least printing something less than favorable about one of their own.

Certified Public Accountants are credentialed professionals and are held to ethical standards of conduct. While it is very true that some CPAs have breached their fiduciary responsibilities in the name of a few ill-gotten gains, it is totally false and untrue to suggest that Garcia’s IOU to Uncle Sam is somehow the responsibility of someone other than himself. It's also absurd to suggest that anyone with half a brain would turn sideways on a high-ranking member of Da Hui. But Garcia implies that these suits were out to fuck him.

If I was the IRS agent I would ask:
1) Have you reported every dollar of income ever paid to you? (I doubt it)
2) Have you saved every form 1099 and/or W-4 statement ever mailed to you? (What is that?)
3) Have you changed addresses in the past five years?

Garcia says it was some dickhead manager and/or CPA who supposedly mislead him out of malice. No, Sunny. You need to be more honest with yourself and not blame some suits for your own ignorance and irresponsibility. RSM is convinced that Sunny Garcia is a deadbeat. Furthermore, regarding his difficulties with the US Department of Treasury, the former world champ needs to know that paying taxes on current income is the sole responsibility of everyone who earns it.

Messing up on taxes is a pretty common mistake for a young, successful athlete like Garcia and mostly forgivable. However, blaming educated, experienced and licensed professionals for deception and malice is something only a dirt bag like Garcia would do. It's quite cowardice and very well aligned with ignorance. If Garcia’s financial advisors broke the law, they should be prosecuted. Likewise for Garcia.

Here's a lesson kids: It's much better to be smart and accountable than to be tough and ignorant, even if you're a world champion.

-Scotty Breauxman

"Sounds like a bunch of bitter old men to me."
-Scott Bass -Online Editor, Surfer Magazine

West Side Kooks and the BBA

Surf magazines don't depict the reality of life for roughly 90% of the those individuals who buy and read them. Incidentally, only 14.3% of of people who flip through the mags actaually do any "reading" since the pictures are so great and because many surfers is illiterate. Whether you’re reading them or not, the agenda of surf mags are subtly shoved down our throats disguised as realistic depictions of fact

My point is that most of us have to go to school and/or work everyday and that makes finding good waves and the time to surf a constant struggle. Getting a good deal on a board and suit can be a struggle. Getting to an exotic locale for perfect surf during my two week vacation has always been a struggle. The lifestyle the mags depict is that of pro surfers. The big ones should change their names to PRO SURFER, PRO SURFING AND TWPS.

No, the publishers of surf mags don't represent me and the surfing lifestyle my friends and I have been leading most of our lives. We work to surf, not surf to work. So check this out: How is my buddy gonna react when some of the most rippingest surfers on the planet carry on, all loud and totally obnoxious out at Steamer Lane for an afternoon session last Friday afternoon? Yea, West Side heads, shouting boisterously, acting like punks; its as though they're entitled to do so because of their status granted to them by mags that elevate them to dieties. My buddy was driving south and wanted to charge the Lane. He felt sorry for these guys.

Many of us understand that surfing is a spiritual and healing activity, a good way to get in tune with nature. Many of us believe to be able to surf is a blessing. I'd imagine that being able to surf for a living all day long and getting paid to travel to exotic sites would be a blessing. You think pros in Santa Cruz could be humble (think masters of martial arts style-zen) But no.

These fucken surf mags and the clones who edit and publish them don't represent my friends and I. They represent the guys out at Steamer Lane last Friday, clowns in a tightly held circus.

Here I am. I've had Pro Surfer and Pro Surfing Magazine around for thirty years. What was I aspiring to? Now that I'm a grown up I can make better choices for myself.

I estimate that 87.5% of surf mag consumers are not in the BBA (Bro-Brah Association). The BBA was founded with the advent of the second-ever surf magazine when wetsuit ad dollars had to be divided and competed for. Their membership is comprised of garmentos, magazine editors, ad reps, wetsuit company employees, all pro surfers. The senior most ranking officials of the BBA are the directors and officers of the world's largest commercial surfing interests (and their subsidiaries) Quicksilver, Hurly, Volcom, O'neil, etc. Okay, to be more specific: Robert McNight, Dick Woolcott and Billy Bob Hurly, to name a few.

The BBA's function is to serve the personal preferences and entrepeneurial interests of the aforementinoned. I’d love to submit a revealing article for all those readers who would love more than anything to shake Brad Gerlach’s hand or have a conversation with Kelly Slater. I would write how much of a royal prick I’ve seen Gerr act like and how a conversation with Slater is an oxymoron. Every active member of the BBA knows what I’m talking about and agree it’s the truth. Cept Pro Surfer Magazine can’t publish my article. If they did that, the Grand Pubah of the BBA would be on the phone instantly to make sure heads roll. (Even Gerr knows he’s a total dick to people. Slater’s too dingy to even know how much so)

I've seen Wardo so whacked and jacked (after getting bubbled at Hossegor), I realized I'd never hang out with someone like that again. Sunny Garcia is as approachable as an Iraqi insurgent. These people are not friendly and, like thier bro-brahs in Santa Cruz, they don't appear very happy in life or with the fortunate blessings bestowed upon them- -losers.

Yes. If the mags told the whole story, good and bad, the ad dollars would migrate from Pro Surfer Magazine and, who knows, maybe those dollars would end up over at Trans World Pro. If a mag does a big thing on Ruffo’s tweaker stigma, they can only do it after he gets convicted, fired and cast to damnation.

What if the BBA staged a coup and all of the editors of the different mags banded together with their ad reps and they got strong? They could de-throne the current overlords up at the BBA ivory tower and tell them, “This a mutiny. We have the medium, the channel and the circulation you bitches need to sell your wetsuits and flip-flops. We are all going to give the majority of average surfers a fair and objective, truthful representation of the real stories and a realistic depiction of surfing and surfers. And for that, the masses will pay.”

No. That isn’t going to happen. Marriages would end since top BBA members are fathers and brothers in law to each other. In fact, the BBA is so inbred that it’s likely by now that young children of some BBA members were fathered by other high-ranking BBA officials.

It’s an insiders’ game and it borders on collusion (which, for you pro surfers, means really crooked shit). It’s payola which is totally illegal. The FTC could get into this with the FCC.

No. The surf mags don’t represent my friends and I, nor do they represent 92.5% of the people who look at them. They represent the BBA, which is a tiny minority in the global surf community. Reality Surf Check is a tiny voice representing the vast majority of the world’s surfers. Spoiled pro surfers, shady businessmen and cocky editors of pro surf mags are a loud voice representing the interests of the BBA not the rest of us. US Surf mags don’t depict my notion of surfing.

They're just like porn mags. I just like to look at the photos.

-Scotty Breauxman

It should be noted that Aussie mags, much like Aussies themselves, tend to tell it more like it really is. Good on ya mates- RSC