{"id":8505,"date":"2009-06-03T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2009-06-04T07:11:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T14:11:27","slug":"rip-curl-says-no-rip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8505","title":{"rendered":"Rip Curl Says No Rip Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rob Vassallo<\/strong>, the owner of Australia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store1950.storeserver-2.com\/store\/contact.inetstore\">Jett Performance Products<\/a><\/strong>, says his designs for a battery powered heated vest that he showed to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripcurl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rip Curl<\/a><\/strong> in 2005 are now being used by the company in their H-Bomb wetsuit and he is not getting paid, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,25582697-2862,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They loved the technology and, after I provided mock-up samples, they sent prototypes to the US for feedback and finally, in 2006, they ordered 500 units,&#8221; he said. . . . Rip Curl unveiled the wetsuit last year as the H-bomb using a surfing video shot in Iceland. . . Mr Vassallo said that a week later Rip Curl told him it had lost faith in Jett&#8217;s ability to make the wetsuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rip Curl says they have only sold 200 of the suits and that they &#8220;absolutely refute the idea that we have stolen anything from Rob Vassallo or Jett,&#8221; according to spokesman <strong>Gary Dunne<\/strong>. Vassallo, of course doesn&#8217;t not agree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,25582697-2862,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Vassallo, the owner of Australia&#8217;s Jett Performance Products, says his designs for a battery powered heated vest that he showed to Rip Curl in 2005 are now being used by the company in their H-Bomb wetsuit and he is not getting paid, according to a story on News.com.au. &#8220;They loved the technology and, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}