Even Surfers Diss Burton’s Greg Dacyshyn | “… so extravagantly out of touch, so epically retarded, so stupendously vain as to be completely comical.”

 

Greg Dacyshyn has been a polarizing figure in snowboarding for years now as the man who does too many drugs, fires the wrong snowboarders, makes too much money, has bizarre style, and masterminds all the wrong decisions for Burton snowboards. Even to the point of borderline bankruptcy.

Usually it’s just the snowboarders that get puffed up about Greg D. and his wife, but now the noted surf style icon/writer Chas Smith is getting in on the action.

“Because Burton’s creative director, Greg Dacyshyn, is such a complete and utter disaster and has driven the brand so far, so fast and so deep into the ground that they are also having to sell office chairs and paperclips just to make rent?

Seriously, though, I wish surfing had a character like Dacyshyn. Someone so extravagantly out of touch, so epically retarded, so stupendously vain as to be completely comical. He is a towering monument to the sugar rotted ego. The nexus where bad taste meets bad style.

And if Kelly Slater has indeed ripped CI from those sausage fingers? Oh how his legend will continue to grow!”

 

Head over to BeachGrit to get the full diss of Greg D. in the article that talks about Kelly Slater (aka Firewire) buying Channel Islands from Burton.