HSGP: Season 2

Season 2 starts with Mick Fanning’s “secret” African right, whose coordinates were sold to him by a 53-year-old who later signed a Rip Curl deal. Then Jordy orders Pyzels under Dooma’s name. Stab gets dragged for helping sexualise women’s surfing. Big-wave camaraderie dies under the weight of crowds and cash. Craig Anderson turns down millions before making the Hypto Krypto famous. Laird arrives as messiah, meme, and public-company surf god. The managers explain how surfers actually get paid. Joel Tudor accuses the Momentum Generation of stealing his sauce, then threatens to drown anyone who calls him a hipster. There’s nine episodes off the stuff. Secret spots, ugly contracts, old grudges, and several careers built on borrowed style.

HSGP: Season 2

Season 2 starts with Mick Fanning’s “secret” African right, whose coordinates were sold to him by a 53-year-old who later signed a Rip Curl deal. Then Jordy orders Pyzels under Dooma’s name. Stab gets dragged for helping sexualise women’s surfing. Big-wave camaraderie dies under the weight of crowds and cash. Craig Anderson turns down millions before making the Hypo Krypto famous. Laird arrives as messiah, meme, and public-company surf god. The managers explain how surfers actually get paid. Joel Tudor accuses the Momentum Generation of stealing his sauce, then threatens to drown anyone who calls him a hipster. There’s nine episodes off the stuff. Secret spots, ugly contracts, old grudges, and several careers built on borrowed style.

“It’s a crazy interesting look into the nuts and bolts of the surf industry… once I watched the first episode, I was hooked.”
– @hdog69420 (Stab Premium member)

Episodes:

HSGP: Season 1

Season 1 of How Surfers Get Paid opens with teenage Jordy Smith getting sued for $500k, then barrels straight into surf’s loosest money stories. The juggernauts buy seaplanes. Andy and Kelly get locked in a Mexican standoff. Dane signs his first major contract at a gas station. Nike doubles offers and flies teenagers around on PJs. Energy drinks start buying foreheads. Dane, Craig, Kelly, John John and Julian all walk away from guaranteed money, with varying levels of grace, lawsuits and financial bruising. By the finale, the private jets are gone, the easy money is drying up, and Mark Mathews is explaining why surfing really well is no longer enough.