Riptide Magazine

Agent18 is Back!

Monday, 31 August 2009 18:06

Agent18 are back in the wetsuit selling game with a promising new range of wetsuits to keep you warm into 2010. The new range includes some wildly printed suits that continue Agent18's reputation creating for wetties that'll make you standout in the lineup, as well as some more subdued, classically styled suits. With the deal mentioned above, there really isn't a reason for you not to give them a go.

Coinciding the new wetsuit release is a new Agent18 website and blog. While the new wetsuits impressed us, it was this surprisingly frank piece written by Agent18 Director, Bryce Thurston, in which he attempts to address the naysayers out there that made a considerable impression. An exert is as follows:

So why after years of blood sweat and tears are we still no closer to achieving our goals and dreams. Why do we put so much effort in but still fall short time and time again with nothing but problems, complaints and inferior product over and over.

So many times I’ve just wanted to give up… Is it really worth it I would ask myself, how do I keep walking forward when all I want to do is walk away, when everything is good and it turns bad… really bad its hard to see the light in a dark place. It got to the point where everything seemed negative and it was too much to deal with. Not the fact that things were going wrong but the fact I felt like I had let everyone down that believed in Agent Eighteen.

Even though I wanted so badly to fix all the problems and help everyone out that supported our company I couldn’t see any possible solution. Everything had failed and no matter what we did it seemed impossible to get the quality product we so badly desired.

Thinking I had let down my best mates my family and the customers that supported us and believed in us was the lowest point in my life. And to think like there was nothing that could be done and it was time to give up made me feel hopeless.

Check out the wetsuits, have a read about the turbulent times of the company if it interests you, but most of all get excited, because another 100% bodyboarding company is back in town.