MAGIC WAVE _ March 2009 - Magic Wave Bali

Bli Kacrut
Edisi ini Bli Kacrut mengenang
masa jaya Bali
Surfing Club (BSC) dalam
mengangkat karir surfingnya.
Awalnya Bli Kacrut sendiri tidak
paham mengenai BSC, ketika itu dia
adalah bocah kelas SD yang sering
sekali ikutan nongkrong ke tempat
Pak Rizani (Koordinator BSC) di Losmen
dan Resto Lasirawati. Ketika itu,
Bli Kacrut berlatih surfing bersama
surfer-surfer mancanegara dan ikut
trip mereka “ya..pokoknya ngikut
ajalah yang penting bisa dapet pinjaman
alat-alat surfing lengkap dan
gratis,heeee….” ujarnya spontan.
Seringnya bergaul dengan para
expat surfer, membuat wawasan surfing
Bli Kacrut bertambah. Sehingga
selalu memenangkan kontes yang
diadakan BSC baik lokal maupun Internasional,
bahkan bisa dibilang tidak
tertandingi di kelasnya (wow…). Dari
situ Pak Rizani semakin memberi atensi
dan sering menuliskan artikel Bli
Ceritakan tentang diri lo, Explain
about your self ?
Aku bukanlah siapa-siapa, hanya orang
biasa saja……he,..he… nothing special…!
Saat ini aku ikut bantu- bantu kerja di
Gangsta surf,…yaw bantu- bantu lipat n
bungkus clothing gitu lho…
Awal kerja di Gangsta bagaimana ?
Aku kerja sama Gangsta berawal
dari pertama kali (th 200 ) aku kenal
dengan Glen (discover of Gangsta
surf) di pantai Uluwatu. Saat itu di Bali
Gangsta surf Belum komersial seperti
sekarang, saat itu clothing Gangsta surf
diproduksi terbatas hanya untuk keperluan
sendiri dan juga untuk teman
dan sahabat - sahabat Glen. N then
Glen bersama dengan sahabat yang
lain ada niat untuk mengembangkan
or memperkenalkan clothing - clothing
Gangsta kepada dunia luar terutama
Oz (negara asal Glen)dengan membuat
Catalouge clothing - clothing Gangsta…..
n Discover Gangsta surf nyuruh aku
sebagai designer cataloguenya… wah…
report banget, aku kan bukan siapa-
sipa, juga bukan designer sungguhan…..
kemudian di awal 2008 Glen nemuin
aku lagi, dia minta agar aku bantu dia
untuk bikin design-design light box and
juga advert-advert utk dimajalah local
and Australia……dan ujung-ujungnya
di pertengahan 2008 dia minta aku sebagai
manager Gangsta surf…..waduh
makin repot bgt….! Awalnya tawaran
itu aku tolak coz aku sibuk , gax ada
waktu gitu...tapi dia desak aku terus,
ya udah aku terima aja tawaran itu. Toh
juga saat itu gangsta surf masih belum
fokus pada penjualan, masih pengenalan
brand dengan taruh advert di beberapa
majalah local, majalah Australia
and juga ngadain fashion fashion show
, sexy dancer dll,….yaw masih taraf
promosi…….
Gimana sih kerja di Gangsta, apa
enak n ga enaknya ?
Dimana-mana orang kerja khan pasti
ada suka dukanya…..Sukanya sih selalu
dapat sample clothing-clothing baru, n
dukanya ya pusing ngurus perusahaan
MAGIC WAVE _March 2009
Tanpa BSC anak Bali
tidak akan bisa surfing.
Kacrut ke koran-koran nasional. Selain
itu BSC juga mengantarkan pemilik Bali
Barrel ke kontes dunia seperti di Oz,
Hawaii, Jepang, dan seterusnya.
Baginya BSC adalah badan yang
berperan penting untuk surfing dan pariwisata
Indonesia. Begitu banyak kontes
internasional yang digawangi BSC pada
masanya. Tanpa BSC anak Bali tidak
akan bisa surfing.
Sekarang terdapat Bali Surfing
Assosiation (BSA) dan Bli Kacrut tergabung
didalamnya. Sebuah badan
yang bergerak dibidang yang sama,
namun karena kesibukkan masingmasing
anggotanya membuat
BSA kurang aktif membuat
kontes terlebih lagi
dengan kendala tempat
yang tidak dimiliki BSA.
Harapannya agar pemerintah lebih memperhatikan
BSA dan memberi tempat
khusus untuk pertemuan para anggota
BSA.
Bisa cerikan tentang job desc, sekalian
keunggulan dari brand Gangsta?
Kalo job desc-ku sama aja kayak manajer
diperusahan lain. Ya…menjalankan
and control perusahan agar berjalan
sesuai dengan target & prosedurnya…N
keunggulan brand Gangsta ? yaw…brand
Gangsta tampil beda dengan perpaduan
target “ Gangster, Surfer and Chick”
Lo hoby dugem ato party juga ga,
punya pengalaman dugem mabok yg
parah gax?
Kalo soal dugem ato party aq gax begitu
srek, apa lg mabok parah…..aq lebih
senang main ke pantai sambil lihat
sunset….relax gitu lho. tp pernah sih
datang ke club , yaw bila Gangsta surf
lg ngadaiin fashion show or sexy dancer
. Coz Gangsta surf selalu ngadakan
fashion show di club
Kalo tempat clubbing favorite ?
Karena aq gax begitu suka clubbing otomatis
ga ada tempat clubbing favorite
Kalo dilihat ni, kan model-modelnya
Gangsta selalu cewek sexy, pernah
gax ada yang nanya ama lo bisa kenalan
ama cewe tu dimana ?
wah klo masalah cewek sexy,
jarang yg gax suka…..normalnya
sih banyak yang nanya
klu aku lagi jalan bareng
sama cewek2 sexy, ada yg
mau kenalan, ada yg minta
no hp n ada jg yang minta
yg aneh2,…..tp itu normal n
syah2 aja. yaw klu mau
tahu lebih lanjut,
langsung aja sama
orangnya….more
This edition Bli Kacrut reflects on
the Bali Surfing Club (BSC) and its
influence on furthering his surfing
career.
At the beginning, when he was still
a kid in year elementary school, Bli
Kacrut didn’t know much about the BSC
but he used to go to Pak Rizani’s
(BSC coordinator) place
at the losmen and resto
Lasirawati. As a result he
was able to surf with
international surfers
and join their surf
trips “yeah..I
went
so I
could
borrow
their boards for
free, hehehe…” he said.
gentle khan…..!
Tell us about yourself ?
Trus I’m kalo just an harapan ordinary kedepan person ……he..he… lo di Gangsta
nothing
gmn ?
special…! At the moment I’m
harapannya agar gangsta surf terus
berkembang
helping out at
sesuai
Gangsta
target
surf..…yeah
and menyusul
help
brand fold and brand pack yang the sudah clothing… gede.
Yup How ,last did word you get donk the buat job at MW… Gangsta ?
Be I worked the best with surf them magazine, when peace…. they started in
200 . I met Glen (Gangsta Surf founder)
at Uluwatu Beach. Back then Bali Gangsta
surf wasn’t commercial like it is now. Production
was only done for our own needs
and for Glen’s friends. Later on Glen and
some friends wanted to develop the
Gangsta clothing and introduce it to the
world, especially Australia (where Glen
comes from) by making a Gangsta clothing
catalogue and they asked me to design
the catalogue…wow..it was really hard, I’m
not anyone and not a real designer… At the
beginning of 2008 I met Glen again and he
asked me to help him design a light box
and ads for local and Australian magazines…and
in the middle of 2008 he asked
me to be the Gangsta Surf manager….
wow…really hard!! At first I had to
turn him down because I was busy
and didn’t have time but he kept
asking me until I finally accepted
his offer. At that time Gangsta surf
wasn’t focused on sales, more on
introducing the brand through
ads in several local and
Australian magazines,
fashion shows,
sexy dancers
etc…still working
on promotion.
Bali kids couldn’t surf
without BSC.
Hanging out with the expat surfers
enriched Bli Kacrut’s surfing and he was
able to win the local and international
BSC contests even though he was competing
outside his own class (wow…) Pak
Rizani noticed and started writing articles
about him for national newspapers. BSC
also helped him go to international contests
in Oz, Hawaii, Japan and others.
For Bli Kacrut BSC had an important
role in Indonesian surfing and tourism. It
organized a lot of international contests
in its time and Bali kids couldn’t surf
without the BSC.
Now there is the Bali Surfing Association
(BSA) which Bli Kacrut is a part of.
Because the members are busy the BSA
is not very active in organizing contests
and they also don’t have a headquarters.
Hopefully the government will pay more
attention to the BSA and provide a meeting
place for BSA members.
How is it working at Gangsta, the
good and the bad ?
Where ever you work there will be good
and bad…the good is that we always get
new clothing samples and the bad is it’s
sometimes a headache organizing the
business.
Tell us about your job description
and the Gangsta brand specialty?
My job description is the same as a
manager of any company. Running and
controlling the business so it Reachesits
targets and procedures….
Gangsta’s specialty ?
yeah…Gangsta has different looks for
different targets “ Gangster, Surfer and
Chick”
Do you like to go out & party? Any
experiences being really drunk?
I don’t really like to go out & party or
get really drunk…I prefer to hang out
at the beach until sunset …relax …but I
do go to a club if Gangsta has a fashion
show or sexy dancers, which is quite
often.
Your favourite clubbing venue?
Because I don’t really like clubbing I
don’t have a favourite venue.
�Gangsta models are always sexy
girls, do your friends ever ask you to
introduce them?
Everyone likes sexy girls…lots of my
friends ask me to introduce them or for
the girls’ hand phone numbers or for
other strange things…it’s normal….if you
want to know more you’ll have to ask
them yourself!
Your hopes for the future for Gangsta?
I hope that Gangsta Surf keeps on
progressing as per target and takes after
the brands that are already big.
Yup ,last word for MW…
Be the best surf magazine, peace….