Joel Parkinson

These two are punching on for no reason.

And then I found out one of the guys said afterwards, I think that guy stole his chick or something.

But I'm like, oh, they could have fought at the pub, not on the beach.

Anywhere else.

18 and then maybe, it must have been 20 something.

kind of never really everything you're always unsure of that i guess but um i when i was 18 i won the jeffries bay like as a wild card um and that were you a wild card in that yeah i was just a wild card so i kind of felt like when i did that i was like shocked myself that you know that um i had like sonny garcia he was world champ at the time and stuff like that so i went through oh sorry he was world number one at the time um

Uh, Occy was there, guys like that.

And then went through that field and was like, whoa, I can't believe I won that.

Were you still at school then?

No, no.

School wasn't a big part of my life when I was young.

Um, but yeah.

And then that was kind of a moment where I thought, well, maybe, you know, maybe there's a chance I could be on tour.

I could, you know, this could be my job.

This could be my livelihood.

Yeah, I mean, it's a long time ago now, actually.

But I remember even shocking my dad.

My dad was like, he was pumped I had the wild card.

And then, you know, that was back before they were live streamed and all that.

It was 99.