Joel Parkinson

So it was just a TV update.

And I rung my dad as I was just getting off the stage.

Dad, dad, I won.

He's like, bullshit.

Bullshit.

I'm like, I did.

And so, like, even...

He was in shock, I think.

From there on, I was lucky enough to get a cover wildcard and then made it on the tour and the rest is history, I suppose.

2000 2000 2001 sorry and uh how long until you start competing until you're like up there um 2002 i think that in 2002 i guess 2001 i got on but it was like uh in 99 it was uh 9 11 so we only we had a whole most of the tour kick can straight after it because we were kicking off in europe for three back to back so we end up doing five events that year and

usually it's a 10 of a year um and then so 2002 that's when mick came on and dingo came with us so i'd kind of had a couple of close childhood friends come through with me and um

Then I felt like that was my real full year, my first full year.

And then, yeah, we did all really well that year.

We won a couple of events.

I think I ended up second.

So you come second?

yeah i guess so but mate we're pretty like i would i remember when so mick got on and i was like well if he's in the quarterfinals i'm in the quarterfinals yeah yeah kind of felt like it was like that um so then all of a sudden it really that like healthy rivalry of not just trying to beat the rest of the tour but also making sure i was in front of you want your best friend or whatever you got to do there so it was a nice and healthy rivalry there itself but um

Yeah, I don't know.

Probably Kelly.

Probably Kelly's.