Joel Parkinson

And just as I was noticing the last part of my heat, the wind started nuking, getting real strong and coming on.

And I was like, oh, it's going to be ugly in one of these heats.

And there might only be one wave, max two waves, if they're lucky, in 30 minutes.

And one wave come, Josh Kerr got it, got a nine.

And then they battled around with getting twos the rest of the time.

And that was it.

And Josh won the heat and I got to win.

And then, like, you know, I –

I remember I just couldn't believe it.

I didn't really sink in at all that day because it was just everyone, you know, was kind of on a bit of a hooter that night and just went mad and had a great night.

I got up in the morning and my wife was there.

I had my son, Marley, who was two.

He was in bed and I remember getting up and I went to the toilet and had a piss and I

in there it's like a shower and that you can see straight through and my my trophy my big jerry lopez trophy was in the shower

I don't know what I did.

I don't know how I got there.

And I was just looked up and had a piss and I just looked at it and just like broke into a smile.

It was like just getting light.

I was like, what the hell?

I've done it.