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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Yes, we are, Tom. Beautiful Gold Coast. We're up here for a golf day, Mick Fenning's golf day. And we thought while we're up here, why don't we talk to his good mate, Joel Parkinson? Yeah, well, you mean another world champion? I mean the 2012 world champion. Yeah, that's right. That's what I'm talking about. Talking about Joel Parkinson. Ornament. To the nation, Tom.
That's what I'm talking about.
Yep.
You know what I'm saying? Cool dude. Very cool dude. Chill dude. Very chilled. Very chilled. The king of Australian style, Tom. Not nothing. No, it's not. Big fan of his work. Can you run us through a couple of, so obviously world champion 2012. 2012 world champion. Triple crown. He won his first event at J-Bay when he was like 18 as a wild card. He won the Vans triple crown three times in a row.
Not nothing. That's like Sunset, Oahu, and Pipe. He won at Pipe in 2012. I think he's won like... Maybe 10 or 12 times on tour. Like, big dick.
And then... Two-time world junior champion. Listen, I don't even want to give away all of his stuff, but he also sold Bolter with his best mates. For a monster. Yep. So literally living the Australian dream. Living the Australian dream like four times over. Yeah. Ridiculous.
He's a great dude.
And a great bloke.
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Chapter 2: What inspired Joel Parkinson to become a world champion surfer?
Yep. And he's been so kind just to let us into the... What is this, like a meeting room in this apartment complex? Yeah, it's like a family room.
A family meeting.
It's nice. It's some artwork. It's like a party room. That's a TV, by the way.
Yeah, it is.
How cool is that? Joel Parkinson. Joel Parkinson. Joel Parkinson. Thank you very much again for doing this.
very much appreciate it in a very cool apartment complex here um but the elephant in the room is obviously queensland's victory last night you sort of you know it was mentioned pretty quickly once we once we met you outside it's first thing mentioned it's basically the first thing that was said the fucking air hostess when we flew up here was like sucked in basically to all new south wales how are you feeling today um yeah i'm down
feel amazing i mean you know the feeling after you get an origin win like not really no like we haven't recently but it's pretty hollow yeah pretty hollow but yeah especially that uh because i want to really get to that third game and i had some tickets sorted but i was a bit apprehensive to commit because uh you know i'm thinking i'm not i hate going to a dead rubber there's no way i'm going to that no it's nice just to know i'm going to go and hopefully watch a uh origin and
and watch them hold up a trophy.
Do you blokes get sick of winning or what?
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Chapter 3: How did Joel Parkinson feel about his rivalry with other surfers?
Maybe it would have been cloud break. But were you a fan of that final system at all? Did you think it could work or was it like you were never into it?
I remember back in the early meetings when we were talking about that, there was ā the talk was that that was going to go, you know, first year was going to be trestles and they were going to make that roving final five around the world, Indo, Indonesia and Bali or wherever you want to like ā Looking for the best wave at the time. Looking for the best flight.
And those first three years, it went straight back to back to back to trestles. Yeah. And that's when it went to Fiji.
you know last year then and then it was clipped after that you know they they really probably if they stuck to that and we all got to see five of the best top five serves in the world go and shoot it out on a day of pumping anywhere in the world we're all like i reckon that's a great idea that's cool that's how you finish it yeah but you don't finish it trestle's a great wave but i don't think it's a double a plus wave how much consulting did you did the surfers get for those changes
I was still on tour when they were thinking about doing it. So all those talks were happening then and I finished in 18.
But so they were like... They were consulting the surfers.
They were. Yeah, they'd consult them, I guess. They, you know, there's a couple of, we have our surfer reps that got in there and voiced their opinion. But, I mean, a few of us, like, I was pretty excited for the idea. I thought it was great, you know. I was never going to surf in one because I was retiring. But I thought it was amazing. I thought it was going to be really cool.
I thought, you know, I was going to see, we might have seen, like, G-Land or somewhere in Indo. Big one year and the following year we'd be somewhere else and, But, yeah, that kind of ā I'm really happy it's gone back to the pipeline end and for a world title.
Just back to the style of surfing that you didn't like, but in terms of it just being, you know, performative movement. And so are you saying the judges, they like it? Like who's ā and who's judging if it's ā is it not people of the surfing community?
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Chapter 4: How did Joel Parkinson manage the pressure of competitive surfing?
I'd say I went to both of us that wave, but didn't go to him.
But in terms of an unhealthy rivalry, like, is there any other examples you can give us of where there might have been some bad blood?
I mean, Kelly and Andy's, you know, one of the greatest rivalries in surfing. You know, there was definitely some bitter bits there for sure. Got to see a couple where they, you know, definitely thought there's going to be a chance it was going to fisty cuffs. Really? Yeah, for sure. Telling each other.
fuck off and all this different stuff but anyway they sorted out later in life and became pretty close but i think when two guys want something so bad and you know that's that's kind of what they got into when did you first meet andy because you were close with him yeah i met him when he used to come here uh back when i was pretty young but i didn't really connect
We started trading on Char when he was sponsored by Billabong the earlier, pretty much the year that I came on tour. He, we just hit it off because we were traveling together, staying in houses together and it's come good really close and yeah, we're close all the way till he's passed.
When the waves were pumping on like a massive day, what was it like going out with him?
psycho yeah bat crazy too like he would he was fearless and just he was he was so scary to surf with when it was big because you just felt like you had to go you know and he was so comfortable in just giant scary surf and it
I saw a video of him recently, actually, of this massive wave he got at Chaupu. And he talked about the reason he went on it was because he didn't want Bruce to get the cover and all the glory and shit. But apparently Bruce was screaming out, you better fucking go, you pussy.
And everyone thought, oh, he's dead on that thing. There's no way he's making that wave. And then he shouldn't have made that wave. And it became one of the greatest waves he ever rode.
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Chapter 5: What are Joel Parkinson's thoughts on modern surfing styles?
And I was like, I cannot believe, like that's, nothing i can ever you know shake until i win yeah so um yeah then 2012 came and the pipe showdown came and uh just kelly and i you know and then i i just put up a couple of really good heats i was just in a real good rhythm and i don't know it just felt like it was my day to do it did i i think maybe i've seen a documentary on your career and
I'm pretty sure there was like when Kelly was in the semi, you were watching in the wave, like the ocean went to sleep or something like that. Yeah.
Can you like- Yeah, so on the day of the final, the semi-final, like, you know, this is like just a bit of, you know, surf jargon raggon, but- You know, you've really got to know your oceans and what the size and consistency are. And also in Hawaii, like the hottest part of the day is like that 3 o'clock time. So the trade wind blows hardest then.
And sometimes even like good trade wind should be offshore and make the wave clean. And the hotter part of the day, it sweeps around and comes a bit more north in it, I feel, on those days, you know.
So it'll get a bit choppier?
It'll get choppier. It'll get shit real quick. And it just ā I had a semi before and I was ā was the first, Sammy Kelly was the second. So I went out 30 minutes, had the heat, won the heat, went into the final. 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.
That must have been ā like, what was it like, A, winning a pipe, but, B, just getting the monkey off the back, finally getting ā Oh, mate.
And then, like, you know, I ā 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.
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