Maybe! To teach private surf lessons at new boutique hotel!
It is truly amazing what a person can learn from an inflight magazine. Did you know, for example, that you can spend three prefect days in New Zealand? Or that the longest tunnel in the world stretches 57 km? Or that (ex?) pro surfer Joel Parkinson can be hired to give private surf lessons at a new beach hotel in Australia?
A write-up featuring some of the best hotels in the world discusses the glamorous Halcyon House. Let’s read:
Opened last May in a converted 1960s seaside motel, the 21-room Halcyon House is bringing high style to the scruffy surfers’ paradise of Cabarita Beach, an hour and a half south of Brisbane. The property, set back from the sand behind a grove of palm-like pandanus trees, brims with eclectic flea-market finds, boldly patterned upholstered walls, and a palette that skews toward mariniere-style navies and whites. Work up an appetite by taking a private lesson with pro surfer Joel Parkinson…
Boom. If Parko is on call for the high style Halcyon House then there is no way he can continue to compete.
Yeah?
Anyone in the service industry will tell you that the first rule is making sure you are always available to fill hours and the second is that the customer is always right.
True?
I got instantly fired from my only service industry job.
Still. Can you imagine a worse life than teaching surf lessons? These must be very bleak days on the WSL. Very bleak indeed. But since he is giving them, shouldn’t we go and learn how to do proper cutbacks?
Or do you think you’re above a few pointers? From the world’s most stylish surfer/handsome instructor?
I thought joel was buying into some dumb liquid sale thing, whether it be a beer brand or coconut water.
joel is still on tour?
i was just trying to use it in a sentence. It was hard AF btw this ish is LIT! Swag…On fleek.
Chas, this has nothing to do with Parko but, what with Nick Carroll, Brad Gerlach, Maurice Cole, Dane Reynolds and a couple of other anonymous but bona fide swinging dicks now slugging it out on BeachGrit on the regular, I’m wondering how much of your time is now spent in a state of raging tumescence? Also, how much longer will you be able to keep up the studied nonchalance/jaded ennui in the face of such overwhelming surf industry old money when surely all you want to do is jump up and down, flap your hands and squeal “BRAD GERLACH!” over and over?
I’m still squealing that Dane replied to one of my posts even if I was being a dick and he did delete it.
where/when was this?
It was a few months ago and was something about his beloved Summer Teeth (probably the QS bankruptcy). I said something snarky and he responded but I didn’t know it was him until Wigs or Chas said something. I was both mortified and honored at the sime time. Pretty awesome.
Your point was null AF?
Halcyon Days at the Holiday Inn. My new Pulitzer winning book about surfers in the old days on pioneering future real estate developments, running dope for the CIA, and how embarrassing surfing can be to admit to your fellow employees at Dunkin Donuts.
I think they just found a guy named joel parko and are too stupid to realize they’ve hired a fat cunt from Melbourne with a similar name .
Be Cool AF to get surf lessons from Parko ciggie at the corner of his mouth, Balter beer in one hand just the start of that post pro gut – the I don’t give a fuck attitude.
“juz stan up cuntz”
Hahahahaha!
I’m sure this is the same sort of business model as Mark Healy’s “Healy Water Ops” thing in Indo.
He spends some time there getting them up to speed then disappears to leave Paul Rudd and his white man dreads in charge of surf lessons.