“Joel was having the worst surf of his life out there. The man’s human after all.”
Mitch Parkinson, son of hotshot eighties shredder Darryl and star of BeachGrit’s surfboard test series, has fed the engines of innumerable Instagram accounts with a wild board steal from cuz Joel Parkinson at Snapper Rocks yesterday.
Mitch, who is twenty-six and once hailed, by me, as the best ten-year-old surfer in the world, was using his conspirator’s scowl to scoop up the best waves at Snapper.
“You have to be an arsehole,” says Mitch.
Then as he paddled into one of the sets of the day from the shoulder came world champion Joel.
“He dropped in on me like an old Bruce Lee (Snapper local not martial arts icon) sitting wide on the shoulder,” says Mitch, in between applying resin and cloth to a JS surfboard. “We were next to each other and I saw that he was too high and that he was going to go over so I grabbed his board. I was waiting for it to get ripped out of my arms but then, ‘Yes!, he’s not wearing a leggy!‘”
Mitch says he surfed Joel’s twin-fin to Greenmount, a couple of hundred metres away, and walked back along the point to cheers and laughter, “and to Joel waiting patiently for me.”
Mitch says the exchange enlivened an otherwise poor surf for his storied cuz.
“Joel was having the worst surf of his life out there. He couldn’t get a wave. It was funny to watch him. The man’s human after all.”
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Heroin addicts dying? Shocker!
Close to the very definition of going viral.
Did anyone else notice the dolphin getting in on the action?
No, you’re literally the only person who saw that across all of the social media accounts this has been posted on. Nice catch.
Is that Fanning at :18 seconds in? lol
Thats what I thought too!
Surfed Snapper with them!
Either way someones cheeks were burning from a huge smile..
Not even a mention of the dolphin 🐬he gets the nod 🤙
Yawn
That is pretty classic.
Why the fuck aren’t you wearing a leash out there though?
“You have to be an asshole.”
No-one has perfected the art quite like Mitch
Some would say this was staged, me too.
you cant script that…
Dolphin collab is the icing..
Kooks
Word on the street is it was a set up , well rehearsed several times before they got it right.
Instagram feeds everyone
We were watching from the surf club deck enjoying happy hour beers and spoke to both of them afterwards.
It was not set up but, as usual, some people love to peddle misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Bet they can’t do that going left
Do left breaking waves exist? Mind blown
Don’t be harsh in yourself, lefts only exist in the mind of tin foil hat wearing, anti everything, cat loving conspiracy theorists.
To be honest I havent hit the water in so long, I’m too afraid the kook shit show it will be when I try to stand up on a board again.
Same boat, broken leg. Plus it’s easier throwing peanuts lol
the sheer distance he took it made that clip.
(and the dolphin)
The thought of parko wading in boardless and looking gormless is worth its weight in gold.
2min swim/walk to car….New shooter with leash this time…1 min walk to jump rock….next set wave!…life of luxury…as Rab said..the cream aalways rises to the top’
(proceeds to review…)
Joel with no leggie at Snapper. He’s a great role model for all groms, right? Buy Billafuckenbong – or, rather, let that shit rot on the shelves.
If you look closely, Parko is wearing Quicksilver boardies. Same corporate owner and all but seems to be a waste of all the marketing dollars pumped into him.
Any money pumped into Joel is a waste of money. Who buys anything because these guys wear them?
45 year old men with no taste.
Thats the coolest shit I’ve seen in a while
Looks more crowded than LA at rush hour. How is that even fun?
No, it’s far from “fun”. It’s a fricken zoo, with fin chops galore, aggro, swearing and a bunch of frustrated people.
from the couch it actually is…
More viewers than the woz …pretty amazing after slalom through the pack from the takeoff to seeing all eyes on you as you rocket down the line to a sea of envious faces that look like they are killed.in a dream….super!
Pretty cool switching boards mid ride.
Andy’s death.