Parko (pictured) storming.
Parko (pictured) storming.

Champion surfer Joel Parkinson at center of wild Gold Coast pell-mell involving mud sliding, TikTok, ageism and alleged hand-to-hand combat!

Extreme drama.

Joel Parkinson, longtime fixture on the Association of Surfing Professionals’ Championship Tour, was best known for his effortlessly stylish approach to wave dancing. His smooth, born and bred on Australia’s Gold Coast, won him many admirers that reminisce together to this very day and also, once, a slap from a bodyboarder though that may have had more to do with something else.

The 2012 champion was recently spotted helping ferry flood victims to safety on a sled while his wife’s car was being stolen.

No good deed going unpunished etc.

Well, Parkinson had an opportunity, yesterday, to release some pent up anger at a gaggle of… not kids but not adults either… who were enjoying a mudslide.

The pell-mell, mostly caught on camera and posted to various social medias, was titled “This guy tried to bash us for going down a mudslide in the Gold Coast” and included the caption:

This is @joelparko ex professional surfer . Picking on young people trying to have some fun in hard times. Actually getting violent towards them. @wsl. Who do you think you are? we have all seen videos of you and your idiot mates running amok when you were younger. Why don’t you grow up, you want respect? You have to give it to earn it ..@ripcurl_aus

I do believe the insult “you smell like an old man’s fart,” or some variation, is used in the melee but there are, likely, many more so best to watch with a pen and paper in order to capture.

Back to the “young people,” though. Would you call the sliders “young?” I’m having a real tough time categorizing them. Help?

But, most importantly, where do you fall? #TeamParko or #TeamSlide?

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Brenda Ann Touchet
Brenda Ann Touchet
4 years ago

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channelbottom
channelbottom
4 years ago

Fo shizzle, my go-rizza.

Andrew Glazier
Andrew Glazier
4 years ago

Stupid tit head

Stick man
Stick man
4 years ago

repurpose…

FL Skunk Ape
FL Skunk Ape
4 years ago

Joel would def be a trumper if he lived here.

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Italo Post Heat Interview
4 years ago

I like parko more now. Just a local heavy doing local heavy things

Pauly Matt War-Shore
Pauly Matt War-Shore
4 years ago
Jimmy the Saint
Jimmy the Saint
4 years ago

Classic

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
4 years ago

Fair enuff

shootsthen
shootsthen
4 years ago

If those little pricks came to my yard, and tucked it all up with their “having fun” bullshit, and then mouthed off when I told them to leave: I’d throw all those fuckers, head first down that hill. There could be slaps involved (wrestling slaps; not ear drum breaker). Maybe some knee on belly, and/or a well placed forearm in the neck. Little punks. They should have just said sorry, we’re leaving.

AI (for ever) .
AI (for ever) .
4 years ago
Reply to  shootsthen

It’s not his yard it’s a public park that parko put on tv doing the exact same thing days earlier.
No one gives a shit.
I’m told locals ( parko doesn’t even live in Coolangatta) told him to sort it out because every cunt had seen it/him on tv and driving down from Brisbane to have a go.

You want blow up? How about the looters ripping people off!

It’s nothing. The whole northern rivers has been washed away and people are blowing up about some grass on Kirra fucken hill?

Ffs

shootsthen
shootsthen
4 years ago

No, I don’t want to “blow up.” haha.

toaster redux
toaster redux
4 years ago
Reply to  shootsthen

Bullshit. You’d just go inside, close the door and hope they’d go away

shootsthen
shootsthen
4 years ago
Reply to  toaster redux

Wouldn’t ever happen to me; but if those Instagram donkeys did come to our culdasac, they wouldn’t mouth off. The XL pitbulls, pig jaws, etc., are deterrent enough. But yeah, if you don’t know how to defend yourself, you should just do what you would do, go inside, close the door, and grumble. Non-violence is always the right way, but sometimes it’s fun to teach people lessons.

toaster redux
toaster redux
4 years ago
Reply to  shootsthen

I wouldn’t react to something so benign as a couple of dickheads sliding down a hill but you do you champ

shootsthen
shootsthen
4 years ago
Reply to  toaster redux

Doesn’t look so “benign” to me. Looks like they messed up that hill in the name of “fun.” If fun is an excuse for messing up public spaces, well then, that’s the weird world you live in. It makes sense you wouldn’t “react,” which is what most people would do, not react.

toaster redux
toaster redux
4 years ago
Reply to  shootsthen

Sounds like you need a hug bro

Jim Fu
Jim Fu
4 years ago

You want grumpy!? Some of the judgmental commenters on here are tarred with same camel cock breath colonge as these oxygen thiefs who get cheap thrills destroying nature and/or giving the finger to the majority of the general public (well it was a nicely groomed lawn).
All well and good for kids to slide down wet grass after rain but that situation at Kirra went well beyond reasonable fun antics.
Unfortunately the GC City council, who days ago said that they were monitoring the situation, did fuck all.
Good on Parko for standing up for sense and reason, and you finger pointers can keep sucking camel cocks!

Yeah_na
Yeah_na
4 years ago
Reply to  Jim Fu

In honour of this fateful event I have created a small batch of commemorative bees wax candles.
I have amalgamated the time honoured scents of Old mans fart with Camel cock breath and tied it together with BG commenters Old dick cheese.
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channelbottom
channelbottom
4 years ago
Reply to  Yeah_na

I clicked, genuinely hoping for a cock-shape candle.

AI (for ever) .
AI (for ever) .
4 years ago
Reply to  Jim Fu

Yeah I blame the local government!!!

channelbottom
channelbottom
4 years ago
Reply to  Jim Fu

Grass is a waste of space and energy for the most part. Absolutely shit for biodiversity. A bit here and there is fine for amenity, but FFS who cares about this bit of mud. Worst thing that’ll happen is someone will be employed for a couple of days to fix it. Helps the local economy.

Michael Flatlately
Michael Flatlately
4 years ago

Be hard to keep a nose like that out of others’ business

Whitefolkswithdreadsarefunny
Whitefolkswithdreadsarefunny
4 years ago

Sadly almost no one under 60 even knows about the chambers bros. While “before my time”, I was weird enough to buy records from the thrift store while everyone else started buying cds. I think almost every record I found that had the red Columbia 360 Sound label had at least some redeeming qualities.

AI (for ever) .
AI (for ever) .
4 years ago

Parko proof that if you build it and put it on tv….they will come-

https://fb.watch/bFbZJxnPed/

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
4 years ago

What a dead set fukwit

Jimmy the Saint
Jimmy the Saint
4 years ago

What an absolute knob!

Doobalachy
Doobalachy
4 years ago

Ouch

Stick man
Stick man
4 years ago

whata fuckin hypocrite!

Mudrock
Mudrock
4 years ago

Are these those Imma Island Boy singers?

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
4 years ago

Dude, if true you gotta post a link or something to that.

AI (for ever) .
AI (for ever) .
4 years ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

““Have some respect,” Parkinson said as he moved to de-escalate the situation.

Parkinson has since told The Courier-Mail, the camera used “ended up in the mud”.

“They weren’t hurting anyone but I just thought it was disrespectful with everything the community was going through with the floods.

“I’d put up a slip ‘n’ slide up for the kids on the first day of the rain but these guys were adults, we’d had two days of sun, the hill reeked of mud and they’d climbed over a fence the council had put up.””

https://www.news.com.au/spo…

It was on the local news as well with him sliding down it.

I have zero idea why it’s a big blowup now, no one cares.

Pauly Matt War-Shore
Pauly Matt War-Shore
4 years ago

This guy, summing it up.

https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

Pauly Matt War-Shore
Pauly Matt War-Shore
4 years ago

His IG is pretty on point too.

https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

Seaman Staines
Seaman Staines
4 years ago

Rip Curl and the WSL are going to be very disappointed in this carry on.

Gil Gunderson
Gil Gunderson
4 years ago
Reply to  Seaman Staines

Oh JMD gunna come down harrrrrrd on this one.

Low wide stinkbug stance
Low wide stinkbug stance
4 years ago
Reply to  Seaman Staines

Why did they even tag Rip Curl when he’s sponsored by Billabong?

AI (for ever) .
AI (for ever) .
4 years ago

Out of respect for AI maybe?

Professor Ski Lodge
Professor Ski Lodge
4 years ago

The Search continues…

Chuck Dukowski
Chuck Dukowski
4 years ago

Parko joins the Fun Police! A snap shot of Australia now, forget the ‘Happy go lucky she will be right mate’ rhetoric. Australia by and large is a nation of small minded petty narc’s.

AI (for ever) .
AI (for ever) .
4 years ago

That’s totally different, totally, I dunno how but it must be?

Chief Hot stuff
Chief Hot stuff
4 years ago

Funny how the whole lefty crowd on here are outraged
Get a life, fun police.

Owen Wright's Brains
Owen Wright's Brains
4 years ago

Parko is a hard right JW.


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