Joel Parkinson

18 SECONDS #8 PAGE 1

PARKO+FRIENDS

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We got close enough to see what it was doing and Joel starts getting so excited he’s grabbing my shoulders and shaking me and throwing little jabs into my ribs. I’ve never seen a guy so excited about waves. It’s the old bull, young bull kind of thing with me and Joel that day. He wanted to run down the hill and f*ck ‘em all that day, trying to catch everything that moved out there.

“This one, Louie?” “This one?”

“Nah, mate, let’s just wait.”

Slow down. I don’t know how many times I told him to slow down that day because he wanted to catch every wave out there. There are waves breaking all over the place, it was like a wave park out there, and the secret was picking the eyes out of it. But Joel got some stupid waves that day. I’m sitting at the base of them looking back going, oh my god, look at this thing. Some of them were like Inside Sunset, just better. – Luke Egan

MELE KALIKIMAKA

CONGRATS KP

A fully worthy Pipe Master.

OLD SWELL MEET NEW SWELL

Pipe this arvo. New swell running over the old one, double-ups running over triple-ups. Hang on fellas, it's gonna be wild tomorrow.