The view from the hill: Mitch Parko cooking at Kirra
Today's internet controversy is the Woodee? Woodenee? brouhaha at Kirra.
Beginning with an incredible wave of Mitch Parkinson's, which ended in a brutal drop in, the mystery deepened when it was revealed Mitch had dropped in on someone himself.
Did Mitch genuinely think old mate wouldn't make it? Was he right to assume that?
Or is there a more sinister angle and Mitch thought he would make it but shafted him anyway..?
The evidence is piling up and we've got two more angles to add to the mix..
This mystery won't solve itself...so, would the goofyfooter have made the wave or not?
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If the good wasn’t gonna make it he was certainly gonna be close. Mitch should STFU such double standards
Yep- Hypocrite and full of himself
Absolutely Barrel. He's the third biggest dog in Cooly after Occ and Dingo. He can suck it.
What about...Mitch didn’t give a fuck whether he was going to make it or not he just went anyway because he’s a typical Cooly local wannabe pro entitled prick?
He wasn't going to make it.
I would've gone too.
So said old mate who took the wave from Mitch :)
Haha ol mitch complaining of being dropped in on .................haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa as for the goofy footer that he dropped in on, probably wouldnt have made it but we will never know eh mitch.....i do like mitchs surfing though...but fuk him its dog eat dog now dayz
Yep, that's a drop-in alright. He would have made it through the section where Mitch started. Highly doubt he would have got as far as Mitch did. Very difficult on backhand.
Would China O'Conner have made it ?
Would have never have got burnt trying..
China might have! NP jnr definitely would have!
Why don't SN get Mitch on the blower for an interview?
The Goofy never stood a chance anyway, that chandelier was well sold.
"Why don't SN get Mitch on the blower for an interview?"
What for?
Journalism..?
Fuck that. Wild speculation and incitement to anger is way more satisfying.
Besides, tomorrow is another day.
Awwww... C'mon, it'd be fun.
Doesn't he deserve the right of reply? Not a lot of love floating around for old Mitch (except among his cohorts).
Right of reply? Not sure what else he could add other than "yeah, I faded him due to xyz and then got faded due to xyz".
He got interviewed by beach grit and justified his drop-in, whilst remaining annoyed that he got dropped in on.
Well there you go. Entitled much? Shame these clowns have detracted from what was a world class day out yesterday. So many well ridden waves that should be the conversation. Real telling. I reckon the apetite for pros surfers in general is at an all time low. Fair amount of aggressive vitriol directed at them past couple days.
Agree Stu, and this is what the punters are paying for haha
4 guys took off
3 got burned
Mitch was the first to drop in and he got by far the best of the wave - so has nothing to complain about
I hope he bought the goofy a few beers !
I reckon that goofyfooter would definitely have made it , seen plenty of guys grow up here and learn to surf backhand barrels as good as forhand because they have no other choice, I’m extremely lucky to have surfed kirra through the late seventies and eighties when people had respect and lined up . There wasn’t the numbers you have today and its a dog eat dog pace out there now . Kids grow up thinking this is normal and you see parents pushing kids on to waves saying “ just go “ It’s easy to pick what part of Australia people come from in Indonesia. That comment may offend some but gold coasters stand out with their attitude particularly when it’s crowded. Pros have always been up themselves dicks as far as I’m concerned.
Faded other surfer from the start. Deserved to be faded too. This and repeatedly snaking deserves to be called out or put an end to. Stuffing someone on a sick one makes surfing look so so lame. Wait your turn or get called out. No sympathy for this crap. What a shit show. Telling someone to fade another is bullshit.
Wheres Johnny Boy Gomes and some surf rule authority? Put that little Mitch, Occy and Dingo to the end of the lineup where they belong
unfortunately, the johnny boy equivalent in cooly - bruce lee - is a complete fuckwit. he burns heaps of people but everyone backs down cos its a lose / lose situation - he either beats you up, or you win and then never get another wave in cooly.
if you won wouldn’t you then get any wave you want? No one wants to be beaten up twice..
One of my best mates growing up called out Bruce Lee in the carpark one morning and he backed right up and apologised. He must have been aware of his background and history because he was back pedalling in record time.
Sadly, time caught up with my mate and he’s about 10 years deep into 15-18 stretch. I keep in contact and all he thinks about is his first surf. I guess I won’t take him out to snapper.
Bit of an "out of the frying pan..." scenario there.
From jail to crowded Snapper.
Blatant drop in at the point of take off.
Yep, he was going to make it, and depending on how good the first guy was, he was a good chance too.
I don’t know how people surf there. Such a beautiful wave, ruined by people.
Has Mitch commented anywhere on any of the insta posts? Not that i have seen yet.
Few years ago he was at Keramas when we were there, his old man was there and a nice bloke, wonder what he thinks, saw a guy drop in on him and he gave it to him, lucky old mate was leaving that night back to VIC.
I got one nice 4 footer off Mitch he couldn't paddle into and when i paddled back out he went man i wanted that one, didn't say it but thought mate you've had a 1000 of those lol.
After pausing and slowing down that second one i'm convinced old mate didn't even look, half way down the wave he was still looking the other way, wouldn't of thought there was someone in it, until Mitch started to come out then he fell jumped off, scared the crap out of him i reckon.
Honest mistake, not like Mitch's deliberate drop in.
China woulda come out switchfoot. No rules at Kirra now. No use whingin, it is what it is. A guy who surfed Kirra good back in the days pre super bank was Reg Riley. Never gets mentioned.
That era post MP/Rabbit had some of the best underground rippers. Reg was absolutely one of the best. Snail, Ray Manc into the younger guys Scat, Jamie K and China who was the most freakishly talented of them all.
So, the Bob Hawke surf team era then?
The golden years... full sponsorship at $60 a week.
Those were the days Dean. these days it's a burn free for all and that's mainly because the wave is totally different.
China could do stuff you could only dream of - we were out on a sweet 4-6 foot day when I watched him do a switch takeoff on the outside corner of big groyne, swing around to pig dog for the second section, then switch back again to pull out...
Add NP Jnr and Chappy to that backhand list too.
Mitch had to go, he's one of the boys so the wave rightfully belongs to him and he needs to have fresh content for instagram otherwise he might feel irrelevant
Mitch, EADC. Not a acronym for East Australian Deep Current either.
Why is this even up a debate. How Mitch can think that he is hard done is fucked. What a idol.
China would have tracked the dropper-innerer down and glassed the cunt.
Who cares if goofy was gonna make it or not? Point is, he had the right to see if he could. Some fuckwit denied him of that right. Nothing else is up for discussion
After that, it was deemed a party wave
+1 Kaiser
Exactly!!!!
+2 Kaiser.
Agree. Why can’t these entitled dick heads enjoy someone else’s stoke?
The only upside to all this is that everyone gets old and slow and then the burnings from the younger crew begin in earnest..
I suppose calling it out & letting the sponsors of these "pro surfers" they are not a good representative of their brands is all you can do.
great idea in theory, but they will do nothing. all they care about is profits, most of them are totally one-eyed and fuckwits also. take occy for example - how can billabong keep paying him yet every surfer hates him
Fair point about Occy. But who actually buys Billabong gear?
enough must do. anyone on here know why no one ever belts occy? is he hard? i heard he beat up someone years ago at snapper while high on coke and billabong paid the victim hush money
He's a soft cock Scrote, smack away!
fair enough. i've seen him burn so many guys who look like they could handle themselves but no-one says a word let alone does anything. i cant work out why
It's been a good while, but I gave him some choice thoughts one day out at Snapper - he was sitting right on the end of the surge burning people taking off behind the rock. it was fkn hilarious watching him squirm, and the look on the faces of the crew were priceless! I offered him the opportunity to work it out on the beach, but he declined like a whiney little bitch.....
Hilarious
good work, wish i'd been there to see it. many years ago a boog mate of mine challenged occy in the lineup, and was suddenly surrounded by a hoard of occy supporters and had to let it go
Goofys who surfed kirra well , China , Guy Omerald , Doris , Wick Wak , Al Byrne , Alby Ross , Chappy , Macca , Zappa , NP junior and a heap I’ve forgotten.
Jim Banks
These guys (pro/semi pro) set the culture, they ruthlessly drop in, what do they expect...
Joe Engel surfed Kirra switchfoot as a goofy for a full session mid-80s. There's a photo of it in Line Up. "Tonton" Fallander also was a standout, Munga and Hodgey as well. Definitely Reg Riley was untouchable at his peak for a couple of years. The classic has to be Wayne Deane, on water patrol, getting better barrels than contestants during one of the pro events when everyone was caught inside.
what about old mate on his boogie getting dropped in on at 15 sec mark!!
Yeh , I noticed that 2 .... no ones commenting on that incursion!!??
There was a thread on Instagram showing the “Mitch friendly” edit of the wave
where 100s of sycophants were calling for the execution of the guy who spoiled Mitchs wave of the year
Somehow the post disappeared soon after the uncut footage appeared and the true story was told !
LOL
And the surf is firing at Newcastle... ah well.
If it wasn’t for Anna fat guts the comp would’ve been on the goldy
Seems like Mitch is determined to take the older brother's Parko Principle to new levels.
Has he ever caught a wave to himself?
Cousin, not brother.
Whoops. Thank you.
Did we get a I.D. of the burnt goofy footer ?
Think he was a Korean fella?
Sum Cooked Knt I think they said his name was.
Drop in big headed knob, and yep I’m talking about Mitch
China, Reg Riley , NPJr, Butto , Sam Watts.
Kirra Cream !
Kirra has always been the land of the missed Or taken opportunity. Some takeoffs are pushing the friendship ... & that Mitch was definitely one to remember ! I see in the karma forecast many burns & pushed in sections coming your way ....
Sam watts is a name you don’t hear often in surfing circles these days. Correct, and Nice one mate. (Scat did ok too)
life wouldn't be easy when your dad is better at everything you do
Joel is his uncle. Mitch is the son of 'Deep' Daryl.
Sorry, Joel is his cousin!
First World problem...just get over it!
Local surfing identity drops in at Kirra and then gets dropped in on.
Internet lights up with vitriol and advice as to what should happen from now on.
Next good swell: same local surfing identity drops in on someone else and internet lights up again.
and so on and so on and so on
Local surfing identity drops in at Kirra and then gets dropped in on.
Internet lights up with vitriol and advice as to what should happen from now on.
Next good swell: same local surfing identity drops in on someone else and internet lights up again.
and so on and so on and so on
Unfortunate but true ringmaster.
Thank fuck the circus wasn’t in town for that swell, it would have been far worse.
Tiny mind, tiny world. Mitch and his cohorts sound like they need to get out more if they are as bad as they are being painted here. Never understood why you need to be such a dick in the water (and out) and as far as Mitch being a great surfer he wasn't anywhere to be seen at Newcastle where the best were (and no Aussie made the final). Boys need to see the bigger picture and how minute they are in the total scheme of things. Occy should definitely know better and yes many whispers years ago that were never substantiated. Tom Carrol was the worst but then he had a raging drug addiction not sure what the GC crew's problem is.
Stolen waves taste bitter.
I heard that it is official that the boys want forgiveness and said over social media that they will allow you all to drop in on Mitch and Occy routinely for the first day of each new swell for 2021.
Don't understand the bitchiness towards MP. All and sundry drop-in at QLD points so if not MP it wouldda been...(insert pro-ish name here).
Mitch P .. great surfer but a full blown flog.. won’t be the last time
Should have held his line, even with the drop in. Why did he even straighten out...
Goofy was almost definitely not going to make it, but what a shit show of a circus anyway.
Meanwhile on the S.Coast; 4 hours of heaving, spitting, reefy barrels with 1 other bloke out this morning. Yew.
Bang on Walkar, the guy on the end was an apparition sent by a higher power to make things right.
Shoulda kept goin.
Me and me mates all must head to the S.Coast then...cheers
Good luck with that ;)
photos or it didn't happen
Photos, footage and GPS coordinates
I Was up there that day too,I caught a wave from rainbow all the way thru to greenie. When I got to greenie and was about to get the reform some cunt dropped in on me. I guess the mentality there is "you've ridden that wave long enough, my turn now". What goes around comes around tho and I burnt a few cunts too. Not on purpose of course ;)
Sounds like you fit in fine there, stay there.
Nah only when its big I'll go there
Yeah in your dreams
https://beachgrit.com/2021/04/blood-feud-gold-coast-photographer-squares...
Apparently if you ride a board too long for Mitch’s liking you are fair game....what a cock head
I reckon Daddy Darryls boards are closer to 7'0 than 6'0
And Wayne Deanes were always 7'6 plus.
Honestly just drop in on every pro surfer. They've had more than enough, paid for by selling their soul to the environmental catastrophe that is the the "surfing" industry, which in reality is just a fashion industry. I remember once Dingo saying he justified dropping in on everyone at home because he travels to perfect waves around the world so often and doesn't get to take any wave he wants. Burn them all.
OK....you first!
Hard to do it where I live cause they're aren't any.
Yeah look there's not heaps of them hanging around Hobart either to be honest.
Yesterday I surfed with my mate (54 year old grom still rips) and ex-pro late 30's. We had a great sesh, just the three of us in really fun head high zippy lefts. Dunno why I write this, no drop ins but this pro surfer is just next level, I can't describe how hard this guy rips, he just decimates every wave he paddles for. It's a joy to watch.
Anyway, maybe because we don't have the crowds up here in the 'country' but most of the top tier surfers here, and there's quite a few, rarely if ever drop in, they give waves, call others in and for the most part are respectful and get tons of respect and waves in return. I'm getting a bit slow in my advanced years and it was nice yesterday to have one of the best surfers in Japan call me into a few sets. I don't understand this burn anyone with no compunction mentality. As far as I'm concerned, all things being equal, if someone is in the spot then let them have it, why fuck it up for them.
There's a bit of a cultural difference there, Zen!
True Ardi, but I lived and surfed most of my teenage and early adult life on the Goldy and surfed the points countless times. Of course there were dropins but the outright burning of someone on a great wave was rare. From what I can see, there's been a pretty big culture shift back home too.
As an aside, can anyone tell me if it's true- a mate of mine said he saw the subject of this article chased out of the water and did a runner and was hiding somewhere too scared to square up. This was about 3 years ago.
It's the old critical mass scenario Zen. Every spot has a point where it reaches critical mass, and descends into a shitshow. The Goldy and more or less all crowded surf zones are in a perpetual state of critical mass and only worsening. Unfortunately the Goldy legends take their attitude with them everywhere they go.
Based on the way Mitch has carried on since I’d love to buy the flog who dropped in a beer or two
New word today, compunction, thanks Zen.
Hmmm, when to hang back while someone takes off so far inside it’s totally sketchy if they will make it and maybe let an insane wave like that go for the best part unridden. Surfing is unique for it uncivilised lack of adherence to a code of conduct. ‘Let he who has not signed cast the first stone.’
Summed it up beautifully mate!