Joel Parkinson

Joel Parkinson born 10 April 1981 is an Australian surfer who used to compete on the WSL World Surf League After twelve years competing at the elite level on the ASP World Championship Tour a stretch that saw him win eleven elite ASP World Title Events plus nine additional ASP tour events and achieve runnerup second place to the ASP World Title four times Parkinson won the ASP World Championship Tour Surfing Title on 14 December 2012 in Hawaii at the Banzai Pipeline during the ASP World Tours final event for 2012the Billabong Pipeline Masters Parkinson hung on in a back and forth battle with eleventime ASP World Title holder Kelly Slater to get his first World Title as well as go on to win the Pipeline Masters only after Slater lost his semifinal heat to Josh Kerr of Queensland Australia Parkinson beat Kerr in the finals of the event which was his seventh topfive placing for the year and his first event title win for 2012