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“With surfing you can really change things around in one or two events,” said Parkinson. “I had a couple of results at the beginning of the year that weren’t going my way. I felt like I was surfing really good and I think I had a couple of bad decisions. I guess I learned from them and now I’m really feeling a lot better as a surfer and can have a decent crack at it (the title).”
When speaking about Fanning, Parkinson was full of admiration for his good mate.
“I see Mick in the surf a lot at home as we free surf together all the time,” said Parkinson. “When I free surf with him I just think, I don’t know how I can ever keep up with him. We have those battles all the time where we both just step up to the plate. We’ve been doing that since we were 12 years old. We don’t talk out there, we’re best of mates and we sit out there for half and hour and we won’t say a word. Before and afterwards we’re all high fives.”
For Fanning the second place was bitter sweet. While he would have loved to claim the win, he was very pleased for his good friend Parkinson who hasn’t to claimed a victory since winning the Boost Mobile Pro in California in 2004.
“If one of your best mates wins it’s just great,” said Fanning. “A second is always good, it looks really good at the end of the year. Last week I lost to Deano (Dean Morrison) in California and this week I lost to Joel. When’s it my turn?” [laughs]
Fanning admitted that at the end of the day fatigue got the better of him.
“It was hard out there,” said Fanning. “As fit as I think I am, I know I can do some more work now. I just sat there in the final for 25 minutes just paddling, paddling, paddling and by the time I got a wave I was just so fatigued in my whole body and mentally I just couldn’t do anything.”
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