Dr Joanna Parsonage is the research and innovation manager at Surfing Australia High-performance Program. She received her PhD from Edith Cowan University in 2018, examining the gender differences in strength and power characteristics of competitive surfers. Dr Parsonages’ passion is applying evidence-based research within a high-performance daily training environment, identifying a “sweet spot” between robust lab-based data collection and that of ecologically valid data collected in the field.