Some say Gab Medina just made history. Well, they don't know Shea Lopez.
The surf community has been very giddy about Gab Medina’s exceptionally nice floater during the Vans World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach. The event was, of course, later won by Mick Fanning, his first ever win in Hawaii, but that floater seems like it stole a touch of the thunder. Watch again here:
Now. Some have gone so far to call it the best floater in competitive surfing’s history but they are wrong because Gab’s leg did not dislocate and then hit him in the back of the head while a big wave drilled down upon his back. That, my friends, happened to Shea Lopez in 2005 and that is the greatest floater in competitive surfing’s history.
Am I wrong? Matt Warshaw, am I wrong? Oh. I think I’m wrong. I forgot about Adriano de Souza’s 8.2. It was, to quote Dave Stanfield, “Watery ballet.”
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well. he didnt complete it.
So vanilla. So straight.
3 rail turns + air reverse + slob < 2 windscreen wipers + floater.
Oh boy.
Yeah. Utter bs.
You complete me. I mean this post.