Jesse Mendes wins Triple Crown. Obrigado to all!
Do you know Jordy Smith owns a house on the North Shore? If you were watching the Pipeline Masters in tender and loving memory of Andy Irons then you certainly do but Jordy Smith’s North Shore house did not help him beat Gabriel Medina and with Gabriel Medina’s semifinal victory gifted him the 2018 World Title right in front of Julian Wilson and Kelly Slater, who was no doubt thinking, “Cool. two down, nine to go.”
What an amazing day!
What an amazing heat!
Gabriel and Jordy both traded big barrels, extraordinary barrels, each weaving, each regrouping, each not getting too ahead of themselves but… the scoring?
Did you agree with the scoring?
Ross n Ronnie sure didn’t. They thought Jordy got robbed. But… what did you think?
Oh that’s rude. We can talk about that later. Right now you should crack a room temperature bottle of cachaça, take a sip and feel the burn because that burn is going to be in your esophagus for two/three months.
Gabriel Medina is your 2018 World Champ!
Obrigado to him. Obrigado to Jesse Mendes who won the Triple Crown. It’s order and progress all the way around!
But, real quick, how sweet do Ross n Ronnie sound together? I’m going to write a poem or maybe direct an art nouveau film called Ross et Ronnie but let’s not get distracted.
Brazil for president!
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of all the heats and stops of the tour that I have watched in the last 12 months I am lucky enough to enjoy the PipeMasters final commented by Turpel and POtz..thanks god, thanks WSL
Got the better waves but failed to surf them as good. Gabe juiced all that was possible out of his waves and still sprinkled some magic dust on top. World champ stuff. Best surfer throughout the comp by an 8 mile stretch.
Overscored trash, MEdina is a kook, go ride your samsung internet board and check your emails in the lineup kook, you surf well? Buttdrag caveman style kook but you are a kook MEdina, you cry like a baby, but above all that the judges overscored you all day, never hated a surfer more so maybe thats just what the WSL needs, I hope you get punched in the dick, sincerely uncle jessie
I take pleasure in your displeasure. You’re gonna die an old angry man if Medina’s success upsets you that much. It ain’t over.
I’m here for the comments. Keep ’em coming folks…
What was up with the shot of the beached whale and the “there’s parko” comment
They’re too busy waiting for the swell to drop.
Longtom. You’re all we have til March. Perhaps publish a paragraph per day? A word per day?
#methodone
Next year will be interesting
It’s being a while since I see so many talents in the sharing line up
Oly in the TC / TC / Occy era
with Potter, Kong, Winton, Lynch, Garcia, Ho, Hardman…
Next year will be fantastic.
It always is, cao
Take a few moments to understand
CAÔ
Hahahaha
cachoho?
Caô it’s a city slang in Rio
A false talk or, a bravato.
Like
“Sem caô”
” Caô geral”
“Pára de caô”
It’s the happy lens!
He won those Spy from the Grit – one of the few things an Aussie surfer won this year!
Rookie of the Year , Women’s World Title and the only country to win a CT event off the Boys from Brazil .
Fat Jesus got juiced bad.
Short haired Willian or longed haired Wade ? Both had were kissed by the gods and judges this year ?
Agreed… WSL seems to love a blue collar hero.
A kid from my boardriders club was not kissed by the gods losing two crucial heats to Willian by 0.03 at Ulu’s and 0.06 at Hossegor and finds himself back on the QS .
Same with the “power surfer” who fell out of fashion with the judges this year… getting 5’s and 6’s for the same brand of surfing (better IMO) Fat Jesus and Fat Panda were getting 7’s and 8’s for.
Rich fucker.
Go buy a WSL or something eh?
I know
How long they gonna play out that rubbish
Its making me hate him
Works for a lot of em
Hahaha
Funky Cold Medina
Sing it!
Yeah sounds like jealousy abounds on the grit
Please Bexy, you’re driving Justin Housman nuts by using ‘jealous’ when you mean ‘envious’ !!!
Tell him to get some sort of life
But if you were a chick you’d just lie to get paid.
Like we do?
Should say parabens to all but nice try.
Problem was they had advertisements on when the 1st three waves were surfed. I just looked at the Heat Analyser. I thought Jordy’s 1st wave 7.33 was overscored. I thought Jordy’s 3rd wave was better than his 1st (the left with the peace signs) and was as good as Medina’s 7.13. They were difficult to distinguish because of backhand & forehand but Jordy’s wave looked bigger but Medina knows how to stuff it so deep. I thought Medina surfed the 9.1 really well but I struggled to distinguish it from Jordy’s 8.50 (which was very throaty). I call it a draw.
Coco Pops waiting in the Chanel ?
Are the chicks even surfing the same break ? #equalpay