{"id":53399,"date":"2018-12-18T11:10:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53399"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:12:10","slug":"gabriel-medina-wins-title-then-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53399","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Medina Wins Title Then Pipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yesterday, December 17, 2018, was a good day at Pipe. Not a epic day, but good enough for Gabriel Medina<\/strong> to prove beyond any doubt that this year he was the best performer in internet-streamed surfing productions and an absolute ruler at Pipeline.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll my heroes have won this contest,\u201d Medina said. \u201cI\u2019m stoked to be a part of everything here. Winning this event is a little different. I really wanted this one, and I worked really hard for this one so I\u2019m so happy. That was a good final. Julian<\/strong> (Wilson<\/strong>) is the toughest competitor to go up against so I\u2019m lucky I got two good waves. He won in a Final against me a few years ago and I got this one, so it feels good. I really appreciate everyone that came down to watch and I\u2019m stoked to put on such a great show. I\u2019m so happy to be part of history – I\u2019ve put in a lot of work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other news Jesse Mendes (BRA) <\/strong>won the VANS Triple Crown of Surfing<\/a> title following Jordy Smith’s (ZAF) <\/strong>Semifinal loss to Medina. Mendes collected a fifth place at Haleiwa, a runner-up in Sunset and a 9th at the Billabong Pipe Masters. Mendes is only the second surfer from Brazil to claim the prestigious award after Medina in 2015.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to the Vans Triple Crown<\/strong> for allowing us to watch this made-for-the-internet production without having to jump through any facebook<\/strong> and\/or registration hoops. Kind of reminded us of the good old days there for a minute.<\/p>\n

[Link: Vans Triple Crown<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, December 17, 2018, was a good day at Pipe. Not a epic day, but good enough for Gabriel Medina to prove beyond any doubt that this year he was the best performer in internet-streamed surfing productions and an absolute ruler at Pipeline. \u201cAll my heroes have won this contest,\u201d Medina said. \u201cI\u2019m stoked to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53403,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53399\/revisions\/53403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}