Kelly Slater still is the most enjoyable to watch surfer on tour. So diverse and unpredictable with so much flow and style. When I grow up, I want to be Kelly Slater
Kelly’s big carves and snaps are almost always underscored, he is still ripping. With the shit waves they’ve had at most of the events causing him to struggle and falling to a low seed has put him in a really tough place. He draws Gabriel in the ER in chest high onshore surf for example. If there was a season with good surf at most of the events I wouldn’t be surprised if he was in the top 5.
Agreed. And the judges have been lowballing him for years now. Medina squeaked this one and deserved the win-barely-but Slater’s scores were under. Medina’s lines were repetitive. Slater was adding more variety.
@@shacktime cara, Medina tem o melhor backside de todos, mas mesmo assim como queres variedades de costas para a onda??? Quem mais surfa com pressão de backside como Medina e Italo? Não entende de surfe não escreva!!!
what's wrong with judges??? At least 3 Kelly's waves were definitely above 7, and those 2 airs must score 9. Too small waves? But same small waves for Medina. Is that because Medina rides backsided???
They been underscoring him since the Pipe final with Fanning. Not every event. But come on. Posed Ethan Ewing type turns compared to Salvador Dali creativity and chance taking thrill... 10 points for that heat? The crowd roared with the GOAT, not the goofy foot shredder. Like today's music you have to search it to find the goods. The league wants spotify top ten.
@@krusher74 slater is throwing floaters and 360s and landing vertical front side turns BEHIND the section. Way more variety, more maneuvers, and just overall better surfing.
Slater is the GOAT, and I've been watching him since he was 14 surfing ESA championships at Hatteras. But he's finally showing his age. It only took 38 years!
@@dune4396Clapped? No. Medina barely squeaked this one and deserved the W but Slater was definitely lowballed. Kelly was adding more variety for sure while Medina was pretty repetitive overall.
O cara tem que quase sempre surfar de back side. Quase sempre direitas. E ainda ganha. rs Medina é monstro! Tá sobrando muita prancha pra kelly em tamanho. 👀
Not much else to do on the back side. Sucks to see him ride rights all year because his frontside is amaizing, but that’s not his problem it’s the wsl that only peeks right hand point breaks. Would also love to see all the regular footers doing some BS carves.
well, what you can say, you only have right hands on WSL, and yet Medina manages to win world titles lol. I would like to see the backhand of the regular ones. Kelly has insane backhand, but what can others do ?
Sorry, Medina was not surfing with style and looked very awkward, while Kelly surfed with much nicer style and variety. Too much emphasis on size of wave for Medina, while it might have been 30% bigger that only equates to about 10 inches bigger, in these conditions, not deserving of too much 'wow' factor.
This is some of the best surfing of Kelly's career. He was so close on this heat. But his board sucked. He was like a cat on too much catnip. Incredibly radical maneuvers, but no flow, no smooth style, and flailing arms linking his moves, which is exactly what Gabriel was doing right. Elegance linking extremely powerful manuevers. Gabriel's board made it easy for him. It is painful to have to watch Kelly try to Mann handle his boards. This guy Dan Mann has been copying everyone's boards now for 25 years and he still can't get it right. Salazar is right, Punta Roca will reveal your board's flaws and shortcomings very clearly and quickly like night and day....
KS with much better style but Medína also a great surfer doing it very good backside. Anyways, KS can be Medinas father! Repect and inspiration, more because KS looks the same level in this heat.
he did not make the cut and yet he's stil on tour, how is that the WSL pushing him away? if they had followed there own rules he should be out for the year.
@@krusher74 they probably saw that nobody wants to watch wsl unless Kelly is in it. There’s a few big names still here to be sure but Kelly is literally the greatest thing that ever happened to surfing, he’s one the title eleven times. It’s almost kinda ridiculous.
@krusher74 WSL getting it from both sides. Raking in the dollars from the biggest draw in surfing. Of course they will let him in. Constantly underscoring him while they search for the next cash cow. You can't deny the guy is still surfing better than most on tour. At over 50. Think about that for a minute......truly the best that's ever been.
Underscored... looks like the judges are young kids that needs glasses... they scoring the contest by the surfers age not by the performance of the surfers.
Medina won because he caught the better looking waves, not because he was the better surfer. Medina didn't do a single creative thing or take an interesting line on any wave. He had a few bigger turns but didn't link them up and other than smooth backside pumping, didn't really have any great flow. Slater was just as fast but more creative with way better flow and linked much more turns together.
Great heat, Gabe won legitimately imho, but I'd still rather watch the GOAT's highlights from this heat. Hope Slater keeps surfing contests until he is physically unable too.
Little known fact, in an effort to reduce costs, WSL replaced human judges who grew up knowing what good surfing looks like and replaced them with automatons.
So many delusional Kelly fansboys in this comment section. Slater didnt even make the cut and yet here he still is? still getting knocked out in early heats. coupl have retired with style like fanning or parko etc. Now just part of the WSL lame ducks.
The wsl has become racist trash. The judging has been fake for years. The announcers are pawns (sans strider). All because you’re afraid of the Brazilian superstars you should embrace. So many epic heats ruined by fake scores. Def a bummer for all fans. Needs a fresh overhaul. I’m guessing from the top, but the judging needs to be siloed, no more discussion between them. Pure and simple.
Loved Kelly’s surfing. So much style. He’s just fun to watch. Easiest guy to pull for by far. Such a beloved surfer.
Crazy how good Kelly is still surfing
Kelly Slater still is the most enjoyable to watch surfer on tour. So diverse and unpredictable with so much flow and style. When I grow up, I want to be Kelly Slater
Medina the goat
Nothing has changed. Kelly still underscored.
Brasil whinging worked
Kelly humiliated. Medina the goat
@@Lasalvationhome thats funny. Your delusional! Everyone in the world knows Kelly is the 🐐
Kelly’s big carves and snaps are almost always underscored, he is still ripping. With the shit waves they’ve had at most of the events causing him to struggle and falling to a low seed has put him in a really tough place. He draws Gabriel in the ER in chest high onshore surf for example. If there was a season with good surf at most of the events I wouldn’t be surprised if he was in the top 5.
The legend Slater deserve a better score!
Kelly deserves a wildcard into any event he chooses for the rest of his life.
Agreed. And the judges have been lowballing him for years now. Medina squeaked this one and deserved the win-barely-but Slater’s scores were under. Medina’s lines were repetitive. Slater was adding more variety.
@Simple Chimp Baldy is an eleven-time world champion in an individual sport. His ego has been earned.
@Simple Chimp 😂 stop it hater, KS is legendary no one will ever do what he’s done so kick rocks kook ✌🏼
Slater needs to get lost.
@@shacktime cara, Medina tem o melhor backside de todos, mas mesmo assim como queres variedades de costas para a onda??? Quem mais surfa com pressão de backside como Medina e Italo? Não entende de surfe não escreva!!!
what's wrong with judges??? At least 3 Kelly's waves were definitely above 7, and those 2 airs must score 9.
Too small waves? But same small waves for Medina. Is that because Medina rides backsided???
Remembering Slater is 51, he can still mix it with people half his age.
His turns are still on point still the got another world title if the stars Aline
Medina is 29
@@RegularJoes you’re kidding right? I don’t care how old he is, he’s not 51 or over 30. Come back and talk to me when your 50.
Medina the goat
@@glennwlovekelly was humiliated by medina
yeah KS! his flow on these conditions is that sweet home feeling;
Kelly surfs with style and power and creativity. Gabby doesn't even come close, he surfs good as an athlete but not as an artist.
On point!
Dumbass!
lmao ...
@@josephwiard6695millennial, not that it matters
Best surfers of all time. Blessed to watch
surfer*
They been underscoring him since the Pipe final with Fanning. Not every event. But come on. Posed Ethan Ewing type turns compared to Salvador Dali creativity and chance taking thrill... 10 points for that heat? The crowd roared with the GOAT, not the goofy foot shredder. Like today's music you have to search it to find the goods. The league wants spotify top ten.
Slater surfed way better in my eyes.
😢
He surfed better period and honestly it’s rare he doesn’t. Medina WAY overscored imo
Scores for KS are a disgrace. Medina is a choppy surfer yet outscores KS on every wave 😢
Cry.
choppy? slatter is the one wiggling and douple pumping everything.
@@krusher74 slater is throwing floaters and 360s and landing vertical front side turns BEHIND the section. Way more variety, more maneuvers, and just overall better surfing.
Yep he's got that stupid wiggle style. The way I describe is athletic but not artistic.
Just enjoy watching Kelly surf
Kelly said it at the wavepool when he exclaimed "what the fuck do they want from me?!"
Slater is the GOAT, and I've been watching him since he was 14 surfing ESA championships at Hatteras. But he's finally showing his age. It only took 38 years!
Are these the same judges that judged the surf ranch pro?
Slater was underscored. He looked GOOD and better than Medina today.
Cry
What a shame judges!!! Kelly totally underscore!!!!
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
ur high gabe clapped him
@@dune4396Clapped? No. Medina barely squeaked this one and deserved the W but Slater was definitely lowballed. Kelly was adding more variety for sure while Medina was pretty repetitive overall.
@@dune4396 youre blind, i bet you cant even swim gtfo
@@shacktime Why is medina going to add variety after what happened in surf ranch? He’s playing by the rules now…
KS style is the best on CT
Noooo way.. 😠 why are they under scoring Kelly.. He won this one
😂🎉
Cry
😥 i did
They grossly underscored him in the heat with Ethan Ewing and the other guy too.
O cara tem que quase sempre surfar de back side. Quase sempre direitas. E ainda ganha. rs Medina é monstro!
Tá sobrando muita prancha pra kelly em tamanho. 👀
Medina is very strong ! 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
lets give him the golden buzzer hez the terry cruz of surfing kelly kamaya maya
Good heat tussle all the way .kelly still got got to be happy with that think medina had edge .
The 360 should have been the Highest Score nobody has seen that since the 1980z ..Slater Bringing it Back ♻️
Both surfers looking sharp.
Kelly won that, hands down
Cry
@@ELLE-wd6uz troll.
Good heat of surfing 🏄♀️
Gab is showing style and glow flow
360 back in time
Yeah sorry but those scores are BS. Backhand re-entries are not a high scoring maneuver.
Not much else to do on the back side. Sucks to see him ride rights all year because his frontside is amaizing, but that’s not his problem it’s the wsl that only peeks right hand point breaks. Would also love to see all the regular footers doing some BS carves.
well, what you can say, you only have right hands on WSL, and yet Medina manages to win world titles lol. I would like to see the backhand of the regular ones. Kelly has insane backhand, but what can others do ?
Gabriel medina ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
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Sorry, Medina was not surfing with style and looked very awkward, while Kelly surfed with much nicer style and variety. Too much emphasis on size of wave for Medina, while it might have been 30% bigger that only equates to about 10 inches bigger, in these conditions, not deserving of too much 'wow' factor.
PREACH!
Judges always win in the 'sport' of surfing
Feed the judges to the sharks!
Kelly won that, way more flow, creative, better turns, a better surfer..
Cry
Medina surfed with more speed and power than KS. KS is better at connecting a string of moves, Medina is on another level.
Medina great power moves but the style is off somehow. Crouching & pumps. KS makes every move look good
slats. rippin harder than ever lol
That 4.7 was scored way too low.
Wow what a joke. Slater clearly surfed better
Proper surfing does not seem to score anymore.
No he didn’t XD
@@bernardopedro4441 ok mr Brazilian
@@bartdeking i'm not brazilian. I just have 2 eyes in my face
This is some of the best surfing of Kelly's career. He was so close on this heat. But his board sucked. He was like a cat on too much catnip. Incredibly radical maneuvers, but no flow, no smooth style, and flailing arms linking his moves, which is exactly what Gabriel was doing right. Elegance linking extremely powerful manuevers. Gabriel's board made it easy for him. It is painful to have to watch Kelly try to Mann handle his boards. This guy Dan Mann has been copying everyone's boards now for 25 years and he still can't get it right. Salazar is right, Punta Roca will reveal your board's flaws and shortcomings very clearly and quickly like night and day....
QUANTOS ANOS O KELLY TEM?
Why Medina so crouched in stance? Recoiling for power moves right? Idk but KS moves all look great og flow - pure surfing
Long waves.
It's so ridiculous that a man in his 50s can surf like that.
Acho que as notas do Slater foram muito baixas... estranho.
Idk man felt like Kelly did better with what he got
Kaipo is so "cheeky"
Slater, underscored AGAIN.
In every other reality Kelly won
Duelo de gigantes! Medina venceuuuuuu. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Slater clearly outsurfed "Megina" in this heat.
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🇸🇻🏄✌️
Loved the WSL, but WTF is up with this scoring these days... Everyone is stunned in the comment section, and yet still nothing is changing...
medina and kelly
Nice wave ks
KS with much better style but Medína also a great surfer doing it very good backside. Anyways, KS can be Medinas father! Repect and inspiration, more because KS looks the same level in this heat.
Style? What is this?
Try to see Slater hands movements, this is style?
@@ulissesdemesquitacamargo5474 what's wrong with You? Brazilian hater? Sorry for You , try to show some respect, Medina is out too by the way.
LOFTY POP at 51 WTF goooooooooat
Kelly gets underscored consistently..WSL is pushing him away from competition.
he did not make the cut and yet he's stil on tour, how is that the WSL pushing him away? if they had followed there own rules he should be out for the year.
@@krusher74 they probably saw that nobody wants to watch wsl unless Kelly is in it. There’s a few big names still here to be sure but Kelly is literally the greatest thing that ever happened to surfing, he’s one the title eleven times. It’s almost kinda ridiculous.
@krusher74 WSL getting it from both sides. Raking in the dollars from the biggest draw in surfing. Of course they will let him in. Constantly underscoring him while they search for the next cash cow. You can't deny the guy is still surfing better than most on tour. At over 50. Think about that for a minute......truly the best that's ever been.
magina ??? when did we start saying that
Kellys surfing so more pleasing to th eye .
@@DarknessYT2010 cry
Siempre le regalan los puntos a mediocre digo Medina, 😅, éste heat era de KS.
Underscored... looks like the judges are young kids that needs glasses... they scoring the contest by the surfers age not by the performance of the surfers.
Medina won because he caught the better looking waves, not because he was the better surfer.
Medina didn't do a single creative thing or take an interesting line on any wave. He had a few bigger turns but didn't link them up and other than smooth backside pumping, didn't really have any great flow. Slater was just as fast but more creative with way better flow and linked much more turns together.
No. Medina "won" because they underscored Kelly again.
@@josephwiard6695 We are not talking about those times.
Great heat, Gabe won legitimately imho, but I'd still rather watch the GOAT's highlights from this heat. Hope Slater keeps surfing contests until he is physically unable too.
You have to be pretty good to beat a goat, just be prepared to take some heat from PETA
I think this thing stinks…boo, something rotten in the judging
Cry
Kelly surfed better
Gabriel medina o melhos
Then loses in the next round
I’m not very impressed with this wave for a world tour event
Kelly é um monstro,só que ja deu né????
Ele é quem sabe. Se está se divertindo...
Haaa slater not up to super gabe at any age haa ho
Partner? Why can't you jest say girlfriend? Lordy
WSL again, should spend more night in the jail...This is why i stop follow WSL livestreaming tournaments.
Kelly is protecting his body now.
Little known fact, in an effort to reduce costs, WSL replaced human judges who grew up knowing what good surfing looks like and replaced them with automatons.
That would explain it. 🐝
So many delusional Kelly fansboys in this comment section. Slater didnt even make the cut and yet here he still is? still getting knocked out in early heats. coupl have retired with style like fanning or parko etc. Now just part of the WSL lame ducks.
and also these suck ass firewire surfboards, since he left CI his surf looks weak
Pro surfing is dead ☠️
Sucks to get beaten by a poo stance reo fest
Cry
The wsl has become racist trash. The judging has been fake for years. The announcers are pawns (sans strider). All because you’re afraid of the Brazilian superstars you should embrace. So many epic heats ruined by fake scores. Def a bummer for all fans. Needs a fresh overhaul. I’m guessing from the top, but the judging needs to be siloed, no more discussion between them. Pure and simple.
You've had your glory Kelly. Retire properly mate. You are a legend enough.
Why does Pete Mel talk so low of slater seems like he doesn't like the Guy