JJF needs to take out Medina

I want to make a hat that says
ANYONE
BUT
MEDINA

 

i'll take ten

 

Just curious, why does everyone in the US hate Medina... I've heard nothing but hate... Is it because he's Brazillian?

 

i like medina so theres' that. and if talent is the criteria medina haters are lost...

 

Didn't Medina start crying last year or something?


Just curious, I don't really follow all this stuff.

 

claims and crybaby stuff, and hes from the filthy lower portugal

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filthy lower Portugal?
make it stop - please tell us how you REALLY feel. don't hold back.

 

My opinion

I think the perception is that he isn't surfing the best, and his heat wins are more about strategy and gamesmanship than surfing the best waves. Like when he paddled kolohe all the way off the break at chopes for the first 10 minutes of the heat. I think he's got pretty terrible style too, but that's just my opinion.

Also, he's been a jerk in a several interviews but he claims the tone of the interview is due to English being his second language.

 

Oh and the claims. He claims every wave so hard, even if it's a mid-range score. Drives me nuts

 

i'll take a few of those as well if possible. aside from that i hate medina because he is a sore loser. crying about a 2nd place finish is a little ridiculous. yes i understand you must be frustrated because you came so close to winning a tour event at what 19 at the time? i'd be crying tears of joy. he's gotten better though, claiming less and not crying about losing but i just don't like his mentality that every wave he gets there must be an air thrown in somewhere. also i just never liked his style. or his dad... his dad knows he is his retirement and he always looks pissed off

 

My thorough analysis and research has led me this informed opinion:

Guy's a dink.

 

Brazilians are a sporting group of folk. They also, from what I've seen, don't act too humbly all the time when they win an event. They're really passionate about all kinds of stuff. Americans are a bit more subdued, and are sometimes irritated by that aspect of their culture.
I'll put it to you this way...If you see JJF claiming a wave, it's for something pretty darned special.

 

Everyone claims now, except JJF.

JJF is surfing better than anyone right now for sure... But if Medina had the same waves as JJF in the French final there would be a ton of people *****ing that he got 9.9 and 10 and fell on both waves.

 

I am not holding back, some individuals are fine, but as a whole, I'd avoid the whole country and all of the spawn thereof

 

Medina perpetuates every negative stereotype about their culture and Brazilian surfing Rather than putting the country on his back, letting his surf talk and proving to the world that Brazilian surfers can be tolerable

The tears. The claiming. The praying. The whining. As$ crack style. Trying to paddle people out of position instead of out surfing them. Acting like him winning a heat is going to feed all the hungry in his country. It's surfing. Its for fun. It means nothing in the grand scheme of the world. Yet the waterworks start and he cries like a 5 year old that lost a beauty pageant. It's just a huge cultural difference. When american athletes don't perform well at an event. They take their loss, go home and move on. You don't fall to the ground like you just got news that you lost your whole family.

Just to name a few. I mean, they couldn't find a guy from Brazil wit ANY style? I didn't realize how popular the stinkbug to frontside air reverse was. But he constantly gets high scores for doo doo waves.

 

should have never made it to the chopes final (sandbaggers suck)

 

You are aware that JJF is older than Medina and still travels with his Mommy, correct?