Ready...Set...Go! Quiksilver Pro Quarter Final Air Reverse On!

WSL World Surf League Quicksilver Pro France

Road to Quarterfinals at Stop 9 of the Elite World Surf Tour of WSL left viewers a sweet taste of French wave surfing. On October 11 WSL reported from French waters.

"Sunday at Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Pro France saw some heavyweights on the women's Tour go down in defeat, while the men put on an air show as conditions were going strong in Hossegor!" WSL stated.

8 Elite Men Riders advanced to the Quarterfinals set dispute it out on Monday October 12.

The biggest air-show at the heat rounds to quarter final was that of Medina. Medina took on a 360 back air reverse going completely airborne off the swell and landed as clean as possible for the fly raising both hands as he surfed off the breaking foam. The best...clean magic. Medina`s trick even made the blood of Surfer Magazine flow.

"When the Big Sky Kahuna sat down on the Seventh Day and created pro surfing, he could only have hoped it would come out something like what we saw today in France. The World Sleep League just woke up. That was a fair day’s surfing, to be sure," the legendary mag who also praised Gabriel Medina´s air show calling it a "corked-out backhand rotator" which landed him a flat 10.

Heats to Quarter Finals saw other airshows, lots of tube riding, up-surf hits and turns.

At Quarter Finales Julian Wilson from Australia takes on Italo Ferreira from Brazil, Mick Fanning -need no introduction took Bede Durbidge also from Australia, while Adriano de Souza from Brazil battled Owen Right and Medina went hand in hand with John John Florence from the US.

At Landes, Aquitaine, France surfers will continue riding what some consider among the best waves in the world.

"It was like France." It's a term has been used thousands of times at hundreds of beachbreaks around the world the best day of the year at any given spot. That's because France, and particularly Hossegor, sets the standard for the best beachbreak waves in the world, WSL assures.

The math prior to the France Stop showed that Mick Fanning lead over World No. 2 Adriano de Souza from Brazil. Souza is in the spot competing hard for the World Title. Filipe Toledo Ranked 3erd and had dropped big air shows but unfortunately did not reach Quarter Finals. World No. 4 Owen Wright did reach quarter finals and is racing with the pressure as days come to an end in France.

“With only a few more stops left on this year...points are hitting critical levels of importance. The biggest lessons learned from the most recent events? Veteran experience rules,” World Surf League Says.

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