Gabriel Medina (BRA), 17, has won the third stop of this year’s ASP Europe Specialty 6.0 Cash for Tricks Series today, the brilliant athlete taking control of proceedings from his very first wave through to the final in excellent four-foot (1.2 meter) waves at Lacanau.

Medina, who left no chance to the high-performance field of aerial specialists, impressed the early-morning crowds with a variety of new-school tricks including an upside-down reverse air 360° combined with a Superman on one single wave. Renowned for his talent in this kind of surfing, Medina confirmed he was one of the current world’s best today.

“It was so fun to do that event this morning in such excellent waves,” Medina said. “We had all the time to get these glassy launching ramps and push our tricks to their most so to finish atop a field of guys including Josh Kerr (AUS), Miguel Pupo (BRA) and Mitch Coleborn (AUS) is pretty cool.”