Vans Park Series: Let's Hear It For The Girls!
7/27/2016
The Huntington Beach stop of the Vans Park Series is the only qualifying stop with a women’s event. The top-ten ladies from this stop not only get a cut of the $31,000 purse but also an invitation to the finals in Malmö, Sweden. The competition gets tougher every year and this year's events was the heaviest yet. These ladies fuckin' shred! –Joe Hammeke
Skateboardings favorite BFFs, Lizzie Armanto and Allysha Le
This year’s course is pretty much a mirror image of last years course
Dirty shirt, arms covered in tattoos, rolling into the bowls and a heavy bag of tricks—Hanna Zanzi is bad ass
Eight-year-old Sky Brown was holding it down for the younger/punker ladies
By holding it down, we’re talking decked frontside rock and rolls. What were you doing when you were eight?
Pauline Branom with a stylish frontside air over the hip
Kisa Nakamura came all the way from Japan to boost this boneless
Encinitas' own Bryce Wettstein, 50-50 to fakie over the peninsula
Team Hosoi and friends
Jordan Santana knows when you ride for team Hosoi you gotta catch some air
Arianna Carmona, boneless over the channel
Nora Vasconcellos and her pre-contest jitters stance
Those jitters are soon forgotten after dropping in
You nailed it
With a style influenced by Jay Adams, Julz Lynn is always a crowd favorite
The ole dunk-your-head-in-the-ice-bucket move is always cool. Get it?
Jordyn Barratt was the first girl to skate in both the bowl contest and surf event and placed 3rd in the skate contest. Not too shabby, Jordyn
Yndiara Asp traveled all the way from Florianopolis, Brazil. Poked lein melon over the hip. RTMF
Nicole Hause started each run with a huge indy air
A round of applause for Hanna Zanzi’s second run
Brighton Zeuner got a little tangled up but held on and stuck this 360
See what I’m talkin' about?
Lizzie Armanto, stand up 5-0 through the deep-end corner
Lizzie struggled with the fingerflip to tail in practice but put one down in the finals which put her in a solid 2nd place. Thumbs up, Lizzie
A backside ollie for good measure
Allysha, frontside channel hop
Hanna and Allysha chillin' between the heats
Hanna dropped new tricks in each of her runs. One of which was this “happy plant”
Along with classic moves such as this sweeper
High speed grinds in the deep
Instant scoring suspense—
No way!
Fuck yeah!
The top three all received a necklace from Vans and a framed drawing by legendary skate artist Todd Francis
And here are the champions: Hanna Zanzi in 1st, Lizzie Armanto in 2nd and Jordyn Barratt in 3rd. Congratulations to all the ladies and thanks to Vans for supporting skateboarding for 50 years! Can't wait to see what goes down in Malmö
Skateboardings favorite BFFs, Lizzie Armanto and Allysha Le
This year’s course is pretty much a mirror image of last years course
Dirty shirt, arms covered in tattoos, rolling into the bowls and a heavy bag of tricks—Hanna Zanzi is bad ass
Eight-year-old Sky Brown was holding it down for the younger/punker ladies
By holding it down, we’re talking decked frontside rock and rolls. What were you doing when you were eight?
Pauline Branom with a stylish frontside air over the hip
Kisa Nakamura came all the way from Japan to boost this boneless
Encinitas' own Bryce Wettstein, 50-50 to fakie over the peninsula
Team Hosoi and friends
Jordan Santana knows when you ride for team Hosoi you gotta catch some air
Arianna Carmona, boneless over the channel
Nora Vasconcellos and her pre-contest jitters stance
Those jitters are soon forgotten after dropping in
You nailed it
With a style influenced by Jay Adams, Julz Lynn is always a crowd favorite
The ole dunk-your-head-in-the-ice-bucket move is always cool. Get it?
Jordyn Barratt was the first girl to skate in both the bowl contest and surf event and placed 3rd in the skate contest. Not too shabby, Jordyn
Yndiara Asp traveled all the way from Florianopolis, Brazil. Poked lein melon over the hip. RTMF
Nicole Hause started each run with a huge indy air
A round of applause for Hanna Zanzi’s second run
Brighton Zeuner got a little tangled up but held on and stuck this 360
See what I’m talkin' about?
Lizzie Armanto, stand up 5-0 through the deep-end corner
Lizzie struggled with the fingerflip to tail in practice but put one down in the finals which put her in a solid 2nd place. Thumbs up, Lizzie
A backside ollie for good measure
Allysha, frontside channel hop
Hanna and Allysha chillin' between the heats
Hanna dropped new tricks in each of her runs. One of which was this “happy plant”
Along with classic moves such as this sweeper
High speed grinds in the deep
Instant scoring suspense—
No way!
Fuck yeah!
The top three all received a necklace from Vans and a framed drawing by legendary skate artist Todd Francis
And here are the champions: Hanna Zanzi in 1st, Lizzie Armanto in 2nd and Jordyn Barratt in 3rd. Congratulations to all the ladies and thanks to Vans for supporting skateboarding for 50 years! Can't wait to see what goes down in Malmö
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