Thrasher Magazine

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