Published 4/16/2016 by Rob Meronek
The first stop of the Vans Pro Skate Park Series at Melbourne was a mindblowing display of park terrain skateboarding as expected. 12 of the 15 invited pros made it to Melbourne, allowing 8 challengers into the Semi-Finals to complete the field of 20.
After the dust settled, Chris Russell proved unstoppable, taking home $20,000 for the win at Melbourne.
In the Seasons Rankings, the top five Challengers after this stop are: Cory Juneau, Tom Schaar, Alex Sorgente, Keegan Palmer, and Brad McClain.
Down the road from the park was a pretty picture spot on the beach. Dylan has a frontside pop shuv over it.
We had some time in the early morning to go street skating downtown. Lots of wallies went down.
It's a beautiful city.
6/12/2016
Going into the last of four runs in the Finals, newcoming ripper from Italy, Ivan Federico, was far in first place. When it came time for Pedro to put it down in his final run, he nailed it. Ivan had one last chance to improve on his second place, being the last skater in the Finals. An early bail took him out and the hometown hero, Pedro Barros became the winner of the second stop of the season here in Brazil.
7/13/2016
17 year old Ivan Federico from Italy destroyed it in Vancouver to take the win at this stop.
8/1/2016
Photos and video from the last Qualifiers stop of the Vans Pro Skate Park Series. Top qualifiers to go Malmo for the World Championships.
8/21/2016
After four stops around the world to determine which Challengers would meet the pre-seeded Select Pros in the Vans Pro Skate Park Series, we had our 20 top skaters set for the first ever World Championships of park terrain skateboarding. What a show that was.
