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<\/p>\nWe are so stoked to share this news! Vans has\u00a0announced the formation of the first ever world championships of park terrain skateboarding with the 2016 introduction of the Vans Pro Skate (PS) Park Series! We celebrate Vans for their unwavering\u00a0belief in\u00a0transition skateboarding, as they announce this new skatepark\u00a0contest series\u00a0with over\u00a0one half-million U.S. dollars total prize purse\u00a0as well as\u00a0donating a “built to spec legacy construction skatepark” to the city of Malmo, Sweden…<\/p>\n
Let’s go back in time, just for a second… In 1993, when we started Juice Magazine, finding a skatepark was no easy task. The few spots that offered these luxuries were the original DIYs,\u00a0Burnside and FDR, along with a handful of vintage concrete parks and their remnants, like Kona, Dodge, the Turf and Derby…\u00a0The heydays of Big O, Del Mar Skate Ranch, Concrete Wave and Cherry Hill Skatepark were a distant yet fond memory…<\/p>\n
Then, in 1999, Vans started a new trend of skatepark construction\u00a0with the grand opening of the Vans Skatepark in Orange, CA, featuring\u00a0a\u00a0much-loved replica of the Upland combi pool, designed by Dave Duncan and built by Rick Carje of RCMC. The Vans Combi was soon followed by a slew of Vans concrete skateparks that paid homage to some of the old skatepark favorites. Vans went huge\u00a0by creating and funding\u00a0world-class concrete skateparks in\u00a0Woodbridge, Virginia, Milpitas, CA, Orlando, FL, Ontario, CA, Orange, CA, Phoenix, AZ, Novi, MI, Houston, TX, Moorestown, NJ, Bakersfield, CA, Westminster, CO, Buford, GA, and Detroit, MI… putting cities all over the world on notice that it was time to build concrete skate structures in their towns\u00a0too.<\/p>\n
In 2005, as the avalanche of free public skateparks began, the private park formula began to wane, and all of the Vans parks were shuttered except for the Combi-Pool Park in Orange, CA, which still hosts daily pool sessions with the heaviest of hitters as well as one of the most beloved events in the skate contest series each year, the Vans Pool Party.\u00a0In 2014, Vans graciously\u00a0built yet another top-of-the-line outdoor concrete skatepark in Huntington Beach, CA\u00a0too.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to 2016, and Vans has hosted multiple stellar bowl skating events with the introduction of the Van Doren Invitationals, while\u00a0the Vans Combi remains one of the finest indoor skateparks in the country, and each year Vans proudly presents the super bowl of skateboarding, the Vans Pool Party, which is one of the best competitions in bowl skating as well as a gathering of the tribe that we all look forward to each May with great anticipation. If you haven’t gotten the point yet, let me spell it out for you. Vans backs transition skateboarding 1000%!<\/p>\n
We’d like to say Happy 50th Anniversary to Vans! Cheers to another 50 years and then some! Keep up the great work and congrats on another epic idea in action, the Vans Pro Skate (PS) Park Series, to benefit skateboarding and skateboarders worldwide. We’d like to give\u00a0a hearty round of applause to the good folks at Vans for always giving back to skateboarding and supporting skateparks. Read on for all the details of this incredible\u00a0new skatepark contest series…<\/p>\n
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Vans Establishes Skateboarding\u2019s First Ever Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Park Terrain World Championship Series<\/b><\/p>\n
The inaugural Vans Pro Skate Park Series World Championships will take place in Malm\u00f6, Sweden on August 20, 2016<\/i><\/p>\n
www.vansparkseries.com<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Cypress, CALIF. (February 18, 2016) \u2013 Vans today announced the formation of the first ever world championships of park terrain skateboarding with the 2016 introduction of the Vans Pro Skate (PS) Park Series.<\/p>\n Showcasing an international roster of top pros, and a total prize purse in excess of one half-million U.S. dollars, the inaugural Vans PS Park Series establishes the premier global points ranking system for Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s park terrain skateboarding. The 2016 Vans PS Park Series season consists of four Men\u2019s PS Global Qualifiers and one Women\u2019s PS Global Qualifier occurring over five months and across four continents, culminating with the Vans PS Park Series World Championships. The five highest ranked skaters to emerge from the PS Global Qualifier system will challenge the top 15 pre-seeded exclusive PS Park Series elite pros for the title of park terrain World Champion in Malm\u00f6, Sweden on August 20. The top 15 exclusive PS Park Series elite pros are also pre-seeded at every PS Global Qualifier event and final qualification for the Vans PS Park Series World Championships is determined by participation in a minimum of three PS Global Qualifier events.<\/p>\n The most compelling and fastest growing, fast-paced discipline in competitive skateboarding today, the Vans PS Park Series uniquely defines the park terrain format by its transitional concrete closed courses from five to nine feet in-depth and being distinguished by having any number of features such as spines, angled hips, extensions, escalators, set-back walls, elevation changes, gaps and transfers, variable grinding surfaces, etc. With the creation of the Vans PS Park Series, Vans seeks to grow participation and promote the culture of skateboarding and the discipline of park terrain skateboarding worldwide.<\/p>\n The all-new PS Park Series World Championship skatepark in Malm\u00f6 will be the world\u2019s first park terrain built-to-spec legacy construction and is being donated by Vans to the community of Malm\u00f6, Sweden for leading the world with their progressive support of the city\u2019s youth through skateboard programming and activities.<\/p>\n \u201cOur goal in establishing the Vans PS Park Series is to further define and elevate the discipline of park terrain skateboarding while providing the preeminent globally recognized path-to-pro platform for Men and Women.\u201d \u2013 Justin Regan, Vans Skateboarding<\/p>\n \u201cThis year marks Vans\u2019 50th<\/sup><\/span> anniversary, so it\u2019s fitting that in establishing the Vans PS Park Series in 2016 we reinforce our commitment to driving skate progression for men and women and to fostering new and innovative global platforms for creative expression.\u201d \u2013 Steve Van Doren, Vans VP of Events and Promotions<\/p>\n 2016 Vans PS Park Series<\/b><\/p>\n Global Qualifiers<\/b><\/p>\n April 16 – Melbourne, Australia<\/p>\n June 11 – Florianopolis, Brazil<\/p>\n July 9 – Vancouver, Canada<\/p>\n July 30 – Huntington Beach, CA, USA<\/p>\n World Championships<\/b><\/p>\n August 20 Malm\u00f6, Sweden<\/p>\n *Men\u2019s-only PS Global Qualifier<\/p>\n Follow the Vans PS Park Series on social media or sign up online now for the latest information on Vans PS Park Series event details, elite pros, official sanctions and competition formats.<\/p>\n www.vansparkseries.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n @vansparkseries on Instagram<\/span><\/a>, YouTube<\/span><\/a>, Facebook<\/span><\/a>, Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are so stoked to share this news! 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