Transworld Skateboarding has uploaded their edit from the Vans Girls Combi Pool Classic 2018 to the web, offering a solid dose of transition gnarliness in the iconic bowl with the current and next generation of women hungry for a slice of pool coping destruction.
The Orange County behemoth of a pool is no joke and the Girls Combi Pool Classic, now in its seventh year, has been getting gnarlier with each changing of the calendar. It’s clear that the youth have been taking notes whilst watching previous years’ events – both second and third place went to skaters in their teens (Jordyn Barratt and Brighton Zeuner respectively) and overall winner Nicole Hause only just out of them. Nicole’s winning run was well earned as well – she could have probably got it just for that backside ollie over the hip into the deep, but a bunch more variations on well lofted airs rounded off by a heavy invert fakie slam definitely can’t have hurt matters. Absolutely going for it!
From full bore frontside nosegrinds in the round to properly shaped eggplants and from big airs to switch blunts, this one runs the gamut of transition based gnarliness. Get watching then scroll down for the top ten results, alongside the previous couple of years’ Girls Combi Pool Classics for comparison.
10th place – Lea Taylor
9th place – Mina Stees
8th place – Grace Marhoefer
7th place – Arianna Carmona
6th place – Sakura Yosozumi
5th place – Poppy Starr Olsen
4th place – Lizzie Armanto
3rd place – Brighton Zeuner
2nd place – Jordyn Barratt
1st place – Nicole Hause
Girls Combi Pool Classic 2017
Jordyn Barrat takes first place in last year’s contest, with this year’s winner Nicole Hause in second and Poppy Starr in third.
Girls Combi Pool Classic 2016
Poppy Starr got the top spot in 2016, with Nora Vasconcellos in second and Lizzie Armanto in third.