Das muss ein Traum sein: Nyjah Huston gewinnt ausnahmsweise mal NICHT bei einem Street League Contest. In einem packenden Final wurde Huston Samstagnacht von Luan Oliveira bezwungen!
Mit seinem Switch Frontside Bigspin Heelflip den Kicker raus setzte sich Luan sehr knapp gegen Nyjah durch, die beiden trennen nur 0,2 Punkte!!!! Damit ist der Flip Skateboards Pro um 100.000 US-Dollar reicher und hat ein Golden Ticket für den Super Crown World Championship Event.
Results:
2. Nyjah Huston – 34.0
3. Chaz Ortiz – 33.1
4. Cody McEntire – 31.1
5. Chris Cole – 30.3
6. Kelvin Hoefler – 29.0
7. Ryan Decenzo – 28.3
8. Evan Smith – 21.5
Einen ersten Highlight Clip vom Samstag hat TWS für uns am Start. Mehr Videos folgen in den kommenden Tagen auf hier auf Boardstation.de.
Press Release:
With a lineup of elites never before assembled in the history of competition street skateboarding, the first arena Stop on the 2015 Street League Skateboarding (SLS) Nike SB World Tour took place at Los Angeles‘ Galen Center at USC this weekend in which Brazil’s Luan Oliveira took the win from SLS veterans Nyjah Huston and Chaz Ortiz, each placing second and third respectively.
Giving it their all for the $100,000 first-place cash prize and Golden Ticket that sends the winner straight to the SLS Nike SB Super Crown World Championship, it all came down to the final trick with Luan stomping a bold Switch Frontside Bigspin Heelflip off the launch ramp to roll away just 0.2 points ahead of 2014 reigning Champion Nyjah Huston and into his first-ever SLS win.
This season marks the second year to include SLS Rookie newcomers into the mix under the new year-round program that establishes an achievable pathway from amateur to World Champion, shaking up the roster and bringing an unpredictable level of excitement to the arena. In this first Stop on the 2015 SLS Nike SB World Tour in Los Angeles, three of the four SLS Rookies - Evan Smith, Cody McEntire and Kelvin Hoefler – skated their way into the Finals, highlighting the potential in this new progression format that could easily see any of them as this year’s Champ.
