In Photos - 2019 Vans BMX Pro Cup HB Finale

87 photographs bringing you all the goods!

23 Sep 2019

When it comes to new blood at this event, all I can say is the name, Josh Dove! He surprised most of us with his intensity on the course, finesse and speed all wrapped up together in pure Aussie style!

The awards ceremony got a little slippery, a couple of the winners of the day were drenched in ice cold water. The trophies didn't seem to mind much.

Cauan Madona take a breather during finals to focus before his final run!

Preston rips around the pocket and headed straight for the deep end of the pool!

Preston Okert took 2nd place in qualifying and it was a treat to watch his smooth and consistent lines link themselves together all weekend!

The Vans logo sub box was heavily ridden by most and this foot jam was one of the first during qualifying!

One advantage to the course set up this year was the judges towers shaded a large portion of the deck for riders and fans to cool off and wait for their next run!

Mike Payne was a wild one on the course, rocking his American flag helmet and really giving the crowd a good show!

Rob Dolecki is our main man on the ground handling all things video and doing a damn good job of it too!

Jose Cedano was explosive with his energy around the park, tracks at height and touching all walls of the park, he packed his run full of crowd pleasing tricks!

Josh Dove doing it just right!

The qualifiers started off with very high energy and you could feel it all around! It was stunted shortly by an unexpected hard slam early on... The Vans medical staff was on hand ready for anything!

Tomas Fuentes carries away the bike that didn't make it... This is what happens when the worst injury of the contest takes place. It's all apart of the battle!

As the qualifiers came to a close, Vans gave out the People's choice award. Dustin Orem is one of those guys that never asks for too much but he has continued to be someone you can count on at almost each and every Vans BMX contest... He is one to lend a hand, fix a flat or even give you some parts off of his own bike to make surre you get to where you need to go! Needless to say, Vans took it upon themselves to honor such a gentlemen! Congrats Dustin!

Top three qualifiers. 1st Johnathon Camacho. 2nd Preston Okert. 3rd Jose Cedano.

Johnathon Camacho takes 1st place in qualifiers and he was very very excited about it! Well deserved!

As the qualifiers end, the sunset practice session began...

Sem Kok and Sergio Layos, amongst many others soak up the last sunset runs on the course before the day is fully over!

Sem Kok takes advantage of the golden light just before it dips into the horizon! Table tops like this one are an instant classic!

Mike 'Hucker' Clark gives me what I wanted without even knowing it as he takes his last run on Friday night, sunset practice session!

Finals day is full of personality and high flying action. Andy Zeiss and Lucha are ready for the day!

Finals are even a great place for your family photo to be taken.

Nothing like watching Sergio ride, always the smoothest and always smiling!

Matt Cordova. Out of all the table tops we see all weekend Matt seems to have the snappiest of the bunch! Delivered at height every time!

Matt Cordova with a deep end corner pocket during finals! I love how the fast and loose boys are always tweaking their styles so far!

Mike 'Hucker' Clark with his signature crowd teaser! Surfing his way around the park stirring up everyone's attention!

Mike 'Hucker' Clark with a classic fufanu during finals! This is easily one of my favorite, timeless tricks!

Cody Pollard rides for T-1 and for good reason, always ripping at high speeds and has his own airspace in the deep end! He rocks his high socks and low cut Vans shoes to keep it grippy!

Jayden Mucha with the grizz air!

Victor Munoz indian air!

Jose Torres Gil was one of the stand out riders on the weekend, here he executes a downside whip across the gap.

Gary Young with a slick downside icepick slide from the hip into the quarter.

Gary Young goes big, sometimes a little too big!

Chris James doesn't hold back!

Chris James with a huge no-handed flair!

Chris James was ripping huge 540's in the deep end all weekend!

Down.

But not out!

Corey Walsh is no stranger to finding new gaps and lines at parks that have been ridden by many before, here is rips from the hip way past the pocket!

It's simply a thing of beauty to see Corey ride a bowl!

Matty Cranmer fast plants over the Vans logo into the short steep tranny on the other side!

Josh Dove, I can't wait to catch this kid ridding in the future!

This little quarter was kind of over looked by most, but for Josh he took full advantage of the steep side of things.

Josh Dove.

Josh Dove. Toothpick on the pool coping.

Josh Dove, soaring!

Paul Thoelen hails from Germany with style to match.

Paul Thoelen always going fast and crushing his lines!

Paul Thoelen.

Cauan Madona with a huge double tail whip in the deep end during one of his final runs!

Dylan Starrk is a legit wildman, stuntman, just straight up crrazy sometimes! Here he is proving it with a backflip to flat!

Dylan rrides his heart out at every event I see him ride, I'm happy to see him stoked!

Pat Casey.

Corey Walsh.

Felipe Manerim.

Rim Nakamura is one of the promising young guns out there already ingrained in BMX at a young age! He went down hard in finals but he was cheering on his fellow riders by the end of the day.

This flat bottom had no mercy. Rim being cared for by the Vans medical staff and his close friends.

Jason Watts. Having fun with this nosey into the quarter.

During raddest trick, Jason pulled off this 360 look-back across the vans quarter with barely any room to spare near his back wheel.

Jason Watts is always a pleasure to watch shred apart any transition. This corner pocket blast is superb!

Nothing like a little family support to help you succeed, right? Team Watts for the win!

Dennis Enarson just seems to have his own fun on the course regardless of the contest. Dennis rode this logo like it was his own backyard!

Dennis Enarson. Hand-plant across the logo.

Dennis Enarson. Big nose bonk bar over the logo and even caught some transition too!

Dennis and Steve Crandall giving the crowd and the live feed some love! Remember not to curse Dennis!

Dennis Enarson is the truth!

Nina Buitrago is probably one of the most respected women out there riding right now. It's easy to see why when she rides, veteran moves like this big flatty in the deep end!

Nina Buitrago!

Nina Buitrago smith grind.

Perris Benegas getting prepared for her next drop-in.

Perris Benegas floating the pool extension.

Teresa Miranda comes from Spain and shows some true Spanish style!

Teresa Miranda.

Nikki Wetzel is my favorite goofy footed female shredder!

Maca Grasset with a lofty one-footed x-up during finals!

Maca takes the win in women's high air at 7.5 feet out of the deep end!

Another angle of Maca, this angle is called NorCal cooook vision!

Women's HB finalists. 1st place. Perris Benegas. 2nd place. Nikita Ducarroz. 3rd place. Maca Grrasset. Congratulations to all the women who kicked ass all weekend!

The 2019 overall Women's champion is Natalya Diehm!

It was no surprise that Gary Young took home the raddest trick trophy with a huge 270 whip transfer in a place where no one has whipped before!

This is the reaction of three close friends all taking the podium at the same time! Jason and Corey rough up Kris Fox as Kris is announced the HB champion!

Andy Zeiss hands over the trophy to a well deserving and shocked Kris Fox!

Kris Fox takes 1st place in Huntington Beach. Corey Walsh comes in 2nd and Jason Watts wraps up the HB stop in 3rd place! Congrats boys!

Jason Watts is the 2019 overall Men's Champion! And you can see he is about to get it...

Jason could't escape the ice cold water celebration bath!

Jason Watts. 2019 Vans BMX Pro Cup Champion!

Photos by: Wes McGrath

When the Vans BMX Pro Cup was first introduced back in 2017, it was placed amongst the Vans US Open of Surfing down on the sand in Huntington Beach, California. This location was home, in portion to the Pro Cup for the first two years of the event. In which, exposed the contest and it's riders to a whole new audience of spectators whom reached numbers in the 100's of thousands! Do to the drastic difference in environment, being that the beach sand of surfing and the concrete of BMX, these two worlds didn't collide until now! This gave BMX some serious momentum in this new venture put on by VansBMX!

Now as we close out the 2019 BMX Pro Cup season with it's finale in the new Huntington Beach location; Vans Off The Wall Skate Plaza, we see a whole new park and a whole new approach. Bringing together veteran names that have been riding the contest all 3 years and new blood that are making themselves known!

In this extensive photo gallery containing 86 photographs, we bring you all the goods from throughout the course all weekend long! From qualifiers to the podium you can find insight to all the amazing action that is the 2019 Vans BMX Pro Cup!

Also, check out the 'IN THE CUT' and DIG RAW videos from the weekend!