Maloof Kimberley Skate Park Hours

What another amazing Maloof Money Cup Pro Street Finals! For the second year in a row in beautiful Kimberley, South Africa, we brought 30 of the world’s top pro skaters to compete head to head for the $100K grand prize. Only 12 skaters from yesterday’s qualifiers made the cut, and these 12 guys put on one heck of a show. The semifinals consisted of Tommy Fynn, Bryan Herman, Justin Figueroa, Nick Merlino, Manny Santiago, Dlamini Dlamini, Kelvin Hoefler, and The Boss himself, Andrew Reynolds.

Bryan Herman had been in Kimberley for 2 weeks hanging with the locals and skating with the kids, so the crowd was definitely on his side. His ender in Baker 3 from 2005, nosegrind stalefish, was reincarnated upon request at today’s finals, blowing everyone away. Bryan’s flawless hardflips and other countless tricks stoked everyone out, but weren’t enough to beat Luan Oliveira for a spot in the semifinals. Tall man and Baker representative Justin “Figgy” Figueroa was taken out by Jersey Boy and Poker Hot Hand Nick Merlino in round one, but Merlino’s luck didn’t play out as well against Red Dragon Micky Papa. It was a super close call, but Luan took out Papa for a spot in the finals.

Reynolds took out Hoefler but wasn’t enough to take out Decenzo’s switch 270 front boards and switch frontside flips down the big 4. Dlamini Dlamini aka “The Dlamini Express” killed it with tricks like switch lipslide down the rail, but unfortunately the express was put to a halt by Manny Santiago. Manny had kickflip 50-50s down the big 4 stair rail on lock both frontside and backside, but was also topped by Decenzo’s bag of tricks.

The finals was by far the craziest head to head match ever witnessed at the Maloof Money Cup. Hot off of an ender part in Darkstar’s Forward Slash video, Ryan Decenzo nollie heeled the 4, fs 360’d the 4 and did a switch 270 front board down the rail. Luan’s board control and consistency is incredible, and so was his nollie backside flip down the big 4! Luan also had a frontside flip over the rail, tre flip noseslide down the 3 stair hubba, and countless other tricks, landing him first place and $100K.

1) Luan Oliveira
2) Ryan Decenzo
3) Manny Santiago
4) Micky Papa
5) Felipe Gustavo
6) Nick Merlino
7) Andrew Reynolds
8) Bryan Herman
9) Tommy Fynn
10) Kelvin Hoefler
11) Justin “Figgy” Figueroa
12) Dlamini Dlamini

MMC SA 2012 Pro warm ups featuring Andrew Reynolds, Bryan Herman, Lizard King, Collin Provost, Justin Figueroa, Nick Merlino, Felipe Gustavo, an Ryan Decenzo. Filmed with iPhone.