The money was certainly pretty good for the winners when the 2019 Vans Park skateboarding world championships wrapped up on Saturday. Thirty thousand dollars for the victors, in both men's and women's divisions, and $20,000 for second meant that the trip to Utah was well worth the while for some.
In a sport with one step striding into the future, as skateboarding will become an official Olympic sport in Tokyo next year, the main draw for many competitors was still much simpler.
Grace Marhoefer, a 16-year-old from Florida, was fixated with one thing — accomplishing a trick move off the Vans sign planted at the east end of the new skate park at the fairgrounds.