If there was one knock against the X Games Street Style it was that the course looked too small. X Games staff took notice, and they made sure this year’s course for the Street Style Pro contest at Copper Mountain this past Friday and Saturday was anything but.
The contest essentially takes the place of the Dew Tour, which announced a hiatus for the 2025 season.
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Six riders obtained an automatic bid to the upcoming X Games Street Style contest in Aspen in January. Frank Jobin, LJ Henriquez, and Benny Milam took the top three spots for the men. Iris Pham, Alexis Hernandez-Roland, and Lily Dhawornvej are your podium finishers for the women’s side of things.
The contest was a bit of a coming out party for 15-year-old Dhawornvej, whose 50-50 to tame dog to rail transfer sequence set the internet absolutely ablaze on Saturday night.
The Frisco, Colorado native is on the U.S. Snowboard rookie slopestyle team, and rides for the Monster Energy Army. She now has an automatic bid to X Games Aspen.
Women’s winner Iris Pham capped off a heater of a 10-day stretch with her win. In a little more than a week, Nitro Snowboards announced that it was adding her to its team, capping off a solid multiyear run with Never Summer as a main board sponsor. Then she went ice climbing with The North Face team and the most legendary mountaineer alive, Conrad Anker.
Then, donning a big purple puffy coat, she put together a series of runs that included multiple 50-50 to boardslide rail transfers and a frontside 270 or two to take home the top spot heading into the January 23-25 weekend in Aspen.
Perhaps the biggest winner from then men’s contest was Henriquez, who at just 16 years old, has been in the public eye for a while now, thanks to the Red Bull team membership, and most recently, an appearance in the latest Warren Miller film 75. Several backside lip-slides and 270 pretzels later, the New Jersey native found himself on the podium, and with a punched ticket to Aspen.
“I don’t even know what to say,” Henriquez told Forbes’ Michelle Bruton. “Didn’t even think I was going to make the podium and they called me for second? I’m losing my mind, like, ‘What the hell is going on?!’”
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