Hypebeast - Are We Witnessing the Death of Vert Skateboarding?

[TwisT]

Oddly enough I see personal Vert ramps being built all the time on the gram.   Chris Borst.   That hot chic from AZ.  That chuch in Missouri somewhere.

C'mon "journalists"

The problem is if you want to skate vert and you’re out here, all these vert ramps are private,” Sloan says

[roastbeef]

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Vert is sick. I wish I had access to a ramp, but they're prohibitively expensive to build and maintain. Especially in the climate where I live.

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https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=106894.0

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I hear there is a vans skateparks in SD that has one...but here in Nor Cal...all gone.  Maybe the REAL guys have one in their yard

I don't live in California.

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There's a vert ramp in Berkeley!

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does it get traffic or nah?

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You have to drag the homeless people off of it first.

wrong. it's private and away from homeless people.

[Abyss1]

Yea seems like the only public one is in SD

[Dwyck]

they just destroyed nyc's last vert ramp

[HugeBodBoyle]

All the kids these days call the 8 foot wall of a bowl "vert" anyways so who cares...

[roastbeef]

Let's be honest here. Standard vert ramps (12 foot+) are very scary to skate. They are for expert skaters. And everyone else skates 4-6 foot walls. Go to any good park and no one skates big stuff unless you live in San Diego area.

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The most time I've spent on a vert ramp was in the 90s when my man and I smoked a blunt on top of one since no one went to that part of the park.

It was pretty sketchy getting down but it was fun skating the street part afterwards. Can confirm vert is dead.

[Yesterdays-pop]

I’ve been seeing some good wallrides lately, that’s vert

[Brguy]

Besides the private vert ramp thing, who the fuck has the money and disposition to actually become pro? Vert is fucking ridiculous, it's not like street where you find huge stairs everywhere, you might even have a vert ramp where you can go to, but where are you going to continually find bigger stuff for you to improve to pro level? The only way is being friends with all these pros with the gigantic backyard ramps.

[Willie]

Vert is dead until dudes are man enough to wear pads.

Maybe someday the park guys will realize they could be blasting 6-8’ airs instead of 2-4’ (Grant and Pedro excepted).

[Dwyck]

Vert is dead until dudes are man enough to wear pads.

Maybe someday the park guys will realize they could be blasting 6-8’ airs instead of 2-4’ (Grant and Pedro excepted).

but vov already blasted those airs in pads

[Hairy Ballsagna]

Are we witnessing the death of video stores?

[Ray C. Usery]

Vert's been dead since '92. It's been a walking zombie since it was revived by the 900

[Dirk_Diggler]

It’s literally been the same vert dudes for the past 20 something years.

[Shalom Iginla]

It’s literally been the same vert dudes for the past 20 something years.

Plenty of new blood, but you really only see them if you watch contests. There's like 7 people who enjoy watching vert (myself included).

[DanTheDoucher]

Are we witnessing the death of video stores?

There is actually a video rental place about 5 minutes from my house. It’s gotta be a front for something illegal because it’s a fucking video store in 2019.

[Dirk_Diggler]

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It’s literally been the same vert dudes for the past 20 something years.

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Plenty of new blood, but you really only see them if you watch contests. There's like 7 people who enjoy watching vert (myself included).

Prove it damnit!

[Ray C. Usery]

There's like 7 people who enjoy watching vert (myself included).

I walked with a zombie

There's some vert in here for us

[HyenaChaser]

Didn’t it just evolve to bowl skating which is far more interesting anyway?

Traditional vert is like tennis, they go back...and forth. And back...and forth...

[Lou Strux]

I ain’t witnessing shit! I’m gonna turn my back & pretend it’s not happening.
However, I absolutely WILL attend the funeral, because vert came to mine when I died.

[Jollyoli]

It's been said but it is the largest expense to cater for the smallest group.
Vert is amazing, scary fast and you are allowed to pad up and get away with pushing it.
The 2 indoor vert ramps near me both closed abruptly, right after I upgraded the contents of the pad bag, and there is no way I'm trying the same stuff in a 9 foot bowl.

[SHIREFLIP]

Shit, stop the presses. Somebody should tell these fools that freestyle is in danger of becoming unfashionable as well.

[DanTheDoucher]

Shit, stop the presses. Somebody should tell these fools that freestyle is in danger of becoming unfashionable as well.

AA is crying somewhere now...

[Ocelot]

vert and street are kinda dumb as terms

vert is explicitly tied to half pipes whereas street can mean anything

it's like saying street skating is dead because the rail chomper & 12 stair hammer video parts of the 2000s faded out


also, bowl and transition skating are more popular than ever

[Krill]

History has come full circle. Vert skating emerged in the early 1980s when all the big skate parks closed and skating survived on backyard vert ramps. Ramps like Tahoe held the scene together in those times, and now parks are back and park skating has its own world championships and is part of the Olympics while public vert ramps have become a rare sight.

What's lame is that vert is really its own beast like someone already said. There are vert tricks you won't see in a park, where someone will throw a 540 but you're not going to see the level of progression the main vert dudes have.

[dooley]

Ironic read or not, I'm not giving those idiots more traffic.

[CBP]

made me think of this thread