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Vert skating or vertical skating is a discipline using skates like inline skates or roller skates on a vert ramp, a style of half-pipe. In vert skating, the skater is able to achieve more air-time as compared to other styles of skating, meaning skaters can perform complicated aerial maneuvers and acrobatic tricks, such as spins and flips.
Vert skateboarding, short for vertical skateboarding, is the act of riding a skateboard on a skate ramp or other incline and involves the skateboarder transitioning from the horizontal plane to the vertical plane in order to perform skateboarding tricks.
The Vert ramp at the 2010 Boardmasters Festival during the first skateboard free practice session. BMX vert jump. Vert is a term used in extreme sports especially vert skating, vert skateboarding, snowboarding and BMX to denote a competition held on a vert ramp which allows the competitors to fly into the air and land back on the ramp.
Skateboarding made a 180 in the 1990s. At the beginning of the decade, the sport's popularity had reached a nadir — particularly vert skating, in which riders performed gravity-defying tricks as ...
Vert skateboarding has its genesis in "pool riding" - the riding of skateboards in emptied backyard swimming pools - during the 1970s. [1] [2] It involves skateboard riders moving from the horizontal (on the ground) to the vertical (on a ramp or other incline) to perform tricks - thus "vert". [6] It is also referred to as "transition ...
The basis of most skating tricks, originally done on a ramp, named after Alan Gelfand, AKA "Ollie" and the flat ground ollie was created by Rodney Mullen See: Air, Pop [2] 180: An ollie with a 180 degree board and body turn either backside or frontside. 180 heelflip: A heelflip with a 180 degree board and body turn either backside or frontside.
Macdonald is considered a veteran of the sport, beginning his professional career in 1994 and winning 23 X Games gold medals in vert skating, per AP.
A term used to refer to inline skates on a vert ramp–a half pipe with some vertical in it–usually between 6 and 24 in (15 and 61 cm). Vert skating is a form of gymnastics performed with skates. The purpose of vert skating is to ride higher than the coping (which is the metal pipe on top of the ramp) and perform spins or flips.