Vert skaters love going big! Huge air is the best thing about vert skateboarding. In order to be a great vert skateboarder you must have good hand eye coordination. This type of skateboarding is very tough. You have to be patient or you will ruin your day of skateboarding. This art of skateboarding consists of many bails. Mainly because vert skaters spin a lot. Vert skateboarding became popular in the 1960's when Stacy Peralta and a couple other surfers started put their roller skate wheels on a piece of plywood.

 Vert skateboarding is much different than Street skateboarding. Vert skaters skate on halfpipes, mini ramps, swimming pools, snake runs, and bowls. Back in the old days if you skated vert you were known as the concrete wave skater. They called them that because surfers were the ones who started Vert skateboarding. Empty swimming pools were the best thing to skate. Vert skaters love to search for empty swimming pools in backyards so they can show off some sweet tricks.

Even though vert skating is defferent than Street skating, the boards are the same. Vert skaters wear lots of protection. You can get seriously injured vert skating. They wear knee pads, elbow pads, shin guards, and helmets. All vert skaters should wear these things in order to be able to stay a healthy skater. Stretching is very important before both vert and street skating. If u were to ask all pro skaters what they do before a day of skating, they would say stretch.