![]() ![]() After Hawk landed the 900, vert reached a fever pitch. When skaters started dropping into empty swimming pools during Southern California’s 1976 drought, the sport’s terrain went from flat to vertical, with the construction of legitimate quarterpipes and halfpipes soon popping up across the country. There’s no question, however, vert is what propelled skateboarding into the mainstream. Modern skateboarding undoubtedly has its roots in street skating - the surfers who created the sport back in the 1950s initially dubbed it “sidewalk surfing,” before it took its current form of making use of stairs, railings, and other urban features. Everyone pushing him, how epic it was after he made it… I was like, I wanna skate vert. “When I saw Tony Hawk do the 900 at X Games, that was the moment. “I grew up in New York City, and I used to skate street,” the 31-year-old skater, says. One of today’s best vert skaters, Elliot Sloan, credits Hawk’s successful 900 with getting him into vert. Two months later, Activision released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and kids who had never even set foot on a skateboard were throwing around terms like Hardflip and Stalefish. ![]()
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