Jamie Bestwick - New Role at Woodward, Vert's Future, His Competition Future, and More 2

IMO Vert is dying for a few simple reasons the main one being ramps. Hear me out.

1. You can only ride very on a vert ramp and there are not very many because reason number 2
2. Vert ramps are more expensive to build and maintain, take up lots of park space, and get ridden less than your average bowl or quarter which makes it an almost bad financial decision for smaller parks.
3. Because it takes some dedication and ramp time to get good at it, combined with the scarcity of ramps to ride it on, it is by default losing popularity which further accelerates the deference to construct additional ramps which are necessary to increase its popularity. Street is more popular because there are more places to ride it. Most of the vert tricks have already been done in the streets too. It's an issue of ramps.

they removed the huge outdoor wooden section? the one where most videos were filmed and much of the creativity happened? Sad to hear that. Agree that vert ramps are too big and turn riders away. Watch the cranmer video where him and his crew were all reluctant to drop in at cloud 9.