At that time only a few pro vert skaters would have had the ability to throw 720s, yeah. Nowadays a good number of ams can too. The rarity of seeing a 720 or a

At that time only a few pro vert skaters would have had the ability to throw 720s, yeah. Nowadays a good number of ams can too. The rarity of seeing a 720 or above has as much to do with the fact that most skaters don’t skate vert - instead skating street or smaller transition - as the trick’s difficulty. Outsiders tend to imagine large spins are the holy grail of skate moves but almost all skaters aren’t interested in them for aesthetic reasons among others.