Rails

Ok if I were to attempt a backside boardslide my first try, would I completley eat it?

isn't that the point of boarding anyways? eating it at first and then succeeding ?

keep your weight over the balls of your feet, but the pressure on your heels (unless its a well made rail then you don't have to worry about hangups).... don't lean back, or forward....just straight up and down

(Message edited by sidekicknicholas on March 23, 2009)

Ok thanks. pete I wouldn't want to face plant on a rail though for my first fall hahaha

i know lol, I'm scared of rails. im a box guy.

Ya they seem safer

I recommend riding along side and olleying on the end of the rail a couple times...bonking it, then just get on a little earlier each pass. By the 7th or 8th time you crew (if like mine) will be screaming at you to 'boardslide that whole thing beotch!!!' and you'll do it.

Any suggestions about hitting this "backside"? I can approach it from heel, toe, or straight on. I am real comfortable going over boxes backwards at OWC and McCormicks just never tried it on a rail.

Just go for it & get low on the rail..

Get low as in bend at the knees a lot? I have also read keep the handle low, is this right?

i mean just try it! look at it this way you cant bust your balls your on a wakeboard!

Yeah both keep the handle close and low/ bend those knees and get low once your sliding look forward & it should be all butter. I think you are talking about a front board?

I know there's a thread about the whole terminology thing somewhere but ya I would be coming in slightly from my toe side (right foot forward)making it a "front" and to go up it backwards my front foot has to go over the rail first making it a front board? I could cut out then back in to come slightly from my heels and try to go up backwards if that's easier to learn (back lip?). Or should I just ride straight at it, ollie and backside 90? We use the winch to pull and it is pretty much right in line with the rail. Please correct my front/back, board/lip terminology if it's incorrect

(Message edited by cglass08 on March 24, 2009)

Yeah you did a great job explaining it. Alight back lip alot harder that front boards for sure. With back lip your ollie has to be on point. But i would roll with the winch pulling you straight at the rail if you ollie backside 90 you would be front board. The biggest thing i have learned about hitting rails if you don't feel 100% about it just don't slide it. Take your time & good luck!

I just learned to back lip an incline rail this past weekend. I found it best to just ride up almost 50-50 and then turn the 90. It's a lot less nerve-racking to learn this way. Once I got the feel after a couple of hits I started to ollie and turn 90 backside and from taht point on I was good to go.

"i mean just try it! look at it this way you cant bust your balls your on a wakeboard!"


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