Rails

What do you mean special places, and if you are sliding the rail then you are probably ok for the most part. Make sure your legs are spread wide enough for a good stance.

You just gotta sack up. Start small, start with a ride on tube or a table. Ride 5050 onto the table and shifty sideways. After youre comfortable with that, hop on sideways to the table. After that, try the tube. Dont go too fast, but dont go too slow either. Youre gonna have wrecks and crashes and assholes will laugh at you, but Tom Wallisch was a crash test dummy for a rail dozens of times before he got a kfed or anything like that.

do some flat rails first, they'll help you get used to sliding them and not as scary as hitting down rails right away and slipping out on your side from not leaning far enough forward.

Rails that are lower to the ground help ya not land on those special bits cause you can just ski over it if you straddle it

Also personally Ive never had the problem of leaning too far forward, its usually quite the opposite. Have you slid some boxes? Those are usually a bit more forgiving when you land on your side - down boxes even more so - since your momentum just kinda slides you down it instead of flat onto it.

keep your weight centered, line up your forward shoulder with your front foot - look for the end of the rail. It'll all come together naturally once you just get comfortable with it. Once you start hitting them and sliding them cleanly the fear goes away - and you get used to catching yourself when you land without getting too hurt.

Just go for it man

Shockley._.What do you mean special places, and if you are sliding the rail then you are probably ok for the most part. Make sure your legs are spread wide enough for a good stance.

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Make sure you have a good approach. Your first time hitting rails you should probably not hit a rail which requires you to go lip or urban. Make sure you go on smoothly and have your legs about shoulder width apart. With a lot of practice and commitment you should stick it. Go try a rail that's lower than your groin so you don't destroy your sack. Also not being afraid of rails can help. Once you can complete rails they're the most fun thing on the planet. Peace OP

I find that rails are all about leaning to the end of the rail. The second your feet are centered look at the end of the rail and almost point your front arm at it. When first learning a little more speed can help you slide the rail. As you slow your speed down you have to start learning to pedal in order to keep your balance. I learned on a piece of 6" PVC pipe in my yard, it felt lake the easiest size to learn on. Just commit and don't think too much.

u have to make the rail ur bitch

Before this season i only had hit a 10 foot long flat bar. This year im hitting all kinds of rails and tubes. I learned most of this within the last 2 weeks and spent my first 6 just hitting flat bars. The main key for me was just hitting the same rails many times and jumping on from different angles, (split, urban style, lipslide). This got me comfortable with coming in at an angle and landing from an angle on the rail. Then i just tried a couple urban style down rails where you actually have to come on from the side and I just took off in progression in terms of new stuff. Good luck op

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BeausBubblyI hate rails. They scare me. I'm scared I'm going to lean too far forward, catch an edge, and eat it, but I'm also worried I'll lean too far back and eat it. Another concern is that I split and fall and hurt my special places. Where should my weight be on rails so I don't catch an edge and die?

I think boxes would be perfect for you!

Best advice I got was low gorilla stance, feet shoulder width apart, lean slightly forward. The low gorilla stance made it feel like I wouldn't fall very far or very fast.

I went at my first rail really low which was more stable and when I did fall I didn't get hurt at all so my confidence went up and I stomped it on my second try.

rails are insanely easy once you learn them. its hard to know where your balance is until you hit the rail constantly so just keep practicing. if you think about your body placement youre gonna slip out no doubt. idk anyone whos fell forward hitting a rail for their first time. just hit a rail close to the ground and you wont get hurt. just commit and you wont regret it because rails are a great part of skiing.