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Lip and tail slides

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Leachjack
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Can someone please explain the definition of a lipslide, tailslide, lipside 270 on and a tail side 270 on.

thanks
5 years ago
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TRVP_ANGEL
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lipslide: jumping on the rail from the tail side on first
lipslide 270: 270 on to a rail so that the tails are over the rail before the tip
tailslide: jumping on normally but sliding on your tail with your weight back
tailslide 270: same thing i think but with a 270 on
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abar.
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Lip is the back end of your skis over the rail first, so it's only tails first if it's regular, if it's switch lip it's tips first
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abar.
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And switch tails on is just the opposite of switch lip, your tails go over the rail first. There is no such thing as regular tails on as that would just be regular lip. A tailslide/bluntslide is as described above and is not a way of getting on the rail but a way of sliding it
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Ghost_BLandzV2
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Don’t call it tail slide say “Tail Press” instead. Its when you grind the rail and lean back super hard so that only the tails of your skis grind the rail.

Some people call it blunt slide also which is the same thing as a tail press but honestly imo tail press is better because blunt sounds like ur trying too hard. Both of them are accepted though.
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Ghost_BLandzV2
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Side not its not really a true tail press unless you’re grinding behind the bindings but 97% of skiers arent good enough to do that so they just lean back a little and call it a tailpress lol.

Or if you try super hard to sound sick you’ll slightly lean back and be like “bro did you see me bluntslide the pvc wasnt that dope we should have clipped that maaa g” but irl you just came off early
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Leachjack
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I appreciate the responses but i think I have confused you, I’m more referring to the way you get onto the rail. In slvsh games they may say “tails on” or whatever. If you could explain the different ways to get onto a rail that would help me massively
5 years ago
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animator
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So if they say switch tails on blind 2 for example, they ride up to the rail switch, and hop on by jumping and moving their tails over the rail, then do a blind 2 out.
5 years ago
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ParkRx
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I drawed you a picture
5 years ago
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Ghost_BLandzV2
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ParkRxI drawed you a picture


If it was like 2 years ago id give you +k for those drawings 100%
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SofaKingSick
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The simple way to look at it is:

lipslide = spinning away from the rail


and switch “tails” is just what people sometimes call going switch on to the rail non-lipslide (aka just switch on lol). Mostly just because some people consider that harder than switch lipslide
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