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Grabs on rail spins

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fdWEARer
Posts: 313 - Karma: 398
why do people forget that grabs exist when they ski rails?
Like I hardly ever see tricks like 270s on or off with grabs, or any other rails trick for that matter.
don't forget about swaps either
It would be super sick to start seeing some people doing tricks like 450 mute onto/off a rail
drop your thoughts below
is this the future of style?
2 years ago
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Rparr
Posts: 5747 - Karma: 48,985
I always wanted to throw a blind mute 450 off a rail but I was never good enough to accomplish this
2 years ago
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Mixy
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bc you can hurt ur fingies
2 years ago
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Elimitch
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noah albabladejo
2 years ago
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John18_6
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Most likely because the airtime between hitting an average rail vs a jump is vastly different. Plus, if you're doing a 450 disaster in the streets and lace it- you won't be saying "ah damn it I should've grabbed"

I love seeing disasters with grabs though. It's extra difficult because you have to think about grabbing while your focus is to land safely on the rail.

Extra hype for the skiers who can grab in the air and hold it through the rail are a special breed. I've tried it with a basic high safety, and it took 5x longer than I expected to lace it. Huge props to Noah and Henrik for mixing grabs into rail tricks.
2 years ago
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_brrett
Posts: 1740 - Karma: 28,979
People do it all the time on bigger features. The Kimbo cannon is virtually all grabs out. They look pretty stupid off of small features tho. A lot of tricks sound really good on paper but in actuality arent that cool aesthetically
2 years ago
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TreeJam
Posts: 368 - Karma: 3,519
I grabbed your mom when she tried spinning off my rail
2 years ago
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Farmville420
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Safety swaps will be a pedestrian trick in 2026 calling it now
2 years ago
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freestyler540
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Every time I try, something feels off. Like its feels ugly. I dont know why
2 years ago
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theabortionator
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I prefer the way it looks without a grab honestly. Shifties and pulling it around late all good. A mix of things is always cool, and down for people to switch it up, but I normally like ungrabbed spins for rails.
2 years ago
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Slowbro
Posts: 4127 - Karma: 24,605
it only looks good on bigger features, but stuff like blunt blind 4 out is pretty common.

I seem to remember a shot of Bmack doing a high mute 270 on to a street rail in an edit from like 10 years ago, it looked cool
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