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Rails vs jumps

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backyardbooter
Posts: 188 - Karma: 108
what do you find more intimidating or scary jujmps or rails i personaly find rails way more scary and jumps less scary your thoughts?
Jan 14 2006 3:00PM
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Snowcase
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depends do you want to have children?
Jan 14 2006 3:12PM
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TheQuailman
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rails are scarier cuz if you fall ona jump your landing on snow not a metal bar
Jan 14 2006 3:14PM
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backyardbooter
Posts: 188 - Karma: 108
i find that when im about to go for the rail and im looking at it i get way more scred than when im standing on the inrun for a jump
Jan 14 2006 3:18PM
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Aseets
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I think jumps are more frightening. It's something about going that fast and being up in the air that is pretty scary.
Jan 14 2006 3:19PM
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keasbynights
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i am more confident in myself whe it comes to rails
Jan 14 2006 3:20PM
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backyardbooter
Posts: 188 - Karma: 108
opposite and also ive been hurt worse on rails and i find im in more control on rails
Jan 14 2006 7:18PM
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ski8990
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I think rails are more likely to give you lots of bruises but nothing serious. Jumps can give you more serious injuries such as broken bones etc, but its less often. Its basically quality vs. quantity
Jan 14 2006 7:23PM
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eheath
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Depends on the size of jump, and type of rail or size.
Jan 14 2006 7:25PM
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ScRaTcHDuDe
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im always more scared by rails, though i hurt myself a lot more on jumps...
Jan 14 2006 7:27PM
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clint
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Rails are scarier to me. probably because i can nut myself.
Jan 14 2006 7:29PM
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Edward.
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jumps because there is no limit to how high they can go
Jan 14 2006 7:30PM
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backyardbooter
Posts: 188 - Karma: 108
for some reason they just look more unnatural kinda like a jump you ride up to it jump and spin but a rail you turn and then change your median that your skis are touching there for changing your speed and its odd and i i fond it a weird feeling but they are really fun
Jan 14 2006 7:31PM
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backyardbooter
Posts: 188 - Karma: 108
for some reason they just look more unnatural kinda like a jump you ride up to it jump and spin but a rail you turn and then change your median that your skis are touching there for changing your speed and its odd and i i fond it a weird feeling but they are really fun
Jan 14 2006 7:32PM
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Edward.
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actually it kind of depends how hard the rail or how big the jump is, but it rather do a 3 off a jump than do a straight air, if u do straight airs, u get scared and shaky in the air
Jan 14 2006 7:34PM
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backyardbooter
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i agree ^ doing a spin completly takes that feeling of beinfg in the air that why i find straight airs so fun
Jan 14 2006 7:37PM
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w.dub.c
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i get scared worse on jumps than rails, but on jumps its only scary right wen ur coming into it, once ur in the air its nothing. and rails dont scare me at all, unless there are stairs under them.
Jan 14 2006 7:39PM
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backyardbooter
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looks like a tie so far
Jan 14 2006 7:48PM
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DrewR.
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i say jumps just cuz always in the back of my mind is falling and you can really hit an eject button unlike rails where u can just jump off
Jan 14 2006 9:36PM
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mathers
Posts: 1865 - Karma: 490
rails are so much more low risk, unless its like going off a cliff or something, jumps are way more intimidating to me
Jan 14 2006 9:38PM
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Aenigma
Posts: 11256 - Karma: 424
A 20 foot flatbar intimidates me as much as a 50 foot table, I'm not very strong when it comes to rails. I just find it easier to jump over something than slide across it, and the thought of the damage rails do to my skis adds to the scare factor as well.
Jan 14 2006 9:42PM
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table_top08
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im not good at rails and wont even try if there are people around
Jan 14 2006 9:55PM
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Edward.
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i used to get scared wen people were watching, now i dont care what they say or do if i fall
Jan 14 2006 9:58PM
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bpalmer
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I think that once you get confident that you are getting fully 90 degrees onto rails, and confident to do switchups and shit, you don't get scared of nutting it anymore. jumps are WAY scarier. especially big 180's and straight airs.
Jan 14 2006 10:11PM
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linechronicskier
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rails for sure are scarier. U fall on your leg or ribs in the right spot of the rail and ur done for the day easy. i like the feeling of floating through the air better too.
Jan 14 2006 10:35PM
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MNS
Posts: 5386 - Karma: 3,241
are you a dumbo? rails+jumps=skiing. taking either one of them away cause you dont like them is taking 1/2 of skiing away from your life.
Jan 14 2006 11:13PM
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froom
Posts: 287 - Karma: 10
rails are way scarier....as long as you get enought speed, jumps are like landing in a pile of pillows.

now...if you asked me if it was scarier to do a misty or slide a rail...obviously my answer would be different.

but straight air vs. straight sliding...rails are way scarier.
Jan 14 2006 11:14PM
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MNS
Posts: 5386 - Karma: 3,241
yeah but as long as you balance the whole rail you'll land. oh by the way i for got to add drops and big mountain into my radical mathmatical equation
Jan 14 2006 11:17PM
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BallinBU
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jumps are scarier
Jan 15 2006 11:41AM
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mtbakerguy
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jumps are alot easier
Jan 15 2006 12:22PM
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eastAR5
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jumps are so much more intimidating.

there isnt many rails that scare me but plenty of jumps with huge icey lips
Jan 15 2006 12:38PM
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watchmefall15
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word
Jan 15 2006 12:42PM
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Davevinc1080
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i used to lve rail and dislike jumps, but now i love both, rails fuck your skis tho
Jan 15 2006 12:48PM
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thejackal1177
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if the jump has a nice landing than i find it far less intimidateing......althouhg i have had many bad experiance's with rails
Jan 15 2006 12:54PM
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TheQuailman
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jumps are scary becasue your frightened of overshooting or landing on the table. If you land on the landing thers a tiny chance of getting hurt. On rails your scared of fallig on the bar. I'd say rails becasue after the first jump im okay with it but with rais ther is always a risk
Jan 15 2006 2:40PM
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Davevinc1080
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My shins alwaly KILL after a good day of jumps
Jan 15 2006 2:43PM
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SkinTrack
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how bout weed
Jan 15 2006 2:45PM
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pesja
Posts: 806 - Karma: 148
i love jumps! nothings like the feeling of just almost not overshooting it and understanding that you got sick much air, more than normal... rails are scary, they are made of metal, jumps are made of snow, their fun to crash into cus it don't hurt. i think i have never crashed on a jump so hard that it hurts, and i have over shot jumps so much that i pass out and my face is bleeding. but rails, they always hurt. like hell...
Jan 15 2006 3:17PM
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Jaskittin
Posts: 5606 - Karma: 195
Jumps intimidate me so much more than rails. Going up to rails im not even thinking, just get on, do whatever and get off. Jumps though, I have to sit at the top a while and get in my mind what I want to do, and think of how I want to throw it and shit. You fuck up going off a big jump and you can end up on your head or fuck something else up.
Jan 15 2006 3:25PM
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freestyleskiin
Posts: 1598 - Karma: 9
if my mountian had any rails i could tell you
Jan 15 2006 3:27PM
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Ace3+4
Posts: 1493 - Karma: 50
yah my landing icy all the time too so when i fall from a rail i fall from way less high
Jan 15 2006 3:29PM
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Bregs
Posts: 633 - Karma: 21
i will pretty much try any rail. im not affraid of rails at all. idk thats just how it is. ive never been seriously hurt on one or havent had any bad falls. but i get scared when hitting "big" jumps.
Jan 15 2006 4:50PM
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logange
Posts: 1428 - Karma: 159
i think rails r pretty easy, once you get good at them, you know when ur about to fuck up on a rail, wen you on it so u just bail off hike up and do it again till u get it, on the other hands jumps are easy depending on the weight of your setup
Jan 15 2006 6:06PM
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jimmychung
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i think jumps can be scarier. the falling from such a height gets to me.
Jan 15 2006 6:12PM
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Potatoes
Posts: 1131 - Karma: 14
well, now i'm leaning towards jumps because today i nutted myself on a battleship.

so yeah. mostly jumps.
Jan 15 2006 6:16PM
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burr
Posts: 817 - Karma: 15
More varibles wif rails so rails id say.
Jan 15 2006 6:23PM
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Ahmets_Brother
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jumps scare me more unless its just a crazy urban rail that the risk is like death
Jan 15 2006 6:27PM
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potatofarmer
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yea, Im gonna have to go with rails... Ive got a helmet, so nutting myself is worse than just landing on my side
Jan 15 2006 8:22PM
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