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How long to get good at rails?
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yeah so how long does it usually take to get good at rails? i can imagine some people are just really good at it but im talking in general. how long did it take you guys before you could do s-rails and kinks? was it a few days or a few months?
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ive been doing rails for like a year and im still not ready for kinks :-(
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umm to learna straihgt rail it took me like a week and kinks once i leqarned straihgt rails it took like 5-10 tries and ive never tried a s or c rail but i learned a c-box my first try
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i think its just a lack of confidence cuz they are deadly if u cant do em right
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i dont understnad what your talking about...
how long did it take people to get "good" at rails?
define "good"..
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i havent been skiing much but the first thing i ever did was a flat down, then like next time i went skiing i disastered it.
I can do like flat down flats
and stuff like that, im almost at 270's
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What I meant by good is when you can do most rails, are past the point of making basic mistakes like leaning back to far and so on. When you can do some kinks. Ya know just in general have a decent sense of stability while on a rail or box. Good balance.
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i can norm land something new within 5 or 7 trys
then once you do that u get the hang of things
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well quite honestly it takes a lifetime
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i think you should be able to slide anything with half a season
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it took me 2 days of skiing to get used to flat rails
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it depends on how much you ski and what your willing to try
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i picked up rails pretty fast, maybe 2 weekends before i could do most of the rails at our mt. alot of it has to do with your rail experience. someone who rollerblades may pick up grinding a lot quicker than some one who is completely new. If you do other sports like blading or skateboarding ur already familiar with grinding and the balance associated. It makes a big difference
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I dunno 5 tries before you can slide most kinkless rails
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When you stop sucking. I know kids who can start doing rails, and within a season or less are killing it. I've been doing them for 2 seasons maybe, and Im decent. Im nowhere near pro, but I dont suck.
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everyone's diffferent. You cant progress until you're comfortable.
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it took me a couple of weeks to get comfortable on rails..like get the whole feeling for them.
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ive been doing rails for a couple seasons now and i was just finally able to do switch on, unnatural slid, switchup, 270 out at the start of this season. but it all depends on what access you have to technical rails, and who you are riding with to help you progress.
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you just have to get into a groove. today at waterville i was confident the whole day and i was stomping everything. for me its really like 90% mental and 10% physical
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I did my first kink rail (flatdown and d-f-d) the first season I was doing rails, then the next season I got better at them and even slid the s rail at killy. Now if you give me 2-5 tries I can slide most any rail and this is my 4th season in the park.
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i am mad comfortable on rails. i got kinks, c rail, s box, and like switch ups, 270 off, unnatty's. jumps are what scare me. i landed a shotgun rail the first day i had twins
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i don't think its an amount of time, i think it's how much you practice and dedicate yourself to it.
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it took me a couple of months. but i have super good balance from racin. it took me a while to get down flat down's tho. kinks take some more time, but just go out one day and just do rails. and use the boxes to help urself progress. i could do a kinked box be4 a kinked rail. boxes are your friend. and its harder to nut urself
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i didnt bother wat anyone else wrote cause i didnt feel like it but im just goin to put my two cents in. this is my first year freestyling i did c box first try. but an extremely inverted c box like 10-15 tries. but kinks i have no problem. ive never been to a mt with an s rail or a rail with anything other then dfd. so ive never tried anything else more than that but i prolly can do that. so my first month i did horrible i couldnt do a box at all i could only 50 50 then turn but it just clicked on day and i dont have any problems. maybe it will just click for u one day
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its like a click and u got it think i have been lucky and havent had to take any bad slams like the box was where my worst falls were and i did the flat rail first try and i have a backyard s-rail and i hit that thing non stop for 2 hrs before i could get it and that was still a very sketchy grind but its all mostly who you are but it takes a while and then it usually just clicks and you can grind and wonder why you couldnt do it before
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im a pansy, so in the three years ive been riding i can 270 out both ways outta most rails, pluss slutting the piss outta the rando boxes and rails at my hill
and i slid a double kink first try so......
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it was clicking and then i went on the same box i had been doing the whole day and wrecked myself on it. it was weird, maybe i caught an edge on it or something. i need to find some more people to ski with cause right now i dont have anyone to help me or guide me along. im trying though.
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^^yea this guy knows wat im talking about with the clicking and the boxes are def the worst^^
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ir doesnt take like, a year or something, then yo are good, you need to practice practice practice....
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boxes are sticky bitches. i have way more problems sliding boxes than rails, even tho im decent at boxes
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break is soming up so ill just do rails non stop for a day or too trying to get it down. its hard though, smuggs doesnt have one flat rail, they havea flat box though (which i can do) but from there its downrails and kinks. we need a flat rail. and i think its harder than it has to be cause im using some shitty carving skis.
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make sure your edges are kinda dull. i wrecked myself bad when i tried a rail using carving skis
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wen i first started i could do boxes so much better than rails. but now im better at rails. not handrails tho just somthing about the fact that theyre curved i just cant get. i can do flat bars and shotguns tho
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to learn them or be able to do kinks and shit cause that was the question? anyone can learn a box in a day, it took me like 4 or 5 tries before i could slide a box decent now im trying to move on to rails and perhaps something with a kink. be more specific.
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i couldnt do any rails last year n now im disatering our kink n stuff
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if u can do a flat bar and u can do a down rail you can do a kink. its all in your mind.
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did you notice a difference going from carving skis to park skis for rails? in terms of stability since the park skis have a wider underfoot.
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It took me three weeks before I was comfortable enough to try kinks and spinning on to rails.
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i did a 30 foot down rail and a triple kink rail on my first try, but i had been doing boxes before
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i still can't do them, those things are slippery.
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for sure....u do it fine a few times..then bite it......then u wont comit as well
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one of my first rail ever had kinks.
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as long as it takes you to get comfertable and nut up. rails are really only limited by how willing you are to fall
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you can learn pretty fast just stay calculated but progress and make sure you can steeze it.
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ive learned that speed is ur friend when doing rails
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it took me a solid day of learning, then i just had to commit to new rails. for curved rails, that was another 1/2 day of learning the proper leaning process.
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not long, just look at the end of the rail
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