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What's harder for you guys rails or spins?

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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
What do you guys find harder?

Personally I think it's way easier to spin and do big jumps, but I'm not really into rails right now.
Feb 11 2007 5:24PM
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Ceru
Posts: 1879 - Karma: 101
spins are harder
Feb 11 2007 5:24PM
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TheQuailman
Posts: 7382 - Karma: 147
spinning by far
Feb 11 2007 5:25PM
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InfernoHits
Posts: 4755 - Karma: 192
I wasn't into rails when I first started so I was all about big 360s because Johnny Mosley was doing them. Now I love rails. So I guess rails were harder cause I didn't start them till later
Feb 11 2007 5:25PM
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jea_killa
Posts: 955 - Karma: 88
rail, right now for me because I have gaint heavy feet witch = gaint heavy boots, and there not center mounted, or even close.
Feb 11 2007 5:25PM
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Tinga
Posts: 11349 - Karma: 2,333
yeah i used to be able to do rails then i broke my leg doing them and now im too scared. but im a decent spinner regular and switch
Feb 11 2007 5:28PM
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t_rob
Posts: 6433 - Karma: 11,458
well today i couldn't jib to save my life so today spinning was easier even though i just topped out at a 180.
Feb 11 2007 5:32PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
That's kinda what I'm like but not because of Mosley...
I'm too concerned about doing spins (just got a 3 and almost a 5) and I still gotta learn how to jump switch so I haven't really been into rails because the part of the park with the big jumps doesn't really have any rails I can hit on the way down to the jumps.
Feb 11 2007 5:33PM
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titsLOL
Posts: 7485 - Karma: 396
rails are way easier cuz for like 90% of the season we dont have any jumps! now i stink at jumps.
Feb 11 2007 5:39PM
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PeteyG
Posts: 2946 - Karma: 49
rails by far
Feb 11 2007 5:39PM
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chickenwang
Posts: 5639 - Karma: 40
spinning onto rails
Feb 11 2007 5:41PM
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Canuker
Posts: 4730 - Karma: 165
GRABS!!! i cant do grabs for shit im to chiken shit to do them.

but id have to say rails
Feb 11 2007 6:15PM
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Swick825
Posts: 1798 - Karma: 11
rails are much harder. at least like spinning on to them and being considered "good" at them. much easier to be seen as "good" at spins.
Feb 11 2007 6:16PM
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Skipig25
Posts: 10729 - Karma: 256
as far as being good, rails for me.

I think just sliding a rail is easier than spinning, but that's basic. I can spin well with grabs off jumps, so I guess that is considered kind of good, but I can't do crazy stuff on rails, only like 270's out and shit.

Also, I have been jumping forever, but I only started doing rails this year, so that might be a factor
Feb 11 2007 6:19PM
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ijibgoremtn
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im gonna say rails but then again i dont even try ones if they are high enough to nut myself cuz ive done that a few times this year and it sucks im just trying to avoid that pain a little
Feb 11 2007 6:38PM
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GreekAR6
Posts: 527 - Karma: 11
Spinning is definatly harder for me, the mountains I got to are hard pressed to make good jumps, and for that very narrow window of the year when they can, they get pounded to shit so I can't work on them much...
Feb 11 2007 6:42PM
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skier24
Posts: 1216 - Karma: 11
yea rails are wayy harder.

spinning is really easy.
Feb 11 2007 6:43PM
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TimothyLord
Posts: 2114 - Karma: 568
no rails are extremly easier then spinning. all rails are pretty much the thing but spinning is so hard. spiinning on to rails is a different story
Feb 11 2007 6:47PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
seems like a lot of people don't get decent enough jumps at their mountain, and you can always do rails so that seems a good explanation for why spins are harder for some people.
Feb 11 2007 6:48PM
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jp14
Posts: 223 - Karma: 10
rails are harder for me....
Feb 11 2007 6:50PM
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Steezysmurf
Posts: 1663 - Karma: 3
spins nigga, which leads me to my thread....
Feb 11 2007 6:51PM
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oakjewlery
Posts: 4905 - Karma: 32
i dont hit jumps....
Feb 11 2007 7:01PM
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snowXrider540
Posts: 1182 - Karma: 12
id say rails are harder for me i mean yeah i can slide most of them and 270 out but thats about it which isnt considered too good i dont think...but i think i can make my spins look much better so rails are harder
Feb 11 2007 7:07PM
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Edward.
Posts: 9366 - Karma: 445
spins
Feb 11 2007 7:08PM
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watchmefall15
Posts: 1902 - Karma: 11
spinning onto rails is hard
Feb 11 2007 7:28PM
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GetPitted
Posts: 3443 - Karma: 2,299
Grabbing is everything and I suck at grabbing 8(

I spin nice though

rails are easier
Feb 11 2007 7:47PM
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davyjones
Posts: 617 - Karma: 12
i cant do rails very good at all
Feb 11 2007 7:47PM
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ginty
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spining by far rails came easier to me
Feb 11 2007 7:49PM
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SkiMN
Posts: 4005 - Karma: 38
I dont even fuck with jumps anymore, I used to think spinning was important but if I ever learn to spin past 180 it will be off a rail.
Feb 11 2007 7:49PM
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lyndon
Posts: 7266 - Karma: 128
I am alright at rails, but last year, i could only 180 on jumps. Now, i can do tonnes of grabs, 360 grab, and sketchy 540 grab....i like jumping better...so i guess being "good" at spinning is easier than being "good" at rails
Feb 11 2007 7:52PM
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CBROOKS
Posts: 4979 - Karma: 10,708
Im pretty good at rails, I can 270 on, switchup both ways, occasionaly I can manage to pretzel, but im not that good at jumping, 3 and 5 grabs, but I can spin to five all 4 ways.
Feb 11 2007 7:56PM
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Mezmerize19
Posts: 6475 - Karma: 18

im afraid of jumps ever since like 2 years ago where i messed my face up. I found reffuge on rails and find im pretty good at them. Im practicing in the backyard these days to pull a 270 off

Feb 11 2007 7:59PM
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leone
Posts: 2663 - Karma: 1,121
spinning onto rails
Feb 11 2007 8:02PM
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sowstochd
Posts: 1518 - Karma: 59
spins and grabs for me. im pretty good at rails
Feb 11 2007 8:03PM
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chapz
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id say rails
Feb 11 2007 8:05PM
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Flo_Rida_2016
Posts: 2804 - Karma: -5
spinnings harder.
Feb 11 2007 8:07PM
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bowlripper
Posts: 1232 - Karma: -26
spins
Feb 11 2007 8:08PM
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zeckgx
Posts: 794 - Karma: 30
forward-> spins switch->rails
Feb 11 2007 8:11PM
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Lizz091
Posts: 199 - Karma: 10
Spins. By Far.
Feb 11 2007 9:15PM
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HeathR
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i think rails i can spin 270 on and off both ways and i can only sping 540s both ways off jumps
Feb 11 2007 9:16PM
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CJHski
Posts: 2384 - Karma: 126
rails
Feb 11 2007 9:21PM
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tjski
Posts: 5859 - Karma: 44
rails
Feb 11 2007 9:22PM
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HeathR
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ohh and by both ways i mean both ways switch and both ways regular
Feb 11 2007 9:22PM
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Thomson.
Posts: 4634 - Karma: 227
rails
Feb 11 2007 9:25PM
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lineskiskid567
Posts: 218 - Karma: 10
rails
Feb 11 2007 9:37PM
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Albino
Posts: 1400 - Karma: 123
rails. i feel in control even when i totally fuck up a spin, but when a rail goes wrong, it goes wrong badly.
Feb 11 2007 9:39PM
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BenJAMIN4aWhil3
Posts: 773 - Karma: 12
I think what it is, is that rails are so much easier to practice than spins... like you can go and hike a rail for hours and get tons and tons of hits on it... but like it takes so much more effort to hike a decent sized jump so you dont get as many hits. plus when the jumps or the landings suck... or are icey or something you can almost always find a rail thats set up nice... I would say that rails are easier than spinning but spinning onto rails is more difficult than either.
Feb 11 2007 9:44PM
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doublexl
Posts: 8407 - Karma: 27
i can do rails fine but spinning is so easy for me.
Feb 11 2007 9:45PM
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poofartpee
Posts: 7436 - Karma: 1,538
spinning usually unless its a crazy mozerfuckin rail
Feb 11 2007 9:48PM
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Sholte
Posts: 2929 - Karma: 12
spins with grabs
Feb 11 2007 10:24PM
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mind_Riot39
Posts: 583 - Karma: 73
rails. there is so much more that can go wrong. spinning just feels natural now and grabbing too. its way more laid back too
Feb 11 2007 10:29PM
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