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Gillis1257
Posts: 209 - Karma: 54



im nto liking any of theses promos that are all rail shots. Some of it is sick, all the urban transfers kids are doing now, but jumps and power and still an essentail part of freeskiing. one of the things i like about our sport is that we can boost huge off jumps like most other sports cant. rails were just a filler between jumps, now they are kinda taking over the sport.

im not rashing on hand rails. i love slaying them as much as the next guy, but kids shouldnt be basing promos off just rails, tom wallish can throw some pretty sick air, he doesnt just slay rails for a living

May 29 2008 5:07PM
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snowboardersrule
Posts: 1077 - Karma: 15
yawn
May 29 2008 5:12PM
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yung.bubz
Posts: 315 - Karma: 71
jumps take more practice than rails and pow
rails come easy for most kids so they progress more on rails than on jumps and pow
May 29 2008 5:13PM
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Gnl.Weirdness
Posts: 3867 - Karma: 20
It's good that you like boosting off of massive stuff, but to be honest, rails are just as much a part of this sport as jumps man.

No one says you have to like it, but to deny it as a major part of the sport is just ignorant.


May 29 2008 5:14PM
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yung.bubz
Posts: 315 - Karma: 71
^ and kids in the east can't shred pow
May 29 2008 5:14PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
rails are more fun.
May 29 2008 5:19PM
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shabinka
Posts: 743 - Karma: 10
Ok, how many kids can go and hit a 100 ft step up?  not many
How many kids can go downtown, hit a urban and film some sick shit? EVERYBODY
May 29 2008 5:19PM
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Gnl.Weirdness
Posts: 3867 - Karma: 20
haha WRONG. I watched so many kids this season get merked HARD on urban, all of whom kill it on rails in the park.

Def not the same shit, get your facts straight. True Urban is a whole different ball game.
May 29 2008 5:22PM
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aznsteeze
Posts: 1319 - Karma: 52
exxxactly
May 29 2008 5:38PM
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heFF
Posts: 5786 - Karma: 4,456
i hear ya brother and to enlightner i totally agree urban is such a dif game than what people think.....not to claim but i am very comf. with kinks in the park....went to my first legit kink handrail and got broke...since i have bucked up and figured it out but def a realization that urbans arn't to fuck around on
May 29 2008 6:07PM
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skiingonskis
Posts: 2076 - Karma: 262
i love rails, but face it, rails are not going to get you anywhere.  you cant win the x games if your bad at jumps, but if your weak point is rails, then you have a chance....(i.e. Jon)...i think rails are just as much fun as anything else, but you wont go anywhere big solely on rail skills.
May 29 2008 6:15PM
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pavel
Posts: 200 - Karma: 18
is this "true urban" you say when in the streets they make a fuck jump onto the railing as big as me and do a 270? because that is the only thing in the videos i see.
May 29 2008 6:32PM
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Ahmets_Brother
Posts: 20283 - Karma: 5,931
well to put it easy, kids dont have jumps at their mountains that are worth putting in their edits.......my home resort has really nice rails, but the jumps would be absolutely pathetic to throw in any edit.
May 29 2008 6:36PM
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bailer
Posts: 2178 - Karma: 14

you have never done an urban rail then

May 29 2008 6:41PM
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WIllW
Posts: 4578 - Karma: 2,512
Rails are fun, Urban is free, Jumps are fun, but harder to come by for most
May 29 2008 6:52PM
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Grammar_Nazi
Posts: 796 - Karma: 20
yes
May 29 2008 6:53PM
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P3TER
Posts: 972 - Karma: 438
are you? agreeing or was that just, good: grammar,"l;;'l
May 29 2008 7:37PM
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SirFryanator
Posts: 11149 - Karma: 1,415
we have no rails at my home mountain. When I'm at school we have just a couple rails at the mountain near there, and a ton of boxes, and dope ass jumps. I slide rails, hit jumps, and do big mountain, and I can say that rails in a park are an aspect that can be used in so many ways, not just sliding. So...rails aren't bad, they just could be used in different ways.

It's been discussed many times before. We don't need to hear it again and again and again. Like it or not, rails are a part of skiing now.
May 29 2008 7:45PM
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-eat
Posts: 434 - Karma: -9
also for most of us east coast kids all we get is rails my home mountain builds a a0ft table for the last month of a season, wold you rather have me put that in an edit?
May 29 2008 8:18PM
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i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 247
i second this allen!
May 29 2008 8:21PM
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404404
Posts: 11358 - Karma: 21,035
The most fun things to ski are pow, jumps, urban rails, park rails. Its all good but rails are just easier to come by then jumps and pow.
May 29 2008 8:24PM
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ChanchoVelez.
Posts: 1029 - Karma: 11
i heart rails
May 29 2008 8:34PM
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Gillis1257
Posts: 209 - Karma: 54
wow kids, i ski the east coast, i know rails are apart of our sub culture skiing, and i love them, im just saying kids need more then just rails to get somewhere now-a-days, theres big mountain skiing and freeride, and rails are apart of that freeride aspect, you need all aspects to get anywhere, you cant just focus on one thing
May 29 2008 10:13PM
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Gillis1257
Posts: 209 - Karma: 54
try living in mass brah
May 29 2008 10:19PM
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wordzofwizdum
Posts: 476 - Karma: 448
railz are the only thing in skiing worth doing anymore
May 29 2008 10:25PM
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Ryanvdonk
Posts: 12811 - Karma: 1,971
maybe he needs some support that lifts and separates?
May 29 2008 10:39PM
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Karcher
Posts: 3788 - Karma: 1,934
no dude. the man tom wallisch was built to destroy rails. jumps are just a distraction.

just kidding he shreds it all
May 29 2008 10:50PM
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tonyaa
Posts: 120 - Karma: -5
wooahhh its all fun. i love really good urban rails and sick kickers are dope too. who cares if one kid destroys it on handrails or if they can throw somthing big off a jump, i say we all just get along. i mean us eastcoast kids dont get fresh pow like all the westcoast kids. all were handed is some storms here and there. but we make the best of it by just being wiith friends and going out and finding a fun rail. who cares about the whole xgame thing and not being great at jumps, your out just having fun and thats really all that matters. thats how i see it.
May 29 2008 11:01PM
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tonyaa
Posts: 120 - Karma: -5
woahhh. us east coast kids dont get as much pow as most people. we try to have the most fun possible, which means going out in the streets looking for a sick handrail. yeah kickers are deff fun but its not like we want to ride straight ice all the time. so when its bad its urban time. whocares about the xgames and if you suck at jumps.. if you want to make it then deff progress as much as you can but mosst kids just go out and ride some dope rails.. and a few of you are saying anyone can do them...yeah right. it takes alot to go and hit a 30 set kink, i dont think anyone could just go do that. but yeah just go out and have fun.  it doesnt matter what you prefer...thats what i think.
May 29 2008 11:08PM
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kenevil
Posts: 1309 - Karma: 31
.....because we all know that hitting jumps and slaying pow is totally gayyy



May 29 2008 11:21PM
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snowboardersrule
Posts: 1077 - Karma: 15
like a bro?
May 30 2008 3:04AM
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