handrail help

[dls_sasha2006@y]

how do you come out of a boardslide on a handrail. i can slide it...but ever time i try coming out, it slides away.

[edward]

you come out just like on any other rail. its just faster and the turn is quicker. make sure that your sliding it in the middle of your board, its alittle harder to turn out when its right up against the side of your trucks. also try going just alittle bit slower, make sure you can still get on the rail but the slower you go the easier it is to turn out of it, because you just not sliding as fast on the rail and you get on the rail higher so you have more time to think about it before you turn. they're just alittle tricky.

[skateblank714]

i think we should make edward the official noob-question-answerer- guy. i always learn something new reading his answers to these question which i would have neither the patience or knowledge to answer. I bow down to you Sir Edwardian of Ramp rage

[Dookie416]

i need handrail tips. there are no handrails i can try a bs boardslide on and i want to do something before i go to the dc plaza(possibly) and i want to do a smaller handrail before i go try a 7 handrail to be my first handrail.

[dls_sasha2006@y]

my first handrail was a 4 set. it was hard at first but after a while of trying, i got up there. now i can do it every time. still havin trouble keepin it under my feet when i come out but landed a skeachy one yesterday then fell. so keep tryin. start small.

[Dookie416]

i want to start small, but there is nothing near.

[edward]

yeah a good handrail to start on is hard to find. don't worry about finding one before you hit up the skate plaza, a 7 will be fine to learn on, trust me. plus it really helps if the handrails are perfect and clean, liek the ones there. i think a 6 or 7 is a good size to learn on. anything smaller is just too short and makes comming out hard. my first handrail was a pretty big 8 actually, my first couple of attempts i would go faster, so that if i just completely kicked my board away i would still clear the end of the rail and wouldn't have to worry about it. that way my first attempt was like just an ollie kinda angled at the rail and i just barely tapped it and jumpped off almost like i kicked away an ollie at the rail.

[dls_sasha2006@y]

thanks for the advice on comin off. i will try it next time.

[Dookie416]

alright. from what ive seen they have a flat 4 handrail, and i think my friend said that they have a 4 handrail. oh well, i hope i can even go to the plaza.

[edward]

yeah they do have smaller handrails than the 7. i'll be hittin it up this summer.

[Dookie416]

same. that'd be funny if we met up and i ended up asking you for help with the handy at the plaza out of the 100 people there..

[edward]

haha yeah. i can't wait for that shit, i'd like to get a couple of more handrail tricks, fs board, fs 5050, fs lip, and fs smith for sure.

[Dookie416]

hopefully i'll at least try a boardslide. i've seen videos of people on the 7 and it looks pretty small. and on smaller handrails i wanna try other stuff too. my friend says hes gonna boardslide the 9, try to crook it, and ollie the 12. i wanna see that happen.

[edward]

yeah i'm pretty sure i can boardslide the 9, maybe feeble. i heard that 12 is massive, but i'm sure i can do it, especially since its clean cause i always go for more stuff when its clean and smooth. i'd like to boardslide the 12 but i don't konw about that, a local here kickflipped that 12, 2ND TRY. what!!!! crazy.

[Dookie416]

damn. i saw some 10 year old boardslide it on action profiles

[edward]

yeah i hate little kids like that tho. they're good and all, but they just got that little kid style. and handrails you dont' really need to ollie that high, the faster you go the less you have to ollie. but start stackin boards up and half those kids can't kickflip 2 decks. but they do have the advantage that they will grow up and lose that little kid style and be able to pop those tricks better, i sure as hell wish i would've started that early. i just think that some of those kids get too much attention from sponsors and stuff while they're little. kevin taylor talks about it in his interview with transworld and i like how him and zoo york try to stay away from that little kid style and give the sponsorships to older, more experianced skaters who deserve it. i just think they should wait alittle while, their time will come for it, but there's so many older skaters out there that really deserve the sponsorships much more, who are doin much more tech stuff and doin it with much better style.

[Dookie416]

yeah. i haven't tried kickflipping 2 decks, i've only done 1. i've ollied 4 decks, and i kickflipped over my mojo rail on 2 extension which is like 8 inches high, but like 9-10 inches actully in the rail.

[Dookie416]

and with that little kid style, i see the same kid kickflip the 7, and it's so sloppy, like how he spins it, he like spins the kickflip and the nose points straight down as he catches it with his back foot in the middle of the board. it looks like the board is way too long for them.

[Geoff_Rowley16]

uhh.... i wish i had a 7.. i live in mountain city.

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