rails

Railslide or 50/50 Grind -

1. Ride towards the "rail" with enough momentum to keep you moving while sliding, ollie soon enough to be able to get onto or above the rail.
2. Land with your board sideways across the rail for a railslide or parallel to it for a 50/50 grind. Do not force landing on the rail as you may catch an edge and wipe out. Instead just let gravity do it's job and bring you down gently carrying your momentum through the rail.
3. Just so you know, your speed will change when you land on the object so be ready to keep your balance! Metal is slicker than snow and wood is stickier meaning: metal=faster and wood=slower.
4. Check your landing, be ready to hop off the rail and proceed to ride away or setup for the next feature in the park.

Backside Lipslide -

1. Approach the rail from the left if goofy foot and right if you are regular. You want to be straight into the feature with not too much angle.
2. After ollieing onto the rail, turn your board 90 degrees and be in the frontside position. Keeping your base flat, put weight on front leg while straightening back leg. Drop lead shoulder and look over it during the slide.
3. When you are at the end of the feature, start to square up your shoulders so you can pop off and ride away regular.
4. Once you feel comfortable on a rail or flat box, try the backlip on a C-box. These will need some practice.

Boardslide into Switch Frontboard -

1. Ride straight at the rail with a little more speed than for just a boardslide.
2. Ollie onto the box and start your boardslide. Stay flat and keep knees bent ready to pop to switch frontboard. Keep box centered between bindings.
3. Half way through the slide, pop up and rotate 180 degrees. Look over your now leading shoulder, keeping knees bent and putting weight on foot that is locked into the switch frontboard.
4. After reaching the end, ollie off and ride away switch stance.

Start off practicing these railslides and once you have them mastered, move on to spins or more difficult rails.