after you have mastered flat pedal grinds and pedal grinds on fun boxes
or sloped ledges and want to kick it up to rails,
find a low rail, this is a must for beginners.
make sure the rail dosen't have a kink, you will find that many rails
are sloped and then go level at the bottom this makes it alot
harder when you are learning.
REMEMBER TO LEAN!!! when you are on a rail, all of your weight is going
to try to pull you down towards the stairs. for example, take your uni
and put one of the pedals on the rail, watch how it wants to fall, or
lean to the opposite side. so when you hit the rail you want to lean
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy foreward and waaaaayyyyy toward your chocolate
foot. If you grind on your right foot picture yourself falling over the
right side of the rail.
PULL UP!!! you want to pull up as hard as you can on the seat. this will
lock you into your pedals, and when you are locked onto your pedals it
makes your leaning more effective.
hit the rail, dont let the rail hit you. you have to be aggressive. When
I started hitting rails I thought that all I would have to do is get my
pedal on the rail and let gravity take care of the rest. not true. a
while ago I saw a wooden rail (my friend was filming me) since wood
dosen't really slide I thought I could hit it and the rail would come
crashing down. I approached the rail with more speed than I ever had
before and hit it with a vengance. I was supprised to find that I
actually slid and it was one of the smoothest grinds I had ever done.
good luck
mike
P.S. you can't be afraid of the rail, you can't be affraid of pain. If
you are going to hit rails, you will eventually get hurt.
--
onetrack - street terrorist
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