You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. I had one of those old Santa Cruz boards with the plastic liner on the bottom of the deck - it was better than bare wood but still not as good as rails.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. I did occasionally ride without rails too - I kindof liked the minimalist feel of it, but the grab/sliding advantage always brought me back to a brand new set of Schmitt Stix rails - those were my favorites. I even tried one rail right down the middle of the board - didn't work too well. Even back in the 80's, I occasionally did goofy shit like just one rail on one side. No one really did nose slides too much until the bi-directional/popsicle stick boards became popular and by that point, like you mentioned, all the extra stuff was dropped.īTW, I LOVE that modern boards are more or less symmetrical and that switch skating is a thing that people do (not a lot of people do it well though IMO).īut yeah, I'm keeping my rails. No one even dreamed of nose rails back in the day because noses were so short. I do remember seeing tail rails in the magazines but I never actually saw someone using them. Interestingly enough, I never felt like nose/tail slides suffered for not having plastic - maybe it's because of where your weight is distributed when we nose/tail slide. Yes, it sucked when one or two of the bolts loosened and they started to rattle, but I always preferred the enhanced grab and sliding. Rails, while unnecessary, just made for a better ride IMO. Want to get your board to grind farther with ease Our range of deck rails will keep your board even and protect the deck from scraping moving along rails. Riser pads were also dumped too, but honestly they seem kind of unnecessary to me. I believe all the boards wanted to be thinner and lighter for flips and they ditched everything 'non essential' If you're looking for spots or people to skate with in your area ( click here to browse through posts tagged looking for spots/skaters) Use the discussion thread or /r/kookboarder if you must share prohibited content listed above. Flair descriptions can be found in the link above.If you don't provide source or skater's name

Submit any and all questions to the discussion thread discussion threadģ.No snowboarding, snow skating, trampoline skating, ripstick, scooter, longboarding, etc. Your post must contain videos and/or pictures of skateboarding Rails or deck rails are thin plastic strips that attach straight onto your deck, which come. Discord for r/Skateboarding here Submission Rules: 1.

Skateboard rails on board