1: go 10• to the rail 2: lets try at the end of the rail for safe 3: bend knees when land on the rail 4: use heelside againts the rail 5: lean back when land on the rail 6: land on the botls of board
Ben is the type of guy that explains in length for 20min the intricacies for every dimensions of boards, trucks, wheels, etc. Then only need 5min to set you up to skate round rails. 😂
Don't forget to mention when you sliding the wheels to the end to have a little heel pinch. I can already 5050 but round rails scare me still. You broke this down very nicely and mentioned some things I didn't know. Great video man!
Hi Ben, great video as always! Keep 'em coming Front 50's are one of my strongest tricks on round rails and in general, but i kinda struggle with getting my back 50's as consistent and confortable as my FS ones. I'd love to see you cover BS 50s in your next one. Cheers from Romania!
Had these back in da day, but round rails kinda freak me out now, lol. But your explanation is on point: really focus on getting on good and landing on your heels - with round rails, it's usually much worse if you don't get on enough. Like if I'd over-ollie, my board would flip out underneath but I'd land on my feet, whereas not getting on enough will tend to result in more heinous bails. This can be counter-intuitive to natural born ledge skaters who might have learned the hard way how over-ollieing a super slippery ledge and missing the edge can result in instant death.
Facts. I’m a ledge skater, but for some reason i still prefer to take a hard slam on a ledge then a round rail😂 it’s all mental. Gotta work on my rail game.
That’s interesting that you lock in on your heels for frontside fifty’s on a round rail. I I seem to always cross lock them and can actually carry them pretty far that way. Might have to try and learn em this way as well.
JUST KEEP SKATING Crazy that I’m Now 21 and it’s been 10 years since I last skated… I started playing school sports! And now that I’m not playing ball anymore I came back home to tampa I grabbed my board off the wall got sum trucks grip tape and wheels! Was working at vans and I took advantage of the opportunity of getting free shoes and a discount on skate shop 🙃🫡so I got my board right and been hitting the bro bowl skating round onnthe ramps n poppin Ollie’s tryna get the kickflip back in motion and other tricks but it’s been a min and I am saying this because I live with the words just keep skating 💯 thank you for this😂💯
I don't know, but round rails freak me out hahah. Definitely have to get over some fear, because you are right. A flat bar might be easier when the landing is just right enough, but on a round rail you can definitely adjust. I think the way you pinch wheels and lock in on a round rail is less dependent on getting in the correct fixed angle of a flatbar.
If you want to lock in any way you get on, you gotta be aware which side of the truck is touching the rail, if the toe side of the board and wheels are locked in, you balance your weight over your toes. if you locked in with the heelside of the board and wheels, you balance your weight over your heels like in the video above. I think learning all lockins helps, as some tricks require toe or heel side pinch and for those tricks youll have to balance on either your toes or heels.
I've always tried heelside but I put too much weight and I end up falling backwards. I just need to spend a whole day eating shit cause thats probably what its gonna take lol
@@benruiz3191 you may be leaning back too much thinking that's putting pressure on the heels. stay squared ontop of the rail & let your wheels lock in heel side. make sure you're staying crouched on the rail as well. if you try to stand up too fast it'll slip out every time.
For the ollie timing, I found out a super helpful exercise I made up(I used to have problem with ollie timing). I fixed this in one day by doing this one exercise. I jumped from ollie postion to all four bolts. I figured out that you don't really try to pop the board, if you try to jump it will automatically pop the board and the motion you use to pop the board, is the jump from ollie position to landing on all four bolts. When you ollie, pop the way you jump, like don't try to pop the board, just jump and the board will automatically pop. The board automatically pop, because when you jump, you put pressure on the ground and force, so if you jump on ur board, you will put pressure and force on the tail. The timing was something I couldn't fix in the ollie no matter how hard I tried, so I decided to try this exercise I made up a few times and I DID AN OLLIE WITH CORRECT TIMING.
I don’t understand how people say flat bars are easier. Round rails have a way more consistent friction(less stick or slide out potential) and they hurt a lot less to fall on(no sharp edges). Also more room for error when getting on like he said. And board slides you can almost roll your board up from an Ollie. You just need better balance when sliding is the only downside I guess.
5050's on round rails have always been difficult for me. I can do them, just not always perfectly clean and locked in. Weird because I can do other basic grinds/slides just fine.
I learned 5050s like 4-5months ago and can do 5-0, nose grind, nose slide and learning crook now and i can do some of em on a flatbar but never had the balls to try it on a roundbar
For me, once I learned how to 50-50 stall I went for it and found the faster I went the easier it was and after the first couple of bails my confidence was up and I more easily 50-50
i am very weird with rails, the ledge of my local park is practically a round rail since the coping is a round rail that pops up a lot more than the concrete, but there is a weird mental barrier that doesnt allow me to do any grind trick on any kind of rail, spetially since i am the kind of guy that don´t like gettting speed to do tricks.
I finally came over my fear of 50-50s on a round rails last weekend. What really helped me is putting the board on the rail and hopping on the rail with one foot first and then the second one to get a sense on how it feels to be on top of the rail. Dan Corrigan also has a usefull tutorial on this. You just gotta commit once! After that is opens up some doors in my opinion. For me it let to fs smith, which then again led to fs lipslide. Had so much fun.
I saw your gow to ollie video but my back foot likes goes behind be instead of going up and do I slide first than pop or do them at the same time and when I pop is my back foot off the tail and any tips or how to pop the tail correctly and how do I get my ollies higher do I slide my front foot in a horizontal way or diagonally
Thanks Ben. I ate shit too many times as a young’n so I avoid these now haha. I would love a frontside noseslide or front board tutorial. I have trouble with the finding the proper weight distribution. Always need to come out fakie for both. Cheers!
Very good tutorial, but I am struggling with where to look when ollieing onto or especially over things. I find that if I look down at my board I can get a better ollie; as in higher and more comfortable. But it screws up my timing. Can anyone please give me some tips and advice? Thank you
typically you look where you want to go, not down at your board. for example - if you were going to grind a ledge, you could look at & aim for the ledge, not down at your board. sounds like you just need some practice to get more comfortable with it. i would suggest finding a small curb & practicing a few things on that. ollie on top of it, into a grind/stall, etc. practice & get really comfortable with that & i think youll be good to go
I can do crooks ,lips ,I’ve done overcrooks,nose slides ,flip board slides ,noseblunts ,etc and I literally cannot 5050 on a round bar and it makes no fucking sense as to why I can’t do a 5050 on a rail but I can do all these other tricks. It pisses me off so I hope I can learn from this lol
what grind would it be if you did the diagonal wheel pinch on 50 50s but instead you pinch in between your deck and your wheels, so both of your wheels are under the rail but your decks on top?
@@Skateboardin1278 Ok i whatched the parts and that's the first time I've ever seen anything like that. But its not exactly what I meant. It needs to be done on a rail with the diagonally facing wheels on their side locking in(under) on both sides of the rail
@@Kash.mp3 not all the times i land it but i improved my position thinking that i need to do a manual or just trying in a curb to fall in the skate more in the taile, changing my jump to feel better.