How To Grind Your First Handrail w/ Billy O'Neill 

This is one of the most genuinely helpful how-to's I've ever seen. I love all the detail. A lot of people probably don't realize that some of the best bladers in the world still ask a homie for a shoulder from time to time.

Everybody needs a friend like Austin 😃

This is good advice for people getting started with handrails. Big ups, Billy.

where has this video been my whole life?? now I can finally start learning rails! amazing guys!

This is BY FAR the best advice I have ever come across!!!!!

Billy’s got a sick style 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

A “Bauer Box” 😬 Taking it back to the NISS days!

This is the best break down I’ve ever seen.

This is dope! real life problems.

This is what is needed. Not industry gossip, even though we like that too, but if a admired pro gives us tips on how they got this or that, I would be tuned in. I would like to see Jeff Stockwell talk about park flow. Collin Kelso address how to skate with style. Farmer on the secrets of negative tricks. Can you imagine that world?

Super juiced you're making videos like this. I feel like the youtube space doesn't have enough of this style of content from recognizable people. Some of the most popular skating videos on youtube are based around the basics of skating, because most of the new people don't know where else to search. It's good to see reputable people from blade culture in the youtube mix.

Replace the handrail with playground slides and that was 1996 for me🙌

Rail is so low. Perfect for learning

I remember hand planting the rail in the Brooklyn banks... Im pretty sure that rail doesn't exist anymore. Great advice!!!

Nice tip! 🔥

Awesome advice

Even the simplest soul grind is steezed out. Fish is the man!!!

Thanks for this. So glad I am not alone in this. I STILL experience fear whenever approaching rails even thought I've done a fair share. I thought I was just weak or something for still having this general fear. Thanks for showing us this.

I used the same do-more-and-more-of-it approach myself

great stuff Billy

You been following me around our something? Handrails don't stand a chance now thanks Billy 💪

More of these please! This is great and the kind of stuff we need to grow the sport! Thank you!

Billy O'Neil with gray hair in a Bacemint shirt, making his own tutorial vid, roughly around the same time he launched his skate brand "Mesmer". It just shows me how much has changed, and how we don't need sponsors anymore. People are just doing their own thing.

Oh wow man this is helpful, thanks.

I agree with that. It's doing the first attempt. After that it's like not so bad. My Dad used to say when you swim in cold seawater for example (getting your 'worst' over by jumping in initially, then your body is used to the temp). Just adding to, because Billy is spot on here and the hand onto the rail is one I forgot that I will be using again as I am having fun getting clips now.

Yo let’s go Billy

Dude yes please make more of these rail videos I've been so close yet so far from hitting rails it just drives me mental...

This was really really good.

One advantage with handrails over flats is you don't have to charge at the rail to get all your switches at speed. you can do that nice crouch and pop up shown here..

This is awesome! More street tutorials please 👌

This is just what I needed right now and coming from one of the best, thanks JS.

Billy you’ve got a fan in me brother that is a great video

My first hand rail i jumped on was steep, not very high and pretty short, on the other side of the rail was soft lawn, so it was easier for me to fully commit to jump on the rail because jumping to far wasn't really dangerous.

Great video boys👍

Legends! Thanks a lot, enjoyed it very much !

That makes so much sense to test it out and hold on to someone and grind it from the lower part. When i started i would just jump on the thing like a psycho HAHAHAHA. That was back in my days though, no more aggressive skating for me. Still love to skate though.

after this i do my first 450 shifty on a handryl after 14 years

Ain’t that the rail you ally neg mistral 💪🏻💪🏻

This was extremely helpful, thanks Billy !

This is such an awesome video we need more videos like this this is a good tutorial because I'm trying to teach my kids about how you're starting handrails and this is perfect by the way creates original frames Rock

Awesome!!

This is great Billy. Wish I had this when I was a kid. I learned by literally skating up to the rail and jumping and slapping my skate against it to boost my confidence.

2:50 : Billy O'Neill: "rails scare me" Also Billy O'Neill: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aKfh9OzWy3I.html

Also become comfortable with running down stairs with you’re skates on.

This is awesome, you should do more stuff like this when you can 🤟 Thanks!

You know someone came up in the 90s when they refer to it as a ‘Bauer Box’

More of this please

Very cool

What a great video!! Thanks!!!!!

I just got back into blading after 1 year of not doing it an really want to start learning rails asap

Great tutorial! 🤘

Austin with the shoulder.....classic 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌

Thank you soo much for this video, since i started skate i always want to do that, now i have ideas to try it

Top notch advice

1:16 you guys are hilarious haha🤣

Much love to you and Austin. You were my favorite athlete in high school! Will never forget b unique and the truth!

So good Job

I'd make more of these,..and go into specific tricks, like the dynamics of like a true top porn, etc..more of the not so basic stuff though, it would probably do well, like a how to street, compared to on a mini, rock on!🤘

goat.

SUPER HELPFUL VID

thank you 👍

for sure mr oneil that is definitely it. thank you for being there and rollerblading man. thanks a bunch! masala! "lets go vegan and rollerblade" from saint california!

This was a great breakdown and I loved the slow motion zoomed in on the positioning too!

Thanks bruv I've been scared of the inclined rails.

Great tips, thanks. Can we get a "How to 540" next?!

Great video! inspiring and truly educational! Didn't know what to expect but the advice seems very helpful! Can't wait to work my way up to Handrails! Thanks Billy~

Really good explanation, if I had this in my time for sure I be able to learn faster and not have afraid of rails. 💪👊

Legend!!!👽🙌🏻

awesome video

Friends: if you don’t have any of those things- LOL 😂

Hey Billy, thanks for this I really wish I had this in high school when I was skating. I don’t think this is the best metaphor but is riding fast in the right situations better than approaching a rail slowly, like the added speed helps to get higher in jumps and you tend to slide out more instead of taking impact over a smaller area? I think there is probably way more nuance than this, I’m totally open to hearing everyone’s thoughts on this.

Awesome tutorial thanks a lot! give us more please 🙏

Great content. But get billy some freaken eye drops next time. Lol

We all need a shoulder to rail on sometimes

You're the best

cheers 😎🤙🏽

like ur R2D2 color style skates 🙂

Some Free Advice SFA, we used to have to buy the vhs before streaming internet

At the end of the day all those tips dont mean jack if you ain't ready to send it!

This is all good, this is how I learnt. Until you sack yourself or flip over the rail onto your face, hitting you shins, thigh, wrists, knees etc on the way down. Its all fun until you get hurt badly and lose weeks of confidence that you built up...

I also feel the jump over, touch the rail, with controlled landing parrallel to the stairs is good practice as well, and practices your abort moves.

That only works if you can squash your tricks. When I first started squashing was very hard for me.

🖤🖤

Handing up to a rail is harder than doing a rail. Get good at p rails, then go to bigger p rails, then decent size park rails, then handrails. Have a safety trick and learn how to fall. Process...

How bout true fish lol 😂 u know the deals on that one ☝️

Billy sounds like a Californian now lol he used to have such a thick NYC accent haha

👍🏾👍🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

Use shin Garda

that's a writing utensil hand plethora ; one foot no sock on railing commissioner park signature black bleach swoosh didn't I say that

Has anybody played jet set radio

How did you get your skates like that?

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Fuck yeah haha

Rails are afraid of billy

Sonic Adventure 2

You know Billy is lying at 1:24

Fruit booting will never be cool. Buy a skateboard.