The owner, Corey Littlejohn, was inspired by Paul Schmitt’s Nine Club episode, where he described how he crafted the original Schmitt Stix and realized that he had the same material at his fabrication shop. There are a number of companies dedicated to the rails and our favorites come from Li’l Jawns. Some people even swear by just using one rail on the side that they typically face when sliding. For those boards with a deeper concave, consider placing the rails closer to the middle - this will give greater contact with the rails when you’re sliding. So what is the ideal placement of rails on your deck? If you’re on a deck with shallow or no concave (much like a lot of the Powell-Peralta reissues), add the rails to edge on each side.
Instead of grabbing at a thin deck, rails provide a “lip” which makes for an easier grip! Again, with the emergence of all things old-school is the rise in old-school tricks, a number which incorporate some form of board grab. Even vert OGs like Tony Hawk and Mike Crum ditched the rails in favor of lighter set ups.īesides helping with slides, rails can also come in handy with grabs. From 1992 till ’03, I don’t recall seeing a shape other than popsicle or a wheel size bigger than 54mm. To skate like Daewon or Rodney, you needed your board to be as light as possible - hence the narrower pops and bearing covers, I mean wheels, becoming the only option in skate shops. Vert was dead and technical street tricks were in. Wax is what we put in our hair, not on objects we skated!Īnd then the 90s happened and all of a sudden it was no longer cool to rock the rails. Rails were how you got longer slides on coping, whether it was pool or vert, or hand rails and parking curbs for those inclined to hit the streets. With the recent rise in popularity of re-issue decks, shaped boards and all things nostalgic for us now-middle-aged and older skaters, has brought back to the fore the rail! In the 80s, your setup wasn’t complete without a set of rails.
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