Rails and Your Board

I was curious, are you guys that do rails not worried about the rails scratching up and trashing the bottom of your boards? I just bought my first board and I'm sure I'll be doing rails eventually, but I'm skeptical because these boards aren't cheap and I would rather not trash it.

Juuuuuust fiiiiiiine.  Jibbin is my baby.  Don't sweat it, protect your base with oneballjay and you're good to go.  Now, shred on!

Bases are pretty durable.  Unless your jibbing on some rocks, don't sweat it.

Rocks can ruin anybody's day. Nothing like snaping a board in half 

you can always warranty it.

I don't think you're going to be snapping any board in half on the rocks, your arms maybe.

lets just stay on rails and youll be good

Yea I mean i wouldnt worry about it too much.... Boards are made to be ridden not kept at home scratch free in your room.  Yes rails are gonna scratch your board some but not that bad, its a snowboard.

Yeah i just got my first board and i not to worried about getting scratches but like everyone one said before me watch out for the rocks. I was doing a double black diamond in Vail colorado and I had a rental (buy insurance it saved me if you rent). I went over some sort of hill and didn't notice on the other side was just rock. I tried jumping but landed short and scratched up the back of my board. It looked kinda cool cuz it wasn't my board but when i got to the rental place that day, dude looked pissed and I was like "i bought the insurance bro so its your problem" but if I had done that to my Vapor, I just got man, i would have been flipping a shit. 

Wax helps the slide more than preventing scratches.  I do rails all the time and I only have a few small scratches.  You'll be alright unless the rail has sharp spikes sticking out of it!

think of your snowboard as a skateboard.  it is going to get scratched, and eventually you will want a new one.

if you dont want to get scrathces on your board, dont ride it.

i just set up a hot wax station in my garage and do it everytime before i go up

your not really gonna get scratches on park rails and boxes, its the urban shit thats gonna destroy your base....

my pleasure

Originally posted by Starfish wax does not help with rails your board is going to get scratched most boards come with a 1+year warranty

And most warranties say specifically that they are for manufacturers defects, not that you were sliding a rail and got impact damage on your board.

dont worry about it. wax so it stays sliding. dont listen to half the people on this

its better to have a beater but it should be fine just watch out for rock when you not doing rails lol

you should be fine with just rails. i ran over a bush and there was nothing on the base.

I bought my second board ever a few months ago, and I started rails on it. I was pretty sad to see the minor damage it caused on the sides, base. Not to bad, but over some years it gets bad I imagine. My last board lasted 8 years, so we'll see about this one.

I just bought the Sierra Stunt, I'm going to wax my board probably every 3 times I go to keep it smooth and not trash up my board, the flex on it it unbelievable

lol if you don't want any scratches on your board, mount them on your wall and never go riding.

These boards are very durable so do not worry too much about wear and tear. But scratches will always happen on the mountain. If you worry that much, just don't do any jibbing and stick to carving the whole mountain instead.

You're suppose to wax your board every time you take your board out to go boarding and the only thing that really scratches up your board are rocks and other debris on the slopes but even then you can always do little retouches to fix it.

I've had a couple of deep cuts in my banana tip.. was not happy about it.. and it was just off a box in queenstown the remarkables since they had a massive burton park there.. but any type of rail/ box gives u scratches.. if your unlucky, deep ones like I've got :(

wax every 5 times you go. your board will be fine.