3 stage rails

dudufigueiredo · Posted: Apr 09, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject: 3 stage rails

Can somebody tellme, in practice the diference of riding a board with a shape like this Distortion one??:
How dose feel this "3 stage rails" ?

DirtyCracker · Guest

maybe your talking about 3 stage rocker???

dudufigueiredo · Posted: Apr 09, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject:

DirtyCracker, no, the rocker is at the lateral view of the board, i'm talking about the edges of the board, can't you see it in 3 stages (on the image above) ?

search button · Ollie Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 96 City: Saginaw

dudufigueiredo, so you're asking about the overall shape of the board and how it compares to other board shapes?

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

you can't see the rails of the board because you've cut them out of that picture! Laughing

dudufigueiredo · Posted: Apr 09, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject:

Hahaha, scott_a, i didn't cut it, i got this image from their MySpace page, look closer on the right side of the image!

search button, yes!, kind of.. can you see that it is not a continious curve on the sides of the board, its kind a staged shape! look closer on the right side of de image, i didn't cut it, i swear! haha...

SamHill · Frontside 180 Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 420 City: Lacey

There isnt much of a diference. Some say they track straighter since the rails are straight, like the Kampus K-Series.

kyle13 · Posted: Apr 09, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject:

dudufigueiredo, I think you might be confused. The terms such as "continuous" and "3 stage" are generally used to describe the rocker of the board, not the shape.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

kyle13, maybe the board's rails have a different rocker line than the center of the board? i dunno...

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Apr 10, 2007 9:14 am Post subject:

im cofused about the question ... huh ?

stompin9s · Posted: Apr 10, 2007 9:51 am Post subject:

i get the question...i dont know how to explain the answer tho. alot of wakeskates have that straight rail shape where a wakeboard has a continuous curve goin around the outside

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

That outline is an effect from the mock up and it's not actually on the boards. HeadhunterMX has that board, among many others, and it just looks normal. He gave me a prototype for my coll-ect-ion-eh (say that with a funny accent). This is what it looks like.

http://www.wakeskating.com/media/showphoto.php?photo=2811&cat=576

Plus, if you look at that mock up, you can see that the lower left hand side is so much gnarlier than the lower right...I really think it's just the computer program that did that.

dudufigueiredo · Posted: Apr 11, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject:

For who understood what i'm trying to say with "3 stage rails" (SamHill, stompin9s, electricsnow), thanks for the feedback! but i'm still curious how would ride a board with a rail exactly like that in the image above.....