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The coldness of the sport reiterates the feeling of winter, whatever season it may be. The winds roar and pelt everyone with freshly made snow. Everyone around is disclosed in fog, leaving voices as a guide. Some call this crazy, some say hell no, I say take it to extremes. Snowboarding is most definitely an extreme sport because of the danger and risks involved. What’s better than these risks lingering in ones mind as they grind a rail or even catch an edge? That’s pretty extreme. Rails are basically any skinny long surface to slide across on a snowboard. The most common is the hand rail. A handrail on a mountain can be shaped many ways with multiple kinks in them too. A “board park,” which is the home to these rails has multiple styles such as a rainbow shaped rail, a basic step handrail, straight low rails, and they range in ability levels to multiple step rails with kinks that level out, and even rainbows that fluctuate as much as a roller coaster. Sliding down railings in school was always dangerous. Well imagine the dangers involved in standing up and going down that rail. There are many ways to go about grinding a rail. The most common is a 50/50 grind. That is executed with the board parallel to the rail.