No two trannies are the same, and some aren’t even made of snow. Take this rail, for example: Will uses the curved part at the front as a transition to pop a ‘wallie’. These are slightly riskier, but one you’ve got them sussed it makes for interesting lines on an otherwise straightforward feature.

Make sure you’ve got your backside boardslides locked in before you try this, so you know how fast or sticky the rail is. Hit it a couple of times and even give it a couple of ollies and gaps to boardslide to gauge your speed for how far you want to go down the rail, as you will roughly go the same speed as when you gap to boardslide. You want to be coming in with a good amount of speed – but not too fast or you will end up getting bucked.

When you get to the front of the rail and your nose is about to come in contact, take your weight off your front foot but get the nose lifted up as it hits the rail.

For maximum pop out of the wallie, push through with your back foot and use your momentum and board flex to pop you up into the air. It’s best to think about just how you would pop a normal Ollie; do the same thing but instead of letting the board do the pop, use the rail. When you get more comfortable with them you will be able to pop off your back foot at the top of a wallie to get them higher.

When you’re coming off the wallie try keep your shoulder square with your board and the rail. Keep your eyes looking to where you are wanting to land on the rail. As you are getting up to your maximum height begin to turn you shoulders as you would with a normal backside boardslide and keep looking at the spot on the rail. Make sure you get a good tweak on your pop out of your wallie too.

If you have got your gap-to-back-boards down you should know roughly how much the impact will be, but if you’ve done your wallie correctly then you should be a bit higher than normal. Make sure you are ready for a bit more of an impact!

Try to land with the rail right between your feet and get a good flex out of the board as you can use this to make your pop back to your normal stance easier. By this point you want to be looking at the end of the rail.

If you’ve done your wallie correctly then you should be a bit higher than normal. Make sure you are ready for a bit more of an impact!

When you’re coming to the end of the rail bring your front shoulder back to being square with your knees and bring you legs back round to regular, and you should get a good bounce out of the rail.

By this point you can’t go wrong; all you’ve got to do is ride it out!!  Once you have got these down you can start doing them to front board as well, which is also super fun!