It was the last remaining bastion of action sports originality. Snowboarding succumbed a long time ago with the invention of the terrain park—and my help, I might add. Now there are as many rail shots as powder shots in most snow mags, and that annoys me. Wakeboarding is nothing if not a bastardization of everything skate and snow. And you know the skate influence is out of control when FSMXers are doing front wheel manuals on boxes. But now surfing is ruined, too.
And while surfing had been previously enlightened with skate-influenced airs via the Momentum Generation, the 'Rail of Death' is a step too far, a step too cruel, and well... that thing is just plain hideous and looks wrong on a beach. Thanks Transworld Pretend Skateboarding Empire, you've done it again.
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