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Ok, y'all know I'm a noob, I do alot of street skating as opposed to parks. My stupid question is this: While we all know about waxing a rail/ledge before trickin it. I tend to fly all around town n not stay in one place for too long to avoid the cops. Has anyone ever waxed their frames n plates as opposed to the ledge? Is probably suicide so I figured I'd see if anyone else has had this "bright" idea n actually tried it before I go n do serious damage to myself :) Feel free to let me know just how stupid you think this question is :)

Tags: Frame, Ledge, Plate, Rail, Soul, Stupid, Wax

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Permalink Reply by MaCcanura on February 16, 2009 at 6:22pm

Makes sence to me,like if you want to just skate all over the town or whatever.not just stay on one ledge.
you kno i was thinking about doing that like yesturday. but havent.

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Permalink Reply by Kasey on February 16, 2009 at 7:28pm

Yeah kinda makes sence alright but if thats the case why doesnt everyone do it that way?........logic suggests that there's probably a real good reason not to n I'm already carryin one fucked up wrist n cant really afford another bad injury so I'd rather hear why NOT to do it from someone who knows already. If however NOONE has actually done this before then hell man I'll GLADLY be the testpilot! :)

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Permalink Reply by TJ on February 16, 2009 at 8:40pm

it works ok for rails but kinda sucks on ledges your best bet is to wax everything late at nite then skate wen ever

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Permalink Reply by Kasey on February 16, 2009 at 9:06pm

Ah so it HAS been done before, thought so, yeah figure you'd need a pretty thick coat on to manage a ledge. Cheers for that Dude.

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Permalink Reply by Pontus Rådén on February 17, 2009 at 9:18am

I actually tried that once didn't work very well though + ur frames n soul plate gets fucked up.
I don't recomend it :P

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Permalink Reply by Jose on February 17, 2009 at 4:17pm

theres been a few ppl who modify there souls with holes so they can fill it with wax...so they fly down the ledge/rails...ledges have to be waxed or ur skatesll get pretty messed up

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Permalink Reply by Macaly Curtis on February 18, 2009 at 3:26pm

WAX the ledge i wouldn't recommend it

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Permalink Reply by Ian McKenzie on May 4, 2009 at 12:56pm

it works ok for me, i just put a light coat on my soul plates to fill in the deep scratches and stuff then i scrape the rest off kinda like a surfer would do. still need the ledge u wanna skate waxed though.

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Permalink Reply by thrilla on May 5, 2009 at 7:55am

sometimes i'll wax my frames when im skating handrails that are sliding for everyone else but myself and im sure they dont want me waxing the rail. i have able frames that are slow as fuck

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Permalink Reply by Ian Harris on May 6, 2009 at 8:02pm

i have done it. and you go flying forward. so yeah i wouldnt try it i learned the hard way

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Permalink Reply by Kasey on May 7, 2009 at 7:16am

K so bein King Idiot I has to try for myself, I went ahead n covered my frames n plates in wax n ya know what..... I love it! It suits me perfectly! Tho, souls take serious concentration now to keep em locked n rails are much faster than I'm really happy with but fuck it! Is nice to be challenged. I dunno, wax on my equipment seems to work for my crazy ass. :)

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Permalink Reply by Brent V on May 7, 2009 at 9:56am

Only reason I dont wax my skates is because it seems to build up crap MUCH faster and at times will clog the screw holes on the bottom of your soul plates which makes them super hard to get off when you want to replace them.