Red painted curbs

Oooohhh! If skaters have a strange fetish, it's got to be the red painted curb.

I say red because red is the standard issue colour for a curb designating a no stop zone in America, but it could be yellow, blue, green..Whatever. You see, these horizontal plains don't require much elbow grease to get a good slide and grind on (c.f. The Gonz frontside bluntslide c/o Bryce Kanights). Pros have flocked to them in mass, producing testimonial images of lengthy slappies and technical wizardry alike.

You can wax that ledge as much as you want, but it will never skate the same as a red painted curb.