Candles work well and are cheap.

i practiced on a steel pipe at first too...then i found an old balance beam at a local playground that was like ankle height and had what i call "oh shit rails" incase i fell...
PVC pipe is good too, but after a while ur plate and the PVC sorta exchange plastic and it gets sorta friction-y so you gotta hit some rails to smooth them out. also, since you have Express, i'd drag my plate across any curbs before i soaped them...if you need anymore help, let us know. we'll take care of ya

---Alex

Ok, I NEED some tips here. there are these waist height rails at my local mall and they look GODLY for grinding because they are long and smooth but I don't know how to get up on them without killing myself. Any tips?

i put a plastic pipe on the floor when i started off on soaps, jumping on rails was difficult at first, so the pipe helped alot

hell yea i waited all last week for my shoes, and on thursday when they came i wasnt home, so i did not get them, i was furious and had to go pick them up the next day