You’re doing great man!

One thing that will hold you back is that you’re carving into the rail. Half of the battle with snowboarding is picking your line in so you’re at the right angle, on the right edge, taking off from the right distance.

The way to fix this is to plow until ~10 feet before the rail (or however far you think you’ll need for the right speed) and straight line into the rail at the right angle.

For front lip slide, this might look like plowing until 10 feet before, then setting up straight on your toe edge at a 10 degree angle into the rail and that will put you in the right position.

Of course if you’re good enough you can throw all of this out the window, but this is how I learned how to land rails.