Longer lasting decks

Decks aren't cheap, so keeping them alive as long as possible can save you a lot of money.

Landing

You can break your deck with just a flatland ollie (it really happened to me). The best way to land is with both feet exactly above the trucks. If you land with your back foot on the tail again you have a big chance of snapping your tail.

You can also put one foot above a truck and put all the pressure on that truck (if you do this and you put your pressure wrong you can still snap your tail).

I personally land on the far back bolts with my back foot and on the far front bolts with my front foot.

Just remember to not put pressure on your tail/nose.
Secondly it's important to bend your knees when you land so you stress you board as less as possible.

Slides

Never try darkslides on a rail:

Your deck will bend.
Your griptape will be ruined at the sides.
Because you deck is concave, you will slide on the sides, so the pressure on the sides is pushing it upwards while your legs push it downwards. Result: a lot of stress on your deck and litte cracks will apear in your deck. You won't see them at first, but after a lot of darkslides your deck will easily break with some boardslides (again, this happened to me).

This only applies for doing darkslides on rails, if you really want to do darkslides, do them on boxes.

Freestyle

If you are a serious freestyler and you like your deck then don't do the following tricks:

Pogo hops
Pogo spins
Truckstand hops
Truckstand spins

It will definately ruin your tail.

Other

Don't do powerslides on rough terrain, your wheels will be ruined soon.

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Don't scrape your tail while in manual or to slow down, your tail will become thin and eventually break.

Skateboarding is about having fun, if want to do these things anyways go ahead, have fun, but your deck will break faster.

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it will also ruin your griptape wet alot :(

it will also ruin your griptape wet alot

jpk13
3 years ago

using wax also helps your board last longer

Element_Skaterboi
3 years ago

these tips are awesome (H)

these tips are awesome

Sk8erboyDJ09
3 years ago

and never skate in the rain im an example :D :/

and never skate in the rain im an example

jonno
3 years ago

never let your board touch water or else your board is screwed...im an example lol seriosly dont do it

Dragonzx22
3 years ago

LAND ON BOLTS

pazsa
3 years ago

dont ever ever EVER use a thin deck on vert. i am a n example i tried a ollie to fakie rock and my board snapped in 3

kettlehouse
3 years ago

also if you skate parks that have skatelite then that will not wear your board as bad compared to skating a concrete park or skating street, rough concrete kills your tail faster than skatelite

unknownOCE
3 years ago

Well, if you skate when rains your board gets soaked and wood is more soft and flexible and this may cause cracks etc. :/

Well, if you skate when rains your board gets soaked and wood is more soft and flexible and this may cause cracks etc.

MadCroc41
3 years ago

Werid, I do all of these things but I haven,t broke a skateboard in my life. :D

Werid, I do all of these things but I haven,t broke a skateboard in my life.

TREANNATOR789
3 years ago