How often do you guys break your decks?

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

How often do you guys break your decks?

I've broken boards after 30 days, consecutively, for three months. Nov 24, dec 26, and Jan 26.

All three i've broken the tails off... I need to work on landing with my feet over the trucks. Two broke after 4-5 ft ledge ollies, and one was from a simple kickflip! I'm 6ft and I weigh 180lbs so I know that has something to do with it.

rukusrider103 · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 961

i never broke one since my 4-trac. can anyone tell me why?

rukusrider103 · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 961

btw kill that avaitor

Matt_French · Guest

rukusrider103, does it rhyme with insmegrity?

rukusrider103 · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 961

Matt_French · Guest

i think he was talking about skateboards tho

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

sorry about the avatar.. I thought the site would auto-resize. Yeah, I meant w/skateboards.

rukusrider103 · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 961

yea i just noticed that, its all good Smash

Matt_French · Guest

drops where you land on flat ground kills decks...ive broken a few decks in my day...and most of my snapped decks came from loading docks or stair sets or other type drops. If you arent landing on a decline...it puts alot of pressure on your board that has to absorb all of the impact. Im 6 ft...160 lbs...and i used to snap about 3 decks dureing skate season...about 5 months when i skated. I think that you are about par for the course, i wouldnt worry that you are doing anything wrong in particular...
if you wanna skate hard...which is the only way to go...try to pick up a sponsor who will float you free decks...or get used to buying blanks...in bulk

s34n · Posted: Jan 28, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject:

Buying blanks are key... I usually break a deck every month or so when I'm into skating hard, but my shop has really nice blanks. I bought 3 last year for $120, and they've been my favourite decks EVER. As a tip though, Powell blanks suck - don't buy them. Check your local shops and they may have their own blank, which worked out great for me

Matt_French · Guest

s34n, wurd

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

I used to skate blanks, but they were all copelands boards since those are the only blanks for sale in my area's local skateshops. I got sick of them. But.. 50 bucks a month isnt too bad to support my skating addiction. Smile

Kay-Kay · Posted: Jan 28, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject:

land on the bolts dude. itll help you keep decks a little longer. the only time ive broken a deck is cuz it wa cheap wood. flatland varial flip to tail snap. lol. my shop blanks are 30 dollars gripped.
www.blakdecks.com
sells blanks about as cheap as you can. buy ten and your set for a year.

CABLERIDER · Posted: Jan 28, 2005 11:22 pm Post subject:

every two months but usually i break boards on big drops too

Raven · Posted: Jan 28, 2005 11:39 pm Post subject:

I broke my Alva today. My front foot was up too far on the nose, and it snapped just past the front truck. My lil' bro has like a dozen new blank decks he's been painting and selling to his buddies. He said he got them on line for like 22 bucks a pop.

LFfool246 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 178

I break decks about 1-2 months, but ever since I got a Zoo York it's been going strong for 3 months and pop is still the same. Also another good lasting deck is Allien Workshop.

stompin9s · Posted: Jan 30, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:

i thnk pro street skaters break decks in 1 day of skating
when i break decks its cause i get pissed and stomp them

el · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 1739 City: The Sea

I've been breaking more decks (one every 1-2 months) because I've been skating everything including more street, I broke my last deck on a fs disaster on parking barrier set up at the top of an obliviously made concrete transition. It ought to just have "skateboard here" written all over it...

www.315co.com My friend Shawn runs this company, it's a pretty cool little gig he has going, they're fairly cheap decks ($30) and last a while.

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

i skated for about 5 hours last saturday. My brand new deck already has pressure cracks. Laughing

I was ollieing out of a half pipe, and doing a 8 stair drop.

I have a feeling that if I skate 3-4 more days like i just did last weekend, my board is going to be history.

kento911 · Kickflip Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 3657 City: Phoenix

when I used to skate every day, I went through 2 or 3 a month, but luckily I was managing a friends skate shop at the time so employee discount whoo hoo.