skate til it breaks or no?

[dudebro]

if i'm skating mostly street spots my board is done in a few days or a week. if i'm skating smooth ground or skateparks a lot then they can last me three weeks to a month. i hate getting my griptape dirty and if i chip my board its pretty much done. that being said, i have only been skating about once a week for the last few months so i have a month old board that's just about ready to be changed out. in 13 years of skating, i've broken maybe 5 or 6 boards accidentally. you just have to land on the trucks.

[jrock]

i usually skate better once my board is cracked a little bit.

[sal23]

every 2weeks or so
depending on if im jumping down gaps alot..
flattening out boards sucks and so does chipping
luckily shops hook it up nice with discounts..

[ribbons]

i NEVER buy a deck unless my old one has my foot through it

[bumpnrun]

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I do it when it looses the pop. 

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Yeah, you can tell when it starts to feel like a soggy french fry that it's time for a new board.

Break or soft, whichever comes first.  3 or 4 bottom laminates worn, time for a new board.

[barr]

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i skate them until I can afford another.

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yeah i'm always fucking broke
or i just take a friends old one

[timmyturnstains]

once it's soggy..

good bye.

[oyolar]

once it's soggy..

good bye.

same. once you can't get that nice crack sound when you pop an ollie, i start saving up.

[Edward Penishands]

Being a 120 pound weakling, I skate my boards until like 7-9 months or of course till I want a new one (that doesn't happen a lot).

Tees>Magazines>shoes>Decks>Bearings>Wheels>Trucks

120 pounds or not, what do you skate.....once every 3 weeks for 20 minutes?

[adultofthesuburbs]

maybe he just cruises? has a job that only lets him skate once or twice a week? skates on and off?

[skate_bored]

i work at a shop, so i usually get a new board every 2 weeks. to make up for being spoiled, i do hook up some of my friends struggling to pay rent with my used decks.

[Watson]

Sometimes a board will last me a really long time. Like a month and a half to two months. Sometimes I will change boards for the most inane reasons. Don't like the colour of the top ply, didn't notice how big the nose was until I gripped it, skated a new spot and got wax all over my grip.

Actually that's the one right there. That's my answer.

"skate til it breaks or"... until my griptape gets dirty. I've bought a new board when my last one was only two days old, but I got some dog shit on the grip. Fuck that. Just sell the dog shit grip board to some kid for 3/4 what you paid for it and get a new one.

[Dr Newton]

I'm going to start getting eBay blanks I think.

When you think about it, the concept is great for most SLAP pals. Most posters here don't need very durable decks -- the ones that ever did jump down big sets of stairs mostly stopped a long time ago. I know I don't break boards very often anymore. But for me, it's important to have a new board with it's fresh shape because I skate a lot of ledges, flat ground, and manual pads.

[no one you know]

I'd have to agree with pretty much everyone's reasons, but I haven't ordered a board online, or on fucking ebay (or anything on fucking ebay). But I also try to save a complete for rain/shitty weather.

[crackrazor]

I bout 6 alien workshop boards off ebay for $100. Still got a few if anyone wants them.

[j....soy.....]

i scrape through all my tricks so i get razor tail in like 10 sessions....it's terrible....

[Randozzi]

until the pop is gone or it's flexed out/soggy.

[adultofthesuburbs]

no pop left = new board

[ige]

If my board is 2-3 weeks old, then i'm sad. Same with shoes. Fuck!

[jarlett scohansson]

sometimes if my board isnt even that old and i get a new pair of shoes..i just have to get a new board

[jalopy james]

sometimes if my board isnt even that old and i get a new pair of shoes..i just have to get a new board

really?
to me there's little worse than having to break in a new board and a new pair of shoes at the same time.

[crackrazor]

That shit's easy to work in. Unlike fucking trucks.

[Koma]

Skate it until it gets soggy and cracked.....If my tail goes razor then I just do more fakie and nollie....Usually I get a new one about every two to three weeks

When your trucks and wheels are nicely broken in, a new board is the best feeling in the world....

[H8R part 4]

i've never broken a board in 20 something years(i land kung fu) so its a non-issue for me.
if its razortailed i switch it up.  i've gotten cut way too many times off that BS.
if i'm skating a lot(5 days a week), a board will last me 3 weeks or so but i try not to spoil myself with new stuff all the time.

[lem]

I've only broken like, 10 decks skating. Cracks are obviuously happening way more, and that's when I usually move on to a new one. Unless I'm really not feelin' whatever the hell I'm not riding and I'll probably just get mad and focus it. If somebody like, asks for it before I snap it they nab a free deck.

[Ihateshinners]

until i have the money for a new board wich is usually after it snaps hah

[timmyturnstains]

shoryuken you've gone from - 306 to - 603 in like 2 days.


kook madness.

[AfroSheen]

I usually break them before i get razor tail.

[cheep]

i skte em till they are cracked enough that i can feel the flex when i pop.  usually 2 weeks to a month max.  1 week if im dumb enough to try lipslides on rails

[HGDhero]

Pretty spoiled too, cheap product= buy more of it. Prolly get a new board/wheels every 2-3 weeks, sometimes sooner if skating some harsh ass shit.