Nike, Adidas, Puma,
Quiksilver, Billabong, O'Neil
Salomon, K2, Burton
Ya know what makes these guys succesful in achieving quality? Quality Control Proceedures. QC's inspecting products while in production to help mitigate quality issues, and help facilitate higher quality finished goods. If only the deck manufacturers would learn this, then you would be riding better wood. Or maybe they just want 'em to break ... ?