Focusing boards

[gin]

I've been skating for almost 4 years, and haven't broken a board. I started pretty late, and I'm pretty light (~135lb) but I think it's weird that it's never happened to me. I mostly end up retiring boards due to chips, delamination, and razor tail. I'm trying to prolong skating one deck now even though it's pretty much dead just to see if it'll break.

[SneakySecrets]

Dude don’t tell everybody you’ve never broken a board.  You’re supposed to keep that a secret so it can be an endless source of shame and inferiority you can carry with you the rest of your life.

[Brguy]

It's probably the weight, I didn't start breaking boards until I got taller and heavier. First one was a Fs 180 on a 6 stair, but I've snapped some with a lot less.

[lysdexia]

20 years, never broken one

[L33Tg33k]

100% because you're a lightweight. My fatass, on the other hand, breaks them on flat.

[ClownOfTheDay]

I broke a board doing a slappy board slide once. I'm chunky.

[LordManHammer]

100% because you're a lightweight. My fatass, on the other hand, breaks them on flat.

This......

 my fatass definitely has crushed some boards and trucks.

[50mm]

Rolled my ankle right as summer was starting focusing a board, took me out for 3 months...no kidding. I was trying to break every piece and it twisted on the steep ass nose.

[NOT Rick Kane]

Rolled my ankle right as summer was starting focusing a board, took me out for 3 months...no kidding. I was trying to break every piece and it twisted on the steep ass nose.

Don't fuck with the trees man. They karma kings!

[sammyz]

Age fitness and weight...

I only started to break boards more and more in my late 20’s.

Now at 43 I’m only skating VX decks because a wooden deck can last anywhere between 1-10 sessions

[pdknox]

sucker shit

[Lorem_Ipsum]

I've been skating for almost 4 years, and haven't broken a board. I started pretty late, and I'm pretty light (~135lb) but I think it's weird that it's never happened to me. I mostly end up retiring boards due to chips, delamination, and razor tail. I'm trying to prolong skating one deck now even though it's pretty much dead just to see if it'll break.

I'm also 135 lbs, and have been since high school. I'm 29 years old now and have been skating for around 15 years and break boards with some regularity. Sometimes on flatground, but other times off of stuff. I find that if I'm skating a set and deliberately trying to land on the board rather than kicking it out and eating the slam then I'll break the tail off or break it in the middle. Depends on the trick too. I have never cracked a board on a back lip but I used to break them on front lips all the time. I skate exclusively generator wood too so it's not just the boards. It's not weird to not break boards, everyone's just different.

[pugmaster]

For whatever reason fake tre flips on flat almost always break boards for me.

[cricketclub]

I'm pretty sure every board I have broken while skating has been on flat ground tricks.

I haven't focused a board since I was a kid. I felt so much shame the first time I did it successfully. I felt like such an idiot. I guess I didn't think the board would actually break. Instant regret. I'm honestly not sure if I focused a board ever after that... maybe if it was really beat and useless. Nowadays I don't think I would do that. I hoard all my old deck in my basement for absolutely no reason. I really should just drop them off at the shop in the free pile.

[formula420]

I'll only focus a board if it's already cracked and I have another deck ready to go.

If you wanna break a board jump from higher drops. If you are just doing little ledges your board will rarely snap.

[Fred Gerwer Frank Gall]

I used to break boards a lot more when I was lighter, mainly b/c I was throwing myself down bigger stuff back then. But I also used to break a lot on 360 flips and lipslides, when I was 15lbs lighter.

I still do those tricks but rarely break a board... I think boards are stronger these days... I'll crack a few plys here and there but its been years since I did a clean break.

[Lloyd Braun]

I rarely break boards maybe like one a year if that. I’m currently 180lbs but mostly skate ledges. It’s great, I’ll retire a board after about a month, I save them to give to people who need them or my brother for wood working projects.