How to make your decks last longer

Landing

You can break your deck with just a flatland ollie (I am the example ). Now 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 (just believe me). You can also put one foot above a truck and put all the pressure on that truck (if you do the last thing and you put your pressure wrong you can still snap your tail). I personaly land on the far back bolts with my back foot and on the far front bolts with my front foot. but 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:

1. Your deck will bent.

2. Your griptape will be ruined at the sides (don't worry about this, you can still skate on it).

3. 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 you will if you try) and after a lot of darkslides your deck will easely break with some boardslides (I am (again) the example for this).

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

Freestyle

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

1. - Pogo hops
2. - Pogo spins
3. - Truckstand hops
4. - Truckstand spins It will ruin your tail, definately

Others

Don't do powerslides on rough terain, your wheels will be ruined soon: do them on smooth terrain.
Don't scrape your tail while in manual or to brake, your tail will be gone soon. =)

If you want to do these tricks anyway: suit yourself, but I warned you.
Skateboarding is about having fun, if want to do things I just said were bad, go ahead, have fun, but your deck will last shorter

TIPS

Always keep your damage decks somewhere and do not throw it away. Try to make use of it and create it into something else. Keep it and do not waste =)