Can having kind of a crappy skateboard effect how high you ollie and your kickflip?

Question

my skateboard is a little crappy, it has a small cracks near the trucks and the back side of the deck where I pop off of, the grip tape is peeled off and some wood is chipping.

Answer 1

it depends, the more concaved(sloped) your deck is the easier it is to do tricks and ollie, the cracks by the trucks are normally called pressure cracks due to to much pressure over time or all at once and you will loose pop from it, and as far as the chips go you may not notice anything at first but it will get worse and the older the griptape is the less grippy it is so if it is older you will have to flick harder to do a kickflip and your feet might slide when doing an ollie.

Answer 2

well yea it can since u wasted all the pop of the board

and since ur griptape is peeling off there goes your grip which helps u to get tricks higher

ever notice when u get new grip? how u do tricks high?

well without it it will make ur tricks mob

Answer 3

yes it matters .

Answer 4

yeh it matters,the nice ones are made out of better wood and better everything the cheap one might be kinda flimsy which would lose most of your power when you jump

Answer 5

Good boards don't have to be top brand names.  Some good blanks can be just as good quality, just no fancy graphics that will scratch off once you ride anyway.  Just make sure the board is made of top quality Canadian Maple (not Chinese Maple or other crappy wood filler like many Walmart boards).  I recommend Moose Blanks.  They're top quality, 100% Canadian Maple, nice and strong, good concave, tons of pop blah blah blah

You can find them on craigslist.com and kijiji.com pretty often or eBay (the user tgm_skateboards is the main distributor).

http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-...

This seller paints them:

http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-...

Or even paint your own!

Answer 6

honestly, it really matters because the design of the tail lets u pop it better and scoop the board, and when its all trashed its not gunna work as well, itll prbly help u pop higher but if u cant land the trick dont blame the board :P lol

may i recomomend a almost or girl deck, they always have alot of pop

Answer 7

Bullcrap

I've got a 6 month old board and it doesn't affect me

Answer 8

yes, every time the skateboard cracks or chips it will loose pop, when the griptape starts to peel or gets worn down it cant grip to your shoe very well when u slide ur foot in the ollie so it will not come up very high.

u should look into buying a new deck, almost impacts are very strong and use carbon fiber disks by each truck, carbon fiber is almost as strong as metal but lighter than wood so it will be very hard to crack. the boards last a long time and keep pop twice as well as other board companies.

Answer 9

yes, the shape your skateboard is in determines how well you will be able to pull of tricks. The newer it is meqns the more pop it has which makes it easier to pop higher once it wears down it'll start to take more effort to get that height.

Answer 10

yeah the shape of the board has no concave. compared to the PRO boards that have pop with good components, =Everyone calls the crappy boards throw-away boards. I would recomend a Habitat or even an Enjoi

                                    

                                                            Hope This Helps,Cody