How to prevent a skate deck from chipping?!?

Question

I've gone through 3 decks this month all due to chipping of the tail. It's kind of expensive to keep doing this, so i was wondering if like I'm not doing my ollies right or something.

Answer 1

There is nothing you can do to help this:

When you ollie, you are meant to pop the deck up and it will hit the floor to make it pop.

If you are skating in a street, or somewhere which is not smooth this will cause the chipping and fast wear of the kicks.

Go to a skate park or somewhere which is smoother if you are not already.

Kicks will wear, and if you are skating alot of the time this is will happen.

You might be finding that you think you are wearing your kicks down too much where infact you are not and it is perfectly skateable.

Try keeping your deck to its complete end, keep skating with it and see how it goes.

Answer 2

Small chips in the tail won't hurt.  If you get a board that the nose and tail are the same shape (twin tip, Siamese) just ride it the other way around.  

Since the chips are on the tail, and not the nose; it sounds like you razor tail your board by dragging it on the ground to stop.  If this is the case, drag your back foot to stop.

Answer 3

buy a better deck... hmm, well you might be on the violent side of style. everyone is gonna slam the tail to the concrete for virtually every arial trick, so maybe you can just try and make it a bit smoother. try to bounce off the ground instead of using the board to jump off the ground. i hope that made some sense. if not i can try again. good luck