Truthfully, if you are bending your nose gear up, you are landing really hard on it. There are guys who will recommend the Fultz gear, but to me that's like building a steel tube reinforcement for your fenders because you keep bumping into the side of the garage when you park your car. Yes, it does prevent the damage, but it's not the right solution. You really need to figure out why are keep hitting your nose gear so hard. It could be that your are nose heavy and trying to land too slowly, or it could be that you are simply not flaring properly. But I can tell you from experience when I was training that good flying technique means very little stress on your landing gear, assuming you're flying off of a surface smooth enough for RC use to begin with.