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Noel Part of the Furniture


Posts: 2444 Join date: 2010-10-22 Age: 14 Location: north london
 | Subject: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:51 pm | |
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Triston Snell Blossoming FBHQer


Posts: 192 Join date: 2010-09-16 Age: 17 Location: Jackson, Missouri
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:59 pm | |
| Actually, some kid at school in like 6th grade (4 years ago) was selling Tech Decks and we didn't know we could get them at Wal-Mart for $3 and he was selling for like $6 each LOL.
I bought a few an I guess it evolved from there. After about a year of using tech decks I quit for about 2 more years and started up again like 6-7 months ago, a few months ago bought my first wooden deck from Grant Harris. (OMG MUNCHKIN CAKES SO GUD) And now I bought a BWNM Elias from someone, and yeah that's how! |
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Thom McInally Constant FBHQer


Posts: 1485 Join date: 2010-08-11 Age: 19 Location: Manchester, UK
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:08 pm | |
| Just over 10 years ago, McDonald's were doing fingerboards for happy meals while i was in holiday in Orlando, guess i just screwed about with that for ages and then moved onto TD's! |
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Linkan FBHQ Regular


Posts: 533 Join date: 2009-12-15
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:43 pm | |
| i got one in a donald duck magazine.. lol |
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willhopewell Constant FBHQer


Posts: 1409 Join date: 2009-08-12 Age: 17 Location: Mansfield,UK
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:45 pm | |
| got a tech deck so did everyone else ! they couldn't do it and gave up i carried on then got a close up(D:) then got a berlin wood and slowly got better |
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blosom Moderator


Posts: 4493 Join date: 2010-03-04 Age: 33 Location: peterborough uk
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:57 pm | |
| i remember the first time i ever saw or used a fb was when my older brother showed me one he made out of cardboard and car wheels....i was about 10?.....from then on it was finding out where to get them and how to get them to stick to your fingers  |
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Finn S Part of the Furniture


Posts: 3893 Join date: 2010-07-11 Age: 14 Location: Ramsgate-Kent
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:22 pm | |
| wen i was about 4 my brother got a stunts x from tescos i used it once every year or so then people started using them at my school in early december 2009 so i bought onefor 4 qud off of someone i used to mess aroundwith them about 10-20 mins a day then i got a closeup then a creekwood then a flatface thn a berlinwood then another flatface then another berlinwod etc during the summer i would mess around with them for like an hour or so but now ifb about 10-20 mins |
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flexboreder Constant FBHQer


Posts: 1298 Join date: 2010-08-31 Age: 20 Location: US NorthEast
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 10:36 pm | |
| I remember the first time i ever saw one i was watching my uncles old Powell Peralta video Future Primitive. (VHS haha!) Me and my cousins broke half of my hot wheels collection trying to make some then that passed. Once tech decks came out i fooled with them a little but nothing serious. Then a while ago i broke my leg skateboarding and i was depressed sitting around driving myself nuts! Going through skating withdrawals watching skate videos on you tube. I stumbled onto a video by TheDirtyHarry that at the time i thought was a skateboard video. It sparked a whole new fascination for fingerboards beyond my tech deck days. I have been fingerboarding actively since.  |
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kerryDETH Admin


Posts: 7735 Join date: 2009-11-03 Age: 23 Location: Bristol, UK
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 10:47 pm | |
| someone in year 9 had a random fake tech deck thing that I saw.. then he thought it was lame and was gonna throw it so I asked if I could have it. Learnt to ollie and then got a tech deck, an alien workshop A.V.E pro model graphic. Loved it. Miss it  I seriously had no idea how much fingerboarding would change my life, but, I remember I was always as stoked if not more stoked to fingerboard than skate back then, it was soo creative and fascinating. I knew nothing of it.. never knew how to do tricks properly.. it was ollie + pressure flips.. Then just before christmas 08 someone gave me a broken tech deck.. and I googled stuff and found closeup. Got a closeup g2 blank for that christmas. It went from there. Soon after I got rip, like, january. June I got a noco CP and some wides. November I got g7.1 b robbys + fbs. BW in december. BRR trucks christmas 09. Many decks, a set of subby wheels, two deck sponsors + a tape sponsor + a distro sponsor later, here I am ^_^ And for those new to unite, that started in July this year.  _________________ Fingerboard < 3 My Youtube  UK Fingerboarding - Worldwide.   |
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stevenfilms Part of the Furniture


Posts: 1514 Join date: 2010-08-02 Age: 13 Location: NH, USA
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Sun Nov 28, 2010 11:02 pm | |
| I think about two years ago I got a two Tech Deck Ramps. Me and my brother would just mess around with it. Then after a while, I saw some videos of Mike Schneider and was like "Oh my god, that's impossible!". So I got into fbing a little more, and started doing actual controlled tricks. For like a year I fbed with a Tech Deck, and then quit cuz' it was boring. Then I kinda fbed every once in a while again because I remembered how fun it was, and wanted to get better. I tried making my own boards and tried finding a way to make it a better experience because I couldn't get Berlinwoods and other stuff like that. This was when I actually started to fingerboard. I found FBHQ somehow, and kinda got back into it. Got a Redemption Complete a few months ago. Ordered some Noco wheels recently, which are still in the mail. And now I am where I am today. |
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LouisRobinson Constant FBHQer


Posts: 1228 Join date: 2009-07-29 Age: 16 Location: Leeds
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Mon Nov 29, 2010 12:48 am | |
| i started about 2 years or so after i got an unfortunate skateboarding injusry which ment i couldnt skate for a few months  i strted looking at some alternative things i could do in the space of my room. i tried magic, juggling pen spinning lol. then ii found a td while i was tidying my room our and it all started from there |
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Ed Hilfstein Blossoming FBHQer


Posts: 313 Join date: 2010-07-11 Age: 14 Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:19 am | |
| I've been "Tech Decking" since I was really young. My older brother used to have a bunch, and I used those. I went on and off on my Tech Decking skills for a bunch of years. In sixth grade I was the "best" in my grade. I could do a quadrouple impossible tre flip 360 with a footplant haha. Later in sixth grade, maybe early seventh grade, my friend who still "Tech Decked" told me there were pro techdeckers. I was like "HAHAHA STUPID FAGGOTS." (he showed me the videos on FF). Then during late 7th grade, one of my other friends got a couple wood boards. I was at his house, and i got my first ollie. I was super psyched, and after that I got some fakie kickflips. Eventually, i got my own wood board from eBay. I practiced a lot, and here I am. |
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Noel Part of the Furniture


Posts: 2444 Join date: 2010-10-22 Age: 14 Location: north london
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:42 pm | |
| i started fingerboarding when i was 11 im 13 now. i used to u se my sister bratz doll skateboard to flip it randomly and stuff then i saw that fb video of some guy who fingerboard thestreetand i was like epic i then got some fake fingerboard i got it the mall shop in Austrisa where i used to live before. i used it till it broke i got the same brand again lost it then a month later i got a techdeck my tricks improved but i was stillcrap later on i quit fb coz i was teased of it at schooland stuffbut i was like fu*k that then i started again wen i moved schools and evry one knows me as fingerboard guy which is coolio.i got my first wood fb from fusion distro its a board kennel and its all good |
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BennySteeze Blossoming FBHQer

Posts: 345 Join date: 2010-07-31 Age: 14
 | Subject: Re: post how you started fingerboarding Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:47 pm | |
| Just over a year ago when i started skateboarding i was looking through the argos catalauge and saw tech decks and then got my first close up and yeah... |
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Noel Part of the Furniture


Posts: 2444 Join date: 2010-10-22 Age: 14 Location: north london
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