My mom think it's kind of dumb, but she still lets me do it and stuff, she doesnt let me fingerboard on the computer table lol but she buys me stuff.

What do they think?

Mom and her boyfriend get annoyed with it but deal with.
Teachers think im retarded.
Freinds getting interested in it

yeah i have to agree with you.
my friend last year i had him in math and he didnt have wooden decks at all
so i introduced him into it
and now he has like brr trucks 2.0's,push m2,no comply minis and a lot of stuff.

he spends his child support on it.

One of my college profs thought it was pretty interesting. asked about it one day after class when he saw me and my buddy playing skate.
Family thinks its interesting but annoying (sounds)
my friends are the ones that got me into fingerboarding as for the friends that don't fingerboard they think its pretty sweet.

My family hates the noises it comes from it but won't ask me to quit.

They basically have made it painfully obvious to keep it in my room.

My techers usually dont mind it.
But my mom does think the sound is annoying so I have to do it in my room.

I like the sport and all but you cant do it everywhere you go thats what sucks

I live in a big city and i always fingerboard while im waiting to get on the bus to and from class. get some weird looks but every now and then someone watches you or asks what its all about.

My mum and tthat thinks it's intresting but hate the noise and they are giving my sponsor full support. The noise is the negative and friends just get amazed when I fingerboard an dteacher just hate it

Family: Think it's pretty unique but I spend way too much time doing it.
Friends: I have got a few friends into fingerboarding. Most of them don't care but think it's a bit sad.
Teachers: Most hate it. Hence why I don't take a fingerboard to school often.

My family tottaly supports me in fingerboarding (im pretty lucky i think)
My teachers dont mind it
My friends think its cool when i do weird tricks like fingerplants and stuff like that but not that intrested

my family hates the noises and think I spend too much time on it, but if they see a video they are like wow.

My friends most of them find it cool but they all think im spending way too much on it because Im kinda clumsy (I had my setup one week when it fell in the toilet and could not get it back).

DAMN I miss fbing in school. Must have had a thousand TDs confiscated over the years. My Dad thinks it's stupid and embarrassing - I think the same of him. My mum thinks it's a waste of time and can't understand why I enjoy it, but thinks it's creative. She likes anything I do that's creative really. She's also asked me a number of times to explain how it works, like 'so how do you make it jump onto the rail?' haha. My sister never mentions it really.. she's never showed any interest in it.

Parents: dont really have an opinion on it, think its good i have a hobby to keep me stress free

Teachers: why would i be fbing during school. i guess its diff for younger kids.

Friends: they think its cool actually. one of my friends spotted my stuff in my room at a house party and he was interested. granted he was drunk as shit so idk

girlfriend: supportive and whatnot. we all have our hobbies and she likes that im comfortable with my hobby. she kinda shows interest in it too.

your mum: she loves it.

Teachers, they know, because they monitor a shit load of what I do on the interwebz

Parents, they think its cool, they don't give a shit that i do it, they think its great, and fascinating how its kept me hooked for so long,

bro, he thinks its a load of shit and ill get bullied at my next school for it D:L

Dad: Thinks that It is the most annoying noise in the world, but he likes the fact that I love it and he supports me and buys me some stuff Love you Dad <3

Teachers: None of them know. For a good reason.. They will think I am some retard..

Friends:
Outside of school - Loads (lot's of people on here and others)
inside - think I'm a retard. (the people that know) I only have 1 friend inside of school that fingerboards.. but he barely does it.

Others: Probably don't care (whoever others are..)

But I will still continue to do it, as I don't care what anyone thinks.. (unless it's a posotive thing)

My parents are pretty supportive. They actually call it fingerboarding instead of techdecks and know that theres a lot more to it than meets the eye.

i find that if you show your parents ASI berlin competition videos they gain much more respect for it

Parents: "Hey son, we're going to the Blackriver store to chill at the skateparks. U MAD?"
Me: "I'M MAD!"

Teachers (years ago when i brought FB to school): "I'll nail that board to a tree".
Me: "Then you'll find your head in the same place sir".

Friends: "Let's fingerboard!"
Me: "Ok, you bring the beers!"

Kids at work: "You are god!", "Is it true you won the Danish championship once?"
Me: "Yes i know", "Yes it is".

Random girls around the world: "WOW! You sure know how to use your fingers".
Me: "Yea. Wanna learn more about it?"

everybody hates it exept some kids at my school who are on tech decks and one of my mates who 'fingerboards'.

^ I read that as "Everybody hates me"

i forgot to say my brother, i feel proud to have convinced two people to start fingerboarding

My parents can't get enough of it, haha >.< If we're going somewhere like my parent's friends house my dad will say "Rafi, you've got your fingerboard in your pocket right?" So he can impress everyone and say how his son doesn't kill his brain playing playstation for hours straight haha

My mum likes it, she's a jeweller so she loves looking at all the products and also likes how I know someone in most countries of the world who i can call a friend My bro thinks its so funny how I actually discovered one of those weird gimmick hobby's on the internet and mastered it haha, he fingerboards too

My friends try and ollie and stuff when they come to my house, but I guess you don't really get hooked on it easily if you don't have a skating mentality lol, and I don't bring my fingerboard to school

Rdcruzer wrote:

his son doesn't kill his brain playing playstation for hours straight haha

SO TRUE. fingerboarding is a much better pastime than sitting in a basement motionless playing video games.

Parents approve, but not enough as to get me European level products. It's a good thing the scene's growing here in the Philippines.

Also, since we're third-world, my parents always complain on why the competitions are held at shady places, unlike the Rendezvous.

My friends are sort of indifferent, some of them tech deck and look up to me even though I suck. (They can only ollie so that explains it.)

Some cute girls in my class find it interesting when I bring it to school though, so I bring it erryday.

My mum and her boyfriend I guess are passively accepting of it. When I'm staying at their house, I don't fingerboard late or anything so that's fine. They have seen my huge collections, the fact that I've attended a couple events and they know that I'm sponsored. I have tried to make it clear about my justifications of having such a large collection where some are just for collecting, some are for sale when I get the chance, some are free from contests or sponsors. They're just disappointed that I can't win money from contests in the UK... maybe one day that could change.

My dad (parents are divorced) knew I used to be really into Tech Decks but I don't know if he still knows that I fingerboard. He already heavily disapproves of me skateboarding, the only real reason being that I can't skateboard into my older years so it's a waste of time doing it now. With that opinion of skateboarding, I don't talk to him about fingerboarding.

My Chinese family on both parents sides know that I do fingerboard though. I think they're just being polite when I show them some tricks because they probably don't think there's anything beyond fingerboarding apart from being a toy. They were a little impressed and I remember bringing a Tech Deck to China years ago too. They were also really impressed with the engineering of a proper fingerboard setup with 5 ply wooden decks, bearing wheels and foam tape.

About teachers, I can only say about when I was at school... in grammar school (high school), I did fingerboard in class and between classes. I got loads of Tech Decks confiscated, some just told me to put it away and one teacher asked us about it after her class and tried to help us arrange a contest for one of the breaks. Didn't fingerboard during Sixth form college or university.

So I have quite a few skateboard friends. In the UK, some are quite interested in it, especially how I have a freestyle trickset on fingerboards as well as skateboards. One friend could do kickflips on them and I decided to give him a Close Up complete because he only had a broken Tech Deck and no others to fingerboard on. All these other kids come up to me and are like "are you sponsored by Tech Deck/for Tech Decking?", so obviously as a fingerboarder, I say no... and I won't explain unless I can be arsed.

I used to have some fingerboard/skateboarder friends from school but they've all moved away.

As for non-skater friends, I've not really brought it up to everyone. But anyone who does know think it's cool.

I work in China right now and I'm teaching in a Business College. I attended one of the other teacher's lectures at the start just to grasp the teaching style and I almost laughed when during a Marketing lecture he said that companies can choose to sponsor people but they choose really famous people. I've not told any colleagues here since it's not really appropriate most of the time. I'd disturb someone from the noise of the fingerboarding.

I was joking to an American friend here in China about the correct term being "fingering". So he goes and tells a guy I work with (they're good friends since America) that I am sponsored for fingering and that people in France pay money to see me finger and that my fingering skills are known throughout the world. Haha, I don't mind since I was the one to joke about that in the first place.

Skaters here in Yantai think it's pretty cool but it was quite hard to teach them to do any good tricks like ollies or kickflips, they could do shoveits and that's about as far as it goes. One guy is quite interested and he's going to buy a China complete from the internet (haha, weird when Chinese people buy them? but I guess it supports their own scene hahaha). Yeah, he said he can't afford any better ones and I totally understand. Uni students in China mostly aren't that rich and buying skateboards was pretty expensive already. I'm going to get my mum to send a couple of spare Close Up completes so I can give them to 2 good skater friends here.