The first rule of Fingerboard Club is: You do not talk about Fingerboard Club.

The second rule of Fingerboard Club is: You do not talk about Fingerboard Club.

I fingerboard in like every class. People know that I make videos and don't really care. its coooooooo

Ill only tell people if they skate. Then Ill just say 'Oh I Got one from a kid at a skatepark and its kinda good to use it when your bored'

I know what you mean. I used to be embarrassed about it in my early middle school days, but now I'll mention it to anyone who gets to know me. I usually won't fingerboard in public just because the sound tends to annoy people, but sometimes I can't help it if I see a nice obstacle

whats to hide? Not like its illegal or something.
Hard to hide when its so goddamn loud to
but nah I fingerboard on my gf while shes lying down, her bod has some great hips and bank to banks on it. Shes known since we started dating pretty much. All my friends know. Family. Its a favorite hobby, and people who are close to me should know my hobbies amirite? Shit lots of times ill just pop a few fuckin nollie flips while im waiting for food at a restaurant. Sometimes people get bummed on the noise, I respond by doing it louder and really stomping those tricks. Like I give a fuck, its boring waiting for food.

Ellie wrote:

Yeah, I hide it and I don't plan on telling anyone. Even my best friend doesn't know. Literally the only person who has ever seen me fingerboard are my parents but they are super supportive which makes me feel hella blessed but I can't have my peers knowing.

How do you hide it while living in a dorm? I feel like a roommate would start to question clicking sounds from outside the room.

Twest wrote:

A kid that ive known for almost my whole life, weve never really been good friends but in class the other day he asked me i was still good at fingerboarding. I was confused because i dont talk to him but he knew somehow that i fbed. I just shook my head and said no, idk why. I guess it was just in the moment kind of thing cause i dont usually try and hide the fact that i fb

Dude, you should fb with him and try to get some more people involved. I'm 22 and never have anyone to fingerboard with.

Also, I post my videos on my Facebook sometimes for anyone to see. The idea of making fun of someone for having a hobby that he/she enjoys makes me laugh, but I understand where a lot of you are coming from.

most of the skaters in bristol who know me know it, as do most of my MTG friends too. I guess it would be silly hiding it as it's my job : o

I'm turning 22 soon and I'm pretty sure a lot of my peers and acquaintances think it's just a silly toy and that I'm childish, but somehow they see how much I love it and how much effort I put into both my webstore and how I use it as a platform to practice my graphic design. If I am happy with it, I could care less about what they think. Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. My parents found it noisy, but over time they grew to be okay with it.

I have close friends who don't really understand fingerboarding but they don't mind it the slightest bit and they even ask me questions about how it functions, how the parts work, how do people make decks so precisely when it's so tiny, how the community is like, etc. Just because they're trying to understand it more. And those who are my close friends who don't like or care about it don't come judging me for it because there's always more to a person than just their hobbies. For those who actually dislike it and talk to me about it and tell me that I'm wasting my money, again, I point out all the things that they buy that aren't exactly mandatory in a person's basic life (e.g. spend $400 on a pair of headphones? yeah audiophiles have the right to enjoy their hobby so why can't we), double-standards.

If you want to date someone and you're afraid that if people identifying you with the line "still plays with toys and techdecks and stuff" can be a cockblocker or prevent you from making friends, you may want to look for someone else anyway because if a person can't even accept your surface hobbies, what makes you think they are even ready to interact with you on an even-deeper level? Just something to think about. True fact is, most of the time, if someone hears that they would just go "That's fine, I can roll with that."

If a person you care about truly cares about you enough, you don't have to hide it. The fact that there is any hiding at all in interpersonal relationships (be it bf/gf or just friends), even when there's no lying, isn't comfortable when it goes on for a long time. I can't stop you guys from feeling self-conscious about fingerboarding, but if you enjoy it, you should try to be at the very least not be ashamed of what you like.

Regarding random strangers in public, you probably won't even see them a second or third time in your life again so.. I couldn't care less.

Another thing about this is when people ask you where you got it and you say you bought it online then the next question is always about the price.

Then you have the awkward moment where you have to tell your friends you bought a wooden mini skateboard for 50 dollars over the internet.

I usually try to explain that the bearings on the wheels are what make it super expensive and because the wood quality is usually really good.

I don't keep it secret. People know, I introduced it to them. They say it's fun and try it once in a while.

I fingerboard in school, and when people ask about it like I'm a retard or something, why not joke along? I mean after all... I AM sitting in school, playing with a mini skateboard?

Gotta put the joke on them.

Lmao, Hitoshi, the cock-block part was a joke
But no-one wants to be singled out as the teenager who still plays with toy skateboards, which is my main point

Hmm..

To me this is just a hobby like any other hobby and that is what I tell people when they ask me about it.

That and I don't give a shit what anybody else thinks.. Helps when you're married

Some peeps at my school actually kinda like it... lol one time this kid points to my berlinwood and says "I'll give you my pencil grip for dat"

Danny Hynam wrote:

Lmao, Hitoshi, the cock-block part was a joke
But no-one wants to be singled out as the teenager who still plays with toy skateboards, which is my main point

But the thing is,
1) Fingerboarding has evolved from being "just a toy"
2) Lots of people above the age of 20 fingerboard. Lots.

These are the two main things I have to highlight. Fingerboarding has already been redefined over the past few years. I think believing in that starts from you yourself. If you keep doing what you are passionate about, eventually people will try to understand it.

myhotCaffeine wrote:

Danny Hynam wrote:

Lmao, Hitoshi, the cock-block part was a joke
But no-one wants to be singled out as the teenager who still plays with toy skateboards, which is my main point

But the thing is,
1) Fingerboarding has evolved from being "just a toy"
2) Lots of people above the age of 20 fingerboard. Lots.

These are the two main things I have to highlight. Fingerboarding has already been redefined over the past few years. I think believing in that starts from you yourself. If you keep doing what you are passionate about, eventually people will try to understand it.

Yeah it has, but imagine trying to look at it through the eyes of a hundred mid-pubescent teenagers? Some people are open minded, yeah, but there's no way for the majority of people to know about the depth that fingerboarding goes into. And they're not prepared to listen either, as soon as they see it they'll start to rip on it.
And yeah, but the people over 20 aren't in school anymore, which is probably why they can be more open about it. The friends that the older people have are true friends, not just people they're aquainted with at school etc.

I only hide that I'm fingerboarding when i fingerboard naked.

Danny Hynam wrote:

Yeah it has, but imagine trying to look at it through the eyes of a hundred mid-pubescent teenagers? Some people are open minded, yeah, but there's no way for the majority of people to know about the depth that fingerboarding goes into. And they're not prepared to listen either, as soon as they see it they'll start to rip on it.
And yeah, but the people over 20 aren't in school anymore, which is probably why they can be more open about it. The friends that the older people have are true friends, not just people they're aquainted with at school etc.

Then it's them that have to grow up - not you.

myhotCaffeine wrote:

Danny Hynam wrote:

Yeah it has, but imagine trying to look at it through the eyes of a hundred mid-pubescent teenagers? Some people are open minded, yeah, but there's no way for the majority of people to know about the depth that fingerboarding goes into. And they're not prepared to listen either, as soon as they see it they'll start to rip on it.
And yeah, but the people over 20 aren't in school anymore, which is probably why they can be more open about it. The friends that the older people have are true friends, not just people they're aquainted with at school etc.

Then it's them that have to grow up - not you.

That's my point, haha. If people were mature enough to be open minded about people's hobbies then these problems wouldn't exist, but as long as school life is concerned, the environment just isn't mature enough. But at the end of it all, nobody wants to be bullied, especially for doing something they enjoy.

SurfLapras wrote:

Another thing about this is when people ask you where you got it and you say you bought it online then the next question is always about the price.

Then you have the awkward moment where you have to tell your friends you bought a wooden mini skateboard for 50 dollars over the internet.

I usually try to explain that the bearings on the wheels are what make it super expensive and because the wood quality is usually really good.

Yeah dude, pretty much all my setups cost me at least $150 a piece, and that's being low...

People have stopped giving me shit for fingerboarding and buying shit because they see how good I've become and how much I love it, and I guess since I've stuck with it people just pass it by like they know I fingerboard and they don't care.

The coolest things happen too haha people will tell me they met somebody who fingerboards and then we meet and yeah haa.

morrowsnow wrote:

SurfLapras wrote:

Another thing about this is when people ask you where you got it and you say you bought it online then the next question is always about the price.

Then you have the awkward moment where you have to tell your friends you bought a wooden mini skateboard for 50 dollars over the internet.

I usually try to explain that the bearings on the wheels are what make it super expensive and because the wood quality is usually really good.

Yeah dude, pretty much all my setups cost me at least $150 a piece, and that's being low...

They hold it up and ask me how much it is.
I answer them.
They suddenly start handling it like it's made of glass.

bizbiz23 wrote:

Ellie wrote:

Yeah, I hide it and I don't plan on telling anyone. Even my best friend doesn't know. Literally the only person who has ever seen me fingerboard are my parents but they are super supportive which makes me feel hella blessed but I can't have my peers knowing.

How do you hide it while living in a dorm? I feel like a roommate would start to question clicking sounds from outside the room.

Twest wrote:

A kid that ive known for almost my whole life, weve never really been good friends but in class the other day he asked me i was still good at fingerboarding. I was confused because i dont talk to him but he knew somehow that i fbed. I just shook my head and said no, idk why. I guess it was just in the moment kind of thing cause i dont usually try and hide the fact that i fb

Dude, you should fb with him and try to get some more people involved. I'm 22 and never have anyone to fingerboard with.

Also, I post my videos on my Facebook sometimes for anyone to see. The idea of making fun of someone for having a hobby that he/she enjoys makes me laugh, but I understand where a lot of you are coming from.

they dont

Mikkel S wrote:

I only hide that I'm fingerboarding when i fingerboard naked.

lol,
Foreal tho, not a secret at all. Fbing is just a hobby of mine as well as alot of other things.
People are just shallow if they judge you by one thing that you do.

Im in 7th grade an most people in my school thinks that it looks awesome. I've got around 5-10 people into fingerboarding. We are build a small park in woodwork and the principal gave us approval to have it in the room where we have hockey games and such.

BrorS wrote:

Im in 7th grade an most people in my school thinks that it looks awesome. I've got around 5-10 people into fingerboarding. We are build a small park in woodwork and the principal gave us approval to have it in the room where we have hockey games and such.

We also had something like this in 5th grade. I was on the back row and there was a space which is perfect for a half pipe. Got an illustration board molded it and made a halfpipe. Everyone was into fingerboarding with TDs and used the halfpipe all the time.