I am not talking about skills level. But attitude. Let me give you my own example....

When i first started...

- a lot of my time and effort was spent looking for new sponsors... who in hindsight, seem pretty retarded. e.g. duckwood, magicwood, poison fingerboards.... i made those up from the top of my head, but they all seemed pretty similar and cheesy. It was only later when i started seeing sites like BRR and FF..

I thought fingerboarding was just about being sponsored ad getting free stuff.. but now i know it's all about the fun

Also, I remember having a tech deck, and just doing the most random flips ever and amazing everyone in school9 this was year 7/Grade 6 )....lol, it was mainly down to luck though.

um i strated out because my sister had a plastic mini skateboard she had from her barbie so i just played around. Then i saw mikeshneider videos and i was amazed Garychin was also only what i watched. a year later im on youtube and i watch a v274 video a trade with dannyhynam from leeds??

that made me know there were more uk fingerboards then i saw Jack L channel with solid distrubution products so i want to buy some i eneded up finding fusion and buying my fisrt wood deck a shitty boardkennel

after that i made an account here and started posting videos and chillin

I really got into the products. Mind you I came into the scene around 2006 so opportunity was still in the air and companies where starting to become legit.

I dedicated most of my time to doing kickflips and making decks.

I had Halfpint at the time so I was really trying to put forth the effort into having a good team/products. It was an awesome run, I had some really great riders...Taylor R, Brett Gagliardo, Nick Allen...I was trying to get Eric Smith on the team too, but that ended up not working out, then shortly after I stopped making decks for awhile.

I wish I would've stuck with it. I still have hopes in starting it back up. Truck holes are my biggest downfall though....Idk how I did it so well before. I want to get a metal mold with the truck hole template.

I start fingerboarding by copying Noel. he always fingerboard in school. I just started in tech deck then china fingerboard finally the proffesional setup Flatface g12. I learned tricks through noel and youtube video's . I hope this thread gonna be sticky.

I started trolling fingerboarders on youtube, including Finn, which is funny because we're good friends now. But then I saw Daniel Lindquist and then the yellowood website, and I realised it was just like skateboarding, but smaller!

I desperately wished to find Tech Deck events in the UK. I'm not sure if there ever were any when I started but I could not find any. All I did was fingerboard in school and home with my friends and sometimes even when taking a break during street skateboarding. I was on the old Tech Deck forums but there was nothing on there about the UK. I visited all the things featured on Sites that grind but DIY stuff wasn't something that I would be able to achieve.

Once joining FFI in 2008, I found a few UK companies like Vision and Arctic but still nothing in terms of events in the UK. I also found FFI was very difficult to get into and no one took notice of you unless you were sponsored/famous like Mike S; it still is like this a bit.

I personally think it is very hard to "break through" as a fingerboarder, even if you had good skills, so it wasn't something I made an effort to do. The main thing I always wanted to experience was a fingerboard event and it took until 2011 when I rejoined FFI, I finally found out about one in the UK and have been very into fingerboarding since. Meeting other fingerboarders was a huge boost to my interest in the hobby and it's nice to make friends with people who like fingerboarding. It's funny because I only joined FBHQ for 2 weeks and was unknown in the scene but I took the gamble to drive up to Manchester for the event.

I ALSO GOT TO MEET THOM.

I was born with a fingerboard in my hand.

Not feeling the vibe anymore.

Used to make loads of amazingly skilled videos on a webcam.
Didn't pay much attention to the scene, I subbed danillio2020, dermodinhimself, blacktheriver, weakfingers, mikeschneider etc. I had a youtube sponsor within a month.
Took me about a 8 months until Sola told me about fbhq haha
I didn't use it at first then I saw unite and became active on here.

I was skateboarding. We bought Tech Decks cus they were cool. Learned to do ollies, kickflips, 360 flips and various grinds/slides.

Made TTC (To Tosser Crew (Two Fools Crew)) and made two full lengths.. Just for the fun of it.
Found a Danish fingerboard forum + shop. Bought Berlinwoods.
Hosted a city championship.
Won it.
Prize were stickers, but that was awesome!

The danish forum went down.
Had a huge break from the online world.
Joined FFI after learning pretty much every trick that was possible the last time i checked.
Thought i could just walk in there and get a sponsor.
Now people did tricks in switch, wtf?

Chilled a bit. Got stoked on the whole new world of products.
Created Ghost Bushings.
Had a half assed team with some friends. Didn't really succeed.
Made some decks.
2007 - Time for a new team.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPMPW13mvQ
Got the best team in the world, but started on something similar to college.
Not much time for fingerboarding.
Sold most of my stuff around 2009 because i hadn't used it for a while.
Got back in August 2011.
Created Lovedrug.


Sorry for making it into a life story instead, lol.

Fingerdecks deck with mike schneider and FSS videos <3

I just fingerboarded. There were no companies or sponsors or whatnots 17 years ago. It wasnt so much learning tricks because it seemed so impossible given the types of fingerboards -i- had access to. It didnt dawn on me to put skategrip on a fingerboard.

My attitude now is the same as it was now; just having fun with it and seeing what i can do with this mini skateboard.

I used tech decks until I grew a set and asked my mom to buy me a deck. It was on from there. I always was looking for sponsors and i Thought I was top shit for some reason.

I don't fingerboard as much no more. I can't buy a new deck anytime soon so I might as well just give up. I have the money for it but that money isn't for fingerboarding.

Deshawn I swear you always add more years to your fingerboarding every time this sort of subject is around. I swear a year ago you had been fingerboarding for 11 years, then 15, now 17.

My brother started tech decking! I copied him. Created Lethal Ramps: Fail. Created Skullwood Workshops Distribution: 1 order so not quite as fail. Created Wave Fingerboards: to be continued.

Started (Age 11):
Small
Squeaky voice
Wasn't a virgin
Didn't know anything about the scene
Noob
rote lyk dis
Pretty immature
Hair that made me look like a douche

Now (Aged 15, nearly 16):
Taller
Deeper voice
Substantial amount of facial hair, apparently makes me resemble shaggy from scooby doo.
Virgin
Involved in the scene quite a bit, Mod on here (clearly)
Much more mature
Still have hair that makes me look like a douche, except now I've developed some curls and flicks etc.

Poor Danny, becoming a non virgin us quite a difficult process, i had to do it myself. I went from Prostertoot to Prosser. Did you change ur name?

Started of using tech decks in year nine when chavs were robbing them and flogging them off for like a quid or so and everyone had them so i went and got one
then watched mike Schneider ,fss, vicious274 and all the other mainstream people
then my friend had a very old berlinwood which was new back in year nine he told me about black-river and flatface so i went and bought a china board ahah i thought i was the only person in Manchester who finger boarded but then i found lots of finger-boarders through YouTube and skate parks and now i ride a yellowood and flatface not china shit

life story ? haha

Finn S wrote:

Deshawn I swear you always add more years to your fingerboarding every time this sort of subject is around. I swear a year ago you had been fingerboarding for 11 years, then 15, now 17.

....... Man, who knew as time goes by, time goes by. Its mind boggling.. like birthdays. Hey wait. Finn if you asked me a year ago how long ive been fbing, do you think a year from that time it would be the same thing?



If it makes you sleep at night Finn..

I started in 1995
Came to the forums in 2000

Any other questions?

when i started i had tech deck and i was excited for tech deck live but it never happened now im grown up but still fingerboard haha

Couldnt do much, can just remember everyone at my school doing fast ollie cos we had no pop!
Then i tried kickflip with a finger position technique, that then evolved into actually flipping it and learning tricks... then i watched mike s's hubba hide out vid which blew my mind at the time
It seems like ages ago now

A friend got me a tech deck.
I played with it.
He came over.
Showed me FSS.
I found Mike Schneider.
Learned ollies.
Started Flow Wood FB: Fail.
Got a Flatface G12.
Snapped it.
Got a Berlinwood.
Learned kickflips and hardflips.
Started Core Concrete: tbc.

I started fingerboarding in 2010.
-Was only 12 that time
-Was skinny as a stick
-Thought I was king.


Took a break through 2011, started fbing again in october

-Am now 14, as of today (happy brithday to me 8-) )
-Still am skinny as hell
-I now realize I suck crap at fingerboarding
-Joined this forum and ffi, I love the online community here especially!

Sorry for copying your format Danny.

1. Borrowed tech deck everyday in homeroom.
2. Friend gave me tech deck.
3. Looked it up online, just because I look up everything online. Me:*HOLYCRAPMIKESCHNEIDER*
4. Learn how to kickflip, but can't ollie (?). Watch about every video on Unite and FBTV (still do)
Me: ILIKETOTALLYNEEDAPRODECK!!!1!!1111
5. Learned a whole bunch of tricks and fingerboard about an hour in the morning and an hour at night. (Still do XD)
6. Joined FBHQ
7. Bought a berlinwood.
8. Bought some brr stuff.

and here we are.

1) used to throw around tech deck when I was about 5 years old not knowing what the full potential of it
2) Stumbled upon a Gary Chin video when it was a related video to "fat people falling" videos which I thought were the coolest things ever. That was 9 months ago
3) Thought it was amazing so I went and found the one tech deck I had and started watching tutorials and how to's
4) recently started making videos..youtube channel "pleasefb123" and got into the fingerboarding scene more
5) now I talk to leon "theleon1308".. Philip "philipnmann"... Julius "juliusfricke" and a bunch of awesome German fingerboarders almost everyday and finally feel like a part of the community

When I first started fingerboarding?

Go back to September 2011 and find out.

For the most part I sucked hard and still do (although now I can do kickflips and pop-shuvits )

Also knew nothing about anything and was big n00b.