The History of Fingerboarding | Part 2 2013-2022
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2022
- Welcome to part 2 of The History of Fingerboarding. This video covers from 2013-2022.
Part One can be watched here: • The History of Fingerb...
The hobby was in full bloom and seemed destined for immense growth with all this coverage in popular culture.
Then, in 2013, the growth stopped. Did CZcams change its algorithm to affect the viralness of fingerboard videos? Were the big fingerboarders of the day aging out of the hobby to focus on their life? Or was it simply that fingerboarding just lost its steam?
We saw the resilience of the scene with new fingerboard companies launching exceedingly more professional products. These products continued to push the boundaries of professionalism.
For example, in 2010, your options for trucks for a professional setup consisted of Tech Deck, Tech Deck knock offs, Blackriver Trucks and Yellowood Trucks. By 2022, that list can be expanded to include Dynamic Trucks, Vortex, UAG, Caramel, among others.
Miniaturism, the art of replicating real life scenes, began to influence the creation of fingerboard obstacles, further integrating fingerboarding into its skateboarding roots.
The previous platform of choice, CZcams, was still around, albeit in a different capacity. CZcams became the channel of choice for medium to long form fingerboard content. We saw the growth of the fingerboard vLogger on CZcams. These content creators create engaging fingerboard related content that resonates with their viewers. Traditional fingerboard videos typically focused on tricks, fingerboard events or unboxings. But now, these individuals realized that you could also create entertaining videos. These personalities broadened awareness surrounding fingerboarding, and made content that resonated to the masses. Fingerboarding’s reach has never been larger.
/r/Fingerboards became the main sub-reddit devoted to fingerboarding. Here, you can see pictures, videos, links and text from other fingerboarders in a style vaguely similar to a message board.
Fingerboard Underground became the prominent fingerboard-related server on Discord. Discord combined the best of both internet chatrooms and VoIP clients, and allowed users to communicate to each other over voice, video and text.
Fingerboarding was featured in an Episode of Post Radical, a Vice produced tv show. Skateboarding legend Rick McCrank hangs out with Martin Ehrenberger and Martin Winkler and explores the world of fingerboarding and the whole culture surrounding the hobby.
In January 2022, Wired featured Mike Schneider in their episode of Obsessed titled “How this Guy Mastered Fingerboarding”. With over 2.5m views in 8 months, it is clear that fingerboarding resonates with popular culture.
It can be said that the very heart of the fingerboard scene exists in meetups. We saw fingerboarders continue to build their local scene, by hosting meetups and events. We’ve even scene the Southern California scene grow to rival the scenes of New England, USA and Germany. Sorry for Fingerboarding was able to get fingerboarding exposed to mainstream skateboarding in partnering with legendary skateboard media content producer “the Berrics”.
Some scenes even got to the point where both permanent brick-and-mortar stores were created. While there were skateboard shops that had fingerboard parks to sesh and items for sale, there were only a handful of dedicated fingerboard shops. This included the first Fingaspeak Store located in Austria (which closed), ASI Berlin (Formerly the Blackriver Store) and PoP Factory, the first dedicated fingerboard store in the USA. As fingerboarding’s popularity began to ramp back up, we saw new storefronts emerge. Axe Ramps, in London, Playhouse, Slushcult, and Socal G8 Sessions in Southern California, USA FBLs storefront in Indianapolis and 6skates in Toronto. These store fronts become the center for an entire fingerboarding community. Fingerboarders can Not only come to purchase new products, but also sesh with their friends. The shop also introduces fingerboarding to the world as a polished, professional, and established hobby.
We even saw the first Professional Fingerboard League established in 2022, the USA FBL. Which held events all over the United States, with events in locations incl Chicago, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Tustin and Montebello, Ca, Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, Dallas, Minneapolis and Indianapolis. We’ve scene brands like Grandfingers in Poland create incorporate into skate/scootering camps, and communities such as Pappanjari in Indonesia build communities up.
We even saw the world championship for fingerboarding, Fast Fingers, return for the first time in years. While in a different format, Fast Fingers Online allowed fingerboarders across the globe to compete by submitting their best four trick outdoor line to a panel of judges. The final judging was livestreamed to the world with exceptional professionalism.
2022 was proof that fingerboarding has never shined brighter. - Zábava
Hey all, let me know if you've enjoyed part two of the History of Fingerboarding! It took a lot of time and effort to make this video, so please like, share and let me know what you think 😀
Do u fingerboard
@@shawnforsgren4607 I do! That's me in the opening clip :)
Your not bad you are definitely better than me
Really good
Part 1 and part 2 fantastic, very interesting and informative, thanks for the ace vid 🔥👊🔥
Thank you so much for including us! Fingerboard skate shops are a crucial part of the scene! We’re just glad to be a part of it! If your ever in Orange County stop by!
They are absolutely crucial! Next time I'm in town I'll stop by!
I love your boards
THANK YOU FOR THE SHOUT OUT MY G
What's up
Still honored to say I've been able to compete at the highest level in the US at USAFBL in Atlanta and win first in best street run and 2nd in best street trick. Never would've thought that less than 2 years ago when I got back into fingerboarding, this is where it would go.
These are documentaries we fingerboarders needed. These shall be classic forever🥂
Fingerboard is our connection, love from Bandung fingerboard, Indonesia.
Hi.
This video touched my heart.
I discovered fingerboarding around 2015 , and got back to life some Sbego decks I had. With the years I improved a lot, watched Mike almost everyday, started to buy pro completes, introduced this to lots of people... (even in 2020 my friend and I were filming for YT, but lockdown happened and killed our idea).
During last years, studies, social media and social life steal my time, and fingerboarding has been going down from my life. But, sometimes, I realize that this past years energy for this still there.
As you say, will try to make my part for this amazing community.
Do it! I've taken multiple breaks over the years, and always end up coming back 😁 it's a fun hobby, and the community is amazing!
Such an awesome video! Loved both parts! Super stoked that you used my footage for the shout out to @6skates for opening the first fingerboard store in Canada! Til we meet again my friend. 👊🏻✌🏻
Thanks for adding us to the history books! We are excited to keep pushing Fingerboarding forward! Thanks for love and please follow!
Loved both parts. My name is Mario. I'm Nicaraguan. I've been fingerboarding since the year 2000. A fingerboard came to me through a friend who I used to skate with. In 1999, he came back to Nicaragua from the states and gave me a fingerboard with the XGames logo below and on the griptape, so I had it as a decorative in my room, but it was until the next year that I saw a show on tv (blue torch) showcasing fingerboarding in Europe, and that made take fingerboarding. So, I've been fingerboarding for 22 years now. I've really enjoyed both videos. It brought back so many memories. I've been promoting fingerboarding in Nicaragua for some years now. I've done some events. Two contests among them. I'm planning a third contest, it will be in December. I'm looking for support out there 'cuz there's no industry or shops related to fingerboarding in my country Nicaragua. Great work on the videos! Looking forward to seeing more from you. Thank you so much! I will actually give a 15 minutes workshop on the history of fingerboarding to a skateboarding academy at the beginning of next month. I will also be doing a demo and teaching about fingerboarding.
Hello Mario! Love hearing about your story :) Good work setting those events up! Feel free to message me and I can look into finding ways to help get some support for your event!
Just bought my fingerboard, and decided to start by finding out the history of Fingerboarding, so you've got me excited for all the possibilities now - thanks!
The possibilities are endless :) Let me know how you progress -- I'm sure you'll pick up the hobby quickly!
That was really cool to watch Chris. Also, it makes an "old-timer" like me, who never fully made the transition to fast-paced Instagram, make sense of today's scene. I didn't know there were so many fingerboard stores now! There's also Dirty Monkey's Fingerboards Store in Argentina, if anyone comes by these latitudes. Thank you for great content.
Ah man, can't believe I forgot Dirty Monkeys... I'll update the video tomorrow to include the shop! Hope all is well my friend!
Excellent video, more than necessary for all of us who are followers of Fingerboard worldwide, in Costa Rica we are building a great community to give more importance to the sport, a hug from Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Amazing! Love seeing that there's a community in Costa Rica! 🔥
Beautiful work Chris and very well said. It never really died, the platforms just changed. Pretty much the only reason why I stopped making videos is not to do with focusing on my own life or work or career or anything like that. I think if I truly wanted to keep it going, I would. It was more the repetitive nature of it and the plateuing of my abilities along with my friends not being as into it. I slowly stopped making vidoes because they all felt the same and I had no motivation to carry on, but then in 2015 I broke my right wrist and that sort of sealed it for me at the time. I never really found pleasure in making instagram edits and now I don't use it at all. However, it is amazing to see it still flourishing and to see so many new people in the scene, pushing it more and more. I had no idea so many shops existed. I hope to get back to making shorter videos again soon!
Thank you Rory! I totally get that, and to be honest that's how I felt as well up until about 2017. Instagram actually excited me initially, but at this point I realized that I prefer CZcams 😅
Irecently decided to buy my 1st real board and pro setup, so happy with my soon too be build, I remember all Of this the mc donalds toys were epic as a kid and yes here in the states well yea in schools they were amazing and always being taken by teachers lol, you all missed alot if your reading this! These are still Number 1. in my book as all i can say is ty mom for sharing so many amazing things with me and to remember them is even crazier but to see them all re-invented is beyond what people thought Nothing Ever Truly Dies, nor is it forgotten GREAT VIDEO TY for making Both of them, and If you ever tell yourself that your to grown up, just remember you were a kid too! Sincerely A Loyal Boarder
I'm was in that flatface session I can see myself in the video 😄
I been cleaning My fingerboard griptape while watching this video.
i missed the entirety of growth of the fb scene since around 2011. super happy you made a vid dedicated to covering all the main points on fb history
i was in high school when i playing a fingerboard for the last time, last week i just found my old tech deck and suddenly bang my bucks for a new decent pros setup
Part 2 was just as cool as part 1! Amazing delivery of information. This will help preserve our history, way more extensive than people would first think. Hopefully you'll still produce more parts in the future!
Amazing work Chris! Really enjoyed it.
Also, seeing the Fingaspeak shop almost brought tears to my eyes. For some of us in Portugal (myself; Andre Coral, Loz, and Bruno Ambrosio), the Fingapektakel #2 held by Emil in 2008, was the first time anyone from Portugal went to an event abroad. This was when we all met most of the icons which until then we would only see and talk to online!
Proud to say that most of my closest friends came from the same love we share for this tiny fingerboard.
I do miss the "old days". I do miss the "old" the old online scene as well and the regular rants on FFI. But times change. It doesn't necessarily mean things suck today...They are just different.
One thing I do believe was lost was the spirit of fingerboarding though. Nowadays its all about products, all about consumerism and brands with dozens of thousands of followers and "customers" which at the end of the day don't dedicate much (if any) time to maintain or support the scene...All these new lazy ass "brands" simply acting as re-sellers for products made in China factories, keep collecting cash on demand with zero efforts to sustain a scene that gives them so much...That's sad.
There hasn't ever been so many people fingerboarding as we have to day, yet, proper events are scarce and far between...To me at least, this also explains why a lot of the "OGs" kind of disappeared. A lot of the fingerboarders that were active in the early 2000s just feel disappointed with today's scene and the route it took. That doesn't mean we are not fingerboarding. Not at all.
Its just that for a lot us, the "underground" part of fingerboarding was also something we cherished. We cherished meeting face to face, drink some beers around the fire and just sit there and talk with our decks in our pockets.
All in all, fingerboarding is and will always be part of me and something I will pass on to my son as well.
Fingerboarding is really a huge part of my life and its also what brought so many people together to this day.
Memories of all the events we have been to, memories of all the meetups, memories of brands that survived to this day despite all the low quality crap coming from China, memories of Wunsiedel, Fast Fingers, Harrics, all the events in Portugal and lowpro's continuous attempts to fuel the creative side of the scene..
Man, I love it all.
As Paolo always says, fingerboarding is the great excuse. The excuse we all had and still have to simply come together to enjoy a common love.
For a lot us us, fingerboarding was basically an open gateway that for something far beyond the fingerboards themselves. Fingerboarding molded our lives.
Cheers!
Part 1 was amazing, Part 2 was even better. Great job cataloguing the history of the hobby, these 2 videos are huge!
Thank you! I am planning on editing these two parts together into a combined version and make some minor tweaks. Might take me a couple of months though! 😅
@@cdplaya I'll be there to rewatch for sure 😁
Thank you Chris for the hard work put into this documentary. These last years have been of growth within the latin/south american scene as well. We´re doing great, at least here in Peru, Chile & Argentina. Greetings!
Glad you enjoyed it! I would love to cover more of the South American scene for sure. I forgot to include the DirtyMonkeys store in Buenos Aires, which I will update in this video soon!
This ruled and was so fun to watch!
Thank you!!
Great work! Awesome to see such a well put together history of the FB world! Thanks for what your doing! Helps shops like us at TH!S stay around by spreading the word! 🙏🤘
Much appreciated! You guys are doing epic things for fingerboarding ❤️❤️
Much love from Indo Chris! 🍻🍻🍻
Really fun to watch! Good job Chris, greets from Spain 🙌🏼
Thank you, greetings as well!!!
exactly what was needed
As someone whom is fairly new to the scene, I want to say thank you for taking the time to make this! Definitely helps get me up to speed a bit. Would you be able to recommend any good resources for someone wanting to do further digging into the history of fingerboarding?
Hey! Welcome to the scene and glad you enjoyed this video 😁 there's not really a place where you can learn in depth about fingerboard history unfortunately. I used my memory to look at archived versions of old fingerboard websites from back in the day. Would you be interested in looking through some of those old sites? If so, I'm happy to post the links
Been binge watching your channel this morning, love the videos homie
Appreciate it!! And thank you for checking out the videos :D
Loved this series man! I ride for the shop TH!S fb out of Denver Colorado and do a lot of media (filming/editing for them, did a fingerboard doc too/filming for some companies) and I really love the editing and story telling in this series. Had me stoked for the whole 25 minutes. I cannot wait to see you do a 2022-2030 video
Thank you!
I'll be releasing a combined full version with some further additions, and will be sure to add Th!s FB to the video during the store section! (I forgot Good vibes and Dirtymonkeys stores as well 🥴)
@@cdplaya yes! So stoked to see it! And don't even worry about it. Fingerboarding is growing so fast, every week i can barely keep up. So many shops in the continental United States I can't wait to visit em all! Thanks for showing TH!S some love!!
Great video Chris! Thank you
I love these vids so much it's cool to see the things that were happening in my hobby before I was even born
I've been waiting for this thankyou!
This video was awesome, loved part 1 as well thanks for putting in all the effort to speak for our community!
Thank you!
Awesome work!
Great work, Chris! 👏
This is sweet to see. Really hoping we can see this community continue to grow.
I'm hosting the first ever event in Mankato MN
2:53 I use dump trucks. Idk why I just got this with my g15.
Aye bro now you have Yuck skate shop in Orlando on international drive they have some really sick fingerboarding parks and all the fingerboarding stuff you’ll need really dope
Thank u brooooo, speechless when you tell us bout papanjari, indonesian fingerboarding. Oh man awesome!!! 🔥🔥
a phenomenal video as for your work ethic and detail really show with this kindve content and i think i can speak for most of us in this very knish community when i say thank you for this content! and keep pushing :)
Thank you, really appreciate the kind words! More to come 😁
@@cdplaya ill be looking forward to it! and genuinely thank you for posting its somewhat difficult to find a channel that dips into this content nowadays n i can for sure say youve earned a life long fan
this was amazing CD, thank you!
I think it's lit and I'm just starting but I see it's not bad time with many options and obstacles also too many opportunities just to have fun I got a pro setup today video is litty aka bad ass
This was great!
So good man🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great video btw dude 👏
Awesome! So proud to be a part of this community
I'm so proud as well. Our community is the best!!
Awesome work! Well done ❤️
Thank you!!
Love the vids
Thank you!!
Very well done!
This is an amazing video that was badly needed on CZcams, truly beautiful work ! 🙌👏
Only issue I see is when you mentioned Caramel and then proceeded to show a picture of some ugly ass China trucks 🤣🤣😭
Wasn’t expecting that 😂
Thank you! I pulled an image off their site, but I definitely could have added the wrong image
So the image was from their website, but looks like it's the wrong trucks 😭😭 I'm making a combined version of part 1 and 2 that will have corrections and new additions to the series. Should be up next month 🥴
You deserve more subs. I hope your videos blow up
Much appreciated!
Sick!
Epic!
Hey, i really enjoyed this video. The only thing i didnt like is that the music seems to get louder when you dont say anything
this is a really cool video. the music was a little too loud
so good :)
at 3:58 thats the thumbnail to my video in the bottom left corner
Legend
For the culture
I love ur vids
No shit, I'm crying.
Same here man 😭😭
Nice
Thank you!
I NEED HELP. around 2010 there was a british CZcams fingerboarder who was sponsored by winkler wheels and i believe also BRR. his videos were top notch. i believe one of his main videos was to a song by the fray. i have been searching for him for so long but cant remember his name and cant find any videos of his on youtube! anybody remember who im talking about?!
Epic music mp3
Plague inc soundtrack
So sick to see this!
🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩✌️
🤘🤘🤘🤘
dayvidsjones!!!!
fingerboard not dead
the music in the background sucks. It makes it hard to hear.
music level is too high, too much fluctuating between your voice narration, it's tiring at the end :(