Playing with Fingerboards
![My Skateboard and Fingerboard of my Nephews - This is a picture of my skateboard, it's a birdhouse deck, size 7.5 with Tensor Slider Mid Trucks, 52mm Zero Chris Cole Wheels, and Redz Bearings. The small one next to a lighter is a TechDeck, Paul Rodriguez.
A fingerboard is a working replica of a skateboard that a person "rides" by replicating skateboarding maneuvers with their hand. It can also be referred to as a finger skate board or even a Tech Deck. The device itself is a scaled-down skateboard complete with moving wheels, graphics and trucks.[1] A fingerboard is 96 millimeters long or longer, and can have a variety of widths like 29/30mm (regular), and 32mm (wide). There are the 57mm minis and the 96mm regular and the cruiser boards. Skateboarding tricks may be performed using fingers instead of feet. Most tricks done on a fingerboard are inspired by tricks done on skateboards. Lance Mountain helped develop fingerboarding as a hobby in the late 1970s and wrote an article on how to make fingerboards in TransWorld's SKATEboarding magazine in 1985. Zoman Kozbaals, known as Larked Z, is widely recognized as one of the sport's leading innovators.
Although fingerboarding was a novelty for years, they became a collectible toy as skateboard manufacturers realized the potential for product branding and profit starting in the 1990s. Fingerboards are now available as inexpensive novelty toys as well as high-end collectibles, complete with accessories one would find in use with standard-size skateboards. Fingerboards are also used by skateboarders as 3-D model visual aids to understand potential tricks and maneuvers; many users make videos to document their efforts.
Similar to fingerboarding, handboarding is a scaled-down version of a skateboard that a user controls with their hands instead of just fingers, while finger snowboarding utilizes a miniature version of a snowboard.](https://img.mylot.com/2581757.jpg "My Skateboard and Fingerboard of my Nephews - This is a picture of my skateboard, it's a birdhouse deck, size 7.5 with Tensor Slider Mid Trucks, 52mm Zero Chris Cole Wheels, and Redz Bearings. The small one next to a lighter is a TechDeck, Paul Rodriguez.
A fingerboard is a working replica of a skateboard that a person \"rides\" by replicating skateboarding maneuvers with their hand. It can also be referred to as a finger skate board or even a Tech Deck. The device itself is a scaled-down skateboard complete with moving wheels, graphics and trucks.[1] A fingerboard is 96 millimeters long or longer, and can have a variety of widths like 29/30mm (regular), and 32mm (wide). There are the 57mm minis and the 96mm regular and the cruiser boards. Skateboarding tricks may be performed using fingers instead of feet. Most tricks done on a fingerboard are inspired by tricks done on skateboards. Lance Mountain helped develop fingerboarding as a hobby in the late 1970s and wrote an article on how to make fingerboards in TransWorld's SKATEboarding magazine in 1985. Zoman Kozbaals, known as Larked Z, is widely recognized as one of the sport's leading innovators.
Although fingerboarding was a novelty for years, they became a collectible toy as skateboard manufacturers realized the potential for product branding and profit starting in the 1990s. Fingerboards are now available as inexpensive novelty toys as well as high-end collectibles, complete with accessories one would find in use with standard-size skateboards. Fingerboards are also used by skateboarders as 3-D model visual aids to understand potential tricks and maneuvers; many users make videos to document their efforts.
Similar to fingerboarding, handboarding is a scaled-down version of a skateboard that a user controls with their hands instead of just fingers, while finger snowboarding utilizes a miniature version of a snowboard.")
By ratyz5
@ratyz5 (7808)
Philippines
July 17, 2012 10:59pm CST
Good Day to Everyone!
It has been a very very very long time since I posted a discussion here in myLot and I just got caught up with a lot of things lately.
However, I still get to browse every now and then thanks to the myLot Digest that I get in my Inbox. I get to read some topics and when I get to find something that interests me, I would go to the discussion and participate.
Now, with this topic of mine.
Have you tried Fingerboards?
Perhaps you most commonly know them with the brand Tech Deck.
It is simply a skateboard but downsized to be played with your fingers, hence fingerboard? 
I got to look through youtube about them and watched some very skilled players as well as some of those who also know how to make their own. I really got interested way way back and getting to play with it again seem to urge me to make my own.
I guess if you are interested in skateboarding, you might also fancy fingerboards, but who know? Some of you don't really play or even like skateboards yet have interest on fingerboards.
They are quite convenient as you can play with them anywhere you want unlike real skateboards that you particularly need a place where you can play, especially those places that others won't mind or security guards won't be taking your board away. The weather too is another thing to consider since you wouldn't be able to play that much if it's raining, snowing or you simply don't want to play when it's really hot outside.
Me and a friend of mine who happens to also be a classmate of mine way back in high school, who I also get to skate with, are now considering making our own molds for fingerboards. Just to have fun but my friend seems to consider making it into a business as well, with our common friends who also skate and play fingerboards as well.
Now, have you tried fingerboards or skateboards for that matter? What is opinion about them?
Have a Great Day!
I got to look through youtube about them and watched some very skilled players as well as some of those who also know how to make their own. I really got interested way way back and getting to play with it again seem to urge me to make my own.
I guess if you are interested in skateboarding, you might also fancy fingerboards, but who know? Some of you don't really play or even like skateboards yet have interest on fingerboards.
They are quite convenient as you can play with them anywhere you want unlike real skateboards that you particularly need a place where you can play, especially those places that others won't mind or security guards won't be taking your board away. The weather too is another thing to consider since you wouldn't be able to play that much if it's raining, snowing or you simply don't want to play when it's really hot outside.
Me and a friend of mine who happens to also be a classmate of mine way back in high school, who I also get to skate with, are now considering making our own molds for fingerboards. Just to have fun but my friend seems to consider making it into a business as well, with our common friends who also skate and play fingerboards as well.
Now, have you tried fingerboards or skateboards for that matter? What is opinion about them?
Have a Great Day!1 response
@haopee (493)
• Philippines
18 Jul 12
Not I, but my Ex. He also enjoyed Skateboarding. So I bought him a $10 fully customizable finger board with a black grainy (Griptape) deck. I think it was called a Teck Deck which costed $10 back then. And he had those little wrench thing so he could change the wheels, bearings and trucks.
He would do the flips and ollie. I guess, for me, if you're an avid fan of finger boards, it's definitely a nice hobby to try.
@ratyz5 (7808)
• Philippines
18 Jul 12
Thanks for posting, haopee
You are right, being an avid fan would definitely be good if one wants to do something that they are really interested in. Applies to all hobbies for that matter as well.
I guess you know a bit about fingerboards because of your Ex. Never tried it yourself, I mean the fingerboard?
