Fingerboarding
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- mg330
Was so into that when I was a kid in the 80's. Built halfpipes out of shoeboxes, and was always on the look out for the perfect sink at someone's house to use as a bowl. It seems stupid now but it was fun. Making the grip tape for the boards, or no grip tape and breathing on your fingers to make them sticky. All my fingerboarding came before the new-school symmetrical boards - they all looked like the 80's style skateboards. In fact, those fingerboards were sold as keychains from what I remember and we'd just take the ring off. Wheels spun too.
Like this:
Sometimes we'd take them apart to make our own graphics inside. They didn't come with all the crap they do now like different trucks, wheels, etc.
I never quite understood the little bicycles that were a complement to fingerboards when those started cropping up as the X-Games bike events got popular. They just seem so hard to play with as opposed to a skateboard. My nephews had some at some point and my brain would just lock up trying to figure out how they had fun with them.
- we used to make fingerboards out of cardboard, griptape offcuts, balsa wood and wheels from hotwheels cars.ben_
- omg i had that keychainprophetone
- yea! these are the ones I remember haha.futurefood
- damn, i had that toocbass99