Well well well Disney, you took some time but we, the fingerboard community, won't give you a hard time and good too see you catching up.
This month's Disney weekly francophone magazine is featuring 3 pages about fingerboarding and even a fingerboard as gift for all new comers, or collectors, the magazine has a wide reach in the french speaking world and will surely have a large and good impact on the target audience and keep growing the fingerboarding community which is always a nice thing, so thumbs up Disney and let's welcome our new riders to the family!
Taylor Rosenbauer is back throwing off some tricks during the 2010 Toy Fair at the Tech Deck Booth, the new wooden Tech Decks do look good and LOFB will be showcasing soon enough how the board compares to other brands which already has proven their place at the top of the fingerboarding performance hill!
What would you do if it was a cozy afternoon, nice weather, a Dj and a couple of friends with a fingerboard park, a couple of DV cameras and fingerboards? Check out the Lowpro family video, like its title describes, blooming!
Like he says on his video caption, 4 years after the Opus 00, here comes the 14th one and always nice to see Alexis wild creative mind into action, one word, 5 letters, E N J O Y!
Antoine Chevalier was kind enough to invite me over for the contest and even pick me up off the train station, unfortunately I got one day later to France from Amsterdam and couldn't make it to the contest, nevertheless, here's the footage from the contest and big ups for the initiative!
Do you want some fresh tricks? a clean style? some video effects straight outta Star Wars? and with beat so smooth only criminals could dance on it? We've got it, here and once again, the french touch represents with a video from Close Up!
Joaquin Mendez and Swan Mougnoz could have smoked a blunt and just had a nice session off camera but instead, they filmed it, a bunch of tricks left right on some sweet marble and wooden spots edited with a chilled tune...and maybe they did hit a blunt or two after all, enjoy!
If you haven't heard of Tony Pauthex from France, then you'd probably new to the fingerboarding scene, or maybe don't have internet or perhaps.....the list is long but anyways, it's never too late right?
Meet one of the legends of fingerboarding, this dude was already doing some sickass tricks back in 2000 when fingerboard was just booming, he had a site called "Fingerskateboarding" and he produced with his friend, two fingerboard movies, the latest one being "Psycho Fingers", ENJOYYYYY
The sun, the breeze, the bullfights...and don't you forget the BRR Barcelona tour, some really nice outdoor spots, and a skateboarding contest, what else could you ask for? Now click on play and ENJOY!
Back in 2003, Miami Ad School Europe was just getting started. Being the cool, ahead-of-their-time guys that they are, President Oliver Voss and Managing Director Niklas Friggs-Rupp decided to put together a little viral fingerboarding video to generate some awareness. Mind you, this is two years before anyone would ever hear the word "YouTube." These were the days when people emailed videos to each other or--rather less fequently--emailed links around.
So that viral bit of fingerboarding awesomeness made the rounds, from one email inbox to another, bouncing around all over the world, spreading the name of Miami Ad School Europe all over.
Then, seemingly of it's own volition, the video made it's way to YouTube. Someone just posted it because they though it was cool. Now, seven years later, the video has been viewed 5,752,774 times, and countless more before YouTube even existed. And, by the way, this is the first time we've blogged about it.
This is the very definition of viral distribution. It's no wonder why Miami Ad School Europe is the continent's most awarded school of its kind, just as the entire Miami Ad School network brings home more international awards than any other portfolio school, year in and year out. It's this kind of forward thinking that has made Miami Ad School the School for Pop Culture Engineering.
And now, time for a few more viewings!
A fingerboarding video game where you could use your fingers on a touch pad screen to ride the board and perform tricks? YUP that's Touch Grind for the Iphone and Ipod touch, check out the trailer and I did try it, it's just as fun as it looks!
The highly waited competition by enthusiast Indonesian fingerboarders ,"Fingers Attack" started at 1pm on the 23rd of May, 2010 and lasted till 8ish with a live band, some coaching sessions for rookies and about 60 entrants.
Arvy finished 1st in the Street advance class followed by Taffy in 2nd and Gungmas in 3rd and Andreas took down the Street beginner class with Ipank finishing 2nd, very closely followed by Samid in 3rd so on behalf of The lords Of Fingerboarding, Congratulations to the winners and for the organizers, keep it up!
Starting from this month, June 2k10, every week we'll be posting our peek of the week, which is a fingerboarding shot so if you're feeling creative or wanna give it a try, don't hesitate, send us your photos at and you might just be the next Peek of the Week!
This week, our PotK is Ellias Assmuth's Kickflip Nosegrind, very nice shot and clean trick, well done mate!
