How to Fingerboard

Transcript One of the first questions everyone has is how you position your hand on the board and if you ever search fingerboarding on the internet, sometimes you see people with their hands flat on the fingerboard or maybe with their third ring finger curled. What does it all mean? Well, in fingerboarding, just like …

Transcript Now manuals in themselves are not difficult tricks. For example, a regular manual is just where you go up and balance on your back two wheels. Nose manuals are when you balance on your front wheels. Now in skateboarding this might be a difficult trick but in finger boarding there is no real balance. …

Transcript The Front Finger Impossibleis similar to an Impossible. Except for this trick, instead of it spinning around your back finger, it’ll actually be spinning around your front finger. So the first thing you wanna do is pop an Ollie, then move your back finger out of the way, allowing the board to spin over …

Transcript One of the great things about fingerboarding is how much it shares in common with skateboarding. All the tricks are done the exact same way. The only this is, you don’t have the fear factor you have in skateboarding and you don’t exactly have to balance so much. So, it allows you to really …

Transcript Now, transition finger boarding is doing any type of trick on an obstacle such as the one I have in front of me that has transition. This one in particular is called a half-pipe. The key to learning god transition is to be able to mix up your tricks and also have your tricks …

Transcript Tech deck terminology is important to understand when you first get into fingerboarding because its helpful to be able to identify all the different parts of the fingerboard, especially when you go and try to find new parts or upgrades to your fingerboard. The first part of the fingerboard, which is the wood part, …

Transcript One very important thing when you first begin finger boarding, is finding a Tech-Deck, or any fingerboard, thats right for you. The best place to start with that is with Tech-Decks, because they’re relatively inexpensive and they have basically the main types of fingerboards that you would get anywhere, just to get a feel …

Transcript Grinds are tricks where you ollie onto an obstacle, or you can do a flip trick onto an obstacle, and land on either one of your two trucks on the obstacle. There’s many different types of grinds, they all depend on how you land on the obstacle, so I’m going to go over some …

Transcript Now, slides are any trick where you hop up onto an obstacle, whether it’s by an ollie, or any flip trick, and land on any part of your board, as opposed to grinds, where you land on your trucks. So you can land anywhere in the middle of your board, on the nose of …

Transcript The great thing about fingerboarding is, just like with skateboarding, you can combine different tricks to create new tricks. For example, you can take an ollie 360 flip, add a revert to it, and you have an ollie bigger flip. Or, you can do any trick in any stance, add any type of rotation …

Transcript The top tips I would give to anyone learning to fingerboard is first go on the internet and search finger-boarding on YouTube. Even if your not watching specific How-To videos, just watching how other people do tricks is very helpful. Just seeing how they place their fingers on the board, the speed at which …

Transcript A hardflip is essentially a frontside kickflip, but without turning your hand with the board as it spins. So, the board still does a kickflip coming at you, but your hand does not follow along for the 180 degrees. Only your board will be spinning during this trick, not your hand. So finger positioning …

Transcript Backside and Frontside flips are a variation of the 180 Ollie and a kickflip. For a frontside kickflip you’ll be doing a kickflip plus a frontisde 180 Ollie. To do that your finger positions should be the exact same as a regular kickflip, the only difference is when you go to pop the trick …

Transcript The Impossible is a trick where you pop the board off the tail, move your front finger out of the way, and let the board wrap around your back finger, catch it, land, and roll away. One of the best ways to learn Impossible is just to take your hand and pop the board …

Transcript Today I will be demonstrating how to do a tre flip on a finger board, also known as a three-sixty kick flip. A three-sixty kick flip is a combination of a three-sixty pop shuvit and a kick flip. Finger positioning for the kick flip is your back finger hanging off just a little bit …

Transcript These tricks are really a combination of two basic tricks. The Pop-shove-it and the kick flip and the pop-shove-it and a heal flip. It involves doing a kick flip while doing a pop-shove-it. So you’ll be popping the board 180 degrees while flicking it so it doesn’t kick flip as well. To do the …

Transcript The heelflip is a very difficult trick. To do the heelflip you want to make sure you know how to do an ollie and it helps if you know how to do a kickflip. Now, unlike the kickflip where you’re flicking your finger off to the side towards you, you’re actually going to be …

Transcript The kickflip is typically the next trick you learn after perfecting the ollie. It’s done much the same way, where you pop the back of your board off the ground, and slide your front finger up. Now, instead of sliding your front finger up to the middle of the board and leveling it out …

Transcript Now this is one of the first tricks that people wanna learn on a fingerboard when they first start doing it because it essentially gets you jumping over objects and it also helps you learn how to do slides and grinds. To do an ollie, you wanna place your hand on the fingerboard with …

Transcript Shuvit is one of the first tricks you want to learn when you first decide you want to learn fingerboarding because its certainly one of the easiest tricks and it helps you get a lot of control over your fingerboard when you first start. The trick involves spinning the board 180 degrees. Now your …