Fingerboards Explained

Finger skateboarding, a recent craze, is mainly popular with preteen boys. However, its roots actually extend much further back into the history of skateboarding. Finger skateboarding was first popularized in the late 1970s and early 1980s; an article in TransWorld's SKATEboarding magazine in 1985 by skateboarder Lance Mountain taught boarders how to make fingerboards. First available as homemade toys, this first incarnation of the fingerboard was mainly viewed as a novelty toy or keychain, though the hobby remained popular with a small group of fans. Some early fingerboards were built from cardboard, coffee stirrers, wheels from diecast toy cars, and

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