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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- Today we are going to explore the history behind the oldest and most renowned fingerboard contest, Fast Fingers! Today, Fast Fingers is considered the Fingerboarding World Championship.
Let me preface, As I’m sure you all know, information from the early days of fingerboarding is hard to come by. Similarly, there is limited content on the early days of Fast Fingers as well. For this video, I scoured the internet for any relic of fast fingers I could find, from using the Wayback Machine to view archived versions of fingerskating.de, fingerboard.de, and skateboarder.ch, the old Fast Fingers and Blackriver sites to asking OGs like Joe Leclerq, Fabian “Afrobi” Schreiter, Manu Oberle and even Mr. Blackriver himself, Martin Ehrenberger. Also, scoured FingerboardTV for footage, shoutout to Martin Beckmann and Bastian Stegen for capturing so much fingerboard history!
The very first Fast Fingers was held in 2000. Organized by Blackriver Ramps founder Martin Ehrenberger, the first Fast Fingers had 16 participants enter the contest.
List of All Fast Fingers Champions:
1. Christian "ÜLHT" Gläßel
2. Chris "Mad" Heck
3. Christian "ÜLHT" Gläßel
4. Boris "D-Rex" Dietschi
5. Boris "D-Rex" Dietschi
6. Boris "D-Rex" Dietschi
7. Elias Assmuth
8. Dimitri Schlotthauer
9. Dimitri Schlotthauer
10. Elias Assmuth
11. Elias Assmuth
12. Timo "TKY" Kranz
13. Dimitri Schlotthauer
14. Markus “Schmidi” Schmidinger
15. Valentin Leiber
16. Petr Ptáček
17. Petr Ptáček
18. Petr Ptáček
19. Tommaso Busoni
20. Jeldo Ulpts
Fast Fingers Online 1: Ramon Angelow
In terms of overall performance at Fast Fingers, it’s hard not to argue that Elias Assmuth is the GOAT of fingerboard contests with an epic streak of 9 straight top 3 finished and 3 Championships. Joining Elias in the three-peat club is Dimitri Schlotthauer and Petr Ptacek, and Boris “D-Rex” Diestchi. Christian "ÜLHT" Gläßel joins the club as the only riders to win multiple Fast Fingers.
Fast Fingers deserves its place as the premier fingerboard contest in the world. The frequency of Fast Fingers has changed from annually to much less frequent, due to financial and organizational issues. Now what can we do to ensure that Fast Fingers continues? By supporting the brands that built the epic event!
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Thank you for watching! Let me know if you enjoyed learning about Fast Fingers :) Thank you to all who helped capture fingerboarding's history, including Jana from Switchcraft Podcast, FBU Podcast, Martin Ehrenberger, FingerboardTV's Martin Beckmann and Bastian Stegen, Fabian "Afrobi" Schreiter, Joe Leclercq, and Manu Oberle among countless others!
I was so stoked when Jeldo finally won. He has always been one of my favourites. I had the pleasure of meeting him when he came to Toronto with Mike and Adrian. They spent a night at my place and my daughter fell in love with him.
Love what your doing man. Greetings from Nicaragua.
I started fingerboarding around 2002 or so because in 2003 I purchased my first BerlinWood followed by Winkler Wheels and Riptape - I would be a true veteran by now hadn't I dropped out in 2008 or '09 because my life developed in a different way back then (though I remember that trucks always remained a pet peeve of mine because Techdeck Oldschool/Longboard trucks in 29mm had been the best material available so it never fully ceased to feel like a toy..
A few month back while cleaning up I came across an old setup, played a little - and it hit me just as hard as it had 20 years ago.. 😅
I went to _ASI Berlin_ to get a modern setup after having found out that things have changed a lot since back when we would have killed for something like the China Truck 3.0.. 😅
I got a starter complete for 25 bucks which is light years ahead of even the best stuff we could possibly hope to assemble in the 2000s, a setup which is absolutly appropriate and sufficient for me - actually..
I was blown away of what the scene has become during my absence, just as skateboarding had experienced a fad in the 70's just to fall out of fashion quickly again so only the dedicated, legitimatly invested people would stick around and shape what once had been a hype into a fully fledged self-sustaining "underground scene".
Of course I would try out what I had dreamt of back then and ended up with a number of premium builds quickly if only to figure out my preferences, something which absolutly didn't matter in the past because options had been that limited.
It's an insane privilege to have _ASI Berlin_ located a mere 20 minutes ride by public transport from my place so I'm hanging out there pretty often recently and it's amazing what a welcoming community has established in light of the fact that I'm ND and don't easily feel comfortable in a new social setting. But here I got told "Don't worry, we are all freaks around here" and instantly felt home.. 🤣
However - the other day I got asked whether I'd like to accompany a trip to _Fast Fingers 2024,_ appearently the first live FF after some years of hiatus and I of course just have to take the opportunity because I knew about the event since I started but never made it there although it's taking place in my country.
I'm excited as hell already and can't wait to be there..
This is what the scene needed! So well done, awesome job cd.
I'm not familiar with the history of fingerboard so I'll learn it here.
Awesome contents‼️
Thank you for watching! I'd love to learn more about the Japanese fingerboard scene - I'm a huge fan of Hooded and UAG!!
I really enjoy the content u r creating, thank you
We need a world wide Street League style fingerboard tour!
This is great! Thanks for doing all of the research here.
I love these videos!
😁 there will be more I promise!!
sick video brother, lovin these history videos
Much appreciated! Have a handful more history videos that I'm putting together :)
love these history videos! always quality content
Thank you! I have a few more video ideas that I'll be flushing out over the next couple of weeks :)
@@cdplaya sounds good im hyped to see
Great vid, Chris!
Thank you, appreciate you letting me know!!!!
This is so sick! Always wanted to know this. Maybe Rendezvous next?
I was thinking Rendezvous for sure! I've actually been to the Vous a handful of times, unlike Fast Fingers, so it should be easier for me to make!
That’s awesome! Can’t wait!
Nice
can you interview wolfgag for you future content? btw thanks for this vids
Where is Elias Assmuth now?
Im a figeborder frim italy
How many people took part at fast fingers online?