FYI We’re having an event (Awesomefest 2) at the diy this coming Saturday Sept 16th if anyone wants to come! Contest signups start at 1pm. Music afterwards at Trans Pecos 7pm. -Guy from the video with the brown t shirt
When I was like 11 or 12 I used to make old action figures I had skate with fingerboards. They all had their own style and I would build some pretty elaborate spots. Kid imagination is rad
I live in MI and we get pretty heavy winters up here. When I can’t skate I’m fingerboarding, it really does fill a little part of that gap during the 5 month span of the no skating winter hell.
Thank you Jaren, Benson and Cooper for an awesome day getting to nerd out on my childhood hobby. I am beyond inspired of all the hard work that continues to go into this park. Keep doing what you all do!
This is honestly amazing seeing a man with a dream and bring it to life with a community to back it, more power to him and hella kudos for just doing the damn thing
soo doooppe! weve been building replica parks in the NorCal area for about 4 years now, hosting pop up events at skateparks and growing our local scene, so its so sick to see other communities build their DIYS and share the FB Culture! This is definitely a bucket list trip to visit and sesh, hopefully one day!
I’m happy fingerboarding is finally earning some respect. I’ve been fingerboarding like most of my life but actually at a hobby level for like 12ish years now and it’s come and gone from my life but the future looks bright which makes me stoked!
BIG UP BROOKLYN CREW!!! MUCH FB LOVE COMIN AT YA DIRECT FROM OAKTOWN CALIFORNIA!!! Fb saved my mental life. Skating for 25+ years and i broke my leg 2 years ago, picked up a fingerboard during the recovery and fell in love with it and grew a different perspective to skateboarding and approaching tricks. Its the bees knees
Insane spot and a super cool video! Me as a professional fingerboarder I’m so happy to see things like this; I always think why fingerboarding is not as common for skateboarders, whenever I’m not skating I’m fingerboarding. That actually make my brain think and do more skate stuff : same movements, foot position, grinding, filming, editing, etc... and a lot of times I learned skate tricks because of fingerboarding, I think that is INSANE. Fingerboarding is like a whole art that has a ton to do with it, it’s infinite as skateboarding!
Fingerboarding is definitely an extension for my love of Skateboarding. I think most skaters Fingerboard/TechDeck or enjoy Fingerboarding but its not exactly cool to admit it. Bust one out a skatepark or skatespot while everyone is chilling and other skaters will jump in and have a go.
Thats rad af. Watched this with Chris Kraft and Martin Ehrenberger together. Thanks Jenkemmag for this one, you guys should come to germany to see skate and fingerboarding scene here. ✌🏻
The "undisclosed location" is behind Restaurant Depot in Maspeth Queens, overlooking Newtown Creek, the most-polluted body of water in the USA. It's a fantastic spot, I've filmed there when I made the very first classic-Jaguar-in-NYC video on my channel.
I, personally, love this type of content. The amount of just tech deck products I have in my possession from over two decades ago is insane. I would travel to every Wal-Mart withn a fifty mile radius just to buy every tech deck I didn't own. And don't get me started on my park collection...
I'm from south central Indiana and in the mid 2000's when I was in 2nd grade I can remember my day one friend and I fingerboarding, scootering, and BMXing during reccess. By 5th grade Techdecks had became so popular that kids started selling them to eachother for quarters and the school had to "ban" techdecks. Fast forward to my 27th birthday (this year) my brother bought me a pack of 10 techdecks and I said "ha! thanks brother, I love these I probably play with one now and again."...Except a week later I was scheduled for surgery on my lower back, so it was difficult to sit for about a month1/2. I stood in my kitchen and techdecked the whole time- now I'm onto real fingerboard brands. I love this crafty hobby. (If you read all this- u r awesome, shred, build, glhf,
I remember cutting credit cards in half and bending the nose/tail and making ledges out of notebooks/textbooks back before there was fingerboards. Looks so cool
You know one big thing no one said why they love finger boarding so much is, it’s imagination aspect to it* It’s all about imagination when you finger board
I can't believe that I made my first fingerboard in woodshop I would whittle them out of wood scraps have my mom who is the manager of true value hardware bring me grip tape and hot glue for my mutilated micromachine chassis that gave up their life to become skateboard trucks😂 even though I just turned 40 not too long ago I still size up every curve and staircase in my brain as I'm driving and I still skate with the youngsters ✌️
this is so sick. love that park in brooklyn. i remember 50/50 down the rainbow rail at 1:12 one time and being so excited lol. i have to see the secret fingerboard park next time i'm there
They need to add another slab and make it to where you can walk through widish walkways and jump from essentially cube to cube via doing a sick bump or moving if one would rather do such instead.
Yo!! I used to always fingerboard at Turntablelab HQ back in the heyday in Brooklyn. Ask the other Michna about it. He actually has some old clips of it somewhere too. And "fingerboard tourist" is THE best title for that dude. This video is awesome, BTW!!
I grew up watching the shit out of Fingers of Fury (as well as making all the childish jokes) as a child. Mostly for the soundtrack being The Wiseguys. Never got into fingerboarding, but I did get into kendama and there is a lot of crossover between people that play. Skill toy life is the best life
Fuckin dope it really never gets old ....my brother always said your going to be 40 and still playing with fingerboards im 35 and still dabble a couple times a year
I love it! If you are in a circle of skaters, high likelihood at least one has a fingerboard of some kind on them, most likely multiple people. Its too imaginative, you get to skate obstacles that would never exist and you can just keep walking when someone says hey!
I remember getting pretty good with fingerboards and trying to record tricks with a camcorder and being annoyed that the movements were too quick to effectively capture on video. itd be cool to see a fingerboarding video that is recorded on a high frame rate camera
So sick!! Thanks for the shoutout ❤ that spot looks awesome!
It really cant be overstated how important Mike has been to the North American scene.
fr tho mike is a whole ass w @@Hartwell10
Love you Mikey poo 🥰
Thank you for all that you do Mike! Huge inspiration to modern fingerboarding.
you the Tony Hawk of Fingerboarding
Jenkem continues to have the best insights into the culture of skateboarding, please never stop! Kudos to those dudes for making the scene happen
Jenkem never miss🍻
FYI We’re having an event (Awesomefest 2) at the diy this coming Saturday Sept 16th if anyone wants to come! Contest signups start at 1pm. Music afterwards at Trans Pecos 7pm. -Guy from the video with the brown t shirt
woohooooo
I won't
LFG that's sick
I love u jaren
Where is the park exactly
Fingerboarding really is something everyone does but doesnt talk about
Fr bro, there are some big youtubers and celebrities who fuck with fingerboarding
Very similar to masturbation.
@@RufusdosAnd both will leave you sticky and deflated.
Because actually going out n skating is wayyy better than using your hand to get the thrill 😂 yanno?
When I was like 11 or 12 I used to make old action figures I had skate with fingerboards. They all had their own style and I would build some pretty elaborate spots. Kid imagination is rad
This is wild 😂
I just think that they like skateboarding so much that they fingerboard to fill in the gaps of time they’re not skating
I live in MI and we get pretty heavy winters up here. When I can’t skate I’m fingerboarding, it really does fill a little part of that gap during the 5 month span of the no skating winter hell.
It's like an itch that needs to be scratched. It's similar to playing Skateboarding games.
I fingerboard only exclusively.
Thank you Jaren, Benson and Cooper for an awesome day getting to nerd out on my childhood hobby. I am beyond inspired of all the hard work that continues to go into this park. Keep doing what you all do!
Hell yes! So stoked to see fingerboarding in this light!
This is honestly amazing seeing a man with a dream and bring it to life with a community to back it, more power to him and hella kudos for just doing the damn thing
soo doooppe! weve been building replica parks in the NorCal area for about 4 years now, hosting pop up events at skateparks and growing our local scene, so its so sick to see other communities build their DIYS and share the FB Culture! This is definitely a bucket list trip to visit and sesh, hopefully one day!
Love watching things like this bring people together
Fingerboarding rocks! Thanks for featuring the hobby Jenkem! Also, that DIY looks so sick, need to visit one day
I’m happy fingerboarding is finally earning some respect. I’ve been fingerboarding like most of my life but actually at a hobby level for like 12ish years now and it’s come and gone from my life but the future looks bright which makes me stoked!
Try learning a useful skill....you can thank me later for the advice.
@@lntrlp4936yeah go back to crying about how trump is “totally not losing.”
BIG UP BROOKLYN CREW!!! MUCH FB LOVE COMIN AT YA DIRECT FROM OAKTOWN CALIFORNIA!!! Fb saved my mental life. Skating for 25+ years and i broke my leg 2 years ago, picked up a fingerboard during the recovery and fell in love with it and grew a different perspective to skateboarding and approaching tricks. Its the bees knees
Insane spot and a super cool video!
Me as a professional fingerboarder I’m so happy to see things like this; I always think why fingerboarding is not as common for skateboarders, whenever I’m not skating I’m fingerboarding. That actually make my brain think and do more skate stuff : same movements, foot position, grinding, filming, editing, etc... and a lot of times I learned skate tricks because of fingerboarding, I think that is INSANE.
Fingerboarding is like a whole art that has a ton to do with it, it’s infinite as skateboarding!
Fingerboarding is definitely an extension for my love of Skateboarding. I think most skaters Fingerboard/TechDeck or enjoy Fingerboarding but its not exactly cool to admit it. Bust one out a skatepark or skatespot while everyone is chilling and other skaters will jump in and have a go.
@@andofb I totally agree dude!
Thats rad af. Watched this with Chris Kraft and Martin Ehrenberger together. Thanks Jenkemmag for this one, you guys should come to germany to see skate and fingerboarding scene here. ✌🏻
Love you guys for constantly putting out such amazing content!
The "undisclosed location" is behind Restaurant Depot in Maspeth Queens, overlooking Newtown Creek, the most-polluted body of water in the USA. It's a fantastic spot, I've filmed there when I made the very first classic-Jaguar-in-NYC video on my channel.
Thank you
Yeah nobody knows or cares what that video is. Get out of here with your weird out of touch old man stuff.
I, personally, love this type of content. The amount of just tech deck products I have in my possession from over two decades ago is insane. I would travel to every Wal-Mart withn a fifty mile radius just to buy every tech deck I didn't own. And don't get me started on my park collection...
That’s kinda sad
@@Chad-Giga. And what's your hobby, bigshot lol I did plenty well
@@ilikemyowncomments9065no he means it’s sad you waste money on techdeck instead of real fingerboards.
Greg makes the best videos. This was tight!
Being a 2000s fingerboarder from europe myself, this warms my heart!
It's so dope you covered this
This is awesome! So much better than the paper and notecard park I had on my desk in the early 2000s
So sick! Going to build something like this in Sheffield, here in the UK, real soon.
Great video, thanks for sharing something about our hobby and passion. Especially on one of my favorite channels, JENKEM!!!!
seeing people take pride will never not be cool! power to the finger boarders man
more wholesome jenkem content yess
jenkem coming up with the goods once again
I literally have my own DIY fingerboard park so big ups I love seeing stuff like this
something bout this is just so wholesome, i really enjoyed the vid fr
I'm writing this to say, in a gentle way, that there is no Nollie Cab.
I’m so glad mike Schneider was mentioned that was like part of my childhood
I didn't know you were tapped in like that. Still waiting for my Jambi challenge submission to be reviewed B^)
Jaren is such a great guy love his fb videos
I'm from south central Indiana and in the mid 2000's when I was in 2nd grade I can remember my day one friend and I fingerboarding, scootering, and BMXing during reccess. By 5th grade Techdecks had became so popular that kids started selling them to eachother for quarters and the school had to "ban" techdecks.
Fast forward to my 27th birthday (this year) my brother bought me a pack of 10 techdecks and I said "ha! thanks brother, I love these I probably play with one now and again."...Except a week later I was scheduled for surgery on my lower back, so it was difficult to sit for about a month1/2. I stood in my kitchen and techdecked the whole time- now I'm onto real fingerboard brands. I love this crafty hobby. (If you read all this- u r awesome, shred, build, glhf,
Ronnie Creager had some good stuff on his day in life 1999. We used to make boards from plexiglass or plastic rulers back in the day.
Mike Schneider is a goat of youtube fingerboarding and product
Absolutely loved this
Dann that spot looks sick❤ would love to visit it one day🙋🏼♂️super cool to see you guys having so much fun with it…luv it
This is rad; makes me proud of my little DIY finger park on my office desk, next to my (but out of Zoom view) of my work computer!
That's so rad! I love it. I used to have a tech deck half pipe and a little fun box thing with stairs and a rail.
Fingerboarding for Life! 🔥 Thank you Jenkem! ❤
YES, I love finger of fury. I used to own the vhs. And I was happy to see it was uploaded to TH-cam when I searched a year ago. 🤝🎉
Opus 0 Alexis milant video was always my favorite. The simplicity the Sounds on obstacles. One of the most well put together finger parts
Alexis Milant had fucked up levels of steeze way too early. Those europeans man
Jenkem is for the culture!!!!
this was so awesome, I wanted to keep watching more
i want a max palmer fountain spot replica ASAP
man this is somethin else!!! amazing works!
love everything about this
I remember cutting credit cards in half and bending the nose/tail and making ledges out of notebooks/textbooks back before there was fingerboards. Looks so cool
the amount of tech decks we all had taken away by teachers in early school... lol
scene is now amazing, people recognize each other around the whole world! :)
Great video, and that park is fireeeee !!!
Fingers of fury was a great video! Miss the good old days!
You know one big thing no one said why they love finger boarding so much is, it’s imagination aspect to it*
It’s all about imagination when you finger board
I love jenkem for this
I can't believe that I made my first fingerboard in woodshop I would whittle them out of wood scraps have my mom who is the manager of true value hardware bring me grip tape and hot glue for my mutilated micromachine chassis that gave up their life to become skateboard trucks😂 even though I just turned 40 not too long ago I still size up every curve and staircase in my brain as I'm driving and I still skate with the youngsters ✌️
Yooo those paintings in the back were crazy. Seeing Goku made me wanna go super Saiyan with the tech deck
fingers of fury was what got me into fingerboarding legendary to see him mention this in the video! haha sick!!
literal peak euphoric feeling being admired for fingerboarding when everyone said it was lame years ago. never stop fingerboarding bless
@@gyrate98nah you just let your inner kid die
Lol....way to tell us all you're a loser with no life skills without actually telling us you're a lover with no life skills.
@@gyrate98 Good question.
max palmer and nely morville and city of caterpillar shirt and fingeboarding this video is fire
def will peep this next month!
Thot u meant _the video_ itself at first lol😂 like “damn, mans has impressive self restraint! would _hate_ to see _their_ Watch Later list”
I do any skating or boarding at all, but this is freaking awesome!
Thanks for making this.
So dope!! More niche stories like this
Love it!!!
this is so sick. love that park in brooklyn. i remember 50/50 down the rainbow rail at 1:12 one time and being so excited lol. i have to see the secret fingerboard park next time i'm there
Damn this is so cool!
I lived in nyc for a decade and never heard about this place. Definitely visiting next time
are handboards at the fingerboard park the equivalent to bmx at the skatepark?
They have Finger Scooters 🤷♂
Fingerboarding is sick
respect in every aspect! 🔥🎤✊
Thumbs up if you still got the VHS Fingers of Fury!
“Everybody is gonna start doing this” I’m everybody
Jake Peralta representing well brookly99 on the fingerboardzzz 🔥🔥🔥🔥
They need to add another slab and make it to where you can walk through widish walkways and jump from essentially cube to cube via doing a sick bump or moving if one would rather do such instead.
I love the diy aspect of it, stuff like the little stairset model he made out of wood is so clever.
Just made a bowl / plaza setup for my boys a little while ago I like hydraulic cement easier to work with an you can get it super smooth
I was there today. The spot is sick. Grown so much since this video
Yo!!! That’s realer than most skating going on nowadays. Love and bless them all! ❤
I skate and fingerboard, both are sick af
Yo!! I used to always fingerboard at Turntablelab HQ back in the heyday in Brooklyn. Ask the other Michna about it. He actually has some old clips of it somewhere too. And "fingerboard tourist" is THE best title for that dude. This video is awesome, BTW!!
this changed my mind on all this.
I found this place by accident. I’m speechless. No one messes with it. Everyone respects it.
Well said!
I grew up watching the shit out of Fingers of Fury (as well as making all the childish jokes) as a child. Mostly for the soundtrack being The Wiseguys. Never got into fingerboarding, but I did get into kendama and there is a lot of crossover between people that play. Skill toy life is the best life
Jaren looks like Andy Samberg if he did skating instead of acting. Awesome video!
I've still got a VHS of Fingers of Fury lol.
Anyone see the random closed caption: “ I used to fuck with Flatface?” Hahaha
Right when I leave NY y’all build this! I’m getting my black clothes out… hang on.. I’ll brb
This spot is awesome, i have a homemade halfpipe that i want to bring to add to it.
Please do
This is great !
Fuckin dope it really never gets old ....my brother always said your going to be 40 and still playing with fingerboards im 35 and still dabble a couple times a year
Great stuff!!
Beautiful video and souls.
Insane. I remember playing with these in Jr High or earlier back in like 97-98 😂
this is so ffucking sick and right by the water. chill as fuck vibes man. cool stuff.
Very wholesome.
I also imagine the cops kicking everyone out and that's kind of hilarious
I love it!
If you are in a circle of skaters, high likelihood at least one has a fingerboard of some kind on them, most likely multiple people. Its too imaginative, you get to skate obstacles that would never exist and you can just keep walking when someone says hey!
Damn thats actually dope 💯
Yoooo! Thats too sick!
I remember getting pretty good with fingerboards and trying to record tricks with a camcorder and being annoyed that the movements were too quick to effectively capture on video. itd be cool to see a fingerboarding video that is recorded on a high frame rate camera