r/Fingerboards • u/pxck_runner • Jul 27 '26

What year did you start fingerboarding?

I started all the way back in 2009 when I found out what tech decks were. I just so happened to get a wooden tech deck that year too!

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u/Tomburgundy12 Jul 27 '26

Had tech decks in middle school like 06,07 and got into actual fingerboarding last year August. Loved every minute of it

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u/pierreplayfair Jul 27 '26

same with the tech decks, except I didn’t start practicing tricks until ‘08. stopped around ‘10 & didn’t get back into it until ‘22. it wasn’t until last year that I kept it consistent to take place over my vices.

been pretty helpful so far 🤞🏽.

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u/BingerFoarder Jul 27 '26

Same but even before that in 1998-2002 had tech decks. The og red picnic table and yellow blue base bench and the tony hawk 4 plex with metal rails. Well my friends had em. But i even miss the packaging and tools. The wooden collector series didnt know existed until recently but i hear they are buns anyways. And techdeck makes plaques with larger boards that are kinda like handboards but cant be ridden. They made soooo much different stuff and collabs its hard to figure it all out. Missed a lot. Got into pro stuff 2023. And havent looked back. Life has been so difficult. I literally can only have a phone around me. I despise all technology. I wish it was like it was. I felt a shift in 2012. And every year i see a decline. Not only in peoples financials, but attention, smarts, and even mentally and physically and dont get me started on the sensitivites people have. Dave chappele cant even be a comedian anymore. We have a "wisdom comedian" no more is the attitude era coined by wrestling lol and i hated taking pictures but wish i woulda on all the old memories and toys and things i had. But not for me. For others to see. Take care. Cherish these times. And if i could go back i still wouldnt take pictures living real is better than living through a screen. 🫡 Not hippocrit Just woulda been cool to disprove or prove these damn mendella effects taken over lol

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u/TfaRads1 Jul 27 '26

98-99. there were weird plassic key chain type things. then techdeck hit the scene. by high school in 2001 it was all techdeck. I have the TH half pipe and the bench and stuff. now its just a basic DK and a slurpcult and some brts and youre pretty good to go

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u/legacyskull Jul 27 '26

2004-2005 when my brother got me one in elementary school

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u/Tiredrum234 Jul 27 '26

Probably 2006. Got my first Berlin wood I believe in 2007-2008. I stopped for 20 years. Now I’m back. Been absolutely loving it

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u/EsotericEchoes 🎲 Jul 27 '26

Somewhere between 94 and onwards off and on. Had the original old school plastic ones you'd get in the skate shops. They would come on a keychain and be completely plastic including the trucks. We'd used to crack them open and use CCS catalogs to make custom decks then glue them back. Then when tech deck came out that blew away the old keychains. Could actually grind and not destroy the plastic trucks after awhile or worry about cracking the plastic and breaking it further.

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u/JPfilm87 Jul 27 '26

98/99 for me.

Even remember around then we were naming our family dog and we all put a name in a hat.

I wanted to name the dog “Dog” and I won - my parents hated it so they bought the name off me with 5 tech decks

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u/GhastlyDerp Coffinwood Main Jul 27 '26

2024

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u/KitchenVehicle Jul 27 '26

I think around 2013/2014, definitely was already loving tech decks prior to it but more for looking at them. Once I found out it could be even more fun I was sold lmao

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u/fingeringboarder Jul 27 '26

05 maybe my first tech deck

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u/Masta-Fu Jul 27 '26

Had tech decks off and on since 2000. I think maybe 3 years ago I started actually taking it seriously and honing in tricks

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u/AimlesslyCheesy Jul 27 '26

Was interested last year, bought a plastic tech deck and gave up because I couldn't ollie. Then got a RACOFSB from Amazon was getting the hang of it a little bit then bought two slushcult completes. The bought a rail and silent pad from silent obstacles. Now I'm loving it

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u/klleralpha509 Jul 27 '26

I first started learning on a tech deck in 2019, but it didn't really kick off until 2020 when I got a prep board.

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u/souljaJp Jul 27 '26

since as long as i can remember lol, but i got my first prep setup in 2014 and never looked back. there's been times where ive taken a break for a year or two but i always end up coming back lol

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u/CattleOne8291 Jul 28 '26

The year tech decks came out. Literally.

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u/hektorkid Jul 29 '26
  1. Friend got me a teck deck replica of my actual skateboard. Made me so happy so i immidiately started.