Chris Daniels
Fingerboarding Style Part 1
Browse through Instagram posts and you will be sure to see the following: "Love your style🔥🔥", "Your style is 🧈bro!", etc. We all know good style when we see it, but can you describe what style is in a sentence? Probably not, and neither can I!
Style in fingerboarding is not about wearing finger jeans or finger shoes, rather, style is HOW someone fingerboards. This encompases their overall fingerboarding technique. Rather than trying to definte what style is specifically, I'm going to focus on categorizing the elements that makes up a fingerboarders overall style.
- Ride Speed: How fast someone fingerboards.
Example: George Diaz - Trick Speed: How fast a trick is flipped/spun/performed.
Example: Chris Daniels - Riding style: Do they ride tucked/semitucked/untucked? Fingers upright or flat?
- Landing style: Do they land on their most of their tricks with the fingerpads or on their fingertips?
- Smoothness: How varied is the speed / height when a fingerboarder does tricks. Is there jerkiness to their tricks?
Example: Nic Herzog - Type: Do they prefer Flatground? Street? Transition?
- Tech: How technical are the tricks they perform? Are they comboing tricks into increasingly complex lines?
Example: Wolfgag - Creativity: Are they thinking outside of the box in their trick selection? Do they use obstacles uniquely?
Example: Stonedboarder
This is not an exhaustive list of all the elements.
Chris Daniels
Fingerboarding since 1998, Chris has been continuously involved in the online fingerboard scene since 1999. A pioneer in the English-speaking fingerboard scene, he has moderated and administrated multiple major fingerboard forums including RZF and FingerFlipInc (FFI). In 2008, he founded the global fingerboard community FBWeekly as a way to connect fingerboard scenes around the world in one portal. With over 20 authors representing fingerboarders from around the world, FBWeekly quickly became an important source for fingerboard news.