Chris Daniels
Fingerboarders You Should Know: Beau Marchant
Flashback: It's 2000 and Tech Decks are the latest and greatest thing since Pokemon. Your entire class is filled with the sounds of clicking and clacking.
Wondering what the rest of the world does with this toy, you decide to search on the internet. You wait patiently a minute as your modem finishes dialing in. You head over to Altavista and search for "tech decks". The first result is Techdecks.com and you decide to click in.
This was my actual first experience online in fingerboarding. In the rankings, I saw some familiar names towards the top, Matt Johnson from Flying Fingers and Darin Langhorst from Fingers of Fury. There was a name at the top of the list that I did not recognize so I decided to check out his clips. His name was Beau Marchant.
Beau was different from other fingerboarders online. He did his tricks low to the ground with limited excess in movement. His style was smooth, and he could combo tricks that very few Fingerboarders could do on their own.
Have I piqued your interest?
Peep that Switch Impo B/S Noseslide Kickflip in 2000...
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.