Episode 39 – Interview with Bijan from pLAyhouse

A few hours after he won Fast Fingers 21 and became the new Fingerboard Worldchampion, I sat down with Ramon Angelow to talk about what this means for him and how it felt. Thank you Blackriver for giving me this opportunity and the space at the venue to interview people there!

I spoke to two friends while the Fingerboard world championship, aka FastFingers 21 was going on. They share the Instagram account Improviso, both had great runs and Francisco ended up in second place while Pedro narrowly missed the final top 6 by getting 8th. We discussed how their runs went, how it is to compete … Continue reading "Fast Fingers Specials – Improviso check-in. Mid-Contest Interview with Francisco Martins and Pedro Oliveira from Improviso"

This year I got the amazing opportunity to be invited by Blackriver, the organisers of the fingerboard worldchampionship, Fast Fingers 21 to do a couple of interviews there. I’m starting these specials off with one I did at the morning of the event, before the contest started. I got a few people together that me … Continue reading "Fast Fingers Specials – Pre Fast Fingers Favorites with Stolly, Alex Christ & Ramon Angelow"

This episode was recorded almost a year ago and I never got around publishing it. But this time I’m actually back. In this episode I talk to Vito, owner of the 6Skates store in Toronto, Canada.

After taking a spontanious hiatus, I’m back with another interview. This time I talked to Levine, the guy behind the USA Fingerboard League. We talked about what it takes to get a league on the road across different states, how he structures his events, his background etc. We also talked about his brick & mortar … Continue reading "Episode 43 – Interview with Levine Cunningham of USA Fingerboard League"

This week I spoke to David Jones of Youtube Fame. We talked about how he started his channel, how he started making fingerboard Videos and everything else.

This week I spoke to Cube, the owner at TH!Sfb and TH!S Art-Print-Design a brick-and-mortar Shop in Denver, Colorado. We talked about how he got his start in the scene, how the shop came about and what the Colorado scene is like.

This week I sat down with deckmaker exordinair, Chris, the man behind Beastpants. We talked about his process of making decks, creating graphics, coming up with his beautiful split ply’s, his colaboration with Welcome Skateboards etc.

I decided to put on a bonus episode this week. I spoke with Afrobi and Berta, both part of the lgbtqi+ community and well known names in the fingerboard community. We spoke about how it is for people like us in the fingerboardboard community.

It’s been somewhat of a mission for me to talk to everyone who has a physical fingerboard shop. They are such pillars of the community and I love seeing them getting more and more. So this time I talked to Bijan who opened the pLAyhouse in LA with the help of another member of the … Continue reading "Episode 39 – Interview with Bijan from pLAyhouse"