7 Best Fingerboarders You Need to Check Out!

[@cdplaya]

Who are some fingerboarders you look up to?

[@quackywhackityphillyb.3005]

Me 🗿 (even though im terrible)

[@cdplaya]

I know - the level on fingerboarding is so high and there is different categories where people accel too!

[@cdplaya]

hell yea! same with me!

[@Jonas-hs5pu]

Wolfgag has always been the sheeezneez for me

[@boberzragadik]

besides you and wolfgag.. i also look up to stolly pop.. will you make a tutorial on how to heelfilp out..from a bs tailslide?

[@saturn6520]

i met bubbleflip back in 2018, one of the nicest people ive met. he sold me a 29mm board and i seshed it heavily for so long and i'm so appreciative of his kindness towards me

[@bubbleflip]

Hi, thanks for the kind words! What's your insta?

[@vicious274]

Fantastic riders! I also met Adrian in 2010 when he came to Toronto with Mike and Jeldo. We had a blast! A memory I will always cherish. Jay has always been one of my favs as well. But lately Ramon Angelow has been killing it!

[@FingerEverything]

Another absolute banger of a video!!! For me, the usage of the yellow chair and the flat land at the end, were just mind melting. I love what you're doing for the FB community. Thank you!

[@andofb]

Absolutely crazy. I could only imagine how long it took

[@cdplaya]

Yes Chase! Thank you! Yea, everyone of these fingerboarders does stuff that blows my mind on the regular lol

[@DanCorder0]

funny how the ‘meta’ has shifted over the years. respectable fingerboarding back in the mid-aughts was all about landing clean combos, emphasis on filming/editing/song choice due to full lengths being so popular. now it seems everyone is striving for unique styles, or realism, having quirky obstacles over short 10 second clips. i do think it’s a shame kids won’t know how cool it was to be part of FFI or to be asked to film a part for like Skills United. it felt genuinely awesome to work on something big with your internet homies and have it fully realized

[@cdplaya]

That's the truth! I stopped posting on Instagram since it doesn't mesh well with how I want my fingerboarding to be seen. I'm definitely out of the meta haha P.S. Good to see you, Dan! :D

[@bubbleflip]

I completely agree. Although I've been fingerboarding since 1999 and was involved in the TD Forum/FFI/FBHQ forum era, I've never changed my fingerboard style and have never tried to be meta. I only begrudgingly followed the transition from longer YT edits to short edits/single clips on IG (but I moved to IG way later than most people).

[@jap_fb]

So honored to be featured along with all the legends!! Thanks Chris🤘 Let's keep having fun with this precious miniature skateboards🖤

[@cdplaya]

Well deserved my friend! Looking forward to your future videos :D

[@Jose_Enriquez_Guitar]

Wolfgang's videos made me come back to fingerboarding ♥️. Thank you so much for your videos Cdplaya! I love them, so much valuable content

[@cdplaya]

Thank you for letting me know! Lots in the works - going to keep building that momentum!

[@USTAWIENIA]

Ramon Angelow right now, for me epic style and amazing control. Back in the days Daniel Lindqvist as teamrider of yellowood was my first fingerboard star🙈

[@cdplaya]

Ramon is so consistent and fast! I love his fingerboarding.. I wish Daniel still fingerboarded!

[@IsaakNielsen]

Agreed! Daniels welcome to yellowood is my favorite part ever

[@jt-hb8lh]

Bro Daniel had the quickest rise from beginner to sponsored by freaking Yellowwood and Winkler wheels in a year.

[@jt-hb8lh]

Gary chin and Tim hurley were and still are my favorites.

[@cdplaya]

Same!!

[@Bajaextrablast]

Hay broski! Super sick video!🔥🔥 Bubble flip is super crazy!!! I just learned about all the other fb def gotta dig deep

[@CatDaddy-SB]

I'm working on my flips into grinds and getting my heels straight. I end up doing alot of inward heels lol,

[@cdplaya]

Woah! That's usually the opposite way people have trouble with heelflips haha usually people have trouble having them not rotate a varial heel... Heelflips are hard!!

[@CatDaddy-SB]

@@cdplaya yes they are but practice practice practice! Love the videos bro ❤️

[@longlegcraig]

Dude these tricks are crazy!!! I can't believe the stuff people are doing on fingerboards

[@kalebhatch2058]

Thank you for this gold vid 💛 definitely a gold mine to go through here

[@cdplaya]

Yes! These fingerboarders are unreal!

[@andofb]

Tbh I am surprised there are not more riders like Bubbleflip who do crazy hard Freestyle tricks. Its extremely difficult but if you think about it there are heaps of people who get crazy good with butterfly knives and pen tricks and what not. Anyway great vid!

[@bubbleflip]

Bubbleflip is overrated. Search for "freestyle fingerboarding" on KZbin and watch the two edits by fb120 and kevyoso. They're incredible.

[@cdplaya]

There are that tried! But I've yet to see anyone close to his level!

[@bubbleflip]

Wow, I'm deeply humbled to be included in part of your list of best fingerboarders, especially by such an established fingerboard veteran like yourself. Thank you for featuring me and actually choosing some of my best freestyle clips! I was surprised by the inclusion and am relieved the choice of clips were good ones! However, Bubbleflip is overrated! I've posted my own personal list of favourite fingerboarders in a reply to your question in the comments. One question though... your video description says "six fingerboarders" but the video and the title has 7 fingerboarders, was one of these people initially overlooked? Or was it intentional? You can learn from six of them, but not the seventh person? Haha

[@cdplaya]

The six seven is an easter egg to see who paid attention hahaha I do something similar in all my videos ;-) Bubbleflip is not overrated imo!

[@ALFYsk8]

I also wondered about the inconsistency in the numbers. I thought it was a mistake. :D

[@kixnuzia6919]

bruhmoment

[@joelstatosky1817]

Thanks for this video chris, it really helps in regards to finding fingerboarders who's style I'm interesting in replicating (other than you that is). I love the content as always and my kickflips back tails are just getting better and better with the advice you've given me. I'm also switching back to my 34mm days since I find the controll in tailsides given to me by those types of decks (specificaly more squared shapes) is unmatched

[@steadyfingerhand4052]

Cleaner kick flips and catching my board in the air

[@krooked7777777]

Thanks man! I'm honored.

[@cdplaya]

You deserve it!

[@gopro4it]

Some heavy hitters with amazing styles! Thanks for sharing Chris I really enjoy your content and can’t wait for more!

[@cdplaya]

Thank you, Cliff! Some more content will be on the way shortly :)

[@PeterWasAFlutist]

Just getting into it, so this is a huge help for me. Been getting really into freestyle stuff; gonna be watching a lot of Bubbleflip now. Good stuff bruv

[@bubbleflip]

Bubbleflip is overrated. The top 2 freestyle fingerboard edits on YoutTube are by fb120 (shoji) and kevyoso. There's no one else even in the picture to take the number 3 spot. I strongly recommend you check those two out!

[@PeterWasAFlutist]

@@bubbleflip Duly noted; thanks!

[@letyourfingazspeak]

nice video! interesting choice of your best riders! thats why I love fingerboarding, everybody got own style and technique to approach the tricks. personally I think everybody should have his/her own fav fingerboarder ✌🏻❤️

[@cdplaya]

Yes! I have probably a hundred different "best" riders haha This one was specifically around creativity! I have favorites for style (Nic Herzog, Julien Klein, etc.) and favorites for consistency (Ramon, Elias, Dimi, Petr)! So many great fingerboarders that all fingerboard so different!

[@steadyfingerhand4052]

Yoooo thanks 💪🏾

[@coreyboboth4214]

I’m working on overall flow and angles for edits and a couple line combos instead of single trick edits.

[@anthonycornist3308]

I look up to timo kranz and Benny from Goodvibes and Jordan and Brandon

[@anthonycornist3308]

I'm trying to work on my three tricks kickflip 360 flip varial kickflip

[@koltaire5938]

Workning on street clips. Everyone and their mom uses ramps. Want to see and use more stuff out in the wild

[@realjacksun]

awesome video cdplaya!

[@cdplaya]

Thank you jacksun!!!

[@ezlenotoro2457]

tomaso bs and benh dulac king fingerboard

[@cdplaya]

Both amazing fingerboarders!!!

[@Alex-lb7cg]

Making my heels in general better.

[@iforgor5848]

W vid

[@TheOriginalFlamingEagle]

You should reboot your fingerboard trick help videos! Those helped me a lot but your old ones aren't as good as the new ones! Been working on kickflip consistency rn

[@cdplaya]

Yes! I'm about 75% done with an "Ultimate Guide to Fingerboarding for Beginners" video which will have a ton of insight into the basic tricks as well as fingerboard lexicon, etc. Taking me longer than I thought to make though xD

[@Deadend_fb_russell]

🤩

[@QualifyRs]

Working on transition

[@QualifyRs]

You should do a video on transition if you haven’t already! Notable fingerboarders, tricks, styles. I feel like a lot of people lack knowledge in that department and don’t know where to start or get actual inspiration 🙏🏾

[@HARLEYPLAYZ.]

I’m trying to do a kickflip

[@ChrixMadHeck]

What the fuck?! This kid from Finland doing stuff on the mini chair is insane. 😱🤯

[@anthonycornist3308]

Hey is ladarius cornist remember how are you doing

[@itachi_han]

0:30 im working on some fun new project right now creating some fingerboarding content doing on a street

[@Jonas-hs5pu]

What the fuck this is insane!

[@cdplaya]

All the fingerboarders in this video are god tier LOL

[@loonfb]

frount foot inpostible

[@kodamafb]

Sad. No Elias.

[@cdplaya]

Elias isn't actively posting - which is primarily why I didn't include him. Don't worry - there will be a follow-up video on consistency that includes Elias :) (Petr Ptacek, Dimi Schlotthauer, Ramon Angelow... etc.)

[@kodamafb]

@@cdplaya Would be so sick to see all the OG's (including you of course) shredding in one video again!

[@cdplaya]

Man.. I'd love to do that! The Steil am Steig #4 video was so epic! I'll need to coordinate a Germany trip haha

[@kodamafb]

@@cdplaya Do it! haha. That's going to be once epic scene! 😁😁😁

[@The_Joe00s]

And people think Mike Schnieder is the best.

[@cdplaya]

Mike is one of the best actually! I think very highly of him - he's super consistent and very creative!

[@The_Joe00s]

@@cdplaya Mike is good! I accidently made it sound like Mike was bad, but if you want to have your own answer to "what's your favorite finger boarder" then it's probably going to be one of these people because Mike will be the most said answer to that question because he's so good.

[@cdplaya]

@@The_Joe00s true!

[@Bettydance985]

this was interesting but I think. Their was no style in this post

[@cdplaya]

I'm very confused - Adrian and Jay both are considered to be some of the most stylish fingerboarders out there... what is your definition of style then?

[@Bettydance985]

@@cdplaya nah man nothing was realistic about their tricks

[@Bettydance985]

@@cdplaya @smallminiwheels is the most realistic

[@cdplaya]

@@Bettydance985 I mean take a second to look both of them up. Both of them post super realistic tricks all the time... Adrian: instagram.com/tv/CVWnV7LIVJl/? Jay: instagram.com/reel/CoJFFk1M91p/? And this is the second time you've said your own content is the best on my channel - who do you think is the best besides yourself then?

[@USTAWIENIA]

and of course your upside down tricks are the inspiration for creativity in my finger🛹 career🤓

[@cdplaya]

Thank you! I've enjoyed watching your videos as well! Na zdrowie! 🍻