Tony Hawk releases shoes for fingerboards. Helping the toy giant Mattel with its investment in small skateboards.

The toy company Mattel has enlisted the help of legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk and his company Birdhouse when they launch their new venture into so-called fingerboards.

Mattel’s fingerboards will be sold under their Hot Wheels brand and look pretty much the same as the fingerboards that have been on the market for over 35 years. A new thing that hasn’t existed before for fingerboards, however, are the small shoes which can be bought for your fingerboards if you wanted to. The shoes will cost $3 a pair and will also be available in slightly different packages where fingerboards are also included.

If you like Tony Hawk, he will soon come to Sweden and perform his show “An evening with Tony Hawk”. On August 5, Hawk will appear in the Filadelfia Convention Center in Stockholm and you will find a trailer for the event below.

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Fingerboard

Fingerboard is a miniature skateboard that is controlled with the index and middle finger to do different tricks. There are various competitions with professional practitioners and beginners. Ramps and other accessories are available for purchase. Fingerboard is at its largest in Germany, where major competitions such as Kassel cheese and Fast fingers take place. There have been several fingerboard competitions in Sweden, where the biggest so far is called the Blackriver Winter Fingerboard Cup. The cup was arranged by Coyoteboardstore, which is located in Stockholm, which has also previously arranged a couple of smaller competitions. Tech deck is the most common brand, but there are also other brands such as Berlinwood, Yellowood, No comply and Flatface. The biggest ramp brand in fingerboard is the German company +blackriver-ramps+ founded in 1999.

Soon you can build cement ramps for your fingerboard

Tech Deck releases alternative cement for mini ramps

So-called fingerboards have now been on the market for over 30 years. One of the first companies to start with such was the Canadian company SpinMaster, which sells its fingerboards under the Tech Deck brand. Soon, Tech Deck will also start selling a kind of cement-like material that is supposed to be used to build miniature skateboard ramps. Tech Deck calls its alternative cements “DIY Concrete” and it’s a mass that, just like regular cement, hardens when it dries. Unlike regular cement, Tech Deck’s “cement” can return to easily workable pulp form if you immerse the construction in hot water. In addition to the cement mass, the DIY Concrete package contains a few different tools and molds that can be used to build mini-ramps. Tech Deck DIY Concrete will be released in August, and then a pack will cost around $15. Here below, you can check out when the YouTuber “mereeplay” unpacks and tests a preview of Tech Deck’s hittäpä cement. It also shows how to build a ramp and some examples of how it can look when it is used.

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Fingerboardskate at restaurant

Good when the table is turning

If you are at a restaurant that has tables that spin, you can share the food with everyone who is there in an easier way. You can also set up a miniature skatepark and drive around with a fingerboard.

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This dude made a career out of Fingerboards

Sells pro boards in mini format

When I was a little kid, I sometimes played with little Fingerboards at recess at school. Then these were forgotten and somewhere I grew up. But the boards are still alive and thriving, on a grand scale. For example, 23-year-old Mike Schneider runs the company FlatFace Fingerboards, which sells everything related to this miniature sport.

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