Skateboarding and fingerboarding for over 20 years, it's time to create something with all that experience.
I've been building things since I was young and could remember how to put my dad's tools back without him noticing. I started skateboarding and tech decking, aka fingerboarding, at 13. Though there weren't any non-plastic boards to be found in the early 2000s to my knowledge. My ramps were text books and plastic junk made by tech deck.
Skateboarders make things one way or another. I am no different. I build websites for my day job and I was tired of being in front of a screen. Then I noticed that all the ramps in production for fingerboards were laser cut and high gloss works of art, or they were made with materials that skateboarders don't actually skate, like tiles for a bathroom. This didn't sit right. Skateboarders and fingerboarders are inherently do-it-yourselfers. So I bought some wood and a saw.
I made the crappiest kicker I've ever seen to figure out how to use the Japanese wood saw I bought. Then I build another and it was actually really good imo. The I wanted to build skate spots from my city. I live in New England and we have a lot of bricks and bricks are the most satisfying thing to roll over. So, I naturally wanted to make brick ramps. I bought a bag and made my first brick kicker, or bricker as we call it around here.
The ramps looked good and my friends got very excited about them. I want to make more ramps now but I need to get rid of the ramps I already made because I don't really need 100 ramps. Now here we are. 20 plus years of pushing around on my board and looking at the world as a skate spot and now I make the skate spots.
Not the spots don't have to be skateable or legal to skate. I can make my own version at home. I can make it out of bricks. I hope you like bricks because that's what I'm doing. Anyway, if you read this, thanks! I stream my brick making madness on Twitch if you wanna check it out. Happy fingerboarding.