Fingerboard (skateboard)

Fingerboards first existed as homemade finger toys in the late 1960s and later became a novelty attached to keychains in skate shops.

Around the same time, Mountain wrote an article on how to make fingerboards in TransWorld SKATEboarding magazine.

[1] Fingerboards are used by a range of people, from those using them as toys, to skateboarders and related sports professionals envisioning not only their own skating maneuvers but for others as well.

Similar to train enthusiasts building railway models, fingerboard hobbyists often construct and purchase reduced scale model figures that would be considered natural features to an urban skateboarder such as handrails, benches, and stairs they would be likely to encounter while skating.

In addition, users might build and buy items seen in a skatepark including half-pipes,[6] quarter pipes, trick boxes, vert ramps,[7] pyramids, banked ramps, full pipes, and any number of other trick-oriented objects.

"[9] Tom Sims, a world champion of snowboarding,[10] ended his run by landing his fingersnowboard into a flaming shotglass of Sambuca; he was treated for minor burns and donated his winning prize to Surfrider Foundation's Snowrider Project and to Board AID.