I recently discovered that there is much more to the fingerboard scene than just the North America, South America, and European scenes. While our own scene have obviously been exposed to mainly the Western fingerboarding culture, most of us have failed to realize that there are plenty of fingerboarding communities around the world that we have yet to be exposed to. I spent the last four Ｈｏｕｒｓ searching for fingerboarding communities in Japan, and while ｉ ｃｏｕｌｄ not find a major forum community, I could tell that there was a very large amount of fingerboarders in Japan. Fingerboarding in Japan is widely called '指スケ' (yubisuke pronounced yu-bee-sue-kay). Check out some of the videos of the Japanese fingerboarders in the post below, and you can see they are very skilled!
While searching for a Japanese fingerboard forum, I stumbled upon a diamond in the rough. Fingerboard Cafe is a large Korean fingerboard community. I was very surprised to see how much threads, photos and videos were posted on them. Even though I cannot read Hangul, which is the Korean language, I was able to find navigate the site by clicking the links underneath the banner. Check it out at
http://cafe.naver.com/finger1.cafeEdit: Fingerboarding in Korean is "핑거보드".
After finding this forum, I feel that there is so much we have yet to discover in fingerboarding! I bet there is a huge Chinese fingerboard community! My goal is to establish a connection with the members of these forums and share resources with them!
Labels: china, japan, korea, 핑거보드, 指スケ
