Fingaspot

This fingerboard event looks AWESOME! Looks like a paradise to me :)

"Fingaspot // 00
Fingerboard event organised by Yellowood, Ytrucks and Oak wheels.

This trial edition was to know the location and to prepare a big edition again in June with better weather.
The place is a paradise surfcamp in the center of Portugal in Figueira da Foz. The house can host up to 40 people, with rooms, kitchen, pool and beach down the street.

The video has a tour around the house so that you can feel the good vibe of the place. This event was all weekend long and a lot of fun.

We want to welcome all comunity to come to this Fingerboard event, we have the place only need more people hope to see you all at Fingaspot // 01 edition.

Enjoy."











Link to the forum thread: http://fingerflipinc.com/forum/index.php?topic=54359.0

Yellowood and BRR Trucks!

Some great news!


Yellowood Trucks


BlackRiver Trucks

Expect them out by the end of May!

Kaiju Box Battle!

FBWeekly Presents...
The First Kaiju Box Battle Online Contest!
Entries due by April 11th at 11:59 PM.

How to Enter the Contest:
Step 1) Film a your best trick on a single grindbox obstacle (ledge, box, book, etc.)
Step 2) Show the trick in real-time and in slow-motion in the video.
Step 3) Pay the $1 entrance fee to mangkyosharingan@aol.com using Paypal. (Be sure to include your name!)
Step 4) Email your entry to fbweekly@gmail.com (be sure to include the link to the video, as well as your name).

Rules:
- Single Trick/Combo on a Grindbox.
- One trick per entry. Multiple tricks will result in disqualification.
- Only tricks performed on a single box obstacle will be allowed.
- Multiple obstacles will result in disqualification.
- Tricks must be shown twice. Once in real-time. Then once in slowmotion.

Sponsors: Berlinwood, LowPro, Yellowood, Flatface, and CloseUp

Be sure to have fun! Pictures of the prizes will be shown in the near future.

P.S. If you can speak other languages besides english can you please translate the rules and post it on your forum!

Thanks to Andre Coral for making the sweet flyer <3!

Yellowood launch the new P-6 Deck!

Here's the new Yellowood P-6.
For more information, read the FFI Topic about.
6 plies, 2 Black, 2 Yellow and 2 Black. Best Yellowood deck ever.
If you want to buy one, the Yellowood store will open tomorrow 20th July at 18 o'clock (London Time). Price is 20 euros plus 5 euros of shipping cost.

Bye

Review: Yellowood

First I'd like to start off telling you a little about Yellowood. Yellowood is a new company out of Portugal run by Phillipe De Goyri, the decks, are 100% hand made, with top quality materials and exotic woods. More than 26 hours of work go into each individual deck.
The shipping was pretty fast from Portugal to the United States, it took about 2 weeks from beginning of order online,www.yellowoodstore.com to delivery. Phillipe is very helpful and answered all my questions. The boards, trucks, stickers, and shirt came securely packaged in a bubble mailer, with the first deck in it's own packaging as well as the trucks and t shirt. Phillipe was also kind enough to send a second deck and the trucks as extras.
The deck I bought was priced at 19.95 euros which is the same price as a Berlinwood and roughly about 32.00 usd.



as you can see it came nicely packaged in a baggie with a cool tag, stickers and a sheet of Ryp Tape. The Ryp Tape is very similar to Blacktape, if any of you are familiar with that. It's 2mm thick and very very light for being that thickness, it doesn't add any extra noticeable weight to your deck. It also grips fairly decent, it's not my preference over Rip Tape or FBS Smoothtape, but it is good and you can't complain for it coming with your deck.
The craftsmanship of the board is flawless. The dye job is phenomminal as well as the lacquer, the kicks are nice and even, the concave of the deck is symmetrical and the sanding is perfect. Getting the hardware on is no problem at all, it has nice kingpin holes and nicely countersunk hardware holes. As you can see in this picture of the everslick prototype.

nicely sanded

The shape of the deck is also very nice,it is 28mm wide x 100mm long and it happens to be my exact personal preference, although I feel it could use a bit less concave. Nonetheless Phillipe assured me there will be a slightly less concave version in the future. The deck has medium kicks, medium to deep concave depending on what type of grip you are using. If you are using the Ryp Tape, it will have slightly less concave due to the thickness.
blurs varias deck

everslick prototype

you can also see the thickness of the Ryp Tape in the above pictures
The performance of the deck is very nice as well, it's very poppy and very strong. It took absolutely no time to get used to the deck which is very nice, I know a lot of people are turned off to a board if they can't get used to it immediately.
Here are some pics of the deck set up

Now I would like to talk breifly about the everslick prototype and trucks.
The trucks are anodized yellow, and are very bright, almost to the point of being gold. I don't think Phillipe will be selling these, he just sent them as a gift.

The everslick is a future product of Yellowood, this is a prototype model, the production model may vary. Phillipe gave this to me to test out, although I haven't had a chance to set it up yet (due to lack of gripping materials) I am already impressed with this deck. The bottom is made of Teflon and it holds true to the name everslick. I've tested the sliding ability on rails, marble, and it slides like butter, so be on the lookout for these, they will be about 21 euros but are totally worth it.

I got an idea!

Flatface released the G6-I and G6-B Bearing Wheels. They look absolutely perfect. Check them out here!

One of the prettiest looking decks I have laid my eyes upon...

Yellowood Fingerboards 

In other news, I am trying to create a database where people can view all the major teams and who rides for them. My goal is to create a place where teams owners/riders can have an easier time finding people to sponsor/get sponsored. Also, I would like to make individual rider profiles where you can see how long they've been fingerboarding, where they are from and who they are sponsored by.

I got quite a list made out so far, but I've definitely missed some teams and some are probably out of date, so forgive me.

Team Rider List

Decks

Primo Fingerboards

Justin Rogers

Larry Osburne

Richard Hackler

Taylor Lucas

Prete Fingerboards

Davo Francis

Dimitar Kanev

Taylor Rosenbauer

Lucas Kirkdorffer

Felipe Vincensi

Peter Ringel

Homewood Fingerboards

Matt Francis

Kevin King

Estevan Rivera

Matt Lieber

Dominik Jedruszewski

Phil Zalusky

Nick Allen

Evolve Fingerboard Decks

Jader Muller

Ju

Phils Savage

Rodrigo Rossi

David Auster

Martin Illsley

MKS

Close Up

Mike Schneider

Euan Lynn

Alexis Milant

Enzo Fruytier

Damien Bernadet

Joe Chaboud

Mannu Lavaux

Wheels

Flatface Team:

Mike Schneider

Doug Bodkin

Gary Chin

Pat McGinn

Alex McMillan

Jay Linehan

Taylor Rosenbauer

Tim Hurley

Nate Thompson

Danny Rodriguez

Adrian Geronimo

Taylor Lucas

Gullaume Ouellette

Conor Davidson

Flow:

Brandon Sentnor

Chris Deso

Matt Lieber

Ethan Ebeling

Nollie Wheels:

Vincent Heppner
Harald Schön
Max Zulauf
Michel Hohnekamp
Lukas Galos
Lukas Junk
Martin Beckmann
Michael Köck
Manuel Becker
Philipp Reinhard
Thomas Giesswein 

Flow Team:

Tobias Engelhardt
Kai Dörfler
Lukas Philippi
Ethan Ebeling 

Hardware

Arctic Hardware:

Martin Illsley

Brandon Jones

Alex McMillan

Jay Linehan

Vinny Germade 

Manu Oberle

Eric Smith

David Auster

Chris Daniels

Tim Hurley

Arctic UK

Mcinally

Ben Winship

Murray

Crompton

Summit Hardware:

Conor Davidson 

Pat McGinn 

Taylor Lucas

Tim Zagrebelny 

Guillaume Ouellet

Taylor Rosenbauer 

Mike Schneider

Tim Alexiel 

Fabian Schreiter 

Martin Beckmann 

Philipp Reinhard 

Griptape

none atm >.<

Ramps

Blackriver Team:

Boris Dietschi

Choi Yau

Elias Assmuth

Fabian Schreiter

Manu Oberle

Martin Winkler

Michael Zimmer

Nic Herzog

Sebastian Kiefer

Timo Kranz

Timo Lieben

Tobias Phieler

Flow:

Al-J

Brandon Jones

Felix Hess

Julien Klein

Mike Schneider

Stefan Klauser

Taylor Rosenbauer

Tim Hurley

Tim Teichert

Ramon Angelow

Primo Obstacles

Martin Illsley

Brandon Jones

Eric Smith

Estevan Rivera

Make Believe Marble

Shane Young

Ben Mullen

Eddy Z

Chris Petranek

Alex Mcmillan

Gary Chin

Tim Alexiel

John Kontra

P.S.

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