Rick McCrank Explores the Fingerboarding Scene

Rick McCrank Explores the Fingerboarding Scene | POST RADICAL

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"Fingerboarding is not a child's thing."
Just because your skateboard is tiny, doesn't mean you can't dream big. In 2018, legendary pro skater Rick McCrank explored the world of fingerboarding.
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@VICE-TV 2 жыл бұрын

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@MrTraveller. 2 жыл бұрын

Rick McCrank is 1 of the best OG bowl riders of all time.

@jirehjirehjirehjireh 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been doing this kind of fingerboarding since I was 12, I’m 24 now. It’s so heartwarming watching this hobby go from something bullied to people finally understanding what the hobby is really about and why it’s so amazing.

@timonuotio6395 2 жыл бұрын

I started 6 years ago and I'm now 38 and will never stop!!same with skateboarding, only that's just bit more for my body, because age makes falling hurt more...😂

@MIKEK3NT 2 жыл бұрын

I love fingerboarding, it’s what I do when I get injured

@twisted_fb1280 2 жыл бұрын

in algebra two today at school, i was practicing switch nollie kickflips, and the teacher told me to sop playing, to put the *TOY* away. bruh this aint no toy, this was more than ur weekly pay lol

@iseeyou6532 Жыл бұрын

Im from mindanao located in the Philippines, the first time I tried fingerboarding was on 2003 I was 13 years old, it was only for 40 pesos or 0.74 cents in $ since it was fake, and I liked so much and never stop thinking to continue fingerboard since then. But when it got broke, I had to stop fingerboarding since we cant afford to buy a new fingerboard even for a fake one (growing upnpoor) . I stopped since 2004 and got back at it again on 2013 since I received a gift for a $5 complete fingerboard set up I was already 23 years old and I was happy even though its not a premium brand. But that also it didn't last long since some parts of it was falling apart. I stopped again in the middle of the year 2013. I just got back in fingerboarding just this year 2023 just two weeks ago and now Im using a $18 complete fingerboard set up though its not a premium brand that I always wanted but still Im happy that I have returned again in fingerboarding. Now Im already 32 years old, and had a 9 months old baby.

@fuckcensorship69 11 ай бұрын

@@twisted_fb1280roasted that teacher 😂😂😂😂. dork

@hyan4010 2 жыл бұрын

I love skateboarding with the homies, but recently had a heart problem and had to limit the amount of physical activity I can do. Let's just say I'm a full fingerboard addict now haha

@Odd_Combo 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear this buddy. Do you know if it’s another vax statistic, like thousands upon thousands of others?

@chompers11 2 жыл бұрын

@@Odd_Combo lol get outta here

@mastersamurai7683 2 жыл бұрын

That's cool dude

@kevinkanzler495 2 жыл бұрын

@@chompers11 lots of young people had heart problems before COVID.... Right?

@Odd_Combo 2 жыл бұрын

@@chompers11 Because I’m asking a legitimate question? Maybe you should read the VAERS info (through the CDC) for yourself and seek out some of the other facts that aren’t told to you on tv. People are so ridiculous. Ignorance is forgivable, but, much harder when it’s driven by arrogance.

@AndrewJ951 2 жыл бұрын

Fingerboarding expanded my imagination immensely as a child. I had a decent amount of the Tech Deck plastic ramps but the full on parks that I built were 60% homemade ramps. Using cardboard for frames/bases and layering over that with manilla folders to imitate masonite. Used a variety of materials to build things over the years, even built a little quarterpipe out of a brick and finishing cement. Fingerbikes were cool too, even used to build dirt jumps for those.

@KenoshaKicker 2 жыл бұрын

What do you do now?

@bradmuehlenbein 2 жыл бұрын

Right!? I remember hanging with the boys making giant skateparks on the living room floor

@andofb 2 жыл бұрын

Fingerboarding is a great hobby that stems off my love for skateboarding. Its really fun to film as well and make parts when you can't skate for whatever reason.

@revy1x 2 жыл бұрын

facts when i’m not skating i’m fingerboarding or somthing

@suron5547 2 жыл бұрын

That’s why I picked up fingerboarding living in mn and being a skater/snowboarder there’s to many days we’re it’s to wet to skate to dry to snowboard so u find other hobbies

@JillySkates 2 жыл бұрын

Fingerboarding is so hard.. I can do more on a regular skateboard haha

@goatmansasquatch1485 2 жыл бұрын

Shred on

@JillySkates 2 жыл бұрын

@@goatmansasquatch1485 Will do brother!

@sumkid9263 2 жыл бұрын

If you fidget around with your fingerboard while sitting down just relaxing, its pretty fun and you can get pretty good at it.

@spotlight.effect 2 жыл бұрын

Its just the same as skateboarding.. you also need to learn and practice the basics not like trying the flip tricks already

@sumkid9263 2 жыл бұрын

@@spotlight.effect Its super easy to treflip on fingerboard lol, even easier than kickflip or even ollie

@teknicianmuzik 2 жыл бұрын

As an avid smoker, and once avid skater, I use my lighter to portray tricks.

@yemi6358 2 жыл бұрын

As someone who smokes a lotta weed.. I too do this. lol

@harleebrashier3977 2 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one… I do it with the tv remote…

@euphoricnotes3409 2 жыл бұрын

I do it with my phone and I believe I’m the best in the world.

@ellisdtrails420 2 жыл бұрын

TV remote and lighters for sure

@Theupstateidiots 2 жыл бұрын

It's the tv remote for me. Tre flips for days.

@Studio23Media 2 жыл бұрын

Tech Decks were huge when my brother was in middle school and then they boomed again when I was in middle school.

@_rorshack__ 2 жыл бұрын

My school banned them cause me and my buddies would tech deck in class

@christianb8228 2 жыл бұрын

Used to love Tech Decks as a kid

@noofly6308 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah same it got popular again all a sudden

@MTips18 2 жыл бұрын

still got a pile of tech decks. Love em

@superwalt2159 2 жыл бұрын

would finger board with a broken pencil in spanish class. doing tale slide shove its on my text book all class. the ultra popular chick who sat next to me eventually said, "dude wtf are you doing over there" "oh me? i gave up on learning spanish an im just skating the book with my pencil. ya its lame" her: dude give me your skatepencil iwant to try that. short story she ended up getting into my lame "pencil boarding" then we hung out an dated all summer before she went away to a D1 school for swimming. cause she was good at that. i woulda gone with her if they had scholarship for pencil boarders..

@DLFingerboarding 2 жыл бұрын

I had a Rick McCrank Girl Tech Deck when I was in highschool this is like coming full circle lol

@tenthelementgaming 2 жыл бұрын

Man I had such a big fingerboarding phase in middle school. Berlin Wood decks, backriver ramps and flatface stickers COVERED my room. Im almost half tempted to get back into it now XD

@MarcRain1 2 жыл бұрын

just bought one for the first time in 10 years…I’m 28 lmfao

@names2hard4you 2 жыл бұрын

Back in the day I had a Berlinwood and LowPro deck and some BR trucks and Oak wheels... but all my obstacles were handmade since money was tight. Now as a grown man rediscovering the scene I can finally afford all the things I wanted as a kid, so I just ordered some Blackriver and Flatface stuff to get back into it! The scene is very much alive still on IG

@WhiteMountainWizard 2 жыл бұрын

I was the same way. I got back into it a month ago and am here to stay forever. I missed it so much.

@Jonas-hs5pu Жыл бұрын

Do it.

@resdisorder 8 ай бұрын

go for it! you will enjoy🙏🏼

@blankwavemessiah 2 жыл бұрын

That tre flip crook was INSANE!!!!! Looked like an actual human body

@TheKillerBeeBR 2 жыл бұрын

I think who landed that was Nico Frank, guy is insane.

@oc5708 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKillerBeeBR def was, you could tell by the style and how he always rides prete decks

@TheLiveSquad 2 жыл бұрын

been fingerboarding since 2012. been in love ever since I got my first tech deck

@Jeff.35mm 2 жыл бұрын

Blue and brown baker deck was my first now I’m rocking a chems on Illpils

@FluoxetinaBelcher 2 жыл бұрын

Do what makes you happy, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.

@xsystem1 2 жыл бұрын

well said!

@Krimbopulous 2 жыл бұрын

The way he said “frontside 5-0’s” filled me with joy

@immersiveroleplayguild7387 2 жыл бұрын

Shame it's kinda short. I would've liked to see them go into more detail about the first boards and design desicions, as well as into tricks or starting out with FB. The scene is hardly explained here with 2 people and nothing about competitions (competitive or firendly)

@locolanzo 2 жыл бұрын

Search up vice fingerboard. And there’s a video about long boarding. This is where this is from. About half way In that video there’s a long part about fingerboarding

@00asaenz Жыл бұрын

Check out WIRED mini doc on How this guy mastered fingerboarding and YTuber cdplaya has two nice vids on history of fingerboarding.

@1NTU1T1V3 2 жыл бұрын

This is great. It's definitely nostalgic. It's amazing how captivating and passionate skateboarding can be. I can't describe the joy of everything from riding alone to with up to 30 kids around town, to learning new tricks and trying hard repetitively, watching videos and going to demos, building various ramps/boxes, making up skate teams and art. Most of all was the feeling it gave. This joy and unity that is akin to God. I love it.

@Hushsoundz 2 жыл бұрын

I remember making boards using cardboard from shoeboxes and tape. Then used broken pencils for the wheels. Also made half pipes out of sneakers boxes. This was era 90

@evilisforbidden3981 2 жыл бұрын

Its all about the fun, tech decking since 98* Skateboarding since 86* I have also introduced my kids to skateboarding and fingerboarding, they love it just as much as I do. Keep up the good work. E's Menikimati Rick McCrank ✌

@psykolikwid 2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear you were able to ignite the passion in your kids. Good job, man, that’s the way to do it 🙂

@juniormadrid3817 2 жыл бұрын

Used to mess with these so much . Definitely some pre fidget spinners vibes.

@T1K1RAMIREZ 2 жыл бұрын

I remember being in class playing my fellow classmates skate and winning there tech decks 💪😁 these definitely bring me back!

@heroicsquirrel3195 2 жыл бұрын

im 32 and just ordered a blackriver big mama to play with my fingerboard, its so fun but people cant handle being free free minded and just playing so call it silly or whatever, im good at skating but even some skater friends have laughed about fingerboarding but their both just fun things to do, no better or worse than eachother

@CastleBrookKrew 2 жыл бұрын

You'll love it

@heroicsquirrel3195 2 жыл бұрын

@@CastleBrookKrew should be here today, I’m hyped haha

@bdup159 2 жыл бұрын

It combines every creative outlet I love. Just like skateboarding. Most of us do both because of that creative freedom .

@GameOver1a 2 жыл бұрын

I remember back in the day Rick McCrack blew my mind in Birdhouse - The End. One of the first skate videos I ever watched and still one of the best

@djefatness2662 2 жыл бұрын

This is wild. Seeing previous fads come back every 10 years, but seriously is kind of cool. Crocs have notoriously passed the test of times.

@CurtisBalsonGirardin 3 ай бұрын

I broke my knee a year and a half ago doing a nollie big on a quarter. Fingerboarding had been a great way for me to keep my passion for skateboarding since.

@Oozeboy 2 жыл бұрын

I used tech decks as a kid, as well as skated through high school and a little in college. I love skateboarding but I would get hurt too much, and as an adult I can't afford to get hurt. I stumbled upon some tech decks not too long ago and fingerboard often now. Got really hooked and bought a wood one, then my DIY side came out and just started making some of my own. I feel so happy that my love of making things met my love of skateboarding in a weird way. My fingerboards aren't perfect, but they're fun and I love giving them to my friends who appreciate them. Plus I love doing tricks at my desk at work during zoom meetings!

@RyanBofMKE 2 жыл бұрын

I had Rick's pro model Es' shoe, and they were the greatest skating shoes I've ever worn.

@okso6369 2 жыл бұрын

I've been fingerboard for around2 years now, and the scene around fingerboarding is so talented and interesting. Definitely one of the most interesting things I've ever done

@carlmom8213 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been waiting for this video for years

@sammyhyberger7785 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been finger boarding for 18 years and still do almost every day. Love it

@Fingnars 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to see fingerboarding getting more coverage, anyone saying it's lame just takes life too seriously! Fun and challenging 🤘🏻

@thevinyltruffle 2 жыл бұрын

I had no idea this was actually a thing. That you could actually do real tricks. I thought the mini boards and parts were just novelty. Like pop figures. Just for looks. Super cool.

@TheRolexseller 2 жыл бұрын

If this doesn’t seem like the beginning of an SNL sketch I don’t know what does 😌

@ericdonalson7276 2 жыл бұрын

😆😂😂😂😂😅

@briannovak5028 2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@cathedralring 2 жыл бұрын

On rainy days for skaters in the years before indoor parks were common place everywhere we had Tony Hawk or our Tech Decks. I’ve never heard a skateboarder in my city mock it. The people who are truly good at this are fun to watch. I couldn’t control those things the way they do.

@artlover5798 2 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine used to skate with Rick Macrank in Ottawa, the only pro skater I've heard of from that city lol.

@Wuqz 2 жыл бұрын

NO WAY!! Apparently Rick is my cousin in law or something lol.. He's my step mom's cousin and I used to have some of his stuff from when he was younger. Never met him though. Always skated and been super into fingerboarding too, so I'm super stoked to see this.

@NoahCanFB 2 жыл бұрын

Was using tech decks since elementary school and after high school was when I started buying more professional grade products. Fast forward to 2022 and I'm all decked out with my Flatface G15, G8 wheels and gold Blackriver trucks lol. Yeah, I'm a fingerboard enthusiast you can say! 🤣

@lillbunnyhop 2 жыл бұрын

Just set up a crispy Flint yesterday🔥

@snager80 2 жыл бұрын

adding fignerboard to my wishlist for the holidays excellent shadow commercial as usual VICE.

@modestmouse0923 2 жыл бұрын

picked up the fb again last year so glad i did too much fun

@faroutfingerboarding 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, so awesome that Vice actually covered this! Fingerboarding is the best!!!

@TheGoodContent37 2 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of an awesome comedy youtube channel that was so criminally underrated and one of their videos was a mockumentary about young men that practiced "card surfing". It was such a masteful video filled with drama, all their videos were so damn cool. Ill go watch that mockumentary again.

@romancabrera 2 жыл бұрын

Love to see the skate and FB scene come together

@johnnypea43 2 жыл бұрын

That little bowl at the end looked so fun!

@brennerlikesskate 2 жыл бұрын

I never would've expected this channel to post a fb vid lol

@ScottyHonolulu 2 жыл бұрын

Man, i knew when i used my eraser as a tech deck in middle/high school and in college, skateboarding was special to me. It was def my first love

@jayare6592 2 жыл бұрын

My first fingerboard was a Vision Mark Gonzales. His first model, when it was still current. At that time I was skating a G&S Billy Ruff, my first actual skateboard. I miss them both

@peterthompsoncomedy Жыл бұрын

Love his point comparing it to foosball/table tennis. Was saying that to a friend a few weeks ago

@MikeLaRock88 2 жыл бұрын

We had tech decks as a kid. I loved to collect them. Also the BMX bikes and Surf boards

@shredboise 2 жыл бұрын

Late 70's? Fingerboards became the rage in the mid 80's. It startd as you said when we began making them from glued layers of cereal boxes. We would shape and griptape them. We would cut the eraser off pencils, and remove the axle and wheels from hotwheels cars. We would then insert the axle into the eraser, to make trucks, by making a small split in the end of the eraser and gluing the erasers to the deck. In the late 80's we began fabricating finger boards in shop class from plexiglass and other materials. It was around this time we began to see the mass produced keychain fingerboards appear.

@jessmaze5170 2 жыл бұрын

Just spotted Jan Fröhling in the video who sadly passed away. Rest in peace.

@Litboge 2 жыл бұрын

Legend. Rip.

@littledoodle5689 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video

@owenkennedy7854 2 жыл бұрын

So glad this long time hobby and passion of mine is getting attention :)

@MrfuckinBeilke 2 жыл бұрын

Is this coming back??

@SouthernDesignAgency 2 жыл бұрын

I remember having like 300+ tech decks when I was younger… man this brought back memories.

@DesperadoDufel 2 жыл бұрын

0:38 that tre flip to crooked grind tho😲🔥

@Recycledrampsfb 2 жыл бұрын

need more content like this

@marcharrison9847 2 жыл бұрын

10 out of 10 for this right here

@TheAugusts 2 жыл бұрын

I met Rick at a Taco stand in Ucluelet by chance this summer. Was a surreal experience

@ShaneRounce 7 ай бұрын

Best video on Vice.

@seanpaulluke 2 жыл бұрын

I went to a skate shop specifically to but Tech Decks back in the day. Lots of fun.

@AustinGbikes 2 жыл бұрын

Watching Rick skate city hall in Philly during the x games was unreal.

@SurfRawFiles 2 жыл бұрын

I only watched this to see Mccracnk skateing again!

@plainyang6782 2 жыл бұрын

I remember in highschool i saw one of my classmates who was a really big, muscular, football player playing with his fingerboard in class. I was like "whaaat?! I fingerboard too!" Then we played with our fingerboards together 🤣

@NoahCanFB 2 жыл бұрын

1:30 his answer sums it up perfectly

@dilegox 2 жыл бұрын

Fingerboarding is cool, man. Now, as a grown adult, I have my little fingerboard in my desk, and when I feel a bit overwhelmed, stressed, I just look at it, or just do a kickflip to remind me of the good ol times with my boys at the skatepark. It's like a time machine.

@nike1stunna 2 жыл бұрын

2:23 when homiee taps his board for the other dudes trick 😂

@SkyDecks 2 жыл бұрын

These are really fun to use if you just have patience

@andofb 2 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here!

@SkyDecks 2 жыл бұрын

@@andofb hahaha yeah it is fun to see where fingerboarding started and how it has evolved over time

@xSLWRTHNUx 2 жыл бұрын

The world of skateboarding, inline skating, BMX'ing, and anything alike, if you aren't doing what the other kid is doing, the other kid will probably make fun of you. It's just how is it for most. At the end of the day, we're all out there to have fun and enjoy one of the ~33,000 days we have on earth.

@milesolsen_ 2 жыл бұрын

This looks amazing

@speakeasy1k147 2 жыл бұрын

Literally used to ask for tech decks every Christmas 😂

@cuchulainn162 2 жыл бұрын

Started with the remote to the tv in early 90s but my mom would get sooo mad. YOURE GONNA BREAK THE REMOTE! Then fingerboards came out much later. Didn't have any $$$. So let's take as many quarters out of the fountains at the mall. Or just steal them either one worked lol. No fingerboard now a days but I still do tricks with TV remote lol. Damn that story reminded me of "the parallel" in the girl video goldfish. Girl skateboards before Rick McCrank.

@Sandii_x 2 ай бұрын

How I wish Abandoned had a second season 😭Rick was so cool to watch on tv.

@MTips18 2 жыл бұрын

Who remembers when "hand" boards came out?

@richardlindquist4061 2 жыл бұрын

What happened to those

@hairybass480 2 жыл бұрын

Haha damn. I used to play with a tech deck on my books in class. The teachers were not impressed. Also had a friend that would play games of skate with me. We would go round after round and would always go back and forth on wins. Damn. I have been pondering getting a new deck and possibley a fingerboard now. :)

@LordLightheart 2 жыл бұрын

Some of those tricks were so clean lollllll

@imDezrt 2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't ask for a better ambassador. I feel like newer skaters get so caught up in what's cool and what isn't, after skating for a while you realize it's just about having fun no matter how it looks. Wear a helmet, use a fingerboard, do whatever you want.

@CoolGuyDoingCoolShit 2 жыл бұрын

Son: "Dad, I want to go pro as a fingerboarder" Dad: "you're no longer my son"

@ChrisfromGeorgia 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting.😎👍

@RyanCarrington 2 жыл бұрын

I remember how popular this was in the UK back in '99

@florentinohernandez0 2 жыл бұрын

This is awesome

@askjrvbjkrfbvhjbdjf 2 жыл бұрын

I keep a Tech Deck in my office, sometimes i get bored and whip out some tre flips

@deuceylicious 2 жыл бұрын

so fucken cool. crazy how far we've come in 30 years lmfao. spending the same on a mini skateboard as you would a life size one.

@nickschulek5632 2 жыл бұрын

Rick I love that your hosting cool fun topics, that people don’t need to know about. Antisocial all day

@Seraphim_skateboards 2 жыл бұрын

It’s just cool to me because I grew up with a genetic condition and as a kid I couldn’t even go outside because of the severity of my disease at the time, finger boards saved me as a kid from depression the same way my skateboard and bmx bike do now 🤙🏻

@unknown.mp4 2 жыл бұрын

I want to see the full version :(

@PHAZE1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for representing our community for the public eye!

@blkychan1 2 жыл бұрын

The old days of middle school and high school man I bet i couldve got sponsored by fingerboards i filmed it lol

@StCloud-ns7vt 2 жыл бұрын

so precious

@icantfindausername22 2 жыл бұрын

skaters are some of the most close minded people in any sub culture.

@TommyCartesian 2 жыл бұрын

I would use teckdecks in middle school. That mini skate park looked awesome

@iamlazyskater 2 жыл бұрын

crazy, when I was a kid I found a piece of half-pipe EXACTLY the same as in 2:27 - even the same colour! I cleaned it up and hand painted some graffiti on it. Those were the days!

@brycesterling947 2 жыл бұрын

its unbelievable how many people hate on fingerboarding. its just fun. were just emulating skating with our fingers. its also really difficult which makes learning tricks extremely satisfying. i wish i could go to berlin and sesh with these guys :(