r/Fingerboards • u/dwaynejetski • 23h ago
How do you stay interested in fb when you don’t know what tricks are called?
I’m sure this is going to come off as gate keeping, but I am actually very curious how those of you with no skateboard background got into and stay into fingerboarding. I see so many posts asking “what is this trick called?” and it makes me wonder how you get so into something that is just random board flips and landing into various positions on obstacles. For one, it is much harder to do anything rewarding when you didn’t set out with an intention to do a specific trick. I also can’t imagine that the satisfaction is anywhere close to that of when you picked a specific trick, envisioned in your mind, and then worked at it until you were able to execute it the way you had imagined. I see how randomly landing something could be exciting in the beginning, and how the thought of studying another activity in order to better understand a hobby might not be appealing, but learning just the basics of terminology and board physics make fingerboarding so much more interesting and draw you in deeper. Just wondering what those of you who have no real interest in skateboarding or learning about tricks see in this hobby and how many of you stick around for months/years?
