Checking Out A Hidden DIY Fingerboard Park in Queens 

So sick!! Thanks for the shoutout ❤ that spot looks awesome!

Jenkem continues to have the best insights into the culture of skateboarding, please never stop! Kudos to those dudes for making the scene happen

FYI We’re having an event (Awesomefest 2) at the diy this coming Saturday Sept 16th if anyone wants to come! Contest signups start at 1pm. Music afterwards at Trans Pecos 7pm. -Guy from the video with the brown t shirt

Fingerboarding really is something everyone does but doesnt talk about

Fingerboarding rocks! Thanks for featuring the hobby Jenkem! Also, that DIY looks so sick, need to visit one day

I just think that they like skateboarding so much that they fingerboard to fill in the gaps of time they’re not skating

Thank you Jaren, Benson and Cooper for an awesome day getting to nerd out on my childhood hobby. I am beyond inspired of all the hard work that continues to go into this park. Keep doing what you all do!

I’m happy fingerboarding is finally earning some respect. I’ve been fingerboarding like most of my life but actually at a hobby level for like 12ish years now and it’s come and gone from my life but the future looks bright which makes me stoked!

The "undisclosed location" is behind Restaurant Depot in Maspeth Queens, overlooking Newtown Creek, the most-polluted body of water in the USA. It's a fantastic spot, I've filmed there when I made the very first classic-Jaguar-in-NYC video on my channel.

soo doooppe! weve been building replica parks in the NorCal area for about 4 years now, hosting pop up events at skateparks and growing our local scene, so its so sick to see other communities build their DIYS and share the FB Culture! This is definitely a bucket list trip to visit and sesh, hopefully one day!

something bout this is just so wholesome, i really enjoyed the vid fr

Hell yes! So stoked to see fingerboarding in this light!

This is honestly amazing seeing a man with a dream and bring it to life with a community to back it, more power to him and hella kudos for just doing the damn thing

Love you guys for constantly putting out such amazing content!

Love watching things like this bring people together

Great video, thanks for sharing something about our hobby and passion. Especially on one of my favorite channels, JENKEM!!!!

I, personally, love this type of content. The amount of just tech deck products I have in my possession from over two decades ago is insane. I would travel to every Wal-Mart withn a fifty mile radius just to buy every tech deck I didn't own. And don't get me started on my park collection...

BIG UP BROOKLYN CREW!!! MUCH FB LOVE COMIN AT YA DIRECT FROM OAKTOWN CALIFORNIA!!! Fb saved my mental life. Skating for 25+ years and i broke my leg 2 years ago, picked up a fingerboard during the recovery and fell in love with it and grew a different perspective to skateboarding and approaching tricks. Its the bees knees

Insane spot and a super cool video! Me as a professional fingerboarder I’m so happy to see things like this; I always think why fingerboarding is not as common for skateboarders, whenever I’m not skating I’m fingerboarding. That actually make my brain think and do more skate stuff : same movements, foot position, grinding, filming, editing, etc... and a lot of times I learned skate tricks because of fingerboarding, I think that is INSANE. Fingerboarding is like a whole art that has a ton to do with it, it’s infinite as skateboarding!

This is awesome! So much better than the paper and notecard park I had on my desk in the early 2000s

Dann that spot looks sick❤ would love to visit it one day🙋🏼‍♂️super cool to see you guys having so much fun with it…luv it

That's so rad! I love it. I used to have a tech deck half pipe and a little fun box thing with stairs and a rail.

So sick! Going to build something like this in Sheffield, here in the UK, real soon.

man this is somethin else!!! amazing works!

It's so dope you covered this

Greg makes the best videos. This was tight!

Thats rad af. Watched this with Chris Kraft and Martin Ehrenberger together. Thanks Jenkemmag for this one, you guys should come to germany to see skate and fingerboarding scene here. ✌🏻

Absolutely loved this

Fingerboarding for Life! 🔥 Thank you Jenkem! ❤

this was so awesome, I wanted to keep watching more

I'm writing this to say, in a gentle way, that there is no Nollie Cab.

I'm from south central Indiana and in the mid 2000's when I was in 2nd grade I can remember my day one friend and I fingerboarding, scootering, and BMXing during reccess. By 5th grade Techdecks had became so popular that kids started selling them to eachother for quarters and the school had to "ban" techdecks. Fast forward to my 27th birthday (this year) my brother bought me a pack of 10 techdecks and I said "ha! thanks brother, I love these I probably play with one now and again."...Except a week later I was scheduled for surgery on my lower back, so it was difficult to sit for about a month1/2. I stood in my kitchen and techdecked the whole time- now I'm onto real fingerboard brands. I love this crafty hobby. (If you read all this- u r awesome, shred, build, glhf,

more wholesome jenkem content yess

Great video, and that park is fireeeee !!!

I literally have my own DIY fingerboard park so big ups I love seeing stuff like this

Ronnie Creager had some good stuff on his day in life 1999. We used to make boards from plexiglass or plastic rulers back in the day.

this is so sick. love that park in brooklyn. i remember 50/50 down the rainbow rail at 1:12 one time and being so excited lol. i have to see the secret fingerboard park next time i'm there

Thanks for making this.

Great stuff!!

i want a max palmer fountain spot replica ASAP

YES, I love finger of fury. I used to own the vhs. And I was happy to see it was uploaded to RU-vid when I searched a year ago. 🤝🎉

Being a 2000s fingerboarder from europe myself, this warms my heart!

seeing people take pride will never not be cool! power to the finger boarders man

Mike Schneider is a goat of youtube fingerboarding and product

Jaren is such a great guy love his fb videos

love everything about this

So dope!! More niche stories like this

Beautiful video and souls.

jenkem coming up with the goods once again

fingers of fury was what got me into fingerboarding legendary to see him mention this in the video! haha sick!!

Damn this is so cool! I lived in nyc for a decade and never heard about this place. Definitely visiting next time

I remember cutting credit cards in half and bending the nose/tail and making ledges out of notebooks/textbooks back before there was fingerboards. Looks so cool

Jenkem is for the culture!!!!

Opus 0 Alexis milant video was always my favorite. The simplicity the Sounds on obstacles. One of the most well put together finger parts

def will peep this next month!

Great content as always. This was fun and interesting to watch. Does guys seem like theyre def doin for the love - and thats what its all about

Yo!! I used to always fingerboard at Turntablelab HQ back in the heyday in Brooklyn. Ask the other Michna about it. He actually has some old clips of it somewhere too. And "fingerboard tourist" is THE best title for that dude. This video is awesome, BTW!!

scene is now amazing, people recognize each other around the whole world! :)

I love the diy aspect of it, stuff like the little stairset model he made out of wood is so clever.

I need to visit this now!

I love jenkem for this

Beautiful video

This is great !

Insane. I remember playing with these in Jr High or earlier back in like 97-98 😂

i’m def going there sometime this week

Fingers of fury was a great video! Miss the good old days!

Yoooo! Thats too sick!

Yooo those paintings in the back were crazy. Seeing Goku made me wanna go super Saiyan with the tech deck

Well said!

Damn thats actually dope 💯

This is wild 😂

Yoo that is insane!

Makes me want to get back into it

This is rad; makes me proud of my little DIY finger park on my office desk, next to my (but out of Zoom view) of my work computer!

I remember getting pretty good with fingerboards and trying to record tricks with a camcorder and being annoyed that the movements were too quick to effectively capture on video. itd be cool to see a fingerboarding video that is recorded on a high frame rate camera

This is awesome

neat! im way more hung on the ben Davis shirt on east coast! blue collar SF right there!

Just made a bowl / plaza setup for my boys a little while ago I like hydraulic cement easier to work with an you can get it super smooth

They need to add another slab and make it to where you can walk through widish walkways and jump from essentially cube to cube via doing a sick bump or moving if one would rather do such instead.

Yeah guys! Whoop! I’ll sesh there one day

respect in every aspect! 🔥🎤✊

randomly saw this diy in a graffiti vid a few days ago and wondered if anyone knew about it. looks fun

I love it! If you are in a circle of skaters, high likelihood at least one has a fingerboard of some kind on them, most likely multiple people. Its too imaginative, you get to skate obstacles that would never exist and you can just keep walking when someone says hey!

Woulda loved to see the finish pour from the wood form! Or do they leave the wood on?

Amazing

You know one big thing no one said why they love finger boarding so much is, it’s imagination aspect to it* It’s all about imagination when you finger board

I need to go there asap

This is so sickkkkk

Fuckin dope it really never gets old ....my brother always said your going to be 40 and still playing with fingerboards im 35 and still dabble a couple times a year

literal peak euphoric feeling being admired for fingerboarding when everyone said it was lame years ago. never stop fingerboarding bless

Much love from the Canadian FB scene

max palmer and nely morville and city of caterpillar shirt and fingeboarding this video is fire

this is absolutely sick

the amount of tech decks we all had taken away by teachers in early school... lol

oh my gooood I watched fingers of fury soooo much growing up

I made my own finger board a couple years back...always been a hobby❤

I happened across a finger board park in Santa Rosa, CA

This is dope

I want to make a outdoor park somewhere in Tokyo someday!!

this is so ffucking sick and right by the water. chill as fuck vibes man. cool stuff.