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I was so stoked when Jeldo finally won. He has always been one of my favourites. I had the pleasure of meeting him when he came to Toronto with Mike and Adrian. They spent a night at my place and my daughter fell in love with him.
I started fingerboarding around 2002 or so because in 2003 I purchased my first BerlinWood followed by Winkler Wheels and Riptape - I would be a true veteran by now hadn't I dropped out in 2008 or '09 because my life developed in a different way back then (though I remember that trucks always remained a pet peeve of mine because Techdeck Oldschool/Longboard trucks in 29mm had been the best material available so it never fully ceased to feel like a toy.. A few month back while cleaning up I came across an old setup, played a little - and it hit me just as hard as it had 20 years ago.. 😅 I went to _ASI Berlin_ to get a modern setup after having found out that things have changed a lot since back when we would have killed for something like the China Truck 3.0.. 😅 I got a starter complete for 25 bucks which is light years ahead of even the best stuff we could possibly hope to assemble in the 2000s, a setup which is absolutly appropriate and sufficient for me - actually.. I was blown away of what the scene has become during my absence, just as skateboarding had experienced a fad in the 70's just to fall out of fashion quickly again so only the dedicated, legitimatly invested people would stick around and shape what once had been a hype into a fully fledged self-sustaining "underground scene". Of course I would try out what I had dreamt of back then and ended up with a number of premium builds quickly if only to figure out my preferences, something which absolutly didn't matter in the past because options had been that limited. It's an insane privilege to have _ASI Berlin_ located a mere 20 minutes ride by public transport from my place so I'm hanging out there pretty often recently and it's amazing what a welcoming community has established in light of the fact that I'm ND and don't easily feel comfortable in a new social setting. But here I got told "Don't worry, we are all freaks around here" and instantly felt home.. 🤣 However - the other day I got asked whether I'd like to accompany a trip to _Fast Fingers 2024,_ appearently the first live FF after some years of hiatus and I of course just have to take the opportunity because I knew about the event since I started but never made it there although it's taking place in my country. I'm excited as hell already and can't wait to be there..
