I spent a day with PRO FINGER BOARDERS

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I would love to see a “I spent a day with Anthony Padilla”? Basically you sitting down, interviewing yourself and telling us what you have learnt from this series and all of the different people

This was amazing!!! I had so much fun, thanks again for having me on the show :)

Fingerboarding has helped me through a dark time. I used to be a 100% die hard skateboarder, it was my life, I lived and breathed skating. I had been skating for about 22ish years and I was hit with a bunch of shit all at once, I got this severe deadly lung infection and came within a day of actually dying. Because of the sickness I lost around 70lbs including my muscle mass that I had developed from skateboarding for so long. Once I was out of the hospital and starting to get healthy again I started skating again, pushing around, trying to build my muscles back up. That didn't last long cause about 3 or 4 days into that I completely blew my right knee out. Mcl, pcl, and acl, destroyed. Now I couldn't even walk. It was one of those "career ending" injuries. Well while rehabilitating from that, my other knee blew out... how ironic lol
Anyways, I can't skate anymore, like physically can't do it, and it was the saddest thing I've ever experienced. I found fingerboarding, and it has filled some of that empty hole that losing skateboarding, the love of my life caused. I never would've thought something could help like this, but it has.

Mike Schneider is an actual legend in their community, not just for skill/talent but mainly for his contribution to the craft

me: “is this really real?? i could do that in my sleep.”
*5 minutes later: my index finger has a broken fucking ankle.*

I really appreciate that Anthony filmed this episode after spilling a whole cup of coffee on his shirt. Such dedication.

Seeing people just unapologetically enjoy something they’re passionate about, something that just brings them pure joy no matter what anyone says, will always be so inspiring to me.

I would be interested to see 'I spent a day with therapists' including one from your sponsor, but also maybe an NHS therapist and a private American one for comparison. Would be super interesting!

I love how Anthony treats his guests with respect, even if the subject matter might seem "silly" or weird to outsiders. I have to admit, even I was like "seriously?" when I read the announcement last week-- but seeing it in action and hearing these people talk about it, I get it now. And honestly, it's a harmless passion. If they're having fun, who cares? Life's hard enough without judging someone over something like fingerboarding.

Ah, finally something that I don’t have to pay EA for to gamble my money away on skateboard crates

Man, mikes smile when he talks about picking up the hobby as a kid and starting his website, is just so infectious. You can honestly tell that all three of them are so excited to talk about the sport. This video was super fun overall.

Something I would love seeing is "I spent a day with balisong flippers" It's a community that doesn't get enough recognition.

I didn’t even know that pro fingerboarding was a thing but this is incredible!

So stoked to see our shop and brand have a cameo! Come by anytime man we had a blast!

Am I the only one who gets a blurred part of the video from 5:34 to 5:45 and from 6:06 to 6:08, as well?
And then again from 10:03 to 10:13... Everything else works well, so I have no idea what the hell is going on.

This kinda makes me wanna pick it back up again, haven’t finger boarded in years. Still have all my blackriver ramps and shit, just no boards.

I love how they play and handle the boards, *it's so satisfying to watch*

I might not understand this as an interest but I'm happy for these folks! They look like they're having fun and that they really like what they're doing.

I really got into finger-boarding around 2013. It’s a great community and a great way for skateboarders to continue to “skate” when the weather is bad or during injuries.

bro like anthony and mike schneider, two of my childhood heroes

dude ever since i was a little kid i loved making tiny environments, making the parks for these skaters would be so fun

I've been fingerboarding for 10 years and skateboarding for for 15 years. Its a great scene, and really rewarding! Landing a trick on a fingerboard has the same sense of accomplishment i have landing a trick on a skateboard! I've met great people from all over and all walks of life,just cause I have 34 millimeter sheets of wood under my fingers

My favorite part is the creativity of building absolutly everything from scratch. I love carving out my own boards and the process of painting them and making obstacles and parks and trying out different materials and learning new things from others in the community

Okay but the mom helping her son's business is so cute

Dude, I watched Anthony since Smosh started back in the 2000’s and now I find him again creating amazing content among all the trash that people post nowadays. He is really one of KRplus’s GOAT’s.

It is so awesome to see you people took this to another level. When I was younger I exzactly started out the same; directly hooked to fingeboarding, doing it with a friend, and taking it with me everywhere! I even taped ramps to my bedside, so if I couldn't sleep I would fingerboard from in my cosy bed. I actually stopped doing it trough the years, just because other things took my life over. You really took me back to some beautiful times in my life, and I am going to get a fingerboard again ASAP! big love

absolutely loved this video, longtime fingerboarder since i was a child. i'm in my early twenties now, and although i don't fingerboard as often as i used to, or don't really attend the events anymore (wanna change that soon), i still ALWAYS have a fingerboard lingering around. right now its a flatface g15 splitply with black blackriver trucks and g4 BRR edition wheels. thank you for this anthony, loved the OG smosh videos and your new content

I genuinely didn’t know their was an “community” for finger boarding. And that one could be a “pro”. I’m especially surprised by it still being a thing- I would believe it if it was a thing 10+ years ago. Nothing wrong! I welcome it, i’m just surprised 🙈

Ok this is epic!!

Fantastico!!!.
Anthony, you and your behind the scenes people have such a fresh ideas. All those things are outhere hidden but you bring them to the fore front in a respectful manner.

I know you’ll never see this but it’s 4am and I haven’t been able to fall asleep for several days now. Been reminiscing about all the Smosh vids you made and how big of a part they were in my childhood. Just wanted to say thanks for giving me those memories. Hopefully my insomnia fix’s itself.

This is great to see, I’m 31 and got back into fingerboarding at the first of the year. It’s seriously become one of my biggest stress relievers. Glad to see it getting some more mainstream traction.

Please make a video with penspinners! I am a penspinner, and it's so interesting! The history and the culture is insane! I can also advice a person to talk to - Alex Sukhov (channel Pen Stock)

Watching them all do their tricks in the beginning brought me so much joy

I know this video Is a year old but watching content like this makes me happy I've stayed subbed for all these years. I remember watching you from Smosh when I was In middle and highschool and now that you're all grown up and so am I, It's so cool to see how you're growing as a person with your own channel and Including so much diversity and education about different people and perspectives on your channel. Love your videos man, keep up the amazing work! 🙌🏾💯

What they described as their feelings while they fingerboards, I can relate while doing my Rubik’s cube
Really helps my anxiety too, people should value these more 💕

fingerboarding is our lifestyle

Been fingerboarding on/off since like 2008, so this is really cool to see, and with Anthony hosting it makes it that much better. Great video 🤘🏻

whats funny is that skateboarding and action sports were all seen as stupid, nonsense, a waste of time. But theses type of artistic sports are, well artistic, and are respected by enough people. legitimacy is determined by the people, we can make anything we want legitimate, and I appreciate the legitimacy of all board sports. It really brings more love and light to these arts.

Man Tech Decks really become a serious sport while I was thinking they were left in the early 2000s, only springing back up in meme culture. These people are very talented lmao

Hey Anthony. I was wondering if a video like “I spent a day with Muslims” and/or “I spent a day with Hindus” would be a good idea. They're both often very misunderstood, and I think it'd be very educative! You're amazing, hope you have a great day!

I would love to see an I spent a day with pro yoyo players episode, like fingerboarding it is a pretty niche community and I do believe it'd be cool to have it on the site, you can interview absolute legends like Gentry Stein, Rei Iwakura, Steve Brown(who invented freehand style), Jensen Kimmitt An Connoly, and many others, There's several styles of play, different companies different shapes, and like fingerboarding it's a tool of expression and it feels awesome to learn. I think if you explore the world of yoyo you'll find some love for it is really cool.

This is such a great thing I think it’s really good what you’re doing Anthony because you’re bringing finger boarding more to the open world that’s not your any day skaters and I think it’s amazing thank you

"What are you in for?"
"I finger boarded on government property"

I agree! Play is so so important. When I was little I wanted to be a trapeze lady. Now as an adult I’ve been using yoga trapeze and aerial silks to reunite with my childhood dreams. It’s so fun, I get lost for hours in ‘play’

I NEVER knew this was a real thing. I do remember these back in the days when I was young but I never knew this was still a thing and a PRO Fingerboarders exist. That's awesome! Good for you!

Woah, this was an amazing video ! Stoked to see more light shine on fingerboarding !

If you’re gonna continue with skill toys in this series, I highly suggest Yoyos. I bet Gentry Stein would be down.

I’ve been binge watching your series and I appreciate how open minded you are. I wish more people were open minded like you Anthony :)

They’re just enjoying themselves… all these people look genuinely happy

I love this soooo much! I’ve always fingerboarded but never did take it seriously until quarantine. I finally bought a pro set up. Stoked to see where the sport is going🤙🏽

I love how you give the two options in the beginning in a sincere tone but are really just roasting the haters in advance.

Back in High School everybody had those and it's insane how clumsy and not being able to do proper tricks everyone was. It's really not easy and looks so awesome when you see ppl who are skilled.

The hispanic dude seems like a really chill person that would be a great friend. You should keep doing interviews with pros at hobbies like these, maybe do an episode with pro cubers? You should definitely interview @Jperm

“and emotionally stunted adults”
i- i can’t 😂😭💀

Hey anthony, i just wanna tell you about a very niche group of people: speedcubers. We are people who try and solve the rubiks cube as fast as possible (official world record is 3.47 seconds). It may be a fun group to look into interviewing :)

I’m just waiting for “spending the day with serial killers” at this point

Someone is gonna break that kickflip record in like 2 days with something crazy like 45+ I just know it.

I love how happy this little sport makes them. It genuinely calms them down and can bring them comfort during hard times. I feel inspired to have my own fun, playful, hobby. A lot of things in my life stress me out, including some of my hobbies, and I want to try to be more like these people. They're just having fun with life.

I agree with Nurse...it is very calming, relaxing and you just focus on fingerboarding. Nothing else matter! Relaxes my brain.

I’m glad he got a chance to interview Fony Fawk who finger boarded 19 years in a row everyday!

You should do “spending a day with maladaptive daydreamers”

Great video Anthony. Ive been getting into fingerboarding quite a lot cause of each lockdown and having heaps of time at home. Its such a fun little hobby that you can just do whenever/wherever

I love how kickflips are just as visually satisfying with fingerboards as they are with skateboards

You should have an interview with literal rocket scientists or someone from NASA, if you haven't already. Could be fun

I have school now but I WILL WATCH THIS LATER, seems very interesting, thank you Anthony for always making very interesting and diverse content

Started fingerboarding about 3 years ago, and I can say that it is one of my favorite pass time/hobbies I've ever picked up...

I can't believe I just randomly came across your channel. You are so empathetic and personable. Would love to meet you to do an interview on you from past videos. Think it would be a great watch for your channel x

Still remember those og finger board tech decks days ❤️❤️😘😘

This is the coolest and uncoolest job I’ve ever seen

Nice to see Mike & Anthony in the same room two OGs I grew up watching

I completely agree I play videos games and honestly I’ve gotten bored of it for the most part unless there’s like a new game that’s coming out (Mass Effect LE) but the best thing I’ve ever done is pick up a guitar and it’s made feel so much better as a person and made me feel like I can let go of certain emotions through it which is why I’d hope if you can get like KRplus guitarist or bassists or drummers of any kind would be amazing. Thank you Anthony!

You are amazing Anthony !!!
I love your work,
Have a good day :)

Dmn wow my perceptive has been widen!
I came in first to the video thinking "huh??" but came out feeling so happy
Cuz just seeing them so enthusiastic about fingerboarding makes me happy too
And i love that Anthony brought up about how we loose the concept of playing as we age
It's a difficult time that im going thru now and i would love to incorporate some "play time" in my daily routine :D
Also I've been scared to grow older cuz I wanna stay young but I love what Mike said and it made me realise I don't have to be afraid to get older if I do stuff that I enjoy and make me "feel" young
I really never thought this video would showed me so much messages but I'm glad I clicked on it
Great and amazing video as always Anthony!!

Thank you for making a video about the fingerboard community bro❤️🙏🏻

Love that Mike is pretty much the fingerboarding Tony Hawk lmao

I Spend A Day With My Best Friend, and it's just Anthony and Ian having a conversation at a diner/bar catching up lol

That was so much fun to watch and super impressive. My husband and I used to try finger boarding. My husband got decent at it. I don't have the hand eye coordination for it, but I enjoy watching it!

I'm not into fingerboarding now, but I was when I was a kid, and one thing I remember well is that Mike was the shit, he had a youtube channel and a small company that made decks, it truly motivated me to grab a board and start doing tricks. Its incredible to see how far him and the community have come

This is incredible! I had no idea this was a thing. These guys are so so skilled. My husband just told me that these eventually got banned at his school, but they found a way to make their own finger skateboards out of layers of paper, sand paper and other materials to create the wheels etc. Love the creativity!

i thought this was a joke but this is so cute idk i love these people i didn't know this was a thing

I used to fingerboard but I’d like to state that being with mike has to be an honor he’s literally a legend in the community like literal pioneer I just wish the community wasn’t how it is

I wish they interviewed weak fingers! He was an og back in the early fingerboard scene on KRplus. Great video though I love fingerboarding and I’m so glad it’s getting positive exposure

You could have spent a day with pro artists, musicians, dancers, athletes, gamers even!
That’s why this channel has such a special place in my heart❤️ keep doing the thing dude!

This is one of my favorite videos in the interview series for sure! It was so colorful and entertaining! These people are soooo cool. 😎

Damn man, I don't know how the algorithms made this video pop up on my feed, BUT AWESOME MAN! I used to fingerboard back in the day, and I haven't thought about it and many years. I love the attention you give to the subject you are covering, I'm subscribing and looking forward to your other videos ✌️🤘

happy to see these guys finally get some recognition mike has been going hard for as long as i can remember

NO WAY I'VE NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D MADE ONE OF THESE

Those two questions at the beginning remind me of those science safety tests in school that are like:
One of your classmates broke a beaker. What should you do?
A - Call for a teacher
B - Eat the glass

i also was skeptical about the subject but its nice to see how positive the chat is in padilla videos

Amazing . This was so good for our community. Thank you 💕

The noise annoyed my parent so much…haha memories.

Still have my wooden fingerboard next to me from when I was 14. Lots of fun was had with this thing. Usually it was used for fidgeting when waiting in videogame lobbys or watching videos.

Yo!! One of the smoosh boys!! What a trip down memory lane...

Used to watch both smosh and mike when I was a kid, crazy to see both worlds collide more than a decade later

I really thought this would be not of interest to me but your interview style made me watch till the end. Thanks again Anthony!

The way I was kickin my little legs off the side of my bed while Nash was attempting the record!! Was not expecting that today hahaha

“I spent a day with small content creators” would be an interesting one! Questions such as what made you start, what pushes you to carry on etc etc

Mike is the man! So happy to see how far he’s come!