The last fingerboarder I profiled was French artiste extraordinaire Alexis Milant. If Milant is the artistic face of fingerboarding, Mike Schneider is it’s Tony Hawk. He’s been fingerboarding since he was 9 and is now 19, so that’s 10 solid years of fingerboarding. In those 10 years he’s become one of the best (quite arguably the best) and most well-known fingerboarders in the US. Mike lives in Massachussetts and has become iconic in the US fingerbaording scene partly because he has mad skills and partly because he owns Flatface, one of the top fingerboarding companies in the world.
I could go on, but the video below says it all. Pay close attention around the 41 second mark. I had to rewind the video and watch that part over and over because I was so amazed! This is why Mike Schneider is awesome. He’s not just mastering every trick, he’s innovating and thinking up tricks that should be impossible, and that is what fingerboarding, like skateboarding, is all about!
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