A new upload from Kalye Decks frames a day-in-the-life around Philippine fingerboarder Ariel Tolentino, and credits a whole crew alongside him. Here's what the video and its description actually say.
Amara Brooks1 Minute LesezeitMost fingerboard footage reaches us with the context cut away. A table, a ledge, a landed trick, next clip. The person holding the board is a pair of fingers and a username.
Kalye Decks went the other way on September 13, uploading a day-in-the-life built around one rider: Ariel Tolentino, who the video's title calls one of the best fingerboarders in the Philippines. The full video is on YouTube. At the time of writing it had logged 6,315 views and no comments.
The pitch is in the description, and it's short. "I spent a day with one of the best fingerboard in the Philippines! Mr. Ariel Tolentino!" writes Kalye Decks, adding that Ariel is "one of my good friends back home" and that the plan was to "show what's inside his life as a fingerboard back home."
That phrase — back home — does a lot of work. It reads like coverage made by someone with a foot in the scene rather than a visitor with a camera, though the channel hasn't stated where Kalye is currently based, and the description doesn't name the city, park or setups the day was filmed on.
The stated motive is the part worth sitting with:
The Philippines needs more coverage with some of the existing players. They are all interesting!
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