History, September 2026: every story Kingpin Magazine published in that section, newest first.
5 stories
Mike Schneider founded FlatFace in the United States in 2003, starting with the least glamorous part of a setup and ending up with decks, bearing wheels, a distribution arm and a collection of old gear. What the record confirms, and what it doesn't.
A new video essay by cdplaya pulls one Moroccan rider's part out of Hazard Fingerboards' Warfare and argues it belongs in the canon. Here's what's in the essay, and what the record still doesn't tell us.
A new episode of the Bigspin Fingerboard Podcast picks up with Christian of Kalye after a long hiatus: a rebuilt team, a shift from pressing wood to drawing graphics, and a ten-year mark arriving this December.
Kingpin's roster credits Timo Lieben's Berlin workshop with bringing hand-pressed five-ply maple to serious fingerboarding in 2002. Here is what that one-line entry actually establishes, and what still needs a source.
Before it made trucks, Blackriver made the things you ride. A first pass at the record of Martin Ehrenberger's company — the ramps, Fast Fingers, the park, and the 2010 arrival of BRTs — with the gaps left visible.
