History, October 2026: every story Kingpin Magazine published in that section, newest first.
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Berlinwood, ASI Berlin and Yellowood can be placed in a timeline because their own record survives. The decks and trucks surfacing this autumn mostly can't — and that gap is forming right now.
A 48 mm deck is a graphic. A 40 mm truck is a tooling decision. My bet: a second source for 40 mm-plus trucks appears within a year, or extra-wide stays a stunt.
A reissue of the brand's first mark, printed transparent so a randomly chosen colored bottom ply shows through. It is a small deck carrying a large part of the scene's origin story.
Founded in Berlin in 2003 as one of the first fingerboard teams, ASI Berlin opened a concept store with Blackriver-Ramps in 2010 and has run independently since 2017. A history from the brand's own pages, with the gaps named.
Chris Daniels traces fingerboarding back to toy boards in sinks. Here is what his video actually claims, how to read an origin story like that, and what household terrain still explains about the obstacles we build now.
A maker going by u/Sufficient-Yak5181 showed a set of decks on r/Fingerboards and pointed to a Big Cartel storefront. Almost everything else about the brand is still unconfirmed.
Charlie has pressed decks for about a decade and sold them for barely two years. Since a coming-soon page in early 2025, Chicken has sold out its tenth drop and reached the racks at Slushcult, and he has told the Bigspin podcast how.
Yellowood was founded in Portugal in 2007 as a premium exotic-wood deck brand, then spun up YTrucks. Here is what the record actually supports about where it sits in fingerboarding's timeline.
