LatestReleasesFeaturesCompetitionsMarketplace
Kingpin Magazine herringbone newsboy cap

Kingpin Magazine: the editorial home of fingerboard culture.

Magazine

  • Latest
  • Pioneer Brands
  • Fast Fingers

Kingpin

  • Marketplace
  • Sell an item
  • Guides

Company

  • About
  • Privacy
  • Support
Kingpin

Find the gear behind the stories.

Shop decks, trucks, wheels, and rare drops.

Browse marketplace

© 2026 Kingpin Market.

TermsPrivacy
Editor login
Year2017

Fingerboard World Championship

Fast Fingers 2017: Research Stub

No champion for 2017 appears in the official Fast Fingers winner list — a draft entry pending verification.

Kingpin Editorial·3 min read

Research status

Champion details are held until official, trophy, or primary sources agree.

The official winner list does not surface a 2017 champion. Rather than guess, this is a research stub: it may be a missing record, a different format, or a year without a main edition.

Part of the Fast Fingers Archive

This is one year in the Fast Fingers Archive — fingerboarding’s longest-running world championship, year by year.
Year
2017
Edition
—
Format
Live event
Location
—

The contest

What happened

No 2017 champion is visible in the official Fast Fingers winner list, and the engraved event trophy carries no champion for this year (a blank/gap year on the plaques per a community history retrospective). Whether a main world-championship edition was held — or held in a different format — is not established here.1, 2, 3

Longboarder Labs (longboarderlabs.com)

Setup-era context

For the wider gear story of this period, read The Pro-Setup Era: Precision Hardware Becomes the Standard from the “Through the Years” series.

Still being verified

  • No 2017 champion is listed officially and the trophy plaque is blank for this year. Research targets: official archives, Blackriver news posts, Flickr albums, YouTube uploads, local press, flyers, and community recaps.

References

Numbered references to the brand, retailer, and community pages that back this article. Confidence labels show how firmly each source is established.

  1. 1.
    Fast Fingers — History & World Champions

    Fast Fingers·Official

    Official event history with the year-by-year world-champion list (2008 onward). Frames the contest as becoming the official Fingerboard World Championship in 2008.

    Back to citation ↩
  2. 2.
    Fast Fingers — Media archive

    Fast Fingers·Official

    Official media archive linking photo/video sets for older editions (reference-only imagery).

    Back to citation ↩
  3. 3.
    History of the Fast Fingers Fingerboarding Championship (YouTube)

    YouTube (cdplaya)·Community

    2022 community retrospective walking the full edition history. Used cross-checked against the engraved event trophy plaques as a secondary source for the early-year (pre-2008) champion names and the online-edition winners; treated as community evidence, not an official results page.

    Back to citation ↩

Independence & sources

Kingpin is an independent fingerboard marketplace and is not affiliated with Fast Fingers, Blackriver, ASI Berlin, or the brands, riders, shops, events, or publishers referenced.

Was this article helpful?

About this article

This article is educational and reflects general, sourced community and retailer knowledge about fingerboard gear. It is not a grading, valuation, rarity, or authenticity service, and Kingpin does not guarantee the value, rarity, or authenticity of any item based on this content. Always review the actual listing photos, specs, and seller details before buying.

If something in a listing looks off, report it and choose the category that fits.

← Earlier

2016 · FF19

Later →

2018 · Needs verification