Fingerboard World Championship

Fast Fingers 22 (2026): Alex Christ Takes the Crown

Fast Fingers 22 ran on 20 June 2026 at Blackriver's Schwarzenbach HQ — and Alex Christ won the world title.

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The live world championship came home to Schwarzenbach for FF22. Alex Christ took the crown, with @moneyfast.emp second, as the global scene travelled in for the weekend.

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: 2026
Edition: FF22
Format: Live event
Location: Blackriver HQ, Schwarzenbach a.d. Saale, Germany

The contest

What happened

Fast Fingers 22 was held on 20 June 2026 at Blackriver's HQ in Schwarzenbach. Alex Christ (@el_gringo_grande_) won the Fingerboard World Championship; per the official-account recap, @moneyfast.emp placed second (€500) and a third-place rider took €300.^{1, 2, 3, 4}

The gear

Gear & setup trends

The current modern-boutique standard: 5-ply maple pro decks, CNC trucks, and urethane wheels across the global brand field.

The scene

Brands & scene

Blackriver hosted at its Schwarzenbach home; riders travelled from across the world, with the Berlin shop (ASI) a stop along the way and shoutouts to crews including @humon.industries.

Alex Christ holding the Fast Fingers trophy after FF22 (2026). — Fast Fingers / Blackriver (Instagram)

The mood

The zeitgeist

Homecoming and celebration — the live side of the new live/online cadence, back at the spiritual home of the contest.

Today

Reading this year’s setups today

FF22 is now the current live record: the freshest champion and a reference point for buyers tracking what the top of the field is riding.

From the event

Fast Fingers 22 (2026) save-the-date graphic. — Fast Fingers / Blackriver (Instagram)

Watch

Fast Fingers 22 — final run

Setup-era context

For the wider gear story of this period, read The Modern Boutique Era: Drops, Premium Wood, and Resale Culture from the “Through the Years” series.

References

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

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Fast Fingers — Official site
Fast FingersOfficial
Official home page; frames the tradition as starting around 1999, and lists the upcoming live edition.
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ASI Berlin — Upcoming events
ASI BerlinCommunity
ASI Berlin events page; lists Fast Fingers 22 on June 20, 2026 in Schwarzenbach.
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Fast Fingers 22 — results recap (Instagram)
Fast Fingers / Blackriver (Instagram)Community
Official-account recap of FF22 (20 June 2026, Schwarzenbach): champion @el_gringo_grande_ (Alex Christ), 2nd place @moneyfast.emp (€500), and a third place (€300). Also credits @blackriver_official, @humon.industries, @garygraves22, @pliesmag, and @usafbl.
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Fast Fingers 22 — final run (YouTube Short)
YouTubeCommunity
Short clip from the FF22 final, used as the edition's event video.
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Weltmeister im Fingerboarden: Alex Christ aus dem Hunsrück (YouTube)
YouTubeCommunity
Regional feature identifying world-champion fingerboarder Alex Christ as being from the Hunsrück region of Germany; basis for his nationality.
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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.
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