Setup education
Guides
Setup education with a rider's eye: decks, trucks, wheels, tuning, buying, and the practical reference reads behind every build.
8 guides · Updated
Features
Kingpin Magazine's evergreen collections in one place — setup guides, era files, and source-cited brand histories — plus the latest featured reads.
Durable editorial families that keep growing. Each one has its own landing page — start anywhere.
Setup education
Setup education with a rider's eye: decks, trucks, wheels, tuning, buying, and the practical reference reads behind every build.
8 guides · Updated
Era files
The era timeline: how decks, trucks, wheels, and scene habits changed from homemade toys to boutique drops.
7 eras · Updated
Makers & movements
A source-cited map of the makers who pushed fingerboarding forward, organized by era, country, and contribution.
12 brand stories · Updated
The newest features from across the collections, freshest first.
Brand Histories
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.
5 min read
Product Spotlights
FBS says its Extra Smooth grip has a new formula for the first time since 2008, tuned to feel worn in from the first session. Here is what the listing confirms, and what it leaves out.
3 min read
Guides
Nominal width is the one number every truck and deck listing confirms, and it is the least useful thing on the page. The five interfaces that actually decide whether your parts bolt together are the ones nobody prints.
4 min read
Product Spotlights
Graphic tape sounds like a trade-off between looks and feel. Here is what Zeg Heads and Slushcult actually say about this four-pack, and how to pick between the 1mm and 0.5mm sheets.
4 min read
Product Spotlights
Blackriver TV's clip of Tom Pimishofer puts the By Fingers For Fingers graphic to work. A hand-colored fade, Pop's thin-but-stiff build, and artwork the brand says changes the more you ride.
3 min read
Product Spotlights
State Pen, Shatter, Ambush and Anarchy landed on Index Fingerboarding in early October, all on the same classic mold with mid-to-low kicks and mellow concave. Each deck is serial numbered, and the ply color varies board to board.
3 min read