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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.
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.
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 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.
