It's pretty insane to me how far fingerboards have come in my lifetime... I
remember seeing one for the first time on a bus in 1988. My friend Ben Fowler had a keychain style all hard plastic old-school style shaped board (well, that was the current style of the time, since this was almost 40 years ago), and he was ripping up the seat rest on the seat in front of him; busting out smith grinds and nose wheelies all over the place...