Inside the Mind of a Fingerboard Architect | ABC Parks | S3 E135

On this week’s episode of the USAFBL Fingerboard Podcast, we’re live from the Detroit Regional stop with a special guest, Adrian, the creator behind @abcparks.fb!

We talk about how he brought the massive ABC Park setup to the event, the creative process behind building custom fingerboard obstacles, and the balance between functional design and artistic expression. From letter-shaped ledges to full modular parks, he breaks down months of work, inspiration, and what’s next for ABC Parks.

If you’ve ever seen the ABC setup at an event and wondered, “Who built that monster?” This is the story behind it.

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Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:06)
In the skate park

Speaker 1 (00:18)
What is up you guys? How's it going? Good man, good to be here.

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Speaker 2 (00:41)
the ⁓

Speaker 1 (00:47)
got the ABC Park, I had to bring it out to the Detroit event, to a big Michigan event, and especially a USAFBL event. I try to show up with this thing, like, as many events as I can, you know, to get people to try it, check out the work, just see the monstrosity that I built here.

Speaker 2 (01:03)
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Speaker 1 (01:32)
Definitely, yeah. mean, months of work for sure. Like, I literally set out to kind of make the craziest thing I possibly could and I tried to achieve it and I hope I did. A lot of people come up to me too and then they notice like after seeing it videos and then seeing it in person, they say, wait, the whole thing says A, B, It's like, yeah, it's kind of my spiel. I like to make parts, but out of weird shapes, letters, numbers, whatever, you know?

Speaker 2 (01:57)
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Speaker 1 (02:08)
Yeah, absolutely. ⁓ I mean, I started making obstacles like way back when my mom wouldn't she would only budget me for a fingerboard. So I had to figure out the obstacle part myself. But yeah, I mean, I make like simple things like ramps, stairs, a lot of magnetic stuff. I like to incorporate a lot of like just functional stuff, storage boxes, things like that. And then I make, you know, my bread and butter for me, my passion is also the weird stuff. So I make like letter ledges so you can shred like your name.

or like a logo or just that's where I like to get creative and like make something weird but still proportionate and shreddable for a fingerboard.

Speaker 2 (02:47)
No, I like that. I like that a lot. You're doing some small stuff, some big stuff, everything in the middle.

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Speaker 1 (03:17)
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I've always just had a board on me, whether at a desk, making music, at a desk working. You know, I was always clicking, clacking, bothering my parents, bothering my girlfriend now. But that's kind of where it started. And then I moved up to Michigan about two years ago and was blown away that there was like this whole scene out here.

Speaker 2 (04:41)
of killing it ⁓

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and like he's gonna leave here this weekend being like you know fully committed to like everything finger boarding and I love this stuff like for real

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Speaker 1 (06:08)
not just tech ⁓

Love to see it with finger boarding. I was in the dark for a long time, but I'm glad to be contributing. I just love to see people's smiles and enjoying cool products, enjoying a fun hobby. That's what we're here for.

Speaker 2 (06:36)
Definitely. So what's the what is new for ABC parts? What can you leak? What can you let people know like that you got working on? do you what are you cooking up in the?

Speaker 1 (06:47)
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Speaker 2 (07:47)
No, it's not.

Okay, man. All right. Where can people find you on the internet?

Speaker 1 (07:53)
Absolutely, I would say mainly Instagram, abcparks.fb. We also got YouTube as well. I try to like post the behind the scenes of building. I don't hide anything. I hop on live too on YouTube and Instagram. And then you can check out some of our stuff on abcparks.com as well.

Speaker 2 (08:11)
Awesome man. Well I appreciate you getting on the pod. Same, same. Pleasure. Man, till next time.

Speaker 1 (08:14)
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Speaker 2 (09:10)
Take I'm soaring like a bird every trick of story every slot word grinding on the young child finger boarding in the stinker boarding train

Speaker 1 (09:15)
Breaking the mold Dreams with the waiting code It'll just stay screen

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Speaker 2 (09:30)
With every flick I'll write a story On this board I'm never alone

Speaker 1 (09:31)
I must

Speaker 2 (09:40)
Skatepark about my

Speaker 1 (09:55)
They screw your boarding trip. I'm flying free.

Speaker 2 (10:04)
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Speaker 1 (10:20)
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