Nationals 2025 Recap: Meet the Champions of Team USAFBL | S3 E137

This week’s episode of the USAFBL Fingerboard Podcast captures the heart and energy of Nationals 2025, a weekend that redefined competitive fingerboarding. Recorded live from Indianapolis, host Levine Cunningham sits down with national champions Mitchell Rushing, Tanner Hench, and Chris Daniels, three riders whose grit, creativity, and precision have earned them a place on Team USAFBL, representing the United States at Fast Fingers 22 in Germany.

From Mitchell’s unexpected sweep of the Southern Regional in Atlanta, to Tanner’s strategic and perfectly-executed runs, to Chris’s jaw-dropping, switch-stance, upside-down combo that left judges speechless, this episode dives deep into what it takes to rise from local sessions to the global stage.

It’s not just about medals or prizes. It’s about mindset, consistency, and community, the shared belief that fingerboarding is more than a hobby; it’s an art form. Through laughter, nerves, and stories of triumph, this episode reflects how USAFBL continues to push the culture forward, creating real pathways for riders to compete, connect, and make history.

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Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:00)
I've got Mitchell rushing, I've Tanner Hensch, and I've got Chris Daniel, CD player zero.

Welcome to USAFBL Fingerboard Podcast. I'm your host, Defyne Cunningham. Today I've got Mitchell rushing. Welcome to the pod.

Speaker 1 (00:24)
Hello.

I am happy to be here. It's been a good day.

Speaker 2 (00:28)
Dude, we are live here in the Indianapolis, Indiana Nationals Championships 2025 USFPL Tour. Dude, it's been a day.

Speaker 1 (00:37)
long day but successful proud day.

Speaker 2 (00:40)
Dude, we had fun. We made history. We are continuing a legacy as well. Like there's a lot going on, a lot to unpack today. I'm excited to get into it.

Speaker 1 (00:50)
I'm ready. You ready? Let's do

I am from Marion, So southernmost tip. ⁓ Yeah, so about four hours away.

Speaker 2 (01:02)
Okay. Okay. Walk us behind the thought process of flying out to the Atlanta stop, the Southern regional events, which I mean, you can compete at any one of the regional events. You would think that Detroit would be the easiest place to stop in the North.

Speaker 1 (01:19)
It's true. So I don't even remember exactly what happened but something out of my control led me to have to go to Atlanta and I just he was generally I went into it with just a hey, let's have fun mindset I found in the past if I'm a little too strict with myself, it doesn't go so well and it ended up working in my favor So that yeah, that was the mindset. I had no expectation knew the tricks I was gonna try to do

didn't even know the obstacle so he was completely open-minded to it.

Speaker 2 (01:51)
Alright so, flew down to Atlanta, you swept the entire South. I don't know how salty the South is about that, like a Northern guy coming down, sweeping everybody. You took all three contests, best run, best trick, game of skates, then came down to Nationals here in Minneapolis.

Speaker 1 (02:11)
Yeah, I'll tell you what. So with the three from Atlanta, ⁓ I was very surprised to get first in a couple of those. I was excited to see that. I felt good about that. And then when I got to Nationals today, I was I'm not going to lie, was pretty nervous. I was pretty nervous and ⁓ ended up going in best trick, not advancing in best trick. And my morale went to the ground.

I was like, yeah, this is a great day. I'm going to have to convince myself that it is. And so I'm telling you, once we got to that game of skate, I wasn't pulling punches. I was just like, I have to get some tricks that I think that other people won't be able to do. And thankfully, I was able to land them. And I'm telling you, every rank above, like every time I won, was like, is it getting real? Harder, It did. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (03:00)
Yeah, that just got real.

So walk us through the mindset of leveling up through the game escape bracket and getting to the finals, that final battle where, you know, no matter what happens, I'm getting a trading card, I'm getting a medal. I'm to be pretty much like immortalized within the USFEL like infrastructure, like you're going to forever be known for least getting second place in nationals, the very first nationals at best.

Speaker 1 (03:29)
Right, right. Man, the way that I thought about it was like every time I got stressed, like Germany, I had to just get that out of my head because that is such a large set piece in my mind. So I just had to think, do the tricks, know, that is it, nothing else. for example, whenever, one of the fun things actually I'm gonna mention here is I love the technical behind the scenes stuff with the finger boarding in terms of like.

kinda looking at people's finger positions and see what kind of tricks they can and can't do. Like I love that part of it. It's kinda nasty to do that, but so like I never played games of skate before unless someone asks, but if they ask me I'm good. I know, exactly, right? So I definitely, I love that kind of like a strategic mindset with it. So that's what I tried to do with a lot of these guys. And I think it ended up working in my favor that way. I just did some tricks that I felt as though I could do, but maybe they weren't able to do and ended up working out.

Speaker 2 (04:09)
I

⁓ the

Speaker 1 (04:40)
That was it.

Speaker 2 (04:55)
specifics is like how the truck really grinds on the rail like you were so detailed as far as like how everything is literally put together and chained together.

Speaker 1 (05:03)
Right, so in my mind, if you gotta be consistent at a trick, you've got to do it nearly the same every single time. So don't move your fingers, that doesn't look like, so you gotta get into that position and then get out of that position and then you're done. So I try to get a good bank of things, like combos that I could exchange for different obstacles, like today, our best trick didn't work out, but I had about five that I was toying around with and ended up narrowing it down, didn't get it done, but same thing with the game of skate. ⁓

Being able to catch the trick, put it down, be consistent with it. That's really better. But with the sleight of hand aspect, I love that I did that first ⁓ until I really got into it because I'm telling you, there is a certain degree there you have with magic. Like if you mess up a sleight of hand trick, like you just like kind of ruin magic for someone that's probably never seen it. They're like, yeah, magic is awful. You know, like that's their permanent impression. So.

So that's the same feel, like it really helps with your feel and helps with your consistency, accuracy, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:05)
man right on all right so you've got a trading yet to trading cards you got a regional trading card a national trading card word on the street is you might get a cover on plies magazine i know a guy i don't know if you know that i know a guy i know a guy and you've got an all-exclusive paid trip to germany to go to eat at fast fingers 22 i'm show up and show out for teen usa fbl

Speaker 1 (06:24)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's gonna be crazy. I'm very excited to see like the format of that. I've seen videos online like about past events. I'd be lying to say I wasn't beyond excited that I'm going to Germany. I've been to like three states and never in any other country of course. So this is a really cool experience. Not to say I don't care how I do it fast fingers or is it fast fingers? Yeah, okay. Not to say I don't care but it's like that was a very good goal to reach. So I'm gonna have to keep.

stacking those goals and see if we can do something for Team USA. That's going to be.

Speaker 2 (07:04)
the ⁓

Speaker 1 (07:24)
Awesome, awesome. I'm excited to see some of the other guys too, because I love finding out other people's process and all that and getting to the point. Picking up those little, not to just bring it back to magic here, but I've been doing magic longer than finger boarding. So finding the greats and just if you get one little nugget that's gonna level you up a bit, it could be even just, ⁓ tilt your finger in this little direction in this one moment in between those little things. I think it's gonna be really exciting to see ⁓ Chris Daniels.

So excited to see him just done around. So that stuff is going to be great, I think.

Speaker 2 (07:58)
the

⁓

Speaker 1 (08:15)
the ⁓

Speaker 2 (08:23)
of the scenes and an HQ ⁓ tour and we got some cool collabs going on next year stuff like that. I'm excited to announce once we get all the details finalized and stuff, but it's be a journey. It's gonna be fun, man. I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (08:38)
Awesome. and again, thanks for putting this on, because I know you know this, but you're the only guy doing something to this degree. And I thought you were doing great last year, know, with the events popping up, and then this year getting the regionals. It is official. is. The bar has been set for, I don't think there's going to be anything like this in the future unless you're going to be the guy that tops it, you know?

Speaker 2 (08:59)
No, I feel that for sure. Definitely pushing finger boarding forward. mean, creating safe spaces for people to express their passions and finger boarding, whether you're a creator, deckmaker, obstacle maker, park maker, your content creator. You're just trying to get sponsored. You're just trying to become a better finger boarder, trying to meet other people who just like the finger board. Like all that stuff happens here at the events. Are we competitive finger boarding? Yes. Well, that's like literally like 10 % of what we do.

Speaker 1 (09:25)
the ⁓

Like, hey, I was able to do that. Like, I'm glad I was a part of that and that we can all be a part

Speaker 2 (10:00)
Definitely, definitely is what it's all about. Man, all right. I know you can write. You've got to have sponsors. can't be this good not as far as anybody want to recognize anyone you want to give a shout out to.

Speaker 1 (10:09)
You don't have the board with me, but I got the names off the dome here. Famous Decks, Nate, thank you again. We've been going on strong like five, almost six years now. You got Casey from Fingerboard Connoisseur, Black Velvet Grip Tape. He's awesome. And also got Bike from Dirty Fingerboards, Ill Peels Wheels. So those are my guys. Thank you again for consistently supporting me even through the times. You maybe I'm not videoing as much and then able to do some competitions. You guys have always been there. So thank you so much for that.

Speaker 2 (10:39)
Right on. And where can people find you on the Internet? What platforms you on?

Speaker 1 (10:42)
You

know, just Instagram, really. Instagram, I post some clips. ⁓ If you go to my profile, doesn't look like so much is there. If go to the section in the highlights, it says clips V1, V2. I've got probably hours of clips on there. So check those out if you want to check that out and I'll have some new stuff here and there. I'll have an edit from here coming up soon.

Speaker 2 (11:04)
awesome ⁓

Speaker 1 (11:16)
Yeah, I'm excited man. Thank you so much.

Yes sir, we are here in Indianapolis.

Speaker 2 (11:26)
Indiana, we've got the national event. It's day two Saturday and we just crowned this man the national champion for best run streak.

Speaker 1 (11:35)
Yes sir, very excited. I put the medals in the car already, but they're there.

Speaker 2 (11:39)
I'm

safe, keeping them safe. feel that. I feel they're heavy too. They're full pound. They have a strong neck for.

Speaker 1 (11:44)
Put some weight to it. Got some weight to it for sure. ⁓

Speaker 2 (11:48)
Man, all right. So you were the best in the East, the number one regional champ. Yes. Came out here. Talk about the journey from coming. Where are from? Talk about how you got here. Tell us the journey. So.

Speaker 1 (11:54)
Sir.

I'm originally

from Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania. live in Carlisle, Pennsylvania now. So ⁓ most people think Philly is the capital of PA, but it's not. It's Harrisburg, PA. So I'm like right around that area. ⁓ So it's about an eight hour drive to get here. But whenever I heard, if you get first, they're going to send you to Germany to compete, I'm like, yeah, I got to make the drive. Like it only makes sense. So, you know, we made it. We made the trip out here and it was well worth it for sure.

Speaker 2 (12:27)
Man, all right, so tell me your initial reactions when you walked into this room, saw all of these parts. I don't know if the room was already full when you came in or if you were one the early birds and got the early sash, but tell us like your initial reactions to coming out from one of the national championship.

Speaker 1 (12:44)
Well, I think I was one of the first people here yesterday and because I've seen the room set up with the parks a few times now, but I feel like it's almost the same feeling every time. It's just like, there's so many cool parks that I get to skate. And then there were some new ones this time around and somebody brought a replica. had half of the Brooklyn banks and then half of the Carlsbad Gap. And that one was so sick. The textures on it were so much fun. Shout out to the stranger. Yeah, facts. And

Yeah, I just like ⁓ all the different parks and the different textures and how the grinds feel and stuff like that. It might sound pretty nerdy, but that's what I get excited for.

Speaker 2 (13:25)
professional high-end Black River parks all the way to all your DIYs. Yeah, they're equally as fun. I'm not gonna lie. There's a TriStar vert ramp over there that's buttery.

Speaker 1 (13:30)
Most definitely. They're both equally as

One of my favorites was the one with the blue rail over there with the sets on each side. I had a really good time on that too. ⁓

Speaker 2 (13:44)
Just

because it's a DOI doesn't mean it's not fun.

Speaker 1 (13:46)
The IWAs are great. They're great. You're creative. You're a little crafty. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:50)
Man. All right. So best run streets. You made it all the way to the finals, won the entirety of the contest, but let's talk about the final round. So you had to beat out 20 different people to get through round one. Then you had to beat out 10 different people to get to the finals where there was six people remaining. You saw the runs. think you're like,

What second, third maybe to go. I need to check my notes, but like, tell me your initial reaction. What are you thinking as far as like your run? Like what's going through your mind?

Speaker 1 (14:25)
⁓ So I think, well to start off what I'll do is I plan a trick for each obstacle around the track, well around the park not the track, ⁓ and then I try my best to stick to that. Sometimes it might switch up like if I'm going halfway through and feel like doing something else. So even my runs whenever we were in Philly I kind of did a variation of what I did there out here now.

Speaker 2 (14:27)
you

Speaker 1 (14:53)
⁓ But I was trying to pick stuff that I know that I would be consistent at and I think that I knew would score well with you guys too. ⁓ So yeah, I don't know. I just felt like I'm a very strategic person whenever it comes to planning out what I want to do and what I think will work well for me. I don't try to be like too much of a risk taker. I'm like, I'd rather land the trick than...

try to do something that would maybe score like a lot higher and be riskier to land.

Speaker 2 (15:27)
I feel that, I feel that. Man, but you absolutely killed it. I'm not even gonna lie. You did three different rounds of the same line, different variations of it, of course, and killed it each time. And actually, I feel like you were getting more in the zone each round that kind of went past. I feel like the first round was a little sketchy, I'm not even gonna lie. And then by the time you got to the semifinals and the finals, you were on point.

Speaker 1 (15:53)
The third round was definitely, I remember it was maybe like after, after I got a little halfway around, I was like, I don't even feel nervous right now. It was just kind of crazy. Cause I never felt like that while, while competing before. ⁓ so yeah, no, it was cool to feel a little more comfortable instead of having your hands shaking the whole time, because I feel like a lot of times in the past, I get a little overwhelmed with the nerves and it, and it messes you up. And it's easy too. It's like, even for something smaller, like whenever.

People are just watching you, it can be a nerve wracking feeling. So to be able to kind of like dial in and be able to perform at a higher rate because you're more comfortable is really cool for sure.

Speaker 2 (16:35)
Man, all right, so we got to talk about Germany.

Speaker 1 (16:39)
Yes

sir, yes sir ski, Germany.

Speaker 2 (16:43)
All exclusive paid trip out to Germany. We're talking about doing all the sites, all the cool stuff.

Speaker 1 (16:48)
My wife is going to be so excited.

Speaker 2 (16:50)
talking about behind the scenes, we're doing an HQ of Black River tour. Black River's wanting to do a lot of different collabs, things with us and stuff like that. Can't release it just yet. We're still in the planning stages, but we're doing some really cool stuff with you guys.

Speaker 1 (16:58)
I didn't even know that, that's awesome.

That's so cool. And I'm gonna get so many clips.

I'm self-employed. I don't need it. Okay. We all good to go here. Tell him we going

Speaker 2 (17:14)
All the crew, you going? Going.

Don't burn the place down on the way out.

Speaker 1 (17:19)
Nah,

no sir, no sir, leaving the cat in charge.

Speaker 2 (17:23)
So what are you most excited about? I love the fact that I'm bringing Team USA FBL out to fast fingers and we're put it on for our country. We're going to hopefully, no pressure to you guys, but I mean, like we need to place at least top 10. I like to win the whole thing, but if we can get at least a top 10, yeah, I feel like, you know, we accomplished some great things.

Speaker 1 (17:41)
Yeah, I don't know. So I haven't really done much research on any of the competition out there. feel like because finger boarding, that's like a bigger thing out there. Yeah. I'm sure that the competition is going to be pretty tough. I've been finger boarding myself for about 13 years now. So I definitely got some experience under my belt as well. But yeah, I don't know. don't I don't really have like a park accessible to me or anything like that to practice on. Amen.

Speaker 2 (18:08)
We

gotta change that

Speaker 1 (18:10)
Hey,

if anybody wants to donate, I'll take donations. But I did end up getting the nice 10 Sarah over there and I got another little thing. I got my little park area, but I don't have like a designated park. I don't know. I I feel like I get in my zone even more whenever I come to the events. So I feel like I unlock some new skills anytime I come out to one of these. So I feel like once I go out there, it'll probably be like a little bit.

I don't know, I feel like there's gonna be a, I'm gonna have an edge on me or something, but in a good way. It'll be nerve wracking, but I'll be like, all right, I'm here to show off type thing, so I'll be a little more, I guess on point or ready to try to show my skills or show off a little bit.

Speaker 2 (18:56)
feel that well I'm excited tell us tell us tell us your sponsors people you want to recognize

Speaker 1 (19:01)
So my board sponsor is bullgodfb, that's our Instagram, bullgodfingerboards. ⁓ For trucks and wheels it's teaktuning. And then for the shirt I got on right now, this is rare vibes. This is from a company back home that my homie started and he makes clothes. So definitely got to tap in with them too. He's not like my sponsor, but you always got to support the locals and support the homies for sure.

Speaker 2 (19:26)
Definitely. Where can people find you on the internet?

Speaker 1 (19:29)
So my Instagram for finger boarding is th finger boarding. ⁓ my personal account is just Tanner hench, T a N N E R H E N C H. And then my media account, cause I do music videos for a living is th.media underscore. So this logo is right here. That's what this logo is right here on my arm. It really got it branded on me right here. So yeah, you can very official for sure. That's why that's one of the reasons why my clips look

Speaker 2 (19:52)
Mitchell when you're tatted on yourself.

Speaker 1 (19:57)
Look crispy is because I have a camera in my hand a lot the dedication Yeah, so hey if y'all want to tap in on any ends I got I got multiple forms of content on all different pages right on

Speaker 2 (20:08)
We appreciate you, Tanner, for coming on the pod. I'm excited to follow up with you guys, especially in the 2026.

Speaker 1 (20:13)
going

to Germany? Yes sir, I'm excited as well.

Speaker 2 (20:15)
same. But I've got Chris Daniels CD player zero. Chris, you got some hardware. got some hardware. Two medals today and they're heavy. These are hefty medals. We didn't didn't we didn't skip on the medals this year. But forget all of that. We are here live at Indianapolis, Indiana Nationals 2025 USFL tour.

We just got done doing regionals and then today we just knocked down nationals. We made history today. Absolutely. It was insane. The vibes all weekend. Party did not stop Friday. Intro leading off the way. Saturday we got DJ Shucky back there bringing up the tunes. The vibes has been literally just a fun dance party day. Just jamming, vibing, hanging out, competitions, vendors.

I even got some Kodama in today. There was a lot of Kodama here. There was a lot of stuff happening here at Nationals for sure. Man. All right. You are the national champion for best trick street, aka combo of the year. The grand prize this year talking about featured in a magazine. I word on the street is I know a guy, but we're talking about a possible cover.

for Ply's magazine. We're also talking about a trading card. You got a regional trading card and a national trading card coming your way. And then of course, an all paid expense trip paid to Germany to go to Fast Fingers 22 to compete for Team USA, ⁓ FBL. That's still setting in. That's wild. That's a wild prize. of the craziest. Yeah. craziest I've seen in finger-wording.

I wanted to go out with a bang. I'm like, we're to do a first ever nationals and we want it to mean something crazy. Like this is it. This is literally the best prize I could probably ever give anyone. I feel like cash is great, but having like a four or five, I don't know how long we're going to be over there to be honest with you. We're to be over there for almost a week. Yeah. You got to get that BTO time ready. Yeah, absolutely. You got at least two, three days before you got the whole contest day and you got at least two, three days back. Oh yeah.

And Germany is a blast. So the more time you can spend over there, the better. I know, I know. Food's great. People's great. The site's great. We're going to do the ASI tour. We're going to do all the local spots. I know a lot of the Germans locally. And so like, it's going to be a great time. You've been over there a few times too. So you know some people as well. I have. And I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of them again. I have so many good friends over there. So, I mean, it's just surreal to be able to do it again this year.

And thanks to USAFBL and Ulevine, that has to be the craziest prize pool I've seen. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. Yeah. All right. So best trick street. You also got a couple of medals. You have another medal as well. One more medal. And that is in, let me see, best run street. Second place. Yeah. And these medals are this. yeah. And they're heavy. They're heavy. Almost a full pound. 15 ounces.

craziness. So you got a strong neck, you got almost two pounds. That's the high fashion right there. Man. All right. So walk us through the finals for best trick. Yeah. We saw some hammers. You were coming up like I think third or fourth rotation, something like that. We saw some craziness go down. Walk me through the trick selection. Absolutely. So

I'm sure you noticed this in the previous rounds. I just wanted to make it through and get tricks I know I could do really quickly. And it almost, I feel like backfired for the first round and maybe the second round because the caliber was quite frankly much higher than I expected. I knew it going be a lot of great fingerboarders, but there was just insane tricks in every single round. And I knew that I had been preparing this trick specifically for this. I had a backup trick too. Depending on

how many people landed their trick or when I was gonna go was gonna determine the trick and that was the hard one. That's a trick that I maybe can do 50 % of the time if even that. I was like, yeah, that was as hard of a trick as I would have attempted. And I barely got it, barely hung on, which I was so happy. I don't even care about, I do care about the medal, but at the time I was like, I landed my trick. If I got fourth place, I don't even care.

I'm just stoked I got that trick in a run almost last minute. Man, all right, so tell them the trick. Yeah, so this trick, you can call it a couple different things for a sake of simplicity. It's an upside down switch kick flip 50-50, like a backside 50-50. Or you can just call it a switch heel flip frontside 50-50. It gets confusing when you're in that world. It's like a whole other dimension, depending on how you look at it.

Well, the crazy thing is for people that don't truly understand, you know, people will be like, that's only a two piece. Like why is a two piece winning this? Yeah. I don't think people understand how difficult, how technical this two pieces. can probably, I can literally count it on literally one hand, how many people in the entirety of the world who can land that combo. That is something I have personally have never seen. And I've been literally judging and hosting events for five plus years now. Like this is wild.

I don't think there's many people that can do it and I don't know of anybody that would have pulled it out. Not in a contest. In contest with a group of people. I'm there will be people because I'm hoping it. You set the bar. Yeah, I'm hoping people come up. There's some insane finger boarders out there that can do the upside down stance, switch stance and all that. Yeah. I'm hoping to see more people do it as well.

It's crazy. Fingerboard is elevating so fast. So crazy. I'm just cool seeing all the stuff. You introduced me to a few different tricks that I saw you at Game of Skate. Had me just mind blown. I was like, what the hell did you just do? Yeah, you made my job super hard. That was my plan. Make Levine work for it. Yeah, I was up there. I'm sweating. I'm like, man, this guy's doing some wonky stuff. Like you're like, it and you do it and you landed it. And I'm like,

My brain isn't even processing it fast enough. I'm like, what did I just witness? Is that even the right trick? Yeah, did he land it clean? And I'm like, oh man, there's so much going on with it. But man, you put on a clinic today. It was fun. And like for me, I didn't plan on winning game this game. was for me. wanted to feel. Have you seen Highlander? Yeah. Kergen. Yeah. Better to burn out than to fade away. That was the game plan for that. Like I wanted to put on a show, have people see tricks that most people wouldn't do in a game escape.

And I was, I was so happy with how I performed there. Even, even though I lost like in game two, I think that that was a killer game with Kevin Da Vinci. think it was tough. Oh, that was a good game. And I was, I was stoked about that game. Quite frankly. I honestly, I mean, I hate to see you go out, but yeah, Kevin didn't qualify for regional qualifiers. And so like, yeah, he was like a 13th, I think at regionals, but because he showed up.

and he showed out and we needed one extra person. He was the first person to fill that roster spot. And so he got in there and it's not, I don't know what place, it's like fourth, fifth, something like that. But literally came in as a wild card, worked his way up, dug himself out of a hole and still got like fourth or fifth place. wild. It's wild. Yeah. And that goes to show you, if you show up to the events and you put an effort in and you do your best, you you can win and do, to perform great at these events too.

I was secretly hoping that maybe one of the underdogs would have gotten it, but I was like, man, Kevin could be that the storylines for it is so wild. love the underdog storylines. he could have won. He could have. could have. Although Mitch, Mitch, man, he's a beast. Tanner, he's a beast. Yeah. All right. You have sponsors. Anybody want to give a shout out to? I do. So I have quite a few sponsors. So forgive me if I forget anybody. So Black River, Berlinwood.

Much love to you guys, I'll see you soon. I was talking to Ernie today on my phone, we were trading text messages. Love them. Mike Schneider from Flatbase. I'm on like the Crete doctor like friend team. I support them to death. Jason's the man. Who else am I? I don't want to forget anybody. My gosh, I know I'm forgetting people right now. I know, it's been a wild day. I know you're probably coming off of all the adrenaline. I It's the grief.

Speaker 1 (28:51)
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (28:53)
Yeah, but either way we're gonna tag all the sponsors in this post. We're also put out all the links to find Chris Daniels Let them know where they can find you on the internet. You can find me on Instagram at CD playa zero And then on YouTube, which is my like prefer channel. It's CD playa with no zero. I just got CD playa somehow I got that nice

Good for branding. And that's about it. Like you can find me on Discord as well. like to, I'm on the discords. I'm on Reddit. I'm on the Facebook groups. You can interact with me there. ⁓ For me, it's about, you know, connecting with everybody. You know, I love events for that too. And see people in person, but online I've always been active there. Yeah. Man. Well, it's been an absolute pleasure. Thanks for coming onto the podcast and

We're gonna have fun next year. I'm not even gonna lie. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited too. I'm excited to go over to Germany. I'm excited to bring USFEL's finest. Yeah. Hopefully, hopefully an American wins. I'm kind of kind of sickly hoping I would not be surprised. There's some rippers that are coming. I don't think it's going to be I'm going to try my best to win. I win or lose man. It's a fun time. It's all about the memories, man. I don't think people understand like

Competitive finger boarding is great, but it's literally all about the memories. We made a ton of memories today. People were going to look at these memories for the rest of their lives. We're creating new memories in 2026. So the future is already written. It's in stone and we are coming and it is coming good. I love it. Man, appreciate you. Thank you. Levi. Until next time.