FBF of the month is the monthly challenge Haplos started on the Fingerboard France Discord in November 2024. For its second anniversary, Fingerboard France is running French Fingers, a free online video contest open to riders in any country. You film a 10-second run, send it in during November, and three judges score it. Winners are announced on December 6, and the prizes come from fingerboard brands.
Prizes
Prizes are product packs from the sponsors: decks, wheels, obstacles, accessories and merch. First place gets the biggest pack, and second and third get smaller ones. We'll post the full list here as brands confirm.
Three more prizes are raffled off among every rider with an accepted video, whether they place or not.
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How to enter
- Film your run vertically. Full 9:16 Reel format, since the runs are reposted on Instagram. 10 seconds max, in one take, at normal speed, no cuts, no editing. You can pause between tricks: it's the camera that has to keep rolling, not you. Any setup and any obstacle work, including a full park or just flat ground.
- Add a slow-mo replay if you want. Your raw clip goes first. After it, you can add a slow-mo copy of the run so the judges get a better look at your tricks.
- Send your video by November 30 with the Enter the contest button on this page. No account needed. One entry per rider.
- Share it on Instagram if you want. Post your run with the hashtag #frenchfingers2026 and tag @fingerboard_france_, or send the account a collab invite. This doesn't count as an entry: only the video sent through this page gets scored.
Frame fairly tight, use decent lighting and skip the filters so the judges can see your tricks. Music is up to you.
Schedule
- Sunday, November 1: entries open.
- Monday, November 30, 11:59 pm: entries close. We'll then post how many videos came in.
- Early December: the judges score the runs.
- Sunday, December 6: the podium and the three raffle winners are announced on this page and on Instagram. The winning runs are posted over the following week.
All times are Paris time.
How runs are scored
Once entries close, each judge scores every run independently, without seeing the others' scores, on three criteria, each out of 10:
- Style: how clean the tricks are, how the run flows, the way you ride.
- Creativity: trick selection, use of the spot, originality of the run.
- Technical difficulty: how hard the tricks are.
That gives a score out of 30 per judge. Your final score is the average of the judges' scores, and the rankings follow that score. Ties are broken by the style score, then creativity. Riders still level after that share the place.
The results show each run's final score and its average on each criterion, so everyone can see how the rankings were decided. The judges can't enter the contest.
