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From concept to culture

Founded in 1999 with the goal of producing professional fingerboard ramps, Blackriver has grown into a world-renowned brand of fingerboard equipment of all kinds.

From the beginning, the Blackriver team's goal was to promote fingerboarding and create a scene where everyone could feel comfortable.

Today, we support and organize fingerboarding events, sponsor a worldwide team of fingerboarding and skateboarding riders, and continue to drive the professionalization of fingerboarding through constant product innovation.

The idea for the company came to founder Martin Ehrenberger after a trip to the USA in 1998, where he bought his first plastic fingerboard and immediately fell in love with this new hobby. He started looking for miniature ramps and boards, but couldn't find any high quality products. So he decided to combine his carpentry training with his years of skateboard ramp building experience and Blackriver Ramps was born. It all started with the Big Mama, which still exists today.

Today we offer everything a fingerboarder's heart desires and much more. You can find our products in the webshop, we also offer services, build skateparks and sponsor a team of world class fingerboarders.

The rest is history. However, here are a few milestones in the history of our small company:

1999 - Foundation
1999 - first product: the Big Mama
2000 - first event: Fast Fingers 1
2000 - first team rider: Chris Heck
2000 - first fingerboard park
2000 - first fingerboard park
2002 - Riptape
2002 - first German Championship
2003 - Pissing Fingers 1
2003 - first pro ramp
2008 - first world championship at Fast Fingers 11
2008 - first concrete ramp
2009 - first US tour
2009 - Fingerboarder Magazine
2009 - first fingerboard book
2010 - Fingerboard production moves to Schwarzenbach
2010 - shop in Berlin
2010 - first heat transfer graphic
2010 - Blackriver Trucks
2010 - Bollie
2013 - Exhibition in LA with Tony Alva
2013 - first brick ramp
2014 - Playground
2023 - Diamond Coping
2023 - FingerCon 1

Founded in 1999 with the goal of producing professional fingerboard ramps, Blackriver has grown into a world-renowned brand of fingerboard equipment of all kinds.

From the beginning, the Blackriver team's goal was to promote fingerboarding and create a scene where everyone could feel comfortable.

The rest is history. However, here are a few milestones in the history of our small company: