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Skateboarding


Q: What is a skateboard?

Answer: A wooden board typically 30 or more inches in length that comes in many different shapes which has four wheels attatched to the bottom to allow a person to ride on.


Q: What is a skateboarder?

Answer: A person or thing that rides a skateboard.


Q: What is skateboarding?

Answer: The action of riding on a skateboard.


Q: What is a skateboarding trick?

Answer: A skateboarding trick is a skillful action involving the flipping, rotating, and or spinning of a skateboard with a skateboarder's feet in midair while rolling or riding it along a given path.


Fingerboarding


Q: What is a fingerboard?

Answer: A fingerboard is a skateboard that is about 8 times smaller than a regular skateboard.


Q: What is a fingerboarder?

Answer: A person or thing that uses atleast two fingers to perform skateboarding tricks with a fingerboard.


Q: What is fingerboarding?

Answer: Fingerboarding is when a person does regular skateboarding tricks using a persons index and middle fingertips with a fingerboard most often on a table or counter top.


Q: What is a fingerboarding trick?

Answer: A fingerboarding trick is a skateboarding trick performed with typically a fingerboarders index and middle fingertips on a stationary table using a fingerboard.


Tableskating


Q: What is a tableskater?

Answer: A tableskater is a special type of fingerboard used for tableskating and is also used to refer to a person or thing doing the tableskating.


Q: What is tableskating?

Answer: Tableskating is a sport that involves driving a special kind of fingerboard called a tableskater with a persons index and middle fingertips along the top of a table while riding a regular skateboard along the side of that very same table.


Q: What is a tableskating trick?

Answer: A tableskating trick is a fingerboarding trick performed on a tableskating table by a person or thing riding a regular skateboard with their feet along the side of said tableskating table.


Q: What are the parts of a tableskating trick?

Answers:
  1. The Sprint
  2. The Mount
  3. The Push
  4. The Skate
  5. The J-Set
  6. The Tableskate
  7. The Scurry
  8. The Pop
  9. The Super-Sig
  10. The Catch
  11. The Land
  12. The Tableskate
  13. The Grab

Q: What is a tableskating table?

Answer: A special kind of table designed for tableskating.


Q: What is a static tableskating table?

Answer: A static tableskating table is a tableskating table that is made out of a solid material such as concrete or cement and sometimes steel or stone and is placed somewhere where it cannot ever be moved of relocated such as a recreational park or skate plaza.


Q: What is a dynamic tableskating table?

Answer: A dynamic tableskating table is a tableskating table that is made out of a light weight composite material such as MDF or Plywood and has steel or aluminium legs with wheels attached at the end each leg for ease of mobility, setup and storage.


Q: What is the minimum number of tableskating tables needed in order for someone to be able to tableskate properly?

Answer: Atleast four, 8 foot long tables.


Q: What is the maximum number of tableskating tables needed in order for someone to be able to tableskate properly?

Answer: Theoretically there is no maximum amount.


Q: What are some of the benefits and rewards of tableskating?

Answers:
  1. Less dangerous than performing regular skateboarding tricks.
  2. Increases in hand-eye coordination.
  3. Increases in overall balance.
  4. Good cardiovascular exercise.
  5. Tremendously entertaining.

Dangers


Q: Why are skateboarding tricks more dangerous than tableskating tricks?

Answer: Skateboarding tricks are more dangerous than tableskating tricks because skateboarding tricks are performed with a persons feet and their whole body instead of just their fingers.


Q: Why are fingerboarding tricks less dangerous than tableskating tricks?

Answer: Fingerboarding tricks are less dangerous than tableskating tricks because fingerboarding tricks do not involve riding a skateboard with a persons feet.


Q: Why are tableskating tricks more dangerous than fingerboarding tricks?

Answer: Tableskating tricks are more dangerous than fingerboarding tricks because the simplest tableskating trick involves riding a skateboard close to a stationary table at speeds greater than 5 miles per hour.


Complications


Q: Why are skateboarding tricks less complicated than tableskating tricks?

Answer: Skateboarding tricks are less complicated than tableskating tricks because skateboarding tricks do not require extreme hand-eye coordination and because tableskating tricks happen much faster than skateboarding tricks do.


Q: Why are fingerboarding tricks less complicated than tableskating tricks?

Answer: Fingerboarding tricks are less complicated than tableskating tricks because although both fingerboarding and tableskating tricks happen at similar speeds, fingerboarding tricks do not require balancing on a moving platform before, during, or after the performance of a particular trick.


Q: Why are tableskating tricks more complicated than both skateboarding and fingerboarding tricks?

Answer: Tableskating tricks are more complicated than both skateboarding and fingerboarding tricks because tableskating tricks are pretty much skateboarding and fingerboarding tricks combined.


Differences


Q: What is the difference between a skateboarding trick and a tableskating trick?

Answer: A skateboarding trick is a trick performed with a persons feet while riding a skateboard whereas a tableskating trick is a trick performed with a persons fingers that ride on top of a tableskater that rolls along the top of a table while riding a skateboard not far from said table.


Q: What is the difference between a fingerboarding trick and a tableskating trick?

Answer: A fingerboarding trick is a more static trick because it requires that a person stand still while performing a fingerboarding trick whereas a tableskating trick is classified as a dynamic demonstration of balance along with superior dexterity that goes along for the ride.


Q: What is the difference between a tableskating trick and a fingerboarding trick?

Answer: A tableskating trick is a dynamic fingerboarding trick because it requires that a person ride a regular skateboard next to a table whereas a fingerboarding trick is a more static representation of the same skateboarding trick performed with a persons fingertips.


Q: What is the difference between a skateboarding ollie and a tableskating scurry?

Answer: A tableskating scurry is performed with a tableskater's index and middle fingertips while riding a regular skateboard whereas a skateboarding ollie is performed with just a skateboarders left and right foot.


Q: What differences are there between fingerboards and tableskaters?

Answer: The weight and tactips.


Difficulties


Q: Why are skateboarding tricks more difficult than tableskating tricks?

Answer: Skateboarding tricks can be more difficult than tableskating tricks because they require extreme balance, more strength, more energy, and greater agility.


Q: Why are fingerboarding tricks less difficult than tableskating tricks?

Answer: Fingerboarding tricks are less difficult than tableskating tricks because they are stationary tricks that only require advanced hand-eye coordination.


Q: Why are tableskating tricks more difficult than fingerboarding tricks?

Answer: Tableskating tricks are more difficult than fingerboarding tricks because they require intermediate balance, intermediate strength, intermediate energy, and intermediate agility along with extreme hand-eye coordination.


Enjoyment


Q: What makes skateboarding fun?

Answer: The feeling of freedom it yields, the adrenaline it produces, the way it looks, and the challenge.


Q: What makes fingerboarding fun?

Answer: Its simplicity, its complexity, its efficiency, the dopamine it generates, and the fact that it alone can render tricks that are impossible to perform on a regular skateboard.


Q: What makes tableskating fun?

Answer: Its overly exuberant intricate unaccountable perplexities, and the fact that you are essentially doing both skateboarding and fingerboarding at the same time is just overwhelmingly impressive.


Equipment


Q: What does a person need in order to be able to go tableskating?

Answer: A person will need an open parking lot or neighborhood side street, a regular skateboard, 4 or more tableskating tables, and a tableskater or fingerboard.


Education


Q: What should a person learn first when wanting to learn how to tableskate?

Answer: In some cases it might take a person longer to learn how to ride a regular skateboard than to simply drive a tableskater along the top of a tableskating table with their fingers... This is the main reason we believe a person should learn how to ride a skateboard when the weather allows and learn how to fingerboard when the weather does not allow.


Q: How long can it take to learn how to tableskate?

Answer: Less than a year.


Q: Why would someone want to learn how to tableskate?

Answer: Because tableskating is more fun than skateboarding and fingerboarding by themselves.


Location


Q: Where does tableskating take place?

Answer: Planet Earth.


Q: What country was tableskating invented in?

Answer: The United States of America.


Q: What state was tableskating first performed in?

Answer: Florida.


Q: What city hosted the very first tableskating event in history?

Answer: Holiday.


Time


Q: What year did tableskating originate?

Answer: 2019.


Q: What is the average length of a tableskating trick?

Answer: Less than 2 seconds.


Q: What is the average length of a tableskating run from start to finish?

Answer: Less than 30 seconds.


Physics


Q: How many variables are there in tableskating?

Answers:
  1. Wind Velocity.
  2. Tableskating Acceleration (e.g. Skateboarding Tableskater Acceleration).
  3. Tableskating Drag             (e.g. Skateboarding Tableskater Drag).
  4. Tableskating Velocity        (e.g. Skateboarding Tableskater Speed).
  5. Tableskater Acceleration  (e.g. Finger Tableskater Acceleration).
  6. Tableskater Drag              (e.g. Finger Tableskater Drag).
  7. Tableskater Velocity         (e.g. Finger Tableskater Speed).

Q: How many constants are there in tableskating?

Answers:
  1. Gravity.
  2. Tableskating Mass (e.g. Skateboarding Tableskater Weight).
  3. Tableskater Mass  (e.g. Finger Tableskater Weight).

Q: How many functions are there in tableskating?

Answers:
  1. Tableskating Run (e.g. Running with Tableskating Skateboard).
  2. Tableskating Mount (e.g. Mounting Tableskating Skateboard).
  3. Tableskating Balance (e.g. Leaning with Tableskating Skateboard).
  4. Tableskating Propulsion (e.g. Pushing Tableskating Skateboard).
  5. Tableskating Approach (e.g. Nearing Tableskating Table).
  6. Tableskating Set (e.g. Setting Tableskater on Tableskating Table).
  7. Tableskating Drive (e.g. Driving Tableskater on Tableskating Table).
  8. Tableskating Maneuver (e.g. Takeoff from Tableskating Table).
  9. Tableskating Capture (e.g. Catching Tableskater in Midair).
  10. Tableskating Land (e.g. Touching-down on Tableskating Table).

Q: What makes one tableskater better than another?

Answer: A perticular tableskaters' shape, weight, size, grip, and or tactips can have an overall effect on the performance of a persons tableskating abilities.


Cost


Q: How much does it cost to go skateboarding?

Answer: What ever it costs to buy your own regular skateboard and skate shoes.


Q: How much does it cost to go fingerboarding?

Answer: What ever it costs to buy your own fingerboard.


Q: How much does it cost to go tableskating?

Answer: All you need to buy is a regular skateboard, tableskater, and a dynamic tableskating table that can be easily setup on the street you live on or somewhere in your neighborhood.


Statistics


Q: What is the completion ratio of a fingerboarder who has been fingerboarding for the past 10 years?

Answer: 33%.


Q: What is the completion ratio of a fingerboarder who has been fingerboarding for the past 20 years?

Answer: 41%.


Q: What is the completion ratio of a fingerboarder who has been fingerboarding for the past 30 years?

Answer: 49%.


Q: What is the completion ratio of a fingerboarder who has been fingerboarding for the past 40 years?

Answer: 66%.


Miscellaneous


Q: Why should tableskating be considered an extreme sport and not a regular sport?

Answer: Simply because despite it being safer than regular skateboarding and other extreme sports such as snowboarding or even motocross for that matter...it is still very possible to break something or become severely injured while trying to tableskate, but mainly because extreme hand-eye coordination is essentially what tableskating primarily involves.


Q: How old does someone have to be to tableskate?

Answer: As long as a person can walk, run, and ride any regular skateboard, they are old enough and should have no problem tableskating.


Q: What do fingerboards and tableskaters have in common?

Answer: The shape, size, and grip.


Q: What do fingerboards and tableskaters NOT have in common?

Answer: The weight.


Q: What is a tableskating session?

Answer: A tableskating session is the amount of time a person spends tableskating.


Q: How long does a tableskating session normally last?

Answer: 90 Minutes.


Q: Is tableskating harder to perform against or with the wind?

Answer: Tableskating is easier to perform with the wind instead of against it.


Q: Who invented tableskating?

Answer: Daniel Scurry.


Unknown


Q: What is the optimal weight for a finger tableskater?

Answer: not sure yet...


Q: What is the optimal weight for a skateboarding tableskater?

Answer: not sure yet...


Q: What is the fastest possible speed weight someone can tableskate?

Answer: not sure yet...


Q: What is the average number of errors durring a tableskating session?

Answer: not sure yet...


Q: What kind of tableskaters are mostly used for tableskating?

Answer: not sure yet...


Q: Who is the best tableskater in the whole world?

Answer: not sure yet...

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