Most mornings, Scotty runs a kitchen. As a Sous Chef at Nike’s World Headquarters campus outside Portland, he works in an environment where timing is everything and the team moves as one. About a year and a half ago, with his wife’s encouragement, he went back to something he’d loved even longer than cooking: fingerboarding. He soon started making his own decks. That led him into Portland’s small, generous fingerboard scene, and gave him a quieter kind of work: one person, on

It's been a while since we sat down with a collector for a proper, unhurried conversation about fingerboarding. For this episode of Collector's Appreciation, we spoke with Justin, known to many of us as Nash @nashville_fb. Nash first picked up a fingerboard in the late '90s, back when the shelf held only a handful of options and Tech Decks were just arriving. He returned to the hobby during COVID, and his collection has since grown in every direction: hard-to-find OG Tech Dec

I left my place to catch a flight to Toronto at four in the morning, which is to say it did not really feel like a departure so much as a continuation of the night before — that particular fog of being awake for a reason you chose, willingly, because the thing on the other end of it mattered enough to justify losing the sleep (and a few extra cups of coffee in between). Toronto, when I landed, offered no reward for the effort. The sky was the color of a chalkboard that had be