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Famous Finger Quotes

"The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor."
-Mickey Rivers

"To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound."
-Steve Carlton

"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."
-Louis Nizer

Finger Folklore

There are tons of stories related to fingers & finger sizes stemming far back in history. Here are a few potential myths, but you be the judge. Read more about Finger Folklore

Finger Anomaly

Health issues pertaining to fingers are extremely common, especially when our fingers are one of the most used appendages on our body. Read more about a number of health issues related the fingers

Finger Sports

Years ago those big yellow pages books used to advertise “Let your fingers do the walking”. They used this cool symbol that shows fingers being used to go through the pages of the giant prehistoric yellow page books (as seen below).

Now as technology and humor merge, we’re seeing that there’s a lot more to do with fingers than just walking.

Here are a few examples:

Hand Yoga

Mudras, a hand position used in Indian dance, is a type of hand yoga and is part of a whole body exercise. I found a very interesting site about how to rejuvinate, rescue, and power your body thru hand yoda. Check out: power at your finger tips with hand yoga on Wellness.com. They provide a great explanation, and suggests some interesting and enlightening ways to exercise -- ok, it's not a sport, and I'm going to try 8it out, and still very interesting, none-the-less

Finger Skateboarding (AKA Fingerboard)

People use these tiny skate boards to do tricks and even jumps with full on finger skate parks available for purchase.

Finger Free Style Skate Board

So, my son was very "into" these fingerboards and it was all the rage in his Jr. High years. Check out these videos (below) to get an idea of why these are so entertaining. Below is a video of a pro finger skateboarder in action.

Also, it's interesting to search for other finger sports, there's sites, rules, and clubs and groups who take finger footbal and finger soccer very seriously

Finger Dancing

Finger dancing is using your finger to perform dance maneuvers and people are doing it all over the web. From Aerobics to breakdancing – finger dancing is fast on its way to national recognition

So, other things people do as sports with their hands are enteraining. Another form of exercise... and what more interesting, people take this form very seriously, see more funny websites about finger dancing.

I've included some links and vids below on aerobic and breakdance/hip hop finger dancing styles:

Aerobic/Flash dance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5PApgdjQ1A

um, they have alot of time on their hands....

Breakdance/Hip -Hop - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYnMklHLbhQ

this totally cracks me up....

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