Emanant Style: Forged in SoCal, Felt Worldwide

Los Angeles, California - Drake Elliott doesn’t play fingerboarding. He lives it. Born and raised under the smog-choked skies of LA, Drake came up skating in the California Amateur Skate League with a board under his feet and a fingerboard in his back pocket. Even back then, people knew this dude was different. When he hit Woodward, they weren’t calling him the skateboarder. He was the fingerboard guy.
For Drake, fingerboarding was never just a toy or a side act. It was the skating you could do when skating wasn’t an option. And when you’re from Southern California, that matters. The heat, the hills, the busted sidewalks, it’s all part of the grind. That same energy flows through everything Drake builds today: raw, real, and never off-the-rack.
Emanant, his brand, wasn’t born in a boardroom. It started in a high school woodshop in 2007 with bondo molds, tattoo-transfer graphics, and hand-filed Tech Deck Wides. He modded trucks to look like Tensors, Thunders, Royals, charging $15 a set, and stacked enough dough to buy a CNC mold by 2008. By then, he had a following. DMs started rolling in. And just like that, Emanant was real.
The name pays homage to the E$K crew, Emanate $kate Kr3w, but also represents something deeper. Emanant means bringing ideas into reality. That’s Drake’s whole ethos. Every drop is treated like the first. Every deck gets touched, tuned, and dialed. Sixteen years deep and he’s still learning.
The Emanant team reads like a mixtape of legends and lifers: Ryan Martens, Mike Campos, Ryan Corsiatto, Zekaiah Ainsworth, SleepySlothFB, Nasty Nate, Vince Perry, Curtis Shaw, and more. OGs, day-oners, and next-gen killers. Drake’s crew rolls deep from Hemet to Boston to the streets of Ripperside.
From the first Emanant Arizona Fingerboard Event in 2012 to future collabs with Pharmacy LBC to MCing the 2025 USAFBL circuit, Drake’s still pushing. Still building. Still dreaming. Still fingerboarding.
And yes, the pro model tribute graphics are coming. Some people might get salty, but Drake’s been skating and selling decks since 2012. Underground pro? Bet on it. Support the real.

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