News
May
RIKSGRÄNSEN
Finally the season has reached its end and I can’t be but super happy.
My latest competition, the Scandinavian Bigmountain Champioships, went just great and I took my fourth victory there in the telemark class. But what I’m more happy about is that my points would have given me the sixth place in the alpine class. Juhuuu!
It was nice as well to have whole three competition days even though the weather was a bit louzy most of the time. And the best thing was the best hang ever by the trailer park by the lake…
And of course hands up for my good friend Crille Björk who won the alpine class and stole the well honoured victory from Henrik Windstedt.
My good friend Panu watching the finals
by Nordals Branten in Riksgränsen.
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April
LAPPLAND
Sun, soft snow and Battery Spring Break 2009.
It was time again for the annual Battery Springbreak: having fun & partying big time, enjoying the soft landings and having good time with old friends and playing guitar.
This year we got it all – as usual. Now home and getting ready for the season ending in Riksgränsen.
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April
LAPPLAND
Photo: Jani Kärppä
Battery Catapult Uphill Jam.
Here we go, the Finnish Lappland, spring, sun and finally some jumping for me.
For this spring Battery Energy Drink had fixed a nice step-up kicker and the speed / inrun was made by a catapult, a rope that took you up to 80km/h in 30meters…
As my first real jumping for this season I’m super happy. I made it to the finals, the top five. Among jibbers that do it more or less as their job…
Jiihaaa:)
Photo: Jani Kärppä
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April
SWEDEN
Now the season in the Alps is over and a long drive back to Sweden is here. Never done it in one go before when driving alone, but this time yes. From 6am to 1am… The last hour was bad.
The spring is here with finally some park skiing and jumping. Now I have a couple of new school contest in Finland and the season ending in Riksgränsen in mid May.
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March
ANDERMATT
Lifestyle and TV.
My good old friend Blumi, mr. HIUTALE, was travelling by us and stayed for two weeks, for the rest of our trip. We did a reportage of Andermatt, Blumi did some artwork for his college and the best of all, we did ski a lot of good powder. So stay tuned, watch Hiutale next winter – and get stoked!
Photo: Arttu Muukkonen
Life is beautiful!
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Photo: Arttu Muukkonen
Filming with the Finnish-Freeride-Lifstyle-Movie-project Virne.
We were super lucky with the weather. As it’s been perfect season with snow, it means that it has been snowing something around two times a week, so the sunny days has been quite rare. Now anyway, we got nice week with perfect sun – but of course the snow was a bit hard then… Anyway, we got plenty of nice shots and the result will be great for sure:)
Photo: Arttu Muukkonen
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March
ANDERMATT
I took part in the Swiss Championships in telemark cross, or more properly chinese downhill. . It was a lot of fun. The run was one of my home runs, so I got an advantage of that.. But still to win that competition, I really had to ski that run faster than ever. The other dudes were a way faster that I ever had thought..
Scary shit!
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February
ENGADIN / ST MORIZ
www.engadinsnow.com
This was my third attempt at the Engadin Snow Freeride Competition. And this was as well the first time I’m actually pretty satisfied with my run. I had a bunch of fun cliffs, some exposed skiing and had the stamina to clear the face whitout falling:)
Otherwise it was just great four days, like usual there. The organization is perfect and it’s good for all the riders. It was great as well to see new faces and to see young riders showing it off, like the winner Fraser Mc Dougall and Sebastian Hannemann who came second.
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February
ANDERMATT
It has been snowing super duber much the last days and it will snow total a week now. My pisteur friend here at Gemstock just told me that when he was bombing this morning, some of the crack lines were around two meters high.
Anyway.., this means just good for us – or.., very very good for us. Now all the lines and all the cliffs will be at perfect condition, we just need a little bit of a patience and when it’s safe to rock.
Ready, wet, go…
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January
ENGELBERG
It started to snow in Andermatt again, this time we are waiting for a big one.
I took myself to Engelberg to do some shooting and it was pretty fun to see that everything was just so crappy.. Well, this shot is pretty nice anyway..
Next to a chicken farm.
Photo: Jussi Lehmuskallio
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January
ANDERMATT
Skiing is great. Now I have the whole season free for just skiing. It was maybe three years ago the last time when I had a chance just to ski so much as I wanted to. Now I have that situation again! As placed in the Alps I can just ski ski and ski, and all the filming trips, competitions etc.. are away only a couple of hours of driving.
I as well got my new skis from Elan. After trying them a few days now I’m very pleased to say that skiing has never been that easy and that much fun!
Now I have been skiing the new NTN telemark binding from Rottefella the first days too, and I can tell that the binding rocks way cool and I’m sure it will change my skiing to much better:)
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January
ANDERMATT
Skiing at last! I just came here to the Alps and and it feels like coming back home. Nice and refreshing after playing two months in sand under the hot sun:)
This season Andermatt seems to have very good snow conditions and it’s just snowing on..
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December
THAILAND
Still here under the hot sun. Now we got into some superior climbing, and everything starts to feel good and comfortable. ..but of course, soon it’s the time to go back home. Back on the skis, ooh yeah, and the place will be Andermatt in Switzerland. But first the Christmash in Scandinavia.
Happy Xmas to You all:)
…and greets from the warmth!
We found this cool bat cave for some tough bouldering..
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November
THAILAND
Hi! I did it the other way and chose some sun and climbing instead of looking at the rain in Stockholm. So we packed our packs and babies and took a flight to Asia, for some climbing for us and sand for the older young one:)
Never say never. As I always totally disliked the ”sun holidays” – it can be fantastic as well. You eat great, sleep well, do slak lining, go climbing and just enjoy the time and the sun..
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Summer & Autumn
STOCKHOLM
Finally we are getting back to business, the snow time is getting nearer, and it’s time to make some updating…
This summer has been great, hot and warm.., and quick. The time has flewn with my second boy who was born in June:)
This autumn has been busy as well, surprise:) But I’ve as well been jumping at the water ramps here in Stockholm more than ever! Really looking forward of the winter and nailing some new tricks!
The jump..
From the forest – in to the sea.
Photo: Andreas Pastor
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May
RIKSGRÄNSEN
The end of the season is here.
The Scandinavian BigMountain Championships gathers every may closer to two hundred competitors from all over the globe. It’s the perfect end for the season, everybody are waiting for the summer and you meet lots of friends, the small skiing world…
This year the weather allowed us to have two competition days. The level among the alpine men was crazy as usual and Henrik Windstedt took his well earned sixst victory!!… Telemark class had more competitiors that ever as well, wich was very refreshing. This year my good friend Per Jonsson skied well strong and stabel and took the first place (in telemark class). I was second, in which I should be glad after crashing big time in the first run..
The jump..
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April
LAPPLAND
We started our traditional spring time trip to Finnish Lappland by visiting Battery-SpringBreak in Ruka. The set-up was perfect: a big bunch of the best Finnish skiers and snowboarders, the perfect park, chilled out slopestyle sessions and lots of drinks…
From Ruka we continued with Pekka Hyysalo and AJ Kemppainen more up north to Saariselkä, where they had a nice big step-down kicker. There we viseted Nyrkki with his crew filming their next years stuff for their next skimovie.
Concrete in Ruka:
Photo: Tero Repo
After Saariselkä we headed to Ylläs and its well respected park.. A couple of days photoshoots with some skiers and snowboarders. ..and some parties.
Pretty intensive two weeks. Now it’s good to get back home and get ready for the Scandinavian BigMountain Championships in Riksgränsen…
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March
NORWAY
What comes to Norway, I’m always pretty sceptic about the weather. They had built a sweeet kicker in Oppdal during the Oppdal Mega Park Sessions, and we planned with Tero to go and shoot it. We had six days for that, sounds like a long time for one jump, but we actually could only hit it one and a half days.. So this time we were lucky!
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March
HELSINKI
…I heard that it was good skiing in Helsinki, made it there with my kid. Well, yes, unfortunately I was sik some days, and we made it back to Stockholm.
-One of my best ski trips ever!
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February
ANDERMATT
My telemark friends from the States came over to Europe and our plan was to film as much as possible for their Lipstick Films productions. We were based in Andermatt, one of my absolute favorite places. Normally the skiing there is sooo perfect and it easy for me to find there ´cause I’ve been spending there some seasons before. Anyway, this time we were super unlucky and got only lots of hardpacked and ice.
photo: Tero Repo
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February
ENGADIN SNOW
From Chamonix we got on the road heading to St Moritz with Andreas. We chose to drive the road in Italy. This is one of those roads that I haven’t taken yet, and closer to Switzerland it’s worth it for sure.. Cool littel roads next to some nice little houses and restaurants.., and some bit bigger houses as well…
EngadinSnow is a perfect mid-winter event. It’s very well organized, the north face of Mt Corvatch is a fantastic place to have a freeride competition, they have a big-air competition as well and the afterparty in the Diamond Club in the center of St Morizt is one of those reasons you want to go there again!
In the free-ride competition my friend Andreas skied his Chamonix-style, did it very well and placed as second, while I crashed.. In the big air you could see a lot of high varv rotations in a relatively small jump, the judges liked it. I did some easier stuff, felt good, enjoyed the sun and got some pricemoney afterwards – not bad:)
Fransson & Wille trying to pose..
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February
CHAMONIX
I’ve never been so keen on skiing with ropes and stuff, but this time I couldn’t avoid it. I met my good old friend Andreas Fransson, who’s already spent some seasons in Chamonix and now he had some time with me skiing around the system. We had nice time there and suprisingly, for me, it wasn’t crowded at all, all against my afraidness towards this place. We could ski all alone in peace and quiet in the beatiful weather. Maybe it was beacause of it was sooo icy everywhere, so it was lots of easy, safe and slow turns ..but it was nice – Andreas loves it!
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January
JAPAN
Jiihaaa, it’s true – the fact that there is a lot of snow there.. We got lucky, snowice.., and otherwice as well. My Japanese CROSS-team mate Matsuo Kenjiro gave us the name to the local avalance chief in Niseko. So we ended up finding him at his lovely Woodpeckers Lodge and we got a place there for a few days, with wonderful breakfast and so sweet local atmosphere.
Mainly we were skiing in the trees, because of it was snowing all the time, but it’s sooo good. And as everybody knows, driving car can make you smile.
Blumi with his sweet teeth:
..I guess because of he just saw this:
photo: Tero Repo
It was a shame that we only had one day in a big city. This time we visited Sapporo for a couple of hours and this is what I think I saw was pretty Japanese:
..and I guess this as well (never seen it anywhere before):
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December
HELSINKI
Merry Chirstmas!!
We spent our Chirstmas in Finland and due to the beautiful weather we desided to hit the Talma glacier, a Finnsih snowboarder factory , and here is how it was:
photo: Tero Repo
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December
STOCKHOLM
I’m stoked to finish my termin at my school. We had a supercool fashionshow in Stockholm. All of us did A LOT of work for this the last weeks, and now it’s great to have it done. You can take a closer look at it here.
So, now the season is here for me for real and soon we’ll hit it big in Japan…
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December
RUKA & HELSINKI
Now I’m home after my first competition, and actually my first skiing on snow this year!! Suprisingly :) it was a bit difficult to get good feeling on the park, and the competitions went veeery bad.. Well well, that’s how it is but we had a lots of fun a got good photos (that you will see in some magazines in the future for sure:)
We hit some rails as well on the way to Ruka in Helsinki and this time it was as fun as always. Here you can see my first skiing this season:
photo: Tero Repo
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November
WAITING FOR THE SNOW
It’s feels great to start the season at the SkiExpo in Helsinki. Meeting friends, meeting sponsors.., having fun and getting fun..
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Autumn
Stockholm
Sweet, at last I got myself in to the water ramps here in Stockholm. It’s nice and refreshing…
We just moved into a bigger flat as well and I guess that this will take some hours the next few months...., this is our gozy kitchen:
