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Far from Home

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Season is ON! Like really on.

So all of December I was in Levi as usual. It's always nice to see the people there since you barely see anyone during the summer. Weather was like it usually is around that time, some days you might have -1 and then a few days late the temperature drops to -25. A few days after I left Levi they got -34 I think, soo thankful I wasn't there working when it happened.



Most of the time I was just working. I did get to ride some park but mainly after a long day of working when it's too dark to film anything and on my days off the weather ended up being quite terrible. Only thing I ended up filming was some faceshots in the small amount of pow I could find on the side of the slope. It turned out so bad that I actually just deleted it. The base was way to weak to go ride in the trees.


So christmas and newyears passed by pretty quickly and on the 5th of Jan I left Levi, went to Helsinki, repacked, and headed towards Austria.


So I've been in Austria now for 2 weeks and it's been epic. The snow base is not that good but the last 4 days we've been getting so much snow that it's hard to stay away from the off-piste. This results in ruining the base of your boards real nicely. The service for my board ended up costing 40€ which was abit of a shock but they did a really nice job. If anyone is interested in where I took my board it was Moreboards in Mayrhofen.


We bought the Tirol Snow Card which is like a combo ski pass that is valid in something around 90 different resorts. During this first week we've been to 4 different ones. Around 7 I guess if you count the ones that are connected to eachother as different resorts.


The first weekend we tried going out. This ended up with us eventually just drinking at home since the taxi never picked us up. We called it like 3 times and the same driver confirmed that he would be on his way. I feel like he might have been one of those drivers who pick you up at the point when he happens go drop off another costumer close by.

So last night we were successful because of better planning. We took the train to town. Only "problem" is that the last train leaves at 20:20 or something so you end up starting the evening quite early. So today was kinda just about regaining my strength, which is an idiotic way to spend your day away from the slopes. But, it had to be done.



This week we actually got a super fun day in Hintertux. The weather was abit terrible but it had it's upsides. The few who were there mainly spent the day on the slopes further down where it was less windy and better visibility. This left us with some super easy-access powder areas. I think we spent like 3/4 of the day riding this area between two slopes that for some reason had really good snow. I filmed abit even if the visibility wasn't too good but it turned out ok. Was planning on putting a clip together tomorrow night. Our internet connection is the most unreliable you can get so let's just hope I can get it uploaded.



Hintertux in general to me seems like a place that has good riding as long as they have alot of snow and it's a bluebird day. The clouds seem to almost stick to the mountain and since it's a really high mountain the top part has been really windy. The wind combined with the snow and clouds played tricks on us real bad, there was no way of knowing what is up and what is down or if it was ice or powder in front of you. It was super funny going on the t-bar to the top. The lift trail was covered in 20cm of fresh, coming half way up i suddenly hit a wall of snow. With the back foot unstrapped i didn't get very far at the point where I was waist deep in snow. I think all of us fell off the lift at that point. You really don't expect that much snow on the lift trail.


Even if this isn't that far away from home there are so many things that make you feel like you're somewhere super far away. First of all I would say that it's about as easy to get your point trough to someone in Thailand as it is here. Surprisingly often you end up in a situation where you end up getting service in german even if you tell them you only speak english, no matter how polite you are.

There seem to be alot of stores that don't accept Visa which to me is weird. Yesterday I was in a grocery store that would only accept AMEX and Maestro. No Visa, no MasterCard. So basically you get used to always having to carry abit of cash with you. Up on the slopes they only take cash in the restaurants and bars.

On the slopes people have no respect what so ever when it comes to standing in line. everyone cut in line, alot of people even cut in line even when there is no free space anywhere. Too many seem to have no idea what so ever how to pick a spot where you wait for your friends. You get people going trough the ticket gate at the lift and then just stop in the small area in between the ticket gate and the lif to wait for the rest of the group. You get large groups who block all of the gates while waiting for the seasons to change. After 2 weeks I'm still completely amazed by this chaos around the lifts. One day I girl in her 20s started complaining to me because I wouldn't let her cut in front of me in the lift line. She most def got the babe of the day price for that one.


Oh yeah, they use 2&1 cent coins here so you end up having alot of those small annoying barbie coins that are worth more in the material they are made of than the actual value of the coin.


There alot of stuff to write about but I will leave something for later. I need to put up some pictures and edit some pow riding to make this blog abit more interesting. Hoping to get it done tomorrow.

While writing this the damn internet shut down again so might be that I'll get this posted tomorrow morning if someone wonders how some of the stuff I've writted don't add up.

Goooooooooood Night!

Close to a perfect summer day!

First of all. I haven't been blogging or anything like that lately because I've been at our summerhouse where you just constantly end up doing stuff. It's where I am right now as well but for the first time in a long time I'm here all alone, which means it's easier to concentrate on writing.

So ye, today was a pretty epic day. I've been out to sea. I made a nice BBQ dinner for myself, feels weird to bbq for only yourself. I enjoyed a really cool sunset, while heating up the sauna.

Had a long relaxing sauna session. It's sooo chill to just sit there in the warm sauna looking at the flames behind the glass. Skinny dipping/swimming in the sea where the water was just perfect. I had some cold beers in the sauna, and one of the times I was sitting outside cooling off with my beer and owl flew straight over me. Owls are badass, like the birdversion of ninjas. They have insanely good and precise hearing (in the winter they hunt mice trough layers of snow), they are completely silent in the air and when they sit up in the tree you can barely see them cos they sit freakishly still.

Now it's completely dark outside so might go practice some astrophotography, loads of fun and really challenging. At least with my gear and skills. But you gotta start somewhere right?

My sister and her boyfriend just left today so kinda weird not having them here since the evenings are usually the time we sit at the kitchen table socialising or watch series. I think they spent like 6 or 7 weeks here and were kinda bummed out about leaving. Got to go sailing with them on sunday (damn this week has gone by fast). Tomorrow I'm off to Turku on new adventures.

Last but not least!!!!!!!! The frikin edit that took me FOREVER to get done. SKDÄÄÄM!!!

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Season is over! Onboard SendOff Session Final Edit.

So there hasn't been that many clips this season. I still got some unedited because we kinda wanted to try to save up for a longer clip but the weather was against us most of the time and on top of that I managed to injure both of my knees which forced me to spend alot more time off the board then I wanted to. To give you some info there will be at least one pow clip from Riksgränsen and one park clip from Levi if not two small ones. Due to my injury and unemployment there are alot of things to get done but I should get everything edited within a month. If you follow snowboarding sites you might have noticed that Onboard MAgazine had their Send Off session at LEvi this year. The Park crew worked long days for about a whole month to get everything build and it turned out amazing. Levi is truly underrated when it comes to park standards, in a way it's a good thing because the park is hardly ever that crowded. I'm not sure if it's at 100% but next season there might be some big changes around the parks at Levi, and all I can say is that it's most likely going to be really epic. If you haven't seen the final edit from the sessions here it is:
Onboard Send Off Session 2015 - Main Edit a Snowboarding video by onboard


  A friend posted thsi video on Facebook today and I felt like I just had to repost it here. This looks like tons of fun. Maybe it's something I should try this summer on water and then on the snow next winter :D

Shitty weather but spring is here!

We have gotten close to nothing filmed the past few months. The weather has been absolutely terrible. With a few sunny day that have been so windy it's hopeless to do anything on the jumps. Riding rails is beginning to feel abit boring almost because it's the only option on the super windy day. The wind also destroys all the soft snow so no pow to be found.
On the upside I've been out abit more than usual. For me it's a good thing because I might not go out at all for a few months and it gets sort of antisocial. The busy weeks for example are usually so exhausting the alot of the day you just can't find the power to get your ass of the couch once you get home. I've started going to the gym again on a more weekly basis, always a good way to get more energy.
I think everyone know we've had a few really good nights with some amazing northern lights. The were so strong that even if it was abit cloudy that radiant light pushed trouhgt the clouds.
I grabbed my camera and the tripod but was too late once I got everything in place. Another time I guess...
I've been home from work trying to get my knees in better shape which means I've been watching alot of stupid stuff but yesterday I found some gems from the past. The best snowboarding movies ever. Movies that get you more hyped on snowboarding than any other.

Some of the great
Mack Dawg Productions movies I found on youtube.




The quality is poor but it doesn't really matter. Still awesome.

Quick reminder if you order anything from www.myboard.fi add the LEVI code at the checkout for a small discount.

I got a new edit done. Had some problems with the resolution so I had to render it 4 times and upload it twice before I got it to work and look the way I wanted.

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Svanstein

Here we go. So on January 17th we headed to Svanstein since there has been alot of talk about the resort this winter. I'm going to cut it short.
There are 2 t-bars but still alot of terrain to be ridden. If it snows alot they leave some slopes as they are so you get to ride pow on the slopes too. In some areas they have been cutting down alot of trees for BC riding which is awesome. You might have to walk back to the lift 10 mins or so but it's worth it. The staff all around the mountain were really outgoing and friendly and just ask the lifties and you will get good directions towards the good pow spots.
The terrain is kinda steep, but nothing too crazy.
As it got dark we had some lunch and hit the park. The park wasn't too much fun. Alot of small features and some of the takeoffs were abit sketchy. Then again they started working on the park abit more around a week later so I think we'll be going back to check out the park later this season.
I forgot to set my bindings back on the board and was too lazy to do anything about it later so the riding isn't the best and during the day I crashed quite alot. So this clip is far from good in my opinion but shows abit of Svansteins potential.


 
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Things I've seen and places I go!

Almost 4 months since my last post. This has to be a new record. I don't really know why I haven't posted anything, just had a really hard time getting around to do it. So where to start?
The end of the season at Levi was alot of sitting around waiting for good weather, we did film alot but Kaarle has all the footage since he filmed on the 7D most of the time. And he is on the other side of the world right now so won't be getting that footage any day soon. I still made a miniedit of what I had on the GoPro. It's far from quality footage but I felt like editing so whatever.


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As usual during the springtime at Levi there was alot of days with bad vis and we got new snow that was super sticky so you could barely get enough speed for the small jumps. This was the case during Levi Camp351 which kinda takes the fun out of riding. But that's how it has to be on Levi Camp, at least one day has to suck.

Just before Levi Camp we went to Riksgränsen for som Powhunting, and we actually got some really nice runs in the 3 days we were there. Editing the footage from that trip is next on my to do list.
I would have been nice to stay at Levi for a bit longer, not that the lifts were open but you could still ride in July if I remember correctly. If you don't have anything against hiking that is.
On the last week I started skateboarding which is great fun and a fast way to move around. It's funny how stoked you get when you manage to do a small Ollie over a six by four.

From Levi I headed straight to Helsinki, this was around mid May.
It's always nice to see family and friends. And the weather was awesome, it seems like it generally was a really good summer in the southern parts of Finland.
2 weeks later I headed to Norway to work. Basically driving back to Levi and then 900km or so past Levi. I've been driving in my car alot lately.

I was in Norway for 2 months working in a kitchen/grill and my whole stay is really simple to sum up. Most of the time was spent at work, and the only other things I did was sleep, go hiking a few times and go fishing.
My workstation:

I can tell you, it was hot as f!
Met alot of new people and made some new friends. Basically the people working at the restaurant is a really random bunch, it's so awesome when you have a big group of people that are all so different still getting alot really well. Miss you all!
But as I mentioned I mostly worked so I'm just gonna post alot of pics that a took while I was there.
Click on the picture for original size!

So we hiked a few nice peaks and got some fish, and spent quality time at work ofc.
Then, at the end of July, it was time for a change of scenery.

So once again it was time for the nearly 2000km drive home. On the way close to Kiruna, Sweden I took this picture. I think the colors in the picture are awesome. I took it when I was taking a snackbreak and just a few moment later it was gone.

Once I got back to Helsinki I had one week to repack and meet family and friends. Took a short trip to our summerplace since everyone was there. Saw my sister and her boyfriend for the first time in like 7 months and taught their dog to realize she can swim. I actually got some GoPro footage of the dog swimming, maybe I'll use it in some random edit.
Having spent the previous 2 summers there it felt abit hard to leave. It is prolly the most relaxing place I know, and traveling alot that is just what you need. Waking up wheneve you feel like it. Take a swim in the ocean. Sit by the sea. Maybe go for a daytrip in the sailboat.
I actually managed to squeeze all of that into 2 days so it was a success.

Then back to Helsinki to pack everything and off to New Zealand.

Believe it or not but I'm actually not even here on holiday. I got a job as a ski instructor here. I arrived in Auckland a week ago and stayed there for a few nights. Really felt like resting after the 25h trip, 30h actually if you count the time from door to door.

Auckland seemed nice, I didn't really do that much. Mostly just skated around town.
I can't remember what the name of the park is but in one of the central parks I cut abit too close to the curb on my skateboard and took quite a nasty looking fall. At least judging from the guys reaction that was a few meters away from me. I will master that sport some day! :D
Only touristy thing I did was to visit SkyTower which is 328 meters. I just bought the cheapest ticket (28$) that takes you to level 51 (186 meters) but it was still kinda cool to have such a nice view over the whole town. I had a beer at the cafe and managed to get the picture of a guy "bungee" jumping outside the window.
There are a few random pictures at the bottom that I just taught look cool. And then there's The White Lady, I just had to take a picture of it. It was by far the best thing anyone told me about Auckland, cos those burgers are just amazing. If I lived there I would most likely eat at The White Lady every day.

The quality of my pictures isn't the best but I should get my real camera in a few weeks. All pictures above are taken with my phone or my GoPro.

On Monday I took the 6,5h busride to where I am now, Ohakune! It was like riding a rollercoaster, the roads felt like it was just one tight turn after another. On top of that the road felt quite bumpy and there's like a million hills to climb. For the first time in a long time I was close to getting carsick. Would prolly have gotten carsick if it wasn't for the awesome landscapes.

I haven't really been taking any pictures here because it's been raining alot and I haven't been up the mountain yet. Tomorrow is my first day so I think that during the following week I'll have something to show and/or write about. Time to get the gear ready for tomorrow and go to bed.
I hope this post wasn't too long.

A new clip out of nothing!

The weather here hasn't really improved lately. If the sun is shining, it's really windy. If it isn't windy the light is prolly really flat, and so on.
Got no more work this season which makes it slightly easier to try getting something filmed if the weather is good for even a few hours. However we filmed on a bad day and I think the footage is entertaining. The snow is melting faster that ever but we should get 15cm of snow this night.
Lately there has been alot of pro boarders riding at Levi such as Eero Ettala and Heikki Sorsa, so who knows, maybe we'll see something filmed over here in the next episode of CWG.

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Kaarle's revenge! (NEW EDIT)

Episode 4 is out! We got some really nice sunny days but the wind was still bothering so we only got a few jumps filmed on the big ones before it got too windy. Still nice to have some contrast once in a while!


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SLAP IT!

"Episode 2" is out! Blam! It's actually alot shorter than I taught it would be but maybe it's better that way. Due to crappy conditions it looks like we might just stay on this side of the border this weekend. Still excited to see what we will come up with.



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Snowboard like you mean it!!!!

Winter holidays are here, daaaaaaaamn! Levi is completely packed with people. Compared to last year there are alot more britts. We got a crazy amount of teachers and everyone is teaching big groups of people. I get kinda stressed when people keep running into eachother and random tourists wanna beat you up when you "cut in line" with your student even if you got priority. You'd be surprised how much time some people spend complaining on their holiday.
Do people forget that when you're on holiday you shouldn't be in a hurry.
My board broke and they don't have do Buck Up in stock anymore so new board again I guess.
However I was thinking of writing a review on the Buck Up, just for the fun of it.
After a seriously nasty workweek we leave for Björkliden with Kaarle, to search for some fine lines.
New edit on the way, will be released later this week.
Here's somethign small for now!

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Hitting the park!

So the frontslope park is ready, and I must say they did an awesome job as usual. 3hit run with small jumps on the left and bigger ones on the right. At the top you got one "cannon-tube" and a rainbow bow.
We filmed a few runs with Kaarle the other day and as soon as I got my new software (trial) set up I'm gonna edit something. We got some really weird looking versions of simple tricks, and ofc lots of no-grab spins. Most def sexy stuff.
Tried to film selfie runs the next day but I'ts damn hard, gonna try again tomorrow.

If you listen to Spotify when riding the park and like electronic music, try Nero. Not a new artist or anything but I find it gets me really hyped when riding park, lot's of energy, good stuff!




I should be able to get the edit done tonight or tomorrow. Depends on how well I manage the new software.

I've been working my 2 jobs like an animal but hopefully it will help me save enough money for some pow trips to Sweden and Norway.
The following month will be really intense when it comes to work due to the christmas season. This means I don't really feel like partying that much, or at all since I haven't had a drop of alcohol in 1 month and 1 day, hoooooray! Seriously, you save alot of money by not drinking at all.

All my christmas shopping is done and I'm left broke for the next 2 weeks, still awesome when you get to make people happy on christmas. I'm heading south for christmas for an amazing 3 day vacation haha.

I guess noone missed the Air&Style news, just seems to be the beginning for Sven Thorgren who seems to start of his season really strong.



What I think is really big news is WHITE PULLS OUT OF OLYMPIC SLOPESTYLE QUALIFIER
He has been trying to get into the slopestyle scene a few times and it doesn't really seem to be going well this time either, then again the man is a machine so I guess we'll see who is doing and what at the olympics.
If you look at the picture it looks like he would have tiny legs, don't get me wrong, that guy is prolly fit as fuug. But still.... prolly the pants...

Time to start figuring out the editing software since the download is ready. I'll be back!

KAZU joining Adidas, that's a guy with style beyond anything. One of my favourite riders.

Snowboarding until we get to snowboard some more!

It's been a slow start this season. Mainly because there isn't really enough snow to go offpiste that much and the park will get finished at the end of the incoming week.
As I wrote before, I sold my Ride MAchete and my Lib-Tech T.Rice board which left me with nothing for the groomers. So I've been riding the rental boards for the past weeks and I can't seem to find a board in the Nitro selection that I like. The Team 1.0 or whatever it's called was ok, basic camber which is nice on groomers.

I was working on the slalom world cup when they had the first race at Levi which was a cool experience. There's a hellalot of work that goes in to the competition that takes less than 6 hours across 2 days, completely insane. And you would think you'd get to follow the comp closer that anyone which is true, but between the stuff you have to do you actually just see the competitors pass by really fast and you have no idea of who's leading or anything. Still had a fun week.

Work start tomorrow, it's weird cos I feel abit nervous even tho I'm well prepared and I know how everything works. I'll be working long hours almost all week so I guess I'll be back to the old routine in a few days. Or not, lately there has been no routine what so ever.

The "park" in Kaarle's backyard is more epic than ever. This fall we built this platform from where we get speed for the rails. I't about 2m high, 2x2m wide, kinda overkill. And awesome.
We got the rails set up, the jumps and the takeoff shaped and "watered". Now we just gotta see when we both got time to film, and more than anything, try to get some skills!

Last thursday I got my new board, bindings and boots. I wanna ride the setup a few days before I reveal what I'll be riding this season. I'll prolly write a small review since it's kinda fun, and it might be helpful for some people considering the same gear.

Talking about new gear. I also sold the GoPro HD Hero2 and bought the HERO3+ Black Edition.
Here are some pictures taken in different conditions with the new GoPro.

I Have been filming some short clips on the groomersand will edit something small this week.

This picture is taken by Kaarle, I think it's an awesome picture and at the same time you get a sneak peak of the Vide-Oh! park at it's early stage.

Today the world lost Paul Walker from the Fast&Furious movies. In a car crash when he wasn't even driving himself.  Damn shame. I liked him as an actor and the movies will never be as good if they continue the Fast&Furious series with someone else in the lead role. R.I.P. Paul.

Brutal Death by fire!

This summer I'm working for the national park, it wouldn't be interesting to write about that but today something weird happened. We were burning theese stacks of hay, leaves and branches. While watching the fire I saw a frog approaching the fire and then just jumping straight into the embers to an instant death. Now tell me if THAT isn't interesting!

Been working alot and it's all physical labor so you get really tired from work almost every day, on the positive side I get to be outdoors all day.
Been climbing abit less since I'm usually too tired after work. And lately my leg (knee and hip) got injured while wakeboarding. I really don't know what happened but for 5 days it was really hard to move my left leg. Wakeboarding was awesome since I miss snowboarding like crazy and it kinda feels like riding pow. I might get some pictures off myself wakeboarding at some point to share in a week or so.

This picture is from the morning I was on my way to take part in a sailboat race. We did get some wind eventually but at some point it got really booring when the wind just died.

I have been fishing alot more than the summers before, and I think that's enough about that because haven't gotten anything really big like a shark. But Tumppi sent me a cool picture from when we went fishing.

So winter is getting closer haha! I noticed that Vuokatti is building an indoor training facility with dryslope jumps and foampits, too bad thay will open in december.
I actually edited a new clip but since my connection is reaaaally weak I'll upload it later this week when I got time to take my laptop to the closest place with a fast connection.

But still this week!!!!

Check out JunkYard Super Summer Sale , last year I bought some shoes and sunglasses really cheap.

While waiting for the next edit, check this awesome "commercial" out. Will get you hyped for almost anything!