Finnish Pow wow!

It snowed so much in Ruka last week!I got to shred some early season powder in Finland which is really rare during this time of the season.

here´s couple photos from our little shredsession! photos taken by Teemu Lahtinen

New Sponsor - Kahvila Kauppayhtio Bar in Rovaniemi

Hey, just wanted to let you know that me and my buddy Jiippari have landed a new sponsor for our KINOS movie.

Kauppayhtio bar in Rovaniemi is hooking us up with some serious nightlife deals! in Kauppayhtiö they sell everything maybe even their cashier and stuff is great!

I don´t even wanna talk about the atmosphere since it´s something you gotta experience! 

Kahvila Kauppayhtiö,Valtakatu 24 Rovaniemi Finland

opening hours

monday 10.30 - 20.00
tuesday 10.30 - 20.00
wednesday 10.30 - 04.00
thursday 10.30 - 20.00
friday 10.30 - 04.00
saturday 10.30 - 04.00
sunday 23.00-04.00

http://www.myspace.com/kauppayhtio

also go check out Kauppayhtio Facebook group.You can find all the info from there!

Dakine: Antti webisode

Hey, here´s clip that my sponsor Dakine provided to my site.footage was filmed last spring in USA.

enjoy!

-Antti

Filming in Ruka, Finland

Hey!

Im still located in Ruka since the resort build us a kicker that throws you up in the sky so high that I can´t even begin to describe.Anyways Miikka Niemi is coming to film with me next week for some early season footage so keep ya eyes on my site ´cause Im gonna post you some good shredding next week!

PS: my buddy Jiippari is coming to film our new edition of Kinos movie! it´s gonna be trash that´s for sure

So So crazy in Ruka!

Yo Yo People, this is for finnish people and english one is down below!

Saatanan Piste! meikällä ärsyttää ihan hulluna nuo teekkarit.hemmetin haalariheikit.No onneksi meikä hengas hastin kans koko illan.vähän ku oon kade sille ku se näyttää ruotsalaiselta hiimäniltä.

itehän haen enemmän tuota saamelaisen chuck norrisin luukkia.ei sillä mitään naisia saa paitsi klo. 3.25 jolloin mulla on kaikki naiset, ainaki yleensä.

älkää juoko lonkeroa!

mulla on ikävä jiipparia ja mie rakastan frontti kolmosia mellakalla! -Antti

English version:

Freaking Piste Bar in Ruka! I hate student parties but I went there anyways.Shitty longjohn people.But Im glad I was hanging out with Miikka Hast the whole night.Im a bit jealous of him since he looks like swedish he-man!

Im trying to get my look going towards Chuck Norris but it seems like there´s no chance getting women with that look.damn:-)anyways my advice is not to drink finnish alcohol called lonkero it sucks and gives you the worst hangover.

I love my friend Jiippari but I think I love even more fs 360´s melon!

cheers mates -Antti

Smoking The Pipe in my home resort Ounasvaara, Finland

Just to put the facts straight all at once there isn't one half pipe in
Finland that could compete with pipes from the States, Japan or  
Europe. Our resorts are still slacking with this shit!

I guess the biggest reason is that if you wanna ride a good pipe,
the resort has to have a descent budget to be able to keep it in good shape
during the season.

Well anyway, I got a call from my filmer friend Miikka Niemi asking me
about this shoot that he wanted to do with smoke machines in the pipe!

I was like, hell yeah! That sounds like a fun thing to do but right
after that I started to think that where could we find a pipe that
would actually be rideable.

My home resort is called Ounasvaara and Miikka was talking with them
about this idea and people at the resort were totally down to hook us up!

Well the pipe ended up being not the best but we sure had a good time
doing this little clip for you! This season we are planning to do
something similar but in better conditions.

Thanks for Miikka Niemi , Anssi Jokiranta and Jussi Leinonen for
making this session happen!

Miikka also wanted to tell you that:

For me it's always important to think of something new to do and shoot.
This time it was the moment to try out smoke machines.It was a lot of work
carrying all that stuff around but in the end it worked quite well. I like the
feeling you get when it's all dark and you shoot with lights.
It's kind of planning a movie set and shooting snowboarding in it.

Our plan is to do this thing again this year. Wait to see what we come up with!

Here's the video:

Winter season 08-09 in Ruka ski resort, Finland and free movie

Last season I got to experience something I had never done before in Finland. I got to ride powder during mid-season! My favourite Finnish resort Ruka had a great amount of snow during February and March. For 1,5 weeks I was there to take best out of it!

I was filming with Miikka Niemi (Flatlight Films) who was making a movie for Ruka and Pyhä. I can tell you that this guy has ideas....lot of ideas! That is great when I sometimes didn't have the motivation to jump, Miikka could find something cool to do and then I would be on it again!

Miikka says: " It fun to shoot with Antti. A lot of creativity and motivation. It's important to try to come up with new features. In Finland it's way harder to ride outside parks. In the Alps there's so many mountains and areas but here there's only small hills. It's really good for creativity but doesn't help with bigger backcountry jumps."

I think one of the best things I did last season in Ruka was all the night shoots in Park. Pow jumps over the trees were wicked too! Ruka is pretty small resort but still just offers so many possibilities to ride in different areas of snowboarding. All this is  rare since we're just known for icy jumps.

Also during early season I usually go to shred in Ruka because they have a good early season park thing going on. It takes about 2-4 minutes a run so you can imagine how many jumps I get to do during one day. It's great. It's nice way to get old tricks back together and try new ones in a resort that I can actually call my second home.

Here's the full movie for free. Check it out!

9 Months Of Snow Movie

Upcoming season

Up coming season

Lot of things changed over this summer. The biggest thing being  

probably that I don't ride for Flow Snowboards anymore. I'm happy to  

tell you that I didn't get the BOOT! Things inside the company were  

just moving in a different direction to ware I was, so we both  

mutually I decided to part ways. Anyways, I'm really thankfull for all  

the years that I was apart of the Flow program. Those guys gave me a  

lot and where a big part of where I have gotten to now in my life.

Around July this summer I visited Nidecker office in  

Rolle,Switzerland. These guys offered me something I've kinda always  

wanted to try. Pretty much full control of the board design and  

graphics for a snowboard. I'm going to be part of their special  

projects program, which you already have probably heard of  

YESnowboards as they are apart of it as well. The quality and set up  

is insane, with the ability of us to be able to fully define how we  

see our boards and how we want them. They even have there own lab for  

us to rock up and work with technicians directly to get the boards and  

graphics fully dialed, which is amazing. It is truly rider driven and  

super core, which under bigger companies is just not possible these  

days.

My board line is going be called Antti for NDK but you will probably  

notice it from the Logo A+. It's basically my own brand in a lot of  

ways with NDK as my partners. Boards will be out in the fall of 2010  

but I'm going to do special pre sales already as soon as we have the  

product dialed through my website. My boards are going to be  

affordable so it will be accessible to kids out there, but will still  

be of a superior quality and standard. With this whole new set up of  

my website and boards, I'm stoked as it sets up a full program that  

allows me to hopefully give something back to the sport that has  

already given me so much!

Now that I look at my schedule for this season it looks so freaking  

hectic! One contest after another until February. This is because it's  

an Olympic year. I personally would like to do only TTR contests but  

to qualify for Olympics you need to do FIS events and FIS to put it  

planely SUCK! In FIS there is no respect for creativity during the  

contests, but Olympics are big deal if you ride pipe contests and  

that's why I wanna give it a go at least this season. I don't see  

myself trying to do it again after this season. I want to focus on  

filming and fun contests such as Air&Style or Toyota Big Air as they  

are more defining to what Snowboarding is about to me.

From February until late May I have booked few really cool trips with  

friends, photographers and filmer Miikka Niemi (flatlightfilms.com) to  

Japan, Switzerland, Lapland  and the USA. From all these trip I will  

provide footage for you to get your kicks here at my website. We will  

also bring the whole season together as an movie after season is  

finished, plus I will also keep you updated from behind the scenes at  

events and other happenings that I will be at.

I hope all this will stoke you out as well and make you go out shred  

and with your friends who share the same passion for snowboarding as  

we do!?

-Antti