Monday, June 30, 2014

Extreme festival in Saint Petersburg

Extreme festival conquered the Palace Square of SPb on Saturday 28th of June.
There were featured some extreme and street culture genres.
I focused to skateboarding, freestyle motocross, graffiti artists and break-dancers.
Maybe it was good for sponsors of happening, there were lot of people, ...but too many people (my point of view) to view well everything.....
It was quite hot and sunny day, what is nowadays very strange in SPb.)))
Skateboarding:
There were built quite a nice park for skateboarders including fun-boxes, ramps, launch-box, pyramid etc...
Some pics:
Nice stale-fish from launch ramp!
Huge backside 3 with melon grab




In Russia security and control are everywhere!)))
Can you find "skateboard happening masked" secret agents from picture? ))))
OMOH troops were presented as well.
Freestyle motocross:
They made normal back-flips etc... but this was amazing!!
Graffiti artists:
Palace Square background probably inspired artists
Break dancers:
Dancers and music were so good that I couldn't focus on photo shooting. They were amazing!!!


Friday, June 27, 2014

South Beach Wake Hämeenlinna Finland

I had a plan to travel by car from Tampere to Helsinki. Why wouldn't stop midway also to ride a bit? Board bag I have always with me!))
South Beach Wake was opened end of May 2014, so it has worked now about one month. They have Wakestation 2.0 cable and some obstacles.
Link to their page (Finnish only): http://southbeachwake.wix.com/info
Park is beside of highway Helsinki-Tampere (100 km to north from Helsinki) and it's even possible to see from highway. Place is ideal!! So if you're moving around; stop to ride, watch, drink coffee, meet nice cable-entrepreneur or all these (like I did)!!

At the moment they have one left side kicker, slider box and pipe. All obstacles are good and working well, just nice to train basic things.
Current obstacles... (Highway Helsinki - Tampere is just behind of those trees.
Some basic slides
Normal good kicker
Cable is tight, good pop and enough space to make air-tricks even after  obstacles
 Facilities are in order:
Locker rooms, SUP boards and rental stuff
Cafe, ice-cream, soft drinks and some snacks.
Possible to pay by cash, credit cards and all kind of Finnish sport e-passes, mobile phones etc...
Here are some maps how to find the place:


Go there and keep riding!!))

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

One midsummer day in Saint Petersburg

Weekends I have had habit to sleep really long and then schlep to the cable. This Saturday I woke up already 10 am))), meaning was to check some cultural things.
Also we bought week ago a new car... it's car for Anya and she needs training to be my driver)), so meaning was also to drive around and get practice of driving.))

...Well the first lunch in Little Italy restaurant. Vera joined to our cultural program.

We started from Mihailovsky Gardens, there was exhibition of environmental arts.

Then we continued to Konyushenaya Square and Van Gogh Alive, the globally-acclaimed SENSORY4™ multimedia experience.









I needed little bit rest after heavy cultural dose and took a nap at home, then late evening I tried to get some sport culture, but my home cable Sun Park had some technical problems and didn't work. (I was quite disappointed!!) Cable works normally until 23:00, because of white nights.
Well Saturday wasn't lost yet, our friend Kirill Karnov invited us to Igora.
Igora is ski resort about 50km to north from SPb, having nowadays also reverse cable... because we needed some training in driving, we decided to go there even that it was already 23:00.
Then after arriving and sitting for a while in legendary 360 Bar, I still took my ride in the cable, even that it was already about 00:30!! During summer we have not night at all and it's possible to make whatever without artificial lights.
00:30 at night!
Driving back to city and home about 4:00am!
Cool Saturday yeah! ...on Sunday I slept again long))

Thursday, June 5, 2014

My older son is already 18!!

03.06.1996 I got my first son! It's really difficult to believe that it's already 18 years ago!
Time runs so fast!
Aapo my older son wanted to spend his 18 years birthday with me, I'm quite proud that he wanted it with daddy. Only his hope was that let's go to somewhere abroad.
After all we went to Turkey, because it's so easy to get there and I've been there wakeboarding so many times that I know what we can get.
Anyway this time unlike the other times I booked 5 stars hotel with all inclusive that we could have really fun.
Already when we arrived to hotel Aapo got adults wristband, it was noticed from passport in reception.))
Here are some pictures from Birthday:
Day started walking on the beach. My second son Jimi (on the right) joined to this trip as well.
Then we went to Hip-Notics to take some runs in cable wakepark...
...then nice dinner in one A'la carte restaurants of hotel....
...okay there were not 18 candles, but anyway...
...then some chicks...
...foam party...
...foam party and chicks....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Trip continues! Now with adult son!