The Finland trip was a memorable one in every way!

A short stop at Stefan "Gangbang" Bengs´ compound near Berlin to meet Busty and the boys, on to the ferry to Helsinki, finally sober out, arrive in Helsinki, prepare the bikes, go to Tampere to do a show with Jussi "The pimp just bought a Corvette" Seljas, BIG afterparty, on to his parents´ summer house at the lake - what a place to chill... thanks bud! - and finally arrive at local Bobo "Bobby Lobster" Holm´s place near Jakobstad where the riding is supposed to go down.

Unfortunately there was still quite some work to do on the foam pit but a week later it was ready to be hit and I got the honor of the sweet defloration. It was windy quite a bit and temperatures went down as far as -5° C at night. After 2 weeks of practice (and getting some nice shots, thanks to Sami who also took some pictures out of the crane and Bobo for having us there!) it was time to catch the ferry to make it to the last stop of the trip (for me that is - Ilkka was set to go on first to France and then straight back to Finland! That´s why we call you The Crazy Fin!) and meet up with our friend Martin Koren in Prague to do a show for the opening of the new O2 arena. With only 3 hours of sleep we put on a good show and again - a PROPER after party... Thanks for the great weekend, Martin!

Now I´m just getting ready to go down to Italy to prepare for my first flip show this weekend so tune in next week to see how it turned out!

After over a week of sorting out and working on the shots I took on the trip to Finland, I finished the gallery - check it out.

.muph

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