New winds are blowing

As you can see; it was time to take off fullface helmet. I can tell you that my legs were shaking when I dropped in to the pool. But also I think it's really important to be able to ride a bike in different places. After practices I was got pain in my elbow and knee :) also suprisingly on next day in my shoulders! Anyway it was fun!

Pimp my bike

This time I explored bike tuning. I hope I ain't gonna get hooked with sweeping spokes. 'Cos I saw some signs that it might happen. Once you get some place sweeped the other thing next to it looks dirty.

I have learned quite much about fixing bikes. Atleast I can take bike apart into pieces. This time I learned to use siliconespray. It sits with glossing the frame, that's really important :) And to separate grips (when you put the grips back and spray fades away the grip sticks on). Squawk!! I made the same mistake when I was fixing the bike: You are not supposed to use siliconespray with grips. Use CRC :)

p.s. If anyone have something on mind what should I get done before California let me know!

Earnest and enthusiastic

Yesterday I was thinking, that need to be gone at least 10 years back, in order to reach a situation where I have done something as serious as I'm doing now. In my case cross-country skiing means I'm doing seriously. Last time (before this session) when I was cross-country skiing were at the time I was 15years old national hockey team player. Doing seriously used to mean forced struggling with training, now training is fun and I never get enough of it.

Three days I have tried to get over my "fear of flying" by snowboarding. For a bonus I got some light tan. Hope that saves me from getting sun-burned in California. I just sit and smile. Life is a wonderful invention. I'll put some pics of olympic track in London which I found from internet. So you all can just sit and smile.

New Year

Happy New Year to everyone! New year puts me to think the previous year. All what have happened you can cut down to letters BMX. Same letters fixes to what has been planned for upcoming year. Stop for I while and think that you got whole year for BMX.. that makes me fly high.

Still I have had to try new sports, because here is no weather or place to practice BMX. Latest sport I have tried is wall climbing. When I was practicing in Märsta, sometimes I had to stop practices cos I could hold on bars anymore. Climbing is answer for that problem. Also my wings started to grow. I hope that helps me to keep up with my plans.


Testing sports has also put me to think how small choices has bring me here. Because of BMX have had to do some difficult selections, but definitely BMX has been worth that all!

2 weeks to go

After two weeks I'm gonna take off and start my trip to California. Last days have been funny. Well day turns to weeks and weeks have became months, still my legs stay unrecovered. I were at masseur. He was telling me how finnish people fail with recover. If you get people to have some easy biking to recover. They might stay on easy for 40minutes. Then they realize that they are going to stop in 5minutes and they are hardly sweatting. They start to push with full power and fail the whole practice with that.

Sounds so much like my practices. Ouh, atleast I realized what was happening when I were having my last 5minutes one day after the masseur. I felt so stupid.. everything went just the way masseur had told me!

So I stopped those recovery-practices and went to play some american football today. I was trying to see that making good influence to BMX. Atleast tackling is same kind of pumping as pumping is. That's pretty much all common things I was able to find with BMX and american football :) But I enjoyed it!

Didactic methods

I read a book about didactic methods (teaching methods). I found it really interesting. For real! One way of learning is to learn from difficult to easy. Meaning once you try to learn to ride unicycle, it's easy to ride two-wheeled :)

And after Christmas I may publish my new t-shirt designed for training camp in California

BMX Xmas

All the hurries are behind me now. The trip to California is looming ahead, maybe a bit confusing, but it’s nice to go. Now I’m going to relax and spend some time with the family; hence I had to take my BMX to the garage (only for today). Merry Christmas to all of you! p.s. the GT speed series pro in the picture is for sale, 450€

Brainwashing god daughter, after she told
me that she's never going to ride a bike