You might have noticed that ski maps tend to be difficult to open on slopes, especially with gloves on. Ski resort maps easily get wet and damaged, and after a while they are not anymore easily readable. Swedish Måns von Rohr and Catharina Wikström got enough and designed a totally new ski map …
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He grew up in the middle of a field in the small city of Nummela in southern Finland. He loved cross-country skiing in the winters and track and field sports in the summers. He was an average Finnish kid living his childhood, but he didn’t expect that in a few years he would …
So far in this article series we have discussed various ski types as well as what a ski consists of. In this post I am going to talk about ski sizing. In fact, I aim to provide an answer to the question “how to find the right ski length?”
There are a number of ways …
You might have noticed that ski maps tend to be difficult to open on slopes, especially with gloves on. Ski resort maps easily get wet and damaged, and after a while they are not anymore easily readable. Swedish Måns von Rohr and Catharina Wikström got enough and designed a totally new ski map …
We are so used to ski and snowboard in vertical position that it wouldn’t even come to our minds to ski in horizontal position. Hangboarding is a combination of skiing and snowboarding, invented by Canadian Don Arney. Because of the horizontal skiing position, hangboarding reminds me from hang gliding. Instead of bindings hangboard …
Railz skateboard conversion kit is simply awesome, because it allows you to skateboard on snow. If you are used to skateboard only on summer time, Railz skateboard conversion kit rocks your world by providing you 365 days of skateboarding, every year.
Why it took so long for Railz skateboard conversion kit to appear on …
Mud, snow, ice, bikes, racing, pain, love, drinking beer, sauna, stupidity…that is Finnish cyclocross.
Last winter I speculated how the climate change might change the weather in Southern Finland so that we barely see proper winters anymore here.
Well, a loose group of Finnish bike enthusiasts (cyclocross fans, fixie guys, bike messangers, few mountain bikers …
Swiss company Snowpulse has developed an avalanche airbag that significantly increases chances of survival chances in an avalanche. Snowpulse lifebag is probably the best avalanche airbag ever made. It is light, compact and user-friendly, and it also provides a high level of personal protection.
The advantage of having Snowpulse Lifebag is that the device keeps …
Kalle Palander, our number one Alpine skier, is out of the FIS World Cup slalom event (Levi, Finland) this weekend. Before the season Palander was really confident and felt good about the upcoming season but a fracture in his shinbone from the last season (so called repetive stress injury) required a second operation …
If you are going to ski Chamonix this season, make sure to be there on February 21st and 22nd. That way you won’t miss Nissan Outdoor Games, which will bring the best extreme sports athletes to Chamonix. Nissan Outdoor Games has become THE event at the core of today’s action sports world, and …
