Nike ACG Team Blog : News from the snowbard team

Snowboarding without snow in England. Hmm. I wanted to see what´s that all about and we organised a trip to England with the Onboard guys and my Norwegian friend Freddy Evensen.

We flew to London and our plan was to rent a campervan and to go camping for a week in England, like we do in Scandinavia. OK, first of all there was the biggest music festival in England called Glastonbury so all the hippie style campervans were booked and Our travelling mate, Onboard writer, Tom who is English told us that if we want to get robbed we can go camping in Sheffield and the other places we were going to go.
So we did the trip the regular way and I booked the last car available at the Heatrow airport, stoked.

Sheffield was the first stop. They even had a plastic halfpipe there and some jumps. I had been wondering how could you ride a plastic halfpipe and it wasn´t that easy that´s for sure. We rode like beginners in the pipe but then we heard that it was so old so the plastic did not hold the edge of the snowboard. It was like riding on the ice without edges when it is sticky slush. What a combination! Peter from Onboard got some cool pictures thought in the small quarterpipe and some layback nosepress compinations with me and Freddy. I even had my worst snowboading experience riding plastic tendex moguls. Tendex is old style dryslope material and the new material is called snowflakes what they have on the parks.

Halifax was the next stop and they had a fun jump there. That snowflake was way better than in Sheffield and we had a really fun day and again we rode the whole day on plastic.

Last stop was Rosendahl plastic ski village. Hehhee. They had a small park there and a new pretty big quarter pipe. It was fun and three days was kind of enough of dryslopes for a while now. After we were done riding we went to Manchester United stadium and to Wimbledon to see Serena and Venus playing tennis. What a great trip and we even got some really good shots for the Onboard story. I´m so happy we get snow in Finland during the winter. Lets keep the climate change under the control, please!