Longboardettes roadtrip to Lapland part 1

Roosa-Liida Koskivaara, Lena Salmi, Päivi Tuovinen, Reetta Tiihonen and Kaisa Viitanen

Great recept for a skatetrip!

Longboardettes roadtrip to Lapland was ready to start. We got an amazing skatevan from Huittisten laatuauto and packed it full of leathersuites and longboard decks, trucks and wheels. Note to ourselves: when you are travelling with girls remember to take the biggest car available.

First we drove through the night to Rovaniemi where we crossed over arctic circle at six o'clock in the morning. Weird part is that we never knew the time, it was always sunny or bright so we were just going with the flow and the weather. We were crossstepping in front of Santas post office while christmas songs and spirit were joining our session and Santapark just around the corner. It was epic fun! Finally we got our last member to join us in Rovaniemi when Päivi brought her sunny personality to the crew.

Photo: Päivi Tuovinen

Plum longboards and Reindeer longboards gave us boards to test in Lapland!

Ounasvaara hill at Rovaniemi was the first stop! Local news crew came to watch us skate and were superstoked of us conquering Lapland with longboards. We think of ourselves as ambassodors of Lapland spreading the longboardlove and Laplands beautiful summer nature and culture to around us. It's the most ideal place to skate in Finland downhill longboarding. Even Rovaniemi which is supposed to be a bigger city was quiet and with only little trafik. Being more exited than ever, craving for bigger hills we continued our trip to Orresokka at Luosto!

Photo: Päivi Tuovinen

Orresokka is a biathlon track 3,5km long and has a  smooth asfalt  to longboard. It's pretty narrow so it makes it a technical spot too. In the end theres a 180 degrees toeside corner where you don't have to drift! It's amazing ride, go for it! There's places to skate from the beginner to a pro, so great place to skate with a big group too. We went there for couple days just because it was so awesome!

Next stop was to go to Lenas friend Ásllatt from Lemmenjoki (Leammi). He is a reindeerherder, journalist, documentarist and soon to be longboarder! There's a river where you can do gold  washing and a hill for downhill longboarding! From now on it's called Ásllatt spot! Too bad it started raining but it didn't stop for Roosa and Päivi to skate.

Just wait for the second part!

Video is coming out 28.7 in Longboardettes JAM in Helsinki!

Longboardettes

Kaisa & Roosa

Loaded Bhangra, dancefloor on wheels!

I dislocated my shoulder about four weeks ago when we were longboarding in Lapland.
After that I couldnt skate for a couple of weeks and I still can't do much sliding because I need to wait that it heals properly.

Loded Bhangra

I was getting bored because I am not a person who just likes to cruise around the city or watch everybody else skate. That's when I decided to get Bhangra!
So once again it was time to contact Boardsport because I remembered that I saw one Bhangra in the shop. I had a good luck, it was still there.
I was thinkin that if I can't slide I'm going to dance.
I have never before done much dancing or any kind of tricks, like flips or shuvits.
I have always thought that they are just not fore me.
But when I tried that kind of stuff with Bhangra I fell in love!
I have been skating now almost every day trying to learn new dance steps and yesterday we were skating I did the first stand up slides after the dislocated shoulder and for that the Bhangra worked great.
Only problem that I have been having with it is the fact that it's HUGE!
Really nice for crostepping but really heavy which makes some trics really hard for smaller person. But everything shouldn't always be so easy, I need challenges time to time!

Shuvit.

 I work in a shopping mall so when I had a break from gripping skateboards I went to the roof to skate a bit, nice way to spend lunch breaks!
Esa was kind enought to come with me and take a few pictures with my awesome cellphone camera (after buying me a huge ice cream)!

Crostepping.

Jeans are broken from yesterdays longbaording and my right knee got couple of good bruses!
                                                 Summer and minishorts, here I come!

I don't know what is this.

-Roosa-Liida