How much time do you actually have to do this stuff? I know you guys have pretty full time jobs at the minute…

Tommi: Not much, I have the video production company, Snackbreak, I go to Uni and try to play in a band. I’m pretty busy, no free time.

Joonas: I just work on Mondays and Tuesdays so I have heaps of time to snowboard and do other stuff. It’s worked out so well somehow. I have enough money to get by and loads of free time to do what I want. Best of both, time to snowboard and the chance to do some meaningful work.

Does Snackbreak help to pay the bills at all?

Tommi: We managed to make a few dollars with the film in the end. Shout out to Yuki Threads, Powderpak Parks and Boardbutter Glidewax for getting onboard and helping out paying some expenses! We also had a proper premiere tour for the film as well and made some money that way. Can’t say we are getting rich by doing this though, haha, especially when remembering the few thousand work hours this movie took from the crew. It’s all worth it though, it’s a lot of fun creating something unique and learning new skills at the same time.

Who inspired you when you were younger? Which crews or movie productions where you looking at?

Tommi: Videograss was the first. Those first movies really got me into filming snowboarding.

Joonas: For sure, they’re still one of the biggest influences on us. Every year that come out with such a good movie.

Tommi: Before that probably the Mack Dawg movies, but they never really got me as stoked as Videograss.

Joonas: That’s true, I never wanted to be the next Heikki Sorsa or Eero Ettala – it was sick riding and filmed so well, but you couldn’t really relate to that. When Videograss came we had all started riding more rails so it was more relatable, there was something we could watch and then actually try the trick.

Tommi: All the Videograss movies have such a sick feeling. They are so raw, all the soundtracks are awesome.

Joonas: We all started out with the Euro Gap movies and the Robot Food movies, it was good to start off with those because they’re all about having fun.

Have you guys made any plans for next winter or are you just focussed on getting the current movie finished?

Joonas: We have a pretty good idea about next winter. We want to produce a ‘Sunday In The Park’ type of web series for Finland with the Finnish snowboarding association. Make a really good, international level riding, series of edits with different ski resorts and try and make some money from that too by selling it to other ski resorts that have a good park and want us to come there. That would be a nice way to actually make some money and get by the whole season through filming. There’s not really anything else like that in Finland. Laax has The Crap Show, but that’s pretty much it.

Tommi: These edits will have core Snackbreak riders in them but we will also feature some local heroes and probably a few riders from the Finnish National Team, as we are doing the series in co-operation with the Finnish Snowboard Association. The idea is to showcase the very best of Finnish snowboarding. This will work around snowboarding because we’ll get paid for filming and visiting new places but at the same time we can afford to film a new Snackbreak movie in the streets.

Joonas: It would be nice to actually make a living off making snowboarding edits. That’s what we’re trying to do.

Tommi: The money is pretty tight in snowboarding at the moment so it makes sense to try and get it from the resorts. We gotta get some money from somewhere else.

What one piece of advice would you give to a crew just starting out?

Tommi: The planning we did this season helped so much. Just have an idea of what you want to do when you start, don’t make it up as you go along. Don’t just go to a random new city to try and get clips. Make a plan to hit spots.

Joonas: You’ve always got to be hunting for new spots, either on your bike or in a car… whatever. Just look around and plan it out. Practice new tricks that no one has done. I don’t think every crew in snowboarding should always be trying to reinvent everything, or trying to come up with something new because it just puts too much pressure on you. It takes away from the feeling of snowboarding because you’re always trying to create something new. If you want to film just trust your instinct and do the tricks that you like doing and trust that you can make them look cool. Believe in your own product.

[Johan Rosen. Cab 1 wallride. Photo: Fredrik Thorell]