You’ve seen the Eternal Beauty of Snowboarding?

Yea exactly. I mean hitting jumps in pow, it’s super fun but it sometimes takes more than it gives. So I totally understand Jake Blauvelt and these guys when they take the decision that they’re riding terrain naturally and not spending time building stuff. But then I still do that in the streets, I guess somehow it’s different, you’re in a different environment, hanging out in the night hours when it feels like the whole city is dead, I think that has something to it that I really enjoy.

I guess in the backcountry too, there’s also those risks like rocks and avalanches that I never felt that comfortable with, coming out of Finland, we were not born to ride powder.

Ok cool, and you’re going to the Olympics this year?

Yea I’m there with this Finnish alcohol company called Original Long Drink, doing this ad campaign and social media clips, just some fun content.

Do you think you’ll get time to watch everything that you want to watch?

I dunno, cos we did a similar campaign in Rio a few years ago, and I thought I was going to be able to see all the sports and I didn’t see anything. So I think it’s going to be pretty busy this time as well, but hopefully we get to go watch hockey once, that would be nice.

And in the snowboarding, is there anyone you’re really hyped to see, or anyone you’re backing?

Yeah I’m always hyped to watch snowboarding on TV, or hopefully I get to go live and see some of it. But for sure like Marcus Kleveland, Mark McMorris, and probably Max Parrot, there’s a good chance at least one of them is going to podium, they’re gonna be hard to beat. Mark McMorris has been slaying it, which is pretty crazy after coming back from that injury, and now he’s already winning contests.

Cool, so you’ve been talking about the Nitro movie, 28 Winters, that’s out now. What can we expect?

Yea so it’s the story of Nitro snowboards, and how it was founded and started, and the reasons behind it. I think it’s a pretty cool story about snowboarding in general and the snowboard industry, and Nitro as a company, and showcasing the team.

Kind of like the different aspects of snowboarding as well cos there’s Elias Elhardt, and Bryan Fox and Austin Smith, and I’m doing some street stuff, and Kleveland is doing his knuckle tricks, and then there’s guys doing contests, so it’s just a pretty cool story about snowboarding in general and what it is today, and what it used to be.

Do you think that kind of story aspect is important to movies these days? Do we need to get away from the ‘formula’ of snowboard movies to get people to pay attention?

I think there’s a certain target group for different things. Like there’s kids who just want to watch action and then a little bit of the older generation that would rather hear the stories as well.

I mean I think documentaries like this, it’s not something you watch every morning before you go shredding, but you watch it once and you learn something from it, but I mean the action-packed snowboard movies, you could watch one from five or ten years ago and then watch one from today, and it doesn’t really change that much.

Maybe the urban riding changes, but the backcountry has stayed pretty much the same. There’s a lot of backcountry riders that could basically use footage that they got ten years ago in their video parts these days, and people couldn’t tell the difference, maybe just the outfits were different, and the stance was a bit wider. But nothing else has really changed, you’ve still got a frontside 5 and a front 3 off a cliff, you know.

And will it have that artsy element like Transitions as well?

No no, this is gonna be just, like the way I picture it I want to do it as raw as possible, but depending how the line is and how long it takes and stuff, maybe there’s a possibility that the follow cam will be the priority angle, then if there’s time we could also get the drone angle, or maybe the POV so you can see it from different perspectives as well.

Depending on the time that we have on the spot, and how good it works – you never know with that kind of stuff, if you have to add speed bumps and stuff, and if the follow cam can keep the speed up. So we’ll see, it might be a mission but I think it’ll be cool.

I have the location already, I’ve already decided what tricks to do and how to do the line and stuff. So it’s all kind of planned and organised, but now we just have to wait for snow, or just pick a date and be ready to import snow.

Nice. Any other grand plans for the future?

Not too much, with snowboarding I’ll just try to go a year at a time and see how my body feels, and as things are looking now I’m definitely staying motivated and enjoying it, but I just want to go year by year and then also see how the support is from the sponsors.

I didn’t have any support I would still stay at home and ride my local resort for fun, but I’m still happy to go and travel and having the support from all these companies I’m feeling really fortunate, and then as a side mission I’m doing some TV hosting back home in Finland, so I’m hoping next summer when I’m on a summer vacation from snowboarding I get to do more TV stuff. So that’s maybe a sort of transition, just having a plan B because I know the snowboarding profession is going to be done at some point anyway. I know I can’t be a pro till I’m 50, but hopefully I get to do it for as long as possible.

Peep a few clips from our weekend with Eero below: