Go home winter, you are drunk

First outdoor bmx sessions of the year and it's early march! I was a bit lost 'cause the little brake of riding but no can do. Maybe I get to ride more soon. Pretty fun that you can go snowboarding and the next day go ride bmx outdoors. Oh and today there's 100 mornings of army left! I could say that the worst is starting to be behind.

Ken gapping

Have you met Ken? One of my best friends and the man behind the next three pictures.

Footplant

Walltap to fakie, this was scary one.

Spring up spring

Finally a proper photo of my newer tattoo! It's Charles Allan Gilbert's painting "All is vanity" from 1892. Now I'm just waiting for new ideas and trying to save some money. Cant wait to get more ink in my arms.

These may have be seen allready in facebook but anyway now they're here too. Weird winter when you can ride bikes outdoors in the late february...

Complicated simpleness

About a week ago we got back from Estonia where we spent a weekend. Simple fucking session. It was as awesome as expected and I could say that I'm looking forvard to next year allready! I enjoyed also having a little break from armystuff. On next week there will be 100 mornings left...

It seems to be so that snowboarding season might end a bit earlier than usually. It's a shame because I haven't had enough time from army to enjoy the season. On the other hand I don't mind an earlier spring and bmx season starting sooner.

I just had to do this 'cause I hadn't done it before...

Giljotine

Remember the headline of this post! It's going to be big! It's been a while since I've been this hyped about something...


Here's a few pics that don't have anything to do with the headline stuff.

Rainin' blood

Kokonniemi 2013 from Riku Mertala on Vimeo.

Our last seasons snowboarding and newschool edit! Go watch it in HD on Vimeo!

Edit was quick and filming was just having fun with friends, not anything professional. But there's lot's of good stuff in it!

Raise up the dead

One morning I woke up with something that I had missed. Felt awesome to have an inspiration that high with camera again and just play around with it a little. I hope that on 2014 I won't end up whining about my lost inspiration or how lazy I am with photos...

These four first ones are from that morning. And my new car (which ain't so new...) on first one. Feels good to no longer be addicted to mum's car or public transport.

Oh and btw I'm 20-years-old now. No reasons to get older any more.