About Me

So Who Am I?

I'll lay down a couple of facts about me here

born in Finland, june 28 1985
height: 180cm (6 ft)
weight: 83 kg (182 pounds)

Do you really need to know anything else?

Oh well... umm... Well, I like longboarding, parkour, urban exploration, guitars, vodka, tractors and rock'n roll. Just to mention a few things. I live in Turku, Finland. Turku is a nice little city in the south western Finland. Finland is a nice little country in Scandinavia. While being a bit bigger than Japan, Finland only has a population of about 5,2 million people opposed to Japans roughly 100 million. I assume that will be confusing for someone accustomed to solitude like me. I mean, I'm a security guard working in night patrol in a city with about 200 000 people, to me five's a crowd. I assume I'll have a bit of a culture shock at the beginning of the trip.

Here's a picture of me chilling around and bombing the University of Turku hill with my Powderflower longboard.

What This Is All About

Hello and wellcome to Skate Japan 2009

This blog follows my adventure trough Japan with a longboard in summer 2009. I try to post here as much as I can during the journey. As starters, here are some basics about my endeavor.

Where?

I'll be starting from Sapporo in Hokkaido, the northern main island of Japan and make my way to Fukuoka in the southern Japan. This is approximately 2000 kilometers (1243 miles) via the main roads, probably even more using the smaller sideroads.

A wery rough approximation of the route in red





When

The journey starts in third of july, 2009. The tourist visa allows me to stay in Japan for 90 days, so that is the time limit. If I were to travell 25 kilometers (15,5 miles) a day, it would take me 80 days to make it to Fukuoka.

How

With a longboard. A longboard is essentialy a big skateboard designed for travelling longer distances and riding down hills. There are many different kinds of longboards, read more from wikipedia if you're interested.

Longboard

I will mostly sleep in tent and cook my food on the road. So no fancy hotels and gourmet meals for me. There will allso be quite a lot of hiking involved and apparently even mountaineering.

Why

Why not? And the mountain roads in Japan look like a longboard paradise, we'll see about that.

Stay tuned for more info about equipment, conditioning and of course the actuall journey in July!

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