Stockholm and Helsinki

Field Productions begins the season with an urban trip to Sweden and Finland.

Published by: Field Productions
Written by: Filip Christensen
(11.06.2009 16:18) Tell a friend
 

Crew: Filip Christensen, Espen Kristiansen, Tero Repo, Even Sigstad, Henrik Harlaut and Tom Wallisch.

In the end of November 2008, we decided to head over to Stockholm to shoot rails. It is not common that Stockholm has a bunch of snow in city this time a year, but we were extremely lucky to get a good dump of snow the day before we arrived. Stockholm is an urban mecca of urban features, with all different types of rails.

We didn´t have much time to shoot, since the snow was melting fast. The first days were very productive, and we got all kinds of new and technical tricks on film. The boys stepped it up with stylish switch 270´s combos on kink rails, combos on 4 kinks and much more. Even though we had very long nights and early mornings,the boys managed to ski hard and technical.

When the snow was gone, we headed over to Finland in search of more snow. Helsinki is also known for being Europes or even the worlds urban rails mecca. We were excited to try out the Silja Line Party ferry. We eat a great buffet, and after a good night of sleep we woke up in Helsinki the next morning.

When we arrived the bay we headed directly to the first location, a mellow double kink. It was time for some disaster gaps and even more technical tricks than earlier. Wallisch threw down a perfect 450 disaster, while Harlaut impressed us with a superstylish 270 pretzel 270. After Sigstad nailed a double switch up, we were ready for a Mcdonalds meal to charge up for next feature. Next feature was a 4 kinker. Even if we had been shooting in rain for 5 hours, Harlaut ended up killing this rail to the maximum.

Unfortunately all of the snow melted away the following day.

Even if the snow conditions weren´t the best, it was all in all a very succesfull rail trip to Sweden and Finland.
Thanks to Tero Repo and Jan Erik Blomberg for the help organizing this trip.

All photos by Tero Repo.

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Photo by: Tero Repo
Photo by: Tero Repo
Photo by: Tero Repo
Photo by: Tero Repo
Photo by: Tero Repo
Photo by: Tero Repo

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