Last weekend was amazing. My girlfriend came around, we went to my father’s, Tara was as cute as she has always been and the whole weekend was filled with super nice activities! It began on Fridaynight with Karrikoira’ & Rudolf’s concert and continued on Saturday with Blumi’s Birthday parties!

That was the weekend. Now, down to business.

I’m going to tell you a thing, which might be just selfevident for you. It is that, I am quite a lucky guy. This rehab center where I currently am located at, Synapsia, is for sure the best place for me around Finland. Why am I bringing this up now?

Because, I am irritated. I’m irritated by some people here, who don’t respect this at all. They’re not happy to be here. No. I can’t even imagine the countless hours their loved ones have used to get them here… The loved one for me was, again my mother, who had to make a few hundreds of phone-calls to get me here. I couldn’t be happier, nor more stoked that it worked out! I also have some goals for the time I get to spend here, unlike some.

I consider my self lucky, not only because I got in here, but at least because I have motivation. You may think that motivation is something you get to choose to have yourself, but it’s not. I won’t give you a lecture now about brain’s different parts’s tasks… All I can say is that, if a certain lobe of my brain was smashed, I’d be just unmotivated, lazy- and sleepy guy. However, it’s not, nor am I. Vice versa.

I was neither negative, nor lazy back in the days. I am even positiver and happier guy now. It might be all, partly because I went so close to the “barrier”, but I survived. I don’t consider my self, as any kind of a “miracle man”, but of course that made me to respect life on a whole another scale. And this is a place, where I can do the work to get my life to a point, on which it’s even more respectable. Enough said.

Now, because this post has been a little less serious one… I’ll show you what came down to Helsinki today. And what did I miss! My buddie Jon must’ve been here, but I had more important things to do… and I wasn’t informed of his arrival!

You read correctly, I did the first backflips of the year! I did them last Sunday, as we were visiting my mom’s, as it was the mother’s day in Finland!

That mighty fine picture is shot by my girlfriend, who joined us in the celebration. Now, I’m writing this from Helsinki, where I came for a quick little rehab period. I’m quite unsure, whether two weeks is a long enough period of time to rehab my ass off, but I’ll give it a shot though…

And yes, it has been really funny to see all the therapists from my first period from three years ago almost not believeing their eyes… That^^is the only photo I could find on this computer, from back in the wheelchair- days…

Good May everyone! I happened to make a promise to draw a FightBack-snapback winner on the 1.5. Although, I was kinda busy just Maydaying at Pyhä, you know…? My dear mother reminded me about the promise I made, and even if I forgot about it, people might have not… So we drew the winner right now with my GF, and the snapback shall go to the lucky winner tomorrow.

Everyone is still welcome to like the http://www.facebook.com/fightbackph – from now on as well. FightBack! And the lucky winner of the cap, can be found from Oulu.

I would’ve had a word or two to say last Sunday, but I did not speak then. I was just a bit too busy, being alive, enjoying the crap out of it and all that… Now I can tell you what happened on last Sunday, and what special was on last Sunday in the first place?

Okay, first of all, there’s something special in ANY given day! But last Sunday was 28.04.2013. My anniversary. Just three years ago I was in Ylläs filming for Hello! and you most likely know the rest… My whole life was on very thin ice, but I managed to survive! Last Sunday we celebrated just being still alive with my lovely girlfriend. Life rocked then, life rocks now, and if I’m not completely mistaken that’s just the way it is… life rocks! Usually as well…

We celebrated, went brunching and my girlfriend had the best present madden for me. I spent my Sunday back home until 4pm, but on that time, I started to receive very alarming signals from Pyhä, up in the north. They went like this: Mayday – mayday – maydaymayday – MAYDAYMAYDAY!!! On that point, I decided to go north. Just to check out if everything was in control…

I reached Pyhä on Sunday night at 11.30pm. and it was most definitely NOT even close to any kind of controls… I found out that it was the time for the yearly greatest, and funniest skiing festivals? (no idea what should the event be called…) MAYDAY! I got my accommodation and well, pretty much everything handled by my good friend Jussi Saarinen, I was taken care of very splendidly.

On Monday it was time for the jump competition, which was more of a session than a comp. FightBack had a great role in that, it had an own section in the roulette! Thank you for that Jussi. However, the roulette wheel was spinned, I had decided the tricks for the FightBack- section and none only than Sami ”Säkki-Sami” Säkkinen was able to do all the ricks on that challenging weather. –Respect… (FightBack’s were SW Lincoln loop, SW misty 540° Rev. Mute and SW frontflip double nose grab…) Respect. You can see that, there were MANY sections on the wheel.

On Tuesday then again, it was the time for a not SO serious team- slalom competition… Watching it was great fun and here I must mention the great help I got from Jusu Toivio in selling my headgear, all over the rainy audience. He has done a ton of help for me and selling those products, which will help to get my book the FightBook published in the future, is honorable!

Now we get to the point on which I’m going to tell you about maybe the funniest hours of this trip. There was a concert on Tuesday night. It was Stig, and it was just great!

Now as I flew back south, I came back on the same flight with Stig, and kinda randomly two other famous Finnish artists; Ruudolf and Karrikoira. They had been in Ruka. As the socially active-, and quite damn interested of meeting new dope people- kinda dude, I went and introduced myself. The rest of the flight was really interesting, I told them about my fight, the FightBack and the FightBook. The feedback I got was quite awesome.

This was just the ending this Mayday needed! And as we landed to Helsinki, the times of which I have nothing to say yet, began.

My trip began on Tuesday, I went to Kitinkannus. To do some Lokomat robotic-walking-training, to please my mother. It went all good. Although, it was only a pitstop on our trip to OUKS to film the documentary. Where from we continued to Iso Syöte, also to film the documentary, while which I also gave the best? speech, I’ve so far given…

The Lokomat-walking-robot thing is something I won’t talk about too much, but OUKS is something I must say even something about. OUKS (Oulu Central Hospital) is the place where they saved me. In one week it has been three years, since the day I was brought there, after the TBI I had suffered in Ylläs. My doctor and the nurse, who took the most care of me were absent. However, I was able to meet a few of those lovely nurses, who were swiping my sweaty front-head dry… And were a part of saving my life. Thank you.

This was a visit, I can’t really even find the words to talk about… They saved my life. I’m so grateful. All I can really say is just: Thank you.

From the lifesaving-place on, we drove to Iso Syöte. Iso Syöte is an amazing skiing-center, just about 150km from Oulu. This morning I was even taken for a ride, to go and check out the Iso Syöte snow park, which by the way was just impressive. A park of which I had heard of, but still I had no idea what it was like. It is great. Really. It’s almost 1 KILOMETER long and everything’s just topnotch… I never got to ski it myself but damn, I would’ve wanted to. Why none TOLD ME???!

The reason I was in Iso Syöte, anyways, was that the SHKY spring-meeting (all the skiing centers in Finland…) was held there and I was there to give the ending speech. Which by the way went just absolutely brilliant. The women cried a bit although I only received super-positive feedback. The speech/presentation is filmed and going to be on the documentary, which is coming out next year!