Slovenia rocks

Start of the season over here in Europe? It is just great to come home after 5 months of Eastern world and its mentality, call friends and go surfing on the Croatian coast on a huuuge jetlag. Five hours of sleep and driving a friend’s van, because he’s too tired after 10 hours of sleep, can’t get better. Red bull overdose and slaying our ship on wheals down to the coast. And nothing can surprise more than a snowfall all over Slovenia at 3am. Like going on a ski vacation in France! But no, we were just cruising to Medulin, a spot in Istria that only works after couple of days of SW winds. Coming there at 6am and watching the biggest waves I have ever seen over here with my friends was the best feeling. Don’t get me wrong. Australia and Bali were great but here… This was just the sickest thing ever. Coming from the snow-coverd inland to the stormy coast, where there is no sign of other surfers, just woke up my ‘adrenaline seeking’ side. I didn’t even think of anything else but grabbing my board, rubbing some wax on it and rushing into 16-degree-cold water after putting on the tightest wetsuit ever.




We were in the water for 3 hours and I started to feel cold as never before. Coming from the 34-degree-hot Singapore to the 8-degree-really-not-that-warm-with-the-windchill-factor Croatia can’t be really good to your body. But still, getting all those cool glassy waves and shreding on them with a big smile on my face, almost blue from the cold, just made so much sense as my welcome-back-home trip.
I was so happy! After catching some right handers, we grabbed a beer. It just couldn’t get better.

SUMMER / WINTER IS WRAPED UP IN A COOL PACKAGE

I just came to Singapore from Bali. Aircon room after a month of 32-34 degrees. Feels really cool to just chill in a room, write some words for you guys and just remembering all those good days i have spent in Australia and Indo.

My first plan was just to travel first time in my life that far, meet new people, new culture and work as a ski instructor, do some little competitions just for fun and at the end go to Bali to learn how to stand up on a surf board. But now...i am the happiest person and grateful for what i have learned, did and tried. I understand now that my home is here, around the world, but still i missed my country and am pretty glad that my flight back to Slovenia is in 2 days. It will be just sick to get back and share feelings. ...so back to the plans...even if i didn't travel around Down under as i expected i finished my winter season with 7th place in thredbo slopestyle, 4th in Big air finals and 1st on One hit wonder event (after a knockout on a second day -check it in a clip at the end). Don't want to claim to much but that made me really happy and stoked to start my (the real) season in Europe.

One Hit Wonder 2009 Wrapped from One Hit Wonder Event on Vimeo.

...2nd thing is that i've learned how to surf on a board which is not really similar to skis on waves that are just perfect. I admit that sometimes was rough and just silly looking at me first time on Bondi just smashing the water without any result to paddle out in the line up and cutting my cheek and getting some stitches.

Apparently that was really funny to my good friends over there. But at the end i am glad that after 12 days of Salmonela poisoning i was still able to improve and just in last week changed the board for a smaller one and finally shred waves not only cruisin in the white water. Had the most fun to share that with slovenian friends in Kuta. they were also glad that i'm gone...haha



And at the end i am really really stoked for the new movie that is coming out in a few days. Last year i was filming with Finish film production Hame and shooted some cool stuff with Slovenian Outofnowhere production and New partisan films. I am announcing the trailer for a movie called +358 where you will be able to see some of my last year skiing.

+358 Finnish Ski Movie trailer from Pyry Virkkula on Vimeo.

The trip was bagus (good)
Salamat minum!

INDO is siiiick

I am in Indonesia now for almost a month and started to miss our land, snow and friends. You can get new friends over here, more like meet some new people. But sometimes it is just not the thing you would like to do for the whole time.

I can' t complain on surf, because it is just great to have a swell and some breaks just infront of your door. It feels so free when you re out there and craving for the biggest one in a day, in a whole trip. But i guess i am skier just because of the one reason. Still missing some drops and pow times with buddies. That's what's keeps me going and definetly will try to shred as much as i can after 2 week when i get back home.

Indo is one big happy world...Poverty on one side and true happines of locals on the other. It is great to have them near for inspiration. Yo

We can't do great things in this world but we can do small things with great love !

So it’s time to go deep again...haha...that’s what surfers do and lately i am hanging out mostly with this branch of people...

It’ s pretty cool to wake up in the morning, have a breaky, do the morning things and than go for the waves....It is cool...but i think you can do it only for couple of months...it just gets boring...so that is exactly what i will do...

Hang out in Bali for a month and than back to Europe where i am sure the snow cap mountains will be screaming for the fresh pow...

at the moment i am sitting in a coofee bar in the middle of Bali streets...every day eating thai food,surfing and waking up in early mornings, stopped by police, bargain with them, struggling on scooter bikes on streets to get to the other side, not crowdy one...to really feel the island and the ocean...but why do i write that?...
...just because the life of a traveler / skier/ surf wannabe-er is like that...meeting new culture, taking shots and writing on a blog...

Last month in Australia was epic..after shreding on One hit wonder event i visited Clovelly side of the Sydney and print in best memories...after couples of days of surfing “i was attacked by huge white shark and got 5 stitches on my face...You should see the shark!” That’s what stories of locals are like over here...

I didn’t want to listen my girlfriends mom who is medical nurse, and went into water with those itchy stitches an black eye 2 days after incident in the white water.

Had best days and now...yeah i'm here and am wondering how will the life in the earthquake area be in the next month...unknown is ahead...let’s try to have a bit of unstressed surf life now and than for a bit back to reality life...but i am sure that that fresh pow is waiting somewhere and that soon the THE day will come...

“Such is life” impressed by Ned Kelly’s last words in Australian must see movie...

Onehitwonder 3rd day
some tease what had happened on that sick day, everyone was in the mood for going big and charged from 11 till late 15....
check vid.

Just a Tease from Day Three from One Hit Wonder Event on Vimeo.

Onehitwonder 2nd day

On a second day we aparently had sun and loads of time to shred on a great kicker, unforunately i knocked myself out at the end of a day and dont remember anything. Luckily our photographers and cameramens put everything online for you and me to see what was going on...check it

A Brief Wrap of Day Two from One Hit Wonder Event on Vimeo.

Onehitwonder 1st day with Russ Henshaw

For sure a cool sesh, throwing down some lazy things and Russ stepped it up with dub cork 12, dub cork 10 and other crazy things...That guy is on something i can tell, maybe is just Redbull and i dont consume it enough in last days i guess, but i think we gonna step up the game tomorrow for another session and there s gonna be a sunset shoot aswell...

good times

me just second after i came around the ridge and see kicker

a kicker before some shaping of the take off

me throwing some lazy 5

shapin it

steezin it

A Sneak Peek into Day One from One Hit Wonder Event on Vimeo.

Thanx Russ for stealing HIS photos and put it on my blog....yeah
Australia rules!

SPRING BREAK

Season is coming to the end and so many things have happened. My mind is not even able to process all those great days on snow, all those parties, all those faces,... Memory card in my head is just filled.
Despite Australian weird and unpredictable weather and shitty august, winter over here is friendly to a freestyle skier that comes down with different eye to observe...All these mini drops, ridges, pow pockets, tree logs,...so near groomed tracks...i am happy that narrow minded weekend warriors don’t throw their eye on those features...
However i am really happy to meet all those guys and girls i can share those feelings with on barbecue nights down in spring-warm Jindy.
All of us with the same motivation...as a ski instructor over here, you just want to live every day as the last one and make the best out of it. Taking the advantage not to be booked for an hour and jumping to the park, slaying some freshie or going for the biggest hit of the day into pipe. Every run counts...
At the end of the day we are pretty much destroyed, falling asleep already on a ski tube or in a car on the way back to apartment which can look like Nagasaki in WWII just because of a rough last night...Probably spending weekly payment in one of the clubs, ending hugging yourself or a girl in uniform that looks totally different than during the day in uniform with a hat and goggles on...yeeeaaah... closer the end of season is, wilder the girls get in this 3months lasting sausage festival...
Ski hard, party hard...that motto is common to group of my buddies who have motivation also for some filming and shooting...because of pretty good snow and bluebird day we decided to share some of the shots here on my blog...
Here are some shots to see how the day looks like by waking up at 4.45 with ‘stoke alarm clock’ and going up the mountain in the back of utility vehicle... Enjoy!


















I was also 4th on big air finals of Thredbo freeride series, got robbed little bit and now i am waiting for King of mountain event in Perisher and One hit wonder event in Thredbo on a 90ft. kicker...

Peace ouuuuut

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AUSSIE part 2

I am sitting at a coffee shop in town that is situated almost on the other side of the world and am feeling like home...wondering why is that so? Is that a vibe mates over here are filling me with every morning, is it a special person that comes by when i am wondering what i am gonna eat in evenings, is it a lake glaring in a morning sunlight, untouched flora just few meters from my front door?...

...not alone but still lonely, wishing my friends and people i care about a lot would be able to share those feelings with me every single day... that fresh snow that is splashing around when skiing fast in early mornings on the mountain, an orange sunset when coming of the mountain, animals chewing their daily piece of wide pastures...

...few weeks ago i was talking with a guy that said that Australian students over here can be very lucky to get this opportunity to share those things...what am i than? super lucky? i guess... in only good month staying over here i’ve met so many warm people that wish me all the best every second, saw so many things i don’t even know if i will be able to see again, shared those special moments by the lake, near football field, in movies, in small room in apartment, on a big snow carpet, ... every second is worth to wake up early and go to bed in late hours...

...some details mean so much if u see them with a bright eye...

...even a view from apartment can be better if u turn your head for couple of degrees...


...there is so much behind of first impression and every single thing has a reason to exist...
...even an action isn’t just random...
...it cannot be just a luck!...