Ukkohalla Finnish Championships 2012

I didn’t plan to go to Finnish Championships at all (because I already hate contests), but when I had chance for other businesses to go to Finland I went also to Ukkohalla.
Ukkohalla is great place to relax, so clean and peacefully.

Ukkohalla is ski-resort in the winter, so there are lots of good cottages, apartments, Spa, sauna-world etc… around the cable. Prices are reasonable or even cheap, because summer is a low season for ski-resort.

Ukkohalla cable is the northernmost Rixen in the world; there were European Championships in 2009.

Cable is low and there is 4 pillars. This year they changed little bit shorter ropes and now cable is really good! There are lots of obstacles… all homemade. I liked a lot of kickers! Rooftop and fun-box are okay and all others… I didn’t like.))

Flat tricks are now easy to make, but in competition there was only one place to make good and big airtrick, other places you must sacrifice fun-box or kicker. Well… small air-tricks what they were mostly doing is possible to do something.  I wanted that format would be full round from starting place, but nobody wanted it. So route which is full of obstacles, we made almost only half round.))

Format was 2 runs and better will remain in effect.

I made really basic but clean run: nose-press on the first straight slider, tail back board slide and 360 out on dragon slider, transfer to nose-press and to blind out on fun-box, s-bend, switch backroll to revert, hs bs 360, scarecrow with mute. The last obstacle rooftop was closed, because it went broken during the contest.
I was 4^th in open men category and I’m not satisfied to results and judging! )))


A few pictures of my run:

Scarecrow with mute

This guy is really multi-talent!
He is same time DJ, commentator, photographer, IT specialist and in coffee pause.

Schavoronkoff Andrei

Tommi Tamminen and Tommi Blom flirting)))

Markus Heikkilä looks little bit fearsome with knife!))

Jarkko Sjöblom... fearsome too!))

Finnish beauty! Kristiina Nyman and Mari Moilanen

Aliina Pesula is my favorite!

This is my only picture of podium!
There are open women trio and open men winner Teemu Muhonen. 

Results:
Open men wakeboard:
1. Teemu Muhonen
2. Santtu Sander
3. Harri Huikuri

Open women wakeboard:
1. Kristiina Nyman
2. Aliina Pesula
3. Mari Moilanen

Junior men under 18 years wakeboard:
1. Jussa Loueniva
2. Leevi Mettinen
3. Niko Pelkonen

Junior women under 18 years wakeboard:
1. Ellu Vikström
2. Johanna Keränen

Best trick:
1. Ilkka Nuutinen

Wakeskate:
1. Markus Heikkilä
2. Juha Halme
3. Henri Huhti