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2004
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2004
I bought a pile of 2X4 and a new decent drilling machine. I wanted more vert on the ramp, and then 50cm became 75cm(about 2,5ft). I was learning to skate differently the same old ramp.
I hadn’t been to Lapland since my military times, but in June ’04 traveled all the way up to Inari to see the midnight sun, just because I had not seen it before.

Highly recommended phenomenon to be experienced.

On July 31st at C.O.S. cup in Chemnitz, Germany a security guard drove his grey Skoda over my pelvis, thigh and leg in reverse. I was chilling under a tree next to our RV with some other skaters. I literally woke up with a car’s back tire on my lap! There were no bones broken, but the episode was traumatic and I was wounded and bruised very badly. I barely walked out from the hospital the next day. Once again, I went to the summer cabin for 2 weeks to recover. While that unexpected summer vacation an idea of a new private vert ramp was born. Why should a vert ramp be in a skate park? None of the people who used the park rode vert, a part from me, and I didn’t have the time to use the local skate park anymore. I decided to replace my mini with a bigger construction. As a lucky co-incidence the skate park of Vuokatti needed to get rid of their vert ramp, or actually it was just the metal frames of a ramp. The 15 years old plywood was not worth much. That was OK to me. I bought the half-pipe and brought it down south to the summer cabin. It was demanding three 1000km missions (total 1800miles). Luckily, I had a couple of friends with lorry driver’s license to sort out the transportation. Finally, all the pieces were at the new spot just right before winter. Both rental vehicles were shoveled back up to the solid ground from the sinking mud at some point of the hellish off-loading process.