More on the full trip of Matti Kinnunen and friends in the latest ONBOARD Mag ! Go get it  …

Do It Yourself is the first movie of a finnish production company Elo Pictures. Good friends, professional working group and the best team spirit gives the most greatest frames to make qualified snowboarding documentary. The movie has been filmed mostly in the northern part of Finland, where most of the riders are from. The movie tells about the winter season in Finland including riders own thoughts about making the movie. The result is do-it-yourself snowboarding movie. Winter through our eyes.

Riders: Taneli Haapala, Juho Haapalainen, Siimon Hurtig, Hans Kestilä, ARC RIDER Matti Kinnunen, Anssi Lakela, Joel Lahti, Josa Leskinen, Niko Lehtola, Matti Ollila, Ville Paumola, Tero Poikajärvi, Arto Saraniemi…

Finnish snowboarding superstar and ARC rider on the rise, Matti Kinnunen, is confirmed for The Oakley Arctic Challenge 2010. Kinnunen started out skateboarding, and gradually started snowboarding when winter time came along. Kinnunen won Finnish Open 09, beating legends like Risto Mattila and Heikki Sorsa. This fall he convinced the judges and the crowd in Modena, Italy and won the TTR 4 str Nissan Stompit. Besides this he has developed his own pro model board, and filmed with Flatlight Films.

More on the Arctic riders’ line up HERE …

Watch Matti Kinnunen’s Double Backside Rodeo 900 !!!

Matti Kinnunen Dominating
the TTR “Nissan Stomp It Big Air”
in Modena / Italy

In the best conditions that Modena has ever seen, Amplid rider and new Finnish superstar on the rise Matti Kinnunen took home the title of the TTR 4Star Nissan Stomp It in front of screaming Italian fans and European top riders. With a Double Backside Rodeo 900 he impressed the judges and landed in front of Stephan Maurer (SUI) in second and Tobias Karlsson (SWE) in third place.

After having won the Finnish Open last spring, Matti is looking forward to having a full throttle season. With 8000€ more on his bank account, an overwhelmed Kinnunen raves on, “My first time at this event. It has been awesome. The set up is great and the women are beautiful. I will definitely be competing more this season.”

Results:

1. Matti Kinnunen, FIN
2. Stefan Maurer, SUI
3. Tobias Karlsson, SWE
4. Mathieu Gerome, FRA
5. Mattias Nyberg, SWE

As usual nice filming and editing work by Flatlight Films, featuring ARC rider Matti Kinnunen.

Check the latest masterpiece of FLATLIGHT FILMS, shot and edited by Miikka Niemi. Featuring ARC rider Matti Kinnunen and buddies, shredding pretty much every feature Finland provides you with. Very very nice filming, awesome riding, worth to get the DVD !

Kalajoki XGames 2009 is a beachparty, with a real snow road gap and lots of drinks. Matti Kinnunen’s buddies Antti Autti and Jaako Ruha had only the 3rd place left for him. Nice buddies :-) !

Photo: Courtesy of Kalajoki XGames

A.R.C. rider Matti Kinnunen, combining technical freestyletricks with b-boying in Japan.

HiDef – this is Matti’s new superlight wunderweapon for more fahrvergnügen, being available at your local Amplid dealer this coming fall …

Battery Catapult Uphill Jam 2009 video showing Matti Kinnunen from Flatlight Films on Vimeo.

Awesome riding by A.R.C. rider Matti, combined with beautiful filming and editing by Miikka Niemi.

Meatfly Matti Kinnunen Commercial 3/3 from Flatlight Films on Vimeo.

Snowboarding Finnish Open 09 Closure. from antti rastivo on Vimeo.

More than 100 riders from Finland gathered last weekend for the TTR Finnish Open, all the way up at Tahko. Top names like Heikki Sorsa, Peetu Piiroinen, Matti Kinnunen and Risto Mattila pimped up the event with their appearance, ready to fight for US$ 10.000.- !

But pouring rain and gusty winds forced the organizers of the TTR Finnish Open to move the qualification heats from Friday to Saturday. The weather was slightly better on Saturday – still very windy but good enough for an informal jibbing contest. The field was absolutely stacked today as Scandinavia’s best jibbers were in attendance.

The course consisted of a rustic up-rail, some A-frame kind of log and a corner jump. A.R.C. rider Matti Kinnunen showed max creativity during the entire jam session and ended up on top of the podium. (more…)

Meatfly Matti Kinnunen Commercial 2/3 from Flatlight Films on Vimeo.

Meatfly Matti Kinnunen Commercial 1/3 from Flatlight Films on Vimeo.

… flying into 2010. Japanese kicker, in the japanese forrest, on japanese powpow.

Photo: Testuo Miyata

Matti loosing weight in Japan: “No idea what I am eating, can’t read anything!”.

Greets from a Tokio supermarket, MK

After a very good start in the X-Trail Asian Open Qualifyers – 4th and 6th place – A.R.C. rider Matti Kinnunen had some bad (more…)

EUROPEAN RIDERS DOMINATE THE FIRST DAY OF COMPETITION AT NISSAN X-TRAIL ASIAN OPEN 2009.

World-Class Snowboard Competition Offers Crucial Points Towards the Burton Global Open Series and Swatch TTR Championship Titles. A.R.C. rider matti Kinnunen ends up 4th after the first qualifyer day.

FUKISHIMA, JAPAN (February 24, 2009) – A strong crew of 80 riders from all over the world battled it out today through tough weather and two rounds of competition to kick off the first day of the Nissan X-Trail Asian Open 2009. Snow, flat light and wind were not enough to hold back the most talented riders in the field, who were looking to earn spots in the semi finals this Thursday.

The pre-qualification round in the morning saw all the riders take it to the course, consisting of a street style rail, two big kickers and an up box that gaps to a flat/down box. Combos on the two jumps plus solid control on the top and bottom jibs were the key to high scores, and the judges cut the field in half before rolling into the afternoon for the qualification round.

As the day progressed, the weather got worse but the riding got better and better. It seemed like a battle was being waged between the wind and the snow, and also between the local Japanese crew and a strong contingent of riders from Europe. In the end, it was Petja Piiroinen from Finland who took the top spot in today’s qualification with a run that consisted of a backside boardslide to fakie, backside 900 tailgrab, cab 900 nosegrab and a 50/50 gap to 50/50.

If you can’t make it to Japan, watch the semi-finals and finals live on Go211.com, where webcasts and highlights of the competitions will also be available for on-demand viewing once the event is over.For more information on the Burton Global Open Series head to www.opensnowboarding.com. For more information on TTR, visit www.ttrworldtour.com.

1 Piiroinen Petja FIN BILLABONG 87.60
2 Manninen Tero FIN ELAN 81.60
3 Evensen Fredrik NOR HEAD 79.60
4 Kinnunen Matti FIN AMPLID 79.00
5 Kamimura Kotaro JPN FORUM 78.20

What happens when you travel to Japan, have a killer run in THE SLOPE contest, when you stick THE run of the day and end up 5th after a small mistake in the finals ? See A.R.C. rider Matti Kinnunen here: