Episode #50
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Eero is someone that choose to carve his own path in snowboarding (pardon the pun), by branching out on his own projects such as his tv show tracking Eero or his web series cooking with gas. From our discussion with Eero, I can tell that he’s calculated, organized and a planner – the process that he describes going through for each trick at street spot was eye opening to me! It’s a very time consuming, focused methodology, I don’t want to ruin it, but I’ll just say that he does not pull up to a spot, shovel some snow and decide what to do.
Eero tells us about cycling 100 miles a day for seven days in a row, the state of his knee injuries, his favorite junk food. We also get into why Eero’s backing the preferred swimming attire of the European Union.
Follow Eero on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/eeroettala/
Check out his footy in Ender here: http://snowboarding.transworld.net/videos/eero-ettalas-full-part-from-ender-the-eero-ettala-documentary/#rP8bEpx76rdy2YDC.97
Topics from this episode include:
Oktoberfest
Road biking
Thriftiness
Getting into snowboarding in Finland
Hard work
Heikki Sorsa
Iikka Backstrom
Lauri Heiskari
Skateboarding
Helping Jaakko Ojanen get on Red Bull
Getting sponsored by Oakley as a kid
Getting on Nitro in 2001
Thoughts on Burton’s past team decisions
Why he can only bend his knees half way
Pain management
Listeners questions
Fast food
Surfing
Social Media
Hockey
X-Games
The switch board slide double under flip in Ender
His relationship with his photographer, Pasi Salminen
Cooking with Gas
GQ
How to swear in Finnish
Speedos
Snowskating
Quotes from this episode:
“It seems like in the US the beer is a lot lighter – which is good for hangovers.”
“We did a charity cycling event, we were raising money for kid suffering for cancer. We cycled 10200 Kilometers in seven days…. it’s a hundred miles a day.”
“I really started road cycling like two years ago.”
“We took a boat from Helsinki to Trollman Germany and then we circled form there to Paris”
“It’s such a good exercise for my knees (cycling).”
“I’ve never had a flat tire.”
“The better bicycle you had the more time you’re going to spend on it.”
“I never buy anything if I don’t really need it. I always put thoughts behind it… I usually don’t buy useless crap.”
“We have so much crap anyways – I don’t need or want anything unless it’s really going to make my life better.”
“If I want to go snowboarding this (Simple Pleasures) is one of the movies that gets me the most hyped.”
“…I feel like Nitro is a very loyal company.”
“Still when I think of Heikki, I think of Burton.”
“It’s pretty painful after a long flight – when I have to get up and try to walk a little bit it kind of sucks.”
“I don’t have an ACL in the left knee right now.”
“I’ve had six knee surgeries so far and three ACL’s, now four… and two meniscus.”
“I only eat painkillers when I’m shooting – it makes me feel more flexible than I am.”
“I play a lot of squash and swimming and cycling and skating.”
“I feel like if I play squash then I can eat whatever I want, pizza and burgers… I probably have the worst diet out of any pro athlete.”
“Fish, I hate the fish – the texture the taste, I hate it.”
“Social media is almost as important as snowboarding now a days.”
“The older I get the more summer I need.”
“I’m the most proud of video parts, people always think X-games, but video parts are like five months of work.”
“I always need to have a solid plan – I can’t go to a spot and decide what to do at the spot…. I have to go there before and visualize it before I go do it.”
“The riskier and bigger the tricks are – the easier they are to get because you have to send it.”
“There’s a lot of photog’s that are never ready, but Pasi always gets the photo – it’s been a pleasure working with him.”
“I feel like if you film for a movie and you’re one of the 16 people – you’re helping the film, but you’re not really helping yourself.”
“The actual last time I bought clothing was 20 years ago – it’s going to be shocking when I quit snowboarding – I’ll have to pay for stuff!”
“If I go swimming, I go in Speedos… I don’t want (especially) American people to know that I wear Speedos.”
“The first time I put on the spandex – I was like F* I look ridiculous.”
“I think in past years, I’ve been too organized – it takes the fun out of snowboarding.”
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