Aleksi Vanninen

The mini interview: “Third time is a charm”

3 things you can hardly live without:
Music, sports and my girl.

3 things you would buy immediately if you would win the million jackpot in a lottery:
I would invest and buy three nice apartments from Helsinki. I’d move into one and rent the other two out. But immediately though- maybe three bottles of some fine champagne.

3 city spots with your favorite handrails:
Isn’t that kind of classified information these days…? Well actually I think that Talma is the closest to a city spot I’ve been to in the past few season. They got three rails…

3 things you would do if you knew that today is the last day in your life:
Now that’s deep. Well, when the day comes, I’ll make sure one of them is to let you know the other two.

3 peaks with your favorite backcountry line:
Talma most definitely -not. Krippenstein in Austria was pretty sweet. Silvretta nova equally in Austria and Kaprun had some pretty fun cruising too. Hah, you can tell I’ve been filming with the Pirates of Austria lately…

3 things you would change immediately if you would rule the world:
Damn, I feel like some beauty queen even reading this question…

3 things that can keep you from riding
An injury, a complete lack of snow and I guess summertime is kind of doing it too, gotta love the off season as well to balance it all out.

3 parks with you favorite kicker set-up:
Of the few parks that I was able to ride last season: Talma Finland for sure, Nanshan in China was really fun and Penken is sick, especially during the Ä-event.

3 spots you have never been so far and whish to ride at:
Alaska, maybe Mt Baker and Whistler backcountry, just been at the resort in spring time…

3 best snowboard videos of all time:
Board with the world, Hard the Hungry and the Homeless and Subject Haakonsen. To name the ones that possibly had the most influence on me.

3 best songs to start your day with:
It varies a lot but at the moment I would name: Nicole Willis´ Feeling Free, Crazy on you by Heart and Coke Escovedos´ I wouldn’t change a thing. And as a bonus, Across the 110th street (instrumental) by J.J. Johnson also gets me going every time. This question could have well been 30 best songs…

3 best songs to end your day with:
Frou Frou: Let Go, the theme from Twin Peaks and Legendary by Lou Barlow.

3 final words or more you whish to shout out here:
Shout outs and big thank you ´s to my 3 sponsor-families of course… Elan, 686 and Spy.