The second season of Ettala, Sorsa and Heiskari’s internet bromance wraps up with some end-of-season bangers in Finland. Check it…

For the last CWG of this season, Eero, Heikki and Lauri hit some kickers and jibs in Ukkohalla before dropping in on the mother of all snowboard ‘contests’ – Wappulounas.

Make sure you check the previous episodes here.

The CWG crew struggle with the weather but still manage to have some epic shred days in France and Finland. Plus there’s some next-level minishredding from Eero…

In this 5th episode of Cooking with Gas, the Finnish triumvirate of awesome get stalked by the greybird in France and at a junkyard jib session back home, before finally scoring bluebird in Talma. Good old Talma.

Make sure you watch all the previous episodes of Cooking with Gas from this season for some more tight shredding from these boys.

After having their plans to shoot backcountry in Cooke City shut down by bad conditions, Eero, Heikki, Lauri and homie Aaron Biittner hit the highway to shred a selection of epic US parks. Cue some of the funnest shredding you’ll see for a while…

The Finnish trio Eero Ettala, Heikki Sorsa, and Lauri Heiskari meet up with Aaron Biittner and go on a good ol’ American road trip. After getting skunked in the Montana Backcountry, they head to the resorts sessioning the parks at Bear Mountain, Northstar, and Park City. Enjoy!

After a couple of episodes jibbing like bosses in the Scandic night, Eero Ettala, Heikki Sorsa and Lauri Heiskari  step out of the darkness and into the light, tit deep pow of Japan. This is a rad edit.

The latest of Ettala, Sorsa and Heiskari’s Cooking with Gas webisodes features the boys slaying more nocturnal urban spots and hitting a hyper sketchy pool gap in Serena. Check it.

After bagging some more Helsinki bangers the snow dries up so the crew head north to Jyväskylä before bouncing on Finland entirely, hopping on a boat and cruising over to Estonia to give the capital city of Tallinn a good seeing to. More hammers than a hardware store…

This is what Eero was up to yesterday. Pic by: @raibishkeletor.

The first episode of Cooking With Gas 2013  dropped a short while back and was a masterclass in nocturnal urban jibbing. But before you watch this gem again, we caught up with the man, the myth, the legend that is Mr Eero Ettala to ask him about this season 2 of this web series centred on himself, Heikki Sorsa and Lauri Heiskari… 

The first episode was, like last year, pretty street heavy in Helsinki, but also pretty mouth watering too. What’s is the next one all about and when is it out?

Yeah man, it ended up snowing a ton in Helsinki, so filming the first episode was pretty convenient for us. But for the 2nd webisode we were forced to drive out of town to find the snow, so we ended up going to Jyväskylä and Kuopio in Finland and then taking the boat over to Tallinn, Estonia. And I feel like that worked pretty good, since we ended up hitting only new spots and got some new inspiration along the way. The next webisode is coming out on the Onboard site next Wednesday!

How many episode are you aiming at for season two?

We are going to make 6 action packed webisodes again this season, but also behind the scenes webisodes out of each action webisode with Red Bull. So basically 12 in total, plus full parts in the end and maybe slam sections, haha.

Are you going to shoot in the Alps this season? What are your plans for the coming weeks?

We are in the USA right now, filming for our 4th webisode for 3 weeks and after this trip we are planning on going to France, actually in Meribel, for some radical park shredding!

Lauri is gonna be shooting with you all season this time, what does it change now the crew’s more of a trio?

He was already shooting with us a bit last season and felt like a natural pick to bring along for the whole season – me and Heikki really enjoy riding and filming with him. But of course also having the 3rd rider around all the time makes the crew more productive and we are getting more shots than last year.

We saw the ‘Kill Bill’ reference in Episode One… But who the hell is Black Mamba?

Hahaha, calling the first webisode Black Mamba didn’t really make any sense… But this season we figured that we would give each webisode a name. A hashtag name, that people could go on Instagram and type #blackmamba and see photos from the film shoot of the first webisode. The second webisode is going to be called Fart Margarita – #fartmargarita – so you get the idea, that these names don’t really mean anything. And the 3rd one is #makebananacry.

Last year you said in 2013 you might be boiling with oil. Is it not disappointing to see you’re still cooking with gas? Or did you just change your mind?

Hahaha, yeah we figured that cooking with gas was working pretty good, so why change it? But we are always keeping our options open for next season…Be might be cooking with something else than gas, you never know. We are going one year at the time and seeing if kids are stoked on what we are doing.

This season, who’s the ‘Sahara’ person?

It seems like the Sahara person is always the main filmer, so this year it is Mikael Ahtikari. He is definitely the guy on the crew that is picked on the most!

What’s the best story from the sessions so far this season?

Loads of stories, but I think this is a funny one. You know when you are in your full snowboarding kit and fart on the hill and the smell comes out of your jacket straight to your own nose? We started calling that El Klassiko, so that’s why the 4th webisode is going to be called #elklassiko. Loads of El Klassikos have gone down this season!

If you haven’t done it yet, sit down and fix your eyes on the First Ep of Cooking With Gas Season 2: 

The first episode of the new season of Cooking with Gas is LIVE and sees Eero Ettala, Heikki Sorsa and Lauri Heiskari put the smackdown on an array of heavy Helsinki street spots. Watch it NOW!

Eero Ettala and Heikki Sorsa drop in for another season of banger laced Cooking with Gas webisodes. The first episode drops here tomorrow arvo, so to whet your whistle we’ve knocked together this teaser. Tasty.

These guys are all fucking nuts.

Round 1 of the eagerly anticipated X Games Real Snow has opened for public voting and, honestly, there’s some of the most insane urban riding you’ll ever see. Mindblowing pretty much covers it. Check out our thoughts on who should win should win Round 1 of Real Snow 2013 here.

We’ll cut to the chase and show you the videos. Riders are paired off in a head to head format and it’s up to you who goes through to the next round. Watch your jaws don’t drop too hard… And when you’re done make sure you vote for the lunatic you’d whose edit hyped you most.

EERO ETTALA vs ETHAN DEISS

JEREMY JONES vs FRANK APRIL

DAN BRISSE vs BODE MERRILL

LOUIS-FELIX PARADIS vs PAT MOORE

Now, if you’re not a gibbering wreck after watching all that, make sure you go vote for the ones that stoked you most.

“Look into my eyes and tell me where your spots are…” Photo: Sami Tuoriniemi

Eero Ettala and Fredu Sirvio buddied up with a bunch of clever coding and design-types to create Spot Digger – a location based app that allows users to find, rate and check out the hammers from shred spots across the globe. With the iOS version set to drop today, we hit up Eero to get the lowdown…

First up, we were wondering why such a location-based app popped into your head as something you’d want to devote your time to?

Well, I’ve been on a spot hunt for a long time and just been storing random spot photos on my laptop… but one beautiful day my hard drive broke and all the images were gone. Figured it was gonna be nice to be able to store to spots on the cyberspace and most importantly on your own cellphone! And of course I am curious on what kind of spots others will add and happy to stoke others out showing my spots.

How much involvement did you and Fredu have in developing the app?

From the beginning to this day we have been working on it on daily basis, so there is nothing on it that me and Fredu didn’t approve. We tried to make it as user friendly as possible and still have the core feel to it, since it comes from the riders!

Are you not concerned that you’ll rock up to your favourite spot and there will be 5 crews there already? Or do you have a clause in the app that says ‘If Eero, Fredu, or any of the Spot Digger team show up then everyone else has to scram or at least go buy us a beer and a kebab’?

Haha, we were never really concerned about that. If someone wants to keep his spots secret, he shouldn’t add em on the app. But once the movies are out and kids see the footage, they will find out anyways where the spot is – with or without our app. I don’t think this is gonna change anything, maybe just speed up the process a bit. And I feel like it’s rad for the pros to share their spots, that kids can also ride the best urban spots out there!

What do you foresee will stoke kids out most about Spot Digger, and also what do you think will stoke YOU out most about it?

I feel like kids will be stoked on the feed feature: they can check where their friends are snowboarding or skateboarding and add new photos to spots and so on! And of course the fact that if someone travels into a new city, he won’t need to spend any time scoping the spots cause they’re already on his phone! I’ll be most stoked when kids add spots, too, so I can actually be snowboarding and skateboarding rad new spots in the future!

Finally, the app’s been out on Android a while and you’re just releasing the iOS version. Any new things added since the first app came out, or any new features planned for the iOS one?

We will have some share functions for Facebook etc, but we have a lot of other things in mind too once we get the ball rolling. There is no end to this, hehe.