The crew of Finnish badasses responsible for last year’s most excellent movie, Snake Bite, are back with the teaser for their new project, dubbed Golden Years. It looks hyper rad. Get the lowdown and check the teaser like right now!

KBR have in the space of a short few years gone from plucky upstarts churning out bro-cam edits to Euro movie crew heavyweights. Check their full movie from last year at the bottom of this post and you’ll see they mean business. For 2013 they’ve added a few more Finnish ninjas to the roster, switched up the format a little – they plan to release three ‘chapters’ followed up by an extended full movie this autumn – and by the look of the teaser Golden Years is going to be stoking the asses off street-focussed shredders, while even giving those with a penchant for pow a li’l something something too.

KBR’s Golden Years presented by Battery.

Three chapters and extended full movie dropping in Fall 2013.

Filmed by Eemeli Nättinen, Gus Tible & Jon Vital.

Riders: Toni Kerkelä, Petrus Koskinen, Sami Luhtanen, Janne Lipsanen, Teo Konttinen, Antti Jussila, Sakari Lähdesmäki, Niko Länsiö, Jani Sorasalmi & Elias Veijola.

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Toni Kerkelä, Aleksi Kemilainen, Petrus Koskinen, and Sakari Lahdesmäki get some quality spring shred done at Riihivuori, Finland.

The KBR dudes are back at it for another season of filming and while they’re not bossing the mean streets stacking footy for their follow up to their acclaimed movie, Snake Bite, they’re firing off fun laps in Iso-Syöte and marvelling at cross country skiers.

Riders: Sakari Lahdesmaki, Niko Lansio & Petrus Koskinen. Video by Eemeli Nättinen.

Our boy Petrus just gave hit full part from KBR’s Snake Bite a new lease of life with this re-edit. Check it out for some kick-ass Finnish rail riding.

Good, eh? Now don’t be a gongfarmer: if that got you stoked make sure you watch the full movie, Snake Bite.

The 10th most popular free snowboard movie of 2012 was KBR Productions’ Snake Bite. Finland’s best up-and-comers get their shred game on, mostly on rails, in parks, and around town. Their best movie yet? Hell yeah.

Riders: Petrus Koskinen, Sakari Lähdesmäki, Elias Veijola, Toni Kerkelä, Sami Luhtanen, Antti Jussila, Janne Lipsanen, Niko Länsiö, Roope Höynä and more.

KBR’s latest free full movie is now LIVE and features some of Finland’s best up-and-comers getting their freak on. Their best movie to date? You betcha.

If you’re after more Snake Bite action, make sure you check out our interview with rider/producer Petrus Koskinen for the full story.

Riders: Petrus Koskinen, Sakari Lähdesmäki, Elias Veijola, Toni Kerkelä, Sami Luhtanen, Antti Jussila, Janne Lipsanen, Niko Länsiö, Roope Höynä and more.

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Petrus Koskinen. Photo: Niki Rautanen.

Ahead of tomorrow’s release of KBR’s 2012 release, Snake Bite (which is frickin’ sick and easily their strongest film to date), we hit up rider/producer and general gent Petrus Koskinen to find out what it’s all about…

For those who don’t know, can you give us a brief little history of KBR?

KBR is a bunch of friends who think snowboarding is the coolest thing in the world. Snake Bite is our 8th movie. Me and Toni [Kerkelä] kind of founded KBR when we were kids. I guess we have now got attention outside of Finland for about three years. Our latest movies are KBR Meets You and Homework.

Who are the key players behind the scenes on KBR?

All of our riders: Toni Kerkelä, Me, Janne Lipsanen, Antti Jussila, Niko Länsiö, Sami Luhtanen, Elias Veijola, Sakari Lähdesmäki, Roope Höynä and lots of friends. I have been producing and directing stuff besides riding past years. Mikko Suomalainen was the main filmer last season, Eesu Lehtola was our graphic nerd and Mikko Kuiri was doing some contracts with the bands and stuff. Thanks to the whole crew. You guys did an amazing job!

Now you’ve just dropped your latest banger. Sum up why kids should watch Snake Bite in one sentence. Ok, in two sentences if you need..

Oh boy. Snowboarding rules.

Snowboarding indeed rules, as does Petrus. Switch nosepress in Jyvaskyla. Photo: Niki Rautanen.

Was there anything new brought to the table filming for this movie from your previous projects?

There is some 16mm film footage mixed with the DSLR and HVX footage. And a lots of new spots.

What was your biggest challenge this year?

Getting the riders to film stuff in backcountry. I am working on it for next season.

Did you have any new riders in the crew? How do you select new additions and how did they work out?

Sami Luhtanen was totally new. It was a really easy choice because he is good friend of all the riders already and one of the best all around shredders in Finland these days. And on the top of it his partner Dakine wanted to support the movie as well. I guess it would have been stupid not to film with him. It is really important for us what comes to new riders that most of the riders know the new guy already. Was good to have you on the crew Mr. Lothar!

How difficult is it to stand out amongst all the swarms of hyper talented Finnish riders? We’d say your films offer a solid platform for those less-well known riders to be seen. Do you think that’s the case?

There are so many sick and motivated riders in Finland and sick movies as well. For example the latest PT Films movie was off the hook. Juuso Turkka for president! I agree that KBR is a good platform for our riders and it is hard to say exactly why. I think the fact that I have been working really hard not only for myself but other riders too has been one of the big things for our crew.

Have to ask: where were the snow tits? They looked epic…

Snow tits are in Ruka. The guys who arrange the spring mayhem called Wappulounas made those tits for the event. And we wanted to film them after the event. It’s sick how unique and fresh obstacles those guys do every year for Wappulounas.

Which riders really impressed you most this year?

Jake O-E in The Darkside and Viktor Wiberg in Blue Balls.

More generally, which video crews across snowboarding stoke you out?

Definitely the Videograss crew and also the Random Bastards crew.

It seems there are fewer and fewer ‘regular’ movie companies producing traditional dvds, and way more riders making quality online edits or
guys like yourselves making quality movies. Do you have an opinion on whether this is positive or negative for snowboarding?

Really hard to say. I think it’s both. But for example the KBR crew would never be there where we are now if we had stick only for the DVD distribution.

Finally it might be too early to say, but what are you plans for KBR in the coming season?

To film a new movie. Trying to get the all-around riders more into backcountry and keep the same urban vibe going on. We are going to release the movie in three different pieces. All of the pieces will be kind of three different mini-movies which all are linked together. We will see!

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KBR’s latest movie, Snakebite, drops online on November 5 2012. Till then, they’ve decided to wet your appetite by dropping this edit of shots that didn’t quite make the final cut.

Don’t let the B-roll moniker phase you; there’s some fancy railboarding on show in this. After watching it already, we can attest that the full movie itself is fully worth a watch, so stay tuned for that – or you could even head to the the Helsinki Snakebite premiere should you be bold enough to party Finnish style.

Riders: Toni Kerkelä, Antti Jussila, Elias Veijola, Sakari Lähdesmäki, Niko Länsiö, Janne Lipsanen, Sami Luhtanen & Petrus Koskinen

Petrus W. Griswold Koskinen and his KBR family jetted over to the USA to have a little summer holiday and see what this Mt Hood place where all the summer camp edits come from had to offer. They made this from there. Boom!

This does what it says on the tin: it’s a quick few jib bangers from Petrus Koskinen and Antti Jussila riding Ruka this spring. As good a way as any to pass 29 seconds of time.