These dudes from Jyväskylä named their crew after Nick Visconti’s skinny stick legs, hang about with the KBR guys and have produced a rad first full movie. Check it.

Tikut presents a snowboard movie for snowboarders.

Featuring: Ville Väisänen, Aleksi Kemiläinen, Roope Höynä, Toni Kerkelä, Roope Koitola and Friends.

Filmed by Mikko Suomalainen, Eemeli Hepola, KBR, Niki Ja Juuso R.dOGit, Justin Gunson/Tws, Theodore Muse, Petter Foshaug, Erik Lindhe, Kuske

Edited by Roope Höynä & Tuna Baleon

Produced by Tikut

Friends: Miika Lappalainen, Tuho-Juho Haapalainen, Veke Veijola, Antti Jussila, Juuso Rutanen, Petrus Koskinen, Juuso Turkka
What is Tikut?

“Tikut is snowboarding crew from Jyväskylä, Finland. It was founded in the year 2008. We were watching Nick Visconti’s part in Stack Footy and he had so tight pants in it, that his legs looked like two sticks (in finnish Tikut) especially in the shot where he does a tailpress to this wooden down rail (tikut.tumblr.com/image/39514934301) . After that we started calling our “thing” and later the blog “Tikut”.

In the beginning we had an official KBR productions blog where we were allowed to post only official KBR prod stuff. A Little part of the crew wanted to post more videos including ones that are not that “official”, videos that represents us and who we are and some pics of our daily life. So we decided to start a blog of our own.

Tikut blog was and still is kind of a lifestyle blog. Year after year we’ve made new videos and things have got bigger. In the past few years Tikut have developed from only maintaining a blog and making videos in to a movie production also. And we are proud to present, our first full length movie TIKUT.”

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Like us: facebook.com/Tikut

This free Finnish flick from KBR Productions will have you hyped. Just watch it.

The crew at KBR Productions have been impressing us each year with their low budget/high quality snowboard flicks featuring some of the lesser-known Scandis. Each year the riding’s got better as has the filming and editing, so following on from last winter’s banger, Homework, is their latest offering – KBR Meets You. Even our notoriously hard-to-please photo ed was pumped on this bad boy.

Nice to meet you!

Snowboarding by: Elias Veijola, Toni Kerkelä, Roope Höynä, Petrus Koskinen, Sakari Lähdesmäki, Niko Länsiö, Antti Jussila, Ville Väisänen (feat. Aleksi Kemiläinen), Janne Lipsanen and friends.

Supported by Battery Energy Drink, Rip Curl & Hoppipolla

Mediapartners: Onboard, Methodmag, Slammer, Whitelines & Snowstoked

And for those who always need to know… here’s the MUSIC IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE!

INTRO:
The Witch and The Robot – Giant Graves
From “On Safari” album
Copyright ATIC Records 2009
aticrecords.com

ELIAS:
So Many Dynamos – Artifacts Of Sound
From “The Loud Wars” album
Copyright Vagrant Records
somanydynamos.biz

TONI:
Richard Swift – Would You
Written and performed by Richard Swift
Copyright Secretly Canadian
AND
The Over Attacks – Night Runners
Written by The Over Attacks

ROOPE & PETRUS:
Flight Facilities – Foreign Language feat. Jess
Licensed courtesy of Future Classic
futureclassic.com.au

SAKARI:
Bass Drum Of Death – Get Found
Copyright Fat Possum Records
bassdrumofdeath.blogspot.com

NIKO:
Manfish – Die Hippie Die
Produced and recorded by Manfish
facebook.com/​bandmanfish
manfish.bandcamp.com

ANTTI:
Kyla La Grange – Vampire Smile
kylalagrange.com

VILLE:
Koaste -Sound The Alarm
Instrumental taken from “Lions in the Forest”
by Pain Language (produced by DJ Muggs)
The273.com

JANNE:
Kyla La Grange – Walk Through Walls
kylalagrange.com

OUTRO:
Small Engine Repair – Fall Down At Your Feet
From “An Introduction to Small Engine Repair” album
Copyright I-Label
Release year 2011
Composed by Phil Twigg

Thank you!

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This killer Finnish snowboard movie dropped free on the internet a while back, so we hit up director Petrus Koskinen to get the 411 on what Homework, and KBR Productions, is all about…

Starring: Antti Jussila, Niko Länsiö, Petrus Koskinen, Sakari Lähdesmäki, Janne Lipsanen, Elias Veijola, Aleksi Kemiläinen, Ville Väisänen, Roope Koitola, Roope Höynä, Toni Kerkelä

Petrus, can you tell us a little about yourself. What’s your riding/filming background, and what do the letters KBR stand for?

Yeah, I’m Petrus Koskinen, a 20-year-old shredder from Finland. I live in middle Finland – in a place called Jyväskylä. It’s 300 kilometres from Helsinki. I ride for K2, Battery Energy Drink and Spy. I love to ride urban stuff and I definetely want to film each year a videopart with my homies than go to some contests. I’m the second mastermind (with my good friend Toni Kerkelä) of KBR Productions. We kind of put the whole thing together. KBR doesn’t mean anything too official. KBR Productions was called back in the days called “Kobra Crew”, but it sounded too stupid and we changed the name.

You just released your Homework movie. We could not find any sponsor logos or anything. What’s up with that? How did you finance the movie?

We finance our movies from our own pockets and I dont know how we do it every year.

Our photo ed, Sami, always points out awesome Finnish riders who don’t have any sponsors. Any guys in your flick that could do well with a bit of corporate endorsement?

Yeah, the level of riding is so high in Finland so it’s not so easy to get some support for your riding. In fact there are some riders who might need some help with the gear. Ville Väisänen is definetely one of them. Get him some boards!!

There have been quite a few smaller production from Finland this fall, like ‘High Guality’ and ‘Mortal Wombat’. Where do you see your production among Finnish and also European productions – riding-wise, production-wise?

That’s a hard one. I think we have such a good vibe and that’s a thing that all of the crews don’t have. All of our riders and filmers are super motivated to get some shots and push the level each year higher. All of the guys who are part of our movies are proud to film for KBR Productions. And, yeah, I think we have some decent riding and filming too.

And why did you settle on a normal title and not something more in line with the other productions, like ‘Gnome Work’?

Hahah, we thought that now it’s time to publish a movie with a “normal” name. We think it’s better accepted in such places as USA, Canada and middle Europe. In fact originally we thought of naming “Homework” as “HC Riders”. I think it’s better this way, hehe.

How come there are so many Finnish productions these days? Ever thought about joining forces with the other crews and creating a Finnish super-movie?

Yeah, that’s one thing we have on our mind. It would be radical.

What are your crews plans for the coming season? Another movie? What riders will be filming with you? Could you find some sponsors?

We are going to make a new film with the same crew. There may be some new riders and filmers too. I haven’t had time to catch any sponsors for the new production because I’m doing the Finnish Military Service till 7th february 2010. And YES, it sucks soooo bad. If there’s anyone who wants to support our next movie, just contact kbrproductions@gmail.com!

Anything else you’d like our readers to know?

Peace and love! KBR Productions is here to stay!

/Petrus