March 3/4th, 2012 Mallory Park, UK

April 7/8th, 2012 Culham, UK

May 12/13th, 2012 Whitby, UK

June 2nd/3rd, 2012 Hawkstone Park, UK

June 30th, 2012 Pontrilas, UK

July 1st, 2012 Pontrilas, UK

August 4th/5th, 2012  (Finals) Foxhills, UK

April 9th, 2012 Valkenswaard, The Netherlands 
 
April 15th, 2012 Castelnau de Levis, France  
 
May 13th, 2012 Troyan, Bulgaria  
 
May 20th, 2012 Faenza, Italy  
 
June 3rd, 2012 Mladina, Croatia
 
June 10th, 2012 TBA, Finland 
 
June 24th, 2012 Senkvice, Slovakia 

July 1st, 2012 TBA, TBA 
 
July 15th, 2012 Orehova Vas, Slovenia  

July 29th, 2012 TBA, Brazil  
 
August 19th, 2012 Matterley Basin, Winchester, Great Britain  
 
September 9th, 2012 TBA, TBA 
 
September 23rd, 2012 Teutschenthal, Germany  

Finnish Championship races in supercross:

May 26th, 2012 Hyvinkää, Finland

June 16th, 2012 Turku, Artukainen, Finland

August 11th, 2012 Siilinjärvi, Finland

I met Apocalyptica’s Mikko Sirén for the first time in March of 2009 when we were both part of an AC/DC tribute gig. My first Apocalyptica show was in Moscow on April 12th, 2009 and I’ve been touring with them ever since. When I’m not touring with Apocalyptica I keep myself busy with different projects. I’m in several bands. I was the lead singer for a semi-known cult band called The Leningrad Cowboys for 12 years, but left in 2010 because of overlapping schedules. I do some writing and work with Finnish bands who sing in English as a “language-police” helping the singers with the grammar and enunciation. Actually, my first encounter with the Apocalyptica guys goes way back to 1999 when Mr. Toppinen, Mr.Lötjönen and Mr. Lilja approached me with some original lyrics. Fortunately, the boys decided against using any of it, but believe me, it was a most interesting read. What really bothers me is that I didn’t save any of the lyrics because I’m talking serious blackmail material here.

For me, there is no definite highlight moment on stage. Maybe Paavo’s “Are You Ready” in The Hall of the Mountain King. I also enjoy the classical bit a lot. What Eicca is going to belt out into his microphone is something I’m always looking forward to hearing. With Perttu we mouth obscenities in Finnish to one another during the show. Paavo throws his tantrums every now and then and moves like a man possessed and… Mikko! Mikko is just plain awesomeness.

I’m still waiting for the ultimate Apocalyptica gig. Don’t get me wrong. There have been several great shows in many memorable places, but I’m still waiting for the One. For now, the Leningrad Cowboys show with the Russian Red Army Choir at the Senate square in Helsinki is the one I treasure the most.

I really like the songs we’re playing live with Apocalyptica. I remember hearing “I’m not Jesus” for the first time on the radio. I was in my car and already parked at home, but I had to stay in the car just so I would know whose this great song was. To my surprise, I learned it was Apocalyptica. The song caused me some trouble in the beginning because every pre-chorus and coming out from the chorus is different. At a festival show in Belgium our sound guy wondered if I could try to learn it properly. After that I’ve remembered the structure of the song – except for in Atlanta, where the writer of the song happened to be listening. It must have been nerves or something. As a whole, I enjoy singing songs that are originally sung by different singers. It gives me a chance to alter between different styles.

I couldn’t have seen myself singing a song like “Bring Them To Light” before. I have a lot of fun singing it, even if don’t like (understand) that genre of singing. I wouldn’t want to touch the songs “Bitter Sweet” or “Nothing else Matters”. There is something very magical about the moment when the audience sings those songs.

Battery Catfight will also introduce a new competition format that is going to be a video contest for riders from all over the world. In the video contest, competitors will be working as teams, unleashing their creativity in the fells of Lapland and showing their best tricks to camera.

In addition to the TTR-competitions, Battery Catfight will also organize coaching and competitions for women of all skill levels who are interested in freestyle snowboarding and new school skiing. The event will also include a lot of side events such as workshops, yoga, parties and other snowboard related fun.

For more information, go to http://ttrcatfight.net/.

For more information, go to https://www.facebook.com/#!/rukaspringbreak?sk=wall or http://www.springbreak.fi/ohjelma.php.

The link to ”Kprod se Ladänge hänge”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7y3q4uqB0o

For more information on Kprod, go to www.kprod.se.

The Nipwitz videoblog project started in the winter season of 2009–2010 with four short movies. The Nipwitz group’s ultimate goal was to make movies that broke the traditional pattern of ski movies and that were enjoyable to the Nipwitz guys themselves, as well. The Nipwitz videoblog was warmly welcomed by the skiing community. Within a year, the short movies got over 150 000 views online and Nipwitz was awarded with the 2010 Best Webisode award at the International Freeskiing Film Festival in Annecy, France.

“Instead of making an annual full length ski movie published in the fall, we wanted to offer the skiing community quality entertainment during the winter season since there is a clear niche for that. Nipwitz is not about contest summaries or park “training” videos but movie-like footage that is easy to relate into. “ Nipwitz

Check out this year’s first Nipwitz movie ”Polar Night” at http://vimeo.com/36556658.

Battery Energy Drink is proud to keep Nipwitz going in 2012.

For more information on Nipwitz, go to http://nipwitz.com/.

For more information on the athletes, go to http://www.batterydrink.com/site/people/b-unit/joel-ahola/ and http://www.batterydrink.com/site/people/b-squad/battery-sisters/.

Battery Energy Drink wishes Ilkka-Eemeli, Merika and Kristiina the best of luck. Make us proud.