New car and some flying

Well i needed a new car. I have been looking at a Renault Kangoo for awhile. Being a bit slow a couple of times and thereby missing good cars. I now decided to get this one.

Went to Örebro, bought it and drove back home. It works well and is a perfect paraglidingcar. Lots of storage and sleepable in the back.

On the way back home i checked out a skihill called Getberget, my plan is to go there this spring and fly home to Åre. 220 km’s. Volbiv or one push? weather will choose for me…

Has anyone flown from Getberget? i would like info if soo…

Day 2 on paraglidingcourse in Åre.

Hmm, abit compressed but nice and fun.

Today my students got some shorthillflights and then later in the day we managed to enjoy a couple of flights from skutan. We had a lid of inversionclouds down in the valley so our option was to land at the 1000meter lift.

The last flight of the day we got to fly all the way down. Sweet! i did a very nice heli in my last flight. Felt realy good! Happy Fred…:-)

Here’s some pics from today.

Petter took these next 3 pics of me. Thanks.

One reversible harness for sale, Airwave Gt light. Also a Airwave tandem glider for sale.

Wanne know more, mail me. fredrik@carpe-diem.se

I’m back, teaching paragliding again!

Jonna has bought me a pair of slippers for Valentines day. Real Finnish Reino. Super trendy Finnish slippers. Stylish shoewear from the east. Kosso in pocket is standard on a Svedupelle like me… (Kossu is Koskenkorva vodka in Finnish)

After a year of some of different works such as an editor at a sportstrademagazine, tandempilot, photographer i’m now back as instructor at Skysport. It has been a realy good year for me. Relaxing and enlightning. I kinda needed to think abit. For me that takes time…

Today was the first day in the rest of my life. I smiled as my two students got their gliders up in the air. Their groundhoundling skills went sky high realy fast and it does make me happy. I am an instructor.

Tomorrow we hope for some airtime. Both my students has flown tandems before. With some short hillflight early on they will be fine for some mountainflights. I cant wait to kick them of the mountain

Direct from the suburbs of Stockholm came Mr Robert Kroll. He got some airtime today with a paramotor on his back. It looked like he had some fun. He’s in Åre to get his paramotor licence.

Hey, Audi cars are realy crap. Check this photo. 20 cm of snow and it’s stuck. Four wheel drive and all… Two Audis in a week i’ve seen stuck.

Little Cloud Bidule tandem sooooooon

I have been speaking to Tom at Little Cloud and it sounds like the Bidule is ready and soon to be certified. It will be something new for shure! 31 m2 and 6 kilos of pure fun. I cant wait to get my Bidule!!!

At the moment there’s just a few pictures of it. Gill Schneider took these:

We hope to have a couple of them in Åre in mid march…

Flying, skateboarding and seeing friends from the past…

Wow, i have been busy lately.

Well not that but in a good way. Me and Brett went up the mountain for some soaring with our Little Clouds. Sadly it was not realy straight on so the lift was not good. I tried a couple of times, got some soaring and a lot of kiting. Brett decided to film and take pictures of me playing.

Then last sunday i drove my Toyota ModelF the 800 km to Vänersborg and Vargön. This is where my mom and dad lives. So i spent some time with them. Realy nice to hang with my parents. I’m a crap son when it comes to visiting and remembering birthdays…

Also i met an old friend i had not seen for 25 years!!! It was epic to see him again. Back in the days we went on interrail together with our skateboards. We had loads of fun on that trip… Nowadays he is a rockabilly and plays in the band Astrolites and drives a Ford Buisiness -49… Cool cat.

After some days in Vargön(Wolfisland) is left for Gothenburg to sell my loved Toyota bus and to visit two more friends.

First evening in gothenburg i needed a skatesession. Me and my good old friend Henrik Wadsten went down to Area 51. This place is fantastic. It’s a gigantic room in a mountain. Inside the rockroom there are ramps and pools of different size and style. A skaters paradise during the cold winter.

We enjoyed the bowl with a backyardpoolstyle corner. Smiling and laughing most of the time we cruiseed around and did our stuff. A couple of hard slams later we had to leave to get Henriks kids. It was about time anyway…

After pizza and wine we checked “Who cares” about and with Duane Peters. A thrilling story of a man who should been dead twice… He still skates like a maniac. Duane Peters is the “master of disaster”. The man who invented the INDY AIR!

Skateboarding is something i will stop doing when i die. It’s still so much fun. Everytime. I started skating in 1977 when my friend Steven Trolin came back from Canada with a plastic skateboard. Hmm, i’m getting all sentimental…

In the mid eighties PowellPeralta skateboards were the shit. I decided to get a replica from those days together for our house. It’s now ready after getting hold of some Independent stage 10, 149(should have been old 151) for half the price at Stadium in Gothenburg. This is my tenth complete skateboard i have at the moment…

Jonna says it’s scary, the graphic. Hmm. I think it’s a beauty

And yeah i have now sold my fantastic Toyota Model F. An epoch in my life has come to an end. I will miss the trips in my Toyota. Luckily i have the memories.

Henry Rollins is in Sweden(or was), i was not in the right town the dates he did his crazy thing. Check him on Spotify or Itunes. Great fun standup comedian. Used to sing in Black flag.

Jonna had her friend Paula here for some days. Sadly it was superdupercold most of the time she was here. Though they dressed up finnish style and went for it… Cute girls huh?

FOR SALE!!! All You snowboarders, i have a splitboard for sale. It’s a 2000/2001 Voile 159cm splitboard with skins. All u need is bindings and a pair of poles. Today a splitboard costes 11.500 swedish kronor, without skins… I’ll sell this one with skins for 500 euros. It’s in mint condition. Used less then 10 tours.

Thanks for checking in on my blog. See U soon i hope.