Long time no see but now I think it is time to tell my story about how I’m doing after I ended my skijumping career. I did my last jump during the Norwegian Championships at Holmenkollen 2011 and since then, I haven’t been interested in skijumping anymore ;) I was unemployed for one year. It was a quite hard time economically but I knew it and prepared mentally well. During that time, I was helping my father a bit in Finland as a carpenter and I dived a lot as well there. I haven’t been interested in publicity for last two years and I like it to be in that way in the future. That is why I haven’t...

Axu’s friends from Finland were visiting him again. Among them was also Axu’s cousin Viivi Pumpanen, Miss Suomi 2010!

Axu climbed at the highest mountain of Norway ‘Galdhøpiggen’ at 2,469 m above sea level!

Check out the brand new German interview Axu gave to the website www.skijumping.de. To read the English version, just follow the next lines (interview made by www.skijumping.de): You have had a pretty interesting career so far. Starting out in the Finnish team, you had successes on the world cup level early on. After that you were held back by an injury and did not manage to achieve the former level of jumping again. So you took a break from skijumping altogether to go to Egypt and become a divemaster. Why this drastic decision and how important was it for you at that stage to get away from skijumping altogether? The main thing for me that time was that I...

Axu has been on a surfing trip in Portugal with Mikko Kokslien and his friends. A really funny thing happened there: when Axu was surfing the waves, he heard someone screaming his name. And guess who was the other surfer? It was Florian Kotlaba. He is the media adviser of the Austrian skijumping team and a very good surfer too. So they sat down on their surfboards and talked for a while. Small world!!!

Axu really has the coolest fans! Today we found something pretty cool on the internet. Tusen takk for the one who did this great work!