Turku is my home town, and I’m more than happy for it. Even if Turku hadn’t noted me in any significant way, I couldn’t help thinking that, Turku is one of the most beautiful, comfortable, and nicest summer towns, I’ve ever seen.  But Turku did, once again. The town granted me a bracelet, with which I’ll get to use all the town’s athletic facilities, for free.

Now I’ve got the best facilities, to train running, and swimming, in Turku. I’m so happy!

When the official part was over… Saara-Sofia was very trusting and nice, with just a hint of daredevil… giving the cutest, tiny little Linnea, to yours truly…

I was super happy to receive the bracelet! And I went swimming to Impivaara, almost straight away.

This is something I couldn’t value more, and I couldn’t be more grateful, for Saara-Sofia, who bought my first bracelet of 10 times, to Kupittaa athletic hall, as a Christmas present. She didn’t only do that, she has been supporting my personal Fight Back, in many different ways. The ways vary from, helping me out cooperating with the town of Turku (she’s in the town’s mildew) to being my private YOGA INSTRUCTOR, every now and then… We had our first Yoga session, on Tuesday and it went spectacularly! (Namaste…)

Namaste.

THANK YOU.

She’s also a very important link for me in the planning, of the FightBack – running events. She knows the right people, and as I was granted the bracelet thingy… I also met the woman, who I get to plan it with. We are planning to arranging it, in Turun Urheilupuisto – from the race tracks, to Karikonlenkki, the jogging path, for the first year, in September 2014. From there it can grow both longer, and larger. Urheilupuisto is at central Turku, so it can spread! So everyone, get up from your couch, and come to run with me!  If I can do it, so can you! You just need a little thing called the “motivation”… If you just need go for, a little search in your head, and you’ll FOR SURE find it! It’s RIGHT THERE! I know it!

My honey went back to school, and thus, I’ve got all the time in the world, to go all in, in rehabbing myself BACK! My last post was pretty boring, and thus, I made it hidden from my fan page in Facebook… You all know what it is, what I do in order NOT to get bored myself. I work out. But it’s kind of different now. The working out/ rehabilitating myself, has become like a “job” for me. Learning to run again, is one of the most important things for me right now. And I get to relate to it, as MY JOB?!?

-I’m a super lucky guy.

Then for those very few of you, tend to be somehow jealous for me, for being able to “live my dream”, I can tell you that, this is a dream, which isn’t always a good dream. I have a lot of harder moments in my rehab, to which I refer quite often as, “my Fight”. Every fighter, gets knocked out sometimes. My Fight just began by, a really strong Knock Out! I was  Knocked Out for weeks…

I woke up,  I started to get back onto my feet, and pretty slowly (almost miraculously considering some estimations…), after some years, got back to everyday life. My life will never be normal everyday-life. Actually, my everyday is quite unusual. I guess I can even understand some being jealous for this. But still, I would say that, I’d taken almost any kind of everyday, without crashing, rehab and all the stuff I’ve had to do… but I did all that. I’m still going “all in”, in getting “Back”, and since people are getting inspired by my attitude, I’m very happy. 

I’m just trying to Fight Back, to living a happy life, and I am a really happy… so it’s not that hard!

Today I had a Superb gym session in the morning, followed by a very nice and interesting Yoga hour, held by Jooga Sofia.

I had a very good day…

I have just faced a huge of a bummer this morning. I have faced a numerous amount of bummers  like this before, but this one, is somehow different. You know what I’m talking about?

-I didn’t think so…

This, is a bummer with many different kinds of sides on it, just like bummers usually do… but what’s unusual in this bummer here, is that I’m very uncertain, if this even is anyhow a bad thing. And thus, I’m quite uncertain, if this is called a bummer, at all… I’m quite certain though, that you can call me a lucky boy. On the more positive side of things; the headline “A Beautiful Bummer”, was a really great of a headline, in my opinion…

The BUMMER I’m talking about, is that I’m alone again. Buu-huu. I’m so lonely! :’(

Not…

My lovely, beautiful GF Viivus, left back to Copenhagen this morning. I escorted her to the bus stop, in the horrible weather. A thing which is certain again, is that this winter’s weather has been horrible. No one, can possibly be fond of the +4 C°, and rainy weather… not even me, ESPECIALLY, NOT ME. Where were we? Yes, she left me again. And I was sarcastic of being lonely. Now I can seriously say, that this is great! Or if not great, at least good. She is stoked about this opportunity, and I of course like her to be happy. I’m quite busy right now, and thus, I wouldn’t have enough time for her. She’s happier in Copenhagen, and I want her to be happy.

We had our first year anniversary last Saturday and Viivus bought this for me, and made me very happy! I love them!

We had so much fun last weekend and Friday. We must be grateful for the Scandic hotel, the chain, who gave us the Thursday night’s superb accommodation at Hilton Helsinki Airport, and for Blanko, the restaurant in Turku, for the Friday night’s lovely dinner and Sunday’s brunch. They made it almost impossible for us, not to enjoy ourselves. Thank you! What we could do by just ourselves though, was having a blast with each other, laughing at each other and normal relationship stuff… now I’m starting to miss her… I don’t want to miss her, too much, so cheers! 

A friend of mine visited me yesterday, and told me some funny things, he had heard being discussed of me. So stupid and unbelievable, that they were just funny to me. They were said, by people, who didn’t know me… “He’s not doing that for real” “He’s doing that because of money…”

My friend had been like, excuse me? Last time I checked he was rehabilitating himself from a TBI?

I am, and I couldn’t hope ANYTHING like this happening to, well, ANYONE. Because I’m going to say this one more time: It’s been a rough journey. Getting here, to the point, in which I can smile again, be nice and friendly to everyone, has been really rough. Now I thought that, I can just be happy. That I can focus, on inspiring people, but it just seems to be true that… haters hate.

Honestly, when I found the FightBack – the brand – that I did for money. I didn’t have a job. I needed to focus to my rehabilitation. It made me tired, hungry, but my Mom provided me everything. Even though, I was an adult. I couldn’t stand eating from her hand anymore. I needed a place of my own, my own money for food.

I went to Austrian Freeski Open 2012, discussed  my financial uncertainty with my friend, Flo, and we came up with the FightBack. At first the idea, was to make it only for me, but as it’d start to really gather some funds, the brand would turn into a fund. We’re daily closer to that, BUT, rehabilitation is one of the most expensive things that I’m aware about, to do… I want to get the opportunity, to fight back myself, and I want to give it for those, who are in as bad of a situation as me, but can’t find the motive to fight back. Aren’t inspired...

This is my current FightBack at its purest. Learning to run, and filming it for those, who want to support my fight.

I’m not doing this at all, cause of money.

I have received very friendly service here in Haikko, every time I’ve been here. At first, I assumed it was only, because they knew who I am… knew about my publicity… that’s why they’re so nice. That’s why everyone’s so nice, nowadays.

Here they knew who I am, yes. But it didn’t effect their service towards me anyhow, according to a friendly waitress. “We have so high spirit among us and we are so happy people, that we just like to be nice…”

-Because you knew who I am…?

“Nope, I know who you are, but this is how we treat everyone! I guess, we just are so happy ourselves…”

A nice after lunch chat, which got me thinking… and you know what happens, when I’m thinking…? -I just can’t shut up!

The main question is, why can’t EVERYONE be as friendly, and as nice, everywhere?

I know that, people may have bad days, it’s not just peace and love everywhere… there’s wars, there’s this, and then there’s THAT. All of this has been heard before… at the end we’re here. No trust, a minimum amount of friendliness and love, except for people, that already are close to you. Being nice to everyone would just be hard, wouldn’t it…?

I know, that I can’t make THE change… but what I think I could do instead, is A change, in someones life? Be friendly, and nice to everyone, and I can guarantee that, you’ll benefit. But remember, people, in general, are not that nice. So, be smart. I don’t want anyone to lend their wallet for any homeless guy, and blame me, for the consequences…

You can comment here, if you found being nice, and friendly as a good thing…? Right now though, I’m going to show you, how great of a lunch I got!

The pre lunch – salad (tomatoes, cucumbers…) and lamb.

The actual lunch, game meat, baked potato and broccoli in cheese. I know, this looks simple… BUT it was GOOD. I mean, very good. Very very…

I have just recently become kind of a public person in Finland, and I’m quite pleased with this. I’m this pleased, because almost all of the publicity, has been pretty much purely positive… except the ONE negative, of which I managed to keep my mouth shut, back then. Mainly because, it wasn’t criticizing me directly. But now I realized that, it was even worse, it was criticizing the people, who brought me into the public.

It took a little while for me to go through this in my head… except, it wasn’t little, to be honest… now I can get down to business! The headline of this post, was going to be ‘The People, who Got my Back’, and that is still what I want to talk about. What made me to switch the headline, though… was me realizing, that there’s an exponentially growing mass of people, I’m grateful for. And I’d need to remember all of their names… I can’t. Instead, I’m going to say something, not just bore you, with a loooong list of names. Why am I so public, and why do I want to stay so public in the first place, myself?

One name, I’m going to give you, is Skye Darden. I met Skye last weekend, as we were judging the Finnish Open, a freeski-competition. Where my roots, and my heart are at… He remembered the time, when I was still okay. How I was super bummed after, basically any comp, which I didn’t win. So 9/10. He didn’t like me back then.

When he had heard, what happened to me. We had a talk, and I was quite devastated, “I’m never gonna ski professionally again…”

Skye was sad for me, of course, but… immediately he saw this also, as an opportunity… for me, to rise up, become public, and finally, to inspire everyone. I don’t know, if he had actually started to like me all of a sudden, but he pushed me out of the door anyways… he wrote this:

http://freeskier.com/stories/back-his-feet-pekka-hyysalo-story

Here I am, out of the door, all by myself… but, I’m still surrounded by the inner circle, and by some GREAT people! People, who help me to make a difference. They are nowadays known as, the Team FightBack. I’m really grateful for all of you, even for you, Jere…

Finally, when some of the pieces started to be in place, Jari Saravuo called me. I went to his TV-show, and now Finland knows of the FightBack. Pretty much the whole Finland seems to really like it. But even though, I love living in Finland, and I love Finland as a country, I feel the urge to bring this international. Mainly just because, I really see the need for FightBack, to be World Wide. There is a huge number of different kinds of problems, but I assume that, I can’t make that huge number of miracles… I’m just concentrating on this miracle, of me, being alive. I want to be alive, and get so well, that I’m gonna be able to inspire and push everyone forward!

Right now, I’m in Porvoo, Haikon Kartano, getting some Cryo-treatment.

Today’s temperature was -119… I’m feeling GREAT! I just spent a fabulous 7 minutes in there… :)

Hi! I just wanted to drop you a quick teaser, teaser of my new upcoming FightBack web-episode… We filmed for it today. You will also get to know my new “extra coach” Päivi, and she tells you why is she helping me. I’m going to drop a few lines of our cooperation with Päivi, Topi, and Fysioline Fressi, most likely, too. They are in this with me, and I couldn’t be more happy to work with them…

Now that^, was today’s galloping… Päivi was filming this, and told me to “go as slow around the circle, as possible!”

It’s very frustrating that, I have to first learn to be slow, in order to learn to be fast… but… if I’m not fast yet, I’m gonna do whatever. If being slow is what it takes, then I’ll just have to learn, to be slow…

Yesterday was a superb day for me. I trained running, and evolved once again, but on top of my love towards evolving, there was something else… I met my new coach! She’s really great, and she lives in Turku, so we can step up the amount of my trainings… and that is, something really GREAT! On top of the very highly anticipated turn of things, I don’t need to put up with listening to Topi, every single time, I wan’t to evolve! Win-win-VICTORY!

I’m going to continue my mentally very challenging task, of dealing with Topi’s crooked humor, as well. I’m really grateful for Fysioline Fressi, which is sponsoring Topi for me. You can find the Fressi gyms from Helsinki, and some other towns in Finland… but none cares of those towns! Because we don’t have any in Turku. Turku is Elixia. I’m sure your intentions were purely positive. Topi just is, what he is… it’s not our fault! At least I, refuse of taking any blame.

P. S. I quess I’m quite sarcastic, even crooked every now and then, myself too… Topi is a great guy, an awesome coach, and our cooperation goes on. I just have another shortie in Turku, too!

The trainer’s sex has changed (most likely. Topi…?;)), but the height is almost identical…

This new coach, Päivi, then again, is sponsored by you! She’s one of the first things, to which I’m using the FightBack money, more than proudly. So far it has mainly be used for the rehab, and traveling, but I’m not proud of traveling. I’ve just had to go to important events, but I’m not proud of that. I am proud, when I’ll learn to run! We are going to go to Kupittaa tomorrow, again, and I’m already very excited! We are going to run more, than anytime since last summer. I’m also very interested of, the distance I can run, before the quality suffers too much…?

I must admit that, running isn’t that difficult…  you just have to know, how to do it. But when you’ve lost it… it’s almost a mission impossible. Except that, I don’t think so. It’s possible. I’m going to do it. I’m hoping to achieve it. I’m gonna achieve it. JUST DO IT.

P. P. S. We are going to film tomorrow’s training. And we’re going to film tomorrow’s training session. I’m looking forward for the first new FightBack episode.

This morning… I gave a speech, in Scandic Julia. Right before the presentation of mine, a presentation of the Scandic chain, convinced me to write this:

Yesterday we filmed a little advertisement film for Scandic hotel. Scandic hotel Finland has been my sponsor since last December, but now, we have reached the point, in which I basically can’t keep my mouth shut of our cooperation anymore… This information isn’t supposed to be “public”, before, later… some time during the February 2014. But I just couldn’t shut up anymore… sorry!

First of all, they wanted to take me, instead of some normal professional athlete, simply because they wanted to bring up their freedom of obstacles, to the public. I was who they chose, because of that. If  you’re visiting any Scandic, are and are paralyzed, or suffering from a different kind of disability, it shouldn’t be a problem. I am a perfect dude to be their mannequin, because I had just these disabilities myself. And even though I still may have some disabilities, I’m going all in, in my fight against them. And thus, Scandic Finland, thought I’d be a perfect mascot for them. They want, to offer a comfortable, obstacle free accommodation, for everyone.  I just hate being disable, to do ANYthing myself, too… And I’m more than proud to be in cooperation with a hotel chain, which I agree with. Not only about the disabilities, but:

-Every single Scandic hotel, has a gym in their facilities. That’s a HUGE +, for me! I like to go to gym…

-They’re eco-friendly, that’s another huge +.

-And for the third, I could go with their food. It’s really good. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and all that, just excellent. I don’t think I need to specify my attitude towards food that much…

-These are just the most important things, in my own opinion… there’s more.

Now I think I’ve hyped of them, at least enough… Let’s go to the advertisement video, which we filmed yesterday.  It concentrated to two of the main themes of Scandic, the freedom of obstacles, and working out. I filmed the advertisement with the agency, KLOK, 4 very professional and nice dudes…  We used the whole yesterday to filming it. It was kind of a rough, and very long day for me, but I’m sure that the result speaks for itself. And the KLOK-crew, it was great to work with you! Thanks!!

I don’t know, if I should’ve become public, with the information of Scandic, even being part of my FightBack… but… whoops! :)