Trulli Clan is a group of 8 people from Finland who all love snowboarding. Harri Holmsten, Heikki Sorsa, Jari Tuoriniemi, Eero Niemelä, Ali Toppinen, Iikka Bäkström, Jussi Tarvainen and Lauri Heiskari.
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Here's the story how it all began:
Everything got started on a rainy and dark summer evening in Stryn, Norway.
The year was 1998. We were at Snowenture's snowboard camp in Stryn during our summer holiday.
On location were almost all Trulli Clan members. When the evening started to fall our belowed story teller Aleksi Litovaara(former professional snowboarder from Finland) and Heppu Pentti(professional snowboarder) started telling a horror story to Iikka, Eero and Heikki. They said that the dark forest behind the cottage was filled with Trulli's(Small evil dwarfs who could turn a person into a rock if you look at it straight in the eye). For some reason this moment got printed into Iikka's mind.
Beginning of the next season when Lauri was chilling at Iikka's place they decided that a team should be established. At first they didn't take it too "seriously". The first name was "Shitcat" team because of some unnamed reasons. It took a while when boys decided that they had to change the name. At first they came up with Turtles Clan, but in a glimbse Iikka got a lot better idea when he was recalling memories of the past summer camp in Stryn. That made them make a real team that would snowboard only because of the passion to the "sport"! All members were already good friends and almost all of them used to ride in the same ski resort.
All sums up and from Stryn, Norway to this point TRULLI CLAN members have been and will be featured in the biggest snowboard movies and magazines around the world, in their own documentary "Trulli Love" by neil Goss and who knows where. For now check www.jussitarvainen.com/blog
