Now that was a great start to my blog comeback! Just wrote a big long blog but when I hit "publish" there was an error and it all disappeared… I guess its the blog god that is punishing me for my lack of blogs!

Oh well, I guess all I was trying to write is that I am now almost back in energy again after 3 weeks of diving! It sure was super fun but it did take a lot more energy than I had expected! All I did was train eat and sleep! As the show is broadcasted in August I cant say anything about how it went but I think it will be a great show to watch, at least I hope so as I had an amazing time trying to figure out this crazy difficult sport!

Right now I am back down in Marbella trying to fill my house with furniture, the inside is almost all pained up so tomorrow its time to start filling the house up while the painters gets on with the outside! Super fun but just like with cars I have a very hard time to settle for anything less the perfection. The plan is however a light renovation now and the try to live in it for the summer while I figure out what I really want to do with the place! Will head over in the afternoon and take some pics so stay tuned for that!

Not that this song has anything to do with the above but since its all I listen to it will have to do in lack if recent pics!

/JON

Finally enough energy to open up the computer again! Have been exhausted the past week thanks to about a million dives in the pool!

As some might have seen on Instagram and facebook I was now allowed to announce that I am taking part in the TV show "kändishoppet". A TV show where they try to teach celebs how to master a diving board! I signed up for this in late April but since I was in Folgefonna for the first few weeks I had a very hard time to find a pool to train in so I have had to try to make up for the lack of training over the past two weeks. I think I have spent an average of 4 hour s a day in the pool, super mega exhausting but at the same time way more fun then I could ever imagine!

When I signed up I figured that I could just do some flips and crush the program, but I quickly realized that diving is a lot more than getting upside down! Stretching wrists, legs and diving was a way bigger challenge that I imagined! The biggest challenge was however to learn how to do a correct take off. Jumping of a spring board is easy, but doing it correct is a whole different story! I am now skinless on my toes as they could not handle the grippy surface combined with my training overdose, but I hate doing things halfway so that is something I had to take!

I am off to more training here in an hour and the funny thing is that I cant wait to get back in the pool and try to figure out how to look like a real diver, I think I am a bit obsessed by this new hobby!

Below are a few pics from our drive from Monaco to Marbella taken by Oskar Bakke and retouching by Jerry Hansas , some simply amazing pics form one of the nicest drives I have done! Cant wait to get back in this little beast again when we fly south to Marbella in a week!

/JON

There we go, back in normal mode again!  Have had  a great time in Marbella runninga round checking furnitures and palm trees for the on going renovation of my house! Should be ready to move in to in about 10 days with another 3 weeks to go on the exterior, cant wait for it to be done!

Either way, I am back in Sweden for 10 days for a dry land camp to get my body going again after Gumball but after that I am flying right back to Marbella for the rest of the summer, truly love that place!

Since I do check the comments on the blog I see that a lot of you are asking about videos from Gumball so below are a few episodes that we have done, a bigger movie is coming with even more material so for those of you that have missed these. We had planned to do a few more videos, but since the Q7 broke its rim in Russia we were separated for a few days, but thats things that happen on a journey like this! check out these videos that are produced by Simon Berggren! Such fantastic memories!

/JON

So we are back on here again!

The week long adventure that we just finished here in Marbella is finally over! It really feels sureal to have seen all these places in such a short amount of time and I cant believe the work that Leif has done with the car, it has truly tured out to be an amazing machine, I mean, who else can build a car, not have time to test it and then run 6700 km on shit roads in full speed? Now that is the testimate just to how good of a job he has done, so thanks Leif for making all the pictures below possible!

As my house is under full construction I have to head over and check out how things are going and plan for what to do, so enjoy the pics below!

The day before the start, perfect sun and 30 degrees!

My two lovely ladies!

One last break check, tured out the ESP was causing the problems  but once the ESP was turned off it was running perfect, looked super funny to see a full on race car on the grid!

One of my favorite cars of Gumball, the Incinerator!  The only way to get in the car is to walk in over the hood!

Start day and poring rain!

The Tumbler did not run to long this year, but next year they are counting on the full 3000 miles in this car, amazing dedication!

This shot does not make this moment justice!  The water hole must have been 30-40 cm deep and came straight over the car!

On the ferry to Helsingborg, I was exhausted after driving in the heavy rain!

The Suedes helping out!

The Swedish police made a great job in keeping the streets safe without stopping everybody! They just cruised along and kept things under control!

Check point in Stockholm, crazy turn out! 

A nicely loaded ferry to Finland!

While most guys were at the police in Finland we finally got our visas and made our way to the russian boarder!

Waiting for friends at the russian boarder.

Ready for Russia! Thanks to Alpinestars for hooking me up with the suit!

Our 8 car crew to Russia!  Ferrari FF, Ferrari F12, Ferrari 458, 1000hp Nissan GTR, Mclaren, Porsche Turbo S, Rebellion R2k and the Q7.

The crew!

The guys that got to the boarder early had a police escort, we did not have one so we started slow but after a while we were back in full speed, I just cant believe that the car held up 200km in full speed on these roads!

I think this was the best hour of Gumball this year, just crazy to see all these cars all over the road!

Janni was not to excited after the little drive we had, but she sure is a trooper that put up with us idiots!

Police escort out of Russia!

Once big armored car and one mini racer!

First they bust us, then they want to take a picture!

The Austrian police was ready for us…

Never have I seen so many under cover cars, they sure are hard to spot these days!

Ticket nr 5 for the day, Janni loving me!

The day after the start I was worried about heat, on the Italian border we had 1 degree out and smoke was coming out of our months when breathing, for sure the most intese hours of Gumball this year!

Rain rain rain!

And 3 hours later the sun was back when arriving to Monaco!

Arriving to Fairmont!

I think this one goes out to Janni, thanks for being a kick ass GF and putting out with 5000km in the carbon fiber torture chamber!

The best part about this years Gumball, arriving in Monaco just in time for the F1 week end!

Pool time with mr Byggmark!

The Fairmont pool taken over by Gumballers!

Alex, Moi, gary and Strebel at Sea Lounge!

JD!

The crazy old man!

Moi, Oscar Andersson and Bun B finishing the week end off in great spirits!

/JON

For dayla updates and videos – visit my gumball blog at gumball.betsafe.com

/JON

We are ready for 3000 miles across Europe! Amazing cars this year, check out all the photos and action at gumball.betsafe.com. 

During the Rally all my blog updates will be at Betsafe's Gumball blog. Make sure to follow it! 

/JON

So our time in Norway finally came to an end, had a couple more days planned but the wether did not very promising so we decided to head south and start preparing for Gumball instead!

We figured that the drive would be great to get us synced on gas stops etc but we did not get very far until we ran into som problems. We first felt a little unbalance in the rear right tire, stopped and realized that we had lost a bit pressure, filled it back up with a "tire spray",  thought all was good and drove off again, but after 300m we just heard a big bang and the tire exploded.

This was in the middle of nowhere at 9pm so I was pretty sure that we would be kind of F**ed, but I did call up some frieds in Oslo and asked if they had any connections… 50 minutes later they had found a guy online selling Q7 wheels two hours away and with a little bit of extra delivery cost we now had new wheels on the way. 3 hours later we were on our way again, maybe in the most traditional way as our car was completely full so we had to throw the wheels on the roof and strap them on through the windows. Not ideal or comfortable, but good enough to get us to Sthlm. The 1000km trip was going to be long but with this 4 hour break and wheels on the roof it tured out to be REALLY long. Got to Sthlm at 7 in the morning yesterday so I have been a bit low on energy since then!

Oh well, things like this makes for great memories and now we know what our Q7 would look like if it were to take part in the Dakar rally!

/JON

So when looking around on facebook and Instagram it is starting to feel a little weird to see that we are hanging out in the snow and the rest of the world is in summer mode! But when you get days like this it feels great and totally worth all the time and energy that we have spent here in Fonna. The set up we get here is just so much better than any other place in the world and with Polaris helping us out with two sled its just makes this set up as good as it can possibly be!

Banged out another 17 runs yesterday and I feel super happy about where I am at the moment as I feel that skiing is getting easier every day. Last year I feel like I tried to change small things in my movement pattern like hip, shoulders, stance etc which made me feel uncomfortable in my skiing, while now I just change the way I think about the line and the pressure and try to let my body solve the problem in the most natural way, which feels so much easier and better for me! So stoked already for the upcoming winter! 

Only a few more days left here before I have to fly south to Copenhagen and prepare for Gumball so I think thats going to be quite a contrast, but thats what I love the most about having skiing, no matter how much craziness I get into, I always find it great to stay grounded when you get up 5am to be ready on the hill at 6am and then ski all day!

/JON

So I got some sponsor questions on the comments so I figured that I would explain the set up a bit!

I know it’s not question monday and the answer might not be for everyone, but i’m gonna try anyway: How does this gumball-appearance work out with all your sponsors?!

I see many sponsors on that car, but neighter audi nor Red Bull seem to have anything to do with this project… even though it would have made sense for these brands.

I don’t even see a YNIQ or JON sticker on that car – how does that come? I know, you teamed up with people you don’t share any sponsors with, but it’s still your car… or can you strictly seperate that car-thing from the skiing-game cause betsafe & co are paying you that much?!

• As we all know Red Bull has a very tight strategy when it comes to branding, and they never brand cars that roll on public roads, they stay strictly to motorsports and their "samling cars". (the Red Bull branding on the Rebellion a few years back was just for a specific event) So that is not an issue at all for me. I do think the car would look epic in a RB livery, but then I would have to start racing it for real…
• Audi is a partner to JOI in Åre and I am sure that they would not appreciate if I was promoting a BMW but a personal custom car like this is not an issue at all.
• As for the other branding its kept as close to the "Normal" Gumball branding as possible, but since Betsafe is a big sponsor of Gumball they are allowed to make two of their cars a bit special so that is why I can do mine the way I can. I do however try to keep it as clean as possible so that is why there are no Yniq nad JON logos on the car.
• So I try to find good ways to keep everyone happy, but with the 10000 things I do its sometimes a bit of a puzzle, but as long as I am open with what I can and cant do it usually works out great!

/JON

Another day, another session!  Over the past few weeks we have not been spoiled with weather forecasts that had any form of sun in them, so when we saw that there was a chance for some nice weather between 7 and 9, we headed up at 06.45 and it sure paid off!

By 8 we started seeings some small clouds but by then I had over 10 runs in my legs so when the weather came in at 9 we were already done, by lunch the wind had picked up and the visibility was gone! So sometimes it pays off to get up in the morning and get right on it!

Like the previous days I am working on giving myself room and arcing as clean as I can, and the turns where I get it right does feel so much easier then the tighter, straighter line I am used to taking! Now all I have to do is keep pushing and try to get a million turns made like this before its race time next year, but its nice to have a simple feeling in my skiing again, the feeling that I felt that I was missing all of last year!

/JON