Johannes clips kept popping up on my Instagram Explore page and TikTok For You Page which is like the modern version of having stand out clips in HCSC session recap video or opening clips in the montage part of a Transworld video. People are talking about his riding so we had Gus Warbington talk to Johannes for the latest On The Rise

Name:
Johannes Leeuwenburgh Taklo

Age: 23

Social Media Handles: @johannestaklo on Instagram
and @taklo_taklo on TikTok

Hometown: Oslo, Norway

Home Mountain:
Oslo Vinterpark

Sponsors: Burton Snowboards

Stance: Regular

Setup: Burton Lightweight board 162cm, Burton Cartel X bindings, Burton Ion boots, stance width slightly wider than ref, and for angles +15 & -9

How did you find snowboarding? At 6 years old my family got a cabin where the previous owners had left boots and snowboard in my size so I had to try. My mom snowboards, which also made it easier

Years snowboarding? 17

Best Contest Result? 3rd Place World Rookie Tour Livigno 2020

Favorite Snowboard Video?
 DC’s It

Biggest Inspiration? Anyone who’s really good at both snowboarding and skateboarding. Good examples are Markus Olimstad and Alek Østreng

What motivates you?
 Seeing my friends being sucessful and doing cool stuff in all aspects of life

What rider from the new generation is the gonna be the future of snowboarding?
 Isak Andre Lindberg

Most Underrated Rider? Vetle Rygh

Favorite Old Head? Alek Østreng

Best Style? Nik Baden

Most Cooked Homie? kis23

Most talented rider?
 Kristian Skjømming

Sketchiest Homie? Håvard Roald (@adm.dir) in the absolute best possible way

Favorite filmer? Big fan of Bryden Bowleys work recently

Who brings the best energy? Jakob Tessand. Almost too good.. having him on street missions usually results in more bullshitting than actual riding

Worst trick? Rail flips

Steel or Powder? Powder

Dream Sponsor (Doesn’t Have to Be Snowboarding-Related)? Kolonihagen, and only for their sodas

Worst Trend in Snowboarding? Contest riding and non-contest riding becoming too divided. Snowboarding should be able to be appreciate as a whole

Biggest fear? P2 card somehow getting broken or lost before transferring clips from the cam

Is there a time where you should have died but made it out unscathed?
Or sketchiest moment? 2018 in Landgraaf, Netherlands, indoor boarding. Drifted completely out of the landing of the “big jump” on a BS 720, landed on the edge of a kicker to a down rail, feet and face to the ground simultaneous due to the impact, face only centimeters away from the start of the rail. Knees where a bit sore for a week, other than that unscathed. Link to clip if you want to have a look.

A moment that you’ll never forget? Meeting Terje Håkonsen for the first time and the only thing he said to me was to start wearing goggles. Definetly a solid advice and something I should do more often, so thank you Terje!

Warm up or straight to business? Been trying to warm up lately, but usually way too fast to business

When do you ride best? Whenever I get to do something before going to the hill. School, work out, cook up some beats or anything else that wakes up the brain

Best place and worst place to snowboard? Skistar Hemsedal

Interests outside of snowboarding? Locked in on music production, skateboarding, and physics at the moment.

Best advice you ever received? Be patient, goes for everything in life, but mostly snowboard take-offs

Words to live By?
 “Expect nothing, appreciate everything” goes pretty hard

Shout Outs:
 The fam, all of Reload (Sebastian, Anders, Jakob, Øyvind and Odin) and everyone else I spend time with

Describe snowboarding in one word: Fabelaktig

Watch Johannes’ part in You’re out of ammo from reload