According to the book Raipe - vaatimattomuuden lyhyt oppimäärä, he invented the pass when he was playing against grown-up men from his neighborhood when he was a young child in Koivistonkylä, Tampere, Finland.
As stated in the book Raipe - vaatimattomuuden lyhyt oppimäärä, he developed the pass during childhood games with older men from his hometown of Koivistonkylä, Tampere, Finland.