When I ski it brings a smile on my face all day;

I was born the 9th of November 1982 in Zurich, Switzerland. Growing up in Zurich I was close to the mountains so I used to ski a lot and I always loved it. In the nineties snowboarding became more popular and in 1991 I tried snowboarding for the first time. Snowboarding quickly became my new passion.

Soon after I started doing regional halfpipe competitions, I put all my spare time into snowboarding and even went to sports school to make sure I could be on the snow as often as