How many years have you been riding and who was with you when you made your first turns on the board?
I’ve been riding now for 13 years. I started snowboarding when my parents moved from the city to the mountains. First I was riding pretty much alone. My mom would drive me every weekend to the resort and pick me up in the evening. Later on I got to know other snowboarders like Stephan Maurer and Markus Keller who helped and pushed me a lot.

How long have you been riding in contests and what is the first contest you rode in?
I competed the first time at age 11, it was a small Swiss Regional Cup.

How is it riding for the Swiss National Team and how does affect your riding goals? Do you all travel and practice together?
Being on the Swiss National Team is actually pretty cool. The crew is amazing with riders like Iouri and Markus. We have a really good relationship and try to push each other as much as possible.  I don’t even feel like I have a coach or something, we are all friends and get to ride and travel together. Plus TTR counts also for their criteria to make the National team so that’s even better!

Switzerland seems to bring out some good snowboarders that also perform excellent on the international level. What is the snowboard scene in Switzerland like? Is snowboarding a well accepted sport there?
Snowboarding got pretty famous in Switzerland. Gian Simmen might have had a big influence on that, because he was the first Snowboard Olympic Gold medalist ever. On the other side we have pure snowboard souls like Nicolas Müller and Freddi K. …those are pretty big names for such a small country. We have lot’s of good young riders coming up who push the level of snowboarding. So I would say snowboarding is really well accepted!