Time for a change!

This was probably the toughest decision I had to take in my life but I think it was a good one and the right one. As of today I am not a professional snowboarder anymore. I was living the dream for the last 15 years and now it's time for a change. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna keep on doing it but it will happen in a different way. Snowboarding has always been a big part of my life, nothing will change that. Since I've been with Burton Snowboards for the last 14 years, it only felt natural to start working for the company at some point. It is such a big step for me but I'm stoked and looking forward to what's coming up. Thanks to all of you who supported and helped me throughout my career!

Such good times!

London Calling

After I returned from Modena I only had a few hours to repack my stuff and sleep a bit before I had to hop on the next flight to the land of the "fish'n chips". I was really looking forward to this trip since I went there to see "The Black Keys" live at the Brixton Academy. Some of the dudes I was with haven't been to London before so we stayed for an extra day to check out the city and do some sightseeing. Everytime I had been there the weather sucked, it was cold and rainy so I prepared myself and brought a jacket and a umbrella. This time the sun was out for most of the time and not a single drop of water came down the sky, weird! It's such a big city but the public transportation works really well so it's super easy to get around. The first day was pretty exhausting. We checked out a bunch of cool stuff and of course ended the day in a pub with a few fine english brews. The next day we took it easy. We just walked around Oxford Circus and spend some money before we went to the concert. The show was so freaking good! If you get the chance to see them live, do it!

Maggi luves London!

Tower Bridge

Peter's Hill

Millennium Bridge

Maggi & Thaler

Bankside Area

St Paul's Cathedral

The "Tate Modern" is a modern and contemporary art gallery located within central London. There is exhibitions on 5 levels featering work by artists like Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and many more. That place is huge and the best thing is that it is for free! Definitely worth the visit!

random pieces of art

Piccadilly Circus

Delicious british food and Kate!

Brothers!

A bit tired but ready for the show..

Brixton Academy

Riots!

The Walkmen

The Black Keys

Stoke factor: 10+

Such a good show!

Thaler really likes these bags.

Happy people

Stomp it!

The "Skipass" trade show in Modena/Italy went down last weekend. As every year they had a big air contest at the same time. I haven't been there before but I heard it was always fun so I joined Keller and Maurer this time. The trade show was more like a big sell out of last years products. It was pretty crowded and there was a bunch of stuff going on besides the snowboard event like a skate and BMX contest. Since I haven't been doing competitions for a while I wasn't expecting too much but it was actually pretty cool and the jump was really fun to ride.

The jump and a sweet spine ramp.

Giacomo (the new national snowboard coach!), Manuel, Patsch, Verena, Gerome and Prendi

Burton gave out a board. People were going off!

I saw that board for the first time. It's called MOB "married to the mob", awesome!

they like it!

Frederic Austbo

Hasi, the spanish, Jocki and Maurer

Maurer was sure he would be on the podium. He was until the finals.

Maurer is so not stoked on the 4th place.. Congrats Gerome!

Hasi pretending like he doesn't care that none of us won.

Best thing about Italy is the food, so good!

..and the Grappa!