Since my childhood I am already going in for sports. In 1987, when I saw my first snowboard and put away my brand new ski, snowboard schools were simply non-existent. Being one of the first snowboarders in Germany I had to learn this sport autodidactically in the age of 16. Via Snakeboarding I came to downhill skateboarding in 1998. Since then I was board sport addict.
Through the years I attended or created numerous, mostly crazy events. The first descent with a snakeboard in the iceless bobtrack of Königssee (Germany) at the “Red Bull Inline Beton” (August 1996 & 1997) brought me to downhill skateboarding: searching for a new challenge I wanted to defeat the bobtrack on a longboard! After intense training and countless crashes I had finally made it: I had reached the finish line after a clean run!
In the past years I have skateboarded all four German bob- and lugetracks (Königssee, Oberhof, Altenberg & Winterberg) as well as the olympic bobtracks of Innsbruck-Igls (Austria), Cesana Torinese (Italy), La Plagne (France) and Sarajevo (Bosnia).
But I am also still an active athlet in snowboarding: From 1998 to 2003 I competed in 24-hour highspeed races (up to 130 km/h). In 2003 I added an endurance world record and in 2009 a 24-hour altitude-difference world record.
One of the craziest events was, besides the “BoardXcess” (24 hour highspeed race), the endurance world recod in the Austrian Ski Welt Wilder Kaiser (March 2003): 168 hours = 7 days and nights nonstop snowboarding!
My sports activities, overview:
since 1987
Snowboarding:
1998-202
competing the BoardXcess in Galtür/ Austria:
24-hour highspeed snowboard race in a 2-man-team
2003
competing the BoardXcess in Galtür/ Austria:
24-hour highspeed snowboard race as the only solo racer (out of concurrence)
2003
endurance world recod in the Austrian Ski Welt Wilder Kaiser/ 168 hours = 7 days
competing the Sandboarding World Championships on the Monte Kaolino in Hirschau, Germany
(1st place Jump-Contest 1991, 3rd place Boarder-X 2002)
1991
first ever landed sandboarding backflip worldwide
2001 & 2002
sandboarding expeditions to the Tunesian Sahara
2007
sandboarding expedition to Dubai
1994-2000
Snakeboarding:
1994
snakeboard downhill: first descent of the Kaunertal glacier road (Austria)
1996
first backflip on a snakeboard worldwide
1995-1999
attending the "Hot Heels" (downhill skate world championships) in Kaunertal, Austria
1996
"Red Bull Inline Beton": first descent in the iceless bobtrack of Königssee, Germany
since 1998
Downhill Skateboarding:
1998-2014
first descent in the iceless bobtracks of Königssee 1998, Oberhof 2003, Altenberg 2004 (including the tower start), Innsbruck-Igls 2007, Sarajevo 2008, Cesana Torinese 2008, La Plagne 2012
2004
first descent in the icy lugetrack of Oberhof on ice blades
competing in "Hot Heels" (downhill skate world championships) in Kaunertal, Austria
