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50 years of windsurfing 

...as a pro rider, teacher, multiple shop founder, owner 
and manager, brand-director, spot finder.

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40 years of snowboarding 

...as a multiple shop founder, owner and manager, association influencer, schooling concepter, teacher, and most of all as back country discoverer.

35 years in communication  

...as an agency founder, owner and CEO, copy writer, author,
creative director, photographer and filmer.

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15 names and references 

...as a communication professional I was honored to work for and/or with: United Nations, Special Programs Section, Mrs. Graziella Hall; 20th Century Fox, Peter Schulze; The Star Wars franchise, Vincent Delatour; Jung von Matt Advertising Agency, Dominique von Matt; Love Parade Berlin, Enric Nietzsche/William Röttger; Christopher Street Day, Cologne; Hellmuth (Helmi) Classen; RTL-Televison, Götz Elbertzhagen/Alain Midzic;  Ms. Barbara Bulc, Global Development, Geneva at World Economic Forum anual meeting in Davos; Summer Jam Festival, Klaus Eschmann/Karl-Heinz Brozi; Pro7/Sat1 Television, Oliver Kempfer; Grey Advertising, Gary Atanasov/Bernd M. Michael; German Police, Crime Prevention Dpt. for various prevention and image campaigns, Walter Liebe; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands CDU (chancellor Angela Merkel's political party), Stefanie Hagelücken/Friedrich Merz; AUDI AG, Hubert Winter, Martin Winterkorn; Spundae Records & Events, San Francisco/Las Vegas, Ralph Beckers and hundreds more that gave me excitement and satisfaction. 

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11 short stories about my board life 

...as a spanish native and according to my family name

I started windsurfing in 1974 at the age of 9 at Rosas beach.

...as a mid 80's pro rider I was less focussed on winning rather

then on developing style and tricks, put them on film and use

that to promote our passion. 30 years later we called it
freestyle and promote the sport on social media.

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...as a highly addicted windsurfer I focussed my life's set up on windsurfing and added many thousand windsurfing days to my riding account.

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...as a surf nomad I discovered and lived at the most impressive spots all over world from Hawai'i to the Netherlands, from the US, to Spain, France, the Canary Islands, Israel, Morocco, Sardegna, Mexico, Crete, England, Norway, Denmark, Namibia, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Germany and more.

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...as a snowboarder from day one I started boarding in 1984 at the central german uplands and in Geilo, Norway. In 1988
we opened the first snowboard shop at Surlej (St. Moritz) on behalf of our friends, the Conrad Family, owners of legendary Ski Service Corvatsch. Together with my friend Chris Spörri, founder and owner of "Cloud9 Board Sports" and Play Snowboards we we cooperated with Engadine's first snowboard school, drafting the concept of Swiss Snowboard Schools Association SSBS for their co-founder Uwe Müller.

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...as an employee at DavosKlosters Bergbahnen and member of Davos Snowboard Club, I joined the team of the 2nd Snowboard World Championships 1995 in Switzerland, the biggest ever after.

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...as a manager at Pesko Shop's snowboard shop "Davos Paarsenn", we cooperated with Rolli Wagner's Bananas Snowboard School, Arosa and opened the second exclusive snowboard school at Davos.

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...as one of Upper Engadine's first off piste snowboarders, I discovered many first lines with Engadine native and today's famous sport filmer and art photographer Dani Meuli, today's famous back country shop "Cloud9" owner Chris Spörri and many other Engadine snowboard and ski legends.

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...as a Burton Snowboards employee I had the pleasure to work as a manager of Austria glacier test center in Sölden for Daniel Schwalb and as one of Rolf Brunner's logistic's team member in Landquart, Switzerland.

 

...as founder and Partner of Europa Event Agency in Düsseldorf, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland together with the our event
team I developed a new shop concept and opened a flagship store in Krefeld, Germany. At "Clauss Boarderstore" we
incorporated in-shop party events, daily dj sets, snowboard trips, fashion shows and one of the first online board stores.

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...as a friend and brother-in-law of O'Neill Switzerland's former marketing director Claudio Curiger we co-worked on many projects like local surf shop concept 2Legends uniting surf legend's names "Jack O'Neill" and windsurf legend's "Robby Naish" under one brand. 2Legends became part of my friend Thomi Keusch's SpinOut surf network, with stations in Giens, France, Tarifa, Spain and shops in Lucerne, Kilchberg/Zurich, and travel agency services with surf camps in Italy and France; here I consistently contribute to common projects .

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...as Creative Director of comqed agency/MRB Partners in Zurich I worked for our client fanagus AG, owned by my friend and business partner Karl Müller; Naish Surfing, Starboard and Severne importer, developing international projects like Naish SUP Centers, High-End Ski brand Kessler Swiss and Drdyor Climatec Drysuits.

 

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...as Creative Director of the CONSTRUKT Think Tank I took part on the development of the world leading Wing Surfing brand ENS!S, designing the look and feel of the brand as well as most of the products. I am also responsible for the graphic design of MB-Boards the most innovative and most progressive Windsurfing, Wind Foiling and Wing Surfing board brand with it's legendary ambassador and team rider Balz Müller. 
 

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