Bio:
Michael Stanschitz
Size: 172cm
Weight: 63kg

Home:
Gresten, its in lower austria

Home away from home:
Right now I life in Schladming (Styria) Dachstein

Favorite Board:
riot vice, riot for jibbing and vice for jumps

Stance:
+15 -12 60cm

Sponsors:
Völkl boards, performance wear, electric, moreboards, sport senoner, power bar, pow gloves, stylehunters, laxavala headwear

Best results:
1st Andorra total fight,
3 times shred down winner,
1st Austrian rookie challenge,
54th ttr worldrank 06

INTERVIEW:
You probably have a nickname!? Tell us about the funny story behind!
My nickname is stani, some call me also stone, comes maybe from stoned, I don't know what they mean. But stani is also my fathers nickname, so I am little stani.

Do you remember your first day on a snowboard?
My first day on a snowboard was pretty hard, i was skiing for at least 10 years, and than bothe of my legs were fixed with skiing boots and a plate binding on one board, was a wired feeling in the beginning, but at the end of the day i was riding bothe turns... That was the beginning of my shredding, it was on hochkar, my local spot... After that day i STOPED SKIING!!!

How did you learn new tricks back in the days?
I was riding with my school friends back in the days, and we just had FUN, that's the most important thing. We tried everywhere backflips, so that was the first trick I did, before I did my first 360...
But all in all I just learned new tricks, because I had FUN!!!

Why did you never stop snowboarding since then?
Because I was addicted to it, and I love to be in the mountains...

You probably have visited a bunch of different ski resorts already. What is your favorite place, what was the most exotic and where would you like to live and ride in the future?
Yes i really was in a bunch of ski resorts, and every resort got his own special, so you can have fun every where...
But really good resorts are laax, flumserberg, fuck there are so many, i would say its cool everywhere as long there is enough snow...

You also must have seen tons of snowboard videos in the past. What´s your favorite video part and why do you remember it?
In the past i can remember heiki sorsa had a really sick part in a movie i cant remember the name, but he was doing such a sick sw bs 1080 for shure 5 years ago. It was with a kind of shoulder dip, like torstein horgmo did this year and everybody talkes about a new trick...

Let us know about your favorite trick! Do you have any specials in your trick bag?
I think my favorite trick is sw bs 5s and 9ns, but also cool feeling are the bs 180 and sw bs 180. also funny is fs 540 over the toe edge....
I tried also a couple of crazy stuff in the air bag, maybe you see some double corks next season...

What do you like most about Völkl Snowboards?
I realy like about völkl snowboards that its like a family, and I can also give my input into designs and technology. It's a really cool team, and really good friends as well.

What about entertainment? Let us know about your gigabytes of MP3s and videos!
I have tons of music and movies, and I really listen to all kind of music, from punk to reggae, from chill to minimal tec, it depence how I feel...

How do you make your stomach happy?
You for sure have some favorite drinks and food!?
My favourite food? I really like to eat noodles and chees, yea chees, icould put in every meal some chees, chees is sooo good. What i also really like is sushi, i love sushi... The best for drinking is some fresh water from dachstein...
And for shure a beer

What was your best experience so far in life? Can you explain a little?
My best experience in life so far was maybe the hitchhike to Greece, when I was 17... I was working as a bartender there for the hole summer, that was really funny and I meet lots of funny people in this journey to...

And finally what is your biggest dream?
My biggest dream? I have lots of dreams, but right now a big dream is to ride under the top 20 in ttr ranking, and film for a sick movie production.

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