Leilani Ettel

Queen of boards

Germany has a proud heritage when it comes to women’s snowboard halfpipe – the first Olympic gold was won by Nicola Thost – so it gives us great pleasure to be supporting Leilani, a young talent who wasn’t even born when Nicola brought home the gold back in 1998, but is already on track for glory, becoming the German champion at the tender age of twelve years old. Not that we’re trying to put any pressure on Leilani, or even telling her which Olympic discipline we’d like to see her in – she’s also a talented skateboarder and surfer! And how does a young Bavarian girl become a hot surfer? Well, growing up near Munich’s Eisbach river wave, of course…