FreestyleXtreme Magazine Issue 22 | Page 83

Marko Grilc H ow did you get into snowboarding? I got into snowboarding through skating, since I already did that from the age of three. When I saw that you can do something similar on snow, it was only natural I was going to go and shred. What was it like doing it in Slovenia? Is there much of a scene? It was very hard at the beginning because not many people were into snowboarding. But with time we got to be quite a cool crew that would travel around Europe and shred. But it was always definitely hard to be out of Slovenia because we never had a lot of parks and there’s basically not much going on there, industry-wise. How did you get from it being your passion to having the chance to go pro? When did you know you really wanted to do it for a living? I got on Burton 20 years ago and I guess that was the moment - when I figured out that I can just snowboard all year long - it was like a dream come true. It’s crazy that Burton has had my back for all these years - giving me the chance to shred. u