Young Ländle eagle

Maxi Moosbrugger feels at home in the air

Maximilian Moosbrugger from Lech is one of the Ländle hopes in ski jumping.(Bild: zVg)

Ski jumpers are few and far between in Lech and the Arlberg in general. But the first on the Vorarlberg side is already doing surprisingly well. The 16-year-old Maximilian Moosbrugger made it into the ÖSV C squad for the first time this season and is on a very good path.

But ski jumping wasn't actually on the young Moosbrugger's radar from the very beginning. "I got into freestyle at the age of eight and followed it for two years. But then there was no real training path for it," he explains, "so I came to the Schruns ski middle school and started training as a ski jumper there. It was completely new to me at first, but things have been going uphill ever since." He is now in the third year of commercial school at the Stams Ski High School, where he trains under Wolfgang Erlacher. This season, he wants to establish himself in the Austria and Alpine Cups.

Adrenaline with freestyle
However, he has not sworn off freestyle skiing. "I've always loved being in the air," says Maxi enthusiastically. "Ski jumping is a sport of concentration for me, everything has to be just right. But I get the adrenaline and the kick from freestyle!"