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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1000021389 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'&gt;&lt;figure class='gallery-item'&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;div class='gallery-icon '&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t&lt;a href='http:\\/\\/snowboarding.transworld.net\\/uncategorized\\/dirty-dozen-jonas-carlson\\/attachment\\/52_JONAS_ZIMM\\/'&gt;\\/snow\\/content\\/images\\/v21n5\\/m\\/52_JONAS_ZIMM.jpg&lt;\\/a&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;\\/div&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n\\t\\t&lt;\\/div&gt;\\nBirthdate: 6\\/16\\/1987.&lt;P&gt;Hometown: Strangnas, Sweden.&lt;P&gt;Sponsors: Capita, DC, Union, Coal, Airblaster.&lt;P&gt;Jonas is an amazingly talented snowboarder, from linking turns to sending 1440s, he does everything with a trademarked style that is distinctly his and always inspiring. He&amp;#8217;s so stoked and so positive that you can&amp;#8217;t help but be psyched when you&amp;#8217;re around him-he could make cleaning toilets exciting. Sunny days, cloudy days, contest days, and powder days, he&amp;#8217;s the same-Jonas just wants to have fun.-E.L.&lt;P&gt;How did you make it to where you&amp;#8217;re at now?&lt;br \\/&gt;I started when I was eight, and then around eleven I started to do some small contests like the Swedish Cup. I continued that until I was fourteen and started to realize, whoa this is pretty much the shit and I guess I&amp;#8217;m going to keep going with this and see where it takes me-see how far I can go. So I just started having more fun and pushing myself more than I thought was possible sometimes, and just rode so much. Then I started this kind of snowboard high school where we could ride a couple of days in the week instead of being at school. I just loved it all, and all that was in my head was just snowboarding, snowboarding, snowboarding. Now I&amp;#8217;ve been on the road for like two years, been doing some shows and competitions, been filming for a couple movies, and here we are.&lt;P&gt;Who influences you?&lt;br \\/&gt;Everyone, from the youngest kid to the oldest man. If I see someone do something and I can tell he&amp;#8217;s doing it with a feeling that I want to feel, I try it, and then in some way I start to understand how he feels when he does it. When I see something that I want to do, I want to be able to do it first try and just get the right feeling. When I just see someone do something steezy that looks super nice I just want to be there where he is-I don&amp;#8217;t think I can get any closer than that.&lt;P&gt;What scares you?&lt;br \\/&gt;Well if we&amp;#8217;re talking about snowboarding, of course being hurt-that would be the biggest nightmare in my life, ever. I can&amp;#8217;t imagine being hurt, because I&amp;#8217;m just jumping around and running around all the time. I love skating, I love activities-I love to do stuff. To be stuck sitting at home, that would be like death. I just need to be able to move myself.&lt;P&gt;What&amp;#8217;s more important-contests or videos?&lt;br \\/&gt;I want to do everything. I want to do a couple competitions, let&amp;#8217;s say three or four good ones each year, and then I want to film most of the year because that&amp;#8217;s so important and it&amp;#8217;s the most fun too. Filming is the biggest thing, but I want to do a little bit of everything and just mix it together like a milkshake with a bunch of fruit in it.&lt;P&gt;What direction do you think snowboarding is headed in?&lt;br \\/&gt;The next level stuff, we&amp;#8217;re talking about double corks, twelves-you know that level. It&amp;#8217;s serious; you can tell with the skiers, they&amp;#8217;re jumping into water to practice their double flips and double corks. For me it doesn&amp;#8217;t really make &amp;#8230; okay, sure, in one way it makes sense, but in another way it doesn&amp;#8217;t make any sense at all because it&amp;#8217;s losing itself a bit. Snowboarding is supposed to be grab your board, go out there, and have fun with your friends. But these double flips-you&amp;#8217;re not just having fun and doing some double corks; you&amp;#8217;re doing it for a competitive reason. So it&amp;#8217;s both cool and not cool.&lt;P&gt;Is snowboarding professionally what you thought it would be?&lt;br \\/&gt;To be honest, yes, it&amp;#8217;s exactly how I thought it was going to be. But when you&amp;#8217;re a kid, you don&amp;#8217;t see all the work going into a shot, or getting a whole video part together. When you&amp;#8217;re a pro snowboarder people expect you&amp;#8217;re living your dream, which I think I am, but it&amp;#8217;s work too. You gotta be serious.&lt;P&gt;What&amp;#8217;s the &amp;#8220;job&amp;#8221; part of your job?&lt;br \\/&gt;It&amp;#8217;s mostly shitty weather and knowing that you&amp;#8217;ve gotta make the best of it. Your motivation is probably not on top when you&amp;#8217;re waking up and it&amp;#8217;s raining and it&amp;#8217;s like five degrees out. You just want to lay back, grab a coffee, watch a movie, and just chill for a bit. But then you go outt there and use your imagination to find spots, and when you&amp;#8217;re coming home the same afternoon you feel so damn good if you&amp;#8217;ve found something.&lt;P&gt;What&amp;#8217;s next for you in snowboarding?&lt;br \\/&gt;I&amp;#8217;m not going for some ranking system or a list that I have to be on the top of. I&amp;#8217;m going out there to have the best time of my life and promote my brands as hard as I can, and just enjoy myself. I just want to love snowboarding and show people that this is the shit. I want to show them that it&amp;#8217;s something so much more than just snowboarding. It&amp;#8217;s a whole world-it&amp;#8217;s a lifestyle.&lt;P&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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