Hometown: Åre, Sweden.

 

Home mountain: Åre.

 

Years snowboarding: 16.

 

Sponsors: Quiksilver, LIB Tech, Level, Union.

 

Setup: LIB Tech TRS Banana 159.

 

Stance: Regular.

 

Angles: Front +27, Back -9.

 

Width: Whatever works.

 

Hobbies: Golfing and riding bikes.

 

Career highlights: All the good powder days with my friends.

 

Trick of choice: Backside air.

 

Heroes: Jamie Lynn.

 

Music: Hip Hop.

 

Favorite piece of Quik gear: My signature Jacket.

Jakob's come along way since his humble beginnings back in the old country, landing watertight, mind-blowing parts with the famed Robot Food, Defective Films, and Mack Dawg video crews. Aside from snowboarding, Jakob has recently developed a penchant addiction for biking—mainly road bikes and fixies, but if it's got two wheels he'll rip it. As of late Jakob has been toiling away on a new video project entitled, Pony Tales—a friend-centric movie that he's working on under the recently established Action Horse label alongside his buddies and fellow Swedes, Hampus Mosesson, and video guru Per Hampus Stålhandske. If that's not enough to keep the globe trotting shred busy, Jakob's also about to welcome a new member of the Wilhelmson family into the world in short order, so we could be looking at another world-class snowboarder on our hands in the very near future.