"Just be you and skate. Don't worry about anything else. Be patient, be educated, be a good person, and people will see the way you are and try to help you out. Don't try too hard. When you try too hard, things don't come to you."
Rodrigo is from Curitiba, Brazil. He got into skateboarding after seeing one of the kids in his neighborhood do a boardslide on a curb. Some of his favorite skaters include Kennan Milton, Gino Iannucci, Guy Mariano, Mike Carroll, Chico Brenes, Mark Gonzales, and Julien Stranger. He started visiting the United States to skateboard in the early 2000s after riding for a couple Brazilian companies. Rodrigo was sponsored by Listen, then switched to Organika, and is now on BLVD. He is sponsored by Nike and had a part in their Nothing But The Truth video from 2007. He also did some shoe design work for the Swoosh. LRG gave him free clothes when they were still around and he had the opening section in their Give Me My Money, Chico flick. Rodrigo does the high tech street skating thing very well and has a fair amount of pop to get up on the tall ledges.
For the quote and information: Thrasher - June 2010 Volume 30 Number 6
Skateboarder - October 2006 Volume 16 Number 2
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