What do you suppose girls’s skateboarding must change into even stronger?
Girls’s skateboarding has grown and adjusted lots lately. It is weird how a lot it has grown. On the earth rating [street], three of the primary 4 are Brazilian. Brazilian girls’s skateboarding is absolutely robust in efficiency, however we’d like just a little extra help. I can not complain, I’ve glorious companions and sponsors who assist me, so I am one of many fortunate ones. Talking extra for the others, I see many women who’re actually good at skateboarding and don’t have any help. There are so few occasions. Visibility is what’s missing, as a result of the ladies are actually good. There is no lack of high quality.
Visibility is what’s missing, as a result of the ladies are actually good. There is no lack of high quality
And why do you suppose that occurs?
These days, you may have YouTube, Instagram, Twitter… You see all of the movies and manoeuvres in actual time, at any time. After I began, issues weren’t like that. Months after I began skating, I obtained a DVD that had ladies skateboarding. So, six months earlier than I began practising, I did not know that ladies might skate. It was way more tough. These days, with all of the entry we have now to social networks, ladies are evolving very quick and it is rather lovely to see the Brazilian skate scene.
And with all of the historical past you have already got, what sort of legacy do you wish to depart?
I wasn’t the primary lady to seem on the Brazilian skateboard scene. There have been a number of earlier than me, however earlier than I retire, perhaps 15 or 20 years from now – as a result of I am very younger, proper? [laughs] – I would like ladies to have a look at me and see that it is doable to comply with their desires and realise each considered one of them. That is what I at all times needed to depart as a legacy. So that you take a look at a woman and say “Wow, that is cool, this lady rides a skateboard, she’s knowledgeable and I will be one too”. Not solely in skateboarding, however in any sport. This was one thing I did not have after I began. I did not have a woman that I might look as much as, to be the identical. So my largest want is to be a task mannequin for ladies.
And are there any ladies developing proper now the place you possibly can see similarities with your self early in your profession?
Rayssa Leal, aka Fadinha. The way in which she arrived at competitions, the best way she appeared, jogs my memory a little bit of how I obtained to the X Video games in 2007. She definitely has a brilliant future and remains to be very younger. It is weird how ladies and boys at this time begin skating at an already very superior stage.
So stopping skating is not an choice for you?
Skateboarding has been a part of my life for a few years and it is actually tough to explain what it represents to me. It is a ardour that I can not think about ever stopping. After I get harm it’s tremendous laborious to not skate and compete. I am going to skate my entire life, for positive! Even after I’m very previous, I wish to at the very least journey a longboard on the seaside. I even suppose: relating to having a toddler, how am I going to cease skating for a 12 months? It will be very tough. The concept is to compete for a few years, till I can not any extra. However skateboarding is for all times!
What are your expectations for 2021?
I hope that every little thing will return to regular, that this can all come to an finish. I really need competitions and coaching to be again so I can go to Tokyo. We have been chasing this dream for some years, working laborious and competing to have the ability to characterize Brazil. I can not wait anymore. I am tremendous anxious and getting there to characterize Brazil can be an enormous dream come true. I wish to deliver the medal house, however my focus is to get there first.