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Fabiola Da Silva
Fabiola Da Silva  Nickname: Fabby Nationality: Brazilian Birthdate: 06/18/79 Born: Sao Paulo-Brazil Hometown: California Height: 5ft 2 in Weight: 110 Ibs Ocupation: Pro skater Skating since: 1994 Competing since: 1995 Sponsors: Oi, Fifty/50,Slammers e Mad Soul          Fabiola da Silva played a stunt double in the movie Brink. Its a Disney movie but i think its on video now. She looks alot like the actress. She does some tight tricks. Check out the movie its all about the best sport of all time. It has some other cool skaters as doubles too.    from rollerblade.com This petite Brazilian girl is dominating the scene on and off the ramps with her moves, her image and her style. She performs runs in the halfpipe like no other female skater and the boys should be grateful that Fab only occasionally takes part in the men’s competitions. This year she has won the X Games for the x time and the Gravity Games for the xx time. She has just been to the gym and is on her way to do some skating. Then the phone rings. RB: Hi Fabiola, how are you? Fabiola: I’m fine. RB: You have been the undisputed leader of the female inline skating scene for years now. Are there any skaters who could challenge you in the future? Fabiola:: Oh, there’s people, you know! All the girls on the tour are capable of beating me. I have my bad days too. RB: Well, your results don’t really say so but anyway… Which skater has inspired you most? Fabiola: Hmm, Arlo Eisenberg, Chris Edward, Cesar Mora – I can’t name them all, it’s a long list. RB: No girls? Fabiola: You know back in the days there weren't so many girls skating, and the ones I really looked up to were guys. RB: We are used to seeing you win X-Games and Gravity Games. But we were really amazed by your result at the ASA Pro Tour Stop in Nashville: 3rd place – in the guys‘ contests. Is it a special pleasure to beat the guys? Fabiola: I didn’t even think about that. I was skating a lot before this competition and I just wanted to put a good run together and go home. (Laughing) RB: And you don’t care about the sleepless nights you gave the guys? Fabiola: You know, it's just fun. Many people think the boys don't give enough credit to the girls, don't know what they're capable of doing, but I just don't care about this. I keep pushing the limits, you know. RB: How do the boys behave in general when you’re on the ramp with them? Fabiola: You know, we're all friends, we help each other. RB:Have you ever been chatted up on the ramp? Fabiola: No, no. No problem. RB: A word about boys in general… Fabiola:I’d say: dangerous, fun, complicated. RB: That’s what many guys would say about girls…On a different subject: you look quite severe when you’re on the ramp. Fabiola:You know, every time I skate, I'm having fun, but I take what I do seriously, and when I'm skating I just want to make sure I'm doing a good job. RB: How do you feel about being second, like at the Gravity Games, when you were beaten by your team-mate Martina Svobodova? Fabiola:That's cool. When you compete, you have to be prepared to win or lose. And I'm happy because this was a chance for somebody new. Martina deserved it, she did a great run. RB:A word about Martina? Fabiola: Oh, she definitely has a great future as a skater, I wanted her to stay with us in California, she's a really nice girl, she's cool. But this appears to be a bit of a problem as she is still in school. (after a pause) I think she's the next one! RB: And when will you stop skating? Fabiola: Never, never. (laughing) RB:What’s your hardest trick at the moment? Fabiola: Hmm, the hardest… with the flatspin 540 I'm in trouble sometimes. RB: And your dream trick? Fabiola:The 900, I haven’t managed it yet, but I'm working on it. RB: And what are your plans for 2001? Fabiola: Keep skating, pushing the limits, having fun and make sure I represent Rollerblade well. RB:And in the long term? Fabiola: Uh, long term… the same thing! RB: Good luck and thank you for your time .    FABIOLA da Silva isn't where you might expect. Only 19, Fabiola da Silva (with her Yorkshire terrier, Chachi) has won the past three X Games gold medals in in-line vert. The Brazilian diva of aggressive in-line skating, who will be the best woman in the world at ESPN's Summer X Games this month in San Francisco, isn't living in Venice Beach. She isn't crashing in a loft in Manhattan's East Village. She isn't hanging in Rio de Janeiro. She's in the upstairs bedroom of a quiet townhouse, surrounded by a white picket fence, in mellow Santa Rosa. Fabiola -- like Brazilian soccer stars Ronaldo and Pele, she doesn't need a last name -- occupies a small room dominated by an ultra-girlie canopied bed. She shares the space with a Sony PlayStation, a stuffed Minnie Mouse and a very live Chachi, a tiny Yorkshire terrier who wears a silk bow in her hair. Fabiola, 19, rolls her 5-foot-2 frame off the princess bed and slips into baggy boys' pants that she wears over long boys' boxer shorts. She pulls a gray sweatshirt over her scraped elbows, slings her skate bag over her shoulder and goes to work. She drives to the west side of Santa Rosa, steering her car into a pitted, weed-infested parking lot alongside a metal warehouse. A quarter of the building is still used for storage. The warehouse workers drive forklifts and peer with interest through the chicken-wire barrier at the action on the other side. There, a small group of boys, all about 17, have gathered. They wear the same baggy garb as Fabiola. Some have bleached white hair. They wolf down fast-food. And they lace up skates. The warehouse ceiling drips cobwebs. The atmosphere is dank. But the attraction is the labyrinth of swooping plywood ramps -- shaped like half a pipe. This is why Fabiola is in Santa Rosa. This run-down building is a skater's nirvana. Fabiola puts on her helmet, climbs 10 feet up a metal ladder in her skates, secures Chachi atop the platform and steps off the edge, seemingly into midair. She flies down the halfpipe ramp and up the other side like a small bird. Tinkerbell with wheels. Her skates barely make a sound. When she pulls her lithe body up in the air for a 360 turn and grab, it appears effortless. The boys watch. Then they drop in, with a loud bang, a heavier, clunkier style. ``I like to skate with boys,'' Fabiola says. ``I am not discriminating against girls. But sometimes girls say, `Oh, I can't do that. I'm a girl.' '' She wrinkles her pierced nose in disdain. ``I hate it when they say that,'' she yelps. ``I want to die when they say that.'' Fabiola started skating with the boys on the streets of Săo Paulo when she was 8. Her dad gave her a pair of roller skates against her mother's wishes. Fabiola tagged along to a neighborhood skate park. ``When I started, it wasn't like girls were dropping in from the ramp,'' she said. ``The guys teach me. That's how I learn stuff. I thought it was so fun. I just wanted to be good.'' Her mother, a former rough-and-tumble kid herself, quickly saw how much her daughter loved to skate. She saved money from her job as a housekeeper and, two years later, presented Fabiola with a pair of in-line skates. Because of Brazil's inflation, the skates cost $500. Fabiola started to go to a bigger skate park in the city. When in-line pioneer Chris Edwards came to Brazil for an exhibition, Fabiola was invited to skate. She made an impression. A few months later, she was invited to tour in the United States and participate in the 1996 X Games in Rhode Island. A skate shop sponsored her trip. ``I was so excited,'' she said. ``Everything was so cool. I kept saying, `Wow, everyone speaks English. Wow, I'm in the U.S.A. Wow, all these people can skate.' '' She was only 15 when she got here. She won the gold medal and established herself as the best female skater. Her performance caught the attention of Rollerblade, an in-line skating equipment manufacturer, which began sponsoring her. ``I had no idea,'' she said. ``They would pay you money to skate?'' Her mother insisted that she finish school. So Fabiola -- who hopes to be a veterinarian -- continued her life as a normal Brazilian teenager, interrupting it five times a year to go on tours in Europe, Australia or the United States. She won in-line vert gold medals at the X Games in 1997 and 1998. She will be shooting for her fourth consecutive gold at the competition, which runs from June 25 through July 3. ``The pressure has been on her from the start to be the best,'' said Azikiwee Anderson, her roommate. Fabiola met Anderson, 24, and his girlfriend through skating. Anderson built the Santa Rosa skate park, which he calls Seven Sunz. He works as a judge and consultant in the world of in-line skating. When Fabiola finished school, she moved to the United States. Anderson and his girlfriend invited her to live with them. The sponsors liked the idea because Anderson could watch out for her. Fabiola liked it because of access to the skate park and because ``I started liking this guy,'' skater Jon Julio, 22, from Milpitas. Pictures of her boyfriend adorn her room. Fabiola has a devoted following. There are several Web sites dedicated to the skater. One was created by Meranda Suffield, 16, of Washington. ``When I saw girls doing this crazy stuff that the guys were doing, it really interested me,'' Suffield said via e-mail. ``Girls have to work harder just to show they are capable of pulling off the same stuff that the guys are.'' Fabiola, here training at a warehouse in Santa Rosa, is sponsored by Rollerblade and The Gap and can make up to $70,000 a year. Though the X Games are portrayed as new-age sports -- individual, unstructured and creative -- female athletes are fighting the same old battles. Prize money for women is $5,000, half of what men can win. Women have access to a fraction of the competitions of male skaters. Anderson said the in-line world tends to be run by guys who aren't the most enlightened in the world and who frequently dismiss girls' ability. ``Fab takes all that away,'' he said. ``She can skate as hard as most guys or better. To skate, you have to wear baggy clothes and put bumps and bruises all over your body and have society look at you as a tomboy. But it will pay off in the future.'' In her best year, Fabiola can earn perhaps $70,000 (again, about half what the top men can make). She has a variety of sponsors, including The Gap, whose clothes she wears while competing. She's famous in her own alternative sports world, which continues to grow. ``All the younger kids want to be cool, and all the older kids want to be young,'' Anderson said. At competitions, fans gather around Fabiola. But she downplays her impact. ``It is so ugly on people, having a big head,'' she said. ``You should be simple. I'm not like (Michael) Jordan. I'm just like everybody else.'' But Fabiola could be her sport's Jordan. She has the look, the fearlessness, the ability, the coveted demographic. And no promoter could dream up a better name -- Fabiola! If the X Games are truly the sport of the new millennium, they couldn't ask for a more appealing face than Fabiola's.       COMPETITIVE HISTORY 2003 June 29, ASA Pro Tour Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest, Women’s Street Finals -5th 2003 May 24, ASA Pro Tour Cincinnati, OH - Sawyer Point, Women's Street Finals -5th 2002 Latin XGames, rio de janeiro, vert 2nd 2001 B3 EVENT ANAHEIM, CA AIL PARK No 1 2001 B3 EVENT ANAHEIM, CA AIL VERT No 1 2001 B3 EVENT ANAHEIM, CA AIL VERT-MEN'S No 5 2001 B3 EVENT LOUISVILLE, KY AIL PARK No 1 2001 B3 EVENT LOUISVILLE, KY AIL VERT No 1 2001 B3 EVENT LOUISVILLE, KY AIL VERT-MEN'S No 7 2001 X TRIALS BRISTOL, CT AIL PARK No 1 2001 X TRIALS BRISTOL, CT AIL VERT No 1 2001 X TRIALS GRAND PRAIRIE, TX AIL PARK No 1 2001 X TRIALS GRAND PRAIRIE, TX AIL VERT No 1 2001 X TRIALS GRAND PRAIRIE, TX AIL VERT-MEN'S No 4 2000 ASA TORONTO, CAN AIL STREET No 1 2000 ASA TORONTO, CAN AIL VERT-COMBINED 8 2000 ASA YEAR END TOUR RANKING AIL STREET No 1 2000 ASA YEAR END TOUR RANKING AIL VERT No 1 2000 ASA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS LAS VEGAS, NV AIL STREET No 2 2000 ASA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS LAS VEGAS, NV AIL VERT No 1 2000 B3 EVENT LAKE HAVASU, AZ AIL STREET No 1 2000 B3 EVENT LAKE HAVASU, AZ AIL VERT No 1 2000 B3 EVENT LOUISVILLE, KY AIL STREET No 1 2000 B3 EVENT LOUISVILLE, KY AIL VERT No 1 2000 B3 EVENT LOUISVILLE, KY AIL VERT-MEN'S No 4 2000 X TRIALS NASHVILLE, TN AIL STREET No 1 2000 X TRIALS NASHVILLE, TN AIL VERT No 1 2000 X TRIALS NASHVILLE, TN AIL VERT-MEN'S No 3 2000 X TRIALS ST. PETERSBURG, FL AIL STREET No 1 1999 B3 EVENT OCEANSIDE, CA AIL STREET No 1 1999 B3 EVENT OCEANSIDE, CA AIL VERT No 1 1999 B3 EVENT PORTLAND, OR AIL STREET No 1 1999 B3 EVENT PORTLAND, OR AIL VERT No 1 1999 X TRIALS LOUISVILLE, KY AIL STREET No 2 1999 X TRIALS LOUISVILLE, KY AIL VERT No 1 1999 X TRIALS RICHMOND, VA AIL STREET No 2 1999 X TRIALS RICHMOND, VA AIL VERT 1 X Games History SUMMER 99 AIL STREET No 6 SUMMER 99 AIL VERT No 2 SUMMER 99 AIL VERT TRIPLES No 6 SUMMER 98 AIL STREET No 4 SUMMER 98 AIL VERT No 1 SUMMER 98 AIL VERT TRIPLES No 7        _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to bi bilo to... e i da, SRETAN ROĐENDAN MOJOJ NAJBOLJOJ FRENDICI IVI !!! :) aj odo ja.. ostavite puuuno komentara, bye |
