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Ricardo Lino Interview

1. Indentify yourself! (full name, date of birth and place of live). Ok. So, my name is Ricardo Lino, everyone call me Lino, I was born on the 6th November, 1980 ( what makes me a 25 year old guy), and im Portuguese. To be more exact, Sines is my home town…Anyway, I don’t really have a home…one year here, the other there 2. For how long have you been skating? I started skating when I was 2 and half years old…so, like 23 years ago..i did speed skating during 13 years and started aggressive skating when i was 15. So it has been 10 years since then 3. Which companies do you represent? I Represent Undercover as a world brand/team manager. I skate on USD euro Pro team, also Kizer Euro Team and I walk for Sifika…(haahahaha)…im also dressing Mantra and supporting Hedon skateshop. Cause you know…Green is better!! 4. Was Real Polish Tour your first visit in Poland ? Yeah! That was my first time in that crazy country and i gotta admit….i loved it!!!!!!!!I was thinking like “oh no..now i gotta go to this crazy country after a tour like the Ignition one..i´m not gonna like it”.But when i first arrived to Poland with gonzo…Dam!!!. We started skating a three feet miniramp that we had to jump over a fence to get there..and i tough ”dammmmm, now thats what I call cooool!!!”, and my good times there started….ten minutes after arriving… 5. What do you think about Polish in line community? Did you expect something else? I already knew some guys from Poland before, and i knew they were crazy but in a crazy country like Poland, you gotta have the crazy skaters…..Polish scene is one of the best in Europe and im really proud to be one of the invited skaters to make a tour there and i am also really proud to skate for a polish skateshop, like Hedon!No, i couldn’t expect anything else. 6. Can you describe us the Punani Crew? Hum….So, the word punani is an African word and it means female genital organ. Me and a couple of more skaters, photographers and drivers that were touring last summer created this crew, witch is a big group of guys who just love to skate. They all know each other, and they´re all “machos”. Some more latino then others.. 7. What do you think about level of Polish Riders ? Adam, Karakan, Madej, Jogurth, Zihu, Kowall, Koyote. These are some of the best skaters i´ve seen, from all over the places i have been. There are crazy skaters in Poland, there are creative skaters in Poland, there are tech skaters in Poland... but like in only a few places in the world, there are also some crazy/tech/creative/skating fast/etc skaters in POLAND!!!!! PROPS 8. What is your opinion about ROLLFEST and SOPOT - any positive experience ?
One word: “MIASGA!!!!!!!!!!” (sick) 9. Does the Polish tour differ in some way from other tours ? Yeah!!! It was a lot different from the Ignition / Be-Mag tour, where i´ve been before…It was not so stressy. Maybe because we didn’t had a magazine wanting us to do this or that... so we were more chilled. Anyway, we all had our good moments of skating, partying, drinking...You know, all those good things. 10. The craziest guy on the Tour was .... ??? (let it be tricks, parties or anything) The crazyest guy on tour was the photographer!!!!!Yes Sir, i do miss you my boy (Yarek). In skating Jogurth killed every spot he skated. Evgeny destroyed spots... and his body, me and gonzo distroyed the nights!One thing have to se sayed again: "HALLLLLLLLA BABY"!!! 11. What do you think of Polish Girls ? Fuuuh…that’s a tuff question to answer…its like, by that time, i really loved them all, from mothers to doctors, polish girls were sick when I was there. But now, if i start thinking, im so much better right now, i just have the best girlfriend in this world, and i can´t complain one single word about her. I have to admit, when you really love someone you wake up and u see the sky pink…and I love this shit, i love pink and i love you Mónica!!!! 12. Message for Polish riders ?! Hey guys, thanks for all the good times. And to everyone who enjoyed my skating, double thanks!! For those who didn’t, im sorry i´m not that good, i´m just that crazy portuguese with no fix place who loves to hang out with everyone, laugh and have more fun then you on rollerblades!!!   Ricardo Gallery