Felipe
Gustavo
United States
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Skateboarding
Date of birth | February 22, 1991 |
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Birthplace | Brasília, Brazil |
Age | 35 |
Nationality | United States |
Career start | 2007 |
Disciplines | Skateboard Street |
Hailing from Brazil’s capital city of Brasília, Felipe Gustavo became a national celebrity in his home country back in 2007. The inspirational story of his father selling the family car to buy them tickets to travel to Tampa Am in Florida, a contest Felipe won at 16 as a complete unknown, became national folklore. “I got lucky and won,” Felipe says now. “I was so stoked. I knew that was my day to try to prove myself.”
After that, Felipe joined the elite team at Plan B Skateboards, released his 2010 VAMdalism video part, and solidified his stature as one of skateboarding’s most gifted and creative skaters. Turning pro in November 2013, Felipe (a diehard hip-hop fan) and Plan B adopted Notorious B.I.G.’s lyric "It Was All A Dream" as his personal tagline. Gustavo appeared in Plan B’s fifth full-length video, True, the following year.
Having battled injuries that slowed his inaugural season with Street League in 2015, Felipe maintained a glass-half-full outlook, “It’s good for me to experience that kind of pressure [Street League], being on TV and having to be on point,” he says. Felipe’s grace under pressure was tested again – back to peak performance in 2019, he was among eight men and eight women selected for Brazil’s first ever-national skateboarding team.
In 2021, Felipe placed 14th in men's street at the 2020 Games in Tokyo. He also got a place on the podium at the STU Open in his home country of Brazil, as well as at Skateboarding Street League in the USA.