Professional skateboarder.Owns a restaurant called Meladio through which he distributes organic foods from his other company, Burnquist Organics.His first sponsor was Momento Angular.His girlfriend is skater Jen O'Brien, and they have a child together.He is fluent in Portuguese (his native language).Lives in Carlsbad, California.Other than skateboarding, he surfs and snowboards, and he loves soccer.He was one of Rolling Stone magazine's athletes of the year for 1999.Grew up in São Paulo, Brazil.Started skating when he was 11.He skated in the 1998 X-Games with a fractured wrist, not getting a cast on until after the prelims were over.Thrasher magazine named him the 1997 Skater of the Year, the same year he won the overall Triple Crown vert award.