"Barcelona is one of my favorite places to skate"

The skateboarder Paul Rodriguez says that he has been "many times" in Barcelona and that when he comes he feels "like home"

Possibly he is one of the best skaters on the international scene. His ability to challenge all the obstacles with his skate becomes to the American Paul Rodríguez the leader in and out of the competition. When he was a child he started with his old skate in a factory and with the age of 15 he told to his father that he wanted to dedicate to his passion: the skate.

The skater of Tarzana has not stopped growing and is no more than take a look at the trophy case to check the magnitude of this skater. Indeed, many of his greatest hits have come at X Games, where he has won four gold medals in the discipline of Street and he was the only skater who has been able to validate consecutive title.

All these years in the elite, he has visited many corners of the world. But, as he pointed out to X Games Barcelona, ​​is very clear which city that he would get into in his ranking. "I have skated so many times in Barcelona, and it’s one of my all-time favorite places to skate", said the American. In addition, he valued very positively the arrival of an event like X Games to Barcelona because "for X Games Barcelona, expect huge crowds, big skate scene there and huge energy". Finally, as a member of the Street League, said  that "all the Street League skaters have been to Barcelona, and it will feel like home to all of us".

It may be recalled that, the agreement between X Games and Skateboarding Street League, the top riders in this discipline will be in Barcelona to fight for the gold medal between 16th and 19th of May at the esplanade of the Montjuic Olympic ring.