Dog Town South
Amberlin Rudnicki
In this article it tells about a Brazilian skate boarder named Lincoln Ueda skating in the slums that made it to the top by winning competition after competition. At an extreme-sports exhibition that Tony Hawk was producing the event Lincoln flew 10 ft into the air off a towering ramp and spun 540 degrees before landing gracefully on his skateboard. Lincoln is only five feet and five inches and he had made it four feet higher than the average pro skater. In the article it explains that skateboarding was a pastime for most Brazilians while others used it to get out of Brazil. After that he article says that an immigration lawyer named Carl Shusterman “fostered” the growth by taking on the Brazilian immigration cases. Lincoln was one of Carl’s clients. Lincoln started off doing skateboarding as a teen with two of his friends. Lincoln started of sports with soccer but couldn’t excel because of asthma and then moved on to bicycling. His father bought him a skateboard after he destroyed his bicycle from doing stunts and figured it would be less dangerous.
Skateboarding is popular in Brazil because it, at first, got them out of the country but it was also an interesting and fun sport. It is important for businesses to know what’s popular in other countries because it would be a great business opportunity to earn money from other countries as well as in America. Lincoln’s first sponsor was a Guarulhos surfing shop and that is important because without that sponsor he probably wouldn’t have made it as far as he did in the sport. In general I think skating is popular because it is a stress releaser that isn’t very dangerous. In my opinion I think Lincoln will make it far in the skateboarding world.
In conclusion a man named Lincoln Ueda got away from Brazil by doing a sport he loved since he was young. Carl Shusterman, an immigration lawyer, had a business boom because of how many Brazilians wanted to leave the country with skateboarding.
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