Edgard Pereira

Edgar Vovo Pereira, also known as Edgar Vovo, is a Brazilian professional skateboarder born on 13 May 1982. He was introduced to skateboarding in 1998 while working as a motorcycle courier in Sao Bernardo do Campo, started out in street style, and in 1999 was introduced to mini ramp skating by a group of skaters in the Jordanopolis neighbourhood, after which transition skating became his passion and he began competing in vert contests in Brazil. He is most known for his Mega Ramp competition: in 2010 he was invited to his first X Games and finished sixth, in 2011 he took third place at X Games Big Air, and in the following years he was invited to X Games around the world and was always a top finisher.