” Malaga 1997 , After a few years Saving money , it was time to make a decision : to start a bike shop or take a trip to USA . Was hard one because the money in spain was good but to exchange it to USA dollars was bad . Of course my family requested to open a bike shop because they knew how much I loved bikes and could be a good job for me better than take a trip but even likening both of the ideas I had a deep feeling of going to USA to ride and share a session with my heroes in one of those amanzing contest full of cool ramps as I dreamed watching videos for years. I was 22 years old so de decision got made. After a long adventure I arrived in Austin , the contest was the MTV one but with my broken inglish I could understand that was a only invited one so couldn’t ride , in that moment I felt like I ever did , the laud place turned into a silence extrange world , I was so disappointed, felt terrible thinking in my wrong decision and how I will tell my family, I cryed , then i looked the cool course and made the decision to ask if they will let me just ride the practice session . I remember the organization people was negative and confuse but with the help of some friends that knew my situation they let me ride just in practices. Then the worst day it turned into the fucking best day of my life and there I was sharing a session in an amazing course with my heroes . what a perfect scenery, who care about not getting a score , I was so stoked as if I won that contest , then flew back home and few months later i got noticed that I have a picture in Ride Bmx and a couple clips in Props , I meet and got best friends with my heroes who I end up living with them in the same nice city having the best years of my life . So the worst decision it turned to the best one I could dream of.” – Ruben

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