The Brazilian Jeron Wilson

In 2002 I met this guy at the Lagoa bowl in Rio de Janeiro who looked exactly like Jeron Wilson. Not very ironically, it turned out that his nickname is, well, Jeron Wilson. He’s an amazing skater, and I ran into him recently at a very random place, the Rocinha Skatepark in 2007. I say it’s a random place to meet for 2 reasons..

1) Rocinha is the largest favela in South America, and  people go either because they live there, or their buying cocaine or guns

2) The skatepark sucks ass. No one really would ever make an effort to visit the place just to go skate. If you attempt to drop in on the 4 foot “quarter pipe” (with 2 feet of vert…) you’ll probably end up elbowing 20+ favela kids in the face.

To set the record straight, I wasn’t buying drugs or guns, I was filming some stuff for a school in the favela. Jeron was just passing through on the way to his neighbourhood and randomly decided to check the park at the same time I happened to be there.

Jeron Wilson @ Lagoa Bowl 2002