My name is Jamil Kenjy Murata I'm 34 years old and I've been riding a Bmx for 20 years,

 I was a normal teenager like any other, I got to know BMX at the time when the sport was known as BMX Freestyle, having only the company of BMX Race which I enjoyed but didn't practice, I really liked the maneuvers. Today Freestyle has been divided into 4 other modalities that I believe most people who are going to read this already know what they are, I got to know Bmx through an athlete here in my city Cerquilho, in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Odair “Odair Biker Show” a guy who did flatland and performed at some events in the city, he had a mechanical leg and still did several tricks, in 2016 he was part of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games campaign.

 I soon liked the bike, the maneuvers and especially the “Life Style”, little by little I learned some tricks along with other kids in the city. When I reached the age of majority, I distanced myself from BMX a little due to the fact of having bought a motorcycle and having made not very good choices at that stage of my life, but when all that was over, at the age of 21, I found BMX again and never stopped riding. That's when in 2017, at the age of 31, I suffered a fall doing an aero Can Can on a mini ramp and broke my knee ligaments and some bone fractures. The recovery wasn't easy because I'm not a professional athlete but little by little I got confidence again. Bmx is everything to me, I cannot forget to mention my wife Marina who was always by my side in this life with the bike, never criticized me and always supported me and gave me space to ride with my friends. Despite living in a country predominantly focused on football and ball sports culture, we are moving forward in the fight to defend Bmx and bring in as many new practitioners as possible, it's good that we have social networks nowadays so we can simultaneously follow what is happening in the world, today I have a bike shop where I can live “by bike” enjoying the maximum it can provide, and that’s it, I hope that these few lines can awaken the love for Bmx as it awakened in me .