TPM Episode 128: Fabiola da Silva, 7-time X-Games Gold Medalist
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Saying Fabiola da Silva is the best, and most underappreciated female athlete of our time is a bold statement…but it's one that I fully believe. I can't think of another case in sport where a woman was so dominant in her field, that the sport's organizing body decided to cancel the woman's event and have the women (Fabiola) compete against the men...And Fabiola did not disappoint, standing on the podium with her peers at some of the biggest events in the world.
Fabiola da Silva Show Notes:
1:30: Life at Cedar Point Amusement Park and Cross Fit
8:00: Sao Paolo, kickboxing, and meeting Chris Edwards and Arlo
14:00: Coming to America at 16, the other girls and X-Games
18:30: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code powell30
Evo: The best online experience in action sports with retail to back it up
20:15: Winning X and travel
25:00: Getting second at X, sponsors, and financial advisers
28:00: Gender, the Fabiola rule, and a bad year in 2003
36:00: Winning Silver at Latin X Games (against the men) and the end of X
38:45: Spy Optic: Get 20% off on their site Spyoptic.com using the code TPM20
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
39:45: X continued, landing the double, and Rollerblade
42:30: Surviving and then finding CrossFit
56:40: Inappropriate Questions with Cesar Mora
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Powell Movement. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week my guest happens to be a woman who I personally believe is the greatest female athlete of our time. |
| 0:21.4 | But she never comes up in the conversation when we talk about greats. |
| 0:25.0 | That's because her sport was rollerblading, and Fabiola De Silva was the best woman to lace up |
| 0:30.0 | skates ever. |
| 0:31.4 | She's also the only woman I've heard of that was so good at her sport that they had to cancel |
| 0:36.0 | the women's contest and have women compete |
| 0:38.3 | against the men. While Fabiola should be rich and famous, she picked the wrong sport for that. |
| 0:44.3 | Before we get into the podcast, I want to ask you to follow me on Instagram at the Powell Movement. |
| 0:49.4 | If you like the podcast, put it in your story and tag me. I like that shit. |
| 0:53.6 | I also want to ask you to |
| 0:54.8 | subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you listen to me on and support my great sponsors. |
| 1:00.0 | I want to keep them, and the only way to do that is for you to use the codes and the ads |
| 1:03.9 | and save money on things you're already going to buy. Those sponsors are Evo, Stanley, SpyOptic, |
| 1:09.6 | and the 10 Barrel Brewery. |
| 1:11.7 | Now, let's talk to Fabiola De Silva. |
| 1:15.7 | How's life in Ohio? |
| 1:18.1 | It's fine. I'm here every year. |
| 1:20.6 | We do a lot of shows. |
| 1:22.7 | It's easy, but it's hard in the same time because we are on it every day. |
| 1:26.7 | We only have one day off, which is today, every Tuesday. Yeah, it's hard in the same time because we are on it every day. We only have one day off, which is today, every Tuesday. |
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