Who is Andrè Villa? Tell us your story from the beginning.
I grew up in a middle class family. My dad was a very hard working man who rode motocross with his two brothers, one of which was a motocross regional champion, winning 6 or 7 medals in regional series in Norway. One of them gave me a pw50 for my fourth birthday. I can’t really remember exactly how motocross came into my life, it was just there. I grew up in a place in Norway where there are very cold winters, one hour from the highest mountains in the country. You can only ride in summertime here, which is 5-6 months a year. You can’t ride too much in Norway, and you can’t ride until you’re at least 11 years old. I raced all over Norway, not supported by my dad very much, as he was busy with his work. I was always travelling with people from my moto club, so I had to take care of my self. At 14 motocross was my full time job. I also worked in my father’s company with school on one side and a motocross career on the other, so I learnt very fast, you have to work very hard to get whatever you want. I don’t have bad feelings towards my dad now for not supporting me more when I was young. At 16 years old my father gave me a new mx bike but he said “Now you have the motorbike, so you need to work to buy all the new parts” so I started to work more so I could afford all the bike parts. At 17-18 years old I was pretty fast on a dirt bike, but I had a lot of injuries too, so I decided to have some fun, doing wheelies, long distance jumps and in 2000 I built an fmx ramp for myself. Around this time I also spent two winters skiing in Austria and Canada.
in Nicolas’s garage, you can’t understand what a spanish garage is like, there was just loads of old things everywhere and me. It was hard for me but it was the only way for me to ride my dirt bike. Then I went into Nicolas’s family house, staying in a very small apartment with him, his parents and his grandparents - and I slept in the same bed as Nicolas! After some time in Spain I came back to Norway to work on the backflip, and in 2004 I was the third rider to have a backflip in their trick list, so I came down to Spain and I had a lot of events doing backflips. After two great years here in Spain, I had enough money to buy a house, a new van and build my fmx compound complete with a foampit now I was ready to be part of the fmx world scene.
And in 2005 you had your first appearance in Red Bull X-Fighters...
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