First Person: Ivan Monteiro Brazil’s Pro Returns to the U.S. – The Platfrm

It’s been a long time coming for São Paulo, Brazil’s Ivan Monteiro. Looking as clean and controlled as ever on the board, Ivan has been having an incredible year—he turned pro in April for Shorty’s, their first new pro in two decades. Ivan left his home country in 2017 to pursue skateboarding, but it wasn’t until last year that he returned to skate in a contest. For the past six years, he hasn’t competed in any contests in the United States, either.

By winning Week 7 of the 2025 RSEO VQS, Ivan ultimately earned an invite to compete in Portland at the main event. After skating through three rounds of competition, he eventually finished 3rd in the Street Final. From the VQS to the podium in Portland, in this episode of First Person Ivan talks us through all of that and more of his still unfolding story.

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Far’n High 2022 – SPoT Life – Ivan Monteiro, Nassim Lachhab, Vinicius Santos

SPoT OG’s Brian Schaefer and Paul Zitzer made it out to Paris to support Etnies and the Far N’ High crew for their 14th Pro/Am Contest that took place May 12-15, 2022. Featuring Ivan Monteiro, Jan Hirt, Remco Erkeland, Jonathan Jean-Philippe, Justin Sommer, Matias Dell Olio, Wallace Gabriel, Max Berguin, Becker Dunn, Nassim Lachhab, Joseph Garbaccio, Julian Jeang-Agliardi, Benjamin Garcia, Noah Francisco, Hugo Corbin, Angelo Caro, Vinicius Santos, Alex Decunha, Richard Tury, Zuzanna Bone, Weronik Choromanska, Juul Plaggenborg, Auro Bredart, Lucie Schoonheere, Camille Fleurence, Lea Schairer, Xenia Maricheva, Roos Zwetsloot, Lore Bruggeman and Diego Fiorese.

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Ca$h for Tricks! Mini Ramp and Ledge contest–Private party!

With Covid taking over the skate contests this year, OC Ramps decided to create a contest with thier buds at A Lost Cause….$5,000 in cash bills. Half for a mini ramp contest, half for a street course (bump to ledge).
Skaters include: Ryan Decenzo, Greg Lutzka, Mike Berdis, Ivan Monteiro, Sewa Kroetkov, Ben Nordberg, Matt Berger, Daniel Yeager, Mike Piwowar, Dave Bachinsky, Domonique Walker, Micky Papa, Zander Gabriel, Sierra Fellers, and judge Brian Sumner!

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Kelvin Hoefler & Ivan Monteiro | Dew Tour Live Episode 10

This week we welcome Brazilian skateboarders Kelvin Hoefler and Ivan Monteiro to Dew Tour Live episode ten! Both powerhouses hail from Sao Paulo and now reside in Southern California where they eat, sleep, and live the skateboarder’s dream. We’ll also be tapping in the editors at TransWorld SKATEboarding for the latest updates from the skate world. Available here on YouTube, Facebook, and as a podcast on iTunes and Spotify.

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2018 SLS LONDON FINALS

The 2018 SLS World Tour kicked off with the Pro Open in London. 30 Qualifiers battled it out on Day One. The top 7 advanced to join the 36 SLS Pros in the Semi-Finals on Day Two. The top 8 from Semi-Finals advanced to the Final: Yuto Horigome, Kelvin Hoefler, Felipe Gustavo, Tiago Lemos, Ivan Monteiro, Vincent Milou, Trent McClung & Gustavo Ribeiro. Watch the 2018 SLS London Final to see who won and the 2 new SLS Pros that made it onto the 2018 SLS World Tour.

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