Neco Padaratz
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AKA: Goliaz - Neco
Born: November 2, 1976
Place of Birth: Blumenau, SC, Brasil
Height: 6’ 2”
Weigtht: 176
Favorite surfers: Tom Curren, and his brother Flavio “ Teco” Padaratz
One of surfings most passionate players, Neco Padaratz kneels at the waters edge and prays before he rides.
From the WQS onto to the ASP World Tour in 1997, he finished world No. 17 and finished WQS No. 1 two times in 2003 and 2004.
He then requalified the second-tier tour in 2006. Neco Padaratz is now rated in the top 45 because he was stripped after testing positive for performance enhancing drugs his prior year.
As one of Brazil’s greatest surfers, he is some one to admire and look out for.
Famous
Surfing Quotes
James Cook
"I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea."
James Cook
Mark Cunningham
“Surfing wasn't about money back then. Surfers always lived cheaply and scraped by.”
Mark Cunningham
Jeff Clark
“It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.”
Jeff Clark
Kelly Slater
“It's all about where your mind's at.”
Kelly Slater
Mark Twain
"None but natives ever master the art of surf-bathing thoroughly."
"In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing. Each heathen would paddle three or four hundred yards out to sea (taking a short board with him), then face the shore and wait for a particularly prodigious billow to come along; at the right moment he would fling his board upon its foamy crest and himself upon the board, and here he would come whizzing by like a bombshell!"