Quick Questions with Lizsurley Villegas Serna 

Name: Lizsurley Villegas Serna 
Socials: @izsurley_bmx
Age: 19 years old 
Hometown: Buga, Colombia 
Sponsors: Red Bull 

What is your BMX origin story – How did you get into BMX? I got to know BMX Because they built a park very close to my house and it caught my attention to try something different and difficult.

What languages do you speak? Spanish and a little English.

Your top parks: 

1. All the parks that I have trained in, I have liked them
2. I like competition parks

Top three songs to get you pumped

1. “Don’t stop believin” by Journey
2. Latín music 
3. “Wait a minute!” by Willow Smith

Three people who inspire you and why:

1. Alejandro, a person I met when I started my sports career, has supported me a lot and knows where I want to go and helps me to do so.
2. My parents always support me wherever they want me to be, they believe in me.
3. Sister, she is always with me, and many more people…

What is a trend in BMX you want to stop seeing? For me they are all great, I would think it would be better to try to do all kinds of sports with a bike haha

How do you spend your days off your bike?  They are very different days, I would have to be with very important people to not be bored

Favourite person to ride with? I like to train with my twin sister but I also love to share that time with other girls that I’ve met.

Favourite shoes to ride in? I don’t know yet 

Best advice given: “You have the option to take a step toward your goals and dreams or to step aside towards temporary things, you have the option to give up or move on, to give up or to get up, when you fail, try again and again.”

Your biggest fear? I have many but the one I have in mind first is one day I will have to stop riding a bike haha

Your proudest accomplishment? Every trip and every competition won for me is an achievement

Guilty pleasures:

1. Eating too much sweet
2. I get nervous riding a plane but I like to travel haha

Your worst habit? 

1. Not being very attentive and forgetting things
2. My cell phone
3. Sometimes my fingernails bother me

Your top three future goals you want to achieve: 

1. Manage to do some difficult tricks every day
2. Have my own park
3. Manage to reach many competitions and enjoy it.