LIFE Series
In collaboration with the NetworkA media channel, Rodriguez has commenced production of an internet-based series, entitled LIFE. The series, produced and directed by professional skateboarder, Steve Berra, is released on a weekly basis via the internet. As of December 1, 2012, three episodes have been uploaded: the first episode, "Family First", follows Rodriguez as he revisits his grandmother's home following her cancer diagnosis (Rodriguez foregoes competing at the notable Tampa Pro contest to undertake the visit; in the second episode, "mASTA of disASTA", Rodriguez prepares to compete against Tom Asta in the Battle of the Berrics competition; and in the third episode, "Street League Matters", Rodriguez is filmed in Kansas City, US, as he prepares for the qualifying round of one of the stops of the Street League competition—Rodriguez is portrayed, in the second installment of the episode, finishing in fourth place. The fourth episode of LIFE follows Rodriguez, together with close friends, Heath Brinkley (photographer and filmer), Justine Schulte, and Carlos Zarazua, as he visits New Orleans, US, for the opening of hip hop artist, Lil' Wayne's, skate park in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—the skate park is called the Truckstop skatepark and is located in the Lower Ninth Ward area.
In the fifth episode of LIFE, entitled "The Other Half", the camera follows Rodriguez as he competes in the Dew Tour contest and discusses the role of contests in relation to the more fundamental aspects of a professional street skateboarder's life—video footage and street skateboarding. At the close of the second half of the episode, Rodriguez explains his return to home life following the contest, providing an insight into his typical routine:
Finally, tomorrow I go home and, finally, I get to, get back on my routine, and, you know, skate as much as I've been wanting to skate. Back to my life and get back to-basically, the only thing that rolls my routine is just skating as much as I feel I need to be skating, um, and spending time with Heaven, really—that's it. Keep it simple! Just work on my craft.
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