[3] In 1995, he won his first major title at the Mistral World Championships, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Rodrigues won a silver medal in the masters fleet at the 2009 IWA Junior, Youth and Masters World championships which took place at Weymouth and Portland sailing academy which is the venue for the windsurfing and sailing at the 2012 Olympic games.

In 2011 Rodrigues completed the longest non-stop ocean crossing on a windsurfing board when he sailed 160 nautical miles from Madeira to Selvagem Grande.

He did it to celebrate his 40th birthday and attract attention to the Parque Natural de Madeira, Portugal's oldest national park.

[3] Despite being the most physical of sailing discipline his biggest achievement is the length of his professional windsurfing career competing in seven consecutive Worlds over a 24-year span.