He was born in Bolivia to a Japanese father and a Bolivian mother. He moved to Japan in 2018 in order to attend
Daito Bunka University, his brother
Sergio Suzuki had also attended that university and had also gone on to represent Japan in taekwondo. Ricardo had been encouraged to begin taekwondo by his older brother Sergio and so he switched to the sport from karate when he was 10. ==Career==