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Bad Steps, Ep. 01 - BMX Dirt Jump, Parkour & BMX
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Andrés Betancur has been able to make a living based on BMX Dirt Jump, a sport that has made him travel a large part of South America, competing in various countries and cities. Julián Ferrari tells us how he has taught Parkour in different instances. He will show us how this sport has changed his life. Everything will happen in the city of Buenos Aires.
Manuel Gatica is one of the representatives at a professional level of BMX in Chile. He tells us about his journeys through BMX and what it's like to follow a professional path through the sport.
Series Description
Through sports, Bad Steps gives us an inspiring perspective on environmental, disability, and social issues in Latin America.
Citation
Main credits
Arriagada, Sebastián (film director)
Hechenleitner, Javier (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Roberto Olivares; editors, María José Albornoz, Manuel Madariaga Ardura, Sebastián Arriagada; music, Jovenabuelo, La Cienca Simple, José Tomas Molina.
Distributor subjects
South America; Latin American Studies; Youth; Economics + Social Class Issues; SociologyKeywords
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Dirtjump is a category
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in which you jump
on a dirt course,
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with different distances,
in different styles,
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Dirt is like
a more educated category.
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Is nobler.
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Because you teach people,
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you learn from them,
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you share with everyone
who comes to the course
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to maintain the beauty
of the place.
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I've been riding
for 7 years.
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A friend of mine introduced me
to BMX when we were at school.
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I found very fascinating
what he did on the bike,
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and I asked myself
if I'd be able to do it as well,
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so I decided to try it,
and kept going, and so on...
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I've never identified myself
with anything else.
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I'm always happy
when I ride a bike.
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When I played soccer
or did other things
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I felt bored.
I felt it wasn't my thing.
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So I started
jumping on the street,
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sliding through the sidewalk,
that sort of things,
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until one day I went
to a dirt course,
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to make dirt jumps,
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and it encouraged me
to start riding and jumping
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as a lifestyle.
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I've made a lot of friends
in all Latin America riding bike.
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And it started
just like that.
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I friend of mine told me: 'Let's travel
to a tournament in another city. '
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And I loved to interact
with new people
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and I noticed that most people
who ride bikes
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are humble,
polite people...
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And I also love
knowing new places.
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Things that people maybe can see,
but won't notice.
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It was a very symbolic
tournament
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because it was a King of the Dirt,
one of the best they have in Colombia.
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And my frame was damaged,
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and I wanted so much to ride
that I didn't care,
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and I kept riding,
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and I competed
with the pros.
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I didn't win anything,
nor classified,
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but I competed with them.
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And that encouraged me
to become a professional,
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and don't get stucked
in the amateur classes.
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To progress.
And keep on going.
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I've always seen fear
as an obstacle.
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I've always had this fear,
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and I know the risks
I'm taking when I get on my bike.
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I can fall,
break a bone.
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These fears
of what may happen
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have never stopped me
from doing what I want.
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A dirt course is
like a temple for us,
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because this is where
we spend most of our time.
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This is where we share
with a lot of people.
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It's practically like my home.
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I like to keep it clean,
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I like it to be in good conditions,
so if I want to ride,
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I find the course
in good conditions.
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In the countries
where I have been,
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there are similarities
among the people.
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I've seen groups of people
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organized to succeed,
to build new courses,
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there's people who
struggle to have new courses.
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I've seen it in Argentina,
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I've seen it here.
It's a real struggle with the government.
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But they don't understand
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the beauty of this sport.
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It's very beautiful,
because people,
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no matter how hard it's been for them,
they always want to help people.
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I went on a journey,
without knowing
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if I was going
to accomplish anything.
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I just went out and arrived to Ecuador,
where I won a tournament.
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I went to the beach,
then I went back for another tournament,
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and there I met some friends
who were coming to a contest in Argentina.
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And, it's very hard,
to tell you the truth,
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because no one supports us.
Nor the State,
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nor the brands.
I've gone to the local government,
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but they tell me that I must create a club,
when this is a individual sport.
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So, the truth is...
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The most part depends on you,
to want to go out,
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to became known as a pro.
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That's what drives you.
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It doesn't matter
if you don't get any support.
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It's tiresome, and very annoying.
But I don't give up.
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Because, if I'm already here
without their help,
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I can get further away.
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It'd be nice to be supported,
beacause it's good to be helped.
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Help is always good,
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but if they don't help us,
what are we going to do?
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we keep going
by our own means.
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We decided to travel,
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to go out there
and represent,
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mostly, to leave a mark,
in the name of our country.
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That's where I live,
that's where my family lives,
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I always have this in mind
when I go out to compete.
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Where I live,
where am I from,
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I never forget
who I am.
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WE'LL BE BACK
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WE'RE BACK
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Parkour is the art of movement.
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In which a person,
by training and knowing its own body
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can overcome any obstacle,
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going from an initial point
to another point.
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I don't know if the final point,
but another point.
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To be able to move,
and overcome it,
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and to find
a new way of moving,
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a new way of thinking,
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a new way to adapt yourself,
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a new way of feeling.
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I started doing parkour
8 years ago.
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With a group of friends that I had,
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and with whom since we were
4 years old until we were 15,
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we played different
urban sports,
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trying them all out,
skate, roller, bike.
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One day, a friend
showed us a video.
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We went to a cybercafe
and we saw a video of parkour, from Russia.
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We found it awesome,
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we didn't understand
what was that,
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and we went immediatly back to the park
and reproduced it,
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trying to remember what they did.
We were very straight forward.
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We were trying to imitate the techniques,
in a self-taught manner.
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When I started, there were
many traceurs
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in Buenos Aires.
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I entered the community
step by step,
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going to the meetings
and open trainings they had,
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in a particular park.
Parque Chacabuco,
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where traceurs from
different neighborhoods met,
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on Saturday,
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and this way
I began learning.
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Some time later, when I began
to go to provincial gatherings,
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or national gatherings,
at Rosario or La Plata,
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I noticed how big
this community was,
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and how it evolved.
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How new people joined us
through time,
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how people also leaved us,
through time.
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So I was submerged
in people,
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absorbing their knowledge,
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and giving back mine, as well,
to these people.
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And I feel that,
nowadays,
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this is a very broad
community.
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In every aspect.
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The amount of people,
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age span...
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There's a lot of children
who are starting
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in other places,
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through open workshops,
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That's a good thing that's been going on
for a couple of years now.
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The more experienced traceurs
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are starting to teach.
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And thanks to that
there's a lot more of sharing.
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With the years,
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I noticed it was somehow
natural in me
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to be able to see
a technique
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and correct it,
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to the point that I thought:
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'I want to share this ability
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'with people who don't know'.
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Because it's something that
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made me very happy
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and I wanted to share
this happiness.
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If the other one accepts it,
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I know it'll be good for it.
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I played soccer
before doing parkour.
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And I've noticed there's something
I never found in soccer.
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It's a much more
personal thing.
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You don't have a coach
to tell you what to do,
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there's more freedom.
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I noticed that, in time,
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you have the freedom
to do what you want.
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Finding
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a sense of comradeship,
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of community,
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of self-improvement...
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and also of
caring for your body,
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of being conscious,
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and knowing it's our movement tool,
and that we must care for it.
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Even if you don't practice parkour,
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it's a good thing
to feel good with your body,
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to be able
for any situation,
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because parkour is also
about that,
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to be able,
and have an useful body.
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Resilence.
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Resilence is the ability
of a person to stand up after failing
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and carry on.
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I think that's also very important,
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because sometimes
things happen in life,
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there are obstacles
in our way,
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physical or mental,
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and it's in the power
of your will
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to be able
to break that barrier
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or to overcome
this obstacle.
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To continue
even when you fall,
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to get out of your
comfort zone.
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You'll also find many times
in parkour
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a very powerful feeling,
to get out of that security zone,
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of this place where your confident
in that you can do anything,
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and to be in a place
where you feel fear,
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you are trembling,
sweating,
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and suddenly you break this feeling
and you overcome it.
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I started
complementing parkour
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to keep moving my body.
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I started just moving myself
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with these abilities,
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and then,
about six years later,
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going to events,
I started relating
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to other people who dance,
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I was very connected
with the urban culture,
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with hip-hop,
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And by its own means,
parkourt had made me already
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to love movement.
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And as I also loved music,
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I started to take it
to that place.
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And as years went by,
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I complemented it,
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because it wasn't
the typical parkour anymore,
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it became some sort of game,
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and a form of corporal expression.
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This language, this crawling
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was already present in another dances.
In contemporary dance,
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in break dance
they are also
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resting their hands
on the ground.
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It's a language present at all times.
It's movement.
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And I mixed this,
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2 years ago,
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in this company that merges
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contemporary dance,
hiphop, and parkour.
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And attempts
to show this
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to people.
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I think that parkour
expresses
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constant movement.
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Something that can't stay still
in it's place,
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and has to move.
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It can't be static,
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it has to be always
in constant movement.
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And it's a link
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that became my life.
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Basically, I'm parkour.
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I feel that my life is parkour,
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I am parkour,
I'm the leap,
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and it's something
that makes you want to carry on.
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WE'LL BE BACK
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WE'RE BACK
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BMX is about
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doing the greatest amount
of tricks
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in the air,
or on the ground,
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or wherever you want.
That's why it's called BMX freestyle.
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Because it's
a free style.
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And you can create
whatever you want.
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I feel different.
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When I ride my bike and put
my headphones on, I'm a different person.
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I have a friend in particular
who helped me a lot.
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He went to ask my parents
if I could go out,
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to go to know the Bustamante,
in this case.
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And that's how I started going
to Bustamante. I met new people there.
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When I was a kid,
I sucked at freestyling.
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Until one day
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I went to do 'street',
as they call it.
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to Gorostiaga Park,
which we didn't know.
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And my friends didn't went in,
because they didn't like ramps.
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They only did street.
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And I was amazed
with the ramps.
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From that moment onwards,
I decided go to ride everyday in that park.
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That's where I saw
my first backflip,
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my first superman,
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and I said:
'I want to be like them'.
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For me, the Bustamante Park
was full of skaters,
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and I was scared
of going in with my bike, at first,
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until someone told me it was ok,
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but I was a kid,
and I arrived and sat to see
00:18:42.350 --> 00:18:43.952
how everyone else rode.
00:18:44.234 --> 00:18:47.023
I was very shy,
00:18:47.268 --> 00:18:49.215
I went in one, or two times,
00:18:49.331 --> 00:18:51.845
then I started going earlier,
when it was empty,
00:18:52.030 --> 00:18:53.677
to ride in peace,
00:18:53.827 --> 00:18:55.865
and to be unseen,
because I was ashamed,
00:18:56.029 --> 00:18:57.354
if I did this, or that.
00:18:58.080 --> 00:18:59.451
If a trick didn't work out.
00:18:59.651 --> 00:19:02.198
Or when I fell, I looked everywhere,
to see if someone saw me.
00:19:03.949 --> 00:19:07.187
So the first time I went there
was very shocking.
00:19:10.192 --> 00:19:12.346
On weekend,
I went to the ramps
00:19:12.516 --> 00:19:14.995
from 8 am to 5 pm,
00:19:15.504 --> 00:19:18.384
and I went at 8 am,
because no one was there so early.
00:19:18.831 --> 00:19:20.438
I rode alone.
00:19:21.101 --> 00:19:23.066
Because later the park was
full of people.
00:19:23.423 --> 00:19:24.925
And that's when
the pros arrived.
00:19:25.090 --> 00:19:27.132
So then I stopped riding
and sat to watch.
00:19:28.018 --> 00:19:32.421
Until one person came
and told me:
00:19:32.802 --> 00:19:34.614
'Come and ride with us.
00:19:34.769 --> 00:19:36.052
'We'll teach you'.
00:19:36.296 --> 00:19:38.058
And they began to help me.
00:19:38.403 --> 00:19:42.217
When I started riding
I didn't have a helmet or gloves.
00:19:42.662 --> 00:19:45.636
I remember that Papo
gave me my first pair of gloves.
00:19:46.313 --> 00:19:47.887
He told me: 'Here',
and he gave them to me,
00:19:47.997 --> 00:19:51.822
and I was like:
'Oh! He gave me a pair of gloves!'
00:19:52.047 --> 00:19:55.721
It was awesome,
for a kid 13 years old,
00:19:55.991 --> 00:19:58.792
to receive a gift out of the blue.
It's not so common.
00:20:13.312 --> 00:20:15.194
The tournaments
I cherish the most
00:20:15.555 --> 00:20:18.151
of those in which that I have won,
or I have taken part,
00:20:18.488 --> 00:20:21.348
are the ones in Argentina,
which are very important,
00:20:21.893 --> 00:20:25.187
the ones in Punta Arenas,
the Austral Contest,
00:20:25.326 --> 00:20:26.848
and the Latinoamericano,
00:20:27.263 --> 00:20:29.992
the Yogu Yogu
were excellent contests as well,
00:20:30.183 --> 00:20:33.638
I won the second place
in the latest edition.
00:20:33.847 --> 00:20:36.402
The ones at the Parque Araucano
are also great,
00:20:36.437 --> 00:20:39.268
I'm local there,
so I like them very much,
00:20:40.060 --> 00:20:43.375
and recently,
the Rec on Tour,
00:20:43.555 --> 00:20:47.544
in the USA, I finished on 12th place,
out of more than 20 contestants.
00:20:51.193 --> 00:20:52.893
I arrived to Woodward
00:20:53.148 --> 00:20:55.431
and every day I looked out
through the window and said:
00:20:55.525 --> 00:20:57.166
'I can't believe I'm here!'
00:20:57.565 --> 00:20:59.923
The next day, I looked outside,
and it was the same.
00:21:00.193 --> 00:21:03.687
Only the third day
I could believe that I was there.
00:21:03.912 --> 00:21:05.533
It's everyone's dream
00:21:05.733 --> 00:21:09.325
since they start riding
a bike or skate, or anything.
00:21:09.620 --> 00:21:12.070
And after being a month there,
00:21:12.223 --> 00:21:14.238
I stayed for another month
at Ben Snowden's place,
00:21:14.277 --> 00:21:15.733
who was friends with Coco.
00:21:15.769 --> 00:21:18.354
And those experiences
00:21:18.989 --> 00:21:20.841
helped me to grow
as a person.
00:21:20.986 --> 00:21:22.727
Because then I decided
if I ate or not,
00:21:23.037 --> 00:21:25.175
If I had money
to travel to certain tournaments...
00:21:25.435 --> 00:21:27.672
I chose to save some money,
00:21:27.962 --> 00:21:29.574
and I knew many new parks.
00:21:29.840 --> 00:21:31.530
And I wanted to ride,
00:21:31.611 --> 00:21:34.343
so I went to bed at 11 pm,
00:21:34.493 --> 00:21:37.669
and the next day I was already riding
in a park at 8 am, with the sun on my back,
00:21:38.037 --> 00:21:40.033
with 95F.
00:21:40.269 --> 00:21:43.818
Why? Because I knew that I was never going
to be able to do this in Chile.
00:21:43.853 --> 00:21:45.487
So I wanted to get
the most out of it.
00:21:46.298 --> 00:21:48.720
We went to present
some exhibitions
00:21:49.350 --> 00:21:53.414
to Argentina,
Cordoba, to be exact,
00:21:53.569 --> 00:21:56.144
there were about 4,000 people
00:21:56.958 --> 00:21:59.157
watching our show.
00:22:00.836 --> 00:22:04.876
And then I noticed that
it was possible to live from BMX.
00:22:04.923 --> 00:22:07.381
Here in Chile is very difficult,
but it's possible.
00:22:07.416 --> 00:22:09.607
It's been hard.
I took me nine years.
00:22:09.878 --> 00:22:11.394
But it's possible.
00:22:16.682 --> 00:22:19.977
Imagine:
Mankind,
00:22:20.312 --> 00:22:24.027
since it has been mankind,
has always wanted to fly without wings.
00:22:24.466 --> 00:22:27.194
Do you get it?
I can do that while riding my bike.
00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:30.072
Imagine to be 2, 3 seconds
floating on air,
00:22:30.452 --> 00:22:33.215
and everyone looks this small.
Hahaha, they actually look bigger, but...
00:22:33.604 --> 00:22:36.040
You can look at them
while you're flying.
00:22:36.251 --> 00:22:39.537
You feel free,
you're like inside a bubble.
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 26 minutes
Date: 2016
Genre: Expository
Language: Spanish
Grade: Middle School, High School, College, Adult
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