My first: Mariano Schenck, BMX. Community Cup 2014
Jordie Karlinsky: a day in Buttermilk, Co.
Pro Kids: Olivia del Toro. My first: Joaquin Garri, Snowboard. Food 4 Champs: Sandwich Egg Muffin Side B: Ziquiel Falcon My first: Rocio Campos, Kite. Tech and Toys Behind the camara: Juan Rayos. 15cm of fame: Instagram.
Acid Winch Crew: winch wakeboarding in the city with Lucas, Iñaki & Ezequiel.
Art: Pablo Fuentes Green Space: POW, Protect Our Winters. Nice Chick Bro: Juli de Bernardi. Kutralwe, Los Molles.
Social Rider: Marina Marré. COVER I:
Winch Wakeboarding Iñaki de Echeverría, Backside Lipslide Quilmes, Buenos Aires. Ph: Thomas Finsterbusch.
COVER II:
Seba Franco: pure skateboard.
Marina Marré Punta del Este, Uruguay Ph: Thomas Finsterbusch
STAFF Editor: Federico Scagliotti fedesca@propagandamag.com Photography: Thomas Fisnterbusch tomf@propagandamag.com Design and Contents: Agustina Ferrari aggy@propagandamag.com Aesoría Legal: Jorge Raul Postiglione Departamento Administrativo y Financiero: Federico Klammer
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Uruguay Surfing: Santiago Madrid.
Nickname: Midge Age: 24 Hometown: Aspen/Snowmass Colorado Actual Set up: Burton Deja Vu 146, Burton Lexa Bindings, Burton Supreme Boots. Sponsors: Aspen/Snowmass, Smith Optics, Core Power, Hudsen Collective, Patagonia. Favourite trick: Cab 540. Favourite food: Fruit.
Where you born and raised in Aspen? I was actually born in Orange County, California, but my parents moved my older sister and brother and I to Aspen in 1996. I have lived here since then. And start riding right away… I started snowboarding at the age of 7 in Aspen’s local ski school at Buttermilk.
would go on trips to Mammoth Mountain and Tahoe when I was really little. So I became pretty comfortable with skiing at a young age, but snowboarding was totally different for me. I struggled with toe-side turns and riding powder. Powder was really hard for a 7 year old! I always got stuck and fell. So powder was always a battle, but once I grew taller and became stronger I started liking snowboarding again.
Did you instantly know snowboarding was your thing? No. I had started skiing when I was 2. My family
You are part of the Team USA right? How is it being part? And how do you train all year round… Yes I am apart of the US Team. I became a US Team
athlete in the Spring of 2012. I love being apart of it. My coach Bill Enos is amazing, and so are all the other slopestyle athletes. It has been fun getting to know everyone and travel with each other. We have our own little family on the road, it’s nice. Being apart of the US Team is also great because I have gotten to meet other athletes in other disciplines. We train a lot of with the ski slopestyle girls and guys. In the preseason, we usually have a camp in Breckenridge, Colorado or Mammoth, California to get our legs back under us, and to get tricks dialed before Dew Tour in December. Throughout the winter we are traveling competing a lot. If we are not competing we either have some time to be home, or we have another training camp, usually before a big event. After the competition season is over, around March, we then can ride for fun with friends. I really enjoy this time of year. Warm weather, slushy parks, and sweatshirts! In the Summer we will usually have a training camp in Whistler, Mt. Hood, or New Zealand. This past summer before the Olympics we were in Whistler and New Zealand. Those places are so beautiful! It’s really fun to travel there. This summer won’t be as intense because the Olympics have come and gone. I am looking forward to some time off. Outside of snowboarding, I workout and keep strong all year long, either in the gym, outside, or with yoga. I will work out extra hard in the summer and falls to be super strong for the winter. You compete on Slopestyle… any other discipline? Or training to be into any other one? I focus on slopestyle now. Growing up I competed in all 5 disciples: racing, boardercross, slopestyle, and halfpipe! I was apart of Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club, and my coaches were really great. I am a well-rounded rider because of AVSC and competing in 5 disciplines as a kid. When I was in high school I was also on the US Team, but for boardercross. Only for 2 years, but they were fun years as well! The coaches were great and I met awesome people. But boardercross was never my favorite disciple. I always liked slopestyle the most, so in high school I switched 100% to slopestyle. You were very close to make it to Sochi right? Was it stressful? I missed Sochi by 2 points. I was tied for the final Sochi spot going into our last event, and my friend received an 87 on a run and I received an 85. It was pretty heartbreaking. For two years we all worked really hard to get to Sochi. That was the goal, and of course it was very stressful. Not making was really hard to deal with, but I know I have come out a stronger person. I have no regrets, I always tried my hardest and did my best. That’s all you can ask for I guess.
Are you feeling confident about the next Olympics 2018? I am not snowboarding specifically right now for the Olympics in 2018. I am having fun and enjoying being stress free for the mean time. I would absolutely love to go to South Korea, but I just want to take it one day at a time. I will go for the Olympics in 2018 if that’s what I want to do in four years from now. When you are not riding you sort of step away from the mountain, or do you practice any other sport? Hobbies? Growing up in the mountains has led me to have many hobbies! When I am not snowboarding I love to hike, road bike, fly fish, backpack and camp, hike 14ers…I love just being outside and enjoying everything Aspen/Snowmass has to offer! I feel very lucky to have grown up in such an amazing place. As a rider, what are your strengths and your weaknesses? I am a strong rider and I have a great feeling for the snow. These strengths came from the fundamentals I learned through AVSC as a kid. I learned how to race gates, hit rails, ride power, go off jumps, air in the halfpipe, and just freeride. I am very grateful to have learned how to snowboard in such an amazing club. I sometimes wish I was more confident when I am riding. I feel very confident sometimes, but other times I feel scared even though I know I can do the trick, or go off that big jump. Confidence is key when you want to progress. I also am not as strong at rails as I’d like to be. They are scary! Do you ever get bummed out riding? How do you fix it? Yes I can get bummed out. I get bummed out when I put too much pressure on myself to learn a trick and progress. I’ve learned with myself that I progress the most when I am having fun, I am confident, and I put no pressure on myself. Those are key things for me. So if I find myself bummed out, I figure out why and just try to let go of the pressure and have fun. At the end of the day, we all started snowboarding because it is fun! Last trick you put down? Backside 720.
Aspen Snowmass is one of your sponsors, good one! What’s your favorite mountain to ride? In which one you spend more time? Aspen/Snowmass is the best! The community is so supportive, I love everything about this area. Growing up my favorite mountain was Snowmass because it has so much to offer! Small parks, big parks, halfpipe, free riding, etc. In the pass two years though, Highlands has definitely become my favorite. Even though Highlands has no park or halfpipe, it is my favorite to freeride, especially on powder days! The mountain is steep, not crowded, and Highland’s Bowl is some of the best in-bounds skiing in the world. Who’s your favorite people to ride with? And your perfect snowboarding conditions? My favorite person to ride with is my boyfriend, Zach. He also grew up in the Aspen/Snowmass area and is a very talented snowboarder. He rides park and also is a great freerider. He has taken me mountaineering and in the Aspen backcountry. My perfect snowboarding conditions would be 1-2 feet of fresh snow, bluebird, small group of friends, and steep terrain! Do you have any favorite rider, or inspiration? I really look up to Gretchen Bleiler. She is an awesome human being, nice, creative, smart, and passionate. It is also awesome that she grew up in Aspen/Snowmass too. I also love Hana Beaman! I love how she rules the backcountry, but also rides park really well. I got to hang out with her a bit last season because she was going for the Olympics too. We found out that all the pro snowboard girls are very pretty, do you think there’s a coincidence on that? Is it the good life that make them glow? Or are the brands that pick cute girls that know how to ride to represent them? Haha…I would agree! Most of the snowboarder girls are pretty. I don’t think it’s a coincidence, but I think it is awesome because even though we may be pretty and feminine, we can still kick your butt on snow. We aren’t afraid of progression, getting hurt, or showing up boys! Being able to snowboard and travel for a living is absolutely amazing, if you aren’t glowing just from that, then maybe you should change sports! Getting sponsors in the snow industry has definitely gotten harder over the years. Companies have budget cuts, and they are most definitely looking for a certain look. I just want to keep myself happy and healthy, and the rest will follow.
Any guilty pleasures? I loveee ice cream and shopping! I need to stop eating sugar... Have you been to South America? Which other places have you been riding? I was in Termas de Chillan, Chile August 2013. It was such a blast. It was my first trip down to South America, I went with Smith Optics. The weather was warm and there was no new snow, but the terrain was amazing. I have also been snowboarding in New Zealand, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Japan, South Korea, Germany. France‌and probably a few more! Can you imagine an alternative life? No! I love my life. Being a professional snowboarder isn’t always easy, but I have no complaints. I have gone to amazing places, met great people, get to be outside all the time, and earn money doing it! Follow Jordie on Twitter and Instagram: @jordiekarlinski Special Thanks to Jordan Curet and AspenSnowmass.
Name: Mariano Schenck. Age: 29. My First Poster: a GT poster with Dave Voelker doing a wallride. My First time on a bike: when I was 4. My First drunkenness: I don’t remember the age, but I bet it was drinking Fernet. My First Sponor: A surf shop that run out of business. My First competition: At the Hurlingham course. My First bike trip: to Bahia Blanca, to a provincial competetion. My First Job: at YPF pumping gas. My First Memory on a bike: on the course we had at the forest‌I have my best memories there. My First ice-cream flavour choice: Lemon. My First Wish on birthdays: never stop riding. My First Concert: Hermetica 1994. My First fear in the water: When I started riding I crashed my face to the ground, had a concussion!
Name: Santiago Madrid Age: 23 Nickname: PatĂn, Patas, Motor Hometown: Punta del Este, Uruguay. Mi place on earth: Wherever myself and nature become one. Favourite food: Rice A band: The Black Keys Sponsors: Quiksilver, Hyundai, Antel, Dc shoes, Koa surfshop Instagram: @madvenna
Tell us a little bit about you, how’s your life, and what role is surfing in your everyday... I’m from Punta del Este, which gave me the opportunity to live hugged to the sea, which I’m so grateful for. I lived in many places from South America, my father was a professional soccer player, so I was almost borned Chilean…crazy! Now a days I do what I love, connected to what I grew up, so I cherish and respect it. It gave me consciousness for my everyday life situations. Surfing has been always my link to nature and my inner life, and also my disconnection from society, for me entering to the sea is like entering to a sanctuary, to a church or temple I go to connect and feed myself with energy. How was your childhood? Did it have influences on what you are now? I always been a town boy, I had a group of friends and always had fun doing pranks, and fooling around the neighborhood. And yes, it always influenced me to be simple, fun and natural. Your family is really into sports, right? My father was a professional soccer player during 25years. I played soccer until I was 17, and surfed whenever I could. But surfing completes me, and I had to train if I wanted to do it professional. I realized I loved to surf, my brother
Lucas is also a pro surfer, and my younger brother Luisma does Jiu Jitsu. How’s a typical day in your life? I wake up early and train with my brother and our physical traines Andres Barrios, if there are waves we train inside and outside the water, otherwise we do double shift with Andres. I’m also a graphic designer and love to paint, so if there’s any work I get on that, or I do some art. Meditation and yoga also are important for me, my mother and I are Kundalini Yoga instructors. You are local from Punta and it has really colds winters. How do you deal with the surfing during those months? Hmmm its just another winter… We are already used to it, we were borned with it, there are some winters shorters than others, some are colder, but thanks to technology we are not cold! In my dad old days he had short wetsuit, and had to wear wool sweaters under it, and dishes gloves together with elastic bands. Crazu! You spent 2 years living in the wild Buenos Aires, far from the sea. How was that? Any regrets? Yes, I had a girlfriend and that’s why I moved to BA. The
truth is that I have no regrets, I believe everything happens for a reason, and for me it was a great experience among being away from my family and the beach. Everytime I could I came back to Punta for some waves and see the fam. How’s your training? I train everyday with a routine to be in good shape, and like here there aren’t waves everyday, the days there are I try to surf as much as I can, sometimes even 9 hours a day. I also have a sports shrink that helps to be strategically trained for the competitions. How is your 2014 planned so far? Any objetives in your mind? It’s going to be a good year, I’m happy to be training hard and doing good. There are going to be lots of competitions. Objetives, yes, I wish I do better than on 2013, will do ALAS and I hope to make it to the WST. Tell us about your travel kit. What do you take on your surf trips? My boards, shorts, wax, sunglasses and sunscreen. Of all the places you surfed, what’s your favourite? Indonesia. And your perfect wave? Rifle, Indo.
Name: Olivia del Toro Bisso Nickname: Ollie Age: 10 years old. Favorite food: Salad and chicken. Sponsors: Skate and Friends by Cristobal Colón. Your parents met up skateboarding right? Yes, they both skated in Munro, back in 1999. And there’s a story of why they named you Olivia… Yes, my mom loved that name, and when she realized that my nickname would be Ollie (like the trick), she told my dad, and they knew right away that was going to be my name! At what age did you start skateboarding? Where? The first time I was on a skateboard I was a baby, yet, when I realized I loved skateboarding I was 6. I missed every time there went by a couple of days without doing it, and then I realized me and my board were inseparable. Do you practice any other sport? Yes, I do gymnastics at my school and
compete for that too. Do you like girly stuff? Are you vain? Yes! I love to paint my nails and get my hair done. I’m very vain at parties and birthdays, but when I have to skate… not at all. What are hobbies? My favorite hobby is to cook.. I love it. I love to do funny videos too and listen to music. But most of all to spend time with my cousins… Ema and Martin. With who do you like to skate? With my dad, with Tati de Santo, Mecu Videla and all the girls from Skate Chikar. Do you already know what you wanna be when you grow up? I want to be a pro skater or an actress, I like to act. Do you like to contests? Yes, it’s when I get my motivation to skate better and progress. And what’s the latest trick you put down, and that one you are trying to get next? The last one was the Boardslide revert and
I want to get down the flip. How’s a typical day in your week? I wake up around 6.30am, I breakfast orange juice and some toasts with butter, I put on my school uniform and lay around until 7.30, when I have to go to school until 16.45. Then I go out to skate for a bit, or do something with a friend, otherwise just chill at home. Do you do well at school? Yes, but maths its a bit of an issue. Any idols? My parents, my grandma, Justin Bieber, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder.
Sponsors: Vonberry and my dads.
My firt poster: Never, I’m a stickers kind of guy.
My first time on a board: On at skate, when I was 8. My first snowboard: Sb Head True white 154.
My first drunkness: Brasil 2006, way too much caipirinha. My first sponsor: Three little Birds.
My first media appearance: TN “La Viola Rock”, an interview at some concert. My first contest: Chori Jams!
My first e-mail account: joacosailor@hotmail.com
My first snow trip: San Martin de los Andes 2008, Cerro Chapelco. My first plaster cast: When I was 10.
My first backcountry: Cerro Castor in Ushuaia, the back face of the mountain.
My first job: When I was 15y’old I rented small boats to people that came to compete to Buenos Aires.
My first nickname: Cucutino.
My first ice-cream flavour: Dulce de leche!
We started wakeboarding with a boat, the traditional way, but there were many things that didn’t fit with us. The gas, the time spent, the water conditions, the weather conditions, and mainly the high cost it has to wakeboard behind a boat that makes a good wave! All these facts make the sport unreachable to many people, the best riders are those that own the best boat, the boat that makes the bigger waves, and that makes the difference. Another thing that we didn’t agreed, its that wakeboarding its considered a sport derived from water skiing, by logic it is, but nowadays boards sports are related, they progress and evolutionate together. Surf, skateboard, snowboard, and even kiteboard have tricks in common and share progressions. When cable parks appeared in the scene, the traditional wakeboard started evolving and getting closer to snowboarding, more tricks and the inclusion of features. When we tried the cable for the first time we couldn’t believe it, and after riding for a while we were positive to take it to the next level: the street. Here in Argentina we had Juank Canale, a groundbreaker of the winching, we got stoked to see it and we also became aware of many dudes like Shredtown, Kaesen Suyderhoud, Jade Whirley, the Ennen brothers, that were doing street wakeboarding and riding these sick places that completely blown our minds, and we had to tried it. We already skateboard and snowboard, and it was a perfect way to combine everything together and do a more reachable, fun and creative sport, for sure!
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The main reason we winch is to have fun, but we believe its beyond that, the feeling of flowing on a board its what its all about, we are city kids, we don’t have the mountain close by, neither snow, but we do have a lot of water in different kind of ways, from rivers to fountains, and flooded places… so we carry that feeling to the water, and its a feeling you can’t really explain, only those dudes that practice any sport can know what its all about. Have that kind of enthusiasm on riding that don’t let you sleep, to pick those spots that no one have ever hit before, being cold, getting hurt, but at the end of the day the joy its unreal. We believe that is love or passion, and its the reason why we do this stuff, its inside us and we believe that is this feeling that will keep up letting us progress and make this sport grow. We hope that all we do here, will encourage others to get outside and start riding with a winch, they can either do it themselves or buy one, they can ride for a few bucks, and trust us they are going to have a blast, no doubts. There are some people that doesn’t consider winching legit and depreciate it because it doesn’t have the traditional inverts tricks (...yet haha) and instead you mainly ride rails and gaps. We don’t call shit into questions what others do, and any kind of wakeboarding its legit for us. We would like to see those that make fun of winching if they encourage to winch. Well its all about time, cable wakeboard will explode soon and also the winch will do, let’s see what’s happening in the rest of the world...its all about time to get here. We would like to thank our sponsors: Slingshot Argentina, U-FIT sunglasses, and Wild on Water to support us. For some videos, Google Acid Winche Crew, cheers!
Nickname: Seba. Age: 25 Sponsors: U-FIT , Element/Billabong , circa , SLP hardware, Chocolatada Nescau.
What are your first memories on a bord? I remember that the first time I asked my friend to lend me his board, I started kicking and felt something really strong, very moving, something that felt very good! In that moment I started to try some tricks, and I sucked! Where did you started riding? I started in a deserted industry around my house, also in the school I went, it has a perfect floor. Also infront of my house, with a wood I robbed from a construction, a plate and some Coke boxes.
and get tired. I’m motivated when we film with Diego Vitek or when we go shooting. I like to see what’s done. And I believe it’s a daily motivation. There are days your are very stoked to ride, and other you just want to sit on your board and drink Coke! Many times it happens that when I really stoked riding, I think on doing something cool that night and I then get even more motivaded. How are you when you can’t land a trick? Do you frustrate and curse, or just keep rolling until you get it?
What do you do besides skating? I just graduated as a Industrial Designer. I been studying for the past 6 or 7 years. I also spent a lot of time with my girlfriend Ro, we watch Breaking Bad, and do a lot of random stuff together. Every Thursday I held an asado with my friend, and maybe on Saturdays I go out. But I like to wake up early and feel fresh to skate. Basically skating its my life so I don’t do much… haha What is your motivation for riding? I don’t know, but I really like to go kicking, sweat a lot
Oh, you can’t stand myself! I course ME a lot! I talk to myself, I pray, I keep on cursing, I get mad, I ask God to help me land that trick. Trust me, the one that’s with me laughs his ass of or wants to kill me. With who do you like to ride, and why? With anyone, I enjoy any session. If its with friends or with people I don’t really know, or the new kids in the scene… I just enjoy it too see others riding, their new tricks or fun stories. Favourite spot?
Many people thinks I’m a dorky becaus I enjoy riding in the park. I like street, you can do some stuff you can’t land somewhere else, but I love skateparks. Which are your favorite skaters, and why? I don’t have any. My favorite skaters are the one I skate with, the ones that make me laugh and have a good session, they make me have a good time wherever we are. How is your perfect weekend? I love those sunny saturdays, wake up early around and start my day around 9am. Carefree of studying or everyday issues. Have breakfast and skate all day. Have a beer with the ones we sessioned and get back home around 9pm, with the bbq lighten up for an asado! We share some beers with my dad next to the fire and then see my girlfriend. Finish my day around 5am going to sleep with her! 3 band you are listening too? I’m not really stuck to a band. I listen to whatever kind of music, I like electronic a lot. Which other sports you like? Any other boards around? Does the skate works for something else? I like to surf, well to crash into the waves! I like to do a little bit of snowboard on winter, but enough.. I don’t know if skating helps me on other sports, maybe the balance on a board, but there are very different. They depend on nature, the aren’t easy, but I like the street, the water and the snow! What means skateboarding for you? My life. A dream? Live my entire life happy, calm and enjoying. How do you picture yourself in 20 years? Living the life!
There’s something you want to tell to the people reading this article? Most of it, to thank my sponsors Element/Billabong, and Fran. To Circa and el Gallego for all these years. To SPL Hardware, that is more a family that a sponsor. To Nescau, my new sponsor. To Santi and Nacho, my friend that are with me at the UFit, working together towards creating a beautiful brand. We are working on doing sunglasses out of recycling maple skateboards. So if you wanna visit us on Facebook/ U.FIT.ARGENTINA or http://www.ufitargentina.com/, and you will see a little bit of our project. Also anyone that would like to donate me his old or smashed board I will be forever thankful. And finally thank you Propaganda! for the space in Propaganda!mag and the time to shoot the pics we got here.
1200km away from Buenos Aires, you can find Las Leñas, which is the closest ski resort that we, the porteños, have. Closest to call it someway, if you compare it to the other resorts in Argentina, is the one least ‘far away’ one. We can have another article talking about the quality of the snows, the backcountry, the snowpark, the lifts… but that it’s relative to which other resort we compare it too, anyway Las Leñas is our nearest option for those winter getaways craving for some snow.
Las LeĂąas valley its a really dry and rural area in Mendoza, 2.2240 mtrs. above sea level not even the trees grow there!. As it is very desolated area between the Andes, the buildings and ski town were built together with the ski resort in 1983. The lodging is very limited, and pricey in relation of what it has to offer. The architecture, combined with the few after skiing recreational activities, and together with the strict rules of the place, recreate for the tourism some kind of a “soviet military baseâ€?. This leads the travellers a little bit overwhelmed,
with no many possibilities of enjoying all the options the geography has to offer, besides skiing and partying of course.
Specially, because from the time the lifts closes until night, there’s a long time to kill inside the tiny room of your apart hotel.
Only 20km from Las Leñas theres a small settlement called Los Molles, it has few cabins to rent, two or maybe three stores where you can find the provisions to survive, one restaurant, but it has the opportunity to enjoy pure nature.
We hope we can encourage you to enjoy nature to the fullest, and the next time you travel to Las Leñas, you consider this little settlement called Los Molles between your options. We have no doubt that you will be always welcomed at Kutralwe. Propaganda’s guarantee.
Our friends from Kutralwe, a mountain hostel, always receive us with their kind hospitality when we drive 1200km seeking for some snow. Tuti, his owner, its always prepares to cook an asado, play the guitar, and with a good freeride story to entertain you. The hostel has 3 big community rooms, a big dining room, an equipped kitchen, and a good heater to battle the Mendoza’s cold. It also has a playroom to socialize, a big TV to play snowboard vids, and a big window to enjoy the Andes’ landscape. The hikings around the hostel, visiting Los Pozos de las Animas, going to the nearby hot springs, chopping some logs, going to buy some fresh bread to Elio’s garage, or doing some asados, are some of the activities that might sound flat, but away from the city, and after an intense day of riding it’s all you desire.
Web: www.kutralwe.com.ar Facebook: Kutralwe Hospedaje de Montaña
What’s your first memory about art? Well, I have many memories from when I was a child, although I don’t save any of my works from then, I remember this series of birds draws, lots, and I also remember the first time I paint with oil, it was a landscape with woods and a castle. And when comes the skate? That first skate draw I paint it when I was 5 o 6 years old, at that time I used to see lots of kids doing skate and I really liked it, I had my first board, and its with me since then. What’s your inspiration? Inspiration its more than significant when its comes to create. Greeks were talking that the artist reached a state of ecstasy and divine wrath, which leads to create. Of course, when you are inspired its easier because everything does with the flow, now, when this doesn’t occurs art becomes difficult.
How do you think art and skateboarding are related? From my point of view, skateboarding, besides a sport, an art, its more than a social movement. The transfer from surfing to the city, and the community its enrolled within. Skateboarding could be considered a dance, in the way it expresses the sport and the skater itself. It has a no ending evolution, with no obstacles or rules. With those feelings I try to express my art. Have you ever worked with skateboarding brands? Yes, actually I’m working with a fre brands. What kinds of works are the ones that bring you a higher satisfaction? Any work brings me satisfaction at the end of the day, sometimes one job more than another, but nothing compares to the feeling to paint a skatepark or plaza. Any words you would like to tell to the ones reading you? Connect, codes, and guide yourselves by instincts and not by obstacles, less talking, more work.
Ph: @elniniocamo
Fotos: @elniniocamo
Honestly when I think on traveling to Europe, I don’t have boarding on my mind (besides when I planning a snow trip). I picture it more like a traditional turistic and cultural trip, getting to visit new places, meeting people, having good food, visiting some museums, historic places, etc. But Europe has so much more than the beautiful alps, it has a lot of boarding, and maybe showcasing the most creatives ways of riding Munich is this German city that got me speechless since the very moment I arrived to, actually, before arriving, when I was approaching the city from these galactic and futuristic highways. It’s an incredible city, it is super tidy, its quality, its modern, sophisticated, perfectly combined with its traditional buildings, the parks, the monuments, the stadiums, it has an amazing infrastructure. The Olympic stadium was built for the Munchen 1972 games, and although its has 50 years old, its looks futuristic! Around it its this park called Olympisches Dorf, just perfect to cruise around with your Penny or any board that’s traveling with you. The floors are super clean, with up and down hills, that make it really fun to skate around. The city its equipped with rails, borders, and perfect floors to be ripping some creative skateboarding too. There is a public wakepark, called Watazoo, I tried to find it but got lost. Too bad I carried my wetsuit around for nothing! I hope to have a better luck next time. There was a spot that I was really excited to see: the famous artificial wave at the Eisbach river. The Eisbach (the translation is ‘river from the ice water’) its a little river, where they created a section to generate a wave for the ones that would like to surf in the middle of the city. Just across a bridge next to the Haus der Kunst art museum, the river has this natural wave of aprox. 1 meter high, it’s a really popular surf spot. Sometimes the cue gets crazy!
Some years ago there were some issued with the authorities, and there was an attempt to tear down the wave, a group of supporters organized movements and a web page to save it, including a special request to live it just the way it is. Now the surfers made it safer, making it to break in a cleaner way, but attaching a log to the bridge. For the beginners, there’s another wave option called Floßlände close to the Thalkirchen U-Bahn station. This one its wide enought to let some surfers surf at the same time. There’s a third wave at the Isar river, but you can only be there when there’s a flood, and the water gets hight.
Munich is also famous for its beer, maybe its specialty its this one called Weissbier. There are more than 20 beer gardens across town. Four of the most famous and popular ones are located at the English Garden, y the biggest one at the Hirschgarten. There’s nothing better to finish a riding day with a good bier and a wurst! Gute Reise!
Name: RocĂo Campos Age: 19 Sponsors: Baki Wanita, Underwave and Slingshot.
My First Poster: from Messi. My First time on a board: on a windsurf. My First Board: a yellow Chemical. My First drunkenness: in Mar Chiquita. My First Sponor: Wainman Hawaii. My First competition: Punta Raza, in 2010. My First Kite trip: to see a worldcup in Bariloche, in 2010. My First plaster: never had one. My First Job: in Bahia del Sol, at Mar Chiquita. My First Nickname: Stuart. My First Memory on a board: the first time I was riding, I felt I was flying over the water! My First ice-cream choice: Lemon. My First Wish on birthdays: a windy year with all my friends. My First Concert: Keane. My First fear in the water: Those crashes that lead you dizzy with no air. I don’t recommend those haha.
Juan Rayos its a recognised filmaker from Spain. What is your first memory “behind the lens”? Between his works you can find the popular Long- We should go very far… I remind when I bought my little handycam (a Sony PC8), I was living in Rome for the season board Girls Crew videos. What is what you enjoy filming the most? In these past years I filmed a lot of skateboarding, that is something I love, I like the sport itself, the culture around it, the spots, the people… everything! But I enjoy filming anything, I need to change and try new themes to keep me alive. In general I like stuff where I see some kind of passion reflected and the intensity of the people doing what they are really passionate for. You both shoot and film, do you have any preferences? Nowadays I think filming, is where I can express myself more widely. But its also more fussy and demanding, sometimes I need the freshness of shooting photographs. With photography things are more immediate, you can work with more calm, and afterwards the post production timing are much shorter.
doing a scholarship with the Real Academy, I was enthusiastic getting to know the city, from one place to another, and filming my little diaries. It was a really nice time, although kind of frustrating the low quality and few control of the image I had back there… More recently I’d been working with DSLR, I remember specially the day we met up with the crew to film Madrid Longboard, and was the first time I shot something more seriously and from a board. Luckily it was with good skater, and everything flowed very easy, plus we went out at midnight to enjoy the lonely city just for us. It was magic! The feeling of rolling with the riders while filming them, the city landscape with the first rays of lights… it was a unforgettable day! In which projects are you working right now? I’m working on a skate video for next year, but I can’t anticipate anything about it yet. I’m also working on a large
documentary about two brothers that travel in tandem up to the south of Morocco … but no extreme sports! Its more a life story of Sergio, blind and with autism, that thanks to the bike and to his brother, he manages to live this intense adventure. Do you know when you are filming something, if its going to be a hit? Not at all. You maybe can feel if its going to be success.. but most of the times you are wrong. What expectations did you have when’ve you started filming Longboard Girls Crew? The expectations were good, there was longboarding involved, a theme that I enjoy, together with a lot of strength coming up from a group of girls that were together with a lot of ambition. This mix was promising! But certainly I wouldn’t imagine the phenomenon that was going to become later. I guess it was a combination of a number of factors, being in the right place and in the perfect moment. What do you feel when your videos have millions views? Vertigo! ...joy… satisfaction to do a good job, besides of lots of people watching it and enjoying it. At the end of the day the views work up for that, to reach more people and generate more possibilities of keep on doing what you like. What are you references to film skate (from now and then)? I enjoy the classics like Future Primitives or Skateboards Kings, but also some old anonymous films that shows you how the skateboard was lived some place or time ago. Recently I like how Spike Jonce or Colin Kennedy work, the new classics of 100% skate like Pretty Sweat, the firsts longboard vids from Originals, and lots of new videos sort of anonymous of random people enjoying the skate, riding in the woods, working in a handmade mini ramps, on an old pool to skate it, trying rad tricks just for the own pleasure of being silly, looking for new spots with new possibilities… What are your motivations when you choose to film? The theme has to like me personally, it has to be something on what I want to learn or know more. The implication has to be big, otherwise I don’t care. Besides I always try the topics to be sort of transcendence for
a wide audience. Also there has to be a certain level of intensity, in order to be capable to connect and emocionate. How do you like yourself to be remembered? The fact to be remembered itself its something tremendously rewarding. How to, its difficult to say it myself‌ But it impresses me when someone writes me to tell me that something he saw inspired him to do something, or that his life changed somehow after seeing my work.
You can see Juan’s works at: vimeo.com/juanrayos
How did you started surfing? I had a boyfriend that surfed, It was a sport that I really liked, I’ve always liked the sea. The truth is that I always liked it, I did some snorkelling when I was a kid, I went fishing a lot… it was a pendant. When I grew up, I had the money to buy a board, and I started learning. I went with some friends that where going surfing to Costa Rica, and tool my brand new surfboard. One month and a half there, and I learned! The surfboard was a fat hybrid 6.8. I wanted a short board, because I knew I was going to become addicted to the large one…(sounds terrible right? haha) How old were you? Where you already working as a model? I was twentysomething…Yes, I was already working. I began modelling when I was 18. Let’s clear up I’m already happily retired now ,I loved my profession, I travelled, I knowledged, I’m so thankful. Did your surfer girl style helped your modelling career? On the other way, modelling helped me economically on surfing. It helped me to travel. I worked, worked, worked and then I left away, for one month or two. My style was more carefree, I’ve never had my hands done, always with bruised… It gave you some marketing though.. Yes! But it wasn’t the marketing that had more revenue, not sure if it was the target haha. I could be cool for someones, but not always is where more money is. I didn’t have the best ass, maybe if I had been working out instead I would have done better... But you’d been on every summer cover! Haha, yes totally. When I started surfing, there were surfers but it wasn’t trenedy. In the 98’s or 99’s I couldn’t even find girls wetsuits, I had to use mens.. Which was your first work? I worked 6 years as a waitress at la Bataraza, in La Lucila. Then my first job as a model for Oshkosh. Where did you go for your surfing trips? I went a lot to Costa Rica.. I went with Urko Suaya to Praia do Rosa, and came a lot here to Punta del Este, Uruguay. Then I’ve also been to Nicaragua, Peru, Indonesia, Hawaii, California, Tahiti….
Any place you wish to go? Australia! Well, I’ve already been there. But I want to come back! To travel to Indonesia, I had to stop in Australia, so I stay there for few days… so I want to go back! I coulnd’t see too much. I surfed at Bondi Beach, and loved everything there. Surfing its a really nice sport to travel and get to know. Did you ever had a shark encounter or something similar? Yes, once in Hawaii. There were yelling “white shark on the water, get out!” from a jet ski, and they made you get out of the water. I think they have them monitored… Any accidents? Everywhere. But the worst one was here in Jose Ignacio, with my own fin. Always stupids crashes. I was getting out of the water, and didn’t realize I was on the sandbank and there was few water over there. The wave came and crashed on me, my board got stucked in the sand, and I fell over the fins really bad. The lifeguard was looking somewhere else, and a 10 years old boy took me out of the water. I didn’t feel the pain, when you have a injury of that kind and you cut your muscle you feel no pain. You didn’t faint? No, but I couldn’t get out of the water. The waves hit me and I couldn’t stand up. I was dizzy, didn’t realized what happened. I stood up and see a kind of openes sausagge in my leg! Saw this kid and told him to help me. He started pulling me until the lifeguard finally saw me. Then directly to the hospital. I though “oh my job”, but the Photoshop is a wonder.. haha. You always had a sporty life, or you had your wild nighlife too? My life has been very acquatic. I had, like any other young persona a nighlife, I went out yes, but few sunrises that I went to sleep to. Much more sunrises of waking up at that time. Any Tatoos? A shoal. Do you curse a lot in the water? Yes, sometimes I get nuts. It happens, that they should be more gentleman in the water. I had accident, and its dangerous, specially when you are surrounded by people that
doesn’t know the code. Anyway, as a woman, you always curse in the water, sometimes there are too sexist. There’s a manual and codes, but that is for an another article!
What you can’t left behind in your trips? Medicines! My camera, I use a Canon G12, and the water case. I carry one board, few clothes, my mate and my yerba. Sunscreen, there’s no need to ruin the skin.
In the modelling scene, have you ever feel you didn’t belong to it? No way. I laugh a lot, we had fun. Modelling is great, but is a moment. Is like you are a pro athlete, how much time you are going to compete and be good enough? You sell youth. If you know to retire in the appropiate moment, and have fun during that moment, it’s an awesome job. The thing is when the job blocks you and what to perpuate on it.
Surfin pals? Here in Uruguay I have my friend Pachu and Carito. And my boyfriend, I travel with him a lot.
You Paint. How did you reach to be an artist? I’ve painted my entired life, always seawise stuff. It’s almost an obsession. Are you pisces? No! It would be to top it all! Haha. Everyone ask me the same. They tell me ‘Marina, they fucked you up with the name’ [Marina in spanish means from the sea]. My mom onces told me, ‘I don’t know if I mad you a favor or teased you’. And how’d come the art became so important in your life? I studied psichology, I have one year left to finish my studies. Also I studied advertising, but that I wouldn’t never finish it. I love psychology. But I always painted! And that moment when I was ending my modelling career, I was thinking on what to do next…while I kept on paintin. I figured it out that was the thing I wanted to do. So I started going to some workshops, and start working on my technique. I showed up on some contests, that’s important, I won a mention for Banco Central on 2010. Here I work for the Atelier de La Barra. I have to paint a lot for the summer season. Mi strengths are the paintings, but I also do furniters, fins, I painted buoys, doors knockers, tshirts… everything pretty much. Do you practice any other sport? Yes, everything I can. But surfing its my main one. I live to fish too, I fish I lot. Do you have your morey-board fase? No! I never tried! But yes I had my foam board, that I received every year for christmas.
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cooking
I studied to be a chef together with my friend Pato Saidman. The job is tough, so now I only enjoy cooking with and for my friends.
public relations
bikes
I work as a public relations for a club for 7 years now. It gave me the possibility to meet lots of people and many of my friends.
I’m passionate for bikes, specially for lambrettas and Vespas. My brother Germån owns a shop that repairs these kind of bikes, and he is my mentor.