00:03Bring the hype, Skatetails!
00:05We're in Mar de Plata, Argentina, to meet the speed demon of Milton Martinez
00:11and his ultimate skate family.
00:17Hey, Milton! How are you doing?
00:20Let's see if I can catch up with him. Milton!
00:23To say Milton Martinez was born into skateboarding is no exaggeration.
00:27His entire family skates. Mom runs her own skate shop. Dad is Argentinian skate royalty.
00:33Both his brothers rip, and so does his daughter.
00:36Raised around a family-owned skate shop in Mar de Plata, Milton would go on to win skateboarding's highest accolade,
00:42Thrasher's Skater of the Year.
00:44We're keeping it in the family this time around as Skatetails drops in on skateboarding's raddest plan.
00:49Let's go see what's up with Mr. Milton Martinez and his ripping relatives.
01:07When was the last time you skated here?
01:09Probably like four years ago.
01:11But I used to skate here every fucking day of my life.
01:15Since I'm like 12?
01:18I think I was 12 when they built this thing.
01:33This is like the first skate park in Mar de Plata, so we grew up skating here.
01:38Me, my friends, my brothers, my dad, everyone. Everyone from Mar de Plata. This is La Mitre. It's a classic
01:45place.
01:46Soy Madars.
01:47Hola Madars.
01:48Encantado.
01:49There is photos of me on skateboard when I was like two years old.
01:54So that's when I supposedly started like as a game. Even there is still a game, you know, like since
01:59I was a baby.
02:00No, bueno, eso es porque el skate estaba ahà en mi casa. No sé, yo iba a surfear o andar
02:04en skate.
02:05Era algo que hacĂa todos los dĂas.
02:07Pablo Tattoo anduvo de toda su vida. Nos conocimos, formamos una familia y fue algo como natural en mi casa
02:14que hubiese un skate.
02:16At some point, it was everyone that skated. My mom, my parents and my two other brothers, they skate, they
02:24see the skating, everyone see the skating.
02:26So it was always, always around skateboarding.
02:30f-
02:32f-
02:33f-
02:35f-
03:37A couple more run-ups and I got it.
03:39Switch, probably.
03:42A couple more run-ups and I got it.
04:12So what is this place?
04:14So this is my house.
04:15It's my parents' house.
04:17Yeah, this is where I grew up my whole life I live here.
04:21Creo que los primeros recuerdos más que el skate en sĂ, el skate shop de mis viejos, fue
04:26el año 98.
04:28Yo tendrĂa tres años más o menos y estar ahĂ dando vueltas, como con mi viejo, con mi vieja,
04:34que vivĂamos ahĂ básicamente.
04:39That's the youngest one doing a hard play when he was like 14.
04:43And then that's A.C. Martinez, the board that he had for cleaver.
04:49This is my dad's pro board for voodoo skateboards.
04:53I think it's the first company I ever had a pro board, too.
04:55Okay, who is this?
04:56That's my grandpa.
04:58Pepe.
05:00Pepe.
05:01Who's got more covers?
05:02Your dad or you?
05:03Probably my dad.
05:05I don't know.
05:06I don't know.
05:06I don't know.
05:07No, he had covers.
05:08How many portadas have you had?
05:11Two.
05:12Two?
05:12I can't say.
05:13Same, same.
05:14I don't know.
05:15Probably a humble mountain.
05:17I love it.
05:17I love it.
05:18I love it.
05:20My parents used to put a mattress in the skate shop every day and then put a mattress back
05:27in the back to open the skate shop, which for me was like totally fine because I didn't
05:32understand.
05:33I mean, when I grew up a little bit, I was like, yeah, it's pretty tight, you know, but
05:36it was like good.
05:37We're so lucky to have, you know, like a house or like a room or like whatever.
05:41Like you don't appreciate that much what you have if it didn't go through like a little
05:46harder times.
05:52I think I'm gonna go to sleep, huh?
05:55Oh yeah, there you go.
05:55I think I'm gonna lay down.
05:57Yeah.
05:59The session was heavy.
06:01That's what they used to do.
06:02Exactly.
06:05See you guys later.
06:07Later, dude.
06:10So this is where you grew up skating?
06:12This is the main spot?
06:13Yes.
06:14This is Alicante.
06:16As you've seen it before in videos since my era and before my era, obviously people
06:22have been skating here forever.
06:23Everyone else.
06:25If you come to Mar del Plata for skating, this is the main reason.
06:52I remember seeing footage of you doing ollie, ollie, ollie down in like three big sets in a row.
06:59Yeah.
06:59And your dad was pushing you in?
07:01Yeah.
07:02There you go.
07:04You think you could do that again with your dad?
07:06Isa, you want me to tow you in on a bicycle?
07:09You can grab from my bicycle and I push you to the big stairs.
07:16Skating with my daughter is amazing.
07:18It's the best.
07:19I don't even want to skate.
07:21I just want to see her skating.
07:25Got super excited and like started skating with mothers.
07:28And that's the feeling that I want her to know.
07:32Like that's what it's skating about.
07:34Sharing and pushing each other with your friends.
07:37I told her I'm so proud of you for like doing that.
07:40So she got the full experience of like what is being a skater on the street with your friends.
07:47And what happened?
07:48She broke her foot.
07:51First time coming back to Mar del Plata after six years.
07:56First boot.
07:57But she got the boot.
07:59She's a true mini-me.
08:03I only know that I love skating and that's all I know pretty much.
08:07Which sometimes it gets a little scary.
08:10I define skateboarding my lifesaver pretty much.
08:17When I was a little kid I didn't have that much strength.
08:20So I would try to go fast.
08:22I didn't have that much bump.
08:24So I would try to go fast to make sure that I was going to clear the fucking stairs.
08:30If I am like jumping stairs, I know I'm going to get to the ground way quicker than if I
08:35go slow.
08:36When I hear the sound of the wheels on the ground and it's just going fast.
08:59When I was at the other side..
09:38Let's go.
09:41Let's go.
10:13Your dad has a skate shop. Your mom has a skate shop. Are you going to have one?
10:19Hey, why not? Maybe.
10:22This is my mom's skate shop, social skate shop. It's been here for 10 years.
10:28I feel like I don't have any of my boards at my house, but this one will be a nice
10:32one to have, you know?
10:33It's been always on my mind to skate the car wash, so...
10:36When I was filming for the Vulcan video, they picked me up five in the morning.
10:42We went there, and I came back to my house with a broken foot.
10:47I remember Eliana's face.
10:48Issa's mom was like, like, what happened?
10:51We just moved to America, and this is the third day. We didn't even move into the apartment pretty much.
10:57We were sleeping on the floor, and we ended up sleeping on the floor for months because I had a
11:03broken leg.
11:04It was a hard time, definitely.
11:13It was a little more work than I thought, but it ended up happening.
11:17And it did a lot, you know, for my career kind of thing.
11:19There couldn't be a gnarlier kickflip to be done.
11:22I can't imagine a gnarlier one, honestly.
11:28No, not again.
11:31All right.
11:31Here, Issa.
11:33The skill of the year.
11:35Issa versus Osco Martinez.
11:36Yes.
11:40The car wash.
11:41Passamos por ahĂ.
11:42Me dice, mirá.
11:44De allá me tiré.
11:46Wow.
11:47Y yo no mirĂ© asĂ.
11:47Y dije, no.
11:48De noche, eran como las 3 de la mañana pasamos.
11:50Y digo, no.
11:51Una locura, viste.
11:53De hecho, yo le habĂa dicho un dĂa, le digo, che, me gustarĂa ir a ver si están andando en
11:57skate, filmando.
11:58Y me dice, no, mamá.
11:59Ni loco venĂs, ni loca te llevo, porque la pasás mal, los palos que nos damos.
12:03No, me dice, no es, no está bueno, me dijo.
12:11Hasta ahora me da miedo, porque el skate que practica actualmente, el que estuvo practicando hasta ahora, a veces no
12:17me gusta verlo, porque digo...
12:20Y se sufre, con el skate se sufre.
12:22Es asĂ, más cuando lo hacen a nivel ese, que manejan esa velocidad, esos controles.
12:27Es como arriesgo, o sea, vos estás arriesgando tu vida o estás arriesgando parte de tu cuerpo.
12:32Es asĂ.
12:37Y yo creo que hoy en dĂa es una figura enorme.
12:42ViĂ©ndolo, siendo acá, y sabiendo lo difĂcil que es llegar a eso, es como que todo el mundo tiene mucha
12:46admiraciĂłn por Ă©l.
12:49Es un ejemplo a seguir.
12:51No, yo lo respeto a mil.
12:53Es el Messi del skate.
12:55Tenerlo acá es un privilegio.
12:57Es un logro para el esquĂ argentino gigante, Âżno? Todos tenemos que estar orgullosos de eso.
13:04Muy orgullosos.
13:06Si bien él ha logrado un montón de cosas, pero él es uno más.
13:12Él siempre ayuda mucho, le gusta compartir mucho con su familia.
13:17Y es una persona muy querible también.
13:25Hoy es domingo, y cada domingo, todas las familias vienen aquà para tener una sesión de mañana.
13:30AsĂ que es como una sesiĂłn de familia.
13:32Una sesión de familia mañana.
13:33Es domingo.
13:33AsĂ que la familia de MartĂnez no es la Ăşnica.
13:35No es la Ăşnica.
13:36Es especialmente en Mar del Plata.
13:38Son pequeños ejemplos que hay en el mundo que se están dando en mi generación, que yo tengo 50 años,
13:43que ya mi generaciĂłn tiene hijos skaters, viste, antes que yo no hay.
13:49¡Ey, Janet!
13:54Yo creo que Mar del Plata es como la cuna del skate.
13:59Hay muchas familias skaters y que compartimos el skate, no te digo todos los dĂas,
14:05pero se comparte un montón acá.
14:12Es un domingo hermoso, aquĂ en Bristol Skate Park.
14:16Los padres skater juntos con sus hijos.
14:18Skateboarding en Mar del Plata es una familia.
14:20Este de 4 o 16 años.
14:34Y queụente de 2 en la pantalla.
14:36Sonia temprana edilertada.
14:44SĂmice aquĂ.
14:46Sonia Tarea.
15:14What is skateboarding mean to me?
15:17Everything, pretty much. This is skateboarding. This is why we're here, skating.
15:22I got Isa sharing these moments, and thanks to skateboarding, I'm back to my hometown
15:28and spending time with you guys, with my family, you know, so that's skateboarding to me.
15:46I'm out.
15:46I'm out.
15:47I'm out.
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