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00:00In all these ledges, this is what I learned, like 50-50 grind, 5-0 and all those.
00:06I remember I would just stationary and try to get up, you know, and try over and over.
00:14Still learning, huh?
00:15I'm Matterzaps, and I'm on a mission to explore skateboarding outside edge.
00:20Hop in as we travel the world meeting skateboarding mavericks to find out what skating means to them.
00:48Welcome back to Skate Tales.
00:51We're in Madrid, Spain, and this episode is going to be about Kilian Martin.
00:56He's an insane, freestyle, street-style, do-it-your-style skateboarder.
01:02So let's see if I can learn some new tricks.
01:05Woo!
01:30Gorgeous.
01:40Here we are at Plaza Cologne, and Kilian should be around here somewhere.
01:45Oh, there you are.
01:47Hey.
01:49How are you doing?
01:50My name is Matterz.
01:51Kilian Martin hails from the Alcorcon neighborhood in Madrid, Spain.
01:55An avid surfer and a gymnast from a young age, he quickly discovered a passion for skating
02:00and soon spent most of his time rolling around his local plaza.
02:04Kilian then discovered Powell Peralta's legendary band This Video, which introduced him to freestyle.
02:10Aged 17, he moved to Barcelona to try and make a living from skateboarding.
02:15Working as a waiter, one day he was invited to Paris for a fashion shoot.
02:19Overnight, he became a sensation in the advertising world, filming dozens of commercials on his board.
02:26In 2010, he won the Freestyle Skateboarding World Cup and met master lensman Brett Novak,
02:31whose videos would make Kilian famous.
02:34With the backing of his dream sponsors in Powell Peralta and Vision, Kilian relocated to the U.S.,
02:40from where he continues to express his unique, creative interpretation of skateboarding.
02:47Plaza Colon, it's a classic skate plaza of Madrid.
02:52It's true that before they had a lot more skate spots in the plaza.
02:56Little by little they've been taking out spots, but they have lots of ledges in both sides.
03:01Metal ledges, cement ledges.
03:04It was incredible.
03:14We'd love to skate it some more, but it's time for some fingerflip action.
03:36All in, baby.
03:44I was very obsessed with surfing.
03:47It wasn't until I heard, if you do skateboarding, that's going to improve your surfing.
03:53And obviously in Madrid, I couldn't surf.
03:55I was like, well, in the meantime, I'll just skate.
03:58And once I started skating and learning tricks, then I was like, this is amazing.
04:03You know, I want to keep doing this.
04:05And I loved surfing, but then I started switching to skateboarding, that passion that I had.
04:11Is it time to grab a snack?
04:13Yeah, we're going to go get some churros and chocolate.
04:17And café con leche.
04:18Yes.
04:19Very typical from Spain.
04:20It's one of the things that I miss that I don't have back home.
04:26Muy rico.
04:31Thank you, Spain.
04:41Alcorcón is in the outskirts of Madrid, and it's a very calm city.
04:46That's the apartment where I grew up.
04:47So I was born and raised in Alcorcón, and once I was 17, then that's when I moved to Barcelona.
04:53And I used to go to that store every day, you know, to get ice cream, to get anything that
05:00we needed.
05:01Bueno, siempre con el monopatÃn iba. Eso sà que desde chiquitito iba...
05:05Pensaba que no, que no iba a poder vivir con eso, y mira.
05:10Y en vez de estudiar, estaba todo el dÃa con el monopatÃn.
05:15All right, let's go check out Kilian's house.
05:21In that portrait, at the end, I think I was either 15 or so.
05:27You better get a close-up on that shot.
05:32So this is at my room, and here's some memorabilia.
05:36And I used to have a lot of trophies, like, you know, the 2010 World Cup.
05:46Yeah, most of them, I threw them away.
05:49And you might win, but it's because someone better didn't show up.
05:53This one was the first time where it was an actual interview in a magazine.
05:58It was when I was living in Barcelona.
06:01This used to be my room.
06:02So as you can see, it's super 80s.
06:06Here's the Goonies soundtrack.
06:08Classic skate house with posters all over the walls.
06:12Totally.
06:12I've always been a huge fan of the movie Gleaming the Cube and Thrashing.
06:16I would try to have my room exactly looking the same as in the movie.
06:21I was skating for Vision for about almost 10 years.
06:25And so they made this postcard, so I would be able to sign them and give them to people.
06:30So this was my first pro model with Paul Peralta, the Wolf deck.
06:34He's thinking of so many tricks.
06:37His head is on fire, trying to be creative.
06:41I have been working as a waiter in Barcelona for like two or three years at a hotel.
06:47And before I was loading trucks here in Madrid, and I got this email saying that they would
06:52like me to go to Paris and do this fashion escape video and also some photos for the magazine.
07:00He said, what is your fee?
07:01I remember I told my brother, Ruben, let's go crazy.
07:05Let's just put $400 and see what happens.
07:08And Ruben himself was saying, wow, you're crazy.
07:11Who's going to give you $400 to do that?
07:13And then they answered right away, yes, let's do it.
07:17And now looking back, I was like, wow, I should pass thousands, right?
07:25Yeah, I love doing commercials.
07:28I've done the Apple commercial.
07:30I did Valentines, Ralph Lauren, Smart Car, a collaboration with Mercedes, Lacoste.
07:37So it's pretty cool to get to travel around the world doing these commercials.
07:42We are now on the eighth floor in Madrid, and apparently during quarantine, Killian's dad
07:48built him a ramp.
07:49Check it out.
07:51And they have, it looks like a wave, since my brother's a really big surfing fan.
08:13This is Killian Martin.
08:16Maybe you don't know him yet, but they do incredible things.
08:20They do incredible things, like Killian, and I'm like, what's this?
08:26Today I'm telling him to skate on top of the roof freestyle, and he's trying it.
08:36Sometimes people might complain in skating what you did.
08:40You're a sellout, or...
08:42It's kind of scary, if you ask me.
08:45The wind is extra strong.
08:47It's like, well, I'd rather be a sellout than maybe be working, maybe as a waiter or something,
08:53you know.
08:53At the end of the day, you have to pay your bills.
08:58I'm very proud of him, for many things.
09:00He's a very humble person.
09:03Maybe other guys, when they start making money or commercial for different brands, they
09:08try to live, like, in a different life.
09:10But he is very, very humble.
09:12He started skating first, and then he introduced me in this world of skateboarding.
09:19We used to skate here in the Amphitheatro, which is not far away from here.
09:24And, uh, this is where everything came out, where everything started.
09:30This is the Amphitheatre of Los Castillos in Alcorcón, and this is where I started skateboarding.
09:35You want to show us the spot a little bit?
09:37Yeah.
09:38I remember I skated here ten years ago, this ledge.
09:42They just named this Ignacio Echeverria Skate Amphitheatre.
09:47There's the tag right there, he's the guy that saved the lady from a terrorist attack
09:51in London, when some guys were coming and attacking with knives.
09:55He went in with a skateboard and basically saved the day, but ended up paying the highest
10:00price.
10:02In that Amphitheatre, where there's a big skate community, so it was very easy to start skateboarding
10:11with everyone else's support and encouragement to keep going and to do my best.
10:29William Martin, I know him for about 16 years old, and here, in the East Park of Los Castillos,
10:36he came to skate like everyone, to do street, until he discovered the freestyle world.
10:47Everyone was encouraging me to do it, in fact, I remember, I would sometimes be, especially
10:52at night, on the side, just doing freestyle by myself, like, no, please, come, practice
10:57here, because we want to watch you, we want to see what you're doing.
11:17I noticed you always take two boards on a session, freestyle board and a regular board.
11:22So, like, this is a smaller board, obviously, than a street board, a little bit less concave,
11:30also.
11:31So this is symmetrical, and the reason is, so I don't have to be worrying about where's
11:36the nose or the tail when I'm doing freestyle combinations.
11:39And, um, these are custom wheels, they're a little bit offset, that way, if you're doing the
11:47coconut wheelie, you're doing this, uh, manual, where it looks like a Primo slide, but it's
11:52actually not touching the board, it's just a manual.
11:56Will you show me a few of the basic freestyle?
11:58Yeah, I think you're going to let it run away, because you're so good.
12:01We'll see about that.
12:06Right foot.
12:09This one, this way, and then finger flip.
12:14Woo!
12:16And you're drinking the books.
12:25Woo! First try!
13:17I have heard before, you know, that freestyle wasn't cool and all these things, but at the
13:24end of the day, I don't skate for people.
13:28I skate because it's fun and because I enjoy it.
13:41We've bred, uh, we've done ten videos, skate escalation was called, that's the first one we did, and it just
13:49happened, we filmed for like five days, and that video went viral, you know, we never really thought that this
13:55would go anywhere.
13:58And skate regeneration, then skate, then skate illustration, uh, internal departure, and then we started little by little doing all
14:06these different videos.
14:07We wanted to be not just a skate video, we wanted to be a piece of art. Skating these videos
14:15affected my career because I started seeing a different side of skateboarding, and not just thinking about tricks.
14:22Now I wanted to think about different locations, even different shots, how it would play in your mind.
14:29If you think there's a possibility of you doing that trick, I write it down.
14:34I have this note that I put a list, um, before you fall asleep, there's that point where it's real
14:45and not real, right?
14:46Because you're, when you haven't fallen asleep, it's still real, but when you're about to fall asleep, it's a little
14:52bit like a dream.
14:53And sometimes that's the best time to come up with tricks, because you would think of things that are crazy
14:59that you wouldn't come up in your daily life.
15:02And then, so when that happens, you have to write it down, and then the next day, maybe you can
15:09try it.
15:16Double!
15:23This guy has tricks that nobody else does.
15:29What?
15:59It's that hippie jump session.
16:25We're about 500 kilometers away from the beach, but we're going to surf.
16:31The city way of Madrid.
16:33Let's try it out.
16:36Pulling the board.
16:39The current is strong, and we're going to be going fast.
16:50Definitely going to get ears and nose full of water.
16:53We're going to feast and everything.
16:58Come on.
17:01Let's go爽, right?
17:02Yeah.
17:12Cheers.
17:13Thank you, Raff.
17:224 entre 00s.
17:23We're going to put something together, which can we love if we could run?
17:23A woman, have a drink.
17:28that was a fun activity surfing in madrid
17:33it's time for some tapas traditional spanish food this is sangria divina it's typical from spain
17:41i used to make it because i i worked as a waiter before so i've made a few of these
17:45oh there comes the food typical callos then we have pulpo a la gallega octopus from the north of spain
17:55croquetas caseras pimientos alpiquillo oreja the ear of the pork tortilla española it's like a potato
18:06cake aceitunas this is the best food in the entire world
18:11ever eaten ever cooked by anyone at any point jamon iberico
18:22i really miss this food you know when i'm in the us so this stuff is only available in spain
18:39the i love doing street skating by itself i love doing freestyle by itself but
18:45i feel like when i combine freestyle and street that's the best opportunity that i have to be
18:52creative i feel like when you combine freestyle street it's easier to do tricks that have never
18:57been done
19:22it's fun to go fast
19:54it's fun to get up
19:57Ha, ha, ha!
20:43I think it started once Tony Hawk posted one of my videos.
20:47I got an email from Rodney Mullen encouraging me to keep going and he was very encouraged
20:53by what I was doing.
20:56And that was huge for me, you know, I always looked up to him.
21:00He's like they say, the godfather of skateboarding.
21:04And to this day he always tells me, please send me whatever you come up with, I want to
21:11see it.
21:14Skateboarding can definitely be beautiful, I think it's an art form.
21:17Obviously I can see how some people would see a sport.
21:21Some aspects of it could be a sport, but it can definitely be beautiful.
21:26Even to the simplest of things, a kickflip, it can be beautiful.
21:31And you know how people like do a simple kickflip and then they do it with flair and they try
21:37in different places.
21:38They combine it with all these different things and especially when it's filmed really well
21:44with good music and slow-mo and all these different things.
21:47They're like, wow, that looks incredible, you know.
21:55What does skateboarding mean to you?
21:58Skateboarding is a way of life.
22:00To me it's something I used to have fun and I'm very passionate about skateboarding, about
22:07being creative, about trying to come up with tricks, and always adding to the skateboarding
22:12as a whole.
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