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Because that's what they
have imposed on women,

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since they are young,
since long before that.

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That woman must take care of the household,

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and the man is who works.

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And a man can't pick up a broom,

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because that's a woman's thing.

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But, really, I don't picture myself
as a housewife.

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Things in life can be very hard,

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or even seem impossible, at times.

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but if you really want it,

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no matter how hard it seems to be,
you can achieve it.

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Female stereotypes

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Well, skateboarding got to my life
thanks to my younger brother,

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he was the first of us to begin skating,
since he was six.

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And then I began to get involved
with skateboarding.

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At first, I rode my brother's board.

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Then we began looking for funds
to get my own board.

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We began with those boards known,
here in Colombia, as 'exitosas'.

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Those are the boards sold for kids,
at common stores.

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When I got a little bit better,

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the skate was of no use anymore, because
the trucks became immediately damaged.

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Then I went to skateboarding classes
at Santa Lucía,

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where I rode on borrowed boards.

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If we talk about the evolution
of skateboarding here in Colombia,

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if nowadays it's still difficult
to be a skater.

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I can't imagine how it was before,

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when there was no scene.

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It has been us,
with self-management,

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that we, skategirls,
have achieved a lot of things.

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My name is Greisy Elles,
I'm 21 years old.

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I live in Medellín, Colombia,

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and I've been practicing skateboarding
for seven years now.

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I began surfing because
I practiced bodyboard before.

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There you laid down on the board.

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And I did it for many years, and I used
to compete in tournaments, but against boys,

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because there were no girls
who practiced that sport.

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But one day there was
a tournament in Salinas

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in which we didn't have someone to represent
Club Montañita. That's my club.

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And my brother Israel told me,
'Why don't you sign in?

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You've stood up on the bodyboard.'

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I stood up, and had
to perform a little maneuver,

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and that day, when I stood on the board,
I felt a special connection.

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I liked it much more than laying
on the bodyboard.

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I loved the adrenaline of standing up
and riding down the wave,

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like if you were mounting it.
It was weird.

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But the sensation, the adrenaline
of riding it down, I loved it.

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And, well, I began practicing it
since that day.

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It was my brother, in fact,
who insisted on it,

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and told me to practice it,
that I'd be good in it.

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I made it all for love, really.

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I did it to be there in the water,
surfing all day long,

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sharing with all my friends,
who all wanted to be surfing.

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That's how it slowly began.

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I began practicing it with my brothers,

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because we became interested
by watching people surfing,

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and, once we got on the board,

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we didn't want to stop doing it.

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So we began dreaming of being

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professional surfers who travelled
around the world.

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But we didn't see it as something possible,
due to the lack of resources.

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But that didn't stop us.
We're still doing it until today.

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Sometimes they want the blonde,
thin girl with blue eyes,

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that will help them sell the most.

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It's difficult.

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It's very difficult.

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And everything
you have to do, as well.

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You don't only leave your family,
your country,

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everything you love behind,
to pursue that thing

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that you wish so much.

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It's not like you train
one day and that's it.

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It's a 24/7 thing.

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Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

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And to be there,
and to fall down and rise up,

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and fall down again,
and rise up once more and being strong.

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Giving the fight.
There's nothing else to do.

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It's the will that you have,
to overcome the circumstances.

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Well, I'm Dominique Barona.

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They call me Mimi.
I'm from Montañita,

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I was born here in Manglaralto.

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I'm an athlete.
I'm a professional surfer.

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And I've been 14 years,
more or less, doing this.

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The way society looks at us.

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When you see a skategirl,
you see a girl skating.

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If she's too beautiful,
she's just showing around.

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If her outfit is too nice,

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if she wants to wear make-up,

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she's also looked down upon.

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But, if I'm a girl

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who skates and wears loose clothing,

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and likes a more neutral style,

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or I wear a cap, they also look down
upon me, because then I'm a tomboy.

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A boy may ride a skate
however he wants,

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and he's just a boy that's skating,

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and there is no problem with that.

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I've been very fortunate
with my mother and stepfather,

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because they have supported us.

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But the rest of my family,
they say that I'm a girl,

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that I shouldn't be skating,
that that is a boys' thing.

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So there's that stigma
they throw at us girls,

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when we skate.

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And I've been able
to succeed as a woman,

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and I've also been able
to be very sociable.

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I've met many incredible people.

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Before this I was very insecure,
I didn't have friends.

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When we lived in Santa Marta,
and then when we moved to Medellín,

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it was worse.
I was only nine years old.

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You are arriving to a place
where I didn't know anyone,

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and you have a different accent,

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and a different kind of hair,
and those things.

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I've paid close attention to it.

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In 26 years,
it's something I've seen a lot.

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When they've been
practicing for a while,

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they acquire a lighter physiognomy,

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but strong, in the end,

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and they prove that their body
is also designed to be skillful.

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To do all the kind of exaggerated things
that a guy also does.

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But the chauvinist part,

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or that part where the stereotype
of the woman resides,

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the dolls and all that,
are all household items.

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From the moment the mother tells the girl,
'What are you doing up that tree?

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Or why are you playing soccer
with the boys?

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Why do you want a skateboard?'

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They instantly reply
that those things are meant for boys.

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And it has been them who have proven that,
no, they are for who wants to do them.

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A woman can easily beat a man.

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And that has to do with preparation.

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That's what we've been
talking right now, after many years.

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Girls nowadays are proving

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that they can be better than a man,
and that's because they train their bodies.

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But if they don't allow them to do
all these things since they are little,

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their body won't build enough muscles
to do this.

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But, if since childhood
you make an experiment

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with a boy and a girl of the same age,
and they practice the same,

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they are going to be equals.
I'm totally sure of that.

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I've seen it.

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This career, here in Ecuador,
has been very hard.

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I didn't have anyone at the beginning.

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I was always advised by people.

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Everyone who lives in Montañita,
who saw me grow up.

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My brother, correcting me,
my friends, as well.

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I believe that what made the difference
that allowed me to go out there

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and achieve these historical results

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was that I was constantly
surfing among boys,

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among guys, my brothers,
my cousins,

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because we're a family of surfers,
here in Ecuador.

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So, that was how I began

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a new notebook, you may say,

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a new page in which
I wrote a new history in Ecuador,

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in which girls wouldn't get behind,

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without performing maneuvers,
or things like that.

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We can surf even better than boys.

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This is a matter of confidence.
You must believe in yourself.

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And I believed in myself.

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And I still believe in myself.
And I'm confident,

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so I can reach the farthest goals.

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But behind this, there are a lot of people
who are important

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in every sense. They've been
my support to achieve these results.

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Mimi Baron, has been up to this date,
three times

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winner of the Latin American
Surf Tournament.

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She has won the gold medal three
times in the Juegos Bolivarianos,

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and has been champion of
VICE World Champ ISA in two opportunities.

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I find it a bit too difficult

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even today, to be a professional
here in Ecuador,

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as we don't count with many brands
that are willing to sponsor sports.

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Many people who were at the top level,

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and wanted to improve, such as Mimi,

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weren't able to do so,
as it's difficult to hold this struggle.

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But we kept on giving the fight,

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until we were able
to get the sponsorship,

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and the government support
to keep on travelling and competing.

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To be a professional
and get a sponsorship,

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you must have discipline.

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You must train, have a very good
public image as well,

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to be consistent in the tournaments,

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to be a role model for society,
for the future.

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For all the kids who want to make progress
and achieve something through sports.

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Many of the brands are looking forward

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to sponsor models,
before than real surfer girls.

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because it's more profitable.

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But there are other girls, like Mimi,
who doesn't have a huge sponsor,

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who are able to surf much better

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than thousands of girls who are sponsored
by the best brands the world.

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So, sometimes,
the brands are looking forward to do that

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than supporting a girl
who is a very good surfer.

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There are few girls who are
really sponsored by the brands

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because they deserve it,
due to the way they surf.

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We're talking about the sport,
right now.

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Skate has been evolving,
here in Colombia,

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due to the girls' own self-management.

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Not because other people are willing to help.

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The skategirl movement begins,
here in Colombia, with Daniela González,

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who had this dream to make us come together.

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Why? Because girls...

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It's often to see that there's rivalry
between women.

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And that's something that usually
is your own fault.

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That's why she's wanted
to bring all the girls together,

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and she's been successful.
There have been many occasions,

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with many girls, very happy,
very united in the movement.

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In 2012, a group of girls founded
the Skategirls movement in Colombia.

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Up to this day,
they've held several events of integration,

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opening new spaces
for female skateboarding.

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I love my mom,
and I admire her work so much.

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But I can't picture myself
being like her.

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I believe that we must change things.

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And everything begins in you.

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For me, machismo begins
with the mothers.

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At first, with the magazines.

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You only see male skaters.

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Female skateboarding begins with Elisa.

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That's her name.

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Old-school, skating among men,
on the streets,

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and even when
she was very good at it...

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She was, basically, our mother,

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I haven't been able to find

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photos of her in the old magazines.

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There you can notice this pattern

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in which the boys
are the ones who stand out the most,

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when having to sell
skateboarding products.

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In the scene you can see
that sometimes

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it's more important

00:17:40.136 --> 00:17:42.011
your physical aspect

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than the way you skate,
or your talent.

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For example,
girls like Marisa dal Santo,

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who had a really incredible level.

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Very few times big brands

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will sponsor that kind of talent,

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like Vanessa Torres.

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She's incredible, but they are girls
who just pick a board and skate.

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They love doing it,
but they are also very good at it.

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They are old-school,

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but they've never received the support
of any major brand.

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Skateboarding, over here,

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isn't something that allows you
to make a living.

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To live only from skating
is very difficult.

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No one really supports us here.

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If someone sponsors you,
they'll give you a board,

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or any other gadgets, sneakers, maybe.

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but it's very difficult to get a wage.

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And I'll put it as it is.
If it's so hard for a boy

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to make progress as a professional,
here in Colombia,

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just imagine how it is for a girl.

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It must be two or three times
more difficult.

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Well, it's very sad,

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and the big names from around here,
those who have been professionals,

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have had to, basically, go abroad

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to be able to achieve it.

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That was my role model.

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But, at some point, my brother,
my cousin, my aunt,

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everyone who surfed told me,

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'Come and surf like a man.

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Take this wave. Do this.

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You must do this.'
They always corrected me.

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Competing with me.

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And, when I noticed,
I was learning more from men,

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and my level was higher.
And, at some point,

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I didn't want to get stuck
at the level of the girls.

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Because maybe for them,
a roller, o a maneuver, was enough.

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They didn't imagine we could
get into a pipe, or perform an aerial,

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or any other sick trick as the boys did.

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They said,
'No, those are things for men'.

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I think they did limit themselves a bit.

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And I wanted to go further.

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I think that was what happened.

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The boys always had a higher level,

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but because the girls didn't want
to be equals or better than them.

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Because we all have
the ability to do it.

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But you must be there,
you must make the jump.

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Many times you have
to get cut or smacked.

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So, if you don't want that to happen,
you could take it easy, like a girl.

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But if I kept on doing that,

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I wasn't going to be able to win anything.

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Maybe, if I stayed here in Ecuador,
I was going to win, having that level.

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Maybe the dream of every girl
is to have her own Prince Charming,

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to marry, have a home,
have a car,

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to graduate, have a family,

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and try to live happily.

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But I didn't want to follow that path.
Because it was like a path for me.

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We took the decision with my brother
and it was like, 'No!'

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Let's do what we really want to do!'

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We wanted to be happy
by doing what we loved to do.

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And our happiness was
in living at the beach,

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surfing, struggling.

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There were many things,

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to be able to achieve,

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some of your dreams,

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or your goals in life.

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Right now,
I'm making the best out of it.

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I think I have the best job
in the world.

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I can't complain.

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Because when we have an image
here on the top of our heads,

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we want to be creative,

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and we want to pull out a trick.

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And sometimes it isn't easy.
Sometimes you must give the 130%.

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It's the only way.

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Why? Because there are many mistakes.
Many attempts.

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In the worst scenarios,

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even 85 times.

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Once I was recording a trick,
and after 85 takes

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I still wasn't able to pull it out.

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But that means
that I have another opportunity.

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And the next day,
I did it on the third try.

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That's why I said that,
out of failing so much,

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you can achieve something beautiful.

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And how does that feel?
Wonderful.

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I think it's a very beautiful thing.

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What I've learned from all of this
is that you must not give up,

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that you can always find a solution.

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That it is a huge life lesson.

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That everything is possible.

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We've pulled out tricks
that we've imagined only.

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And skateboarding
teaches us all of that.

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To be free, to decide by ourselves,

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I don't know.

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I want to pursue a career
in physiotherapy,

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and I'd like to work

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preparing future skaters.

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And working to expand this sport
here in Colombia,

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so the athletes themselves
are able to skate,

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and to make a living doing it,
something very difficult to achieve here.

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I could do many things.

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But I think that it's best to be
where your passion is, your vocation.

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That's why I'd like to do
something with skateboarding,

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As they once told me:
Not everyone can be a professional skater,

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but everyone can be
a professional who skates.