November 19th, 2009 - by
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Max Jubin Interview
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All skaters in the world should be respected regardless of their skill level or style. In recent years, there has been an increase in bad reviews, especially on the internet, and this has to stop.
All skaters in the world should be respected regardless of their skill level or style. In recent years, there has been an increase in bad reviews, especially on the internet, and this has to stop. Skating is a pleasure that everyone has the right to enjoy. Inline has many different styles; you may like some and not others, but you cannot underestimate anyone. In other words: peace and love.
Q: Well, in the first place, I would like you to present yourself.Max Jubin: Hello, I am Max Jubin. I have always failed at school sports. I am 19 years old. I skate for Razors, Jug, and Power Balance. I have been skating seriously for seven or eight years, although I have always been known to skate. I have always enjoyed the feeling of skating smoothly. I am half Spanish and half French. At this moment in time, I am living in Madrid. Madrid is a City which offers a wide variety of skate spots with which I feel comfortable. I spent my infancy in Mallorca, an island in the Mediterranean. I have also lived in France, and love it as a country. There are a lot of skate parks and inline skaters.
Q: How would you describe your style, and what type of obstacles do you like to skate on lately? MJ: I wouldn’t know how to put a name to my style because it is a style “in love” with skating. I try to reproduce what comes out from deep inside me, and what I would like to see. To bring out what someone has inside is the labor of years, and I think it’s in constant evolution. Most of the time I skate based on the spot. There are some spots that just say skate on me and others that just don’t. When filming or doing photography, I am more exigent than just to do a simple session. I enjoy a lot the varieties and that’s why I try to skate very different spots with lots of different tricks.
I think that you shouldn’t criticize a rollerblader for his style of dressing because it would be too simple. The clothes I think are important because they relate to the body which gives character to your movements. They don’t make magic; it’s underneath the clothes that matters. The fluidity of movements do not come from the clothes, the real style is in the body of every rollerblader. And that is wonderful thing because you can always decorate your style with your clothes, but someone else with the same clothes is totally different. I have a tendency to wear in which I feel most comfortable.
I suppose that your question with regard to obstacles refers to a few of the big dimension spots which I have skated lately. I have felt quite attracted by big locations with large dimensions, dangerous ones in some cases. I don’t know how long it will last. When I skate for a photo, I try to transmit a sensation so you feel something when you see it. Like a painting, the spot has a lot to say on that point and the photographer as well.
Misfit to GapQ: How do you value your reputation in the media lately? Are you happy with the people that help you? Is there something you would need?MJ: Very nice, I can’t disagree because it’s a thing that helps me to keep enthusiasm for my life as a skater. It fills me with energy and motivation. I try to take it the best I can, enjoy myself as much as I can, but not get use to it because it can come and go. If tomorrow I break a leg and I can’t skate anymore, it would finish whichever repercussion.
I am very satisfied with the people that support me because they are a group of people with whom you breathe in a great atmosphere full of dreams and projects, and they have a lot of experience! I feel surrounded by people that I connect with well and that love this sport as much as I do. It’s a great place to be, and thanks to all the people today I have a huge privilege to write this interview for something so big like Be-mag.
There is one thing that satisfies me a lot, and that is the fact that I am constantly meeting people. I often wanted to talk to people who were hundreds of kilometers from me and through travelling I had the chance to meet them. I feel closer and closer to the core of skating as a sport- where everything is born. My life is better than ever before, and nothing is ever missing.
Bs Royale / Photo: Álvaro Flores Q: Tell us how an ideal day goes for Max Jubin?MJ: I wake up and eat something with a lot of chocolate, I find a million Euros in a suitcase near my bed, and then I go to skate at a skate park with hot girls and great music ha! ha! ha! That is an ideal day! Although, a good day in my normal life would be have a good breakfast, go to skate with a few skaters, get a good feeling listening to music on my mp3 (which gives another flavor to skating), take some good photos or videos, and feel satisfied for the day. I think like the majority of skaters. This question is hard for me because my days are usually very different. Different days are usually ideal.
Q: We all know, thanks to you and your brother, that you are producing a lot of clips about skating and also short films. Tell us why it attracts you the world of cameras and what it is exactly that you do.MJ: Yes, it attracts me a lot the world of the cameras, especially the world of cinema. I have made several short films with my brother and I hope if all goes well that one day you can go to the cinema and see our films. Here is a short film of ours that I invite everyone to see: www.cadaunoensusitio.com. It is a short story about racism. It is in Spanish, but there isn’t a lot of talking anyway. Anyone is capable of understanding without knowing any Spanish.
Right now I am studying acting. To live as an actor is very hard, and you can try it all your life and end with nothing. Or, you have a bit of luck and everything goes well. To enter and become part of the world of the cinema is quite challenging and that´s what I love. There is overbooking in all the agencies. We will see in a few years. If you want to dedicate yourself to this, then you will need to be patient. I would love one day to make a film about inline-skating!!
Bs NugenQ: What are your aspirations in short and medium term in the world of skating? Tell us about projects you are involved in and what you would like to do that you haven’t done.MJ: In the short term, I want to film as much as I can for Game Theory, the future video of Razors. Helton Siqueira is taking on this project and it looks like it will be the biggest thing ever made in the world of in-line.
In the medium term, I am going to go to the Winterclash. I would like to compete in the world rolling series 2010 and go to all the possible levels. I fancy passing by the USA and be able to go to Woodward.
There is a major thing for me that no other rollerblader has ever done before. It´s to skate a Big Air ramp like the ones of the x-games that the skateboarders use. I don’t think that I am the only skater that wants to try it! It’s crazy, but it’s is something in my head which I have to do. I will try it. The skateboarders don’t want the rollerbladers to try it; they want its exclusivity, but this will change.
Q: Can you see yourself making money from skating in five years?MJ: Yes.
Line: 360 & BackslideQ: Which trip has influenced you most?MJ: I suppose that the last one thrown to me was last year with Stephane Alfano, Anthony Aymard and Steven Alley. We were three weeks in the States- San Diego, Seattle, and Dallas even though we did go to Mexico because we were close to there. We went to a few cities that were close to us. They were three intense weeks that were very fun, and it was when the thing with Alfano at LG that a lot of you will already know and that we could talk about for hours.
In California, we went to Escondido open, and at night in San Diego we went to Kato’s house and he made a paella which was so nice just like Spanish paellas (Thank you Kato!). There were the inline skaters that had competed, there was my friend Yuri Bothelo, from Spain. In Seattle we were in a huge hotel with all the sportspeople from LG, and there was THE GAME in the hotel. He did a concert after the competition. In Dallas, we had the chance to skate in the Hoedown, and I met Arlo Eisenberg, who I spent a while talking to. He was enjoyable to talk to. Evidently, the trip is full of really fun details that keep coming to my head, but I would rather not talk about that!
Q: Well, what can you tell us about the new Razors Video? Will we be able to see you in the Game Theory video? MJ: Yes. I have filmed stuff in a tour that I did in May in Spain, France, and Italy. Right now, I am still filming things for the video. I can tell you that Game Theory is being pushed up to late next year. Game Theory is a next level production and they are working very hard to push the quality and format in many different directions. I can also say that my friend Helton Siqueira "Brazil," the person that is running this project, is a very singular person with goals up to the stars. He has a lot of talent, and seeing his other work, I think that it will be a video that is going to dial before and after.
SoulQ: Thank You's?MJ: Thank you to Be-Mag for this interview. I would like to say that Be-Mag does a lot for rollerblading and personally I am very grateful. Thanks to Arturo Sanchez for being an artistic photographer with a lot of talent and for his photos in this interview.
Thanks to my sponsors Razors, Jug, and Power Balance for the big support. Thanks to Abec, the Spanish magazine, for creating a platform so consistent and good for the national panorama. Thanks to all my friends and all of those who support me.
Photos & Interview: Arturo Sanchez
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