Bad Steps, Ep. 03 - Limitless Sports

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In Colombia, Julian Molina tells us how he came to become a world BMX figure, having lost one of his legs in an accident at the age of 12. The bicycle became part of his own body. Also in an accident, Adolfo Almarza from Melipilla Chile lost both legs at age 12. The bicycle and his effort helped him become the only athlete in the world to run in the elite category in the most extreme disciplines in current mountain biking.

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Through sports, Bad Steps gives us an inspiring perspective on environmental, disability, and social issues in Latin America.

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Arriagada, Sebastián (film director)
Hechenleitner, Javier (film producer)
Nuñez, Byron (screenwriter)

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Cinematography, Roberto Olivares; editors, Sebastián Arriagada, Felipe Hurtado; music, Taller Secreto [and 3 others].

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I've always defined the bicycle
as an appendix of mine.

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It's another part of my body.

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It makes me smile.

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It allows me to be free.

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It inspires me
to dream everyday.

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I realized that everything
is easy in life

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when you resolve, get ready,
and are willing to achieve a goal.

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And now I'll have to prove,

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I'll have to work
to get to the podium.

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That's what I want,
and that's what I'm going to do.

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BAD PATHWAYS

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SPORTS WITHOUT LIMITS

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I see that the limits are
where people project them.

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The moment you say:
'I'm not able',

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that's when you start
falling apart.

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Slowly.

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On January 27, 2006.

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That's the date.
I remember.

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I got out of school

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and, as every day,

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we went down,
with a group of kids,

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through many hillsides nearby.

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Here in Andes
that's all we've got.

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On skate boards,
plastic barrels that slided,

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sometimes, even a bed board,
with some soap on the bottom,

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and we rode it.

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That was how we had fun.

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I had a pair of in-line skates,

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with which I sat down
and rolled downhill.

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And I was the fastest.
I beat everyone.

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I went downhill,
and I took the curves,

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and I got to
Mateo Hillside.

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It's notorious because
there always are accidents there.

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It's very long,

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and very steep.

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I had ran away
from my mom.

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Because she didn't
want me to ride.

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I ran away from home,
she was very sick,

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and I wanted to go out
and have fun, as every kid.

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And there I was, skating downhill
at full speed,

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and they tell me:
'Stop! There comes a chiva!'

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We call them like that
they're trucks that work as buses.

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So, I'm going downhill,

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and I didn't see anything.

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I just opened my eyes
and there was

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the axis of the bus spinning,

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and I was like:
'What happened?'

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Then,

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they took my from, literally,
under the bus,

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and they pick me up,
and they tell me:

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'Kid, don't look at your foot.'

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'- Don't look at your foot.
- Why, what happened?'

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That was the first thing I did.
I looked at my foot, and it was destroyed.

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Mi nombre es Julián Molina,

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I practice BMX,
I'm 19 years old.

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I've been in BMX for 6 years.

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I love competitive racing,

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and I'm from Andes.

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The moment I realized
that I had lost both legs,

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my world fell apart.

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Imagine, in just an instant
your life completely changes.

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When I was at the hospital,
I noticed

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that I had these machines connected
to my body,

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that I wanted to go to the toilet
and I couldn't do it by myself.

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My world fell apart.

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The only thing I wanted back then

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was to keep on sleeping
and never wake up.

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I wished to die,
being only 12 years old.

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The handicaps are huge.

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If we measure them
as they are, they are huge.

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But nowadays,

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those handicaps
made me work

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much more than
a physically normal person.

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And I've been improving
and improving,

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to the point that I've
been able to achieve

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feats that not even a
physically normal person can.

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Especially on the bike,

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where the part of your body
you use the most are your legs.

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The difficulty of

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not having your legs
is very high.

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Since when I was 12
and had the accident,

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only in 2017 I was able
to run again.

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Using some special prothesis
to run.

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At first I thought it was impossible.
But then I was doing it, and I realized

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that you must have your own achievements
and improve yourself day after day.

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My name is Adolfo Almarza.
I'm 30 years old.

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I'm a professional biker,
and lecturer.

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I am Chilean,
and I live here in Melipilla.

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The first years
were very hard for us,

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I won't deny it.

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That was back in 2006.

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January 27.

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I recall it as if it had
happened yesterday.

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We arrived there

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to the clinic,

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It was late, like 6, or 6:30 pm.

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And they told me that there was
no way of healing his foot.

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That the gangrene was about to send him
6 feet under, as we say.

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And I had to choose between
letting him die,

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or amputating his foot.

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And I told them
to cut his foot.

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I lost my leg and it reincarnated
on a bike.

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All of this is about

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taking things to the limit.
It's always in here.

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It's always been.

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If you think it, do it,
and that's it.

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You must just do it and

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let your thoughts fly,
and let your mind

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scheme.
Everyday.

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You must do it everyday.

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In this small universe

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we are a very diminute thing

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that can change thousand
of ways of thinking.

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I've realized that.
That I'm changing the world

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with this little thing I do.

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I find it's small now,

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but it will grow bigger
as time goes by.

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There's going to be a legacy.
Who was Julián?

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A person like this.

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I'm very young, it's true.

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I'm just 19,
I've accomplished a lot,

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for being so young.
I've achieved great things.

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Begining with the trip
to the USA.

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I never thought I was going
to visit the USA.

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But I did imagine that someday
I was going to travel.

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I didn't know where, but I wanted to travel.
I wanted to get out of here.

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And suddenly, I was travelling
to the States.

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I didn't know what was happening.
I was very impressed.

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I've thought and acted
through my life.

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There are great things
just ahead.

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IN JULY, 2017, JULIÁN DEBUTS AT
THE JACKPOT DIRTJUMP 17, IN QUITO, ECUADOR.

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THAT SAME YEAR HE REACHES THE THIRD PLACE
AT SOSH URBAN MOTION, IN PARIS, FRANCE,

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GAINING A PLACE IN THE
WORLDWIDE BMX SCENE.

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The will, or hunger to achieve the goals
I've set for myself

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have led me to overcome
many things.

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I don't know how I brought myself to do it.
I think that the will to learn to walk again

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and to be the same person
as before, made it.

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I'm very grateful for that.
And I think that's the reason

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why nowadays I've been able
to achieve things

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that I thought that
were unreacheable.

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I never thought I'll get this far.

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I've been the only one in South America,
well, in the world, to make big jumps,

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the biggest in the world.

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I've had the opportunity of riding
the Urban Downhills,

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being the only one missing both legs
on the circuit.

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I've got the opportunity to ride
the most dangerous circuits in the world

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and finish them
without any problem.

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And, well, I proved that nothing
is impossible when you have the will.

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I my life I've realized that
if I there's no pain, there's no reward.

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We rode a race, one of the most brutal races
organized worldwide,

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It's to ride through more
than 500 km.

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It's a really brutal race.

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Because it's an ultra marathon,
very, very long.

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And they're brutal
in the sense

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that you're always giving your 100

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