[upbeat music]
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ It's a good thing ♪
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ What's a good thing ♪
- I tried to drop in
and broke my nose, and then since that day,
I only drop in again once in my whole life.
Broke my nose once, I don't wanna break it twice. [laughs]
Hey GQ, I'm professional skateboarder Leticia Bufoni,
and this is "The Breakdown".
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"Lords of Dogtown."
- This wave breaks 24 hours a day, every day.
And you know what, bros,
we're gonna be the first to ride it.
- Yeah, so everything they did in the movie,
just jumping fence,
and going to find pools and skating backyard pools,
we do the same thing in street skating.
We jump over fence, and we go skate schoolyards
all the time.
We go skate private property all the time.
And it's, skateboarding's illegal all over,
and sometimes it's hard, you know.
Because we wanna find a spot, and we can't find it,
because they all have skate stops,
they all have security guard.
We get kick out all the time,
but that's what we do, you know.
We gotta find spots to film clips,
and film video parts.
And that's one of the most fun about skateboarding,
is to just have the freedom to go drive around,
and find spot, and then be creative.
[snow crackles]
- Dude, there's no way. This is way too gnarly.
- Not if you got the balls.
[skater laughs]
- Yeah, so a bowl is made for skateboarding.
And everything's perfect.
All the training, everything's like,
ready to skate, but a pool,
it's not made for skateboarding.
And everything about it, it's so hard.
The coping block, the training, it's super deep.
And it's so hard, it's so like, close together.
It's not like a bowl that is normally,
it has a lot of flat.
You can like, actually like, do tricks,
and do airs.
But in the pool, it's like, so close together
that it's really hard to even like,
fix your body to go do another trick.
I try to skate pool a few times,
and it's super hard to skate.
But people do it all the time.
They skate all the time,
and some people make it look super easy.
But it's super hard.
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- Oh! - Whoa-
- Dude. - Oh.
[skater grunts]
- Oh. - Oh.
[skaters groan]
- I've definitely seen worse than that.
Since they're stunts, they don't know how to fall.
[chuckles] You can tell they don't know how to fall.
Skaters, they fall like, really hard.
- Pigs, pigs.
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- [Man] Do you think that public perception
to skateboarding has kind of gotten better over the years?
Or do you still find it, you know, difficult to skate
in certain places? - I feel like
over the years it got worse to go street skating.
Because there are so many people doing it now,
that they don't like it,
because they think we're breaking stuff.
We're getting the walls dirty.
So they just kick us out every time that we try
to go skating, we get kicked out.
Next up, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
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So, I'm from Brazil.
Longboard in Brazil, it's huge.
So, I longboarded before, before I started street skating.
And I have a lot of respect for it.
I know a lot of street skaters,
they don't like longboarders.
But I just grew up in a country
that longboard, it's really big,
and I been watching my whole life.
So I have a lot of respect for it.
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Pause.
It's a really cool idea.
But as soon as he hits the ground,
the tape is gonna rip, and the rock's gonna fall.
So, it's a cool idea, but I don't think it's gonna work.
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♪ Just to feel alive again ♪
Longboarders, they use pads, wrists and everything
so they can slide and put their hands.
What people do in Brazil, when they don't have money
to buy pads, they just use a plastic bottle
and just hold it, and put on the ground.
So that way you can slide, and not get hurt.
I like speed a lot.
But I don't think I'll put myself to go down that fast.
First of all, because I don't know how to fall with pads.
Because I'm a street skater, and I only skate without pads.
So if I fall, I'm not sure if I'll be able to like,
hold myself and not get hurt, so.
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"Rocket Power".
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[laughs] I grew up watching "Rocket Power,"
so it's hard to say.
But it's definitely not recommended
to skate in the dirt, because you know, it's dirt.
It's not safe, there's a lot of rocks.
But he has a really big board with big wheels.
So maybe that could work
but I don't know about the air. [laughs]
I can not imagine anyone doing an air in the dirt.
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- [Boy] Major air.
Yes- - Do you feel like
any of that is realistic at all?
Or it just feels completely unrealistic?
- It's completely unrealistic.
It doesn't really look like a mega ramp or anything.
Especially because it's dirt, you know.
"Skate Kitchen".
- Do one of you guys have a board?
- [Boy] No, I'm sorry.
- Who's is this?
Who's is this? - Why are you fucking
with my shit?
- Can she just have this one?
Her mom was being a asshole.
- Chill, don't fuck with my shit.
Put that back before I make you do it myself.
- I know some of the girls.
I seen them skating before,
so they're actually skaters.
They're not actors, just actors.
And that's funny because that's...
I had a similar story in my life.
- [Girl] Your mom took your board?
- [Girl] Yeah.
- My dad broke my board in half,
and he didn't want me to skate.
And I, the next day, I was like, crying for hours.
And the next day, one of my friends gave me another board,
and I started skating again.
So it's like, really similar to what happened to her.
- I got you- - For me?
- [Boy] Hell yeah, I just wanna see you keep on shredding.
Like, honestly.
- Yo, thank you Charlie. - No problem.
- Hey.
- So right now, I have to skate my own shape.
If I got a different board,
I don't think I'll be able to skate.
Because I've been skating my shape
for years and years, so if I get a different
board, I don't think I can skate.
But when you're learning, when you're young,
you just skate any board.
Because that's what I was doing.
I would get free boards from people,
and I was just skating anything they'll give me.
Any size.
But right now, I gotta skate size eight,
it gotta be my shape.
Same tail, nose.
It can't be different.
If I'll get a different board,
I don't think I can even like do a kick flip,
because I'm so used to skating the same thing.
I can just look at it, and be like,
"Yeah, that's a totally different shape
than what I have, what do I skate."
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"Kids".
[kids arguing]
♪ Casper the Friend Ghost ♪
[girl screams]
♪ Casper the Friendly Ghost ♪
- Motherfucker.
- Ouch. [laughs]
I haven't seen that one.
- You haven't seen that movie?
- No, I haven't seen it.
- Oh, you gotta see that movie. It's a classic.
- Watch it, Simon.
- Watch where the fuck you skating at.
- Watch where you walk, yo. - What?
- What I said, yo.
- What? - [spits] Forget it.
Enough. - What?
- [Skater] Whatever, yo.
Just forget it, all right- - Hey, you wanna get
fucked up, motherfucker? - How often
does that happen to you,
while you're skating in the streets?
Your board might hit somebody,
does that happen pretty often?
- Never happened to me like that,
that somebody would get mad.
But it happened that I was skating,
and my board just flew at the security guard,
and he will be mad, but never like,
more than that, you know.
And then I got kick out.
That's the max.
And that just happened with me, like a week ago
in Puerto Rico.
I was filming inside a club,
like a day club, and [laughs],
they, they saw me skating this like perfect, like ledge.
And they kick me out, and got so mad at me.
[kids arguing]
♪ Was alive ♪
♪ You can't find no respect ♪
♪ Why's the library ♪
♪ And said that ♪
♪ Everybody ♪
- Mm-hmm. - Have you anyone
get truck smacked before?
- I've never seen that in real life.
I hope I'll never see it because,
it's bad. [chuckles]
"Trashing".
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♪ Everybody ♪
♪ It's a good thing ♪
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ What's a good thing ♪
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ Ain't it true that ♪
So when I was 12 I tried to skate vert,
because I always like vert.
And I was always afraid of heights,
so it took me a little bit to even try the first time.
So I tried to drop in, because my dad was like,
"Yeah, you should skate vert.
It's cool, you can do airs."
And he was watching Bob Burnquist, Tony Hawk on TV,
so he was like, "You should do that too."
And I tried to skate,
I tried to drop in,
and I fell on my nose, on my face.
I broke my nose, and since that day,
I only drop in again once in my whole life.
And I was like, never again.
Broke my nose once, I don't wanna break it twice. [laughs]
Nowadays, and vert got really big over the years.
Like, especially here in California.
There was vert everywhere.
There was Next Games and other competitions.
And then the park came, which is the bow.
A lot of people started skating park,
an then the vert kind of died a little bit.
And now, I think they're trying to bring it back.
And I think it's cool, vert is awesome.
I love watching them fly.
And I hope they bring it back, because it's really cool.
"Betty".
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[kids yelling]
Yeah, it's crazy to think how women's skateboarding grow
in the past five, eight years.
It's, have grown so much.
Like, when I started skating,
I'll go to a skatepark, I'll be the only girl skating.
And nowadays, you go to a skatepark,
there's at least five girls skating, at least.
And especially in Brazil, it grow so much
after the Olympics, and it's just amazing
that a lot of women are really into skateboarding now.
Because before, it was more like a guy's thing.
What do I tell my friends is just,
some girls, they're really shy to go to a skatepark
because the guys skate better than them.
I just tell them to go follow your dream,
and if you love skateboarding, just do it.
Just go and skate every day.
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Every skatepark you go, there's always some people
that skates really good.
And especially guys.
So for a girl to go to a skatepark
and not skate so well, like learning,
it's really tough.
But I think you just gotta have the courage,
and go for it.
Skate every day, don't give up.
- [Character] Whoo.
Yeah!
Yeah.
- So that- - I wish I could
do all those trick in real life. [laughs]
- [Man] So, obviously in the Tony Hawk games,
it's all about like, stringing your tricks together.
And when you're, you know, especially when you're filming
a video part, it also is a little bit about that.
Can you see if there's any kind of
realistic connection there, or...
- Yeah so,
and even in competition too,
like you gotta do a trick after another,
and video parts too.
Like, you gotta film the lines.
And Tony Hawk skating, it's the same thing, you know.
You could do a trick after other.
Of course, it's really hard tricks
that we don't do in real life.
I wish I could do all this in real life.
But it's like, really similar.
Like, even like, the way that like,
you do the tricks, it's crazy how they make it so similar.
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I think my special trick was a kick flip feeble,
something out, I don't remember which one was it.
But I think it was kind of, it was something crazy.
Something that I can't do in real life. [laughs]
I mean it's really fun to play,
and it gets you really hyped to go skating.
But it's not realistic, you know.
You cannot do the tricks you do in Tony Hawk in real life.
You can do really crazy stuff.
Thank you guys for having me.
I'll see you guys next time.