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[Music]
[Music]
hello such good afternoon
to nobody
well my name is henry martínez
hernandez
I am 22 years old and I am a student in
anthropology and biology series and
sounds
much of my life I played
as a social activist and thanks to that I
I embarked on an incredible adventure that
was to be part of the team
national surf adapted from costa rica
and as such represent the country in the
worldwide that takes place the year
past in world california this
Following this discipline many
people have asked me what it feels like
surfing being a blind person I
Really
I’m like I do not know what to answer
because I do not know very well how
feel surfing without being a blind person
I learned by saying it
so maybe I was given the task of
look for sensations that look like
that are similar to be able
compare them and that people associate them and
I remember that from the first time
I was on a wave
I understood that that looks a lot like
dance to that moment where you are not
in a synchronicity with your body with the
body of other people with the environment
with the music in that concentration of
feel and be attentive to each
movement and it happens that as in
the dance when one choreographs
group one does not go alone to the stage
I enter the water with my coach and friend
michael venegas with whom I usually train
and together we move to the part
where the waves are not there every
one at your table until we were
the optimal conditions are given then
he tells me when a wave comes if it goes
to the right or to the left if
it serves us is 15
who is responsible for the entire strategy
and then I start to row and there
hides that synchrony of which they
spoke acquires a leading role without
same because I’m on the wave
totally concentrated and it’s about
then go there in the table and know
when to have the initiative when to stop
how far to get
I think that is what marks the
difference between
enjoy it or just make a
show and then 90% of
the times a fall because that’s the way
there begins a part of the task that is
of the most fun but that demands a
great physical effort and is to start
to come back with the trip in front and
you have to be paying close attention
at the exact moment in which the ball then
is going to hit you to be able to
get through successfully and follow
entering in the meantime my coach
mike and is with his whistle screaming at me
to indicate where I should go to
Once we are together again the cycle
and then starts again every time
he asks me if I’m ready for a
ball of nueba yol and I say yes but
well actually one always has its
expectations your fears your things
internal and I think that that ‘s totally
natural one always knows more or less what
that comes but does not know how it is going to
feel nor how do you do it then indeed
I can tell you that I never know of
what size is a ball until the
I’m surfing as part of the
surprise
and that’s how it was from the first time that
I did think that
Well I remember that the first time
it came up was on a surfing day
inclusive that we organize with people
of foundation on which many people
disabled children girls people
older adults we had the opportunity
of being made for the first time
recreational and as an instructor
qualified then I remember that when
I went in I took the first wave and well
I stood up really and then for me
It was like, like chivas, I’m going to be able to
cross out the associate of my list of things
But when I went to the beach, people
He said maybe it was not so common
stand up on the first wave
and I thought good and it was good luck
beginner or the fact that by the
theme of having done skateboarding before
one knows more or less how is the position
true and good that earned me that the
team coaches to be caught
they will invite me to train and compete and
share with them and them
and let’s see there yes I had fears and
expectations as if it were a ball
giant I think that moment has been
one of those who thought things the most
in my life because I was not an athlete myself
I dedicated my activism to my study
the policy that was my comfort zone and
suddenly they were talking to me about
compete to represent
and good was a decision that has brought
many things and there were other fears not
only that one of them crystallized
when we arrived in california to the world
and then I had to be on a stage
like this at the opening
Holding the flag of Costa Rica
when I’ve never been a person
particularly nationalist everything
opposite but then I went
understanding that more than the three
colors that I had in my hand were
it was about the flag of a cause
of the cause for which they fought
many people with disabilities by
have more incidence more visibility
in sports in politics in many
situations of social life because
being honest this is not just to know
then we started to understand that and that
It helps a lot to face the
other fears like the one that felt the
anxiety that I felt all the time at
to think that I can not watch videos like
many other athletes from other people
surfing to invite them to see
what are my mistakes to improve
and then we have had to go
Solving with innovation processes
of self – knowledge of working in
land of working other sensations
so I can then recreate the envelope
the ball and make sure that if it’s okay
I’m doing as I should
feeling what I should feel let’s say
and I also remember that when
we competed there I found myself surfing
with people in my same category as
they had many years of surfing I have
less than one and
people who had low vision
I have total blindness, I truly believe that
the only condition of blindness that does not
was represented is one that is very
of fashion lately here is a
little bit like political blindness and that
kind of true stuff but
well beyond that
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thinner of that to be learning from the
different conditions of my companions
and teammates have been there longer
a fear but one of the things that has
taught more in life in the team
we share people who are users
wheelchair your prosthetic areas
people that we need a greater or
less degree of assistance when we are
in the work and people who use
tables with adaptations for your own
Disability condition and even
tables so different from mine that they
They look more like a kayak
truth then suddenly know
our strengths our weaknesses
our history leads us to act as
a more organic team truth already
understand how we can work the
another person to make your process and
of mine an integral process this is
exemplifies a lot when the
companero natalia mate juan
Manuel makes me raid to jacob because
then it becomes a trip
literally a trip in which the person
who is driving is a user in a chair
of wheels and the copilot person is a
blind person then when we parked
somewhere that is unknown
start all the dynamics in which I
under the car seat puts it well
so that the person can be mounted to
get out of the car and then if I do not
I know then it’s her or is he who
guide me is of course that for
we went novelty of the first day
but for people he does not see all
days and then we look good like this
that these people who happen to him and we have
learned to enjoy it to enjoy
bother because it’s always very
fun of the central is internally
and also to enjoy that transformation
that is given from the action
truth without needing to talk to the
people just acting and then that united
to the fact that the adapted sofa has been
turned into a project of many
people more than athletes is what
It takes me to marry this project
because in the end he has understood that
it was not the ego of an athlete or
of the effort that henry made and that
any of us to get to the
world but of all the people who
they made it possible with their collaboration
or just by taking the risk
when a wave came like it did
Ismael will be the first surfer
adapted from this country in competing outside
a person that I admire a lot
so we have been getting that much more
people join because our slogan
it’s always going to be that the disability is
a real condition that imposes us
limitations that exist are there
I can not see and that’s true
that imposes limitations on me but
but a lot of people keep telling us that
the limits are mental that poverty
it’s mental that discrimination is
imagined and that is not what can be
inside us and us in the
attitude the attitude that can only be
transform into changes when the
we channel collectively
our challenge must always be to work
for a society in which
conditions continue to exist in a
different because we are a very population
diverse in which the limits are
accepted but in which all
people we have the opportunities to
circumvent these limits in accordance with
our conditions and always with a
support of many and many others who are
with us and us why I want
finish paraphrasing a colleague
Colombian
Anderson who at some point said that
our fight is not to see again
but for being able to be blind and blind in
latin america ‘ thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
ah
plus
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
hello such good afternoon
to nobody
well my name is henry martínez
hernandez
I am 22 years old and I am a student in
anthropology and biology series and
sounds
much of my life I played
as a social activist and thanks to that I
I embarked on an incredible adventure that
was to be part of the team
national surf adapted from costa rica
and as such represent the country in the
worldwide that takes place the year
past in world california this
Following this discipline many
people have asked me what it feels like
surfing being a blind person I
Really
I’m like I do not know what to answer
because I do not know very well how
feel surfing without being a blind person
I learned by saying it
so maybe I was given the task of
look for sensations that look like
that are similar to be able
compare them and that people associate them and
I remember that from the first time
I was on a wave
I understood that that looks a lot like
dance to that moment where you are not
in a synchronicity with your body with the
body of other people with the environment
with the music in that concentration of
feel and be attentive to each
movement and it happens that as in
the dance when one choreographs
group one does not go alone to the stage
I enter the water with my coach and friend
michael venegas with whom I usually train
and together we move to the part
where the waves are not there every
one at your table until we were
the optimal conditions are given then
he tells me when a wave comes if it goes
to the right or to the left if
it serves us is 15
who is responsible for the entire strategy
and then I start to row and there
hides that synchrony of which they
spoke acquires a leading role without
same because I’m on the wave
totally concentrated and it’s about
then go there in the table and know
when to have the initiative when to stop
how far to get
I think that is what marks the
difference between
enjoy it or just make a
show and then 90% of
the times a fall because that’s the way
there begins a part of the task that is
of the most fun but that demands a
great physical effort and is to start
to come back with the trip in front and
you have to be paying close attention
at the exact moment in which the ball then
is going to hit you to be able to
get through successfully and follow
entering in the meantime my coach
mike and is with his whistle screaming at me
to indicate where I should go to
Once we are together again the cycle
and then starts again every time
he asks me if I’m ready for a
ball of nueba yol and I say yes but
well actually one always has its
expectations your fears your things
internal and I think that that ‘s totally
natural one always knows more or less what
that comes but does not know how it is going to
feel nor how do you do it then indeed
I can tell you that I never know of
what size is a ball until the
I’m surfing as part of the
surprise
and that’s how it was from the first time that
I did think that
Well I remember that the first time
it came up was on a surfing day
inclusive that we organize with people
of foundation on which many people
disabled children girls people
older adults we had the opportunity
of being made for the first time
recreational and as an instructor
qualified then I remember that when
I went in I took the first wave and well
I stood up really and then for me
It was like, like chivas, I’m going to be able to
cross out the associate of my list of things
But when I went to the beach, people
He said maybe it was not so common
stand up on the first wave
and I thought good and it was good luck
beginner or the fact that by the
theme of having done skateboarding before
one knows more or less how is the position
true and good that earned me that the
team coaches to be caught
they will invite me to train and compete and
share with them and them
and let’s see there yes I had fears and
expectations as if it were a ball
giant I think that moment has been
one of those who thought things the most
in my life because I was not an athlete myself
I dedicated my activism to my study
the policy that was my comfort zone and
suddenly they were talking to me about
compete to represent
and good was a decision that has brought
many things and there were other fears not
only that one of them crystallized
when we arrived in california to the world
and then I had to be on a stage
like this at the opening
Holding the flag of Costa Rica
when I’ve never been a person
particularly nationalist everything
opposite but then I went
understanding that more than the three
colors that I had in my hand were
it was about the flag of a cause
of the cause for which they fought
many people with disabilities by
have more incidence more visibility
in sports in politics in many
situations of social life because
being honest this is not just to know
then we started to understand that and that
It helps a lot to face the
other fears like the one that felt the
anxiety that I felt all the time at
to think that I can not watch videos like
many other athletes from other people
surfing to invite them to see
what are my mistakes to improve
and then we have had to go
Solving with innovation processes
of self – knowledge of working in
land of working other sensations
so I can then recreate the envelope
the ball and make sure that if it’s okay
I’m doing as I should
feeling what I should feel let’s say
and I also remember that when
we competed there I found myself surfing
with people in my same category as
they had many years of surfing I have
less than one and
people who had low vision
I have total blindness, I truly believe that
the only condition of blindness that does not
was represented is one that is very
of fashion lately here is a
little bit like political blindness and that
kind of true stuff but
well beyond that
[Music]
thinner of that to be learning from the
different conditions of my companions
and teammates have been there longer
a fear but one of the things that has
taught more in life in the team
we share people who are users
wheelchair your prosthetic areas
people that we need a greater or
less degree of assistance when we are
in the work and people who use
tables with adaptations for your own
Disability condition and even
tables so different from mine that they
They look more like a kayak
truth then suddenly know
our strengths our weaknesses
our history leads us to act as
a more organic team truth already
understand how we can work the
another person to make your process and
of mine an integral process this is
exemplifies a lot when the
companero natalia mate juan
Manuel makes me raid to jacob because
then it becomes a trip
literally a trip in which the person
who is driving is a user in a chair
of wheels and the copilot person is a
blind person then when we parked
somewhere that is unknown
start all the dynamics in which I
under the car seat puts it well
so that the person can be mounted to
get out of the car and then if I do not
I know then it’s her or is he who
guide me is of course that for
we went novelty of the first day
but for people he does not see all
days and then we look good like this
that these people who happen to him and we have
learned to enjoy it to enjoy
bother because it’s always very
fun of the central is internally
and also to enjoy that transformation
that is given from the action
truth without needing to talk to the
people just acting and then that united
to the fact that the adapted sofa has been
turned into a project of many
people more than athletes is what
It takes me to marry this project
because in the end he has understood that
it was not the ego of an athlete or
of the effort that henry made and that
any of us to get to the
world but of all the people who
they made it possible with their collaboration
or just by taking the risk
when a wave came like it did
Ismael will be the first surfer
adapted from this country in competing outside
a person that I admire a lot
so we have been getting that much more
people join because our slogan
it’s always going to be that the disability is
a real condition that imposes us
limitations that exist are there
I can not see and that’s true
that imposes limitations on me but
but a lot of people keep telling us that
the limits are mental that poverty
it’s mental that discrimination is
imagined and that is not what can be
inside us and us in the
attitude the attitude that can only be
transform into changes when the
we channel collectively
our challenge must always be to work
for a society in which
conditions continue to exist in a
different because we are a very population
diverse in which the limits are
accepted but in which all
people we have the opportunities to
circumvent these limits in accordance with
our conditions and always with a
support of many and many others who are
with us and us why I want
finish paraphrasing a colleague
Colombian
Anderson who at some point said that
our fight is not to see again
but for being able to be blind and blind in
latin america ‘ thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
ah
plus
[Music]
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