Sean Malto edged out Torey Pudwill for second place in Foz do Iguaçu. Early on, however, it didn’t seem as though Malto would endup in the winner’s circle. Despite a solid run in the Flow Section, he began with two bails in the Impact Section before putting himself back in the mix with two big makes. Below, Malto discusses his mental state during the contest, his time in South America’s largest country, and his new focus: improving his Street League game plan. —Reggie Altema
Sean Malto在伊瓜苏险胜Torey Pudwill，获得第二名。然而最初，Malto看起来并不会排进前三，尽管
Malto在Flow Section做了一条很不错的line，但在Impact Section的开局，他就出现了两次失误，实在
让人担心，然后才用两个大招稳定了局势。下面,Malto将会讨论他在比赛中的精神状态,在巴西这几天的
生活，以及和他的新目标:提高在Street League中的成绩。
Was this your first time in Brazil?
这是你第一次来巴西吗？
Yeah, it was my first time in Brazil. I was psyched. It was a place I always wanted to go
to. It’s cool that we got to go for Street League. We were in the countryside. We flew
into Sao Paulo where we had a layover. Sao Paulo is a city of buildings as far as you can
see. It’s one of the biggest cities in the world, I was kind of tripping over that. Then
we took an hour flight to Foz do Iguaçu. There wasn’t really anything out there. It was
weird, but cool to not be in a city.
to. It’s cool that we got to go for Street League. We were in the countryside. We flew
into Sao Paulo where we had a layover. Sao Paulo is a city of buildings as far as you can
see. It’s one of the biggest cities in the world, I was kind of tripping over that. Then
we took an hour flight to Foz do Iguaçu. There wasn’t really anything out there. It was
weird, but cool to not be in a city.
是的，这是我第一次来巴西。我非常兴奋，因为这是我一直想来的地方。我们在乡下，但在这里举行
Street League是一件很酷的事情。我们先飞到了圣保罗，一个很大的城市，到处都是房子的城市，我们
作了短暂停留，然后飞到了伊瓜苏。这里真的很荒凉，有点奇怪，但是感觉还不错，因为不在城市里。
Street League是一件很酷的事情。我们先飞到了圣保罗，一个很大的城市，到处都是房子的城市，我们
作了短暂停留，然后飞到了伊瓜苏。这里真的很荒凉，有点奇怪，但是感觉还不错，因为不在城市里。
Name something unrelated to skating that sticks out from your trip.
说说旅行中一些比较突出的但是和滑板没关系的事情？
The main attraction which I got to see was the massive waterfalls. It’s three times the
size of Niagara Falls; it’s one of the biggest waterfalls in the world. It was amazing to
see that and trip out on a natural wonder of the world. Other than that, it’s hard to do
Brazil when you’ve got a contest. I was there for five days and I was dealing with the
contest for four of them. It’s hard to get out and actually experience the country.
我去的主要景点是伊瓜苏大瀑布，它是尼亚加拉瀑布的三倍大也是世界上最大的瀑布之一。能够亲眼看
到并亲身感受这样的世界奇观非常的刺激。除此之外，由于要准备比赛所以在巴西也没别的事情可做了
我在那待了5天并花了4天时间在比赛上面，很难有机会出去真正的体验这个国家。
What was it like skating the X Games vert ramp by the Iguacu Falls at sunset?
在夕阳时分的伊瓜苏瀑布旁玩X Games vert ramp是什么情况？
We were at the contest, and the falls were what the site had to offer, so we wanted to go
see it. It was me, Koston, Grant Taylor, Cory Kennedy, and Mikey Taylor. We got on the
shuttle to the vert ramp and when we got there Grant Taylor was shredding it while we were
all trying to drop in. We tripped out on the falls, but what we didn’t realize was that to
get back it was really complicated. It was later at night and shuttle service was kind of
cut off. We had to figure out a shuttle back to the X Games, which was an hour ride and
then we took another shuttle for an hour to our hotel. It was definitely a way bigger
ordeal than what we wanted or what we thought it would be. But we got to see the
waterfalls, so I can’t really complain.
我们当时在比赛，已经听说了大瀑布，所以我们想去看看。我和Koston，Grant Taylor，Cory Kennedy
还有Mikey Taylor坐摆渡车去了vert ramp，当我们到那里时，Grant Taylor就躁了起来，然后我们都在
尝试去drop in。我们玩得特别入迷，所以都没有意识到回去是已经很复杂的事情。到天快黑的时候，摆
渡车差不多要停运了，但我们必须要坐辆车回去。我们差不多坐了1个小时，然后换另外一辆车，又过了
1个小时我们才回到酒店。那确实比我们想象中要折磨，但是我们看到了瀑布，所以也没什么好抱怨的。
What are your thoughts on the Select Series? Were you able to watch it?
对于预选赛你有什么想法？你看了没有？
I did watch it. It’s cool. I feel bad for some of those guys because it’s really hard.
You have to win the Select Series; then the next day you have to qualify for the finals;
then the day after that you have to skate the finals. So it’s like adding an extra step to
an already difficult contest. Those guys shred and it’s cool to see them. I’m glad they
have an opportunity to shred in Street League.
我确实看了，很棒。但是有些滑手非常卖命的比赛让我有点痛心。你必须赢得预选赛，然后第二天必须
拿到决赛资格，然后第三天必须参加决赛。所以这就像为已经很难的比赛有增加了一个难度。我很开心
他们有机会在Street League里拼搏。
You’ve been in Street League since day one, so is it safe to say you don’t just show up
and skate? You do have a game plan, right?
你从第一天起就参加了Street League，所以你不是刚到达就要滑板。你自己有一个比赛计划，对吧？
No. This Brazil stop really put things into perspective about the strategy of the contest.
You need to go into this thing with a plan for all scenarios. I felt myself scrambling. I
felt myself trying to figure out what trick I wanted to do, 20 seconds before they called
me to go. There’s a lot of money on the line and it’s a big contest, I would hope the
next time I’ll be a little more prepared and not just try to wing it. I’ve been in it
since the beginning but they’re tweaking the format here and there, and I think this
format is the one they’re sticking with, so now I need to figure out exactly how I want to
play it.
不，这次巴西站比赛对你的策略要求特别高。你必须按计划去做完成每一个环节。我感觉我自己有点仓
促，在出发前的20秒我还在系那个我到底要做哪些动作。这里有很多奖金，这是一个很大的比赛，我想
我下次必须准备的更好而不是仅仅的临场发挥。我从最开始就参加了Street League但是他们在不停地调
整比赛的方式，我认为现在的这种模式会被沿用下去，所以现在我需要好好想想我怎么去比赛了。
You had a pretty much perfect run in the Flow Section and it earned you an 8.3. Were you
just feeling it that day?
你在Flow Section有一轮很完美的发挥，而且让你拿了8.3分，你当时是不是感觉很不错？
Yeah. The course was good for me. I liked it. You can kind of loop around and skate those
quarter-pipes. I was having a good day. That contest is kind of founded on having a good
day. Everyone in the contest is there for a reason, they all have a shot to win it. It just
comes down to how you’re feeling that day and how you like the course. For me, I was in
Brazil and I was psyched to be there and psyched on the course, so it worked out.
是的，这对我很有帮助。你可以在场地里环绕一圈，滑那些quarterpipe。我过了很开心的一天。比赛就
是这样，要开心才行。每个人能参加比赛都是有原因的，他们都有机会赢得比赛。那取决于你当时的状
态如何以及你怎么看待过程。对我而言，我来巴西很激动的参加了比赛，很激动的享受了过程，所以一
切都奏效了。
In the Control Section you were pretty good, then in the Impact Section you fell twice
trying a back noseblunt down the Hubba, which you had made earlier in the contest. What
goes through your mind when you’re bailing in a critical part of the contest. Do you start
panicking?
在Control Section你表现的挺不错的，但是到了Impact Section你在back noseblunt上倒下了两次，而
这招你之前以及成过。在当时那样一个决定性的时间里你想了什么？你开始害怕了吗？
Yeah. Also, what sucks and I didn’t factor this in before I went out, but we’re skating
outside. It wasn’t an air-conditioned arena. It was a hot, sunny Brazilian day. They
delayed us thirty minutes because the vert contest went on too long. By the time we went
out and we got to the end, I was tired. My body was drained. It was hard for me to get into
it. Since we got delayed, they kind of shot us through it. So when we got to the Impact
Section there was not a lot of practice time. I had to change my tricks up. I wanted to
nollie up a rail but I was scared I wouldn’t get up there so I did the backnose blunt to
kind of get my legs going again. Unfortunately I got stuck twice, and the first try I had
was just a scared attempt. After I tried that first one, I was thinking in my head that it
was such an [er, unmanly] attempt at a backside noseblunt slide…
对，我当时并没有考虑周全，但是我们是在室外比赛，并不是一个开着空调的室内体育场。那天特别热
阳光也特别刺眼。他们延迟了我们半个小时因为vert比赛持续了太久。当我比赛的时候我已经很累了
我身上都湿透了。对我来说很难再集中精力。因为我们被延迟了，所以当我们开始Impact Section的
时候，环境已经不是练习时候的样子。我必须做出调整，我本来想nollie上杆子但是我感觉不对所以我
做了back noseblunt。很不幸的是我卡住了两次，第一次只是一次害怕的尝试。当我试了第一次的时候
就感觉那是一次很怯懦的尝试。。。
When it stuck twice, it put you in a position where you had no choice but to land four
hammers in a row. Does that go through your mind?
当第二次卡住的时候，让你陷入了一种窘境，你必须连续站上四个动作。你当时有这样的想法吗？
Yeah. It’s definitely there. I tell myself, “If I want a shot at this, I need to do four
good tricks.” My strategy is to land four solid tricks, and then use my last few tries to
try something harder to honestly get by Nyjah—you know he has four hard tricks. Once I
fell on those first two, I was like, “There that goes, I don’t have that cushion anymore.
I started scrambling in my brain. I was trying to figure out what tricks to do. That’s
how I ended up trying that switch flip over the Hubba. That was an impulse thing. It was
the first time I tried it all week I was there, and it showed. I didn’t feel it out. I
tried it just off a whim, like, “I need to do something.” Because I know Nyjah is going
to come in hot.
对，当然。我告诉我自己，如果我想有点成绩的话，我必须成4个牛逼的动作。我的策略是成4个稳招，
然后用我最后的几次机会尝试一些难度和Nyjah相当的动作，你知道，他有四个狠招。当我在前面两次倒
下的时候，我对自己说，既然都这样了，我不再有优势。我脑中开始混乱，我当时在想做什么动作。所
以我最后尝试了switch flip过hubba。那只是一时兴起，是在那里一周以来我第一次尝试那样做，但是
我成功了。我并没有摸清我到底在想什么，只是一时兴起，“我必须做点什么”，因为我知道Nyjay就要
放大招了。
But you did do something. You did the nollie back overcrook on the handrail.
但是你确实成了些狠招。你在扶手上做了nollie back overcrook。
Yeah, when I realized I had four tricks left, I decided to go to the tricks I know. I had
my nollie front feeble and my nollie overcrook. I knew I could just do one of those and
make it, before I had to figure out what I was going to do on my second attempt. Once I
landed those two I had two tries left and Nyjah was already running away with it. If I had
stuck to my original gameplan I would have come up short anyways, so I might as well try
something hard and make it. There is a lot of difference between first and second—that’s
$80,000 in prize money. So what’s the point? If I’m there I have to try to do something
that could get me in a spot where I could win. I tried the switch flip and it didn’t work,
so I tried to land the backside noseblunt just to land something and fortunately for me it
was a weird contest. Everybody only landed three out of six tricks besides Nyjah. I kind of
lucked out and got bumped into second place.
对，当我意识到我只剩下4次机会时，我决定做我熟悉的招。我有nollie front feeble和nollie
overcrook。在我决定第二次尝试的时候做什么的时候，我知道我只能做这些里的一个。当我把这两个招
都成了的时候，我还有2次机会，Nyjah已经结束了。如果我还是停留在我最初的比赛计划上的话我就不
能超过他，所以我就尝试了难一点的动作。第一和第二是很不一样的—那是80，000美金的差别。重点是
什么？我必须做一些能让我赢的招。我做了switch flip但是失败了。然后我很幸运的成了back
noseblunt。除了Nyjah之外每个人都只成了6次尝试中的3个招，很幸运，我最后拿到了第二。
Yeah, I looked at it the same way. You kind of faded away after your bails and then made
some tough tricks.
我也这么认为。倒下两次之后你有点灰心，但是你之后做了一些很硬的招。
At the end, Chaz, Luan and Torey, if any of those dudes had landed anything they would’ve
gotten second place. The problem is none of those dudes are playing for second. They’re
like, “I’m going to try to some hard tricks to get into first.” Contests like this, from
second place to eighth place, it’s kind of the same, money-wise. You might as well try to
go for first and come up on that extra money. Don’t get me wrong, I’m super psyched on
second place. I’m so excited to come away with a podium spot out of Brazil.
最后，如果Chaz，Luan和Torey其中一个成了什么招就会拿到第二名。问题是他们中没有人想拿第二名。
他们都要做一些狠招去抢第一的位置。比赛就是这样，第二到第八没什么区别。你可能也会为了第一名
而努力然后得到更多的奖金。不要认为我说的不对。我很开心我拿到了第二名。
What are you looking forward to in Barcelona?
你对巴塞罗那有什么期望？
Barcelona is fun. Barcelona is awesome. I love it there. I guess I’m just looking forward
to skating and doing demos there. I’ve to Barcelona a lot of times, but never really did
anything with the kids there. It would be cool to skate the contest and have kids come out,
and not be in the middle of filming a video part. I’m also looking forward to mentally
getting my gameplan back together and hopefully not bail on the first two tricks of the big
section.
巴塞罗那很有意思，很牛逼，我喜欢那儿。我想去那儿滑板，demo。我已经去过巴塞罗那很多次了，但
从来没有机会和那里的孩子们做些什么。参加比赛，让孩子们出来滑板，然后中级不要拍视频就好了。
当然我也打算找回我的比赛方案，不要再在big section的前两次尝试里失误了。
Anything else?
还有吗？
Another thing that’s going to be good about Barcelona is that everything is going to be
close by. In Brazil the shuttles took an hour. That meant you had to get up an hour earlier
to try to get there and it just made things a little more difficult. I’m psyched Brazil
went as smoothly as it did but I’m just looking forward to Barcelona because you can be on
your own schedule. If you want to skate the park late at night, you can do that. You can
just come in and be on your own schedule.
在巴塞罗那会更好的是所以东西都在附近。在巴西要坐1小时的摆渡车出去，那意味着你要提前1小时起
床来赶车，搞得所以事情都更复杂。很高兴巴西的一切还算顺利，但是巴塞罗那会让我按我自己的计划
来执行而不是提前一小时。如果你想晚上去公园滑板你可以做到，你只需要制定好自己的计划然后执行
Can we expect to see you in the top three in Barcelona?
我们能看到你在巴塞罗那进入前三吗？
Yeah. I’m trying my hardest to be in the top one.
当然，我一直在尽我最大的努力去成为第一名！
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