Maximus Petrina was four years old when he started skateboarding, then wakeboarding and snowboarding, the latter two being sports in which he quickly became Argentine champion and one of the best in Latin America.

But the sea and the waves won out over the snow, the lakes and the asphalt. Petrina dreamed of becoming a professional surfer and she went after her dream with determination.

He traveled all over the world, trained with the best and his level grew constantly.

He has competed in international events and at the Argentine level, as a junior a few weeks ago he reached the podium in a tour that has several talents.

This video records his story, his family, his sacrifices and his beliefs.

Below, in an interview, he goes into more depth.

What is your film about? What can we expect to see in it?
What you can see and what I want to tell you about it is how I progressed in sports from the age of eight. I started skateboarding when I was four, and I'm going to tell you how I went from being an Argentine champion in some sports like wakeboarding, snowboarding and skateboarding, and from there I moved on to becoming a skater.

I tell the story of how I decided I wanted to be a professional surfer and how my family and I moved to follow my and my brother's dreams.

It's a family story that takes us around the world chasing our dreams.

I also talk about an injury that was very hard to overcome, ligaments in my left knee, it took me two months of work to recover. I also talk about what it was like to come back from that injury and prepare for the championships.

You have several nationalities, tell us about the origin of each of them.
It's like this: I am an American, I have a US passport, I was born in the United States, in Los Angeles, California. My mother is Uruguayan, my father is Argentinean and for support and business reasons I live in Chile, but I consider myself a citizen of the world.

You bring up a topic that is not so minor, which is your life, and you say that it has been a very unpredictable journey. Why?
It's been like that because I never knew where I was going to end up. I went from being one of the best in the country and Latin America in wakeboarding and snowboarding to becoming a bottom-level surfer. It was a journey of pure passion that led me to want to experience new things, never stay in my comfort zone and pursue my dreams despite my childhood and not doing the things a normal kid does.

I think it's a very nice story to tell, to motivate a lot of kids, to motivate people and the truth is that I'm very happy to have carried out this project.

Where was surfing filmed?
Various countries: El Salvador, Peru, Argentina, various parts of Brazil and various parts of Chile. I am very happy with all the filmmakers who have helped me create this content, it's been more than two years of surfing content, that part is very good.

What can we expect to see from you in 2021?
Everything is coming; I feel like it's my best year. I'm going to launch several audiovisual projects, this is just the beginning. I'm very focused on the competitions, I'm going for the Argentine junior title, it's my last year as a junior and I'm ready to see what happens with the regional and world circuits. But for now I'm in Argentina competing in the open and junior events.

I'm coming off a very solid result in the last round of the Argentine junior circuit, placing second in the grand final having beaten the champion of the round in the previous rounds. I lost the final by less than a point to Nazareno Pereyra, who is one of the Argentines who competes all over the world, he is one of the best in Latin America. So I'm at a very good level of surfing and I hope to be able to demonstrate it in 2021 in the competitions.