Guillermo Durán.
It's mainly due to him, that nowadays, I am a spintop player.
The first time I saw him was in the now already very far year of 2000.
To be more accurate, December of year 2000. I don't remember now the day, but I could find in my diary out which day.
He was doing street performances in the south part of the city, in a neighborhood called as Villa Coapa, in the crossing of the avenues Calzada Acoxpa and Canal de Miramontes (d´mn....by the way, yesterday, Sunday 8 September 2013, I was working/playing right there in that same avenues crossing).
I began to close and talk to him in the year 2003. Next one, 2004, He went to USA.
Semiprofessional or professional (I don´t know exactly) boxer, he even worn on his little trousers during a fight, on the ring, the word "Premier"!!!!
In those years, I was studying Journalism as a career (I need to finish it, btw), and he told me all about his starting with the trompo. Something very important (at least, for me) was the fact that a very important tv company made an important report about him, recording him during his boxing trainings and also during his street performances. I would like a lot to get that documentary.
Due to him, according to his brother, Cinco Estrellas decided to make a ballbearing top, given that someone sent to Memo (short way of Guillermo) one ballbearing top, and Memo showed to the (at the time) owner of 5 Stars.
Watch this video and analyze it and you' ll see why his style is unique.
As far as I know, Guillermo Durán was the first man, I am sure, playing trompo, taking advantage of the red lights of stop, by doing it as street performance with the clear purpose of get some money. Carrying the game, the art of trompo to audiences and levels never before suspected.
In some way, I am a direct result of his way to give to know the trompo to the big crowds while they drive their cars. Guillermo Durán broke the typical and classic image of the “campeón”, carrying the trompo to the streets, breaking the usual image of a trompo player/demonstrator.
He was the first of his kind. Now, I am the main representative player of that kind .
Gustavo Castro was my main teacher, but the seed to become a spintop player was put in my by Guillermo Durán.
Thanks for this video!!!
