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EDITORIAL

WELCOME TO OUR WORLD Necessity, as they say, is the mother of all invention, and there are several creative solutions at work in this month’s issue of The Red Bulletin.

We have our first humanoid cover star in OceanOne (page 46), an amphibious automaton developed by scientists to execute previously treacherous dives. And we meet other mechanical marvels set to change lives for the better.

Finnish rally prodigy Kalle Rovanperä (page 74) couldn’t legally compete until he passed his driving test. His answer?

Race in a country that doesn’t require a licence.

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CHRISTIAN ANWANDER

The New York-based Austrian lensman, who shot our December 2016 cover with swimmer Anthony Ervin, used similar spontaneous location tactics with Kai Lenny, smuggling him into Times Square and nearby corners for our shoot.

The coup, though, was capturing him in action on the Hudson: the Hawaiian waterman taking on the concrete jungle. Page 26

Fast track: photographer Jaanus Ree shot Kalle Rovanperä for The Red Bulletin during preparations for the Wales Rally GB

Competitors in Canada’s Défi Canot à Glace Montréal, Montréal an annual sub-zero race across a partially frozen river, have solved the problem of traversing ice at high speeds: use your canoe like a scooter, of course (page 56).

Finally, we meet the fitness experts at London’s Brixton Street Gym, Gym who, without access to traditional equipment, have adapted their workouts to include tyres, metal bars and anything else at hand – with impressive results (page 88).

The British writer has interviewed everyone from Iggy Pop to Spike Lee, for publications including GQ, The Observer, Vogue Italia and Dazed & Confused. Sullivan was impressed by actor Paddy Considine’s lack of pretence: “He didn’t come across as impressed by himself; he was completely down to earth. He sees the bigger picture. It was a real pleasure speaking to him.” Page 64

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CONTENTS February

BULLEVARD Life and Style Beyond the Ordinary

12 Jon Bernthal, star of The

Punisher, deals out tough love

14 Got game: the new Razer 16 17

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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER

Bodybuilder, actor, entrepreneur, politician… and now the 70-yearold Austrian is adding eco-warrior to his CV

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Phone – made for the players Big break: Red Bull BC One 2017 winner Menno Lamborghini Terzo Millennio: reinventing the sports car The making of Mute Records Red Bull Crashed Ice is back Quality endures: the Cervélo P5X triathlon superbike Null Stern hotel: the height of alfresco luxury Shell out: the $25K taco

GUIDE

Get it. Do it. See it 82 Highlights on Red Bull TV 84 Hot property: watches you'll

want to invest in

86 Dates for your calendar 88 Fit for purpose: strong looks

for calisthenics and beyond

96 The Red Bulletin worldwide

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COLD SWEAT

Part row, part scoot, the Défi Canot à Glace Montréal is a gruelling canoe race like no other

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98 Slacklining in Lebanon

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Kai Lenny

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

The paddleboard ace putting hydrofoiling back on the watersports map All-action hero Arnie is back to save the world – but for real this time

42 Leah Shapiro

BRMC’s drummer on the brain condition that gave her a new perspective

44 Ross Edgley

The man who swam 100km with a tree on his back – and survived

88 SWITCHING GEAR Fitness kit that will take your training to the next level – as modelled by the stars of London’s Brixton Street Gym

46 Robots to the rescue

Meet the next-gen automatons changing our lives for the better

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Ice Canoe Challenge

Paddle in hand, screws in our shoes, we brave Montreal’s toughest race

64 Paddy Considine

Fighting talk from the celebrated actor who’s happier behind the camera

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Destination Red Bull

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Kalle Rovanperä

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STYLE

BEYOND

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ORDINARY

Living on the edge: Jon Bernthal plays the vigilante lead character in Netflix series The Punisher

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Later this year, we’ll see Bernthal alongside Ryan Gosling in the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man

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n his work to date, actor Jon Bernthal has encountered countless deadly situations, from a zombie invasion in The Walking Dead to World War II in Fury. Luckily, the 41-year-old American has learned a thing or two about survival from his own colourful past. But these days, says the father of three, all the drama in his life is strictly reserved for the screen.

the red bulletin: You found mainstream success with acting quite late in life.

Why do you think that is? jon bernthal: I was a pretty crazy kid, and for a long time I was just studying acting.

I studied in Moscow [at the Moscow Art Theatre School], then went to acting school in Boston for a long time and did a lot of theatre.

Would you have been able to handle your current success at a younger age?

I don’t think so. You know, in these last five or six years I’ve become quite focused and

Jon Bernthal The American actor has tackled zombies, fought in a world war, and exacted a whole lot of revenge as The Punisher. But his biggest challenge, he says, is living in the moment

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started a family, and now that I have bigger things to fight for, I’m not so completely consumed with myself. That’s made me a better artist: more mature and hungrier.

What advice would you give your younger self?

I made a lot of mistakes, man.

But I’m grateful for them.

I have young sons now, and I want them to learn what I’ve learnt, though maybe not the way I did. I’ve been to some pretty rough spots and some dark places, but I think it really helped shape me.

You’re a reformed character, then?

There was definitely a time when I was pretty wild and crazy. I’ve found real peace with who I am. I’m definitely the happiest I’ve ever been.

What changed?

I got in a bit of trouble the year before I did The Walking Dead. I won’t go into details, but it was a big event in my life and I lucked out. After that, I agreed to focus on work and starting a family, and making things more streamlined.

And from that point on, everything fell into place?

You don’t want it to fall into place. You should never lose your hunger. You should be striving for something, or else you’re dead. But yeah, I am happier having the conflict and danger present in my work, rather than searching for it in real life.

So now acting gives you that sense of living on the edge?

It’s everything. You’ve got to love what you do, and take it seriously. The people I trained with in Russia came from a time when public gatherings were outlawed. They could have been thrown in prison at any time, because they were staging plays in secret.

But they did it because they

loved it – and each other – so much. You risk everything for the thing you love. That instilled something in me.

I was really not headed for a good place when I was young – this art saved me.

Do you take all areas of life so seriously?

I’m not so disciplined with my kids. We just have a good time.

Are you a softie at home?

No, on my boys I’m pretty hard, but we’re pretty crazy, too. We have fun. My daughter can do what she wants: she’s the baby.

You’re an expert at playing characters who are sensitive but brutal at the same time.

Is that hard to master?

I think love and brutality are related. I’ve spent a lot of time in boxing gyms, and the people who are capable of the most brutality are often those with the biggest heart. You can love something so much that you’re willing to fight for it, to die for it. I like playing those kind of characters.

What’s the most important life lesson you’ve learnt?

You’ve got to be where you are.

What do you mean?

It’s a lame human condition to want what you don’t have and be focused on what’s not in front of you. Unhappiness and discontent comes from trying to be in two places at once and not being present in either. If you can break yourself out of it, you’ve learnt a good lesson.

The first season of Marvel’s The Punisher is now on Netflix

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Razer Phone Nineteen years ago, Min-Liang Tan invented the world’s first dedicated gaming mouse. More than a billion dollars later, he’s doing the same thing with the smartphone…

Razer’s listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange took Tan’s wealth to $1.6billion

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amification is the introduction of game elements in non-gaming situations to increase user engagement – for example, your fitness app rewarding you for reaching your step goal.

Everyone loves to play games, and knowing this has made Min-Liang Tan a very rich man.

In 1999, the Singaporean lawyer created the Boomslang – a mouse for precision gaming.

It was a hit. Last November, a week after turning 40, Tan

became his country’s youngest self-made billionaire when his gaming equipment company, Razer, went public. But, like a true gamer, Tan is already on to the next level.

“I hear people say, ‘We know how to build phones for gamers,’” says Tan. “And I go, ‘You put the speakers exactly where our hands cover them when we’re playing games.’”

His solution is an Android phone with dual front-facing Dolby Atmos speakers; a 120Hz screen so smooth the regular 60Hz cameras at the launch couldn’t show it off properly;

as much RAM as a MacBook Pro, and a battery that will see you through a seven-hour game of Hearthstone.

“We designed a phone that made sense,” says Tan. More so with mobile games revenue now surpassing consoles and PC. Achievement unlocked.

Priced £699.99; razer.com

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BULLEVARD Trademark moves such as the Zombie and Mummy Roll give Menno the edge in the b-boy arena

in b-boy competitions. But you won Red Bull BC One with hardly any of those… menno: That’s because it’s not where my talent is. It’s funny, in the green room at the event I watched all the guys doing these extremely physical moves to warm up. I was like, “I cannot imagine my body doing those things.” Luckily, I realised this at an early stage of my career. I needed to create my own style. If you’re not the strongest, you need to be the smartest.

So how do you outsmart your competitors?

I try to misguide people with my dancing, to trick them with creativity. And I try to fish in different waters from the other b-boys. I would never be the best at power moves, but nobody can beat me at what I do.

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t was a gripping moment when b-boys Wing and Menno entered the ring for the last time at the 2017 Red Bull BC One World Final in Amsterdam last November.

Rotterdam native Menno had won the competition back in 2014, but could he pull it off again against the South Korean, one of the world’s most skilled power-movers?

In the end, the Dutchman emerged victorious thanks to moves that bore little resemblance to those used by his competitors. Moves with strange names like the Zombie and the Mummy Roll…

Is there any move you’re particularly proud of?

There’s one I call the Mummy Roll, where I’m planking and rolling around. I did it in the first round of the Red Bull BC One battle. And then there’s another move, the Zombie.

Why the Zombie?

Well, I slide on the back of my head and on the top of my wrist. And I hold my arms straight out in front of me, like in a zombie pose – but upside down.

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At the 2017 Red Bull BC One World Final, Dutch b-boy Menno took the breakdance crown. But, as the 28-yearold explains, it was his lack of strength that won the day

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Seems like a brave move, going against the tide…

I’ve never really thought about it that way. I get a lot of joy out of creating moves rather than just practising like a gymnast. Every time I practise, I come up with new moves. It’s so addictive!

Terzo Millennio

Keep any Lamborghini in good nick and it’s sure to appreciate in value over time. But this one is also likely to get healthier with age

THE SELF-HEALING SUPERCAR

LAMBORGHINI

TOM GUISE

Without a single engine, the cockpit can sit further forward – and lower – with the driver seated between the front wheels

The individual drivetrains in each wheel can set their own torque and even glow orange when the car is on the move

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ost Lamborghini cars have a bullthemed name, for a simple reason: founder Ferruccio Lamborghini was a Taurean.

Not so the Terzo Millennio, which translates from Italian as ‘third millennium’. That’s not the only tradition it breaks: this future-thinking concept has designs on reinventing the automobile altogether.

For a start, it eliminates the single large engine, instead housing an electric motor in each wheel. These, in turn, are powered not by batteries but by supercapacitors that deliver larger amounts of energy faster, with less heat and degradation over time.

Lamborghini already uses supercapacitors to power the

start-stop system on the Aventador, but here they form the carbon-fibre body panels – the car effectively stores and draws energy from its own Skin. It can then monitor its own surface, detecting cracks in the nanostructure and channelling the charge through it to limit further damage, and even self-repair.

But there are many hurdles to overcome before the Terzo Millennio – part of a three-year experiment by the carmaker in association with MIT – becomes a reality.

Not least how to get that V12 engine sound from a silent electric powertrain. lamborghini.com

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BULLEVARD VIOLATOR, DEPECHE MODE This 1990 release shattered Mute’s previous sales records.

An album signing in LA had to be called off for safety reasons after 20,000 fans turned up A BROKEN FRAME, DEPECHE MODE The famous ‘Russian peasant’ image on the cover of this 1982 album was by awardwinning photographer Brian Griffin MUSIC COMPLETE, NEW ORDER The band signed to Mute in 2014; the next year came their first album in a decade MESS, LIARS “We happened upon a ball of multicoloured string. We unravelled it and saw chaos” – main man Angus Andrew on the album’s sleeve art

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n 1978, 27-year-old Daniel Miller recorded two tracks on a second-hand Korg synth and four-track recorder at his mother’s home in London and asked a local record store, Rough Trade, to distribute it on cassette. A few months later, demo tapes began pouring through his mum’s letterbox.

On the back of his own tape, he’d written her address as the HQ of his label, Mute Records.

Over the following four decades, artists signed to Mute

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– including Depeche Mode, New Order, Yazoo, Erasure, Goldfrapp, Moby and Ritchie Hawtin – would have a huge influence on electronic music.

“I saw electronic music as being more punk than punk: you didn’t have to learn any chords, you could just press down on the keyboard and an interesting sound would come out,” says Miller in Mute: A Visual Document, a new book that charts the journey begun by that first homemade tape.

“For years afterwards, fans of Depeche Mode from all over the world would turn up at my mum’s doorstep,” recalls Miller. “She loved it.”

Mute: A Visual Document is published by Thames & Hudson; thamesandhudson.com

THE BOOK “It was clear it shouldn’t be a standard biography, but something that presented the story visually,” says Miller.

“Our artists have clear ideas about the way they want to be presented, some even taking complete control of the design and photography.”

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Competitors from Switzerland and Sweden dominate – but the Brits have had a good go, too

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Ice cross downhill Red Bull Crashed Ice is entering its 18th season. If you still don’t know about this tough, terrifying sport, it’s time to get on track

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t began as an experiment back in March 2001, when a group of 57 athletes from 10 countries came together in Stockholm to try out a new sport. They combined Catch me if you can: the elements of ice hockey and USA’s Cameron Naasz, 28, boardercross – namely an ice will be defending his title track, a steep hill, and four competitors doing battle at one time – and it was a highthe first title: “I work on the speed success. Ice cross assumption that I’m going to downhill – and the event Red be the next world champion,” Bull Crashed Ice – was born. he said at the time. “Why else The winter sport, which would I compete?” comprises a track crammed There are two things that with obstacles and sheer drops, make the man from St Cloud, and competitors reaching Minnesota, so special on the speeds of up to 80kph, quickly ice track. First, he has cat-like took off in countries with a tradition of snowboarding balance on blades, which or ice hockey, where athletes means the many bumps in the could adapt existing skills to ice don’t knock him off his this new challenge. Packed stride. Second, he has the starting line-ups guaranteed mental muscle to come out on unbelievable action and fivetop. Naasz’s amazing reaction figure attendances. Then, times at the start mean he can in 2010, Red Bull Crashed usually control the race from Ice changed from a series of the front. And he doesn’t get single events to an official put off by the unexpected. world championship: men, When last season’s final had women and juniors could now to be rerun because of a compete around the globe for technicality, the American the ultimate winter crown. mentally put the cup he In 2018, the sport is at its thought he’d won back on the shelf, concentrated on biggest and best. This season the restart – and won again. features ten stops: six Riders But nothing is certain in Cup races and four Red Bull Red Bull Crashed Ice. The Crashed Ice competitions. The competition has never been Riders Cup events are local so fierce, meaning Naasz races by riders, for riders who will need to fight as hard have ambitions to compete in as anyone to retain his title. the main event – they earn Let the icy battle commence. world championship points by crashedice.redbull.com taking part. Then the four Red Bull Crashed Ice races are the Grand Slam for masters of the ice track. They will be staged in St Paul, Minnesota (USA); Marseille (FRA), Jyväskylä (FIN) and Edmonton (CAN).

American skater Cameron Naasz, 28, is this year’s clear favourite, having won the last two world championships.

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ervélo’s new P5X looks like a radical superbike – and it is. But beneath the sleek, sexy exterior lies this machine’s greatest strength: its extreme practicality for serious triathletes. Unlike most triathlon bikes, which are designed also to be used in time trials, the P5X was engineered from the start as a dedicated tri bike, allowing designers the freedom to re-imagine the platform.

Cervélo did not set out to create a bike that is particularly light or unusually rigid; the goal was to make an extremely

aerodynamic bike that offers riders unparalleled storage options and best-in-class adjustability, and is easier to pack up on race day.

In the past, top-of-theline tri bikes had only one priority: to be as fast as possible. But, with the P5X, Cervélo has found a way to build a super-fast platform that provides new levels of convenience – and makes a design statement, too. cervelo.com

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For many experienced triathletes, the hardest part of the discipline can be repacking their bike in a hotel room after a long, tough race. The P5X has an innovative base bar with extensions that break down to become more compact.

Triathletes who like to tinker with their position will love the ingenious, fully adjustable front end. The system allows the armrests to be raised or lowered easily – much like a conventional seat post – more than four inches.

Cervélo engineers travelled to Ironman races to watch the behaviour of thousands of triathletes and noted how many of them taped gels to the top tube of £8,000 bikes lacking logical storage.

Already one of the major players in the manufacture of tri bikes, Cervélo says wind tunnel tests show that the P5X is the most aerodynamic bike the Canadian company has ever built.

The P5X is designed with two integrated (and removable) storage units: one near the handlebar that can stow multiple gels and energy bars, and a larger unit near the crank that can hold CO2 cartridges, extra tubes or even a rain jacket.

After observing the number of triathletes in Ironman races using round water bottles, Cervélo engineers designed the tube shapes of the frame to minimise the aero impact of doing so.

Those who really care about great packing can purchase a custom case (around £640) that perfectly holds the bike, two sets of wheels, a wetsuit and helmet – and protects its contents with internal straps and two inflatable airbags.

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The unusual shape of the frame also allows for a wider range of saddle adjustment than you would find on a conventional tri bike.

STELLAR COMPONENTS The P5X can be ordered with various builds, but all include hydraulic disc brakes – a choice that offers better stopping power than conventional rim brakes, and which allowed engineers to take greater liberties with frame design.

The highest-end version comes with wireless electronic shifting – SRAM Red eTap – and deep-section wheels from boutique carbon specialist ENVE.

The frame design allows for water bottles to be mounted in three different spots.

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Null Stern hotel Want the ultimate room with a view?

Do away with the walls and prepare for some Swiss luxury – alfresco

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big bed, robes, slippers, a butler, incredible views… this hotel room in the Swiss Alps has it all. Except for four walls and a ceiling – those you’ll have to do without.

However, given the location in Appenzellerland, that’s not such a bad thing. This is alfresco accommodation with a luxury twist. “Switzerland becomes your hotel!” says Daniel Charbonnier, one of the creators of the Null Stern project (it means No Star; the subtitle: ‘The Only Star Is You’).

Constructed with the help of a bulldozer, some cement, and an eye for ’70s décor, the £222-a-night ‘room’ comes with a bed, a safe, breakfast, and personal butler service – he’s actually the landowner, a farmer trained in the art of carrying a silver tray crosscountry. “These days, guests’ focus is on the intangible,” says Charbonnier, who devised the concept with artists Frank and Patrik Riklin. “Of course you still want the bathroom to be clean. But people want more.”

Speaking of bathrooms, guests aren’t expected to get too close to nature: there’s a fully equipped chalet 100m from the bed. It also provides shelter should the heavens open, in which case your butler will bring a tarpaulin to save your bed from flooding.

The hilltop hotel room will be returning to Switzerland this year, but in a new location. Would-be guests should get a move on – Null Stern was booked up quickly in 2016 and 2017. Just don’t forget your hiking boots. nullsternhotel.ch

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BULLEVARD The world’s most expensive taco: its ingredients include Kobe beef, caviar and, of course, gold

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The taco alchemist: Juan Licerio Alcalá, head chef at Grand Velas Los Cabos

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Luxury fast food Sometimes a dirty burger just doesn’t cut it. For those with expensive tastes, there’s now an alternative: the $25,000 taco

A SNACK FOR THE PRICE OF A NEW CAR

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You’d imagine the resulting pile of exquisite ingredients must be worth less than the sum of its parts. But the proof, as they say, is in the pudding.

What does the taco taste like?

To date, almost nobody knows, because you can only order the super-snack once you’re booked into the Presidential Suite at Grand Velas Los Cabos and have put down half the price as a deposit.

So, please, book in, bite down and let the world know the answer. And if you still have money burning a hole in your pocket, take the resort’s advice and pair your golden taco with a bottle of Ley.925 tequila – a mere $150,000 [£112,000] extra on the bill. loscabos.grandvelas.com

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taco isn’t something that can normally be found on high-end menus; the natural habitat of the wheat or corn tortilla snack is a US street corner, with a price tag of less than a dollar.

But then chef Juan Licerio Alcalá invented the $25,000 [almost £19,000] taco. And Alcalá, head chef at Mexico’s Grand Velas Los Cabos luxury resort, is confident that the taco is worth every cent.

The list of ingredients, he says, justifies the stomachturning price tag: Kobe beef, Almas Beluga caviar (formerly reserved for the Shah of Iran), lobster, foie gras, and blacktruffle brie. And, of course, it doesn’t come in your bogstandard corn tortilla – this one is flecked with gold. It’s spiced up with a sauce made from dried chilli peppers, premium-grade tequila, and kopi luwak, the legendary civet-dropping coffee from Indonesia – and topped off with more gold leaf.

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What happens when you’re one of the best in the world at every existing board-related discipline? You resurrect another one. Why KAI LENNY is set to redefine what we believe is possible in the water Words: JOSH DEAN Photography: CHRISTIAN ANWANDER 26

Lenny – competing here in an SUP race around New York City – has emerged as one of the sport’s top athletes

The first thing Kai Lenny wanted after paddling 40km around Manhattan was a shower.

Mind you, this was not because he was tired or sweaty.

He appeared to be neither, despite covering that distance in just over four hours on his first day paddling a stand-up board in months, while also negotiating the ferry boats, passenger cruise ships and float planes that, inconveniently, share New York City’s rivers. No, Lenny needed a shower because just after finishing the longest flat-water race of his life, he had to dive into the Hudson to help attend to a competitor who had nearly killed himself trying to keep up with the world’s most famous ‘waterman’.

This competitor, a very fit twentysomething, had used every available calorie in his stores to stick with Lenny in the lead group and managed to finish fourth, but then immediately he collapsed into the river and was struggling just to keep his head above

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water. Every muscle in the poor kid’s body had seized up, Lenny explains, and he literally could not move. So Lenny, along with two other paddlers from the elite class, leapt into the murky harbour water to help him onto a support boat.

Minutes later, the kid was on a stretcher with an IV in his arm, and Lenny – a lithe, tanned Hawaii native who is about as physically intimidating as a yogi – had posed for some photos and run off to shower. “I fell in that water,” he said.

“I really need to get it off of me.”

In the interest of full disclosure, Lenny did not win the race, an annual charity event called SEA Paddle NYC. He was in or near the lead for much of it, but ultimately finished second behind Chase Kosterlitz, a welltrained, full-time SUP professional a good bit taller than the 1.73m-high Lenny, who pulled away over the last 8km. This was fine with Lenny: he was so out of paddling shape that he had considered entering the event as an exhibition, on a foil. But, by the morning of the race, his competitive instinct had taken over. “It’s who I am,” he said later.

For the uninitiated, Lenny is perhaps the best waterman in the world right now and already one of the most accomplished, despite being only 25 years old. He is a seven-time SUP world champion and runner-up at the 2013 Kite Surf Pro World Championships and would have numbered among windsurfing’s elite had he focused on it. Lenny surfed Maui’s fearsome big-wave cathedral Jaws at 16; at 19, he became the first person to windsurf across Lake Michigan; and in 2016 he won the gruelling 32-mile Molokai to Oahu open-water ocean SUP race, smashing the record in the process.

A week before New York, Lenny stopped in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where he won his first-ever World Surf League Big Wave Tour event, on an unconventional board that he designed – using elements of windsurf and paddleboards, plus the bottom of a water ski – but had

never before ridden in big surf. “It almost looks like it shouldn’t work and that it would be terrifying, but it ended up being magic,” he says.

Lenny is disarmingly mildmannered. He could not seem less amped when you encounter him on dry land. He says that people are constantly surprised that he’s not hugely pumped up, because they see him on film charging huge surf, and perspective is difficult. “He’s the nicest guy you’ll ever meet, and totally comfortable in his own skin, but secretly he’s a madman in big waves and one of the fittest people on Earth,” says Kelly Slater.

The funny thing about Lenny’s win in Mexico is that he almost didn’t show up. Big-wave comps cannot, by their very nature, be scheduled.

They have windows and they either happen or they don’t, depending on whether Mother Nature brings the fury. And this one clashed with the Molokai ocean race, which Lenny very much wanted to run, though not to defend his title. He wanted to do it on a foil – because no one else had – even if it meant his time would not count. The organisers said no. So he went to Mexico. And won.

Thus, in the course of 10 days, Lenny bailed on an epic ocean race in which was defending champion, because they wouldn’t let him do it on a foil, and instead went to Mexico and won a WSL Big Wave competition on an experimental board, after which he flew to New York City to paddle 40km around Manhattan in four hours. Such is the life of Kai Lenny, waterman extraordinaire.

Into his early teens, he competed in numerous sports, but people kept THE RED BULLETIN

You can take the boy out of Maui – to Manhattan in this case – but you can’t take Maui out of the boy

telling him he’d eventually have to focus. “I remember him saying, ‘Dad, I love them all,’ ” Martin Lenny says.

Instead of wondering what he might be capable of if he stuck to one thing, the question we should be asking is: what is Kai Lenny capable of, period?

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enny inherited his obsession with wind and water from his parents: both avid windsurfers, they met and fell in love on Maui. He began surfing at the age of four, windsurfing at six, and foiling at nine. He would, his mum recalls, make miniature windsurfers at night, using chopsticks for masts and scraps given to him by sailmakers for sails. Lenny’s parents still have a sketchbook filled with his drawings of boards and sails, as well as drawings of his hero, windsurfing legend Robby Naish, the winner of 24 world titles. At nine years old, he wrote a letter to Naish, asking for sponsorship, and to his parents’

Lenny benefited from the best teachers and conditions, growing up on Maui’s north shore. But his obsession with mastery set him apart

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surprise Naish took him up on it.

Other sponsors soon came calling, too, including Red Bull, which signed him at the age of 11.

Laird Hamilton may be the only other superstar athlete whose career compares to Lenny’s, in that he too has eclectic interests and defies traditional definitions of what it means to be an elite professional.

And, indeed, Hamilton was one of his mentors – an idol, Martin says, from the time Kai was a young child.

Hamilton and Dave Kalama, another big-wave legend, were the ones who took him to Jaws for the first time when he was 16.

“Kai is really good, but he is also very lucky,” says Naish. “He was raised on the north shore of Maui, surrounded by world-class athletes, provided with unlimited free equipment, and home-schooled so that he could spend as much time on the water as possible. The opportunity was handed to him on a silver platter. But he appreciated these opportunities: he listened,

“Kai stayed focused, he trained and he avoided distractions, and he got better and better�

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each other into waves on the foils, reaching insane speeds and generally blowing minds with their video clips.

But the concept never took off, and foiling remained niche until Lenny started playing around with it a few years back. He asked Naish to make a foiling board, but his company couldn’t spare any engineers. So Lenny found his own on Maui and began to tinker with versions that didn’t require bindings and could work in mushy conditions at low speeds.

“Their purpose originally was for riding the biggest waves ever ridden, because it could cut through the chop and go fast,” he explains

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he stayed focused, he trained, he avoided distractions, and he got better and better. A lot of other kids would have wasted the opportunity.”

This is what distinguishes a special athlete from those who are merely talented: Lenny was obsessed, and willing to work for it. Which is why no one should dismiss what he’s doing with foils.

These funky board attachments first appeared back in the late 1990s when Hamilton and Kalama took the foils from a quirky ski-boat toy known as the Air Chair and put them on surfboards. They wore snowboard boots, strapped themselves into homemade bindings and towed

Ready for boarding: Lenny describes hydrofoiling as feeling like “flying”

Lenny works with engineers to perfect the design of the foil for long ocean riding

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as he wanders around Manhattan’s far West Side in search of food to help replace the bazillion calories he burned during the race. “But when I got my hands on one, I went in the exact opposite direction. Instead of trying to ride the world’s biggest waves, I thought, ‘What about riding the world’s smallest waves? What about the worst waves in the world?’”

The original foils required epic conditions: “If the waves are small and terrible, like everywhere in the world, those foils wouldn’t have worked.”

The foils Lenny wanted were new. And he, more than anyone, has made them famous. Earlier this afternoon, he was stopped on the sidewalk just outside the Standard Hotel by a man who did not look like a surfing fan. “You’re the guy.

I saw you on… the page,” said the man, probably referring to one of Lenny’s videos on YouTube. “You ride that crazy thing.”

“A hydrofoil,” Lenny replied, then posed for a photo.

“Foiling took conditions that previously were bad and turned them insane,” Lenny says, dodging groups of tourists taking selfies. “As a professional athlete, I’m used to doing all these sports at the highest level, but there were conditions where I couldn’t do that. Foiling filled that void.”

It’s not just that, though. There’s also the feel, the sensation. “The best thing that I can compare hydrofoiling to would be snowboarding in chestdeep powder,” he says. “You’re on this 33

Lenny in Times Square in the early hours of the morning for our US cover shoot

tiny little board and you’re just free.

You feel like you’re flying.”

Since then, Lenny has got many of the world’s best surfers onto foils, including big-wave star Ian Walsh, current World Surf League champ John John Florence, and Slater, the greatest surfer in history. “Even though it’s kind of an old sport, it’s brand new,” he says. “I would say its birth was pretty much two years ago.”

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ai Lenny is curious. His quest for new things seems limitless. He’s eager to visit Slater’s Surf Ranch wave pool and gets excited imagining what will happen when engineers figure out how to generate even more power using machines. “What if they filled, like, a football stadium, and the Big Wave World Tour went to one, and you had a 40-foot [12m] wall of water they created? Wouldn’t that be just insane?”

Starting in his teens, Lenny began a tradition, at his father’s urging. He sat down and sketched a road map of his goals – all the things he wanted to accomplish, both realistic and not – and each year the two would revisit that map to update and modify it.

Lately, Kai has taken care of this on his own. “This year, I made a lot of time for competing on the Big Wave World Tour and doing a lot of projects with my sponsors, seeing where I can take hydrofoiling in general,” he says, walking through the heavy afternoon crowds in Manhattan’s insanely popular High Line park.

Among these projects is the recently released Paradigm Lost, a movie he produced and co-directed.

The film’s premise is a question: “What makes a surfer? Is it defined

by the way you ride a wave or the tools you use to ride it?” The film features Florence and Slater, among others. “In my case, it’s the way I ride a wave,” says Lenny. “I consider everything I do surfing.”

For now, Lenny seems to have run out of things to put foils on; it’s more a matter of refining. Increasingly he’s been way off-shore, out in the open water. “There’s a lot of potential to ride crazy swells in the middle of the ocean,” he says.

He has already foiled most of the open water between the Hawaiian islands by riding a swell until it runs out of power and then hopping to another one. The longest stretch, from the Big Island to Maui, was 80km. Lenny says he “felt great” at the end, and that he could have kept going, but he thinks that foils still need to evolve further before he tackles truly long distances.

“You could do the entire Pacific,” he says. “But physically I don’t know if it’s possible.”

Lenny is very much involved in the design of his foils. “I would say my knowledge of physics has gone up since high school,” he says. He’s become an amateur expert in hydrodynamics and has the ability to translate his experiences – what he’s feeling on a board – into words so that the naval engineers who work on his foils can tweak the designs.

A truly effective big-wave foil is something he has yet to master.

Some might argue that epic waves the size of buildings obviate the need. Oh no, Lenny says, certain waves – Portugal’s Nazaré, for instance – are ideal for foils. “The problem with a normal surfboard is you can’t get to the bottom of

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the wave quickly enough. You get swallowed by the avalanche.” With the foil, however, a surfer can fly down the face of a wave, getting ahead of that avalanche.

Also, not all big waves break.

There are enormous 30m waves out there in the world’s oceans – roaring mountains of water that never break and are impossible to surf. Unless you’ve got a foil. Lenny is working on a version for these waves. He’s been out in big surf, “but nothing gigantic yet”.

The victory in Mexico proved that Lenny is a force in huge surf who can contend for the Big Wave world championship. Increasingly, though, people are wondering if he might try something even more ambitious, like the World Surf League.

Surprisingly, he doesn’t dismiss the idea outright. It’s not currently a goal, he says. But it’s not not a goal either. “I think it’s every pro surfer’s dream to compete on the world tour.

But I’m lucky I get to do that on the big-wave circuit, and every year I re-evaluate what I’m gonna do and make a new plan.”

Making the pro tour is a nice thing to dream and even talk about.

The reality of actually making it is a far more daunting challenge than anything Lenny has done before.

Kalama is sceptical: “I’m not sure Kai appreciates yet how completely he’d have to dedicate himself to it.

He’d have to stop doing everything else, which I’m not sure he’s ready to do. He gets so much joy from all of it.” He pauses. “But if he wanted it bad, he could.”

Lenny is aware of all that. He’s making no promises right now.

A more likely first step, he suggests, would be to qualify for the Triple Crown of Surfing. That’s something he absolutely wants to do. “I haven’t really thought about trying to qualify for the WSL or anything,” he says.

“It has more just been a pursuit of smaller steps that maybe leads to a bigger fish. But if it doesn’t, I have a lot going on anyway.”

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ARNOLD’S FIFTH ACT

With a CV that already includes ground-breaking bodybuilder, successful entrepreneur, A-list Hollywood star and highprofile US politician, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is now reimagining himself as an environmental activist. The 70-year-old Renaissance man explains in his own words how he has visualised victory, used failure to his advantage, and become a passionate and committed eco-warrior Words: ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Photography: ROBERT ASCROFT

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Had he been born in America, this man could now be President

“I’VE NEVER BEEN SHY OF WORKING MY ASS OFF” In his latest reinvention, Schwarzenegger has cast himself as an advocate for public policy issues

FROM PECS TO POLITICS A timeline of Schwarzenegger’s strange rise to the top

1968

At the age of 21, the ascendant muscleman moves from Europe to Los Angeles. Though he speaks little English, he soon becomes a rep-cranking regular at the fabled Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach, where he trains under bodybuilding legend Joe Weider.

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1970

Schwarzenegger, now 23, takes the first of his seven Mr Olympia titles. To this day, he remains the youngest bodybuilder to win the sport’s top competition. He would come out of retirement to gain his final Mr Olympia title in 1980, at the age of 33.

was 15 when I discovered my personal passion. I met all these athletes who were working out by the lake in my village, doing chin-ups on the branches of a tree, and they introduced me to the local weightlifting club. At that time – it was 1962 – I had the urge to be muscular and strong.

But I wanted more than that. I wanted to win. I wanted to be unique.

The walls of my bedroom were plastered with pictures of all these athletes I admired. I was particularly fascinated with [Englishman] Reg Park – about how he had trained and become Mr Universe; how he went to America, was discovered for the movies and played Hercules.

I knew this was exactly what I wanted to do. I had found a blueprint for my life.

That gave me a tremendous high. I was walking around with this smile all the time. People could not figure out why.

Every single time I did something in my life, someone would say, “You are crazy.” I learned early on to ignore the naysayers. Nelson Mandela once said something that became a lesson in my life: “Everything seems to be impossible until someone does it.”

I knew that an Austrian had never become an international bodybuilding champion or acted in Hollywood movies, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t do it.

And at the age of 20, I stood on the same f--king stage in London as Reg Park had done five years earlier and I won the Mr Universe contest.

It’s easy to want to be a world champion bodybuilder, but it’s another thing to actually do it. I’ve never been shy of working my ass off. When I came to America, there was no money in bodybuilding. So besides going to school and getting an education, I also worked as a bricklayer and took acting classes.

If you want to get to the top, you learn that there is no shortcut to anything.

I see my goals in front of me very clearly. I visualise them. I see it, believe it, achieve it. It’s a spiritual thing, a faith in

1977

The bodybuilder shows off his quick wit and achieves his first taste of stardom with his central role in the documentary Pumping Iron, a box-office surprise that chronicles his battle against Lou Ferrigno to win the Mr Olympia crown in 1975.

what you see. Then, with every struggle that you have, you know why you are doing it, rather than it being just a chore.

When I was working out for five hours a day, I saw myself getting one step closer to becoming Mr Universe. During the filming of Conan The Barbarian, I had to crawl around on the ground and on rocks, my elbows and legs bleeding, with the sword in my hand, and I heard John Milius say, “I need one more take.” But I visualised the finished scene, so I felt a kind of joy about doing another take.

I came to the States in 1968. I felt that I had to come to America. This is the land of opportunity. There is no one trying to derail you; people are helping you. They were positive, even though they didn’t believe I could do all the things that I did.

At the time, nobody was really marketing bodybuilding. Having a sense of humour definitely helped with marketing.

When I came to America, no one would put a bodybuilder in a newspaper. But then I did the documentary Pumping Iron, where I said, “Pumping is better than coming.” People said, “This guy is cuttingedge; he gives good quotes.” And from then, I appeared on every talk show. Andy Warhol put me in Interview magazine, and I was the first bodybuilder to hire a publicist. And it worked.

Of course I had setbacks. It’s always like this: you win and then you fall and then you pick yourself up again. Sports taught me how to deal with setbacks; you just have to have more victories than defeats.

I’ve had tough losses in my personal life, none bigger than my divorce. I’ve had setbacks on a professional level – when I do a movie and it goes in the toilet – and I’ve had those moments in politics, too. I won the Governorship [of California] in 2003, and in 2005 I put four initiatives on one ballot and three of them got killed. But then I picked myself up, and a year later I won the Governorship again with 56 per cent of the vote. Some times are great; some times are shitty. I am not afraid of failure.

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1982

An iconic Hollywood career is launched with Schwarzenegger’s role as the ass-kicking, vengeanceseeking protagonist in Conan The Barbarian. The film would gross around $300 million (£225 million) over the next 25 years.

1984

Schwarzenegger becomes an international action star with his memorable turn in The Terminator. Like the anti-hero who famously deadpanned, “I’ll be back,” the franchise returned for four sequels, making $3 billion (£2.25 billion).

Accidents happen, like the bad motorcycle crash I had in 2001. A woman was driving in front of me when suddenly she found the address she wanted and she slammed on the brakes. So I went into her, over the car and landed on the other side. I wound up in the hospital with six broken ribs.

I had to pick myself up after I was healed and jump on the bike again.

It’s the same with stunts. For True Lies I rode on a horse on the top of a hotel and landed on a ramp. It was very narrow and the horse freaked out because the arm of the camera fell on top of its head.

I almost plunged 90 feet to a concrete floor. I would have been dead. But I went on to do the next stunt.

I always try to learn from my mistakes.

People often ask me about my famous line in Terminator: “I’ll be back.” I wish I could say that I came up with it, but director James Cameron was the one who wrote it. I had my own version of this sentence and I argued for hours with Cameron.

I wanted to say, “I will be back.” But he had his way, and he was right: no one would have remembered my line.

Politics is tough in different ways.

Reaching a goal is difficult because it’s not just about you. You need millions of people to vote for you. You need hundreds of people to put the big money behind your campaign. You can sit in front of 120 legislators – Democrats, Republicans, independents, people with all these different beliefs – and say, “Let’s rebuild California. Let’s build more roads.

Let’s build high-speed rail. Let’s redo our prison system.” But you can’t accomplish anything unless you bring people together and convince them.

Getting into politics was not an original dream of mine. I have done much more than I wanted. When my dreams of getting rich, of becoming a bodybuilding champion and a movie star, were fulfilled, one thing led to the next.

I always wanted to learn. When I went into bodybuilding, I learnt everything about anatomy and muscles. I was serious when I studied acting. And later I would 40

1988

He teams up with Danny DeVito in Twins, the first of several successful comedies casting the brawny actor in unlikely roles. Later Arnie comedy hits would include Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Jingle All The Way (1996).

2003

The Running Man star takes that concept to the next level when he’s elected California’s 38th Governor (he’s re-elected in 2006).

Throughout his tenure, Schwarzenegger refuses to accept the $175,000a-year (£130,000) salary.

discover that Sacramento was the greatest classroom ever. I would sit in my office and every day I’d have meetings with experts – authorities in law enforcement or education or national health care. So I learnt and learnt and learnt. That’s why I got involved with the environment. One scientist after another would come into my office and tell me about the dangers of global warming, about the economic aspect, about how many people die from pollution and how many children get asthma, and what the dependence on certain energies means for national security. I listened to the experts.

Not everyone listens. Regarding President Trump, the only thing I can say is: too bad I don’t have the chance to run because I wasn’t born in America. I think I could have won. But now my interest is to be as supportive as possible to the President. Still, if he does things that are contrary to what we need to do, I will be the first one to speak out, especially when it comes to things I’m passionate about – like when he cuts $1.2 billion [£900 million] from after-school programmes, or wants to leave the Paris accord.

Regarding the environment, I just wish Trump would copy me. He wouldn’t even

“REGARDING THE ENVIRONMENT, I JUST WISH TRUMP WOULD COPY ME. HE WOULDN’T HAVE TO THANK ME”

2012

Done with politics, the activist helps found the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy at the University of Southern California, dedicated to promoting non-partisan solutions to serious public policy issues.

have to thank me. My environmental laws for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in California took effect in 2012. Critics say that if we go green and pass environmental laws, people will lose jobs. It’s all lies. Today, California is responsible for one quarter of the US gross domestic product, even though we only represent 12 per cent of the population. California is the perfect example of how we can achieve economic growth and also protect the environment.

We have shown the way.

I’m fine being out of politics now; I feel that I can achieve more as an outsider.

Some of the greatest movements have not come from Washington or London or Paris – they have come from ordinary folks, from grassroots operations.

For most people, climate change does not mean anything. A person in Texas might not care about icebergs melting.

For someone in Iowa, it might have no relevance if the ocean level rises by three inches. We have to talk on a level that people really care about – about jobs and their health. We have to teach people what they can do on a daily basis, rather than trying to make them worry about a horror vision. We need to tell them that seven million people die each year due to pollution, and tell them what we can achieve with better engines and energyefficient appliances.

I’m a fanatic about eco-friendly technology. I own four Hummers – one is biodiesel, one is hydrogen, which generates no pollution at all, and I’m planning on getting an electric engine installed in another. It will be the first Hummer with an electric engine.

People just need to change their behaviour. In a way, it’s not much different from fitness promotion. When I did Pumping Iron 40 years ago, some people thought that working out and getting muscles was bad for your heart!

Forty years later, every hotel in the world has a weights room, and everyone is working out.

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“SPORTS TAUGHT ME HOW TO DEAL WITH SETBACKS” Like his character in the Terminator films, the 70-yearold is virtually unstoppable

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Drummer LEAH SHAPIRO on…

HOW MUSIC IS THE BEST MEDICINE In 2014, the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club percussionist was diagnosed with Chiari malformations, a brain condition that threatened to end her career. Here’s how she hit back...

2 Humour is crucial

Brain surgery is at the extreme end of what’s stressful in life, but you can get consumed by the heaviness of everything.

If I don’t find humour in a situation, I can go pretty far into the rabbit hole, and that is not a place where I can get the strength to kick my own ass in the sense of staying motivated and working through it. Even if it’s pretty dark humour, I have to have it!

3 I discovered people are great

Even though I pay a lot for health insurance, they didn’t seem interested in working with me. Then this amazing guy who writes on our website set up crowdfunding from our fans. I would never have expected anyone would do that. It raised just over $30K, which funded the surgeon’s fee. It was humbling, generous and caring. You know, why would anyone give a shit about my brain surgery?

4 Touring is a tough elixir

Six months after surgery, we went on tour, which was a little soon, but it was so important for me. I was burnt out from the recovery. I’ve never been that disconnected from music before. In the beginning, I’d get an insane headache from the noise – like I’d been clubbed in the head – but that slowly went. That first tour was medicine to me. I don’t know what I would have done without it – probably lost my mind.

Shapiro with bandmates Peter Hayes (left) and Robert Levon Been

Drumming is meditative. It has given me a calm mind. But I feared I wouldn’t be able to play any more” LEAH SHAPIRO

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I didn’t go it alone

Drumming is meditative, so it has given me a calm mind, but my biggest fear was that things wouldn’t heal properly after the surgery and I wouldn’t be able to play any more, period. My surgeon had a very specific plan for me, starting with simple exercises to get movement back in my neck. I was doing physical therapy four times a week and I had incredible support from my bandmates and from fans who had gone through the same thing. That gave me a heads-up on what to expect.

5 I no longer think I’m invincible

I’m used to being physically strong, but then things can happen and suddenly you are not. That reality hits you hard in the face. Now I’m very aware of taking care of myself on tour. I remind myself, “You’re f--king lucky that a) you do this for a living; and b) you’re still physically capable of doing it. That’s amazing.”

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Strongman ROSS EDGLEY on…

SWIMMING WITH A TREE He has climbed a rope as tall as Everest, and won a marathon pulling a Mini. Now he’s swimming across the sea while carrying a tree. Why on earth?

2 There’s no blueprint for this

Because no one has done it before.

But we got expert advice from sailors: “If you have a rope that sinks, it’s going to add drag – we use large ropes to slow down a boat.” So I was almost carrying dental floss – the thinnest rope. Also, the tree isn’t thinking like a swimmer. Go over a wave and it comes down the other side, pulling you back. Tug it and it hits you in the shins. It took a few toenails off.

3 You can’t outswim the sea

I was five kilometres from shore when the support crew said, “Ross, you’re in a bad current – you’re going backwards.”

I got my head down and started swimming.

Three hours later I popped up, looked at the captain and said, “How are we doing?”

He said, “Ross, you’ve not moved at all.”

I tried five times, each time getting pushed back to St Lucia. I was so pissed off.

4 So I tried it the other way

This time, I headed into the current, and I went through food at a rate of knots.

I was running out of muscle glycogen, my arms were barely coming out of the water and I was seeing stars. I said, “Guys, I need more bananas,” and they were like, “You’ve eaten them all.” “But there were 25 on the boat.” “Yeah, you’ve eaten them all.” I got out at 41 kilometres, but I set a record for my fastest 40K with a tree.

"The tides and currents are all amplified when you carry a tree"

1 The tree isn’t thinking like a swimmer. Tug it and it hits you in the shins. It took a few toenails off” ROSS EDGLEY

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Because I’m not bad at it

Last year, I did a triathlon with a tree on my back. On the bike and run I was awful, but on the swim I was quite quick and I ended up overtaking people. Some friends said, “You’re clearly quite good at that – why don’t you just do the swim?”

So we spoke to the BodyHoliday resort in St Lucia and, before I knew it, I was in the Caribbean with a tree on my back.

The plan was to swim from St Lucia to Martinique, 35 kilometres if you fly straight, which of course I didn’t. I was all over the place, like a drunken sailor.

5 Sometimes failure is success

All I had in my head was that if I didn’t touch the beach, it was a failure. So when friends messaged me with congratulations, I was like, “Why? I didn’t hit the beach.”

They were like, “But you swam more than 100 kilometres with a 100-pound tree!” If there’s one lesson I’ve learnt, it’s to set your goals stupidly high; even if you fail, you might set records while trying. Twenty-five bananas eaten – I think that was a record.

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TREASURE HUNT

Diving robot OceanOne scours a shipwreck 90m below the surface.

Its operator sits on the dry deck up above

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The connection between humans and machines has never been closer. Robots can now explore shipwrecks, improvise music, inspect danger zones, and divide tasks like a colony of ants. Here, we present six stars of the robot world

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Words: FLORIAN WÖRGÖTTER

TOP OF THE BOTS

OCEAN ONE

BIONIC ANTS

This humanoid diving robot plumbs the depths in the name of exploration. Its operator back on the boat can see through its eyes and feel with its hands

Robo-ants bring animal kingdom teamplay to the factories of the future with their autonomous thinking and ability to cooperate

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e know from the animal kingdom that living creatures can achieve more if they work in harmony. The ant colony is a textbook example of perfectly organised division of labour. Each tiny critter carries out its own task fastidiously, and as a swarm they create a whole colony.

German automation technology company Festo was inspired by the ants’ cooperative behaviour. Its BionicANTs (Autonomous Networking Technologies) are robotic insects the size of a human hand, capable of making autonomous decisions, coordinating via radio and pursuing a common goal. They are also able to push and pull physical objects within demarcated areas.

BionicANTs could well be the model for the factory work of the future.

Whereas production systems are currently coordinated from a central computer, in the future intelligent components could flexibly adjust to different production scenarios. BionicANTs already work as an overall networked system when they ‘transport their freight’.

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But, on the wooden claves of his marimba, Shimon the robot proves that machine music can be warm, organic and alive.

Shimon listens first before he plays with his human bandmates from the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, even bobbing his camera head to the rhythm as he waits for an opening. When it appears, he activates his four metal arms, each holding a mallet, and begins improvising with the group.

The framework upon which his musical genius is built is artificial intelligence and algorithms.

Shimon’s creators fed 5,000 songs into the robot, including works

by Beethoven, Miles Davis, The Beatles and Lady Gaga. His hard drive also contains more than two million riffs and melodies from music history. These enable Shimon to compose melodic, harmonious song structures all on his own. All he needs for a song are the first few bars.

hen customers walked into a certain outlet of the German consumer electronics store Saturn last year, Paul the robot rolled out to greet them. He helped them find the product they were looking for and pointed them to a specialist when he couldn’t assist further. The engineers made sure to programme that specific courtesy into their Care-O-bot (after one too many times struggling to find help, one can assume). Depending on programming, Paul, the brainchild of Germany’s well-respected Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, can be used in numerous environments: as a mobile information desk at the airport, to fetch things in a hospital, or to help out around the office.

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oboy, a charming humanoid with wide, gentle blue eyes as endearing as a Pixar character, was created at the University of Zurich’s Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2013. Since then, he’s been travelling the world, giving interviews and shaking hands as the smiling ambassador for artificial intelligence. But what’s special about this 1.42m-tall soft robot is his human anatomy: Motorised muscles and tendons make for fluid movement, and his skeleton comes from a 3D printer. His ongoing development should help make robots as agile as humans, and could lead to more advanced exoskeletons and prostheses that restore mobility to the disabled.

Although he can’t yet walk, work is already underway on Roboy 2.0 at Munich’s Technical University. After the latest upgrade, he should be able to communicate with people without assistance, read their facial expressions, and finally move on his own two legs. Developers say Roboy could be standing and walking in a matter of months.

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Its manufacturer, ANYbotics, a spinoff company of the Robotics Systems Lab at ETH Zurich, built the robot in such a way that it’s best suited to movement on rough terrain. Thanks to limbs that can rotate a full 360°, it can walk, run, jump, climb, negotiate stairs, duck, and crawl through tunnels. ANYmal surveys the environment with laser sensors and cameras and thus avoids obstacles, either by itself or when being operated via remote control. It could potentially be used for dangerous inspection work in the mining industry, on oil and gas platforms, to search for victims after an earthquake, or to defuse bombs or mines. Weighing in at a modest 30kg, ANYmal can be carried by a single person. The robot’s developers are planning for it to be able to interact completely autonomously with its environment and explore a new area at the first attempt. But will it ever give you sad puppy eyes after destroying your fresh-out-of-the-box trainers? Maybe almost real is real enough.

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Forget placid lakes and idyllic views: canoeing in QuĂŠbec is a high-octane, lumberjack-rugged affair

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The dark shapes of the last Dauphins – the most popular model of canoe in this race, weighing 100kg, and 9m in length – look like shipwrecks as they come into view. The fivestrong crews rake through the slush, then push their boats like bobsleighers as they sprint the last 100m. Adventurer and Canoe Challenge survivor Mylène Paquette warns that to finish it, you need plenty of stamina in the tank for rowing, and then some – ice canoeing is more scootering than traditional rowing; a one-legin-the-boat, one-leg-out dash.

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Teams have a choice between scootering and rowing. The challenge is staying in sync and not losing precious time switching from one to the other It’s not easy to navigate against the current at speeds of up to 20kph, and in freezing temperatures of -23°C. If the ice cracks, you risk ending up in the drink

From total freeze to total relief: after an icy sprint that sets the heart racing faster than a 400m dash, the competitors head off to take shelter in the dressing rooms

Tucked away in secret the day before, teams spend three hours waxing the canoe. This involves a series of carefully calibrated stages: first, a layer of waterrepellent graphite wax is applied to plug any cracks. Next, the surface is brushed, then heated with a blowtorch to spread out the wax. This is repeated with layer after layer of wax, the number of which

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is dependent on the ice and temperature outside (always between -32 and 10°C).

“An unwaxed canoe means 70 per cent of wasted energy. A waxed one glides along all by itself,” says Brendan Martin-Kapfer, captain of the Draveurs de Montréal team.

The waxing experts spend €125 (£110) on fluorine just to wax the rail (under the canoe) for each race, whereas Martin-

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On race day, the dressing room becomes a hubbub of customisation. “Some Jig-ALoo [silicone-based lubricant] on the seat of neoprene pants will go a long way to make sure you slide smoothly when you row,” says Paquette as she equips her Vive Montréal 375 team with foam shinguards, secured with Scotch tape. Of all the teams in the amateur race, only hers have prostyle moulded plastic boots – thanks to a chiropodist in the ranks. The majority opt for rugby boots fitted with snowmobile tracks and studs, or simple screws from their toolboxes. There can be no slipping when the boat is sliding along the ice at 25kph and the captain is yelling instructions: “Port, left, starboard, right!”

As the frozen crews cross the finish line, the heavy snow muffles the crunch of the canoes, the scraping of the oars and the collision of the hulls. Then the war stories begin: the thick ice gave way under Martin-Kapfer’s 105kg. “I was frozen to just above my shoulders,” he says, wideeyed. “It’s not easy to row in a case of ice!”

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“SELLING OUT DOESN’T SIT WELL WITH ME” Playback time: Considine, still in his on-screen boxing gear, between takes on the set of Journeyman

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He just wasn’t sure how. Considine discovered the answer – or, rather, several – thanks to what he describes, with characteristic self-deprecation, as a mix of accident and coincidence; now 44, he has found fame as a photographer, actor, writer, director and musician, despite never having gone in search of it. Following memorable performances in films such as Shane Meadows’ small-town cult classic Dead Man’s Shoes, Considine has taken roles in an eclectic selection of productions, from ITV period detective series The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher to big-budget blockbuster The Bourne Ultimatum and, more recently, opposite Steve Buscemi in Armando Iannucci’s comedy-drama The Death Of Stalin.

He has also written and directed a short film, Dog Altogether, and a feature, Tyrannosaur – both of which won a BAFTA. Yet despite his many successes, Considine has always resisted the allure of the movie-star lifestyle. He still lives in Winshill – albeit in a bigger house – with his wife, whom he first met at 18, and their three daughters. And he admits he would sing in his little-known band full-time if given half the chance, but he’s too busy. Considine’s 2018 begins with the nationwide release of his second feature film, Journeyman, the tale of a boxer dealing with hard knocks of many kinds – just the first of many projects he has lined up. In that sense, he is the victim of his own success, or, more specifically, the punk-inspired mantra that got him where he is today: “Get off your arse and try something.” Not that he’s complaining.

The Red Bulletin catches up with a seemingly content and remarkably down-toearth Considine at London’s Gibson Guitar Studio on a rare day off from shooting new BBC counter-terrorism drama series Informer…

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the red bulletin: You’ve starred opposite Michael Fassbender in the 2015 film Macbeth and appeared in hit TV series such as Peaky Blinders, but there aren’t many Hollywood blockbusters on your CV. Has that been a conscious decision? paddy considine: Selling out doesn’t sit well with me. I do go to Hollywood, and people blow smoke up my backside for a week and tell me I’m the best thing that ever lived. I have no problem with that, but it doesn’t go to my head.

I know they’ll do the same to the next person who walks through the door. I find it really funny.

And then This Is England director Shane Meadows gave you your first acting job…

Yes. We met at Burton College and became this combustible duo you either loved or hated but couldn’t

Pulling no punches: long-time boxing fan Considine plays fighter Matty Burton

ignore. We even had a band [She Talks To Angels] – him singing, me drumming. Shane asked me to be in his film A Room For Romeo Brass [1999], so I gave it a go and became an actor because of that.

It’s still the most important movie I’ve done, and my favourite.

Everything rolled on from that.

It seems you were a natural – just three years later, you starred in the drama In America, directed by the great Jim Sheridan…

Yes! Talk about being thrown in the deep end. I thought, “Oh God, he made all those films with Daniel Day-Lewis! What am I going to give Jim that Daniel hasn’t?” But Jim was Ireland’s top filmmaker, and my Irish dad was dying at the time, so I took a chance and did it for my dad

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“THE HEAD OF YEAR ON MY DRAMA COURSE SAID, ‘YOU COULD NEVER BE A FILM DIRECTOR, CONSIDINE!’ AND I BELIEVED HIM” so that he could be proud of me.

Unfortunately, he died just before filming started. Still, I learnt a lot from Jim about how to work with actors, and it put me on the map.

So do you consider yourself fortunate, or is all this the result of hard work?

It’s a bit of both. Luck, being in the right place and working with the right people all help, as does making the right choices. But you have to do the work. A film doesn’t make itself; you have to put the hours in.

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A lot of your roles – and notably your own films, Tyrannosaur and Journeyman – are almost the antithesis of the Hollywood hit. Did you always plan to stay closer to home with your acting and filmmaking?

I’ve never had a plan. I feel as if I’ve been shifted along towards this almost by accident and coincidence.

I didn’t start acting till I was 25.

Before then, I’d only done the odd school play, dropped out of a drama course, and had no desire to be an actor. Then I worked on building sites, was unemployed, and used to hang out at college as it was somewhere to go, even though I wasn’t on a course. Then the photography, film and video tutor – Colin Higgins – saw me hanging about and got me to do a course in editorial photography. I ended up with photos in The Guardian and The Independent, and I loved it. So I always had a career as a filmmaker – behind the camera, rather in front of it – at the back of my mind.

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and a stubborn resolve to get a film made. I remember being enthralled by filmmaking as a teenager and asking the head of year on my drama course how I could become a film director. He replied, “You could never be a film director, Considine!” And I believed him.

But even though it took a while, I’ve directed two feature films now.

Are you more comfortable as a director than as an actor?

Definitely. I feel as if the pressure is off me as a director, and I find it a lot easier being a creator – a writer or director – than being in the film. I always feel intimidated as an actor, because I feel I’m not doing a good enough job, which isn’t very productive – the best creativity, and fun, comes from being uninhibited. When the director says, “Action!” I feel as if someone is putting handcuffs on me, rather than letting me off the hook. But with directing I feel free, as a big part of it is managing actors to get the best out of them and make them feel as if they’re doing something worthwhile.

In your new film, Journeyman, you play a boxer. What drew you to that subject?

I’ve loved boxing ever since I was a kid, and I’ve always had this assumption that I would play a boxer one day, but I wasn’t sure how that would manifest itself.

I started writing [the script] in 2009, and I knew I didn’t want to do just the standard boxing movie: I wanted to do my boxing movie. The way it ended up, my character could have been a racing driver, a jockey or a rugby player as it was more about him overcoming extreme obstacles than

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“GET OFF YOUR ARSE AND TRY SOMETHING – EVEN IF YOU’RE UNTRAINED” the boxing. When I started writing it, I didn’t know he was going to collapse injured and suffer a brain injury – that came out of nowhere.

But I pursued the idea as I thought that was where I should go.

Is it easy to direct yourself?

It wasn’t always going to be me [playing the lead character, Matty Burton]. I looked at many other actors who could do it. I sat there and thought, “Just own up to the fact it’s going to be you,” because I’d written the other characters with actors in mind, but not the lead. Still, I went through all those fears like, “You’re fat and old.

You’ve got a bad neck and a belly.”

There was a lot of fear, but I had

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to face up to doing it, and I’m glad I did it. You’ve got to try. And if you fail, don’t worry about it.

Yours has not been the typical career path for a man from a tough council estate in Burton upon Trent. How were you able to go where others couldn’t?

Where I came from, we had nothing to lose, and no one ever told me to stop dreaming. But there’s a lot of shit you have to go through to move into this other world. It’s not easy to overcome being root-bound, but you have to try as you never know what you might succeed in. As a kid, I was obsessed with Adam Ant and wanted to be him [he flashes a tattoo of the ’80s pop icon on his forearm], and how could I do that?

But I remember kids on the estate getting punk bands together, and I was so impressed. That DIY punk ethic – get off your arse and try something, even if you’re untrained – has always inspired me.

Is that why you turned your hand to music, too?

Yeah. I’ve been in bands since I was 16. I’m in one right now: Riding The Low. We play in pubs, we don’t have a manager, we put out our own records, and we have a small following. It’s untouched by everything else. I just love it. It’s my reward for all the other work; I’d do it full-time if I could.

Your many successes are proof the DIY ethic can lead to big things. When did that sink in?

Did you ever feel like calling your mum to say, “You’ll never guess what I’m doing now”?

Getting my college degree was my greatest achievement, though that’s nothing to do with films.

I think my mum would have been be more pleased with the fact I’ve been married for 26 years, I have three wonderful children, and I’ve been a decent husband and a good father. Nothing I could do professionally would make her more proud of me than that.

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Destination Red Bull takes you to places beyond the ordinary. This month, dive into the deep blue with Peruvian surfing icon SOFÍA MULÁNOVICH as your personal coach Words: CHRISTIAN EBERLE-ABASOLO

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In fact, nowhere else in the world is there a swell like the one you’ll find here, 600km north of the Peruvian capital, Lima. So the coast is a magnet for wave enthusiasts from all across the planet. The bizarrely beautiful lunar landscape setting and perfect weather don’t hurt, either.

Peruvian surfing icon Sofía Mulánovich knows this stretch of coastline better

than most. “I’ve kept coming back here ever since I discovered this particular wave,” she says.

The wave helped make Mulánovich the 2004 ASP Women’s World Champion – the first South American ever to win the world title. She could also be your coach. With Destination Red Bull, you can take a trip to Chicama to ride the world’s longest wave. You’ll also come face to face with a shaman, and experience the miraculous healing powers of salt water…

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“YOU’RE FREE WHEN YOU’RE IN THE WATER. PROBLEMS CAN’T SWIM”

The six-day training course in Peru will teach you the surfer’s breathing techniques

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Sounds intense…

Because it is. The course lasts six days. We do breathing technique workshops, video analysis, and coach you on your technique and specific tasks – both in the water and on land – that you will then do out on the waves. But don’t worry: first and foremost, it’s about having a good time and increasing your self-confidence.

Surfing is a life school, after all…

It is. I’ve been surfing since I was a child.

It has taught me everything I know. It’s my life. Riding waves is the perfect way for me to express myself, to fulfil my potential.

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And there’s a rich history of surfing in Peru, isn’t there?

Yes, surfing goes back a long way here.

That’s why I always take visitors to Huanchaco [a beachside town around 70km from Chicama] to see the caballitos de totora – little boats that the local fishermen have been using to ride the waves since time immemorial. Some people say it was the first kind of surfing.

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So your course is like a surf camp for culture aficionados...

The schedule includes a trip to see the famous Lady of Cao, an ancient figure from Moche [pre-Inca] culture that proves women were in charge back then. After that, I’ll show participants another old ceremonial site. There, we’ll meet a shaman, pay homage to the ocean and ask for good energy.

Does the ocean have magical powers?

Of course. You’re free when you’re in the water. “Problems can’t swim,” my father always used to say. And salt water cures everything, whether it’s sweat, tears, or even in the form of waves.

However tough your circumstances, one thing is clear: you’ll definitely feel better after surfing.

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the red bulletin: Why is Chicama the best place to improve your surfing? sofía mulánovich: Because you can ride a single wave for so long here that your legs will start trembling. It means my team and I have plenty of time to see what you do well and what you’re doing wrong. It’s the most productive surf training ever.

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RED BULL AIR RACE, ABU DHABI Make your flying dreams come true inside the cockpit of a Red Bull Air Race plane.

WINGS FOR LIFE WORLD RUN Run for those who can’t at this unique global event, and rub shoulders with your idol.

ICE RALLYING WITH MATTIAS EKSTRÖM The Swedish motorsport champion puts you behind the wheel in his icy paradise.

RED BULL STUDIOS Unleash your musical talents and produce your own album at our studios.

EXTREME SAILING WITH HAGARA AND STEINACHER Experience the elements with the two-time Olympic champions.

WINDSURFING WITH BJÖRN DUNKERBECK Prevail against the wind and waves in the wake of the 42-time world champion.

DISCOVER NORWAY WITH SKI CHAMPION AKSEL LUND SVINDAL Spend a day with the slope star and find out where his climb to the top began.

RED BULL CLIFF DIVING WORLD SERIES, POLIGNANO A MARE Be part of the cliff-diving final. Take the plunge of a lifetime!

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Finnish rally sensation Kalle Rovanperä’s prowess behind the wheel was obvious from a very early age

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here’s an old adage in motorsport that if you’re good enough, you’re old enough – sporting shorthand for an insistence that drivers, no matter how young, should be afforded the opportunity to fuse precocious gifts with craft and guile as soon as enough heads have been turned by their raw talent. Think fourtime Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel being parachuted into the sport at the age of 19 and becoming its youngest winner two years later. Or Max Verstappen carving more than two years off that benchmark at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix. Now there’s a new name to add to that prodigiously talented list: Kalle Rovanperä. Instead of the world of circuit racing, however, the Finnish wunderkind’s skills are being exhibited at the wheel of a rally car.

Until recently, few beyond the rutted paths and muddy tracks of low-key eastern European national rally championships were aware of the teenage driver, but he was always destined for success. The son of former World Rally Championship star Harri – a works driver for Ford, SEAT, Peugeot, Mitsubishi, and finally Škoda – Rovanperä was born just four months shy of his father’s one and only WRC win, at the 2001 Swedish Rally. It wasn’t long before the youngster took to four wheels, first on quad bikes and motorcycles and later in go-karts. However, his first experience of a real-world rally car, at just eight years old, changed everything.

Rovanperä’s precocious gifts are amply displayed in a video of his efforts at the wheel of an ageing but still agile Toyota Starlet rally car. The footage shows eight-year-old Kalle peering through the steering wheel from a raised seat. His tiny feet dab at specially extended pedals as he expertly slides the rally car around icy roads and through forest tracks near the family’s Jyväskylä home. Uploaded to YouTube, the clip promptly went viral, and the official version has now had more than 300,000 views.

“I don’t really remember too much about it, I was so young,” Rovanperä says, as if discussing a long-forgotten childhood diversion. “Honestly, I have no idea where that connection [with the car] came from.

I had been driving all kinds of other stuff when I was little – ATVs and bikes and things like that – but I didn’t drive a car

until I was seven. So I have no real idea why it felt so easy; it just did. I have no explanation, but right from the first moment, that car felt so good. After driving a rally car for the first time, I never touched any other racing cars.”

By the age of 13, Rovanperä had graduated to competition – “there wouldn’t be any sense in just driving. You either go flat out or you do something else” – but arenas in which the youngster could legally compete were hard to come by.

Too young for the roads of his homeland, he instead turned to nearby Latvia, where no road licence is required for rallies.

“It was difficult to convince people that I could compete, that I was good enough,” he says. “My father had to ask for permissions in Latvia and Estonia. For me, going into rallying so young was not

“There’s no sense in just driving.

You either go flat out or you do something else” difficult, because I had driven a lot before that. I don’t really know what other people thought about me beforehand, but afterwards I think they thought I was kind of OK.” This last comment is delivered with trademark Finnish understatement.

Though he was only allowed to compete on special stages, with his father’s old co-driver Risto Pietiläinen piloting the teenager on the public road sections, Rovanperä won the two-wheel-drive open championship.

In 2015 Rovanperä stepped up, competing first in a Škoda Fabia S2000, then in an R5 variant. The results were staggering. In the Latvia Rally Sprint he won at the first time of asking, claiming all eight stages on the Rally Alūksne.

In the Latvian Rally Series, at the Rally Liepāja – also a round of the European Rally Championship – Rovanperä’s stage times were a match for event winner Ralfs Sirmacis, also driving a Fabia R5. That, though, was the entrée. The main course was the championship itself, and, with five wins from eight events, Rovanperä was crowned champion, 21.5 points ahead 77

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“People insist I demand too much from myself, but I can’t understand why I shouldn’t be that critical” of nearest rival Jānis Vorobjovs, a driver almost three times the youngster’s age.

“Latvia was really important for me,” Rovanperä says. “I learned everything I know about rallying there. Car control was OK for me before that, but everything else – how an event works, everything you have to do, how to deal with pace notes – all that I had to learn.”

The 15-year-old’s showings in the relative backwater of the Latvian championship, along with standout performances in Finland – thanks to special permissions from the country’s national motorsports body – and in Italy began to build towards Rovanperä’s ‘head-turning’ moment, the tipping point at which the gaze of WRC teams began to swing his way. The queue to explore the youngster’s potential grew quickly. Last May, Rovanperä secured the support of Red Bull, at the same age the company signed Verstappen. Last summer, Toyota WRC team boss Tommi Mäkinen gave Rovanperä his first taste of the top rank – testing its 2017 Yaris WRC car in a 40km endurance run, a feeling he described as “incredible” and which Mäkinen, a fourtime World Rally Championship winner, branded as “good, very good”.

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ovanperä’s first step on the world stage, however, would come courtesy of Malcolm Wilson, the boss of current WRC champions M-Sport, and a man with a track record of promoting youth, having overseen the rise of another Finnish rally star, JariMatti Latvala, from 17-year-old prodigy to youngest-ever WRC event winner at the age of just 22. Rovanperä would be next, with the then 16-year-old booked to drive an R5 Fiesta in the penultimate round of the 2017 WRC campaign, the Wales Rally GB. There was just one problem: to compete on the open roads, Rovanperä would have to meet the altogether more prosaic requirement of owning a driving licence.

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a family car around his hometown in pursuit of what could turn out to be the most valuable trophy of his young career.

“Was there pressure? Maybe a little bit,” he smiles. “Quite a few things were dependant on getting my licence – the Wales Rally GB being a major one. But in the end it was easy. No problem at all.”

His WRC debut was a different story.

Perhaps for the first time in his career, Rovanperä came up against challenges that taxed his innate skills to the fullest.

His times were solid – there were third places on Stages 15 and 21 – but a placement of 15th overall in the WRC2 category left Rovanperä cold. “I definitely wasn’t satisfied,” he says. “The most difficult thing was just adjusting to a new car. Also, I was driving with Michelin tyres, and I haven’t driven them for five years. So when you put those things together, it was pretty difficult, a very steep learning curve.” The competition, too, was at a level Rovanperä hadn’t encountered before. “It’s a WRC event, so every guy there is fast, I know that.

But it’s much better to come up against people at that level. It’s good to be pushed out of your comfort zone and stretched.

“I’m quite strict about my own performances,” he adds. “Other people insist I demand too much from myself, but I can’t understand why I should not be that critical. A bad result is never good enough. Good results are the only ones I'm looking for.”

As for next year, Rovanperä is unsure.

There are plenty of options rumoured, including a limited number of WRC rounds – “I’m still too young to compete on all of them” – and a full British championship, with Wilson and M-Sport.

The prospect of teaming with 17-time WRC rally winner Latvala earns cautious approval, as does the thought of beating Latvala’s youngest winner record.

“Malcolm did a really good job with JariMatti. He came in at the same age as me and did well. Plus, I have five years to beat Jari-Matti’s record. Within five years I hope I’ll have won in WRC.” In the mouths of many, this might smack of hubris, but when it’s uttered by a sportsman for whom transcendent gifts appear to come as easily as a flick of a handbrake in an ageing Starlet, it simply sounds like the inevitable shape of things to come. And now Kalle Rovanperä has licence to make it happen.

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are surely heading for motorsport glory JUJU NODA AGED 11

Young, gifted and female is not a phrase routinely heard in male-dominated motorsport, but Japan’s Juju Noda might be about to change that.

Last year, the daughter of one-time F1 and IndyCar racer Hideki Noda broke track records at Okayama International Circuit – the first primary school-age kid to drive a Formula 4 car (watch it on YouTube). Noda says her ultimate goal is “to become the first Japanese female driver to win in Formula One”.

LANDO NORRIS AGED 18

A winner in every category in which he’s competed, Norris broke through in 2014 when he became the youngestever world karting champion at 14. Since then, he’s bagged a host of titles in feeder single-seater categories, and last November he became the youngest FIA F3 European Champion in history. This year, he’ll compete in F2, and he has signed as a reserve driver with McLaren. F1 stardom seems assured.

TAMARA MOLINARO AGED 20

This Italian driver may be at the foothills of rallying glory, but she’s already being tipped as the natural successor to Michèle Mouton, the only woman to win in the WRC. Molinaro, who has been driving rally cars since the age of 12, has the backing of Red Bull as well as Mouton and her co-driver Fabrizia Pons. In 2017, she became women’s European Rally champion and finished 10th overall in the ERC3 category.

CHARLES LECLERC AGED 20

Leclerc grew up watching his F1 heroes in the Grand Prix in his hometown of Monaco.

As the son of a former racing driver, and godson of the late Jules Bianchi, it wasn’t long before he got behind the wheel.

Leclerc’s graduation to single seaters has been hugely impressive: the youngster won the GP3 and F2 titles in his rookie seasons. He’s a member of Ferrari’s Driver Academy and is almost certain to make the step up to F1 this year.

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The 2018 World Rally Championship opens with the 86th Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo – the drivers’ first chance to test their new cars in true race conditions. This year’s planned route differs from the 2017 course by 50 per cent and follows an itinerary that’s unique in the WRC. Highlights include the icy roads of the Hautes-Alpes.

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Now in its 18th year, Simple Session is one of the world’s top BMX and skateboard events. See riders from across the globe perform mindblowing runs and innovative tricks at Saku Arena in Tallinn, Estonia.

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PLAYING THE PROPERTY GAME In 1935, American Charles Darrow became the first board-game millionaire when he sold the rights to his new game, Monopoly, to toy company Parker Brothers. Never mind that he’d stolen the idea from an earlier product, The Landlord’s Game. NYC street artist Alec Monopoly has done his own bit of reappropriation, pinching his nom de plume and top-hatted graffiti mascot from the old family favourite. His efforts have won him celebrity clients including Robert De Niro, Snoop Dogg, Miley Cyrus, and TAG Heuer, which has made him its ‘art provocateur’.

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Swiss watchmaker Heuer knows a thing or two about brokering deals; in 1985, the company (founded in 1860) merged with the TAG Group to revitalise its fortunes. Now, the brand hopes the appointment of Alec Monopoly as an artistic ambassador will guarantee enduring appeal to a millennial generation of luxury-watch lovers. The first fruit of this partnership is this classic quartz timepiece with the street artist’s ‘ALEC’ tag etched onto its steel back, and his ‘Mr Monopoly’ character emblazoned on its 41mm dial. If this seems criminally simple for an ‘art provocateur’, it should be mentioned that his cartoon moneybags was partly inspired by disgraced Wall Street financier and convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff. tagheuer.com

Attention-grabbing celebrity ambassadors are a big thing for watch brands right now, and Rolex subsidiary Tudor is no exception.

This big-crowned, burgundy edition of its classic diver’s watch is being favoured by none other than Lady Gaga. tudorwatch.com

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to 21 January Lumiere London One positive thing about the short days at this time of the year is the darkness they provide for this epic nocturnal light festival, which returns to London for a second time.

See buildings, landmarks and public spaces across the city transformed by the illuminated works of more than 40 UK and international artists.

Various London locations; visitlondon.com

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January London Visions Does science fiction predict the future, or does it shape it?

Why not ponder that slice of philosophy as you chin-stroke your way through this exhibition envisioning the future of Britain’s capital city, and the challenges it will face. Video installations, architectural narratives and video games feature, devised by futurefacing artists, designers and architects. It runs until April 15.

Museum of London, London; museumoflondon.org.uk

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January Burns Night Looking for a post-holiday pick me up? Try the birthday of the guy who wrote Auld Lang Syne – Scotland’s greatest poet, Robert Burns. Across the UK, suppers of tatties, neeps and haggis (potatoes, turnips and... if you don’t know, best not to) will be served, accompanied by a dram of whisky. To do it right, though, head to Rabbie’s birthplace: Burns Cottage.

Alloway, Scotland; burnsmuseum.org.uk

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Get out of the cold and mud, and head indoors for the heat and dirt of world-class motocross.

Touring the UK, this arena spectacular pits the finest pro racing and freestyle riders in epic competition, set to a festival backdrop of music, lasers and pyrotechnics – all leading to a grand finale at Wembley Arena.

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to 21 January Hahnenkamm Race If you’re getting away this month, head for the Streif – the epic main event of Austria’s Hahnenkamm Race. The 3.3km downhill course has a 40.4° incline at its steepest point and hits 140kph at its fastest. “There is nothing bigger in the ski world than racing on the Streif,” said downhill skier Daron Rahlves in the 2014 documentary Streif: One Hell Of A Ride. Don’t miss this highlight on the World Cup calendar.

Tyrol, Austria; hahnenkamm.com

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In a reclaimed warehouse car park in South London stands the Brixton Street Gym. Four years ago, its members practised in a park, but when their training began to scare locals, they moved here. It was just an empty space at first. “In the park, we had parallel bars,” says Lex Bwalya, one of the original members. “And when we built the gym, we added an extra bar and made them longer to get more kids on them.” Then something amazing happened: “We developed a way of moving on the three p-bars that nobody else had. On parallels, you do static strength moves. Now you had to navigate all the bars seamlessly. It’s called Flow. You get to the point where you can’t tell the start of one move from another. It helps your brain look at things from a new perspective.”

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“How dare a person live and not seek to find what the body can actually do? Push yourself to your limits, but not past them. Just do it to see what you’re capable of” ANTHONY FERGUSON

Anthony Ferguson (pictured): “I got hit by a car. They wouldn’t let me into the gym, so I went to the park. It was the only option, other than sit around and do nothing. That’s where it started.

Aesthetically I was in decent shape, but athletically I wasn’t: I couldn’t pull my body weight, couldn’t dip it, nothing. As I started to master this, I didn’t go back to the regular gym.

Now I’ve changed to a vegan diet – I can’t do this and eat junk food. I’m getting clean, efficient energy so that I can progress to the next level faster. It’s not about numbers on weights; it’s about pushing yourself.

I look, feel and perform way better.

My performance is multiplied by 50.”

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“When you’re ready to try new things, your body will let you know,” says instructor Jamal Jackson. “It’s a lot easier when you’ve got people behind you who will push you further than you would go by yourself. If I didn’t have a lot of people around me when I had my sessions, I wouldn’t have progressed to where I am now. I think that’s the reason why we’re able to do what we can do – because everyone is together, pushing each other the furthest they can go.”

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“It’s about freedom,” says Ferguson. “I’m not going to the gym at a certain time and having to get a bench before someone else.

I grab a bar and pull my body up, repeating the exercise until I master it, then move on. I started on a monkey-bar set about half my height in a kid’s playground. As long as I can tuck my legs or put them out in an L-sit, I have enough space for what I need to do: squats, box jumps, handstands, frog stands – in a bedroom or park, it doesn’t matter.”

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Ski adventures in North America, a unique surgeon from Switzerland and the coldest canoe race on the planet – just some of the highlights from our issues around the globe this month

Do not fear the rise of the automatons: these AI machines – created in Europe and the US – are here to help, not destroy

Tengo un gran plan El actor londinense JOHN BOYEGA ha cambiado el mundo en la gran pantalla, con papeles de alto perfil en los filmes Star Wars: el despertar de la Fuerza y Detroit.

Pero a sus 25 años él tiene objetivos aún más nobles.

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MEXICO JOHN BOYEGA The British Star Wars actor on the value of failure and learning from others’ perspectives

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In Cordova, Alaska, the allure of new terrain attracts experienced skiers.

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TERRITORY With new terrain opening up across North America, it’s never been easier to taste adventure skiing in the backcountry. Here are five destinations where going astray is the whole point.

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SWITZERLAND RENÉ PRÊTRE Meet the Swiss cardiac surgeon who has saved the lives of more than 6,000 children

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AUSTRIA NIKOLA BILYK Austria’s top handball player on how he copes with pressure, what responsibility means to him, and how to fuel the excitement of others

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A cash payment is not possible. The voucher may be redeemed un l 31.03.2018.

The right of offset shall be expired a er this date. All legal ac ons are excluded.