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You need 4wd to win the Dakar Rally, right? Peugeot are out to prove that’s not true

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WELCOME The kid who excels early is nothing new in sport. The record books are littered with them; most don’t get another mention, apart from under ‘squandered potential’. Then there’s someone like Marc Marquez, reigning MotoGP champ, aged 21, and 100 per cent perfect halfway into the 2014 season.

Seasoned motorsport folk know that he’s not a flash in the pan, that he’s one of those select few young geniuses who takes their sport to new heights. We hung with him and his team on race weekend to find out how he does it. Elsewhere on the track, we watch how Peugeot are ripping up rally’s rulebook to win the Dakar. Plus, an all-nighter at a secret New York party, and the Make-Overs, South Africa’s most fiercely independent rock band.

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“Finding the limit is part of it, or you won’t be quick enough” MARC MARQUEZ, PAGE 42

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AT A GLANCE GALLERY 14 IN THE FRAME Photos of the month

BULLEVARD 20 TV TIMES The best new shows, the best old shows and much more

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FEATURES 30 Pure instinct

What a Brazilian martial art and freerunning have in common

40 New Beat Fund

QUEEN OF THE WAVES

Life on tour is no picnic for the inventors of G-Punk – but it’s the best

World champion surfer Nicole Pacelli is showing up the men on the world’s biggest breaks

42 Marc Marquez

What’s is it that makes the reigning MotoGP champ so good

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50 The Make-Overs

The Red Bulletin meets South Africa’s most fiercely independent band The Brazilian stand-up paddleboarder on what it takes to be world champ

30 INTO THE NIGHT

Secret locations, fire shows, a naked poet: event collective BangOn! organises New York’s craziest underground parties

FIGHT OR FLIGHT

An ancient martial art and today’s best urban artform: what freerunning and capoeira have in common

77 76 HANGING ON FOR LIFE

Jain Kim may be smaller than the competition, but the world’s best female climber trains away her disadvantage 08

GOING DEEPER

You can ditch the oxygen tank and discover a new underwater world by learning freediving in Thailand

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The new Peugeot being built to win the toughest rally on Earth

66 Your life in 2030

The technology of the future will help you customise your life

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TRAVEL Freediving school in Thailand TRAINING Get fit for climbing MY CITY An architect’s Almaty PRO TOOLS Barbecue brill MUSIC Twin Atlantic’s top tracks PARTY Taboo, Johannesburg WATCHES For the tough stuff GAMING Alien Isolation unleashed NIGHTLIFE Up all night with the best

party planners in the business SAVE THE DATE Unmissable events MAGIC MOMENT In a spin

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“I mostly shoot fashion and beauty features for magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, so to get involved with sports was very inspiring,” says Brazilian photographer Karine Basilio, who this month examined the similarities between capoeira and parkour. “I’m very familiar with capoeira, but parkour was totally new for me. I couldn’t believe that jumping off big buildings could really be a sport, and a very challenging one.” See Basilio’s foray into a whole new world on page 30.

The American writer is a veteran of Premiere and ESPN the Magazine. This month we asked her to tell us what technology will be like in 2030.

“My favourite part of working on this story was talking to the people at iWinks about lucid dreaming,” she says.

“After I spoke to them, I tried to control my own dreams, but each time I did it, I woke up neither fluent in French nor married to Michael Fassbender. I’m hoping some new technology will be able to help with that.” Go back to the future on page 66.

ROBERT ASTLEY SPARKE The British photographer has lived in São Paulo for more than four years with his Brazilian wife. His work focuses on fashion, music and celebrities, and has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Glamour, the Sunday Times and the New York Times. For this month’s edition of The Red Bulletin, he photographed champion stand-up paddler Nicole Pacelli at Arpoador Beach in Rio de Janeiro, “Nicole

“ Nicole has a strong personality. She knew how to deal with all the attention she got”

has a strong personality,” he says. “She knew how to deal with all the attention she got.”

His work begins on page 54.

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This month’s cover shoot Scottish photographer David Clerihew has shot some of the world’s biggest sports stars, including Brazilian footballer Neymar Jnr for the June issue of The Red Bulletin. For this month’s cover, he snapped Spanish MotoGP champ Marc Marquez in Salzburg, Austria. Watch a video of the shoot: redbulletin.com

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Behind the lens: David Clerihew with MotoGP star Marc Marquez

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HANDS DOWN GREAT Khaled Chaabi is one of the best B-Boys around.

You can be certain of his excellence because he’s a member of the Flying Steps, a German crew that has been spinning, stepping and schlepping to international performances since 1993. Three years ago, Flying Steps took old-school street dance to a whole new era: that of Blackbeard the pirate and the invention of the steam engine. In devising a routine to Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, of 1722, the crew created a truly original culture clash that has been seen all over the world, including here, in Sydney’s State Theatre. redbullflyingbach.com Photo: Incite Images / Red Bull Content Pool

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MOON SHOT Some say that director Stanley Kubrick and NASA faked Neil Armstrong’s small step/giant leap on elaborate sets at a secret location. What rubbish!

If they wanted to mock up the moon landings, they’d have gone to the lunar-like volcanic island of Milos. When the light is right, the one-time home of the Venus de Milo has an eerily off-world look about it. “I’ve been riding everywhere in the world,” says Julien Dupont, the French trials rider, “but I’ve never been riding on the moon. It’s strange: we’re here in Greece, but I felt like I was on the moon.” twitter.com/juliendupont Photo: Samo Vidic/Red Bull Content Pool

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BULLEVARD REFLECTIONS ON THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV

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Truly Grimm: Spencer Harrison as a Murciélago – part bat, all wrong

TV’S HIT PLOT TWIST IS…

BAZINGA!

MIXED BLOOD

Countering the nerd quotient on The Big Bang Theory, US TV’s second-most popular show after Monday Night Football, is would-a-geek-reallywoo-her Penny, played

by Kaley Cuoco.

Or, as Sheldon says, “Penny! Penny!

Penny!” Good things usually come in threes, so it’s said.

In fantasy shows, will the halfbreed sons inherit the throne?

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In fantasy and fairy-tale TV shows – extremely popular now, with Game Of Thrones, Once Upon A Time, Grimm and others – one thing seems to be particularly in vogue: cross-class bastar­d offspring.

Those born after a forbidden fling between a royal and a commoner are bolstering plotlines and ratings.

Eddard Stark’s son Jon Snow, played

by Kit Harington, is slowly turning into Prince Charming in Game Of Thrones.

In the fantasy horror series Grimm, Sean Renard, Captain of the Portland Police Department, is himself the bastard son of a royal. Grimm, which is back for a fourth series this October, is set in a world where humans and Brothers Grimm characters co-exist. The two groups don’t really get on. We met Renard, played by Israeli-Canadian actor Sasha Roiz, on the job and asked him – Renard, not Roiz – about family values.

THE SKIPPER SPEAKS! Captain Sean Renard, which creature from the Grimm universe are you most afraid of?

“As the offspring of a Hexenbiest [a zombie warlock], the Grimm figure I most need to beware of is the Mellifer bee creature.

We’re natural enemies. But honestly, I fear my family more than anything. They are horrible and dangerous, and keep sending problems my way. As Grimm royalty – illegitimate or not – I see myself above most creatures, and I can handle them. It’s my family that really challenges me. They bring a certain emotional component that affects me.”

COMEDY

“I’m afraid of my own family”

THE BEST SHOWS OF THE…*

Captain Sean Renard

FANTASY/HORROR

GRIMM

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

ALF showed up on Earth four years after E.T. and taught mankind that cats are very tasty.

An eccentric FBI Agent investigates a murder in a strange town, Twin Peaks.

Mob boss goes to a shrink and breaks new ground: The Sopranos rewrites TV history.

Yeah, bitch! Chemistry teacher and former pupil mix the best meth. Not bad, Breaking Bad.

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*ONE OF THESE IS NOT THE BEST SHOW OF ITS DECADE

THE BIG BANG THEORY

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TV TRENDS

FRESH BLOOD

PANEL SHOWS: COMIC BOOK ADAPTATIONS

THE WALKING DEAD

Blockbusting on the big screen, comics are also big on TV. The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman’s zombie comic, is a critical and commercial hit. Marvel has Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and four more series in development for Netflix, while the out-soon Constantine (based on Hellblazer) and Gotham look very promising.

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The new age of quality TV gets huge ratings and critical kudos.

But the needs it meets are old: our lust for sex and excitement

LITTLE HOLLY WOOD: TV IS THE NEW MOVIES

TRUE DETECTIVE

Major movie names are now as at home on the small screen as they are on the big. Whether it’s Woody Harrelson and Oscar’s reigning Best Actor Matthew McConaughey in True Detective, Kevin Spacey in House Of Cards or Halle Berry in Extant, many A-listers are treading a path once thought to be beneath them.

FACTION: HISTORY MEETS FANTASY

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GAME OF THRONES Far-fetched stories based on historical events are in. The biggest show on TV (and online) right now is Game Of Thrones, which was inspired by the War of the Roses. Vikings depicts the legendary, semi-factual Norse ruler Ragnar Lodbrok, while Reign romanticises the early life of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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IN CHARACTER

STAR TALK

The sheriff in sci-fi show Defiance, is played by Grant Bowker. So, Sheriff Nolan, what do you think of when you hear these words?

What the stars of the shows, not the actors who play them, really think about being on telly

HELLBUG: Sexy Time!

ALASKA: Wasteland.

AMANDA ROSEWATER: Hot. DATAK TARR: Little thug.

VOLGE: They’re good fried.

TERRAFORMING: Trouble!

FATHERHOOD: Trouble!!!

Fun from the far north in Lilyhammer

Two reasons why experts agree that this is a golden age for TV are that character development has never been so interesting and new technologies are helping to create and prolong shows. Lilyhammer is the first original series co-produced by Netflix, the online TV and film streaming service; it’s also one of few subtitled shows to find popularity in the US. Sci-fi drama Defiance functions as both a TV show and online game universe, the two worlds existing in parallel and complementing one another. Meanwhile, Downton Abbey has transported viewers worldwide to Edwardian England. Rather than interview the actors, we spoke to the main characters from each show…

MOBBED UP Frank Tagliano, the gangster boss in Lilyhammer, set in the Norwegian town of Lillehammer, is played by Steven van Zandt

“I’m a one-man crime wave” Frank Tagliano COMEDY/DR AMA

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DEFIANCE

WHAT THE BUTLER SEES Thomas Barrow, the underbutler in Downton Abbey, is played by Rob James-Collier Barrow, if you were suddenly free to do anything, what would you do first?

“I’d open the first Edwardian gay bar and it would be called Barrow’s Law, a place where all men are free to kiss whomever they want. Especially the landlord. I’d hire Molesley [the butler

in Downton] as my DJ, to play really melancholy tunes all the time, such as Radiohead, and sit in the corner looking sad. And I’d say to him, ‘Come, Molesley, pick it up a bit, bloody hell.

Can we play some Abba or something?’ And I could literally be the Dancing Queen.”

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Frank, what would you do if you were the most powerful man in Lillehammer?

“I think I do have all the power. I turned the place into one big brothel. In Lillehammer there is no crime, no corruption, no bribing, but there is a lot of bureaucracy. You can’t buy anybody, which is shocking to Americans. In the States, if you want to be president, or mayor of New York, you can buy it.”

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THE SITCOM FORMULA What elements do you need to make a comedy show that’s guaranteed to be a global hit?

TV SHOWS THEN AND NOW

WHAT TV TEACHES US ABOUT LIFE We get the shows our times deserve, but what did the previous generation get from their top telly?

WOMANISER Whether it’s Charlie Harper from Two And A Half Men or Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother, you need a ladies’ man.

NERD Socially a flop, but a lovable brainbox, like Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory.

LOVE INTEREST A pretty girl, liked by both men and women: Penny from The Big Bang Theory or Robin from How I Met Your Mother.

RELAXED LOCATION

TOM MACKINGER, DIETMAR KAINRATH

Somewhere where we’d all feel at ease: the pub or someone’s living room.

CHEERS (1982-93)

NEW GIRL (2011-)

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PREMISE Independent, self-sufficient woman cheated on by man so finds work in a bar.

Non-independent go-getting woman cheated on by man so moves into a flat with a group of guys.

SEX & NUDITY

ONLY ALLUDED TO VERBALLY.

HEROINE JESS IS NAKED (NETWORK TV NAKED, THOUGH) IN FIRST MINUTE OF SHOW.

ALCOHOL Accepted as a way of avoiding loneliness.

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.

Presented as the answer to nearly all of life’s questions and little problems.

THE BIG BANG THEORY (2007-)

PREMISE Junior fights for hippy parents’ approval by becoming a banker.

Group of nerds fight for approval by non-nerdy society, their pushy parents… and the Nobel Prize.

WHO’S CALLING THE SHOTS?

IT’S A PATRIARCHY: DAD SETS THE AGENDA.

IT’S A MATRIARCHY: MOTHERS SET THE AGENDA.

FAMILY LIFE Harmonious and idyllic picture is painted.

This is a united family unit.

All main characters come from dysfunctional families and are struggling with first-world problems.

TO SUM UP

TO SUM UP

Men were pigs then and still are now, but they are better groomed. Drinking is even more of a social glue and cure-all.

The family has ‘developed’ from the functional to dysfunctional. The perfect world no longer exists.

Friends are better than family.

KOMA* Our artist Kainrath, dedicated to the TV universe

CAN TALK Two and a half cans

GLOBAL PHENOMENON Cool plus brainpower plus a bit of sex appeal and a killer location and you’re raking it in for years on end.

EMERGENCY ROOM

Use the commercial break to fetch yourself a snack and pop to the loo. We’ll be right back.

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GOOD GENES

EVOLUTION OF THE SHOWRUNNERS Six genre-defining producers/scriptwriters and how they have developed in the TV world

JJ ABRAMS YEAR

DONALD BELLISARIO DR AMA

DAVID CHASE

ADVENTURE

COMEDY

Crime and mystery shows (highlighted in grey) have increased significantly and show no signs of becoming less popular.

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STAR TREK: DS9 NORTHERN EXPOSURE

THE X-FILES STAR TREK: NEXT GEN

QUANTUM LEAP

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MAGNUM

...big changes.

Four things that have made the world of TV even better.

BUY Netflix Netflix has brought telly into a new era with its own shows and binge-watching.

TV Tag Social media fun meets second screen infotainment. The result is the perfect TV app.

4k Ultra-HD Smart-TV Four times higher resolution than before. You can see every pixel, but no pixelation.

Touch & Buy-Zapper Shop straight from your remote control. It doesn’t exist yet, but wouldn’t it be great?

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104 days 8 hours GENERAL HOSPITAL In that time you could: watch all the programmes listed below or fly to Venus.

GENERAL HOSPITAL

12 days 5 hours DOCTOR WHO In that time you could: walk 1,465km, which is almost as far as New York to Nashville.

11 days 12 hours

DOCTOR WHO

THE SIMPSONS In that time you could: get your American pilot’s licence.

10 days 2 hours

THE SIMPSONS

BAYWATCH In that time you could: swim the English Channel, like the average solo crosser, 18 times.

8 days 1 hour 30 minutes

NCIS

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION In that time you could: learn to play the ukulele with the Learning the Ukulele in 7 Days app.

4 days 12 hours

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER In that time you could: make 2,592 packs of microwave popcorn.

3 days 8 hours

BUFFY

TRUE BLOOD In that time you could: get through the Bible reading at average speed.

1 day 16 hours

TRUE BLOOD

GAME OF THRONES In that time you could: climb the four highest mountains in the UK.

GAME OF THRONES

ARE YOU A BOX-SET JUNKIE?

MARATHON SESSIONS

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NCIS In that time you could: listen to the complete works of Mozart.

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INSTINCT POWER, BEAUTY, FREEDOM, SKILL, ART. These are shared elements of freerunning and capoeira: the modern-day urban active discipline and the centuries-old Brazilian martial art. In fact, they have much more in common than you think Words: Fernando Gueiros 

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Photography: Karine Basilio

FREERUNNING V CAPOEIRA Michael ‘Aranha’ de Oliveira – the nickname means ‘spider’ – and Danilo Alves (facing page) are experts in capoeira and freerunning, respectively

F R E E R U N N I N G

SIDE FLIP Executed with a onelegged push, lifting the other leg off the ground and rotating the body. Here, Alves adds personal flair by holding one foot with his hand

ARMADA DUPL A CAPOEIRA

Befitting their Brazilian origins, most capoeira moves have Portuguese names. This one translates as ‘double attack’; the capoeirista jumps and rotates, and when the body is horizontal, both feet can hit the opponent

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FRE E RUNNING

HANDS TAND Used to cross over obstacles, such as walls, or to smooth out the finish of certain moves

CAPOEIRA

BANANEIR A Aka ‘banana tree’.

One of the basic principles of capoeira is balancing on one or both hands. This move is used to dodge an opponent and as a set-up for a follow-up movement

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ne definition of instinct is the ability to get what you want using your own skills. You’re walking down the street and there’s a wall in your path, your brain will automatically indicate a solution: climb it or go around it. More than 400 years ago, in Angola, instinct dictated a man’s future wife and life. He could earn the right to choose a wife in a contest in which two men battled to see who could kick the head of the other. By dodging and jumping and stretching, and ultimately landing the kick, the bride was the prize.

The competition was called n’golo, and after it arrived in South America, brought by the slaves dragged to Brazil by its Portuguese colonisers, it was altered by the new land’s music and rhythms, dancing and fighting competition, and came to be known as the martial art of capoeira. Today, it is widely respected in Latin America’s largest country and worldwide.

Capoeira isn’t necessarily a fighting technique.

Its practitioners sing and play musical instruments in the roda, capoeira’s version of boxing’s ring, so that today the sport is more a display of skill and entertainment than combat. Despite that, it is still widely known as a martial art.

“These days capoeira is practised in gyms, as if it were karate or swimming,” says 8th-degree capoeirista Michael ‘Aranha’ de Oliveira, from Sao Paolo. The 29-year-old, whose nickname means ‘spider’, executes moves that are not just beautiful to look at, but are

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also painfully powerful. “It’s almost inevitable that someone will make contact with someone else during a roda,” says Aranha. “Luckily, a large portion of the moves we learn can be used to dodge.” In the same way that Asian martial arts are inspired by natural elements, capoeira’s moves are based on animal actions. The skill to dodge a strike is the purest blend of reflex and instinctive self-preservation.

By the late 1980s, the rise of video games and TV, coupled with growing urban oppression meant that many of the teenagers in the world’s biggest cities felt stifled and suffocated. David Belle, a Frenchman who had learned in his army days a roster of what he calls “natural gymnastics” techniques – physical education with moves inspired by animals – decided to break free of his apartment and began to find new ways around the high-rises and concrete jungles.

His instinct broke rules and gave birth to a new sport that hasn’t stopped growing since: parkour.

Its main variation is freerunning, which differs from parkour in that it adds more acrobatics and so-called ‘inefficient’ moves to parkour’s simpler, more efficient A-to-B philosophy.

Animal-inspired movements, plus on-your-feet decision-making, combined with gymnastics and breakdancing moves: freerunning has a lot in common with capoeira. Geographically and historically distant from the Brazilian martial art, it is similar in that it’s an instinct-based, game-like contest in which there are no winners, and also because it’s an expression of freedom and joy without oppression.

Brazilian freerunner Danilo Alves, 26, says his sport has developed different styles as it arrived in new countries such as Brazil, where capoeira already had a huge presence in the local culture. “The ginga of capoeira brought a new element to freerunning,” says Alves, referring to the rhythmic movement

SAME GAME

“ Y OU G OTTA HAV E RHYTHM TO KE E P THE FLOW BE TWE E N E AC H MOV E ”

FREERUNNING Danilo Alves, 26, has been practising his art since he was nine years old

CAPOEIRA Michael ‘Aranha’ de Oliveira, 29, has been a member of the Geração Capoeira crew since he was 16

between moves, the cat-like hopping from foot to foot. “In Brazil it gained a lot of supporters because of the national identity with this type of move was already established. We have a natural swing, that smoothness of the hips, the ginga, the samba.”

Freerunning is urban. The uniform is sneakers, tracksuit bottoms or sweatpants, large T-shirts, beanies or baseball caps: as long as it doesn’t disturb the precision and fluidity of the moves. Capoeira demands packed earth or low grass, and its players go barefoot, wearing only comfortable slacks.

Capoeira players are at the centre of the roda, a circle where everyone around them sings and plays, not unlike another Brazilian tradition, the roda of samba, in which those around the circle play and sing while those inside dance. Freerunning, like the name suggests, is free, nomadic and adventurous. The opponent in capoeira influences a lot of one’s moves, whereas in freerunning the athlete relates with the environment only, be it natural or man-made like stairs, rails or walls.

The union of capoeira and freerunning isn’t official, but certainly the practising of the Brazilian art has helped the creation of new styles within freerunning. Today’s top freerunners all know some capoeira moves. “In capoeira you must always finish your move facing your opponent, otherwise the counter-attack will be immediate,” says de Oliveira.

“That makes some of freerunning’s moves unlike capoeira’s, especially during the finishing part.”

The finishes may be different, but this partnership of ancient and modern has only just begun. geracaocapoeira.com.br leparkourbrasil.wordpres.com

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B TWIST FRE E RUNNING

The B Twist is a push up to horizontal followed by rotation on the practitioner’s spinal axis

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California souls Arrested, rained on and booed off stage. Life on tour is no picnic, say the inventors of G-punk, but it’s the best Words: Florian Obkircher Photography: Dustin Downing

After 20 gigs in 26 days, there are 11 more to come in the next 14 days. At this point on New Beat Fund’s first US tour this year, supporting the rap-rock duo Aer, the band are in their hometown of Los Angeles. They don’t look like they’ve been on the road. They’re just four men in their mid-20s, cracking jokes and looking at women passing by. “Being on tour is great, but I love California,” says singer Jeff Laliberte, with a grin. “I think we are more understood here than most places.” He speaks from experience: most of this and last year, New Beat Fund have been on the road, tirelessly promoting their 2013 breakthrough EP, CoiNz ($), a breezy cocktail of jinglejangle guitars, playful electronics and laid-back melodies. Despite the mileage, they were able to record their as-yetunnamed debut album, due for release on Red Bull Records in October. the red bulletin: Last year you toured with Blink -182. How was it? jeff laliberte: Our first show was in New Jersey. The place was packed and we were sh–––ing our pants. We walked out and everybody just booed us. They didn’t want an opening act. michael johnson: They’d never heard our music and they didn’t give a sh–t. But by the end of our performance, the crowd warmed up. The shows with Blink-182 were tough because they are such a huge band, it is a fight for attention. jl: We’d read about the Red Hot Chili Peppers being booed when they opened for the Rolling Stones. I saw the Foo Fighters open for the Chili Peppers and they got booed. You read about it, and then you are like “It is happening to us!” mj: You grow a thick skin along the way.

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We are used to turning people who don’t even know us into believers.

You are constantly touring: how do you avoid cabin fever? mj: We look forward to getting to each city and playing a killer show. Part of the process is dealing with each other.

Dealing with each other’s farts. We get high off each other’s farts. jl: We are in a routine of travelling, but everyday is completely different so it’s cool. New people, new experiences. mj: Even brutal experiences, like the tour van breaking down in the middle of Iowa

“You read about opening bands being booed, then you are like, ‘It’s happening to us!’” when it is winter, and trying to figure out how to get to the gig. It’s all stuff that is so gnarly that it is kind of enjoyable.”

They’re the things you remember, right? shelby archer: Exactly! Like when we were arrested in Nebraska five years ago.

Why did you get arrested? sa: Possession of things and one wrong turn. Hippies from California made one wrong turn. Let’s say we were easy targets. jl: We were treated like a drug cartel. sa: We spent the night in a cell. At the time we were really stoned and paranoid, it was the worst thing ever.

But retrospectively, it’s hilarious.

You describe your style as G-punk.

What does that mean?

jl: It has a lot to do with growing up in California. We were exposed to G-funk from Dr Dre and the West Coast Gangster thing on one hand, and to punk rock bands such as Blink-182, Green Day, AFI and Rancid, on the other. mj: Our music is the middle ground of everything we grew up with. We call it G-punk ghost-rock.

Bands still move to Los Angeles to become famous. What’s it like already being here when starting out? jl: Growing up here we just understand it a bit more, and maybe the whole LA thing seems weird to us just because it was given to us. It probably still has its advantages to be here. You can run into a lot more people who can help you out than you can in, let’s say, Kansas. sa: Wherever you are, you need to build the fanbase first and everything else comes after that. In LA, that’s harder because everyone is jaded and they don’t really care because there are so many talented people. But if you go to Kansas… I don’t know why we’re talking about Kansas. mj: Yeah, what’s up with Kansas? We’ve never even played Kansas.

If the album was a pizza, which toppings would it have? jl: It would probably be a works package with everything you could think of as a topping and cooked to perfection.

That almost makes sense, given the record’s stylistic mix ranges from reggae to punk to hip-hop. But isn’t a simple margherita the best sometimes? jl: If you just want to enjoy the dough, then listen to The xx. If you want a bunch of good stuff on top and you want to be full after, then you should listen to us. newbeatfund.com THE RED BULLETIN

The line-up Michael Johnson – drums Jeff Laliberte – vocals, guitar Shelby Archer – guitar Paul Laliberte – bass Discography name TBC – album, 2014 CoiNz ($) – EP, 2013 LA decade The members are childhood friends from Los Angeles and have played in various bands for the last 10 years. Two years ago, they started New Beat Fund, the first time all four were in the same band, just to “try something different”.

MARC OF A CHAMPION

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A 21-year-old Spaniard won the first nine races of the 2014 MotoGP season; there’s only one better streak in 66 years of Grand Prix motorcycle racing. He’s reigning champion, the youngest-ever title-winner, and his rivals have a sinking feeling that the only man who can beat him is himself.

So what is it that makes MARC MARQUEZ so good?

Words: Werner Jessner Photography: David Clerihew

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Rapid success: MotoGP title-holder Marc Marquez is continuing his winning ways in 2014

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t the Dutch TT, at the Assen circuit in Holland, a wiry man is standing at the back of the Repsol Honda MotoGP team garage against a partition wall. He is tanned, with short hair and laughter lines, and bouncy on his feet. Chatting to team boss Livio Suppo during practice, you might mistake him for a former racer, but then you notice the striking similarity to the young man nearby who then puts a bespoke Shoei NXR helmet over his head. Julià Marquez is at all his eldest son’s races. He’s not obtrusive. His voice can’t be heard over everyone else’s. He doesn’t dress in team colours.

He’s just there if Marc needs him.

The same goes for Alex, Marc’s brother, who is three years younger and achieving great success in the Moto3 junior category. Both brothers still live at home with their parents in Cervera, an hour’s drive north of Barcelona. In private, Marc drives a BMW M5, which he won for being the best MotoGP qualifier last season, or a white van with no windows and a built-in workshop, which he prefers because it’s more practical.

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competitive top-class motorsport, intrudes into their lives as little as possible.

Some things have changed, Alex admits, when pushed. “In the past I used to get Marc’s helmets, gloves and bikes handed down to me. Dad would take Marc to one race while Mum drove me to another, then the following weekend it would be the other way around. But that’s not necessary any more now that we’re both in the MotoGP paddock.”

Since the age of 11, Marc has been managed by 1999 125cc world champion Emilio Alzamora. The 41-year-old Spaniard is advisor, mentor and something of a hard taskmaster, but if you’re good enough to satisfy his demands, you can climb a long, long way towards the top.

When he started working with Marc in 2004, he would have seen potential, but had no idea of the size of the diamond in the rough he had found. Sure, Marc was junior Catalan enduro champion aged eight, then made his world championship debut aged 15 and was first crowned world champion in the 125cc category at 17, but others have done that too.

After moving up from 125cc to Moto2, he first stood out for his crashes and injuries. It took him two seasons to win the title, in 2012; the previous year’s winner was Stefan Bradl of Germany.

But the Honda factory team were still adamant that they wanted him to replace the retired Australian genius Casey Stoner in the top flight of the

“ MARC GOT ON THE BIKE AND BROKE A RECORD DURING HIS FIRST MOTOGP TEST. IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE”

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Most wanted: Honda were adamant that Marquez would replace legendary retiring champ, Casey Stoner, despite his never having raced in MotoGP

sport, even if that would mean having to ignore protocol. Rookies normally have to gain experience with smaller teams before they get a ride with a big factory outfit.

Team boss Livio Suppo will never forget Marc’s first test on a MotoGP bike. “It was in Valencia. The first day it rained and we couldn’t get out to test.

Some of the others were getting nervous, but when we finally got going on the second day, Marc got on the bike and broke the record for one section on his first stint. He was quicker than Stoner, [Valentino] Rossi and [Dani] Pedrosa.

I took a picture of his data on screen with my phone. It was unbelievable.”

Suppo is a cunning old bird who ran the Ducati team before the Japanese led him to the Honda Racing Corporation so that he could finally put the cheeky Rossi and his Yamaha in their place. Suppo is not the type to be impressed easily.

“You can judge young riders after their first season. You’ve either got it or you haven’t.” For someone to be quicker than the benchmark on their first outing, that was unheard of, even in the Darwinian world of 1,000cc motorcycle racing.

When riders like Marc Marquez hurtle round the track on their electronically enhanced 250hp missiles, they can tilt at up to 69 degrees to the track. (When they lean that far, the rider’s head disappears from the picture on the gyroscopic onboard cameras and it’s not knee and elbow touching the tarmac; sometimes even a shoulder does.) The force generated is borne by two spots the size of credit cards on the standardised Bridgestone tyres, whose surface temperature can pass 200°C. Wheel rims get so hot that you can’t touch them without wearing gloves. Repsol Honda’s chief engineer, Klaus Nöhles, a former world championship motorcycle rider, 46

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“ FINDING THE LIMIT,” SAYS MARQUEZ, “IS PART OF IT, OTHERWISE YOU WON’T BE QUICK ENOUGH”

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Full tilt: Marquez is the only rider who’s back wheel comes off the tarmac when he leans over in a corner

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Mr Happy: says Marquez’s team boss, “There’s no one who doesn’t like working for him”

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knows everything there is to know about his riders’ preferences, and what they really signify. “Marc needs the front wheel to be extremely stable. To put it bluntly, he doesn’t care about what the back wheel is doing. He is the only person whose rear wheel comes off the tarmac when he leans over fully because he brakes so hard coming into the corners.”

And yet, he sometimes hits the floor, skids into the gravel or has to brake to an emergency stop. “Finding the limit is all part of it,” Marc says with a grin and shrugs his shoulders. “Otherwise you won’t be quick enough.” He used to crash a lot; now he knows the limit without necessarily having to go beyond it.

But could his speed be due to his being used to electronic driving aids, as rumoured by some? Suppo denies it.

“He is so quick because he’s so quick.

On the contrary, electronics help weaker riders look disproportionately good.”

Nöhles says that the Repsol Honda working methods are the most structured he has ever witnessed in his career. “They come to the track with a specific idea and then only ever change one thing. They never do anything in a panic.” That is largely down to the calm and wise ways of Santi Hernandez, the head of Marc’s engineering team. The Spaniard, who lives in London and has a great gift for smoking, is the young guy with the beard thrilled in the background whenever Marc wins.

“It’s so easy working with Marc,” he says.

“He says exactly what he wants and then goes faster than expected. He is also amazingly honest. If he makes a mistake and crashes, he comes into the pits and apologises. So we don’t even have to start looking for mistakes in the set-up.”

Marc works through disappointments very quickly, in no time beaming his sunshine smile, which, says brother Alex, “the whole family has”. Says Suppo: “Casey Stoner was a prodigy on the bike, but he and Marc have completely different personalities. Marc arrives laughing every time and is happy to be here. That affects the whole team, which I’m grateful to him for on a daily basis.

There’s no one who doesn’t like working for him. Marc makes us all younger.”

The young man’s self-confidence is incredible. Last year, in front of 100,000 fanatic home fans in Valencia, he had to finish the final race of the season no worse than third to become the youngest world champion in history. Marc tapped his team boss on the shoulder before the start and said reassuringly, “Don’t worry. Even if you tied one hand behind my back, I’d finish third.” First was Jorge Lorenzo, second THE RED BULLETIN

Dani Pedrosa and third Marc Marquez.

No risk taken, but he got the job done.

He works well with his teammate Pedrosa, who, traditionally, ought to be his greatest rival. “They get on, they have a laugh, they even go and eat together,” says Suppo. Such camaraderie between competing teammates is unthinkable in other sports. The key to it here is probably mutual respect, helped by the fact that they’re in an extremely dangerous sport and so reliant on one another when they’re going wheel-to-wheel at 350kph and there’s no carbon chassis to protect the body if something goes wrong. It wasn’t always like this, though. The two had a few nasty scrapes as they fought for the lead in the championship last season and for a while there seemed to be trouble in the air. There’s no evidence of it now. They talked it through, man to man, says Suppo, who expresses his “respect for the way the two of them dealt with the situation”.

Dani Pedrosa has been at the top of MotoGP for a decade and is the wiliest

“ IT’S AS IF MARC HAS GREATER FAITH IN HIS BIKE’S ABILITIES THAN THE OTHER RIDERS DO”

rider in the field after Valentino Rossi.

Marc’s current advantage, says Pedrosa, comes because he “isn’t just quick; he’s hard to overtake, too. He brakes when he’s already leaning way over to come into the corner, which makes him very wide. There’s no way of getting around him on the outside. The only chance you have is to come in on his inside as you brake – but then you’ve still got to make the corner.”

Stefan Bradl agrees: “We’re all trying to crack him, but no one’s worked out how yet.”

Maybe it’s down to training on dirt tracks, where Marc got used to riding sliding motorbikes. “Marc has perfected braking with his leg splayed out wide,” says Klaus Nöhles. “He props himself up with a leg on the tarmac, while the bike seems to dance and career out of control.

Look closely and you can see that he is only guiding the bike very loosely, letting it find its own way, rather than clinging onto it for dear life like the other riders seem to. It’s as if Marc has greater faith in his bike’s abilities than the others do.”

In addition to his consistent brilliance, there are magic Marquez moments where, out of nowhere, he manages to get one over the rest of the field, almost as if for fun, sapping spirits even more.

Such as securing pole position by a large margin on a circuit that favours Yamaha bikes – the kind with quick, open corners – ahead of three Yamahas and a Ducati, and then the other Hondas. And what does he have to say about that? A grin all over his face.

Whoever gets a MotoGP pole receives a watch from a sponsor. Marc keeps the first one each year for himself. He gives the second to his father, then he works his way through the team. Engineer Santi Hernandez now has four and always wears the most recent one. The others are in his flat in London, where he also has a signed helmet from last year’s world championship title. “One day,” says Hernandez, “one day, I’ll look back and won’t be able to believe that I was part of all this and got to work with someone like Marc.”

Who can stop him going to greater success if even his rivals barely think they have a chance? Team boss Suppo knows.

“Having a short, successful career is one thing. Having a long successful one is something else completely. Marc has what it takes to be even more successful than Valentino Rossi. The only think that could possibly get in his way is if he falls in love with some stunning Brazilian and she whisks him off to a desert island.” redbull.com/faster

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Punk ro c ke rs the M a ke -O ve rs don’t ta ke o r d e rs.

They own th e ir ow n studi o, th e ir ow n label, a n d th ey bankroll th e ir ow n oversea s tou rs. Th e Red Bu lletin m eets South Afr ica’s m ost indepe n d e nt b a n d Wo r d s : L l oyd G e d ye P hoto gra p hy: C h r i s Sa u n d e rs

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PRISONERS The music industry has treated bands so badly in the past,” says Andreas Schönfeldt, “that the one or two stories you hear of bands getting revenge are bittersweet.” It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon and the Make-Overs, one of South Africa’s most fiercely independent bands, are huddled around a small table at Kitcheners, a Johannesburg den of debauchery.

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In the post-industrial south of Pretoria, the Make-Overs have crafted seven full-length albums

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anyone involved in ‘the industry’. The Make-Overs have spurned numerous offers from major South African labels to protect their art; for them, it’s personal.

“When we decided that we wanted to do this band thing, we realised that we would have to make sacrifices,” says Martinique Pelser, Schönfeldt’s partner in life and in rock ’n’ roll. “We don’t want to have a family, and we saw how much friends spent on their kids. The band is our baby.”

The couple have been together for 11 years and have been involved in many musical projects, most notably Poodle Piss, Sticky Antlers and now the Make-Overs.

The band came into existence in 2010 when Sticky Antlers came to a sticky end and split up after two albums. “I said to Andreas that I don’t think we’ll ever find that kind of chemistry again, so we must just keep it to the two of us,” Pelser told The Red Bulletin back when Sticky Antlers were in the process of dissolving.

A mere two months after that final Sticky Antlers gig in September 2010, the couple launched the Make-Overs debut album MC1R On The 16th Chromosome.

Three more albums followed in 2011, the best of which was Centipede-sing-a-long.

The next year, 2012, saw the release of

Above: long before analogue recording made a comeback, the duo were recording live to tape, revelling in the bass distortion and physicality of the medium. Right: at the high-intensity launch of The Devil’s In The Detail last year

“ THE MAKE-OVERS’ LIVE SHOWS ARE LEGENDARY: NEVER BEFORE HAVE TWO SUCH UNDISTINGUISHEDLOOKING 20-SOMETHINGS CREATED SUCH AN ADDICTIVE RACKET” Your Holiday Shopping Ends Here and their debut gig at South Africa’s premier music festival Oppikoppi, with the duo playing a memorable set that had the Oppi punters rocking out hard.

The Make-Overs’ live shows are legendary: never before have two such undistinguished-looking 20-somethings created such an addictive racket and made such an impression on South Africa’s jaded rock ’n’ roll scene.

Last year they released their first music on vinyl, a track called Surfbored on seveninch put out by American label Hozac Records, and The Devil’s in the Detail LP was jointly released on red vinyl by Cape Town labels Angry Africa and Roastin’ Records.

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that album is another outstanding dose of full-throttle rock ’n’ roll. But in typical Make-Overs style, when it comes to talking about any of their other albums, all they want to talk about is their new record, Move Jinx Hand, which has already been released on green vinyl.

“Move Jinx Hand has some great pop songs,” says Pelser, referring to their goal of reclaiming pop music from the commercial ghetto where it currently languishes. “Garage is great, I love it; punk is great, I love it; but pop can be great too.”

“We didn’t set out to make noise music, we set out to make pop music,” confirms Schönfeldt.

The Make-Overs are almost totally DIY. They have their own home studio set-up, where they record all their songs on an

analogue reel-to-reel recorder. They have their own label, called KRNGY. They have their own tour van, organise their own gigs, sell their own merchandise, and for the last two years have played a series of dates in America off their own bat.

“Last year we played Blackout Fest, run

by Hozac Records,” says Pelser. “We also had shows in Chicago, New York, and we played at The Painted Lady, where Iggy Pop and Joe Strummer used to drink in Detroit. That was awesome.” This year, they played Cincinnati, Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia, among others.

It’s clear the Make-Overs see themselves in a struggle against the world, the industry and anything else that stands in their way of making music, releasing it as they see fit and performing how they want.

“We are committed to this band and this relationship,” says Pelser. “I know that in 20 years Andreas will still be at my side, we may still have an interview at Kitcheners and may not have got much further than a few international tours. But if we still record, I’ll be happy.” Amen to that. make-overs.com THE RED BULLETIN

QUEEN of N IC O L E PACE LLI COMES FROM BRAZIL IAN SU RF CE N T RAL CAST I NG,

the WAVES BUT T H E R E ’S N OT H IN G T Y P ICA L IN T H E WAY T H IS WORL D CHAM PION IS S H OW IN G U P T H E M E N O N T HE WORL D’S BIGGEST BRE AKS

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ying on her surfboard in her bikini on the sands of Arpoador Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Nicole Pacelli poses for a photographer when a kid on a bicycle stops nearby. From over the concrete divider separating the beach from the pavement, he whistles. “Now that’s a mermaid,” he says, loud enough for anyone to hear. Pacelli, still lying down, flips her middle finger at him. The bicycle quickly turns around and disappears.

Last year, aged 22, Pacelli became the inaugural champion of the Women’s Stand Up World Tour, winning the wave category, in which paddleboard surfers drop down the waves and actually ride them instead of just crossing over them. After its maiden voyage last year, season two of the tour began with another Pacelli win, at the Turtle Bay Women’s Pro in Hawaii in February. She followed that with a runner-up finish on the next stop in Rio, and a third-place performance in round three in Abu Dhabi. A repeat championship is looking likely.

Born in the Brazilian coastal city of Guarujá, Pacelli moved to São Paulo and grew up surfing the waves of nearby Maresias Beach. Her father, Jorge Pacelli, is a former professional surfer and her mother, Flávia Boturão, a former bodyboarder. “I grew up inside this world, with boards everywhere, hearing my father’s friends telling stories of their adventures,” she says. Before heading off to a tour stop, Pacelli spoke with The Red Bulletin about how she embarked on her journey. the red bulletin: Your parents are surfers. Have they always wanted you to be one as well?

Nicole Pacelli: My mum always supported me in everything, but she wanted me to study, too. Surfing came naturally; she could see I loved it. But life’s hard for a surfer, especially a girl surfer, so I can understand her concerns back then. Parents never want to see their children go through hard times. My dad 56

also said I ought to study, but he steered me on to the surfing side a bit more.

When a big swell came in he’d say: “Stay here, keep surfing, you don’t have to go to school today!”

So your dad gave you the advice any surfer would have given…

Exactly. And my mum would get desperate – “No, you’re crazy!” So when I came back from being an exchange student in New Zealand, at 17, I started surfing more and

more. I knew I liked surfing big waves but I had no frame of reference: I’d never actually taken a proper surf trip. I had no idea what level the other girls abroad were at. I always had my sister [Alana, the second of five siblings; Nicole is the eldest] with me; we’d surf with some dudes and had no idea if we were any good. I only knew I loved it and my parents supported me.

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surfing, rather than stand-up paddleboarding. How were you able to make the transition?

It happened because of my dad. He was given a stand-up board from California about five years ago and I started paddling. It was a lifeguard’s board, a bit different from a stand-up, and it had a giant ‘RESCUE’ written on it. It’s big, and I started using it as a stand-up board, using my dad’s paddle. I rode some small

waves and loved it. Then my dad partnered with a local factory and began to manufacture stand-up boards.

Now I use the boards he makes. At the beginning, I used some giant boards – 9ft-something. Then he made a ‘small’ one, 8ft 10in, and I began to develop my surfing more.

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frustrated. I’d go to the breaks because I loved to have fun, just being in the water. But you know when things get too crowded, and everybody begins to battle for each wave? Sure, I’m a competitor now, but back then if anyone paddled next to me to try and cut into my wave, I’d just stop and let it go. The fact is, I saw stand-up as a challenge. I wanted to evolve because I saw guys surfing quite well with SUP boards, so I wanted to do the same. With each fall I evolved a little. With regular surfing this challenge didn’t exist, this search to develop more and more, you know?

Stand-up gave me this challenge. When I went into the sea, most people did not know what it was; very few people were doing SUP back then. Guys would say, “What are you doing with that paddle?”

And I’d go into the water any day, big waves, small waves, didn’t matter. It was all about the challenge for me.

Then I went to Hawaii, back in 2010.

How was your first time there?

I was already doing SUP and had entered college. There were sponsorship offers popping up, I was doing well, and standup was gaining momentum. So I said to my mum, “C’mon, I’ve done my part in college, can I be a surfer now?” That’s when she understood that there’d be no other way for me. So I spent two months in Hawaii, in 2010-11.

So what changed for you?

I’d go to Sunset [beach] on a big day and there’d be no other girl but me. When I arrived, I went straight to Jaws [beach] instead of Oahu. It was me and my sister, and before we got to know the more famous waves, like Waimea, Pipeline, and Sunset, we went head first into Jaws.

I only dropped the smaller stuff, but still, we’re talking about 30ft waves here!

Massive! That’s when I knew I could do it.

What did it feel like dropping into those monsters?

Just rad, incredible. I don’t feel fear in advance on those days, only when I’m actually there. Some people can’t sleep the night before a day like that, but I’m calm. I sleep like a baby. Once I get there, though, that’s when it dawns on me, the sheer size of the stuff. Then I’m scared.

SUP has evolved a lot recently. How do you see this evolution?

It’s changed a lot, from the boards to the number of people doing it. I think it’s great. And in my opinion, it’s growing a lot because it’s not restricted to the sea.

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“I’M VERY CALM. I LIE LOW AND DO WHAT I HAVE TO DO” everyone can do it. This popularity will help the sport grow, bring more media attention and investment, more events, more people showing what they can do.

What good is being a great SUP athlete if there are no good championships?

And how’s the relationship between stand-up paddlers and regular surfers on the outside?

Well, some people don’t really like us.

I’ve been kicked out of the water in Hawaii. In Brazil I’ve never had problems, but in Waimea a local came and told me to get out and not come back, that me being there was dangerous. That’s a downside to the increase of SUP’s popularity, with people who never surfed in their lives all of a sudden doing SUP surfing. Because it’s a lot easier to standup on a SUP board in the beginning, some newbies just start riding all over the place, and it can become dangerous.

You became the world champ last year, but when did you start competing?

During my second season in Hawaii, I took part in a championship with men at Sunset Beach, in 2011-12. I found out that there was going to be a world championship for men and just a demo for women. They put the girls on Turtle Bay, a beach with small waves, and I won. There were some 15 girls there, all Hawaiian. After I won, I asked the organiser if I could compete at Sunset with the guys. He said I could, but in a “well-this-girl’s-crazy-and-I-better-notargue-with-her” way. He let me take part

in the trials. And I wanted that because I knew that meant a chance to surf Sunset with only three people in the water. But the waves that day were big, over 12ft.

I thought, “What have I got myself into?” I went in and was hit on the head by a huge series of waves; I couldn’t get back. When I finally managed it, I surfed a really good wave for one second after the heat was over, so it didn’t count. I finished third out of three but they told me that if that last wave had counted, I would’ve qualified for the next round.

Everybody came and spoke to me, guys I admired complimented my attitude of facing that heat. So I thought: “Well, I must be doing things right.”

Why do you think you are so underestimated by male surfers?

Some people see my size and don’t believe the size of the swells I manage to face. Back in Hawaii, sometimes guys would stop me on the way in and say, “Are you sure you can do this?” and I’d be like, “Yeah, get out of my way, let me go in.” [Laughs.]

Do your parents ever come along on your trips?

Not any more. In the beginning, my dad would travel with me to the Brazilian championship. When he sees me surfing he always gives me some tips, and he pulls no punches, he’s super-demanding.

Sometimes I get out of the water thinking I’ve killed it and he comes and says I did this and that wrong, you know?

You are the woman to beat right now.

Is that tough to deal with?

I’m cool with it. I thought it was going to be worse. Everybody’s advancing so fast, and the girls are surfing so well now. There was no world championship before, so that’s become a goal to everybody else – “Oh, Nicole’s a world champion now, so that means I can also be one.” Imagine, every stop of the tour now, the announcer goes: “And now, the world champion, Nicole Pacelli!” so everybody wants to see whether this world-champion girl truly is the real deal. At the first stop of this season in Hawaii, my photo was on the championship’s poster, so I said to myself, “OK, it’s time to bring it.” But then I go into the water and I feel calm. That’s one of my qualities, I feel calm, lie low and do what I have to do. I thought the pressure was going to be an issue this year, but so far it hasn’t affected me. If I started to overthink what I have to do in the water, thinking about how many seconds are left in a heat and such, I probably couldn’t do it any more. watermanleague.com

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BYE BYE Imagine that you’re building a car to win the toughest rally on Earth.

It’s a trade-off between durability and performance: you need to be fast to take the Dakar, but also survive the harsh conditions.

You need four-wheel drive, right?

Wrong. One of motoring’s greatest names is ripping up the rulebook with an radical bid for victory

4X4 WORDS: ALAIN PERNOT

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WO RL D F I RST Above: The Peugeot 2008 DKR cockpit shortly before its maiden voyage. The project has lofty aims. Its makers want it to be the first two-wheel drive, dieselengine car to win the Dakar.

For Jean-Christophe Pallier, technical director of the project, it would be “a sensational first after 35 Dakar rallies”.

T H E LU M I N A RI ES Carlos Sainz (below), the 1990 and 1992 World Rally Champion, is part of a 2015 Dakar team alongside Cyril Despres, five-time Dakar winner on a motorbike, and Stéphane Peterhansel, who has won the Dakar 11 times on both two and four wheels.

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n a Friday in late June, 2014, at the Domaine de Galicet, a test track on the border of Normandy, 70km west of Paris. A Peugeot Sport truck rolls into the car park and the mechanics get ready to busy themselves at the loading dock.

They carefully unload their precious freight, a Martian off-road buggy perching high above four huge lugged tyres.

It is all too clear that Philippe Wambergue, the man who owns the track, is moved by what he sees. The 66-year-old was once a racing driver himself and took part in 11 Paris-Dakar Rallies. In 1989 and 1990 he drove a Peugeot 205 T16 Grand Raid factory car through the desert in Africa.

The Domaine de Galicet is one of Peugeot’s favourite testing grounds, so Wambergue is used to being present at the birth of vehicles that go on to become motorsport legends. But today is exceptional, even for him: “It’s reawakened memories of what were very special times.” The Frenchman’s eyes light up as he talks of how Peugeot won the world’s toughest off-road rally four years in a row from 1987 to 1990, before deciding to step back from racing.

Carlos Sainz, the two-time World Rally Champion and winner of the 2010 Dakar, is also excited. “The start of a new adventure is a huge moment,” he says.

“Those first metres you drive in a new car.

We’re full of hopes and expectations that will either now be fulfilled or dashed.”

Sainz is already in his overalls and empties his pockets before clambering

into the car. He gives his mobile phone to one very well-known spectator: Stéphane Peterhansel the most successful Dakar driver of all time, having won it on 11 occasions. He and Sainz will be driving for Peugeot in the Dakar Rally in January along with five-time winner Cyril Despres, who is swapping the handlebars of his Yamaha for a steering wheel.

Does he mind that he wasn’t chosen to be the one to drive those first few metres in the new 2008 DKR? Peterhansel is dismissive. “Not at all. I understand that Carlos should be the one to take the first drive. He’s got more experience with two-wheel drive and he’s raced the last two Dakars in Red Bull buggies, after all. But it’s still important for me to be here. You get a really strong sense of the spirit of the project here. That’s hugely inspiring for everyone present.”

The project’s technical director, JeanChristophe Pallier, meanwhile, is keeping a low profile. “I’m always excited before

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Carlos Sainz presses the start button of his Peugeot 2008 DKR and the 340bhp of the diesel engine comes to life a maiden drive,” he admits, “but this time maybe I’m a little bit more excited than I am normally.” The reason is simple.

Pallier is responsible for the technical execution of what is an ambitious challenge: to end the supremacy of the 4x4, with two-wheel drive and a diesel engine. No such vehicle has yet won the Dakar, which was first held in 1978.

“We ended up prioritising the two-wheel drive’s climbing ability and its good handling on sand,” Pallier explains. “The regulations give us greater freedom when compared to the 4x4s: less weight, bigger wheels, longer suspension travel.”

It is almost a year to the day since the ambitious project was launched, straight after winning at Pikes Peak, the legendary American hillclimb race, where Sébastien Loeb broke the track record he had long had his eye on in a Peugeot prototype. So how much Pikes Peak is there in the Dakar Peugeot?

Almost none, says Bruno Famin, the director of Peugeot Sport, with a shake 64

of the head. “Tarmac and the desert are two completely different things. There’s no overlap. The 2008 DKR is almost the mirror image of the Pikes Peak car.”

The reason that Peugeot was able to make such rapid progress in developing the 2008 DKR after a quarter of a century away from the Dakar is simple: Peugeot Sport never lost its love for the rally.

Carlos Sainz presses the start button and unleashes the 340bhp of the V6 twinturbo diesel engine for the first time. It doesn’t produce the furious bark of the 208 T16 Pikes Peak. This sound is more reminiscent of the 908 HDi which won the day at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2009.

At one point, Sainz stalls the engine while toying with the clutch, but after the second start he can begin to flex his muscles. The car comes rolling out onto the track on its high wheels. For the first few metres, it looks rather hesitant, almost clumsy, even at this low speed. Four minutes later, driver and car are back safe and sound. Sainz appears to be somewhat embarrassed, but Pallier reassures him with a smile.

“It’s completely normal that you stalled the car,” he says. “The pedal arrangements are still being tested.”

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On June 27, 2014, Peugeot engineers and drivers bore witness to a moment of history at the Domaine de Galicet test track: the letting loose of the 2008 DKR “beast of the desert”.

The goal: to win the Dakar, and thus become the first two-wheel drive vehicle with a diesel engine to do so.

ainz adjusts his seat position while the electronics engineers load the data recorded by well over 100 sensors.

Once the seat position is right and all the data has been stored, he prepares for his second outing, which will be longer and much quicker. A good sign.

Sainz isn’t thoroughly satisfied when he gets back. “No traction,” he says matter-of-factly. A young engineer standing next to project leader Pallier assiduously notes down every comment on the engine, chassis and gear ratio.

Then Sainz sets off again, this time on a longer test track, which has terrain very similar to the Dakar.

This is first real test for the vehicle.

Sainz clearly thinks so, too. He goes hard on the car and makes all four wheels leave the ground to sound out the suspension travel when it lands again. Stones, sand and dirt all come flying up on the turns. The more difficult the terrain, the more commanding driver and vehicle appear to be. You can see how the huge 37in wheels and the massive 460mm suspension travel (as opposed to 250mm for traditional 4x4s) affect its handling.

Stéphane Peterhansel, who had until that point been a silent and attentive spectator on the sidelines, nods in approval. “The car seems a bit too high,

but that’s normal. We haven’t even got started on further development yet, after all. Today’s test was just about making sure that all the features work.”

Once the 2008 DKR is back at base, Peterhansel checks the suspension travel. “Look at this,” he says, beckoning the engineers over to him, and pointing out three screws that have come loose on the gearbox. Sainz had already noticed that there was something wrong with the handling and cut the test drive short so as not to risk any damage. And his prudence pays off. Just a few minutes after the necessary repairs are made, he can get going again and this time he stays out on the track for hours.

It is dark. Night has fallen over Domaine de Galicet by the time Carlos Sainz gives his first summing up. “We didn’t drive that much and plus this was on a track that was more like a WRC course than the Dakar course, so it’s difficult to make comparisons with other cars that I’ve driven in the past.”

He looks serious, but then breaks out into a smile. “Of course there’s still a lot to do when it comes to reliability and performance, however the most important thing is that we know that the 2008 DKR has the potential that we’ve been working towards.” redbull.com/peugeot-returns

YOUR LIFE The technology of the future will give you the ability to customise your life – everything from

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Exercise Wearing new technology as you sleep will allow you to have lucid dreams, giving you the ability to control what is going on in your dream world as it happens

The result of those lucid dreams?

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SUNDAY AUGUST 11, 2030 6am: Good morning

Factory farming will end its stranglehold on the food supply; advances in smaller farms will allow consumers to cultivate their own produce and protein sources on their own land

When you wake up in the future, it’s not with a startled jerk and a frantic grope to silence the shrieking alarm coming from your smartphone. Instead, you will be eased gently out of a lucid dream and into your day, thanks to the 10th-generation Aurora headband you put on before drifting off the previous evening.

The headband, a brainchild of iWinks engineers Daniel Schoonover and Andrew Smiley, uses audiovisual cues to induce states of lucid dreaming. “It gives us the ability to be aware of a dream while it is happening,” explains Smiley. This means that while you grabbed your eight hours of shut-eye last night, you were able to decide where you wanted to go in your dreams, so you traced the course of the sprint triathlon you’ll start in a few hours. “One great feature and benefit of lucid dreaming is the ability to practise a real-life task and improve your performance of that task in waking life,” says Schoonover. “By visualising your performance of a task in dreams, you strengthen the neural-network pathways that derive from that task.”

Smiley and Schoonover hope to send out the first Aurora headbands this month. The technology, Schoonover says, works because “the headband monitors your sleep stages accurately and it knows when you’re in REM sleep, the stage where dreams are most likely to occur.

While the user is dreaming, they are sensitive to external suggestion.”

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ended with you winning the triathlon and being lifted, victorious, onto your friends’ shoulders. There may even have been enthusiastic congratulations from a supermodel – hell, it’s your dream. “The average person is likely to experience a lucid dream right before they wake up,” says Smiley. “They’re going to wake up feeling exhilarated; they’re not going to feel tired. It’s going to be great.”

10am: Race ready You’ve just finished the swimming portion and you’re trading your wetsuit for climbing shoes. (Triathlons of the future include climbing a mountain to get to your bike – didn’t you know that?) This is the part you were most nervous about, being a novice climber, but in your lucid dream just before waking you saw every hand- and foothold, so you set out up the slope with a speed and precision you’d never have been able to achieve without the REM-state practice.

Halfway up the rock face, your mind clicks into a flow state. Flow – first documented by Hungarian psychology professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – is “an optimal state of consciousness, a peak state where we both feel our best and perform our best,” according 68

to Steven Kotler, author of The Rise Of Superman: Decoding The Science Of Ultimate Human Performance. “Flow has been at the heart of ultimate human performance as long as we’ve been looking at this topic,” says Kotler. “Until recently it’s been a lightning strike.

People have been waiting for lightning to strike again – they didn’t know where it came from, they didn’t know how it arrived – and when it happened, it was a miracle. For the first time in history, over the next five to 10 years, we’re going to figure out how to bottle lightning.”

By the time you’re climbing this rock face in 2030, you’ll know what your flow triggers are; since you’re dangling a few dozen metres off the ground, focused attention and major consequences, like breaking your neck, are the ones that sent you into the flow state. You scale

“ With lucid dreaming, you’re going to wake up exhilarated – not feeling tired”

Work the rock almost without thinking, and when you reach the top, your brain is awash in the five neurochemicals that make up flow: dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, endorphins and anandamide. It’s a heady mix, says Kotler. “The most common endorphin in the body is a hundred times more potent than medical morphine – and the levels of the other four are in the highs from cocaine, ecstasy, speed and cannabis.

Five of the most addictive drugs on the planet cocktailed in flow. These are fundamentally addictive neurochemicals, so you need to know what you’re doing.”

At the top of the mountain, you’ve triumphed. You’re limitless. “Flow is so spectacular,” Kotler says. “The fact that we can do this means we’re all hardwired for ultimate human performance.”

12pm: Farm-fresh lunch After crossing the finish line, you sit down to a post-race lunch of chicken and veg stir-fry, with almost all the ingredients coming from the smallholding in your back garden. From this you’ll have tomatoes, squash, string beans and leafy greens, with the more sunlight-averse crops sheltered under an avocado tree.

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Your surroundings can have an impact on your creativity. In the future, you will be able to change your environment on a whim

time out there tilling, weeding, and harvesting: your AgroCircle robot takes care of all that drudgery while you reap the benefit of fresh, cheap, healthy food.

Marcin Jakubowski, executive director of Open Source Ecology, dreams of “integrated, regenerative food systems.

Greater access to tools and equipment will allow individuals to be more capable of producing their own food.”

To that end, Jakubowski and his team at Open Source Ecology’s Factor e Farm in Missouri, USA, have been working on small-scale agricultural machinery, such as “a small-scale microcombine that allows you to harvest multiple crops on an acre. The average combine harvester is so huge that you have to have dozens of acres of a single crop before it makes economic sense, but more highly integrated systems allow you to get the kind of synergies that make all the parts better. If you pack more diversity into the same area, the whole system benefits.”

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own. “A zero-energy greenhouse with a solar roof and double-walled membrane – two layers of glass filled with soap bubbles – gives you a high level of thermal insulation for winter at minimal cost,” says Jakubowski, “so individuals can grow tropical fruits.”

The chicken thighs you’re eating also come from close to home. Jakubowski says, “Full automation will be possible in just about any agriculture activity,” which means you can have a backyard co-op producing fresh eggs and meat for the occasional coq au vin, without the hassle of getting your hands pecked.

1pm: Work prep You need to prepare for a big work meeting tomorrow, so after lunch you step into your home office, which has been designed to facilitate your ultimate

“ We think people are Einsteins or not, but there’s room for us all to innovate”

creativity. Eric Berlow of well-being research firm Vibrant Data Labs, says the future will be highly personalised, and we’ll know how different types of people do their best work. “We often think of creativity as this innate thing, that either you’re Einstein or you’re not, but actually there’s a lot of room for all of us to get better at innovating,” says Berlow. “A lot of what we understand about creativity is common sense. You see lists of the top 10 habits of highly creative people, such as take more naps, be open to new ideas, travel. We’re looking at personalised ideas, where we try to understand different types of creative thinkers and then tailor the kind of creativity training to people who are like you. Maybe you don’t like taking naps, but that doesn’t mean you’re not creative, because you’re the kind of person who would benefit from another technique.”

Berlow hopes the research he’s working on now, which will include a survey of “a thousand recognisable and highly creative people”, will lead to identifying different types of creative thinkers. “There is this idea of personalised training, but everybody isn’t a snowflake – we’re not all 100 per cent unique. We all fall into categories 69

over the world is ridiculous. That seems not only wasteful but also not a very interesting way to live.”

7pm: TV time After dinner, you step outside to show your friends how the garden is thriving under the robot’s careful stewardship, while your dining room reconfigures into a media room so you all can watch highlights of the morning’s race. “It’s so easy to put small controllers on desks and chairs and televisions and program them to move things around,” says Lynn. “If you can reconfigure the space effortlessly, it gives you a better quality of life and you can do more with it. You don’t have to build as much so it’s going to cost less and you also don’t have to heat and cool space you’re not using.”

10pm: Game on

of people who can learn from each other and benefit from the same kinds of regimen,” he says.

Based on what kind of thinker you are your home office doesn’t have a couch for napping; instead, one whole wall is made of glass, so you can look out on your garden and brainstorm. When you identified your creative type, Berlow explains, you did so by answering a set of questions: “When you have your best ideas, where are you, usually? At your desk? Outside? Some people say it’s while you’re soaking in the bath.

For me, it’s when I’m out on a run.”

5pm: Social hour You’re hosting a dinner for a group of friends who also finished the triathlon, so it’s time to make a dining room.

Architect Greg Lynn says the house of the future will be like the self-driving car: able to know what’s going on in a space and predict what you want, based on past instructions. “Right now there’s some initiative going on that looks at integrating robotics into the built environment and making the environment not only more intelligent, but letting that intelligence control 70

things like furniture,” says Lynn. “You’re already seeing it with thermostats and window controls for daylight. By 2030, you’re going to see a lot of that kind of intelligence from the transportation industry applied to interior walls and furniture, platforms and floors.”

To prepare for your 12-guest dinner party, you inform your home’s main multipurpose living area, which only yesterday you were using as a workshop to put new tyres on your racing bike – to bring in extra chairs, put new segments into the dining table and swap the bright task lighting for a softer, chandelier effect. “Instead of having a house with 10 rooms, you might be able to create a house with fewer rooms or larger, more reconfigurable rooms,” says Lynn.

“The explosion in size of homes all

“ By 2030, you’ll be able to reconfigure the walls, furniture and floors in your house”

11pm: Good night After you’ve finished playing the video game, you hop into bed wearing your Aurora headband and drift off into a lucid dream of flying cars, because, even in 2030, they still only exist in dreams.

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Video games in the future will be fun, but they will also serve therapeutic purposes: to relax after a day’s work, as well as improve physical conditioning

Pleasantly drained after a physically and socially full day, you relax for an hour playing an immersive video game that has a subtle side effect of taking you through a stretching programme to prevent next-day soreness. Video game designer Kellee Santiago imagines a future in which games will be designed with a therapeutic purpose in mind. Making these experiences desirable as opposed to a chore,” she says. “One of the challenges in behaviour modification is that as humans we’re programmed to be driven toward things that are immediate. It’s hard for our minds to grasp the long-term reward. You could absolutely apply game design to making the good habit more immediate.”

When Santiago’s game Flower was released in 2009, the review programme The Gadget Show compared a Flower player’s heart rate with one playing the first-person shooter Killzone 2.

“After Killzone the heart rate was elevated and after Flower it decreased,” says Santiago. For other games in the future, she says, “I can see an advantage when you want to step outside of the environment you’re in to get a shot of relaxation or happiness or bliss that you might be able to carry back into the world around you.”

LEARNING MAN Rave kid and medical tech pioneer, defence contractor and Burning Man enthusiast: DAVE WARNER is a modern-day multitasker.

With more data and information available to us than ever before, the neuroscientist explains why sharing will improve our quality of life in the future Words: Andreas Tzortzis

Dave Warner (centre) gathering data first-hand

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Dave Warner was always a bit of a misfit.

Kicked out of several schools in Southern California as a teenager, he enrolled in the US military for a while before ending up pursuing an academic career. As a dual medical student and PhD candidate at Loma Linda University in the late 1980s, he would head into Los Angeles to hang out with the “power nerds” at military contractors like Northrop Grumman and Rockwell International and attend raves at night. From the nerds he got access to the computer systems that helped his medical research, and became a pioneer in human-computer interaction, working with disabled children and researching virtual reality. More recently, his “beer for data” programme in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where he owned a bar while working as a defence contractor, sought to highlight the benefits of information sharing among NGOs, the UN and the local people.

The Red Bulletin spoke to Warner about how data will change us in the future, and why, despite privacy concerns, we need to share more of it.

Why is the principle of sharing so important to you?

Ignorance is a curable disease. Stupidity is terminal. If people don’t share information, we, as humanity, can’t actually make progress. I’m a big believer in that. When I was in medical school making a bunch of virtual reality and interface devices, the dot-com thing started and people stopped sharing things because everything became proprietary.

People wanted to be the next Bill Gates or the next Steve Jobs. Well, I lost patients because we couldn’t get access to them to help their rehabilitation.

I understand patient privacy, but the inability to share things that help people?

That hit me as a fundamental evil.

Why did it get to this point?

If you think about it, a small group of people with an idea that’s kind of obvious is not going to be able to compete with a large group of people sharing information. Look at websites: there were so many patents on having websites.

Now school kids are making websites.

They just couldn’t keep that back. I’m

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not anti-proprietary. I do understand commercial investment, but I am an anti-selfish-ist… If you look at this, it’s kind of inevitable, and it’s inevitable for some cool reasons. Human nervous systems are designed to communicate. We’re wired for this, so people can’t not communicate.

So biology will be the reason we’ll be more transparent?

Now you can pick up a smartphone and another human on the other side of the planet can communicate with you. Each time in the history of science a tool is built that allows the human to do something at least 100 times better than before, there’s a fundamental paradigm shift in thinking.

Before the microscope, disease was about spirits, ethers and really wacky stuff. And then some poor bastard looked at the first microscope in pond water and all of a sudden he saw a zoo of animals. It must have freaked him out. But now I can see all of these things in a library online. Instead of embracing it, a lot of people are pushing back, especially in medicine. I remember attending conferences where doctors would say, “I don’t want my patients to use the internet.” Well, guess what, get out of the way, because they’re going to do it anyway.

So what will things look like in 2030?

Fifteen years from now, the time may have come where there’s an interesting symbiotic relationship between humans and complex machines. There will be an exchange capability: machines do things they do, humans do things they do. You’re going to have to go through an adolescent cycle of making bad decisions. I think we’re in an adolescent phase right now. After 9/11, a whole bunch of people got stupid crazy about how everybody is a bad guy and we need to monitor everything. They didn’t look at the consequences for social behaviours. Same thing with social media: turns out that the upskirt selfies are probably a bad thing, even if it’s funny at the time. I think there will be a time in the future where that’s a non-issue.

We’re going to stop thinking that it’s so controversial and we’ll focus more on things that matter, such as ensuring that every conscious human has enough food, water, electricity and communication enabling them to make good choices. Or making sure that there is enough transparency in governance and dynamic cultural understanding to be able to pre-emptively avert overly zealous policy decisions. Or exploring the experiential boundaries of science and spirituality. Or hacking language to create deeper meaning through more robust knowledge-engineering tools. We’ve got a generation where the shift is occurring. We’re maybe three to five years into that 20-year cycle.

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Yeah, your Fitbit is pretty sweet – for 2014. Two decades from now, amateur athletes will have a whole new selection of toys to use in training Words: Mark Anders

MONITORING THE EYES These high-tech goggles (Tobii Glasses 2 pictured) enable researchers to analyse what the athlete is looking at and from where he is receiving visual information. In addition to an outward-facing camera, which records what he is seeing, a secondary infrared camera mounted inside the goggles reflects off a tiny mirror to measure eye dilation and movement.

Footage from both cameras is synced, providing researchers with real-time vision tracking using a small red dot on the screen to indicate exactly where the athlete is looking. In the case of an elite motocross racer, for instance, he’d likely exhibit a steady gaze looking way ahead down the track and through the corners. Information gathered from tracking and studying the vision techniques of elite athletes will likely trickle down to help amateurs learn from the pros.

Infrared cameras measure eye dilation and movement

MONITORING YOU! We’re getting into some serious Dick Tracy stuff here. This computer attaches to your wrist and incorporates everything from a mobile phone to high-definition video playback and analysis, enabling coaches to provide near real-time feedback to their athletes. For example, a snowboarder practises his slopestyle run while his coach records high-speed video of each jump.

While the athlete rides the chairlift back to the top, the coach can wirelessly send video clips plus feedback directly to the snowboarder’s watch. This saves lots of time and, more importantly, delivers coaching advice almost instantly, while the run is still fresh in the athlete’s mind.

Real-time feedback and analysis

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MONITORING THE BRAIN This EEG monitor measures voltage fluctuations from neuron flow within the brain. It provides researchers with a real-time image of the athlete’s brain activity during different situations, from a meditative state to, say, the moment when a snowboarder is preparing to drop a huge line in the Alaskan backcountry. Researchers hope this brainwave analysis will help them figure out how athletes reach their flow state and what it looks like through EEG. Also, by downloading this real-time EEG imagery to a tablet or other device, it can be used as a neurofeedback loop to teach an athlete how to more quickly get into a meditative, Zen-like state so he can better handle the stress of competition or extreme situations.

Beyond that, researchers say this EEG data may be able to provide coaches with early indicators for talent identification, determining if a young athlete has the brain ability to perform at an elite level and how much training it would take to get them there.

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While remote-controlled helicopter cameras and drones are ubiquitous and still very useful, new models are being developed to bring coaches and viewers never-before-seen angles. For instance, Red Bull researchers are working with biomimicry to create a cameraequipped remote-control submarine that swims like a fish to follow a surfer from below as he rides a wave. Besides creating cuttingedge action sports cinematography, these new camera angles will give surfers, coaches and board designers new perspectives and insight on matters such as how various surfboard fin set-ups work in different wave conditions. All this will eventually result in improved fins and boards for average surfers.

MONITORING EVERYTHING #2 This thing makes a GoPro look antiquated.

Instead of the GoPro’s 170-degree field of view, the hockey-puck-sized CentrCam records a full 360-degree view of the action.

It can be easily mounted on a helmet, surfboard, or rally car and then used to record the action. But the real magic happens when, during playback, you’re able to pan around inside the video almost as if you’re moving back through time. Imagine how the CentrCam could be used to help a rally driver determine how closely other cars are passing or being passed.

In the event of a crash, the exact cause of the wreck could be determined more quickly.

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TRAVEL Air enough: dive up to 40m on one breath

HIGH THAI TIM ES DRY-LAND FUN ON KOH TAO

OFF ROAD Koh Tao is only about 21km² but some places are hard to reach on foot. Hire a quad bike if you want to explore the rugged interior. kohtaomotor bikes.com

Going deeper

F REEDIVING DITCH THE OXYGEN TANK AND DISCOVER A NEW UNDERWATER WORLD ON A SINGLE BREATH

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ADVICE FROM THE INSIDE NO PREP SCHOOL “The less you prepare, the better”, says Linda Paganelli. “Many people will make mistakes and pick up bad habits if they try to learn on their own.

You don’t need any mental training or preparation, you just need to be calm and free of expectations.”

ROCK OUT The island is a bouldering mecca.

Tackle the best and most unspoiled sites under the guidance of the experienced instructors. gtadventures.com

WAKE UP Swim with huge whale sharks (they don’t bite)

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“The initial course prepares you to dive to 20m on a single breath,” says Tony Newman, a Level 1 student.

“It sounds impossible, but it’s all about getting into the right state of mind.”

Get pumped with perfect views on top of the water when wakeboarding, the newest addition to the action sports Koh Tao has on offer. buddha view-diving.com

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Most people can hold their breath for about a minute, not nearly long enough to explore the sea’s mysterious depths. Most divers opt to stay strapped to an oxygen tank, but the adventurous go in search of bigger thrills. With the right training, it’s possible to hold your breath for up to 20 minutes and extend your body’s limits with the sport of freediving.

After two days of training at the Blue Immersion freediving school on the Thai island of Koh Tao, rookie freedivers can plunge to 20m in three breathless minutes. The school teaches people to waken the mammalian diving reflex – our bodies’ natural instinct to adapt to a reduction in oxygen – enabling divers to go deeper. Stay for a month and you’ll be able to go past the 40m mark in five minutes.

“Nothing prepares you for the thrill of descending in that deep blue silence,” says Carrie Miller, a SSI-certified freediver from Perth, Australia. “It’s incredible – another world opens up, another state of being. It’s pure clarity, like you’re part of the ocean.”

Anyone can learn, but there are dangers. “The pressure increase puts the freediver under risk of lung squeeze, and the lack of oxygen can lead to a black out,” says Linda Paganelli, a co-owner of Blue Immersion and a 15-time Italian freediving record holder. “Freediving regularly and gradually increasing the depth helps. Being A two-day course a relaxed and aquatic person is 5,500 Baht counts more than being fit; that’s (about R1,830): blue-immersion.com the real key to freediving.”

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Lil’ Kim: only 1.52m and 40kg, but beats her climbing rivals to world titles

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CLIMBING JAIN KIM MAY BE SMALLER THAN THE COMPETITION, BUT THE WORLD’S BEST FEMALE CLIMBER TRAINS AWAY HER DISADVANTAGE “Logically, I really shouldn’t be a World Cup winner,” says Jain Kim, reigning global champ in lead climbing. “I’m only 152cm tall.” Lead climbing is the toughest type of all, because with no top ropes, all upward motion has to be generated by body and limbs. It’s also the most dangerous, with greater potential for falls (competition climbs are on indoor routes up to 20m long.)

“I have less range on the climbing wall than most,” she says. “That’s a big disadvantage.”

Yet it’s pushed the 25-year-old South Korean to more than make up for her height with years of training. “I put my body through a training drill for five hours a day, five days a week,” says Kim. “I do weight training for dynamism, stretches so that I can twist and turn smoothly on the wall, and lots of endurance. For example, you climb the same route over and over again until you no longer can. It really hurts, but you’re incredibly happy if you can make it up one more time than the day before.”

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It’s also good for warming up before a competition.”

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Kunaev St 49/68 “I don’t like theatre per se,” says Amanjol, “but these improvisation and mime artists have a really electrifying power.

Their shows have won internatio­nal awards.”

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Zhibek Zholy St 53 “A perfect feel of the Orient at the city’s largest market. Hand-knitted mittens, Korean goat’s cheese and suspiciously low-cost brands. Keep a close eye on your wallet.”

3 COFFEEDELIA

Kabanbay Batyr St “Almaty’s nightlife has a Western feel. Check out Da Freak, for electronic music, or sample hip-hop at Chukotka. Line your stomach at Coffeedelia first: Kazakhs are hard drinkers.”

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Gornaya St 465 “This is the world’s highest outdoor ice rink, at an altitude of 1,690m. Everything about it is pure Soviet era. On winter evenings, tipsy teenagers totter around to pop music under disco lights.”

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Gornaya St 640 “A winter sports paradise just 25km from Almaty with its own FIS-accredited course and several of off-piste routes. In the summer it becomes a downhill mountain-bike resort.”

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The 7,010m trek up Khan Tengri is considered one of the world’s most beautiful expeditions. It takes 28 days. kantengri.kz

High up with good thermals and air currents, the Ushkonyr plateau is perfect for paragliding. samuryk.kz

The ‘sunken forest’ of Lake Kaindy, 2,000m above sea level, has drawn divers since a landslide in 1911. dive.kz

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Degrees of preparation Variable heat settings allow you to slow cook for hours or blitz a pizza at 400ºC

Side dishes Steaks go directly above the heat.

Bigger meats, like a whole chicken, go indirect, ie to the side: they cook through better

QUESADILLA BASKET Mexican food and all kinds of similarly wrapped deliciousness done with ease. outsetinc.com

iGRILL 2 Spotless construction Well, obviously, it’s fireproof, but added durability comes from stainless steel

Up to four meats probed and monitored; temperature info can be sent to an iPhone app. idevicesinc.com

POTATO GRILL RACK

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Not your grill next door B OB GRILLSON WOODEN PELLET GRILL FORGET GAS AND CHARCOAL: TRUE BARBECUE CONNOISSEURS USE WOOD TO GET THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE From slow-smoking brisket at 80°C to a perfect pizza baked at 400°C, this wood-burning barbecue is the complete outdoor cooking station.

By experimenting with different kinds of wood pellet, your food can take on splendid smoky tastes.

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For really remote cook-outs, use the supplied car battery connectors to sub in for mains power. grillson.com/en

GRILLBOT Too full of sausage to wield a grill brush? Get this auto-cleaning device to work on your dirty bars. grillbots.com

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Moveable feast This is no oneplace-only BBQ: you can grill on the go thanks to wheels adapted from a golf bag caddy

Kind of like baked spuds, only tastier.

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DANCE TV Sam McTrusty was watching live on YouTube in 2012 when Felix Baumgartner jumped from the edge of space to Earth. When Baumgartner got back to the control room, McTrusty and eight million other viewers heard a song playing in the background: Free, by Twin Atlantic, in which McTrusty plays rhythm and sings lead. The Scottish rock quartet came to public attention in 2011, with their second album, also Free, and tours with top-flight bands like Blink-182. With their third album, Great Divide, a record with 12 storming anthems ranging from heavy rock to heavy-hearted, the band hope to make their major international breakthrough.

Here, McTrusty reveals the songs that brought Twin Atlantic together for Great Divide.

Tinkling Queen’s keys P LAYLIST INSPIRED BY SPRINGSTEEN’S LYRICS AND COLDPLAY’S GUITAR: THE TWIN ATLANTIC SINGER PICKS THE TRACKS THAT LEFT THEIR MARK ON HIS BAND’S LATEST ALBUM

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“This came out when we were right in the middle of recording in Los Angeles.

The track is so abrasive and pushing the boundaries in terms of what people expected from Kanye. We were inspired to experiment with our producer, Jacknife Lee, who helped turn our recording process upside down. He made us tune our guitars differently. It was refreshing.”

“Jonny Buckland from Coldplay is one of our favourite guitarists.

He isn’t a virtuoso, he uses space really well and he never overplays. In Fix You, he plays only four notes, but when that guitar line comes in in the song, it’s an emotional punch. He knows when to play and when not to. That’s something we aimed for on our new album.”

“This is a masterpiece in using imagery and music and lyrics, then connecting all together to create this cinematic thing. You don’t just hear the song, you feel it. Springsteen sings about escapism, wanting to look into the future and being excited about it.

When I’m stuck on a lyric, I listen to this song for inspiration. It always helps.”

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“When I began listening to guitar music, I couldn’t get my head around Eddie Vedder’s vocals. To me, they were just too muscular. Now I am a fan of Pearl Jam’s music. This song has so much emotion in it, but it’s not cheesy. That’s a difficult thing to do, especially as a lyricist it’s easy to use clichés. Vedder finds new metaphors, uses his own language.”

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Bohemian Rhapsody

“We used to listen to this song to learn mixing tips for recording in the studio and we played it at concerts before we went on stage, to get the audience in the right mood. It’s quite something to live up to, but that’s why we did it.

On the new album we used Freddie Mercury’s actual piano, the one he used to record this classic.”

MAESTRO There’s no house without DJ and club culture, pioneered in New York in the late 1970s by the likes of Larry Levan.

He and peers are recalled in this loving celebration.

Thunder Road

PUMP UP THE VOLUME Two-hour trip back to the birth of acid house in Chicago in 1984, with the essential tracks, first clubs and interviews with founding fathers like Marshall Jefferson.

S M A RT S PEA KER MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU

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This speaker takes song requests by voice command and uses them to create an individual music programme by making playlists from online sources. But what really makes it great is its ability to learn. Which songs do you repeat, and which do you skip? It saves all that info to learn your tastes and make better song choices. aether.com

THIS AIN’T CHICAGO In 1987, house music made it to Europe. In England, a new style developed with raves in fields and pills that helped all-night dancing, as eyewitnesses attest here.

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Hip-hop nights are always a hit at Taboo

AFTER THE PARTY IS THE AFTERPARTY, AND AFTER THAT IT’S THE HOTEL LOBBY. AND AFTER THAT YOU’LL NEED A FEW APPS TO KEEP IT GOING

TRAKTOR DJ Keep your Shakiraloving friend from taking control of the late-night playlist. This iOS app lets you mix and scratch your way through your iTunes library on the touchscreen.

Earthly pleasures JOHANNESBURG THE PARTY PEOPLE AT TABOO SHINE BRIGHTER THAN DIAMONDS IN THE CITY OF GOLD

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A block from the Sandton City mega-mall, Joburg nightlife gem Taboo sits nestled innocuously among the office towers in a parking lot on Fredman Drive. The city’s finest have been frequenting this capsule club since its inception in 2004 and 10 years on, its reputation continues to grow.

“At Taboo, it’s constant change,” says owner Chris Coutroulis, who runs the club. The 3,000-patron capacity is broken up into a series of rooms over two levels, keeping each space intimate and exclusive with a distinct identity. Doors typically open around 10pm, so take your time getting ready. The decor here is the last word in opulence, and patrons turn up in nothing less than the luxe-glam Sandton chic for which Joburg is famous.

There are no half measures at Taboo: with a range of bespoke events filling the calendar, expect everything from magnums popping on the packed-out hip-hop nights to loungey sophistication on premier deep house evenings.

TABOO Cnr Fredman Drive & Gwen Lane Sandton, Johannesburg taboo.co.za

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INSIDER INFO GERT SCHOONRAAD, 26, IS THE PROPRIETOR OF THE GREAT DANE IN BRAAMFONTEIN, THE MOST RECENT IN A STRING OF CULT BAR OPENINGS

All you have in the fridge is a bottle of vodka, three cherries, and half a pint of milk.

Mixology utilises a vast database to find the perfect drink recipe for you. Available for iOS and Android devices.

THE BEST PLACE FOR A FIRST DATE IS… Li Restaurant in Cyrildene.

YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE CITY UNTIL… you’ve seen the inside of Ponte Tower.

JOBURG’S BEST KEPT SECRET IS… R Jana’s Takeaway in Braamfontein.

THE BEST LOCAL ACT TODAY IS… Die Antwoord, but they probably can’t be seen as local any more. I also really enjoy Gateway Drugs.

DRUNK DIAL NO! No, she doesn’t want to hear from you. Neither does the boss. So make sure you enable this Android and iOS app, which temporarily locks phone numbers to prevent latenight mistakes.

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Sinn U 1000 B (EZM 6): case made of the same steel used for German submarines and waterproof up to 1,000m

S P EC I A L MISSION FOR WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH

SINN 103 Ti

Tested according to TESTAF, the technical standard for aviator watches

Devil’s in the details S INN HIGH PERFORMANCE IN EXTREME CONDITIONS. ONE WATCHMAKER LIVES

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For firemen: bezel turns with thick gloves; breathing apparatus timer

Sinn wearers (l-r): mountaineer Chris Jensen Burke on Lhotse, Nepal; a Eurocopter test pilot in flight

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In addition to his two diving computers, wreck diver Mario Weidner wears a Sinn 203 Arktis on explorations to the Arctic Ocean

Germany’s counter-terrorism special operations unit use it

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The question is: how to make a watch even more robust but still keep it stylish.

German watchmaker Sinn prides itself on coming up with solutions. Its mechanisms are lubricated with oils that still perform their job within temperatures from -45°C to +80°C. Lubrication is also lent a helping hand: inbuilt dehumidifying technology prevents moisture disrupting the mechanism’s smooth operation.

Inside the watch, a soft-iron mesh protects the mechanism from potentially damaging magnetic fields. On the outer casing, a patented method of strengthening the hardness of stainless steel, developed in 2003, means that Sinn timepieces are super-scratchproofed.

Innovation is a key element of Sinn watch design. The firm has devised a watch, the HYDRO, for GSG 9, a German special-ops unit. That watch’s workings are held in a clear bath of fluid inside the watch case, which helps its wearer tell the time underwater because there is no reflection and the glass doesn’t fog up.

Since liquids are extremely pressureresistant, to the point where they are almost incompressible, the HYDRO can resist pressure at any attainable depth.

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FIFA 15 Right your World Cup wrongs with the football game that outshines all others. Pre-order it and your in-game team can get Messi on loan. easports.com

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ALIEN: ISOLATION IN YOUR GAMES ROOM, EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM: THE KING OF SPACE BEASTS IS BACK With 2012’s Prometheus rebooting the Alien movie franchise for a new generation, a video game recalling the roots of the film seems like a no-brainer. But Sega released Aliens: Colonial Marines in 2013 to poor reviews and fans feared a second round of disappointment with Alien: Isolation, Sega’s survival horror game based on the original Alien film of 1979.

But a spectacular set of trailers and play tests at this summer’s E3 games show in Los Angeles have put all doubts aside.

Playing as Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Sigourney Weaver’s four-film leading-lady Ellen Ripley, you find yourself on a giant spaceship, searching for the reasons behind your mother’s disappearance. Very quickly, those reasons become apparent, and they’ve got acid for blood and teeth within teeth. What the game’s British developer, The Creative Assembly, has done brilliantly is create a ‘low-fi sci-fi’ feel – like you’re in a space movie 35 years ago. To create visuals that look they were made on VHS video, VHS video was used. Musicians who soundtracked Alien the film worked on the score of the game. But this is no exercise in retro gaming, it’s a work of atmospheric adventure with a permanent pulse of heart-pumping dread. Out on October 7 for both PlayStations, PC and both Xboxes. alienisolation.com

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YOU ARE THE WORLD’S GREATEST DETECTIVE

It may come as a surprise to learn that the new Sherlock Holmes game, subtitled Crimes And Punishments, is the 10th in a series that began in 2002. This offers more of the same – brain-puzzling detection in 19th-century London – and something new: it’s inspired by the new BBC TV Sherlock. Out September 4 for consoles and PC.

NBA 2K15 It captures the soul of its sport like no other sports sim – it has more attitude than the Live series – and the gameplay’s ace, too. This year’s b-ball blast will be fronted by new NBA MVP Kevin Durant.

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LINK AND ZELDA MAKE A SWORD POINT IN HYRULE WARRIORS The Legend Of Zelda series is deep. Dynasty Warriors games are the opposite: flashy gameplay that pits your guy against multiple enemies, and the one-man attack usually wins.

Combine them and you get best-of-both worlds Hyrule Warriors (out from September 19), a blast of a battle game and the best new title on Wii U.

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NHL 15 There’s something about ice-hockey video games that makes them enormous fun even if you hate icehockey. All US, Canada and big Euro teams and players here. easports.com

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Brooklyn, Secret locations, naked poets, fire shows by Event collective BangOn! organises New sometimes with only a few hours’ notice

, 4.30am

BRIDGETTE O‘LEARY

BangOn! party in the New York borough of Brooklyn: “Let your inhibitions go!”

dawn’s early light and an undead bouncer York’s craziest underground parties – Words: Andreas Rottenschlager Photography: Julie Glassberg

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5pm

Brooklyn’s Sugar Hill Club is not exactly a temple of New York’s avant-garde party scene. It’s a single-storey brick building dating to 1979 with plaster crumbling from the walls. The canopy above the door reads Supper Club – Restaurant – Disco. It’s early Saturday evening, and at the bar inside, a man hypnotises a beer as Barry Manilow murmurs on the radio.

In exactly seven hours from now, New York’s wildest underground party is due to kick off here: BangOn! NYC, with over 1,000 guests, DJs from Europe and performances from Brooklyn’s artists’ scene. The motto of the night is Danger Zone. An email advises ticket holders: “Let you inhibitions go!”

6pm

The underground party king of New York races across the backyard of the Sugar Hill, swearing. Brett Herman, 30, miraculously beard-free, has already been working 28 hours straight, and he still has to organise transportation of six tonnes of equipment here from a factory building a couple of miles away in East Williamsburg. The factory building, explains Brett, was, right up to midnight last night, the location for the Danger Zone party. But then the alcohol licence was not issued: in the party-organising trade, a perfect storm.

“Somehow we had to spontaneously come up with a replacement location,” says Brett, rubbing his eyes. “We booked the Sugar Hill today at 2 o’clock this morning. Since then we’ve been here building a party set-up from scratch.”

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Brett Herman (the captain) founded BangOn! in 2008 with two friends

These parties are organised like commando exercises

Sugar Hill club, 1am: hipsters, models, fire-eaters

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7.30pm

A six-wheeler stops in front of the Sugar Hill: it’s the BangOn! task force. Men in shorts and vests jump down from the loading platform and schlep spotlights into the disco room. Shortly afterwards, a 1996 Dodge Ram Van with a stage on its roof pulls up in the building’s back lot.

This is the ‘boom-box car’ and it looks

like a ghetto blaster on wheels. Despite the urgency, everything unfolds with practised composure. The people at BangOn! have learned to think of events as commando exercises. Their mission: crazy parties in unusual locations. Ninja warriors duel in warehouses, brass bands play in abandoned grain silos. There are bouncy castles for grown-ups and readings by naked poets (Google, should 91

you wish to, ‘Tommy D Naked Man’).

Five metres above the floor, they’re screwing a canoe to two steel girders: a stage for the night’s go-go dancers.

10pm

The first high-point of the evening: a bouncer with the neck of a linebacker flashes his vampire teeth. The man looks like Wesley Snipes in Blade, only twice as big. He has reptile-eye contact lenses and a leather coat which reaches his boots.

Super Snipes is not giving interviews.

10.30pm

12.30am

There’s still a queue in front of the Sugar Hill. As a leftover from the old game of hide-and-seek with the police, no flyers or posters are printed and locations are kept secret until the last moment – it’s up to the guests to find the party. BangOn! simply scatters a few clues on Facebook. About 1,400 guests have already made it past the door and are pressed into the courtyard and on three indoor dancefloors. Beats from the sound system shake the gutters. Two 92

go-go dancers climb on to the canoestage. They’re wearing fighter pilot helmets in honour of the Danger Zone theme, a reference to the song of the same name on the Top Gun soundtrack.

The dancers salute. Fluorescent light tubes flash from their bras.

1.30am

The three BangOn! bosses – Brett, Tim and Gene Bradley, a bearded Australian – gather at the taco stand in the courtyard. How do they put together their performance programme?

TOD SEELIE

Tim Monkiewicz is 30, with brown curly hair; the kind of guy you’d book for a beachwear shoot. In the disco room, he kneels down in front of the decks and tightens screws. He is one of the founders of BangOn!, and the crew’s sound tech.

Before midnight, he says, there’s never a soul at the party. This gives him time to talk about the biggest police bust in BangOn!’s history. “Of course, early on everything was illegal. We put on parties in the craziest locations. We gave out phony addresses to throw the cops off the trail. No one was thinking about things like fire exits. One time, rotten wooden beams were falling from the ceiling when we turned up the bass.”

The first roof terrace party was held in July 2008. Initially there were 300 guests, then 700, and soon there were so many that they had to shift to empty industrial buildings. In 2010, 20 police officers stormed a hall where 2,000 partygoers were celebrating Halloween. “It was like a raid during Prohibition,” says Tim , “cops bellowing, tables kicked over.” That’s when he and the other BangOn! founders decided to stick to legal events. Relations with the NYPD have improved since: “The cops come by for almost every event.

Maybe they just want to party for free.”

Left: every BangOn! event needs a motto.

Guests dance to a theme of Secret Underwear or Short Shorts

Hipsters in vests do their best to dance casually They each pull out their iPhones and scroll through contacts. They read out what they have for ‘Company’ under each artist’s name: Brett: “Dwarf.”

Tim: “Naked hula.”

Gene: “Specialist in body painting which glows in the dark.”

2am

The red-carpeted disco room is normally a venue for wedding parties. When Dan Ghenacia steps up to the decks, however, this place is a hothouse, at least 35°C.

The mirrors on the walls are fogged up.

Ghenacia, the top musical act of the evening, arrived from France five hours ago. Resident Advisor, the leading online dance music magazine, calls him the ‘king of the Parisian underground’.

Right now, he is a king crowned and robed in sweat. In the crowd, girls are twirling fluorescent hula hoops. Hipsters in vests do their best to dance casually.

The room sways, hypnotised by a swirl of house beats and heat. In a corner, three super-skinny girls stoically slurp their drinks. “Alexander Wang models!” as an excited Tim later reports.

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Top Gun dancers Above: Colin (left) and Mark spit for their lives

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In the disco room, a petite woman is riding on a bass amp

mohawked of hair, wears a sleeveless black plastic vest of a medieval design.

He says he stitched the vest together from car mats. Mark and Colin are proud sons of Brooklyn. They both crack open their first cans of beer.

3.47am

Colin says that the atmosphere of the BangOn! parties reminds him of the raw charm of Brooklyn before the invasion of moneyed hipsters and the invention of regular police checks.

3.48am

Mark explains that in the Brooklyn of the pre-hipster era, grown men used to spend their leisure time “smashing the windows of strangers’ cars and sleeping with their girlfriends on the backseat”. In telling this, his voice takes on a melancholic tone.

2.30am

The fashion moment of the evening comes when Brett presents his Danger Zone outfit: a US Navy dress uniform of white trousers, starched white shirt, outsized cap at a rakish angle. A captain’s insignia glitters on his shoulders. Still, he isn’t completely satisfied with the evening: “We’re still waiting on two performers.” He takes a big swig of beer before explaining his party philosophy. “At BangOn! we believe in the communicative power of craziness.

We believe that strangers are more likely to laugh and start talking to each other when they’re painting their faces or admiring Tommy Naked Man. We want to shoot our guests way out of their comfort zone. Everyone should have a story to tell the day after a BangOn! party.”

The 2014 BangOn! New Year’s party in Brooklyn: Cirque de Soleil meets giant rave

3.15am

In the disco room, a petite woman is riding one of the bass amps.

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3.45am

The two performers Brett has been waiting for slip unnoticed behind the boom-box car. They look like extras from a Mad Max film. Colin has Wolverine sideburns, a greasy leather jacket and black boots. If you ask him where he comes from, he will show you the tattoo on the inside of his lower lip: shaky figures spell out ‘718’, the area code for Brooklyn. Mark, brawny of body and

4.25am

Showtime. Mark and Colin climb on to the boom-box car. Each man has two Poland Spring mineral water bottles dangling from his belt. Once on the roof of the car, Colin fishes torches from his backpack. Mark sparks up a Zippo. People crowd around beneath them. Colin and Mark each take a great swig from the bottles, which contain lamp oil, then blow fountains of flame into the sky. The heatwave is brief and intense, flaring in the faces of partygoers below. Hipsters take a step back, faces are ablaze with astonishment. Colin blows a second flame, arches his back, spits fire, coughs.

Dawn is already stealing across the rooftops. Colin and Mark spit fire as if their lives depend on it. At exactly 4.30am the whole courtyard is staring at the boom-box car as twin pillars of flame become one fiery column shooting 5m into the sky. This is the story everyone will tell about tonight: how two leather freaks on a Dodge Ram Van torched the air above the Sugar Hill. Anyone who was flagging before is now wide awake.

Colin and Mark take a bow. Lamp oil trickles from Colin’s mouth.

8.15am

After a 42-hour working day, Brett Herman closes the club door. His eyes are blinded by the sun. In his white captain’s uniform, he strolls through the Brooklyn morning to the subway. bangon-nyc.com

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October 4

Brad’s track Young South African motocross talent Bradley Cox jets back from his European campaign to host a handful of lucky riders at his home track in Cato Ridge. In between competing in the Red Bull Sea To Sky race in Turkey and the Roof Of Africa hard enduro in Lesotho, Cox will be giving the next crop of MX riders a leg up by passing on some of his hard-earned knowledge. Register on the website below and, if selected, you’ll be enjoying a hands-on skills clinic, getting the inside line on how to dominate the course, and jousting for the prize for the most improved rider of the day. Anthony Raynard and Kerim Fitzgerald will also be hosting My Track days in Cape Town and Johannesburg, respectively. redbull.co.za/mytrack

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Bradley Cox puts in some pre-Europe tour training

September 13-20

Braai tour For Braai Day (aka Heritage Day, September 24), Jan Braai has launched a national braai tour: eight days, eight locations, eight braais.

Starting in Joburg, ending in Cape Town, with beautiful places in between, the tour is open to, well, almost anyone. A limited number of teams can enter. Braaiing outside of the one official braai per day is encouraged. braai.com

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Billed as an alternative festival for alternative peeps, Grietfest’s formula of offering cutting-edge DJs who might not be mainstream household names is clearly paying off. Next year the festival of beats moves to a bigger venue, but for now, buckle up to enjoy the likes of Black Sun Empire, Far Too Loud and Etnik from overseas, as well as the best electronic acts from SA.

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September 6

Red Bull Shibobo

Yes indeed, it is Far Too Loud

Red Bull Shibobo returns to Gugulethu for an all-day five-a-side footie extravaganza. Expect a 32-team elimination tournament, but with a twist: any player who gets shibobo’ed (ie allows the ball to go through his legs) is automatically sidelined for a minute. When matches are 10 to 15 minutes long, having only four players on the field is a major disadvantage. Plus, getting shibobo’ed is kinda embarrassing. redbull.co.za/shibobo

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ROCK ’N’ ROLL TENNIS

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I Heart Joburg

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The grudge game between last season’s champions Manchester City and runners-up Liverpool comes as early as the second match of the new Premier League season.

One to savour.

Loud, proud and totally New York, the US Open is as close as you’re going to get to rock ’n’ roll tennis.

With matches often stretching into the early hours of the morning, the US Open final is always a fitting climax.

Twelve hours of solid party hits Joburg when the I Heart Joburg music festival takes over Ellis Park with a unique line-up of 12 charttopping artists. Local acts Kwesta (right), CrashCarBurn, iFani, The Arrows, The Graeme Watkins Project and Zebra & Giraffe were voted into the festival by popular demand, but international rockers Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy, and hip-hop phenom T-Pain need no introduction.

Jason Derulo, Jessie J and B.o.B complete the line-up.

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The business end of the Rugby Championship gets under way for the Springboks when they visit Perth for the second stop of their overseas tour.

Argentina will be done and dusted, but playing Australia and New Zealand away will be a big step up for a team with one eye on the lead-up to next year’s Rugby World Cup. supersport.com

There are beer fests, and then there are craft beer fests with more than 70 obscure and not-so-obscure handcrafted South African brews, including ales, pilsners and lagers as well as ciders and whiskeys.

When the SA on Tap craft beer festival travels to Pretoria, there’s only one place to quench a thirst. saontapcraftbeerfest.co.za

The 100km Karoo to Coast race from Uniondale to Knsyna is a classic on the SA mountain bike calendar.

It’s not particularly technical and the overall gradient tends towards downhill, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not going to hurt. Prince Alfred’s Pass is a lung-buster, but the vistas are well worth it. karootocoast.com

Ultra cross triathlon comes to the Franschhoek Valley with the Enduroman challenge.

Taking in a 2.5km swim in the Berg River Dam, an 80km mountain bike ride through some spectacular privately owned land, and a 21km trail run, this is an off-road triathlon for those who like to go long. enduroman.co.za

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ON TRACK Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo will hope to continue his climb up the standings when the F1 circus settles in at the Marina Bay street circuit for the Singapore Grand Prix.

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MAGIC MOMENT

Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, June 22, 2014 Flying over the Formula One circuit in a Zivko Edge plane, which has a top speed of 400kph, about 30 per cent higher than the cars below. You do your stuff and everyone is captivated. What happens next is a spinning manoeuvre and before you do it, you say this to the tower:

“ Now I’m going to turn off the engine” MARKUS KUCERA

Red Bull Air Race pilot Hannes Arch lets off steam above the Red Bull Ring

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