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For years, their silent, though dazzling contribution received little more than a passing nod from movieland, but that changed in 2001, when the Taurus World Stunt Awards were born. ;feËkY\XcXid\[Ypk_`j dfek_ËjZfm\i`dX^\Æ`kËj Conceived to celebrate the hard hits, high wires, massive shunts jklekdXe9fY9ifnec\Xg`e^ and towering infernos that are the stock-in-trade of the stunt pro, Ê_ldXekfiZ_Ë$jkpc\]ifdk_\ they have become a welcome fixture of the red-carpet circuit. Nff[cXe[?`ccjkfn\iYcfZb See what makes them such a big deal, starting on page 40. `e?fccpnff[#C8%:iXqp6 Elsewhere in this issue you’ll find spectacular leaps of a P\j#Ylk9fYnXj]lc]`cc`e^ somewhat different variety: the remarkable tale of cliff diving Xc`]\ËjXdY`k`fe%N_Xk\m\i kliejpflfe¿ into bitter Atlantic waters off the Irish coast (page 54); and the inspiring story of the recovery from near-death of BASE- jumper Karina Hollekim (page 70). All this amid the regular Red Bulletin mix of wit (Bull’s Eye, page 94), wisdom (columnist Stephen Bayley, page 98) and the ever-so-slightly macabre (Andrew Holmes’ short story on page 96 might just leave you feeling disconcerted…). So, read on! And log on, too, at www.redbulletin.com. Your editorial team PS: Forgive us for feeling a collective warm glow at the brilliant Chinese GP 1-2 for our sister team, Red Bull Racing. We hope they’ll have won again by our next issue, out June 2. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: COURTESY OF TAURUS WORLD STUNT AWARDS 055 CONTENTS WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF RED BULL Inside your fit-to-burst Bulletin this month... Bullevard 10 GALLERY Life through many lenses 14 NOW AND NEXT News, moves, previews and results from around the globe 17 WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT? We do our own special version of the Jedi mind trick on the man who invented it: George Lucas 18 WINNING FORMULA Take one hobbyist, add one eureka moment, and the result is... the world’s largest boomerang 21 ME AND MY BODY See what a lifetime of sprinting and a month in a bobsleigh did to Olympic champion Jason Gardener 22 KIT EVOLUTION How motorcycle footwear 25 has changed over the years 25 LUCKY NUMBERS Counting the thrills spilled by the brave and talented men and women honoured at the Taurus World Stunt Awards 30 Heroes 28 ADRIAN NEWEY We get the inside line from the man behind the car that gave Red Bull Racing its first-ever victory 30 MAX NAGL Full throttle with the German motocross ace aiming for world championship glory 28 32 HERO’S HERO Grammy Award-winner Estelle is vocal about why Mary J Blige will always be her queen of R&B 34 BABE ZAHARIAS Forget Michelle Wie: the first 62 woman to play on the men’s golf tour did so more than 60 years ago – off the back of Olympic golds in track and field. This is the remarkable story of a trailblazing sportswoman 06 CONTENTS Action 40 THE 2009 TAURUS WORLD STUNT AWARDS Celebrating the secret stars of action cinema and blockbuster movies: exclusive portraits of, and revealing interviews with, the world’s leading danger men and women, plus the inside line on this year’s awards 54 ORLANDO DUQUE He stands 27m above freezing water at one of Ireland’s most secret and beautiful coastal destinations. He leaps off. It’s because he’s world cliffdiving champion 62 SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST For a couple of weeks every spring, the cooler elements of the music and film industries head for Austin, Texas, for gigs, screenings, talks and a lot of partying. We followed indie hot-tips The Cheek and GoldieLocks as they headed to SXSW 70 KARINA HOLLEKIM After her parachute failed during a skydive, doctors told her she would never 70 walk again, but her beat-the-odds resolve has taken her to even greater heights More Body AGES (1), ERIK SWAIN (1) & Mind 78 THE HANGAR-7 INTERVIEW No champagne to greet five-time women’s world kiteboarding champion Gisela Pulido: she’s only 15 years old 80 GET THE GEAR If you’re bedding down at a music festival this summer, you’ll need this 82 RED BULL STADIUM On site for the construction of New York’s first purpose-built soccer ground 84 LISTINGS The best days and nights out around 32 the world in the coming weeks 88 NIGHTLIFE Pop-rock duo Black Gold in New York; clubbing in Miami; Mix Hell’s São Paulo; Snowbombing in the Alps; Life Ball 2009 94 BULL’S EYE Water way to have a few laughs... 96 A STORY BY ANDREW HOLMES The novelist (Sleb, Rain Dogs And Love Cats) expounds Facebook’s darker side 98 MIND’S EYE Stephen Bayley tries to explain some commonly confused words 54 FOR MORE LIKE THIS, VISIT: WWW.REDBULLETIN.COM PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMIE-JAMES MEDINA (1), CHRISTOPHE MICHOT/RED BULL PHOTOFILES MAURITS SILLEM THOMAS BUTLER GETTY IM 07 LETTERS WORD UP! 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ILLUSTRATION: LIE-INS AND TIGERS K_\JfgiXefj 17 BULLEVARD WINNING FORMULA FULL CIRCLE Ever been haunted by an idea that just won’t go away? Gerhard Walter knows all about that: he wanted to make the world’s biggest boomerang… THE MAN WHO THROWS V-form. A profile is worked into each Gerhard Walter was a humble arm, similar to the aerofoil shape hobbyist with a penchant for of the wings on a plane (fig 1), but homemade boomerangs, which the profile is asymmetrical: one he’d fly in his local park in Graz, leading edge points left, the other Austria. Then, one day, almost right. During in-flight rotation, air by accident, he found out how to always flows over the leading make massive boomerangs. “I used edge, whereby aerodynamic lift to make normal-sized boomerangs is produced by both arms. from plywood,” he says, “and a few “Boomerangs are thrown at years ago, I thought to myself that an angle perpendicular to the I could make a lighter version for ground, with a starting angle kids, using wood cut from fir trees. of almost zero (see main image). “After I did that, it made me “The lift of the two arms is not realise I could make something equal. This is due to the fact that bigger for adults, with a wingspan the boomerang not only rotates, of more than a metre. So I made but also moves through the air. one with a wingspan of 162cm, The arm in the upper position which only weighed 640g. It flew moves in the direction of the about 25m. For a large boomerang flightpath, and the velocities of to fly properly, it needs to be heavy both the upper and lower arm and stiff enough. The first ones impact on the boomerang in I made broke; it took quite a bit different ways at different times of trial and error to get things right, of the flight. This is easy to see if particularly after I began to add you sketch the flow velocity over weights to the tips. I ended up with the entire path of the arm (fig 2a). something almost T-shaped, with Since lift depends upon this flow small fins on the tips and the velocity, the upper arm has greater middle of the boomerang. lift than the lower (fig 2b). Seen “I have to have a lot of space from the back, one would expect to throw a boomerang. It has a the boomerang to fall to the left downwash like a helicopter and it with the outer side up (fig 2c). can be dangerous to catch it when “Now let’s take a look at the it hovers, so I only do it when it spinning-top aspect, the forces comes in with a little speed. that work for a spinning-top also “Once I had perfected the apply, but turned at 90º in the shape and the size-to-weight direction of the rotation. Thus ratio, I looked online to find the the boomerang doesn’t fall over, biggest boomerang in the world. but instead steers to the left like An Australian guy had made one a rolling wheel (fig 2d). This way, with a span of 181cm. I beat the boomerang completes its path, him with a 203cm boomerang; coming back to the thrower if then, I made one come back everything is done correctly. to me that has a wingspan of “The key formula this month 259cm, the biggest ever.” is thin and slim: R ~ It says that the radius R of the flight THE MAN WHO KNOWS trajectory is only dependent on “You have to understand the the so-called moment of inertia basics to grasp how a boomerang Theta) of the boomerang; in works: it’s a spinning-top with other words, it relies only on the wings,” says Dr Martin Apolin, construction of the boomerang – a physicist and sports scientist. not, as one might think, on throw- “Let’s look at the aerodynamic speed or rotational velocity.” components first. A standard NXkZ_NXck\iËj`eZi\[`Yc\kfpj`eXZk`feXk WORDS: PAUL WILSON AND DR MARTIN APOLIN. 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His latest Formula One Keynes-based team was, Newey admits, even more 8[i`XeE\n\p car design, the RB5, took first and second places at special: “The design group here obviously had the 9fie the Chinese Grand Prix with Sebastian Vettel and satisfaction of the Italian GP victory last year, but ;\Z\dY\i)-#(0,/ Mark Webber driving. One of his 2008 designs, to see the particular cars that you’re working on in AfY the STR3, also won the Italian GP for sister team the factory every day winning a race makes it seem I\[9lccIXZ`e^:_`\] Scuderia Toro Rosso, again with Vettel at wheel. slightly more real. When they come back from the K\Z_e`ZXcF]ÔZ\i This you may know already if you’re a keen race, there’s something to touch and feel.” ;`[pflbefn6 follower of grand prix motor racing. What you may That’s the tangible aspect. What victory also Lec`b\dfjkf]_`j not know is that Newey, a keen amateur racing driver brings, Newey reckons, is the intangible: the sense g\\ij#E\n\pjk`cc[iXnj himself, was watching events in Shanghai at home of confidence that floods through an organisation dXepf]_`j[\j`^ejYp _Xe[#feXk\Z_e`ZXc after a last-minute decision not to attend, and, when that suddenly realises it is capable of achieving [iXn`e^YfXi[ he saw Seb and Mark cross the line for a dominant the goal for which it has been brought together – IXZ`e^Ëj`e_`jYcff[ 1-2, he took one of his classic cars onto the front in this case winning grands prix. “Winning is 8jn\ccXj[\j`^e`e^ lawn of his house and started spinning ‘donuts’. strange,”he says. “When you are not winning it nfic[$Y\Xk`e^=( (For the uninitiated, this means putting the car into looks like almost an impossible thing to do, but ZXij#E\n\p`jXb\\e first gear, jamming the throttle and dropping the when you do, it suddenly seems so easy.” XdXk\liiXZ\i%9lk clutch. It makes the rear wheels spin and if the The challenge for Red Bull Racing now is to build X]k\iZiXj_`e^_\Xm`cp steering wheel is turned one way or t’other, the car on the historic result and continue to show that an `eXZcXjj`Z=fi[ >K+'`e)''-#_\nXj loops around on itself in an automotive pirouette: the independently owned team, operating on a budget X[m`j\[kfjk\gf]] donut. Bad for the grass; good for the adrenaline.) that can’t rival those of manufacturer-backed k_\^Xj#aljkXc`kkc\ Those who know Newey well won’t be entirely squads such as McLaren-Mercedes, BMW-Sauber, JkXkj surprised at this behaviour, for while he’s undoubtedly Ferrari or Toyota, can continue to beat the big boys. E\n\pËjZXij_Xm\nfe F1’s prima boffin he also has petrol in his bone How to do it? 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We’ve shown by Predictably, however, there’s little fuss or hoopla winning that some of the technical approaches we when speaking to Newey about the latest victory, took were good ones, even if when we launched the although he does admit to having a ‘thick head’ – car there was a degree of nervousness because we legacy of post-race celebrations. “I think a few of realised that we had gone in a different direction us were suffering the morning after, actually,” he to our competitors. We hoped that we had been says. “We knew we were on the pace in Shanghai, different for good reason, not just for the sake of it, but we thought it would probably be a little closer, but until you start racing, you never know. We now so we hadn’t expected to win going away, as we did.” have to try to continue to use our understanding to Some context: the China 1-2 was a massive stay ahead of the teams that have bigger resources.” result for Red Bull Racing. It was the team’s first And if they do, expect to find a multitude of win since entering F1 at the start of 2005, and weeping gardeners in Newey’s neighbourhood. while sister team Toro Rosso took the chequer in =fidfi\=(#m`j`knnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd&jgfikj&]fidlcXV(&\e 28 HEROES MAX NAGL Muddied but unbowed, Motocross rising star Max Nagl is content to practise in dirt, sand or filthy weather and train like a triathlete in his quest to become the world’s best Words: Werner Jessner Photography: Thomas Butler Where do promising motocross racers go when nine years ago and began raising eyebrows on the EXd\ they want to make it big? Belgium, of all places. The European motocross circuit. His relentless desire DXo`d`c`XeEX^c land of exquisite chocolates, baroque painters and to improve led to his move to Belgium, where he ;Xk\&gcXZ\f]Y`ik_ legendary cyclists is also home to the most passionate could train on sand, improving his chances against 8l^ljk.#(0/.# and devoted motocross fans in the world. dominating Dutch and Belgian riders, whose N\`c_\`d#>\idXep Credit goes to local boy Stefan Everts, a living mastery of this surface often leads to victory over C`m\j legend in the sport, who dominated motocross, central European rivals more accustomed to hard Cfdd\c#9\c^`ld winning 10 world titles, until he retired in 2006. ground. In his first year in Belgium, Nagl trained FZZlgXk`fe Now Everts, team boss at KTM Racing, is charged exclusively on sand, on awful tracks, come rain or Gif]\jj`feXcdfkfZifjj with nurturing the next generation of riding talent. shine; it was hideous work. 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His best years are still to come. If things go )''-DO$DXjk\ij Nagl found out just how friendly after his first according to plan, he should be in the top three Z_Xdg`fe2 Grand Prix win, when his Belgian neighbours in the world championship this year,” says Beirer, >\idXeZ_Xdg`fe decorated his house. “They’re really passionate about who was himself an accomplished motocross racer N\Y the sport,” he says. They’ve had reason enough to before being paralysed in a racing accident. If nnn%dXoeX^c%[\ celebrate a few more times, Nagl won both runs at everything goes well and Nagl finishes on the the Grand Prix of Faenza during the final weekend podium on a regular basis and can remain fit for of the 2008 season, and after three rounds of the the length of the season without any major dips in 2009 season, he was lying eighth in the championship. form or injuries, he should eventually win the title. More than just the result of classic Teutonic KTM’s sporting director Heinz Kinigadner determination and discipline, Nagl’s ascent has been explains: “Everyone has a slump in form at some inspired by the faith his father – a motorbike rider point in the season. It’s impossible to be in peak now in a wheelchair after suffering an accident form for the whole season.” Which is why Max before Nagl was born – has invested in his career. has adjusted his training to give him more stamina Nagl first swung his legs onto a kid’s bike when he than strength, the same training model triathletes was five. Three years later, he began racing motocross. follow. As for the success that many predict will “I owe Dad a lot,” he says. “He was the one who enable him to join names like Beirer and 1980s sent me to train in the rain while everyone else was champ Kinigadner on the list of legendary in their mobile homes, watching TV. 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Nowhere Chris Green, David Wilds and Anthony Rowlinson Words: does fantasy like Hollywood. And in this land of fairytale movie magic, where imagination takes flight and shadows take form, there exists a show so grand and so free from limitations that it really is ‘stuff such as dreams are made on’. That show is the Taurus World Stunt Awards, an extravaganza created in the heart of Hollywood to put something back into Hollywood’s heart by honouring its unsung heroes – the men and women of the stunt community – who quietly, dangerously, make the stars shine. These are the guys and girls who will happily throw themselves out of 12-storey buildings before breakfast; the same tight-knit crew who will jump carriage- to-carriage between fast-moving trains; a brother-and-sisterhood who will, if a director so demands, attach cable to harness and dangle from a plane – all so that a certain shot can be captured and the illusion be made real. But the film industry’s real heroes are a modest bunch. They’re content to exist in a celebrities’ parallel universe, where acclaim comes not through column inches and paparazzi lenses (or even by way of an Oscar, as stuntmen don’t get PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES (3), MAURY PHILLIPS (1), REX FEATURES (2), CINETEXT (1) them), but through peer-group nods for 41 ACTION RED CARPET ACTION K_\jkXijZfd\flkkfXggcXl[k_\jklekd\eXe[jkleknfd\e1 =`ijkifn ]ifdc\]k 1;\ee`j?fgg\iXe[?Xii`jfe=fi[2B\XelI\\m\j2 IfYY`\DX[[`jfekXb\j]c`^_k%J\Zfe[ifn ]ifdc\]k 1;Xm`[JgX[\Xe[ taking the ‘hardest hit’ or wrecking a car Afj_;l_Xd\c2Ni\jkc\i?lcb?f^Xe2jefnYfXi[\iJ_XleN_`k\2N`cc=\ii\cc# just that little bit more completely than 9likI\pefc[jXe[Af_e:I\`ccp2JXiX_D`Z_\cc\>\ccXi2jklekd\eB`ibDXon\cc a car has ever been wrecked before. 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Photography: David Clerihew Interviews: Chris Green # 1 FLYING FISTS TONY ANGELOTTI Born: 1967, Miami, Florida (but grew up in Tallahassee – “My friends and family would kill me if I said I was from Miami”) You’ve seen him: Crossing swords and throwing punches in The Mask of Zorro, Starship Troopers and Pirates of the Caribbean A lot of stunt fighters do martial arts, longer than a football field. But imagine but your background is gymnastics… doing that in full costume, on a sandbar, I love being able to incorporate fighting in the water, back on the sand, sinking and acrobatics, especially when you can into the sand… to say it was mentally make it a part of the character’s cunning and physically exhausting is a total and ingenuity – for instance as a Zorro understatement. But creatively, it was character or Captain Jack Sparrow. You fantastic. Thomas DuPont, Mark Wagner know… “I’m gonna leap off that balcony, and I had the basic parameters of what do a flip, hit the ground, fight these had to happen – the key is exchanged soldiers and continue on.” this many times, etc – but beyond that, You’re not just fighting – you’re we were told, “OK, guys, go nuts.” fighting in character, aren’t you? How many fights have you done? When we were developing fights for Jack Oh, my god… I can’t even begin to guess. Sparrow, we were told that he uses the Including doing live shows at Disney least amount of energy possible. He can World, where we were fighting every do amazing things, but only when he day? I would have to say thousands. absolutely has to – he keeps them in his So, for you, what’s the difference back pocket and keeps his opponents between a good fight and a great fight? guessing. Once we saw how Johnny Depp It starts with great choreography. You was creating the character, we developed want things that haven’t been seen or the swordplay around him. As his double, done before, maybe integrating some I’m trying to be inside Johnny Depp’s acrobatics. Once you start to perform with and Jack Sparrow’s heads. I ask myself, your partner, it becomes a dance. When “How would Johnny/Jack approach all the elements fall into place… every this?” Johnny brings his own very playful, single blade hit, every single duck and roll creative approach, and I try to mirror that. happens so the timing flows perfectly, and Some of those Pirates fights are epic you finish that fight, you know that pieces of stuntwork, aren’t they? it just could not have gone better. And That beach fight in Pirates 2 was a when the director and the co-ordinator marathon. It’s a swordfight on the run, come running up saying, “My god, I’ve all fighting over this key. The sheer length never seen anything like that before…” Kfep8e^\cfkk`XjAXZbJgXiifn kfgXe[ of this fight… it was over 120yd long: That kind of helps, too [laughs]. d`[[c\ Xe[`eK_\DXjbf]Qfiif Yfkkfd ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: KOBAL COLLECTION (2), COURTESY OF TONY ANGELOTTI (1) 46 TAURUS WORLD STUNT AWARDS “I CAN’T EVEN BEGIN TO GUESS HOW MANY FIGHTS I’VE DONE” ACTION # 2 MAN ON FIRE So, you won a Taurus World Stunt Award for your work on The Punisher… Yeah. That was the job that showed me MARK just how far the technology had come for keeping somebody safe inside these huge CHADWICK explosions. They had me standing on top Born: 1961, Ypsilanti, Michigan of five propane bombs. I’m like, “Really? You’ve seen him: Getting blown up, We can’t do this with one?” [laughs]. burned alive and set on fire in The Dark And you’re not just a stuntman – you’re Knight, The Punisher and Bedtime Stories also an innovator in burn techniques… The techniques were always there – I just started pushing the envelope. A lot of fire burn techniques when I started were based on superstition and not science, like putting baby powder all over your body – they thought that if you perspired, the sweat would turn to steam. And that’s a crazy notion that’s not scientifically founded. If you get so hot that your sweat turns to steam, you’re dead – steaming sweat is the least of your problems. What happens when things go wrong? It’s like the old saying, ‘When burns are good, they’re very good, and when they’re bad, they’re horrid’ – that moment when you realise that you need to be put out right away, and you’re still five seconds from your safety guys. There’s not a lot you can do – you have to override your fight-or-flight impulse… just try to relax and let the guys get to you. You can try to get out of the flames with your blocking. That’s where experience comes in. How does experience help? Fire is pretty manageable. Imagine your arm being on fire. If you put it straight down the flames might come up into your face. If you hold your arm straight up, it’s going to engulf your fingers. But if you keep your arm horizontal and wave it back and forth, the flames are going to stay where you want them to. My strong suit is being able to explain to people – other stuntmen and sometimes actors – what’s going to happen, why it works and what they should anticipate feeling. What actors have you set burns for? I set up Vince Vaughn on Be Cool – he did a pretty big burn. I set Criss Angel up for a bunch of burns on his show. I want to let the person think about hitting his marks, his blocking… whatever performance aspects he’s dealing with, and I take care of the dangerous stuff on the side. I lit my wife on fire last week – she’s a stuntwoman. She stood inside a naphthalene bomb and came out on DXib_XjgcXp\[n`k_]`i\`edXepdfm`\j# fire. But we talked about what would `eZcl[`e^K_\;XibBe`^_k kfg happen, what to expect… basically you give as much information as you can, so it’s very clear and very simple. Is it easier to set your wife on fire or Vince Vaughn on fire? Oh, Vince Vaughn, for sure [laughs]. ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: KOBAL COLLECTION (1), COURTESY OF MARK CHADWICK (3) 48 TAURUS WORLD STUNT AWARDS “I LIT MY WIFE ON FIRE LAST WEEK. SHE STOOD INSIDE A NAPTHALENE BOMB AND CAME OUT ON FIRE” ACTION # 3 THE SPEED How long have you been driving? QUEEN Oh, I’ve always loved everything with wheels. I started riding motorcycles DEBBIE when I was six. I got a unicycle when I was 11. My dad went to work the EVANS next day, and when he came home, Born: 1958, Long Beach, California I was riding down the street to meet You’ve seen her: Screeching him. I could wheelie my bicycle forever. around corners, flipping over I beat everyone in the Sunset Beach cars and driving the wrong way Wheelie Contest. My dad just loved on the freeway in The Matrix it when I beat all those boys – he Reloaded, The Fast and the Furious, thought it was the funniest thing. Mr & Mrs Smith and Wanted Stuntwork is usually thought of as a man’s job… Was it difficult to break in as a woman? Acceptance took some time. Even today, because I’m a woman, I sometimes have to prove myself all over again. Not so much with the stunt people – they all know me – but the crew, they’re not sure. So I just keep my mouth shut, smile and let them have their doubts. And then prove them wrong [laughs]. Which stunt do you remember best? On The Fast and the Furious, I drove a car under a semi-trailer and then flipped it. First, I jockeyed my way underneath and got a feel for how close everything was. Then, I picked a mark – a reflector – on the side of the semi- trailer, and I knew that I had enough room, front-to-back, when I was lined up with that reflector. That truck didn’t have any guard over the rear wheels, so, if I’d made a mistake, it would have just run over me. But when you get ready to do a big stunt like that, it’s like tunnel vision. I rehearse it in my head, over and over again, until I can see everything happening. And if it’s not ‘flowing’ when I do that, then I know there’s something wrong and I’ve got to go back and figure out what glitch needs to be fixed. The hardest part was that we had to do it three times. We did it once, then we broke for lunch. And that second time, I knew it was going to feel rushed, because my adrenaline wasn’t as high. It feels like everything’s tighter under that truck – it’s intensified. Some things are easier when you do them the second time, and some things are more difficult. What’s easier the second time? If you’re doing a chase scene, you’re ;\YY`\[f\j[Xe^\i`eK_\DXki`oI\cfX[\[ taking certain lines or corners, so Xe[k_\=XjkXe[k_\=li`flj]iXeZ_`j\ you learn what to expect. But going underneath a semi-truck is more difficult. We were going faster the second time, and the truck was swerving, so I was kind of dancing out there with it, and then I would just pick my moment, just rush across, and go all the way underneath. It was pretty wild. ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: REX FEATURES (3), KOBAL COLLECTION (1) 50 TAURUS WORLD STUNT AWARDS “ I’VE ALWAYS LOVED EVERYTHING WITH WHEELS. I BEAT EVERYONE IN THE SUNSET BEACH WHEELIE CONTEST” ACTION # 4 THE FALL GUY You trained as a gymnast, didn’t you? Yep, and then as a high diver. The trampoline was the basis for everything BOB I’ve done. There’s a language that goes along with trampoline which translates BROWN to high diving... it’s about kinesthetic Born: 1958, San Mateo, California awareness and decreasing radiuses – an You’ve seen him: Jumping out entire understanding of twisting and of windows, leaping off buildings flipping. You become a living physics and falling off cliffs in Terminator project. Mix high diving and trampoline 2: Judgment Day, The Mask, together and it’s a great combination. Waterworld and Face/Off How did that combination expand your repertoire as a stuntman? I kept telling these co-ordinators how I could somersault and flip ‘out of control’ on these high falls, instead of the straight dive you used to see. And they finally started letting me do it. Some guys like Ronnie Rondell – this legendary stunt guy who came from diving – were open to the idea of busting it loose like that, looking out of control. The next thing I knew, I was ‘the high-fall guy’. What are some of the most challenging falls you’ve done? One of them I did twice, once for this film Rage, and then again for MTV, for a show called Senseless Acts of Video. I had a helicopter go over a high-rise, which was about 450ft. I put an airbag on the roof and I did a high fall about 180ft from the helicopter to the roof. And when I did it that first time, I almost missed the bag… I hit on the far left, maybe 7ft or 8ft from the side. At the time, I was on another job, doubling Billy Baldwin in Florida, and I flew home for the weekend just to do that stunt, and just about bit it. Two years later, there was word-of-mouth about that gag, and MTV asked me to do it for the show. So, I got to do it again, by the numbers, and nailed it that time. You also did a famous fall for Red Bull, of course... Yep – at the Taurus World Stunt Awards in 2002. They approached me. I’d been trying to move away from the extreme stuff where you can really hurt yourself, but there was this one gag I always had in the back of my mind. I always wanted to be fully lit on fire and run and dive out of a window at 20 storeys or more, and do this particular trick where I could flip and kind of wrap myself around the 9fY9ifne`eXZk`fe]fiI\[9lccXkk_\ fire. I couldn’t do it in a movie – I could KXliljNfic[Jklek8nXi[j`e)'') never get the rehearsal time it would need. But Dietrich [Mateschitz] said, “Do whatever you want… you can produce it, you can direct it, bring your own crew…” That’s probably my most radical fall. All the crazy elements are built into that gag. =fccfnk_`jp\XiËjKXliljNfic[Jklek8nXi[j fec`e\Xknnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd&Zlckli\&]`cd&\e ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: COURTESY OF TAURUS WORLD STUNT AWARDS (3) 52 TAURUS WORLD STUNT AWARDS “I ALMOST MISSED THE AIRBAG WHEN I JUMPED FROM THE HELICOPTER” ARC OF ‘ Feel the fear and do it anyway’ could be the maxim for the elite band of professional cliff divers. They alone know how to plunge at 55mph into concrete- hard water – and survive A Words: Ruth Morgan DIVER Photography: Eric Swain 54 55 56 ACTION Two figures stand alone on a cliff rom an average height of edge, silhouetted against the bleak, 27m, cliff divers know that windswept landscape of the Aran F only a perfect execution of their Islands off Ireland’s west coast. Some tucks, pikes and somersaults 24m below them lies the Serpent’s will allow them to emerge from the Lair, a natural pool formed over heavy impact with the water’s surface centuries as rock bowed to the might unscathed. Yet they seek out this of the churning Atlantic beneath danger at every opportunity. “The it. One man raises his arms above way I’d summarise someone who takes him, takes a breath and launches part in this type of sport,” says Brian forwards. Time seems to slow Germain, a psychologist, skydiving as his body morphs gracefully into instructor and author of the book a series of shapes, twisting and Transcending Fear, “is that they’re somersaulting, until he is dead less afraid of dying than of not living.” straight, preparing for the impact Most divers don’t try to block out that will decide his fate. His taut feelings of fear that consume them body disappears into white water before a dive. “I do get scared,” says with a splash that is barely audible. Orlando Duque. “You’re aware of the Inis Mór is known to some as ‘The consequences of something going End of the World’ and its stark wrong. I actually try to use that to beauty is a fitting backdrop for remind me of what I need to do. If a sport in which grace belies I get too comfortable, I may overlook brutality. Entering the water at something, so I use the fear to help speeds of more than 90kph is like me concentrate so I have a safe dive.” hitting concrete, and cliff divers Fear is a response intrinsically must prepare both body and mind entwined with the adrenaline highs to avoid disaster. Colombian of a dive. “It’s amazing what goes on Orlando Duque and Briton Gary when you push yourself beyond your Hunt are two of only a handful of comfort zone,” says Rhonda Cohen, competitive cliff divers in the world; a Sports Psychologist at Middlesex a small community in search of the University who specialises in extreme next high, training relentlessly to sports. “You have a whole emotion avoid the inherent perils of their of fear, and your body produces sport. Divers accelerate to top speed chemicals such as adrenaline at that in just 2.5 seconds and slow to zero point we call ‘fight or flight’. But when in one second and just 3m of water, it comes to the fear of danger and the making cliff diving a niche activity. adrenaline rush of a cliff dive, it would Few can stomach the dizzying seem one can’t exist without the other. heights, the mental weight of the “When you’re standing on top potential for harm or the physical before you dive, you feel anxious, strain of the jarring impact. you’re stressed and you’re scared; then, once you’re underwater, everything switches,” says Duque. “It’s like a 180-degree turn and you’re suddenly super-happy. Sometimes I come out of the water and I’m shaking because it’s such a difference in feelings.” 1/ Sports psychologists believe that this need for high risk in return for adrenaline develops in people who have a higher threshold for danger. In order to achieve the same thrill level FEEL most of us get from a rollercoaster, they need to engage in a riskier activity, and then harness the fear that comes with it. “If we decide to turn [anxiety] into positive energy, THE we will have a wonderful ride,” says Germain. “That’s the ultimate answer to fear: learning to embrace it.” Gary Hunt agrees with this theory. “I’m addicted to that feeling of fear; FEAR that adrenaline rush,” he says. “If it wasn’t scary, I probably wouldn’t do it.” 57 ACTION ORLANDO DUQUE 2/ The feat that could spell injury or death is what 34-year-old Duque lives for. Fascinated by the blue depths of a local diving pool in Cali, Colombia, the nine-year-old CONTROL Duque took up a hobby that would eventually become his profession. He is now nine-time cliff diving world champion and has won countless national and THE international contests in 14 years of competitive diving, including a year of his compulsory military service with the armed forces championship diving team. “I SPEED didn’t see any combat – I moved to an airforce base where there was a pool and I would train all the time,” he says. “But I won two gold medals for the armed As a spectator sport, cliff diving is their ribs,” says Niki Stajkovic, former forces, so they were pretty happy thrilling but also beautiful. Just as in Olympic diver and director of the with me.” In 1992, Duque and Olympic diving, cliff divers must be Red Bull Cliff Diving Series this year. one of his team-mates qualified mid-air gymnasts, able to manoeuvre Agitating the surface of the water for the Barcelona Olympic themselves gracefully in and out of weakens the outer layer, helping to games, but a lack of funding shapes and spins, and judges mark their reduce impact, and the rest is up from the Colombian Olympic form, style and ability to enter the water to the skill of the diver. “Throughout committee dashed their hopes. with a minimal splash. The reality of your dive, your toes need to be pointed Then a group of his European a diver’s experience is a sharp contrast to look as nice as possible,” says Hunt, friends told him of an opening to this smooth outward aesthetic. Below “but when you get near the water at an Austrian safari park diving the surface, divers deal with the force you need flat toes but a pointed foot; show, so he packed his bags and of impact their incredible speed creates. a bigger surface area to break a hole left Colombia. Diving from a tiny “We accelerate from zero to more in the water big enough for your 25m platform reached by way than 55mph in about two and a half body to go through. If you point your of a thin ladder, the performers seconds,” says Duque, “and then we toes, you won’t have made a big enough would spin and rotate before go back to zero in about one second hole, and then, when your chest or landing in a small pool. The in only 3m of water. It’s an extreme your head goes through the water, advice and training he received situation. Above the water, people just you’ll get a massive hit.” from fellow high divers allowed see the perfect form, but then, once Cliff divers are also able to alter him to hone his skills, practising you’re underwater your legs go one way their speed during their rapid descent when the crowds had left. “In and your arms go another way. You’re to ensure they get the best possible 1999, I competed in the first Red almost broken into pieces because entry. “The height doesn’t scare me: the Bull Cliff Diving Series,” he says, the impact is that heavy.” water scares me, as I know how hard “and I placed second, which was When entered from such a distance it’s going to hit,” says Duque, “so your not only a surprise for me, but at these kinds of speeds, the water brain starts working fast to make sure for the other competitors.” Since surface feels similar to concrete and you get the best entry. If you’re moving then, Duque has won almost a diver must break through the potentially too slowly in the somersault, you have every event he has entered. deadly outer layer to make a safe entry. to stay in the position longer to get Entering feet-first is the only way to more speed, if you’re too fast, you need land these dives, as the force of impact to stretch your body out to slow it would be too large for the hands and down. But sometimes it doesn’t work: the head to handle. Even when a dive then, you’re just trying to save yourself is executed perfectly, and a diver enters so you can walk away.” the water at the ideal 90-degree angle, The speed, nevertheless, is one of the force of impact on the body is still the major reasons Duque and Hunt so big that cliff divers will usually climb up cliff after cliff. “The speed is manage only three or four full-height the most exciting part of the sport,” dives per day. And at speeds this great says Duque. “Once you’ve finished the the margin for error is tiny. acrobatic part of the dive and you’re “If the angle is off by even 10 degrees, lining up for entry, you feel it. It’s hard which is not that much, they can break to describe, but it’s a lot of fun.” ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: RAY DEMSKI (1) 58 “THE HEIGHT DOESN’T SCARE ME: THE WATER SCARES ME, AS I KNOW HOW HARD IT’S GOING TO HIT” “THE PREPARATION FOR IMPACT IS NON- STOP THE WHOLE YEAR, EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT COMPETING” ACTION GARY HUNT Gary Hunt is the only competitive cliff diver in Britain. The 24- 3/ year-old has won medals at national and international level for high diving, including a third place in the synchro class at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and is one of the youngest PREPARE competitive cliff divers in the world. He came third in last year’s Cliff Diving World Cup. Hunt began swimming at a young age and also took up YOUR gymnastics around the age of five – giving him an excellent foundation for the acrobatic mid-air twists and turns in cliff diving. By the time he was nine, BODY Hunt’s favourite part of his swimming lessons was watching the divers practise in the pool next to his, and, after trying one Cliff diving requires full-time commitment, shape for top competition marks and lesson, he was hooked. “Gary’s and divers must put in as much effort ensure the smallest impact on landing. just passionate about diving. He outside the water as within it to maintain “It’s important to have a really strong works exceedingly hard,” says a body able to deal with the rigours of back and stomach,” says Duque, “and Lindsey Fraser, Hunt’s coach the sport. Since both Duque and Hunt a strong core overall.” Duque receives at the Southampton Diving have been diving from a young age, a training programme from the Red Academy for the past nine years. the gymnastic technique of diving has Bull Diagnostic and Training Centre “He’s a relatively easygoing been built up over years, so the emphasis near Salzburg, in Austria. “The person, but he knows his own of a lot of their physical work now is preparation for impact is non-stop mind.” Hunt had his first taste on building up endurance and defences the whole year, even if you’re not of cliff-diving heights at a theme against the impact of hitting the water. competing,” he says. “In a week, park just outside Venice in 2005. Nature has a role to play, too. I’ll probably do about eight or nine “I’ve always been known as “Cliff divers are going to be athletes sessions of cardiovascular training, so someone who likes trying crazy who have a gymnastic background,” I run, bike and row. Then I do a lot stuff,” he says. “So when my says Lindsey Fraser, Hunt’s diving trainer. of core stability and specific leg-training coach heard of an opening “It’s vital they have fast-twitch muscles work to help my jumps. You need to in Venice, he thought of me.” and very good awareness of where have the strength to hold both your Former high-dive world they are in the air, the ability to see legs together when you enter the water champion Steve Black coached the water and that they know where or the impact will force them apart, him there and then introduced that upright position will be.” which will end in an injury.” him to the high-diving circuit. ‘Fast-twitch’ refers to how quickly Both divers are training for the Hunt competed in the Red Bull muscles are able to react to a command, Red Bull Cliff Diving Series that begins Cliff Diving Series, finishing an and depends on the type of muscle on May 8, although there is one dive impressive fourth. He is now fibre you are born with. If you have Hunt is finding difficult to prepare for. determined to improve further. fast-twitch muscle fibre, the muscles “The dive I have in my head is the “I want to win a competition. can then be strengthened with regular hardest dive in the world,” he says. That is my aim this year.” plyometric exercise. This increases “It’s a back two and a half somersaults the speed and force of muscle with two and a half twists. I can’t fully contractions, giving a better ability fit it in off the 10m board, so that means to jump higher, further and to create I can’t practise from the proper height shapes more quickly in the air. until the day of the competition. I want “Plyometric exercise basically means to do it at the first stop of the tour, but a lot of bouncing for us,” says Hunt. “In we’ll have to wait and see.” the gym, we have spongy mats that we AldgkfXk_i`cc`e^m`[\ff]k_\[`m\ij`eXZk`feXk stack on top of each other, and we’ll do nnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd&Xik`Zc\j&ficXe[f&\e several jumps and then a somersault off them. We use our ankles and legs a lot in exercises, and also trampoline work, as it’s good for our visualisation.” Core stability is another essential for cliff divers who need to hold a perfect 61 TEX MAX Pop-punk band The Cheek take touring to the limit as they hit Texas’s South by Southwest culture-fest hard. The Red Bulletin caught up with them. Or tried to… Words: Nick Amies Photography: Jamie-James Medina 62 ACTION 63 ACTION 64 R ed Bull’s Moon Tower stage glows luminously among the bungalows and car parks in a suburban area of downtown Austin, Texas, like a recently-landed UFO. Punters, drawn by the eerie, throbbing light and other-worldly hum, gather mesmerised. They stand waiting, seemingly caught between hope and fear, watching to see if alien beings will materialise from the swirling smoke that has engulfed the neighbourhood. When a figure does appear from the backstage airlock, there is a moment when its terrestrial credentials are brought into question. But once the fog of dry ice blows away, it soon becomes clear it’s a human, of sorts. “All right Austin, Texas,” croaks the being. “We’re The Cheek and my voice is f***ed.” Backtrack five days and East Anglian pop-punk scamps The Cheek arrive in the USA for the South by Southwest festival already suffering from a substantial sleep deficit and a raging collective hangover. The Suffolk five-piece barely have 24 hours to adjust to Austin after the craziness of Tokyo and a tantalisingly short, surreal stopover on home soil. Wednesday is their first full day and they have two shows to play in this wholly new and intensely weird environment. Austin’s Lower East Side is swarming with the full gamut of human life. Indie kids and rock fans stand out from the supersized families like the skyscrapers rising from the banks of the Colorado River, while platinum-blonde cheerleaders Fggfj`k\1K_\:_\\bËjIfip:fkkXdXe[:_Xic`\;fYe\pifZb totter between them all in slinky summer 8ljk`e%K_`jgX^\1@kËjgXikpk`d\#n`k_gffcj#g`ekj#gXikp]ff[ Xe[g`XkXj%>fc[`\CfZbj kfgi`^_k #CX[pJfm\i\`^e XYfm\ dresses and stilettos. Now in its 22nd year, c\]k Xe[;X`jpCfn\ Y\cfn Xcjfaf`e\[`ek_\]\jk`m`k`\j SXSW has grown from a cosmic cowboy and blues festival into the lovechild of a weekend at Glastonbury and a night out in Manchester’s clubland. For one week every spring, the self-proclaimed live-music capital of the world throws open its arms to this media circus. By day, discussion panels featuring industry movers and shakers shape the future of music, film and multimedia behind closed conference- room doors, while outside, the frontliners 65 8Yfm\1@kËjXke`^_kk_Xk8ljk`ei\XccpjkXikjkfYlqq%Fggfj`k\#ZcfZbn`j\]ifdkfg1>fc[`\CfZbj\eafpjXjkXi$jgXe^c\[dfd\ek2K_\:_\\b c\]kkfi`^_k Æ:fkkXd#9Xikc\kk#;Xe`\cj#;fYe\pXe[?fYjfe \o\iZ`j\Xe`eXc`\eXYc\8d\i`ZXei`^_kkfj_ffkXkk_`e^j1>fc[`\CfZbjY\]i`\e[jX^fi`ccXXkk_\k_i`]kjkfi\ in the battle for fans and consumers – the at Latitude 2008’s Lake Stage and who their BlackBerrys. Now The Cheek need magazines, the record labels, the sponsors claimed critical respect and a Tune of the to dig deep for their SXSW showcase. – host parties and showcases featuring Week in the NME with only their second Asked where he’s going to find the the newest talent and the latest material single. The band look to be struggling to energy to perform, Hobson replies as from established acts. But it’s at night keep their dinner down and their spirits if faced with the most obvious question when SXSW really comes alive. In the up. The time zones have not been kind. in the world: “From the music, man.” packed streets, the air is filled with the “Just before we left for the first gig, The music certainly seems to energise soundclashes of a hundred bands playing the jetlag really kicked in,” says Thom the band. Ripping into opener Just One side by side and the excited chatter of Hobson, the band’s laconic bass player, Night, the pavement casualties of a mere crowds filling the cramped sweatbox by way of explanation for the state few minutes before are transformed bars and jostling for views at the open they’re in. “Somehow, we got up for into a quintet of spasming lunatics. Eyes windows. The sickly-sweet smell of it. Now we have to do it again, only popping, faces contorted, and throwing cheap liquor and fast-food cooking an hour later.” The band’s previous punky shapes, The Cheek are different hangs over everything, caught in the performance, a short set at an industry animals on stage, albeit a stage that blanket of Texas humidity. party a little down the street, was plagued is roughly the size of a card table. Outside BD Riley’s, one of the many by PA problems and a threadbare crowd Somehow, the show passes without Irish pubs on East Sixth, The Cheek more interested in the glowing screens of any injuries, despite the close proximity look like a bunch of students who have to flailing, stabbing guitars and the partied way too hard, way too early. ‘THE CHEEK LOOK AS epileptic dancing of lead singer Rory It’s hard to equate these lethargic forms IF THEY’VE PARTIED Cottam. The crowd in BD Riley’s and with the band that almost literally brought in the street outside soon grows in size the tent down at last year’s Underage WAY TOO HARD, WAY and enthusiasm, attracted by the wired festival, who prompted a record number eccentricity and choppy riffing that of crowdsurfers during their headline set TOO EARLY’ made heroes out of a long list of weirdos, ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: REX FEATURES (1) 66 ACTION red panda as the rock animal accessory – “Monkeys are so ’80s,” says Ali Bartlett, The Cheek’s drummer – to whether half-naked wrestling in ski masks would make for a good photo shoot. SXSW is The Cheek’s first taste of the US as a band. Despite enduring stereotypes, they’re keen to point out they arrived with open minds. “I prefer to make my mind up after experiencing something,” says lead guitarist Christian Daniels. “I always wondered if the US would be like in the movies,” adds Bartlett. “And it totally is.” In contrast to the ruffled, borderline psychosis of the band, GoldieLocks reclines in the shade of a benevolent birch as if she’s the guest of honour on a Greek shipping magnate’s yacht. Decked out in summer dress, trilby and gargantuan shades, she seems unaffected by either travel or the prospect of her first Stateside shows proper. “I played in New York before,” the rapper/producer drawls, her London twang halting the incessant chirping of curious birds. “But these are my first real US gigs.” As well as her SXSW showcase and her 2am slot on Saturday’s Moon Tower stage, GoldieLocks will be performing a DJ set. “I’ve only brought four CDs,” she adds nonchalantly, unfazed by the prospect. “It’ll have to do, I s’pose.” Given that she’s remixed for the likes of Mutya Buena and the Mitchell Brothers and has a MySpace hit count heading towards a million for her own tunes, the crowd are unlikely to worry too much. This lady comes with good vibes as standard. from XTC to Blur. When Cottam climbs into the open window and gyrates for the passers-by during set-closer Slow Kids, it’s clear that The Cheek have S studied rock traditions long and hard. Nothing pleases a crowd more than the oon everyone finds the energy to promise of an adventurous frontman party again, although it helps that it’s coming a cropper right in front of them. in the comfort of their own home from The singer survives, but the combustible home with an energising array of local and irresponsible nature of the final celebrities and international faces in song’s theatrics makes sure The Cheek attendance. The likes of Lady Sovereign make an impact, even if Cottam doesn’t. and Daisy Lowe rub shoulders with the Next day at the rented pad the band geezer who runs the strip show just off share with the Red Bull crew, including Highway 71 and a guy who looks like up-and-coming London dubstep/grime a Hell’s Angel who has taken a wrong star GoldieLocks, The Cheek listlessly turn. The humid dusk and subsequent pour from one piece of garden furniture darkness is filled with different accents to another in an unconscious game and plenty of laughter as spirits rise of musical chairs under the relentless and inhibitions are cast aside. morning sun. It’s their first day off Friday’s visit to a shooting range, to and no one seems to know what to do. experience another part of traditional The bizarre, fragmented conversation, Texan life, is sensibly postponed until befitting sleep-starved minds, ranges the next day, given the shaky hands after from a short debate on the future of the the previous night’s high-jinks. Stories 67 ACTION of paddling-pool wrestling and questionably-cooked meat slosh between the self-afflicted as the tour bus drives everyone to a supermarket-sized thrift store. The shopping is lethargic and is soon called off. GoldieLocks heads off to prepare for her first show of the day while everyone else votes for time to recover before catching her live. The gig at Beauty Bar, a venue designed like a 1950s hair salon, goes well. “That wasn’t a true representation of a US crowd, so I’m not going to say I rocked America, but they were into it,” says GoldieLocks of her performance. “Southern hip-hop is pretty bassy, like grime and dubstep, so I think they get it here.” Asked whether the prevalence of industry faces at SXSW gigs makes a difference to her shows, she answers in typically laid-back fashion. “I’m playing for the fans, not the suits. It’s just fun to do. Maybe I’ll meet other artists who I can collaborate with, but Lmy main focus is just performing.” ater that night, three-fifths of The Cheek roll up at the Billboard magazine showcase event to watch an exclusive acoustic set by Graham Coxon. After an intimate half-hour in the company of the Blur guitarist and seven of his new songs, Cottam and Hobson are awestruck. “How ridiculously good was that?” asks the singer, rhetorically. “Abso-f**king-lutely amazing,” adds the bass player. As Friday becomes Saturday, the entire Cheek, along with GoldieLocks and the rest of the entourage, roll up to the Lady Sovereign gig at Club de Ville on Red River. It’s another long, chaotic night that includes a prolonged period of crowd-surfing and stage invasion by Hobson at the Black Lips show, and ends with brave but futile attempts to ward off sleep and the sunrise back at Red Bull Central. Fatigue and the rotation of the earth finally win. Despite everyone’s best efforts, they always do. The huge sign above Red’s Shooting Range is just one of many billboards crammed onto the side of the dusty sliproad off the main highway. Fast-food joints, diners and – bizarrely – motorboat showrooms vie for attention in this one of a thousand out-of-town commercial enclaves. But this is another world for The Cheek and GoldieLocks. This is where New Europe meets Old Texas. The 68 ACTION have the upper hand. Saturday is their big night, but one look at the clearly ill guitarist and one has to wonder whether they’re even going to make it on stage. Given everything which has gone before – the partying, the gigging, the constant culture shock – it’s no surprise that The Cheek look more ready-to-drop than to ready-to-rock before performing at the Moon Tower. But, just as before, when they were still on Tokyo time in an Irish pub some five days ago, the band dig deep to give a typically frenetic show. Under a thick shroud of darkness sporadically punctured by psychedelic searchlights, The Cheek puff through the first couple of songs, but find their sea legs on the hook-heavy You Let Me Go. By the time the insane plea of Give Me Your Hand rolls out over the audience, the boys are at full tilt. Despite his opening profane apology, Charlie’s voice holds out to the end, and the lads push themselves to another finale of full-on physicality before bidding Austin goodnight. By the time GoldieLocks brings a taste of Croydon attitude to proceedings in the early hours, the crowd are wired and inspired. Buffeting the audience with waves of earth-tremor bass and sassy rhymes, she soon has a sea of hands in front of her. A triumph is on the cards until The Man intervenes. The venue is surrounded by surly-looking cops and a fleet of cruisers as an announcement of closure rings out from the stage. DX`eg`Zkli\1K_\:_\\b\ogcf[\fekfk_\I\[9lccDffeKfn\ijkX^\]fik_\`iY`^^\jke`^_kXkJOJN% The music is stopped, but the party ;fYe\p^`m\j`k(''g\iZ\ek kfgi`^_k #Xe[`kj_fnj ]Xic\]k %C\]k1K_\:_\\b#\o_`Y`k`e^j`^ejf] continues; no one is ready to leave. n\XiXe[k\XiX]k\ife\kffdXepcXk\e`^_kj#i\Õ\Zkfek_\`i\og\i`\eZ\jf]K\oXjZlckli\ After sticking around with the majority of the resilient crowd until the sun gung-ho attitude the majority of the guns. GoldieLocks has also refused to shoot, dares to rise over the tense scene, the group had before their arrival quickly and the atmosphere takes on a darker European contingent eventually ride dissipates as liberal and conservative feel under the glare of the Texan sun. the Moon Tower buzz all the way home. ideas about guns meet head-on. Half an hour before their set at the “This has been a great festival,” says After a short moral debate that divides Moon Tower, The Cheek are showing Daniels. “You walk around with your the group, those who choose to shoot more than a little wear and tear. An ailing head down and this could be Reading receive a quick tutorial and shuffle through Dobney wraps himself in an unflattering, or Glastonbury, but when you look to a cramped corridor to wait for a free oversized hoody and takes another chug up, there are all these skyscrapers and firing alley. Bear-like locals in trucker on a bottle of cough medicine. This isn’t this sprawling city. It’s totally rad… caps and plaid shirts blaze away at distant some pharmaceutically charged act of just an awesome experience. targets with a variety of pistols, while rock ‘n’ roll hedonism. Dobney, like the “Just having all these bands in all a denim-clad couple enjoy a date with rest of The Cheek, is paying the price of these venues… it’s mind-blowing,” adds matching rifles. Outside in the parking excess. “I feel well dodgy,” the guitarist Hobson from under a towering fishing lot, guitarist and vocalist Charlie Dobney growls from under a cloud of tour flu. He cap that would make Elmer Fudd blush. and drummer Bartlett contemplate life, looks it, too. The band have been fighting “This is probably the best place to have but mostly death, and the reality of gun off the inevitable for most of the past an urban festival. It’s been a blast.” ownership in the US. Neither is comfortable week, but now the inevitable seems to With that, The Cheek and friends with the now-obvious connection forget their ailments and party on. The between weaponry and mortality. ‘THIS HAS BEEN A previously at-death’s-door Dobney even Soon they’re joined by the other GREAT FESTIVAL. gets the girl in a real Hollywood ending. band members, who filter out with their That’s the healing power of music for you. excitement in pieces, as if blown away by IT’S AN AWESOME J\\_fn>fc[`\CfZbjXe[K_\:_\\b\eafp\[ a 12-gauge. Not one of them has converted JOJNXknnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd&Xik`Zc\j& their pre-trip enthusiasm into a love of EXPERIENCE’ ^fc[`\cfZbjVXe[Vk_\Vk_i\\VYXiY\hl\j&\e 69 back intraining? why isKarinaHollekim never walkagain. So the veryleast,shewould her life.At have taken career andshould jumping her BASE years agoended accident three A parachute 70 Words: AndreasTzortzisPhotography:MariusWHansen ACTION e\m\inXcbX^X`e k_Xkj_\nflc[ c\[dXepkfgi\[`Zk fg\iXk`fejXe[ _Xm\i\hl`i\[(0 `eali`\jk_Xk j_Xkk\i`e^c\^ ?fcc\b`dn`k_ Xk-'dg_c\]k ?`kk`e^jfc`[ifZb ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: CRISTOPHE MICHOT/RED BULL PHOTOFILES (1) 71 ACTION urges her knee to bend, her ankle to hold and her hips to move properly. “It might sound a little strange,” she says. “Because my life has been… doctors, it has been hospitals, it has been rehab centres. It hasn’t had anything to do with a normal life. But I’m happier now than I would expect to be, because nobody has any expectations of me; because I don’t know what I’m capable of. So, I’m happy every step of the way.” That’s not entirely true. She does have expectations of herself – above all to ski. And not on the sit-ski she mastered after two runs on steep powder slopes, but to ski for real, in her home in Chamonix, France, with her father, Bjørn Sønsterud, here’s a banal snow blanketing the foothills a stoic Scandinavian who has served as climbing into craggy mountains and bedside confidant and relentless motivator. groomed ski pistes around Salzburg. The Her right knee, which she can only bend flakes fall wet and thick, and evaporate on 80 degrees, shouldn’t allow it. Neither Efk]`k]fik_\jki\\kj#k_\iXg`jk;Xm`[;\e`]c`j the asphalt road, stirred on occasion by a should her reconstructed left femur, held _\cg`e^?fcc\b`d^\ki`[f]_\iÊZXknXcbËnXcb passing sedan or truck. She’s not breaking together by pins and screws that, on her a sweat, but her breath becomes more X-rays, make her legs look like they were ragged as the red numbers on the digital set upon by a toddler with a building set. is full of wispy clouds, blue sky and smiling display tick upwards, and the legs pump The two physiotherapists working with skydivers, sitting on the floor of a plane away. For a moment, Karina Hollekim her here at the Diagnostic and Therapy next to an open door. It’s taken from glances away from the display on the Centre, built by Red Bull for its athletes, a camera affixed to Hollekim’s helmet. stationary bike and through the window. smile weakly. They explain the emphasis at This is an experienced group, providing “Be nice to go skiing this weekend,” she the moment is to work on the small things sideshow entertainment during the main says. The left side of her body is bathed in – her awkward gait, her tired muscles – event. Hollekim is dressed in a weblike the light reflecting off the Austrian snow not on readying her slowly-recovering legs wingsuit that connects her arms to her and through the glass. We’ll call this her for a potentially disastrous run down the body and her legs, which will fill as she ‘good’ side – the one bearing only a few mountain. That’s what they say. But they, jumps out of the door, allowing her to surgical scars, reminders of the four Hollekim points out, haven’t been in her control her flight back down to earth. open fractures in her left leg, including a body for the past two and a half years. Flying. That, says Hollekim, is what broken femur. The thin, white lines here The video footage of the Paragliding it has always been about. are noticeable, but none is as dramatic as Aerobatic World Championships in It was in the 1990s that Hollekim, the black and pink line stretching from Villeneuve, Switzerland, in August 2006, an accomplished freeskier, first saw her waist down to below her right knee, looking like a fossilised caterpillar – or the thin white scar tucked below a bend where part of her quadriceps is gone, torn out with muscle, bone and knee. Twenty-one fractures in all, suffered when she hit solid rock at 60mph after a faulty skydive in the Swiss Alps in August 2006. That day marked the end of Hollekim the professional athlete: a fearless freeskier and BASE-jumper, nevertheless obsessed by fear; a Norwegian tomboy with girl- next-door good looks, bright eyes and a conspiratorial grin, who flitted about the world, missing planes but making jumps, from buildings, antennas, bridge spans and cliffs. If those were the years of one selfish adrenaline rush after another, then this, logic suggests, is the payback. But Hollekim doesn’t see it that way. After scarcely half a year in a wheelchair, from which she wasn’t supposed to get out, and 19 painful operations, through Jli^\ipfek_\)(fg\e]iXZkli\jfe_\ii`^_kc\^ ÊEfi[`ZjklYfie\jjË#Xe[`ii\gi\jj`Yc\gfj`km`kp_Xm\ countless hours in swimming pools, on d\Xekcfj`e^dfjkf]_\ihlX[i`Z\gjdljZc\ \eXYc\[_\ii\Zfm\ip]ifdk_\gXiXcpj`e^`ealip treadmills and on stationary bikes, she 72 ACTION experienced standing at the edge of fenced-off antennas, as well as a jump a cliff. “It’s about somebody else,” she from the top of the Stratosphere hotel in says. “It’s not about you.” Her mother has Las Vegas, for which she wore a disguise never fully recovered from the accident, to sneak by security. And she was one of suffering memory loss and requiring the only women to pull off a ski-base special care. And because her parents jump – a downhill ski to the edge of had split up, Hollekim’s youth was spent a cliff. “It’s about personal limits,” she leading a double life. She played football says, “finding how far you can push it.” with her friends and skied as much as For seconds after she jumps out of she could. When she returned home, the plane in Switzerland, her head-cam she made sure that the stove had been footage captures her friends swooping turned off and everything had been through the air above and below her. taken care of before she went to bed. The parachute pops open, but something In 1992, Hollekim got her first is wrong as the green scrub on the solid sponsorships as a freeskier. Though she rock below comes rushing up to meet later tried working for an IT company for her. Hollekim crashes through it, the a few months, the realisation at 16 that frame seismic as it moves left and right, you could get paid to do what you loved up and down. A paramedic is quickly on convinced her that this was a gig worth the scene, running his hands over her. riding as long as possible. She was scared The audio picks up little else besides ?fcc\b`dj`dlcXk\jXjb`ilefek_\JgXZ\:lic at the top of a mountain, but intoxicated breathing. Hollekim’s shallow breathing. dXZ_`e\#[\j`^e\[kfjki\e^k_\e_\iYXZbdljZc\j by the prospect of mastering that most primitive of emotions. “You can tell your body what the body has got to do,” she a documentary on the brave, mad souls explains. “It’s a fear that makes you focus, who, wearing small pilot parachutes, makes you more alert and makes you jump from fixed points hundreds of perform better. I think it’s healthy to feel metres in the air. BASE-jumping – named all of those emotions and not try and protect for Building, Antenna, Span and Earth, yourself. Maybe I’m actually a scared W the fixed locations from which jumpers person, because in everyday life I don’t throw themselves – was a fledgling sport dare to embrace those fears. I need to go hen Hollekim woke up from her first at the time, and Hollekim wanted in. BASE-jumping to know how to feel them.” operations, her father was already by Skydiving was a means to get there and, By her count, she had made more her side. Friends from all over the world when her friends gave her a skydiving than 400 BASE-jumps before her came to visit in the ensuing days. Her tandem jump for her 25th birthday, she accident. They included the Hand of room had transformed into a youth traded it in for a class. It wasn’t long Fatima, a stark 600m red rock in Mali hostel of sorts, a mix of languages before she tired of the jumps out of with only 10 to 15 seconds of parachute providing the soundtrack to her early planes. BASE-jumper Jeb Corliss, who time. There were also more than a few days in a sterile environment, with was arrested a few years ago for trying midnight break-ins and risky scalings of its strange smells and troubling quiet, to jump from the Empire State Building, which would become so uncomfortably offered to teach her, and she took him up familiar over the next two years. on the offer. She jumped Perrine Bridge Fear – true fear – set in when she in Twin Falls, Idaho, in 2002, one of the was wheeled out a few days later to only man-made objects in the US where hear a talk on living with disability BASE-jumping is legal without a permit. with other victims of horrible accidents. An ankle-break forced Corliss to sit out “I don’t fit in here,” she said to herself. additional jumps, and he communicated Thoughts about her accident and from the car with Hollekim via a walkie- a future in a wheelchair kept her up at talkie at sites as the pair travelled around night in the hospital room in Oslo. Her the world’s best-known locations. “It was father, by her bedside, changed the topic something of a brutal way to start,” she of conversation and did his best to calm says, “learning by myself – learning how her. “I tried to strengthen her,” says to trust myself at such an early stage.” Sønsterud, though he, too, was unsure Her drive to master fear has its if she would ever recover. “But I didn’t roots in an episode from her childhood. want to tell her that,” he says. Hollekim was riding in the back seat Mercifully, she wasn’t allowed to of the car as the family returned from wallow for long. A personal trainer at a holiday. Another car hit the passenger’s the hospital burst into her room one day, side, badly injuring her mother – she whipped aside the bed curtain and threw herself was unhurt. As a passer-by held a pair of boxing gloves onto her lap. “My her, she watched the paramedics pull name is Alan – I’m your PT,” he said. her mother out and take her away on ?\ii`^_kbe\\_XjY\\ek_\Z_`\]fYjkXZc\#Xe[ “You’ve got five minutes to get ready.” a stretcher. The fear she felt back then ?fcc\b`d_fg\jkfY\e[`kY\pfe[/'[\^i\\jjffe The exhausting road to recovery was a different one from that she later began: four months in a hospital in 73 9\]fi\_\iXZZ`[\ek# ?fcc\b`d_X[Zfdgc\k\[ dfi\k_Xe+''98J< aldgjXifle[k_\nfic[ ACTION Norway; six months in a wheelchair; crack jokes or make an inappropriate months of training sessions at CERS, comment in a room full of men. a rehabilitation centre in the south of On the Space Curl, a gyroscopic France. Progress was at times steady machine that requires the user to use and at other times slow and fraught with hips and lower-back muscles to control setbacks. A year after the fall, she threw their movement, Denifl and therapist away her crutches, only to have to rely Martin Pfeifenberger urge her to keep on them again after another operation to her body rigid. Hollekim tries hard to repair her left femur. “I learned early on keep from giggling as the Curl swings to focus on the things I could do instead her backwards, frontwards and sideways. of the things I couldn’t do,” she says. She stares at a screen hooked up to the The final two operations in autumn machine that simulates a ski run and 2008 were especially harrowing, makes whooshing sounds. involving the removal of bacteria that “She’s got that Nordic stubbornness,” have hampered her recovery since the says Bernd Pansold, the doctor running outset, and placed her in danger of the low-profile DTC, half an hour’s having her right leg amputated. From drive from Salzburg. “But you realise a phone booth in Argentina, where she that helps in situations like these.” was visiting her boyfriend, Hollekim With her weak legs ruling out the called her doctor in Norway and spent possibility of BASE-jumping again, almost 10 minutes convincing him to ?\ij\jj`fejfek_\jkXk`feXipY`b\Xi\j_fik# one wonders where all these hours take the risk, even if it meant losing Yifb\elgYpk\jkjd\Xjli`e^_\icXZk`ZXZ`[c\m\c on treadmills and stationary bikes are her leg. “I thought, ‘Is this a completely leading Hollekim. She’s learned to insane thing to ask for? Or should I just understand that a full return to 100 be happy with where I am now,’” she not sad, she tells them – it’s uplifting. per cent is no longer possible, “But at says. “In this case, it was the BASE- “Because you have to see the outcome least I’m going to do everything in my jumper inside of me making the of it, and the end of it,” she says. “And power… everything possible to find decision, and reasoning as well.” the end is not a sad story.” out how close I can come.” The slivers of sun that have sliced But the way she talks about BASE- through the grey clouds above the jumping in the past tense is perhaps the training centre have disappeared and most obvious signal that something has Hollekim is no longer on the bike, but changed in Hollekim, the wandering walking on a treadmill. David Denifl, extreme athlete with room in her mind her physiotherapist, is in front of her, for little else but the promise of a bigger holding a full-length mirror. “You know jump or a longer flight. ‘Reckless’ is not H what to look for, right?” he asks. the word she would use to describe her “The hips.” previous life. ‘Selfish’ is. But it has ollekim now draws on this wealth “And the knees, keep them straight.” thankfully been without consequence, of anecdote and inner turmoil when she On its road to recovering the evident in the never-ending stream of stands before rooms full of people around movement it knew before, the body friends visiting her hospital room, or the the world to tell her story. The speeches, travels along the path of least resistance. emails from others spurring her on to which began with a single request a year Hollekim’s has taken highways and return to the mountains. “I knew they after her accident and have ballooned snaking little roads. It’s stopped without cared before. But it becomes very… near, into almost a full-time gig, have turned asking for directions and made U-turns, now,” she says. “I appreciate and value her into a motivational speaker of sorts. the map lost underneath a floormat, them more today than I did before.” Confident at the precipice of a cliff, ignored by Hollekim as she pushed it to There is a vision, a memory, from Hollekim finds telling her story before walk again. The result is what she likes her former life, that she can’t shake: a live audience both nerve-racking and, to call her ‘catwalk’ walk: a purposeful rising at 3am with her friends, bleary- of course, thrilling. “It’s better than sashay, the right hip dipping lower eyed and sleep-deprived, hiking up keeping it to yourself,” she says. than it should, the right knee bent a mountainside in the dead of night. She shows footage of her accident slightly inward, too much strain put The shared experience; the jokes, the during the speeches. The talk on its onto her lower back and a tiring gait laughter, the moment the sun rises over own is powerful, but the way Hollekim for any distance longer than a few the fjords – just her and her friends, delivers it is oddly somnolent, as though hundred metres. “David,” she says, standing on a cliff. “I wouldn’t even the story is not her own but another “never liked my catwalk walk.” have to jump off it,” she says. person’s, in another place and time. And, Denifl slides up next to the treadmill It’s a remarkable prospect for someone in a sense, it seems that way. The tanned and puts his hands on her hips and moves like Hollekim. No longer obsessed with and pretty Norwegian before them bears them as she walks. “She’s walking well,” he pushing the human body and mind past little resemblance to the insecure girl says. “But we don’t know her level of pain.” the brink of its comfort level, she’s battling back in the last few scenes Indeed, Hollekim makes it difficult become content with embracing life at of 20 Seconds of Joy, a documentary to appraise such things or even to take the speed the rest of us do. Just getting chronicling her BASE-jumping career. pity on her. She seldom grimaces or to the precipice, it seems, is now enough. She’s often surprised when people complains. She does frequently vamp J\\?fcc\b`d`eXZk`feXknnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd& ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: STEFAN AUFSCHNAITER/RED BULL PHOTOFILES (1) tell her what a sad story hers is. It’s it up in front of the mirror, the first to Xik`Zc\j&)'Vj\Zfe[jVf]Vafp&\e 75 More Body & Mind All the best in music, fashion, fiction and much more 78 HANGAR-7 INTERVIEW 80 GET THE GEAR 82 RED BULL NEW YORK STADIUM 84 LISTINGS 88 NIGHTLIFE 94 BULL’S EYE 96 SHORT STORY 98 MIND’S EYE K_\C`]\9Xcc`jX_l^\ ]Xj_`fe\okiXmX^XeqX Xe[ 77 MORE BODY & MIND The Hangar-7 Interview Gisela Pulido She collects cuddly toys, laughs at Pluto, listens to Snoop Dog and rally star Carlos Sainz is a fan: The Red Bulletin meets Gisela Pulido, the world’s best female kite-surfer… at just 15 years old At first glance, Gisela Pulido appears to wind. Your mother, however, stayed It’s somewhat unusual, to say be an entirely normal teenager with her in Barcelona. Whose idea was that? the least, for a 10-year-old to fluffy boots, a slightly too large hoody, Mine! The conditions in Barcelona aren’t put sport above everything else. round glasses on the tip of her nose and good enough to to train professionally. Where does this determination a shy grin spread across her childlike So I asked my father if we could move and toughness come from? face. But during dinner at Hangar-7, in somewhere where I could become a pro. I am totally competitive. When I was Salzburg, Red Bull’s unofficial HQ, ‘Gigi’ That was already my goal back then. younger I was in a swimming club. turns out to be a witty conversationalist We used to have competitions and with a multi-layered personality: not Do you miss your mother? beforehand, all the parents used to only is she a professional, world-class Of course, but we speak on the telephone say to their children, “Don’t be nervous. athlete – she’s won the kitesurfing world every day and I try to see her as often Taking part is the most important thing.” championship five times in a row – but as possible – at least every two weeks. I thought that was stupid. It would she’s also a smart businesswoman and never have occurred to me to be a funny, laid-back girl. Can your father make up for the nervous; I just wanted to win. absence of your mother? When you were 10 you moved with He does everything for me: he trains In whatever you were doing? your father from your hometown me, he gives me paternal tips, he talks In whatever I was doing. Once, when of Barcelona, Spain, to Tarifa, in the with me about whatever worries I have, I lost to my father at Ludo, I sat down the south of the country, which is a Mecca even about boys. And he gives me a next day and practised throwing sixes so for kitesurfers because there’s always sense of security, like a mother would. I could beat him the next time we played. 78 MORE BODY & MIND How do your school friends react? Are you an outsider? Not at all. As soon as I get home, I’m a regular schoolgirl again. I have a lot of laughs with my friends. They’d make fun of me if I tried to be ‘clever’ with them. Do you have a lot of friends? Yes, but more boys than girls. I have a clique of five or six boys I always go kiting with. They’re really good and I can still learn things from them. How much time do you get to spend with your friends? If I’m at home, I go to school until 3pm, then I go kiting, after that I do weight- training then I do my homework. So the days are pretty full. But at the weekends, we like going to my favourite pizzeria that makes the most delicious pizzas. Lots of people my age hang out there. Sometimes we go swimming together in the evenings. Do you have role models? Not really, but I’d like to win as many world championships as [nine-time world surfing champ] Kelly Slater. And I think Lionel Messi’s great because I love football. Especially FC Barcelona! When I was younger, Barcelona was my first sponsor. I even have the club logo on some of my kiteboards. Carlos Sainz is also a role model… but then he did tell me he was a fan of mine. How mature a kitesurfer are you? Or, how much can you still improve? Between the ages of 10 and 14, I wasn’t any good! I grew a lot and had to completely rework my technique. Now I’m older and am getting stronger and stronger physically. I’d say I’ve reached about 40 or 50 per cent of my potential. This attitude has helped you win five kitesurfing world championships. Do Do you compare yourself to the guys? you still have any sporting goals? I mean, there’s almost no competition Yes. I want kitesurfing to become an from any other women. Olympic sport and then I want to win No, not to the guys. To Aaron! a gold medal in it. For Spain. That’s what I dream of most. You mean Aaron Hadlow, the men’s world champion? You’ve been a world-class kitesurfer Exactly. He’s perfect. It all looks so gentle for five years, you’ve opened a and slow with him. If you watch his tricks kitesurfing school… and you’ve on video, you don’t need slow motion; built a house, too. he does them all so cleanly and calmly. …for my old age. And will you be a kitesurfer forever? It all sounds rather grown-up. No, later I want to be a TV presenter for Hmm, I’ve never really thought about it. extreme sports. But before that, I want But yes, I travel all over the world and >`j\cX`j`ek_\>l`ee\jj9ffbf]I\Zfi[jXjk_\ to study journalism in English. pfle^\jkb`k\jliÔe^Z_Xdg`feXk('%J_\Ëjefnnfe meet a lot of interesting people – mostly ]flidfi\k`kc\j%?\ikfl^_\jkX[m\ijXipcXjkj\Xjfe J\\>`j\cXXkk_\I\[9lcc;`X^efjk`ZjXe[ older than me – and that’s all an education, nXj9iXq`c`Xe9ileXBXa`pX#j`op\Xij_\ij\e`fi%>`j\cX KiX`e`e^:\eki\Xknnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd& WORDS: JAN CREMER. 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And with a new 25,000-seat home for the New York Red Bulls nearing completion, US soccer fans can hardly wait to fete their heroes MORE BODY & MIND The train yards that sweep glamorous honeymoon period into the south of Harrison, in the 1970s, when the New New Jersey, evoke a period York Cosmos lured the likes when this small satellite of of Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer New York was known as an to the USA, by 1984 the North industrial stronghold. But American Soccer League had these days, most of the collapsed under the weight factories and warehouses of financial wrangles and are deserted, the yards lie poor management. silent and the lines might With the arrival of Major just as easily suggest you’ve League Soccer in 1996, the arrived on the wrong side New York MetroStars once of the tracks. However, by more gave the city a team next year Harrison will have to be proud of. But after 10 turned the grit and dust of years struggling to match the the once-neglected waterfront playboy dynamism of their of the Passaic River into a predecessors, the MetroStars diamond. Glass and steel rise received an image overhaul day by day, building what, in to become the New York early 2010, will be the USA’s Red Bulls in 2006. premier soccer venue: the Now, the focus has 25,000-seat Red Bull Arena. shifted to training homegrown New Jersey is just a talent instead of tempting 20-minute drive out of New expensive foreign stars. As York City. A state that has well as the new stadium, the long had the image of plucky team will also receive a first- class training centre with six Glass and steel grass and astroturf pitches in Hanover, New Jersey. This rise day by day on will be backed by a European- the once-neglected style U14, U15, U16, U18 and U20 academy programme, waterfront, building an integral part of the team’s what, in early 2010, Player Development System. will be the USA’s But it’s the stadium that New Yorkers are really premier soccer venue getting excited about. This fan-friendly treasure trove bruiser compared to the features 25,189 covered seats prize-fighter next door, it close to the action, bold roof has actually had footballing construction, 30 luxury boxes links with New York for years. – and, exceptionally for The New York Red Bulls train America, it’s easy to reach here and play their home by public transport. matches, as guests, at the “The new owners have New York Giants American been amazing in regards Football Stadium. The bowl’s to the design of the new 80,000 capacity far exceeds stadium. It’s world class the needs of US soccer’s more and similar to the arenas modest following, and a sense you see in Europe,” says of belonging for the New York Corey Vezina of New York’s Red Bulls – in their own Empire Supporters Club, facility – is long overdue. one of the Red Bulls’ more “In the pre-Red Bull era, the rabid fan followings. players wandered from one By the beginning of next New Jersey pitch to the other,” season, a new landmark on says goalkeeper coach Des America’s sporting map will McAleenan. “They were like have risen on the East Coast. raggle-taggle gypsies. I think The pride of New York will we must have had between be in the heart of New Jersey. 10 and 15 training grounds!” E\nPfibI\[9lccjjki`b\iAlXeGXYcf The ‘pre-Red Bull era’ refers 8e^\ckXcbjXYflkk_\`dgfikXeZ\ to soccer’s colourful past in f]k_\k\XdËje\njkX[`ldXknnn% WORDS: TOM HALL. PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMIE-JAMES MEDINA the New York area. 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Full terms and conditions can be found on www.mycallaway.eu A story by Andrew Holmes Rolls on Floor Laughing What happens when you finally meet your nemesis? ‘Lawrence Shattock added you as a friend on Facebook.’ For a second or so, I stare at the email in my inbox, its subject line ‘Lawrence Shattock added you as a friend on Facebook’, feeling my chest tighten, BPM quickening, and I fight a subterranean memory of some long-ago school-me, buried beneath the years since, hidden fossils and layers. Then I click in. Key in my password. ‘We need to confirm that you know Lawrence Shattock in order for you to be friends on Facebook.’ So, I do. Because I do. We’re old pals. On his profile is his photo. It looks as though it was taken on holiday and shows him with perfect blue sky at his back, sunglasses on, hair shiny with hair gel, teeth bared and grinning. He’s sent me a message that blares, ‘Still the same old Graham, I see!’ My own photograph shows me with my arm forward, taking my own picture. I am not grinning. My eyes are unreadable, my expression blank. He’s wrong, though. I’ve, like, so changed. I am no longer recognisable as that person – that person from school. I’ve shed my skin and become a different animal altogether. Merciless. All thanks to Lawrence Shattock. He wants to meet, have a bite to eat, which means he must have forgotten that day, at school, by the pool table, when he extended a car radio aerial and used it to teach me a lesson. I’ll need Denso tape; I’ll need a Sig P238 with a full magazine; I’ll need a 199E fixed-blade Stanley knife and a pair of Channellock end-cutting pliers, for close-up work. We arrange to go to Zizzi’s, which is new in town. It’s very busy, being so new, filled with people who can say they saw us together, if asked. Not that it really matters either way. I’ll come forward afterwards and say that I was having dinner with Lawrence Shattock the night he disappeared. I must have been – God, what a thought ILLUSTRATION: ADAM POINTER – I must have been one of the last people MORE BODY & MIND the digital camera made its camera-click “ He’s going on sound and captured him for a picture about his little boy that would one day find its way onto and something his Facebook profile, where it would sit, telling a lie about Lawrence Shattock, about the sea. He he says, ‘Graham, I’m sorry.’ went into the His mouth wet, food still untouched, he mewls an apology for whipping me sea. He keeps on with the car aerial that time, reminding saying this…” me why he thought it was necessary – because he’d found an exercise book of mine in which I’d written a story fantasising about his death – but saying to see him alive. He’d contacted me that it was no excuse and that he was through Facebook, right out of the blue, a different person then, and that he’d and what a nice surprise it had been to thought about it many times since. hear from him. I’d hoped we might see Night after night, he lies awake thinking more of each other. But I suppose… about it. That since the accident, he I suppose that’s impossible now. sometimes thinks it was God punishing All of this I’m expecting. Am prepared him for what he’d done to me. He for. The Denso tape is in the pocket of wants to make amends, he tells me. my coat, along with the Stanley knife. What can he do, he says, to make We’ll have a pleasant dinner, talk things right between us? about old times, ask after classmates I think about it for a moment or so. and reminisce. Witnesses will see us ‘You can tell people,’ I say, ‘that laughing together, wiping happy, you met me for dinner and that it was halcyon-days tears from our eyes. a pleasant evening, but that you won’t What I’m not expecting. What be repeating the experience, because I’m really not expecting. What I’m there was something about me that certainly really not expecting is for wasn’t quite right. You can tell people Lawrence Shattock to start crying. that I made you nervous.’ Witnesses saw the deceased crying. By now, he’s stopped crying and ‘Lawrence,’ I whisper, leaning forwards he stares at me. The beginnings – across the table, ‘Why are you crying?’ only the very beginnings, mind you But he doesn’t answer. His shoulders – of a contempt-stained smile flicker are shaking and he’s bawling all over his at the corner of his mouth. rigatoni con pollo e funghi, and people ‘Why?’ he says. ‘Why would you are starting to look. I don’t know how want people to think that about you?’ to react in this situation, so I do what ‘It’s just better that way,’ I tell him, characters do in films. I smile at and I look around the restaurant, at the people staring. I do this sound: the other diners, the witnesses who ‘zz-zz-zz’, to indicate that my dining stare in our direction. partner has had a little too much to drink. I raise my eyebrows like this, and do this sound, ‘tsk’, the way old ladies do when someone tries About the author to buy 11 items in the wrong queue. Andrew Holmes is 37 and lives in He’s going on about his little boy, something about the sea. How he took Buckinghamshire with his wife and off his jacket. He stopped to take off his son. He has published four novels to jacket. That Rachel had never forgiven critical acclaim: Sleb, a satire on him for taking off his jacket. If he hadn’t celebrity culture, was followed by All taken off his jacket, then his little boy Fur Coat, for which, in the course of might be alive today. The sea. He went research, Holmes had to interview into the sea. He keeps on saying this. a lap dancer – who didn’t believe he He’s hardly touched his food. was a writer at all and made him pay A waitress is hovering. Quite nice, for her services. The darkly humorous actually. Perhaps for later, another day. thriller 64 Clarke, about innocence Now Lawrence Shattock raises his put to the test, came next, and his head and looks straight at me. His eyes are red-rimmed and puffy and pregnant most recent work is Rain Dogs and with tears. His cheeks glisten, fat with Love Cats, which Holmes says is anguish, and from his mouth that once “about a wedding DJ who becomes grinned as he beat me with an extended embroiled in something nasty”. car aerial, that grinned on holiday when www.myspace.com/64clarke 97 MORE BODY & MIND Mind’s Eye one of such outstanding excellence, there may be an important link between physical freakishness and editorial quality. So, data For Your are facts. Information is comparative facts. Opinions are interpretation. People say Information dismissively “That’s just your opinion”, but your opinion is hard-won and valuable. Stephen Bayley tries to sort Intelligence and intellect are rather out some common confusions different, although popular opinion often muddles them. Intelligence is well defined as behaviour that is adaptively variable. Thus, true intelligence is a survival characteristic: if you find that hitting your thumb with a 5lb ball peen hammer is uncomfortable, then the intelligent thing to do is stop. Intellect is rather different; an intellectual is someone who enjoys the fission of ideas. Clearly, education is required here, but an intellectual is by no means necessarily intelligent. For example, the sort of intellectual who calls himself an ‘academic’ (because he fetishises footnotes, nurtures bibliographies and works in a university) might publish a paper titled Transgressing the Boundaries: How do you define ignorance and he made them up. And it was in 1948 he towards a transformative hermeneutics of indifference? I don’t know and I don’t care. published an article in The Bell Systems quantum gravity. The intelligent thing There’s a popular confusion between Technical Journal that defined ‘information’ to do would be not read it. Or, indeed, knowledge and wisdom, as there is at the blinking and yawning dawning not to write it in the first place. between intelligence and intellect, but of The Information Age. His struggle to And so we come to knowledge and they are nothing like as confusing as distinguish between noise and signal wisdom. These are more closely related the difference between information brought him to an electronic engineer’s than our other pairings, since the very and data. Never mind opinions. equivalent of yogic enlightenment. idea of knowledge suggests the dignified Claude Shannon (who died in 2001) Shannon’s belief was that if a piece and mature accumulation of information was surely one of the most intelligent of data confirms, or denies, something over a period of time. You can’t just get men to have lived in recent years. To previously thought unlikely, then it knowledge, it’s a slow process. Equally, Shannon was revealed a pattern in the contains a great deal of information. wisdom just as clearly suggests the use of universe almost as majestic in its simplicity If it merely tells you something you knowledge to found opinions which prove and significance as Newton’s perceptions know, it is not information. This sets beneficial. A guru, suffused with knowledge about gravity or Einstein’s on time. It was up an interesting hierarchy… with data and wisdom, would certainly not want Shannon who established the mathematical at the bottom. Data are facts with no to be an academic stuck in his frigid basis of what we know as Information added value. That the editor of The Red calculus of data capture, retrieval and Theory. It was Shannon who made the Bulletin is six-foot-one is data that tells dispersal. A guru, it occurred to me the binary concept fundamental to computing. you very little of interest; it contains not other day, might even wish to become Shannon who distinguished between a lot of information, at least not a lot of the Irish rugby captain. On the eve of a signal and noise (which gives us a beautiful the useful variety. But to say that the vital Six Nations fixture, Brian O’Driscoll metaphor about all human conversation). editor is six-foot-one, while professional explained, “Knowledge is knowing the And Shannon who determined the writers are generally under five-foot-four tomato is a fruit, while wisdom is distinction between information and data says something you perhaps did not knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.” which made digital a possibility. He was, know. It’s full of information because It would be difficult to find a better although he may not have wished to see it modifies your perception, making or more colourful image. But we still it expressed thus, the godfather of bitspit. you see things differently. It might need a definition and here we find the Majestically, Shannon, an engineer at even nudge you towards an opinion. automobile, rather than the salad bowl, The Bell Labs (working at the same time To become opinionated, you must a useful source of imagery. Knowledge some colleagues accidentally and rather interpret your information in a way that may be a powerful engine, but wisdom is happily discovered the transistor), said gives it a further vector of meaning. In the its transmission. Well, that’s my opinion. he had to invent the maths he needed to case of our editor, such an interpretation Stephen Bayley is a former director of prove his theory. 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