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NNN%I<;9LCC<K@E%:FD AN ALMOST INDEPENDENT MONTHLY MAGAZINE/APRIL 2009 Exclusively with The Independent on the first Tuesday of every month MOUNTAIN BIKE SUPER- SIBLINGS THE ATHERTONS TAKE US DOWNHILL – FAST! WHY WORLD CHAMPION AIR RACER HANNES ARCH IS THE MAN TO BEAT PLUS STEPHEN BAYLEY ON MADNESS V GENIUS AND BACKSTAGE WITH LADYHAWKE THE PRODIGY HE’S BLOND. HE’S BRITISH. HE’S A 20-YEAR-OLD FIVE-TIME WORLD CHAMP. MEET AARON HADLOW THE COLA 100% PURE COLA. The cola from Red Bull has a the original Kola nut and the Coca leaf. What’s more, the cola from unique blend of ingredients, all from Its naturally refreshing cola Red Bull contains no phosphoric acid, FROM RED BULL. 100% natural sources. In addition, taste comes from using the right blend no preservatives and no artificial it’s the only cola that contains both of plant extracts. colours or flavourings. Coca Leaf Kola Nut Lemon/Lime Clove Cinnamon Cardamom Pine Corn Mint Galangal Vanilla Ginger Mace Cocoa Liquorice Orange Mustard Seeds STRONG NATURAL. Natural flavours from plant extracts and natural caffeine from coffee beans. BULLHORN MEET THE BEST OF THE BEST “Youth is wasted on the young”, GB Shaw once felt moved to NNN%I<;9LCC<K@E%:FD observe, in a moment of withering misanthropy. Shame that Mr Shaw AN ALMOST INDEPENDENT MONTHLY MAGAZINE/APRIL 2009 &YDMVTJWFMZXJUI 5IF*OEFQFOEFOU never had the opportunity to meet this month’s Red Bulletin cover POUIFGJSTU5VFTEBZ PGFWFSZNPOUI star, kitesurfer Aaron Hadlow, who, at the age of just 20 is already a five-time world champion, pioneer, rule-breaker and role model. Young, he most certainly is. Wasteful? Hardly. His achievement at such a tender age is truly remarkable, yet beyond his glamorous, .06/5"*/#*,&461&3 4*#-*/(4THE ATHERTONS wind-blown arena, he remains largely unknown. Unsurprisingly, 5",&64%08/)*--o'"45 8):803-%$)".1*0/ "*33"$&3HANNES ARCH *45)&."/50#&"5 he’s doing something about it: “I want to be part of the upbringing 1-64STEPHENBAYLEY 0/."%/&447(&/*64 "/%#"$,45"(&8*5) of kitesurfing,” he tells The Red Bulletin in this month’s exclusive LADYHAWKE interview on page 44. “That’s what I’m trying to bring to the sport THE PRODIGY now, just to make it bigger and mainstream.” )&4#-0/%)&4#3*5*4) )&4":&"30-%'*7&5*.&803-%$)".1 AARON HADLOW Hadlow, then, is this month’s champion on water, but we can .&&5 bring you, too, a champion of the air, in the form of Hannes Arch, K_`jdfek_ËjZfm\inXj the self-styled ‘fastest air racer in the world’. He won last year’s j_fk\oZclj`m\cp]fiK_\I\[ Red Bull Air Race World Championship, despite, he says, not being 9lcc\k`eYpI`Zb>l\jkXkX the best pilot – merely the fastest. This year he’s determined to jkl[`fklZb\[XnXp`eJflk_ Cfe[fe%N\Zflc[k\ccpfl be even better, as The Red Bulletin discovered on a visit to his n_\i\`k`j2n\Zflc[\m\ek\cc off-season training base in South Africa (p50). pflk_\ki`Zbjf]_fnn\_le^ Completing our ‘champions trilogy’ this month are the Atherton 8Xife]ifdn`i\jXe[[flj\[ family – Rachel, Dan and Gee, who, in their (mostly) earth-bound _`d`enXk\ikf^\kk_\]lcc discipline of downhill mountain biking, reign supreme (p62). Ê^fc[\eYfpf]b`k\jli]`e^Ë April’s Bulletin also brings you the regular mix of culture (see our \]]\Zk%9lk`]n\[`[#n\Ë[Y\ glkk`e^flij\cm\jflkf]nfib% Ladyhawke review on p88), nightlife (our listings, p86) and brain- 8e[k_Xknflc[e\m\i[f¿ food (columnist Stephen Bayley on p98). And if that little lot’s not enough, check out www.redbulletin.com, where you’ll find a veritable cornucopia of exclusive movie footage, blogs, links and downloads to keep your body and mind fully loaded until next month. Enjoy! Your editorial team PS: The Red Bulletin is published on the first Tuesday of every month. The next issue is out on May 5. 05 CONTENTS CONTENTS WELCOME TO THE Action 44 AARON HADLOW WORLD OF RED BULL He’s the five-time world champion who’s been icon, innovator and insurgent for the sport of kiteboarding, and all this Dodging the April showers this month… before he even turns 21. A dominant force in world sport, Aaron Hadlow is the sporting pin-up the UK never knew it had 50 RED BULL AIR RACE Bullevard We join Red Bull Air Race World Champion Hannes Arch in South 10 GALLERY Africa, for pre-season training The month’s best shots in widescreen 60 RED BULL AIR RACE GUIDE 16 NOW AND NEXT All the info you need as this year’s News of freerunning’s hottest talent championship gets ready for take-off and Scotland’s Cold Water Classic 62 THE ATHERTONS 19 LUCKY NUMBERS These three siblings are a mountain- Sébastien Loeb is the World Rally biking dynasty who keep winning in Championship number one, but there the family. Dan, Gee and Rachel are are plenty more stats to go around world champions pushing themselves, 20 WINNING FORMULA the sport and each other Eddie Gustafsson, Red Bull Salzburg 68 HURLING goalkeeper, talks us through the mind 30 The fastest field sport in existence is as games involved in saving a spot-kick steeped in myth as it is grassroots passion. 23 WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT? 60 44 We get up to speed at the semi-final of the We go 12 rounds with Hollywood All-Ireland Senior Club Championship hard man Jason Statham 24 KIT EVOLUTION CHBERGER Ryan Sheckler’s pro skateboard goes More Body head-to-head with a 1977 classic 26 ME AND MY BODY 24 & Mind Austrian climber Angela Eiter talks us 78 WATCH THIS SPACE through her ascent back to fitness Red Bull Space in New York is where 27 HARD & FAST ideas in art, fashion and music come alive Our top athlete this month is 80 THE HANGAR-7 INTERVIEW Lindsey Van… No, that’s not a typo! Meet South African Giniel de Villiers, the winner of this year’s Dakar Rally 82 RED BULL PAPER WINGS Heroes 50 Paper planes – child’s play? Think again 30 DIETMAR KAINRATH 83 GET THE GEAR You’ve seen his unique cartoons in this Top mountain-biking buys magazine – meet the man behind them 84 LISTINGS 32 HERO’S HERO April’s entertainment and where to find it Australian stunt rider Robbie 88 NIGHTLIFE Maddison doffs his helmet to the Ladyhawke rocks Paris; fashion label PPQ original daredevil, Evel Knievel frock London; hip-hop’s Flying Lotus in 34 JUAN PABLO ANGEL 88 LA; inside Abu Dhabi’s top nightspot The New York Red Bulls striker is 94 BULL’S EYE showing that American Major League Animals do the funniest things… Soccer is more than just summer camp 34 96 A STORY BY OLIVER USCHMANN for a certain big-name midfielder Sometimes finding an excuse not to work 38 SAM CODY is as time consuming as work itself The man who made the first 98 MIND’S EYE powered flight over Britain was 80 Stephen Bayley bridges the gap a former Wild West gunslinger between madness and genius who befriended a king and was 34 mourned as a national hero. 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