NNN%I<;9LCC 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 &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! 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PHOTOGRAPHY: AGUSTIN MUÑOZ nnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd&Xik`Zc\j&Xe^\cXV\`k\i&\e WORDS: RUTH MORGAN. PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES, CITROËN PRESS, FRANÇOIS FLAMAND/DPPI, BERNHARD SPÖTTEL. ILLUSTRATION: DIETMAR KA 26 27 Heroes Amazing artists and past pioneers from around the world 030 DIETMAR KAINRATH 32 ROBBIE MADDISON 34 JUAN PABLO ANGEL 38 SAMUEL CODY F]Xcc A short background on the Kainrath we know from of his life, but what is certainly true is that he became this magazine: he was a highly-respected cartoonist a tamed Bohemian with a licence for occasional using unmistakable angular lines until, one fine exuberance. This two-sided Kainrath played his hand day, a certain drinks can lumbered into his life. between commercial and more refined art forms The coolness of his harsh lines intertwined with with technique and skill. He admired the estimable the curving shape of the cylinder and a refreshing Saul Steinberg and Tomi Ungerer as pillars of artistry, new geometry of the absurd was born. and cartoon aficionados will see that they are kindred Dietmar Kainrath comes from Innsbruck, in the spirits in style and substance. In the grey area between Austrian Alps, and as such is a Tyrolean. The mountain drawing, illustration and painting, Kainrath has no people of Tyrol have the reputation in their homeland qualms about being described as a cartoonist, and he for being very particular and very brave. This is also finds the conventional wisdom that a ‘cartoon-only’ the year of large-scale celebrations, as Tyroleans artist might one day run out of ideas preposterous. mark the 200-year anniversary of their heroic That is of no concern to Kainrath – he’ll never battles against Napoleon’s armies, when the French be lacking the spark which set him off – the only commander-in-chief ran away with his tail between problem being he can’t draw quickly enough to his legs. When it comes to a brawl, you probably keep up with the ideas running wild in his head. shouldn’t choose a Tyrolean as your opponent. His old inclination towards the Bohemian would Going on his weight alone, you can see Kainrath’s take Kainrath onto Bukowski-like subject matter with no typical Tyrolean; he weighs about half what they the unhealthy desire of addiction. The interaction normally weigh and he doesn’t show off with his with musicians – when jazz, literature and graphics derring-do on the slopes. Being the perfect Tyrolean set the framework from which they can then break is not his priority, but he appreciates the perfect out – excites him. The sensational Austrian trumpeter view of the landscape he has from his studio, of Franz Hackl (who now lives in America) thus Mt Patscherkofel and the Olympic downhill course. became a close friend of the draftsman and was a EXd\ A very young Dietmar Kainrath failed to capitalise competent guide around New York’s watering holes. ;`\kdXiBX`eiXk_ on his talent; instead he wandered around from Kainrath says his own art is all in the ideas. His GcXZ\Xe[[Xk\f]Y`ik_ place to place and one day ended up at the famous execution eventually became a matter of course: the @eejYilZb#8ljki`X# Hagenbeck circus in Germany, looking after the sweep of the ink-pen, the occasional thin brush and J\gk\dY\i/#(0+) exotic creatures: two camels, an elephant, a zebu the sparing use of watercolours. His main colours, FZZlgXk`fe (a type of cow), a water buffalo and a zebra. His vermilion and ultramarine, help underline his =i\\cXeZ\`ccljkiXkfiXe[ favourite animal was a female camel called Leila special talent for animals and cans. The bull, the ZXi`ZXkli`jkj`eZ\(0.0 who, one day, broke free and loped off towards artist explains, is a generous beast as far as drawing 8Z_`\m\d\ekj central Nuremberg – though, oddly enough, possibilities are concerned, and the can is a godsend 30 HEROES EVELHERO’S HERO: ROBBIE MADDISON ON KNIEVEL The world’s leading big-jump motorcycle daredevil is full of admiration for the man who made the great leaps forward in his field Words Andreas Tzortzis I first became aware of Evel when I was jumping 20 school buses. And now, about five years old. I would jump my on the equipment I’m on, I can jump bicycle and people would say, “Oh, five times what he was doing, so it’s you’re going to be the next Evel Knievel.” a question of what people want to Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved to jump see. Do they want to see me jump my bike. I love the airtime. I snapped a mediocre-size jump on a Harley or the first bike I had in half from jumping do they want me to jump five times it too far. My parents would buy me further on a bike that’s more capable? videos of jumps and I’d watch them. I’m looking for fresh angles and fresh Evel’s son Robbie Knievel jumped at jumps that will blow people’s minds. Caesars Palace; I remember we were I have respect for what Evel did, at a restaurant for my mom’s birthday because if you look at what he did on and it came on the television, and the equipment he was on, it was so it stuck in my head so much. friggin’ crazy; it was so outrageously I look at anyone who’s making an gnarly. The predicament he put himself impact on the sport around the globe, in... he was facing the slimmest of but Evel Knievel was the guy who margins to make it a successful jump. went big. That whole big-jump thing that. Especially at times like now, when What he was trying to do was pretty EXd\ had gone underground and stopped people need inspiration, it’s a good thing. much impossible for the type of IfY\ik:iX`^Be`\m\c happening for a while. But in 2005, There’s something inside me that machinery he was on. I’m on state-of- C`m\[ that whole movement came back again gives me the confidence to go a long the-art bikes and it’s almost impossible FZkfY\i(.#(0*/$ and it was all based around the talk way. I know that feeling, and sense of to do the things I do on the machinery Efm\dY\i*'#)''. of Evel Knievel and that long-distance being alive, to face all your demons and I’m on. We’re doing the same kind of E`ZbeXd\ record. By that stage – people had been take it on. I like the mental clarity it gives stuff, I’m just doing it in a new-age way. and I think people need to see stuff like did. But at that point in time, he was nnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd&Xik`Zc\j&\m\cVbe`\m\c&\e PHOTOGRAPHY: GERHARD STOCHL/RED BULL PHOTOFILES, HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES (0.,#Yifb\g\cm`j 32 HEROES JUAN PABLO ANGEL The former Aston Villa striker made his mark in Major League Soccer before David Beckham and has quietly gone about scoring goals, reaching finals and winning plaudits Words Andy Jaros Portrait Jamie-James Medina scoring 33 goals in 47 games. When he went on the hunt for new points at the start of the season, his EXd\ goal tally was just nine behind Giovanni Savarese’s AlXeGXYcf8e^\c club record for goals scored in regular season games. ;Xk\Xe[ Last autumn, Angel helped the Red Bulls to gcXZ\f]Y`ik_ the first championship final in the club’s history FZkfY\i)+#(0.,# (which they lost 3-1 to Columbus Crew). Coming D\[\cc`e#:fcfdY`X just two seasons after Red Bull took over the former :lii\ek_fd\ New York/New Jersey Metrostars – a club where JX[[c\I`m\i# E\nA\ij\p players were often forced to change practice fields weekly and a favourite stop for MLS teams in need :clYj 8kck`ZfEXZ`feXc[\ of a few easy points – the result was a sensation. D\[\cc`e (00*$0. 2 Now, with America’s finest purpose-built soccer I`m\iGcXk\9l\efj stadium due for completion in a few months and 8`i\j (00.$)''' 2 with the Red Bulls gunning for some first-ever 8jkfeM`ccX )''($'. 2 silverware this season, team bosses have done I\[9lccE\nPfib everything to whet Angel’s appetite. Just a few )''.$ days before he set off for the team’s final training B\pXZ_`\m\d\ekj A savage mixture of rain and snow is lashing session in Buenos Aires, they extended the 33-year- KfgDCJ^fXcjZfi\i]fi k_\gXjkknfj\Xjfej2 Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken, New Jersey. old’s contract as a ‘designated player’ – where the **`ek\ieXk`feXcZXgj The conditions don’t seem to be bothering usual upper salary limit of $415,000 is removed. ]fi:fcfdY`X Juan Pablo Angel, as the New York Red Bulls This was when ‘club loyalty’ was becoming a taboo =Xd`cp captain juggles a football impassively on this subject at LA Galaxy, after the latest episode of N`]\GXlcX#Z_`c[i\e artificial pitch on the banks of the Hudson River. the Beckham-in-Milan soap opera ended with >\ife`df#/# Into the sky behind him, across the swirling an unprecedented timeshare agreement between Xe[Kfddp#- Hudson, reach the tan-coloured apartment the Galaxy and AC Milan in early March. Fk_\i^fXcj blocks and glinting skyscrapers of Manhattan. Angel must now pay back their faith with goals. 9\gXikf]XE\nPfib In a city of buildings and personalities as grand He’ll include being an ambassador to improve the I\[9lccjk\XdZifne\[ as its ambitions, the quiet Colombian has carved reputation of the US league for free, well aware of DCJZ_Xdg`fej2kf jbp[`m\Xe[Õpa\kj out a level of fan devotion and on-pitch success the smirks and eye-rolling directed across the Atlantic n`k_I\[9lcc that rivals the other international stars who have towards the upstarts in Major League Soccer. come in recent years to help America improve its “MLS is just 13 years old,” he points out. “In troubled relationship with the beautiful game. England, football’s a religion. They’ve been playing It’s worth mentioning that he has done this for generations and the budgets are astronomical. quietly, minus the fanfare and hype following While we have a salary cap, we can’t compensate a certain Englishman’s tenure in the US, which for the quality problem as regards players. But began just a few months after Angel’s. While I’m convinced that MLS teams could compete David Beckham’s success seems to have been against English clubs from the lower leagues.” limited to bringing in curious fans and selling After getting his start at Atlético Nacional in shirts, the former fans’ favourite at Aston Villa his hometown of Medellin, in Colombia, and four has established himself as the league’s best striker, seasons with Argentinian giants River Plate, Angel’s ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES 34 35 HEROES HEROES stint in England lasted six years, playing under Graham Taylor and later David O’Leary at Aston COMING Villa from 2001 to 2007. His speed lent itself to goal-poaching, but Angel’s arsenal also includes exquisite curving balls from the tightest of angles – ON STRONG with his left or right foot – as well as cracking shots, headers, footwork and penalties. He had his The MLS pulse is racing best season in 2003/04, with 16 goals in Premier as it enters its 14th season League competition and seven in cup ties. By the time he left the club in 2007, only Dwight Yorke had done better than his 74 goals in 205 games. After World Cup ’94, American players have helped bring style After considering a move to Spain, Angel signed Major League Soccer was born and technique to the US. Ageing for the Red Bulls on April 19, 2007, a season after into a nation of sceptics. foreign players, on the other they came into being. Three months before To be fair, things in 1996 could hand, have sometimes been Beckham all but floated into LA on a cloud of only have been better than the astounded by the fitness levels irrepressible hype, Angel slipped quietly into first attempt in the 1970s, when required by the teams. a team in search of an identity and continuity. the North American Soccer “The Americans place no He made his mark straight away. After his League (NASL) arrived with value on stamina, only speed. arrival in April, he was MLS player of the month a bang and left with a whimper. I was seeing stars during training in May and June. On the occasion of Beckham’s Sprightly veterans such as Pelé, when I’d just arrived in California,” first full game for LA Galaxy, Angel stole some George Best, Franz Beckenbauer Andreas Herzog, the former of his thunder. In front of 66,237 spectators at and Johan Cruyff failed to sustain Austrian international, has said. Giants Stadium in New Jersey, the Red Bulls beat the long-term interest of a US “I just hung there like a complete Goldenballs’ side 5-4, with Angel scoring twice sporting public already saturated idiot when it came to chin-ups. in the match, including the winner. with major sports, from baseball And I can remember the club’s “The 5-4 against the Galaxy in the summer and American football to programme, too: ‘Second week – of 2007 was one the league’s all-time highlights,” basketball and double everything!’ says Angel. “There were almost 70,000 supporters, ice hockey. At one point, my and the stadium was full for the first time.” “The mistake pulse-rate was The success of a player like Angel is vital the NASL made up to 203bpm.” for the growth of the league, says Paul Gardner, was expanding Herzog’s former the US soccer scribe for World Soccer magazine. from 14 to 28 coach Sigi Schmid Gardner considers Angel “the most successful” teams too guided Columbus of the raft of recent top international soccer quickly,” says Crew to the talent that has included Cuauhtémoc Blanco of Jeff Agoos, who championship last Mexico, Denílson and, this year, former Arsenal won 134 caps for year. The German winger Freddie Ljungberg. “Angel has played well, the US national is now the head at times brilliantly, scored goals and helped the team and is now sporting director coach at Seattle Sounders, who team get to the MLS Cup Final last year,” Gardner at the New York Red Bulls. “You have signed former Arsenal star says. “He’s a popular player and a true professional, have to grow slowly, with the Freddie Ljungberg. They are and his excellent English has greatly helped him.” right people in the right place. new to the league: the 2009 Keen, nevertheless, to keep a low profile, What’s clear is that it takes more championship, which has just got Angel has gone about his work in a quiet manner, than just famous player names.” underway, is now made up of 15 helping team-mates on the training pitch and Today, MLS is on a solid teams. The Eastern Conference preferring the relative anonymity that is the life footing and the infrastructure consists of Red Bull New York, of a professional footballer in the US. is getting better and better. By Chicago Fire, Columbus Crew, DC “It’s not that I don’t care about my career. 2008, half of the teams had their United, Kansas City Wizards, New I love my career,” he says. “But what I can really own stadiums instead of tenancies England Revolution and Toronto do without is being in the spotlight.” at ill-suited American football or FC. In the Western Conference :cfZbn`j\#]ifdkfg1 That means no journalists coming to the family Aldg`e^]fiafpX]k\i concert venues. But the restrictive are Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, man’s house in Saddle River in northern New Jersey Xg\eXckpX^X`ejkI\Xc budget policy and salary cap get FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, for a soft-focus exposé to be splashed across the JXckCXb\kXb\j_`dkf in the way of financial ventures LA Galaxy, Real Salt Lake, San pages of a glossy magazine. It doesn’t boast a dozen Xi\Zfi[(.j\Xjfe^fXcj and big-money transfers. Jose Earthquakes and Seattle bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, either, but he’s `e)''.2\ek\i`e^k_\ Critics will say that even Sounders FC. After 30 matches, willing to gush just a little about his new home. “It’s Xi\eX2jZfi`e^X^X`ejk when MLS has managed to the top two from each conference 8i^\ek`eX]fi:fcfdY`X so wonderfully green here, like in the countryside. `eXNfic[:lg)''- attract superstars, their frequent plus four wildcards qualify for We look out onto a garden, not a concrete jungle,” hlXc`Ô\i2[\dfejkiXk`e^ tendency to flee to greener the play-offs, which start on he says. “I was surprised at how beautiful New k\Z_e`hl\XkM`ccX2 pastures at the first opportunity October 29. The final to decide Jersey is if you know the right spots.” `ek_\[i\jj`e^iffd2 has been counterproductive to the overall champions will be Perhaps that’s why he’s in a hurry to disappear nXid`e^lg`ek_\>`Xekj development. MLS needs high- held on November 22. JkX[`ld%I`[`e^k_\ after the team’s practice session is over. Under his quality players who aren’t only NXkZ_Xe\oZclj`m\`ek\im`\nn`k_8e^\c Z_Xcc\e^\f]9liec\pËj arm is a turquoise-coloured gift box from Tiffany. B\`k_Cfn\Xe[NX[\ interested in making a fast buck XYflkk_\[`]]\i\eZ\Y\kn\\egcXp`e^ The contents? A crystal award for Angel, who the fans voted the team’s most valuable player. X)'',:Xic`e^:lgk`\ PHOTOGRAPHY: JAIMIE-JAMES MEDINA, BRUCE GILDEN (2), GETTY IMAGES (4) game in the long term. Latin nnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd&Xik`Zc\j&Xe^\c&\e 36 37 38 at London’sOlympia (Samshotatglassballsstrung her toEngland, foundworkinWildWestBurlesque married MaudLee, aprettyyoungactress,brought Wild Westshowsthathadbecome alltherage.He one contractedbutcher–hedrifted easttojointhe “Cody shoots’emfaster’nwecan skin’em,”said Texas’s railways.Then,tiringof theslaughter– on horseback,supplyingmeatto thegangslaying odd characteristic:neitherofthemcouldwhistle. with hisfriendandfellowaviatorWilburWrightan resembled ‘alarge-sizedPeterPan’.Andheshared he wassaid,inmannerandappearance,tohave tie knotsinsteelbracingwirewithhisbarehands) Despite hisimmensephysicalstrength(hecould made himlookratherlikealong-whiskeredcat. and waxedmoustache,which,twirledconstantly, – showahandsomemanwithtrimmedgoateebeard confused withBuffaloBill(WilliamFrederickCody) turned upinsuchnumbersthatmanyhadtostand. different actsbetweenthem.Thepayingpublic and GeorgeRobey(acceptingnofee)staged45 which starssuchasSarahBernhardt,GladysCooper celebrity matineeattheLondonHippodrome,in Churchill andDavidLloydGeorgeorganiseda later, toraisemoneyforCody’swidow,Winston a processionmorethanmilelong.Severalweeks London stage,friends,familyandadmirersformed Behind it,politicians,generals,admirals,starsofthe by thepipesandmuffleddrumsofTheBlackWatch. the coffinbeplacedonaguncarriageandescorted 50,000 waited.KingGeorgeVhimselforderedthat to Aldershot’smilitarycemetery,whereafurther from hismodesthomeinFrimleyRoad,Farnborough, the route(someclaimitwastwicethatnumber) Princess Diana’s.Anestimated100,000peoplelined years old,wassobigithasevenbeencomparedto Yet hisfuneral,backin1913whenhewasjust46 long andspecialisedinstagingbadmelodramas. ex-cowboy andsometimeactorwhoworehishair Sam CodywasanAmerican-born,poorlyeducated Words AlexanderFrater greatest eccentricnearly-men…tohavecomefromAmerica of royalty:hewasatrueinnovatorandoneBritain’s Wild Westgunslinger,aviationpioneer,celebrityandfriend CODY SAMUEL PIONEER Cody spenthisearlyyearschasing buffaloherds Photographs ofSamuelFranklinCody–often HEROES usual buckskins andspurs,withasombreroplanted Kiting Instructor totheBritishArmy.Cladinhis in Cody’sefforts. In1906,hewasappointedChief planted inflowerbaskets,made frequentascents. kite-mad. Theboysflewregularly, andevenLela,feet for breakfast.Bynow,thewhole familyhadbecome left Calaisatduskandbrought himtoDoverintime he fashionedacanoe,which,towed bya15ftkite, kite tookCodyintotheskiesoverPlumstead.Next of thecentury,world’sfirstsuccessfulman-lifting involved inseveralpainfulcrashes,butbytheturn sir, tobuildakitethatwillcarryman.” Glasgow hetoldawell-wisher:“Itismyintention, as theygazeddistractedlyupwards.Itwasin in thestreets,peoplekeptwalkingintoeachother the roofofMetropole,Glasgow,where,down performances, onthebeachatBlackpoolandfrom every spareminute:betweenmatineesandevening interested inkites,andbuiltflewthemduring It wasduringthisperiodthatCodysomehowgrew from thejawsofdeathbydashinghero(Cody). duels andabeautifulheroine(Lela)beingsnatched featured blazingbridges,leapinghorses,ferocious Klondike Nugget’show,which,openinginWalsall, where Codycalledhimself‘LeRoidesCowboys’. Alhambra MusicHall).TheyalsotravelledtoParis, being knownforhistrickshootingatLondon’s variety starsintheirownright(Vivienparticular long, tangledhair,buckskinsandsombrero,became the glassballswhileboys,whoaffectedCody’s Family, ChampionShootersofAmerica’,Lelawore children adoredhim.Inhisnewact,‘SFCodyand resident oftheNorristownHospitalforInsane. returned totheUS,becameacocaineaddictand first sight.HeremainedintheUKwhilepoorMaud, 15 yearsolderthanCody,yetforbothitwasloveat a Chelsealicensedvictualler.Mother-of-fourLelawas about Maud’sperson)thenmetLelaDavis,wifeof Finally, theWarOfficestarted taking aninterest The developmentofthiskiteinvolvedCodybeing He enjoyedtheatre,andin1896devised‘The Though LelaandCodynevermarried,her PHOTOGRAPHY: PA PHOTOS B`e^>\fi^\M n_fY\ZXd\ K_\Gi`eZ\f]NXc\j# Dfjk]Xdflj]Xe FZkfY\i(-#(0'/ =`ijki\Zfi[\[Õ 8\ifgcXe\Ef( 9i`k`j_8idp =`ijkgcXe\ :fcfe\c:f[p E`ZbeXd\ XeX\ifgcXe\ZiXj_ 8l^ljk.#(0(*#`e ;`\[ `e;Xm\egfik#@fnX#LJ8 YfiefeDXiZ_-#(/-.# `kËjY\c`\m\[k_Xk_\nXj [`]]\i\ekjkfi`\j #Ylk :f[p_`dj\c]f]k\ekfc[ XYflk:f[pËji\XcX^\ K_\i\Ëjjfd\[\YXk\ 9fie JXdl\c=iXebc`e:f[p EXd\ `^_k 39 HEROES HEROES was coming along, in his fashion. He crashed on giving rides, the first to Colonel Capper (making January 9; again on January 21. Colonel Capper him Britain’s premier air passenger). Soon after that, wrote to the War Office anticipating “a good many he achieved a new world altitude record of 800ft more smashes before Mr Cody has learned to and began attracting such crowds that Aldershot’s manipulate the controls”. In time, however, he Military Police were needed to control them. discovered the secret of setting down: “You must In October 1909, at an aero meeting on imitate the squatting posture of a crow.” That Doncaster Racecourse, Cody became a British directive went rippling out across the country and subject. Having recited the Oath of Allegiance to young aeronauts everywhere began applying that Doncaster’s town clerk, he signed his naturalisation principle to their own turbulent touchdowns. papers on the town clerk’s back, then, as the Yorkshire In April, Cody managed to complete a circuit of Dragoons band played the National Anthem he Laffan’s Plain (where Farnborough’s airport is now threw a quivering Brigade of Guards salute. located), the longest flight, as it happened, ever Three deafening cheers echoed from the packed made in Britain. The Prince of Wales, in residence grandstand. “Good old Cody!” yelled the crowd. at Farnborough’s Government House, rode over to At the time, the owner of an Aintree jam offer his congratulations. The two men got talking, factory was offering a prize of £1,000 for the first and a friendship developed. Indeed, when the prince flight from Liverpool to Manchester. Cody’s attempt became George V, he said, “If I were ever to go up in ended after only 12 miles, when his old aeroplane an aeroplane, Mr Cody, I would choose to go with flew into a hedge. It was time, he decided, to build you. Sadly, however, my Ministers forbid me to fly.” a new one. Big and fast, named the Cody Flyer, Then, without warning, Cody was sacked. The and driven by a giant single propeller, it was the British government had decreed (five years before machine he took to Bournemouth the day Charles the outbreak of World War I) that aeroplanes were Rolls was killed. Cody saw the accident happen “useless” for military purposes; from now on the and, racing to the crash site, wept as Rolls, the first nation’s defence would rely on airships. He was, Briton to lose his life while flying, died in his arms. however, allowed to build a shed under the pines But the Flyer served him well, winning him the of Laffan’s Plain – and to keep Army Aeroplane No 1. coveted British Empire Michelin Cup, presented He fitted it with a pair of tractor seats and began to the pilot who, in the course of a calendar year, made the longest trip within the British Isles. On the last day of 1910, in weather so bitter he had to insulate his clothing with brown paper, Cody began circling Laffan’s Plain. Teeth chattering, seriously hypothermic, he was aloft for four hours, 47 minutes, and only stopped when, after 186 miles, his tank ran dry. Beard and clothing coated in ice, he was welcomed by a crowd singing See the Conquering Hero Comes. The trophy was his. The following year he won it again. Then, in 1912, he won the British Military Trials. Whitehall, realising that the coming war might, after all, require aeroplanes, offered a £5,000 prize for the most suitable. Cody intended entering his latest, but a heavy landing sent it spinning into trees, so, starting from scratch, he built a sleek monoplane. on his head, he supervised the ascents from a white milliner named Miss Copeland, and a borrowed K_\dX^e`]`Z\ek Three weeks before the Trials began, however, it hit horse named Vichy and, to entertain the soldiers, French motorboat engine. Early on the morning dXeXe[_`j]cp`e^ a cow. Now, working day and night, he constructed a dXZ_`e\j ZcfZbn`j\ periodically drew his pearl-handled Colt 45s and of September 30, 1908, horses towed the finished ]ifdXYfm\ 1JXd biplane so advanced it beat the best that any rival blasted sixpences from the sky. His kites worked. aircraft to a stretch where the army did its morning :f[pjkXe[jXdfe^ could offer. The King, delighted, began addressing Heights of 2,000ft were routinely achieved, while gallops. Cody, lurching across the turf, seemed to _`jdXe$c`]k`e^b`k\j# him as ‘Colonel Cody’, so everyone else did, too. a breathless Captain PW Broke-Smith once got rise a few inches. Though it was established that, for `ej`[\k_\:ipjkXc When, in 1913, the Daily Mail announced a to 3,000ft, a new world record for a kite pilot. 78yd, there were no wheel-tracks in the dew, Cody GXcXZ\#Cfe[fe#`e ‘water plane’ race around Britain, Cody used his A cathedral-sized structure overlooking chose to discount it. “It was only a jump,” he said. (0'/2k_\ÊcXe[`e^Ë prize money to create a giant hydroplane with X]k\i:f[pËj]`ijk]c`^_k Farnborough Common, known as The Balloon On October 16, he tried again. “The machine,” fm\i=XieYfifl^_ pontoons and 60ft wings. The most elegant, Factory, was the home of flying in Britain. In 1907, reported the Morning Post, “was set full speed up :fddfe2:f[pËj]`eXc aesthetically pleasing machine he’d ever made a full four years after the Wright Brothers had first the slopes of Farnborough Hill, from the top of aflie\p#`e(0(*#nXj was also, ironically, the one that would kill him. flown, its commandant, Colonel John Capper, finally which it took a rise into the air.’ It then flew for ]fccfn\[YpXifle[ On Thursday, August 7, he was due to fly to got permission from the War Office to begin work 27 seconds before crashing. Cody had just become (''#'''g\fgc\ Calshot, the starting point for the Coastal Britain on a project known as British Army Aeroplane the first person in Britain to fly an aeroplane and, race. First, though, he took a friend, the famous No 1. And he knew just the man to build it. though badly cut, scrambled from the wreckage ex-cricketer WHB Evans, for a spin. But, over Cody bagged a corner of The Balloon Factory and, grinning broadly. Uppermost in Capper’s mind, Laffan’s Plain, the plane suddenly buckled and helped by Edward Leroy, an actor pal from his Wild however, was the undeniable fact that Cody couldn’t broke, throwing its occupants clear. Stunned West shows, laid out the machine. It had a forward really fly; and, but for trial and error, had no means observers saw Cody falling with arms spread wide, elevator, wings cross-braced with piano wire and of learning. Early in 1909, at least 40 Britons were as if trying to test certain notions of balance and surfaced in brown Holland silk by a Farnborough building aeroplanes, and they all watched Cody. He PHOTOGRAPHY: SCIENCE AND SOCIETY PICTURE LIBRARY, PA PHOTOS, THE COLLECTION OF JEAN ROBERTS control: as if, actually, trying to fly. 40 41 8Xife?X[cfnnXjjf]XiX_\X[f]k_\ b`k\jli]`e^Zfdg\k`k`fek_Xkk_\p_X[kf Z_Xe^\k_\ilc\jf]k_\jgfik%I\X[dfi\ fegX^\++XYflkk_\)'$p\Xi$fc[n_fj\ ZXi\\i`j]cp`e^Xj_`^_XjXb`k\% G_fkf^iXg_p1I`Zb>l\jk Action The world’s best athletes of land, air and sea 44 AARON HADLOW 50 HANNES ARCH 60 RED BULL AIR RACE GUIDE 62 THE ATHERTONS 68 HURLING 43 ACTION ACTION THE PRODIGY Aaron Hadlow is kitesurfing’s most successful competitor ever. His contributions to the sport are often so new and inventive he has to shelve them until the pack catches up. The Red Bulletin met with the five-time world champion to find out what it’s like to be innovator, maverick, pin-up and veteran all at once Words Tom Hall and Jim Gaunt Photography Rick Guest Aaron Hadlow was just 15 when he won again. And again. And again. And again. his first world championship. Fifteen. ‘Dominance’ barely does justice to the Four years on from dipping a toe in the Rottweiler-grip Hadlow – a friendly, Atlantic waters off Cornwall, where he tousle-haired 20-year-old – has exerted grew up, hand-held by a kiteboard-crazy on his chosen sport, and he continues dad, he had taken on all-comers in this to reframe the parameters by which it is fast-growing, fast-flowing arena, and won. judged. Over the past five years, as ‘new’ Almost without noticing what he became ‘norm’, Hadlow hit the reset had achieved, Hadlow had become the button, forcing kiteboarding’s governing first superstar and poster-boy for of body, the PKRA (Professional Kiteboard kiteboarding, a sport that was scooting Riders Association), to recalibrate its from the extreme sports heartland into judging criteria, as the levels of skill, the recreational mainstream. Exactly the finesse and technique he displayed in right person in exactly the right place at his routines went beyond their marking exactly the right time, he’d caught a break scale. In 2008, for example, he battled he had no intention of letting slip. Over as much against the PKRA judges’ verdict the next four seasons, he became champ of what constitutes the most difficult and 44 45 ACTION demanding moves, as he did against his the initial introduction to the sport in rivals. Remarkably, then, for one of such 2000 and the decision to move the family tender years, he’s already a victim of his to South Africa two years later to give own success – forced to dumb down Aaron the best possible environment in his tricks to ensure they’re understood which to learn, then hone his skills. and correctly marked, while knowing “My dad has guided me through he can ride faster, higher, better. everything,” he confesses. “He started Frustrating? He’s phlegmatic. “There’s kiteboarding before me and got me into a weird mentality towards winners,” he the whole thing. I used to come back notes, casually, at ease with his success. from school on the bus and I’d see him “When you start winning, people feel the out, and I’d watch. Then we went on need to knock you; not all people, but holiday to the Dominican Republic for sometimes it feels like that. We’ve got two weeks and I was up and going top judges and it’s a really difficult job, because of the great conditions. He’s still but obviously they’re not riding at the there for me now. If I’m ever in trouble, same level as us competitors because I just call him and more than likely he’s then they’d be competing as well!” he been in a similar situation in one way or explains. “About halfway through last another. Eventually he turns from a dad season I was trying to push my riding into a friend, I think as you get older in a different style. Just making it a bit that just happens for most people.” smoother. But it wasn’t scoring as much Ian has sent his protégé out solo for as the really technical tricks, so I just the past three seasons, with Hadlow changed my tack and did what they junior mature enough to handle the wanted for the competition.” pressures of international competition That change of approach, a decision alone. Those fixed, familial points of he now makes sound like a mild shift reference ground Hadlow as he dances in routine, actually won him his fifth across a global stage. Check out that consecutive world title. But Hadlow is mature enough to know when and where “MY DAD HAD GUIDED to spend his creative energy. He even toyed with the idea of not competing THROUGH EVERYTHING. in 2009, in order to pursue his love of HE STARTED KITEBOARDING innovation more freely. BEFORE ME AND GOT ME “This year I thought I would wait for the dates to come out and check how INTO THE WHOLE THING. it goes. I wanted to go and do some HE’S THERE FOR ME NOW” video projects instead (Hadlow’s movie Calibrate was released in March). But I’ve seen the calendar and it doesn’t take up 2009 schedule: from April to November so much time, so this year I’m just gonna the freestylers jet from France to Mexico, follow the criteria and push my technical through the Dominican Republic, Spain, riding that way. Then with the time I have Germany, Brazil, before the finale in New off, maybe I’ll do some other projects Caledonia, in the south Pacific. Heady which can show off my freeriding.” stuff for a gifted young man with a surf- If he sounds like an image-savvy buff athlete’s physique, global corporations veteran of the sports-leisure battlefield, as backers, and occasional wind-slack that’s because he is – however strongly his days when there’s time to burn… boy-band blond looks tempt you to think How easy would it be to sway, go otherwise. Like others who excel young, giddy in the sun, and be suckered in by travelling far and fast, he’s a curious mix the easy charms of simpering bikini-clad of the world-weary and the wide-eyed. beauties? Very… but there’s steel in “I think I’ve changed as a person,” the Hadlow genes, a wary (though he says, “but not from when I wasn’t not hostile) suspicion of newcomers, winning. I look at some people and I just a sense that he understands his gift think, ‘What an idiot, why would you be is a rare one to be nurtured. doing that?’ I’ve had it before, though, Hadlow senior was cute enough where you can feel yourself starting to to recognise within weeks of Aaron get a bit cocky and I’m like, ‘What am being kitted up that he had an explosive I doing?’ I just focus on my friends talent on his hands, one whose native around me when that happens and ability had the potential to upset the think about how I was brought up.” established order and routines of an Mention of home takes Hadlow older generation of professional riders. straight to his father Ian and his life- And he was wise enough to instil in determining guidance at an early age: Aaron a precious confidence, allowing 46 47 ACTION a young boy the freedom to express because I just wanted to compete and, you up their kites, the duo would have to himself through athletic endeavour and know, loads of us all got on really well negotiate a trail of autograph-hunters. bust convention without fear of failure and just met up with each other. Now With a simple, shy reluctance, he or ridicule. From the beginning, Hadlow I meet everyone at each event and loads admits: “There was a real big change in innovated rather than aped. To those of my friends are from abroad. Just being the sport where a younger generation who understood, the signals were clear, social is one of the good things about it.” came into it. I started off thinking, yeah, very early, that freestyle kiteboarding Those close to Hadlow reckon his I could probably do pretty well at this was about to become the domain of essential ‘sameness’, his sanity, is rooted and for it to happen so soon is really, a certain, powerful young man from in self-belief and professionalism: self- really amazing. And the sport’s starting the south coast of England. belief to experiment; professionalism that to get way bigger. The media’s getting Aaron Hadlow, prodigy and pioneer, keeps him ahead of the chasing pack. behind it now and I’m doing more photo has crested the wave of dynamic change And he’s smart. Despite kiteboarding’s shoots and studio shoots and things in kiteboarding, since it erupted in the burgeoning popularity, there’s less money like that. It’s definitely growing. We late ’90s as ‘the fastest growing water in the professional pot than in 2002, when can feel it happening around us.” sport in the world’. The once winning American Mark Shinn was main man. Still, Think of Hadlow’s as a cult rock-star’s moves from those early days a decade the cream rises and Hadlow employs an lifestyle: within touching distance of or so ago, when riders carved huge, agent to handle business affairs and kitchen-sink familiarity, yet still far from dangling, spinning, paragliding-like maximise exposure, while still keeping being a household name. It’s coming, airs, have been replaced with powered schedule space for training and travel. though. In 2007 he was nominated for choreography. The height and speed are “Yeah, I don’t have a training regime the prestigious Laureus World Sports developed from the kite being always as such,” he laughs. “I just kite as much Awards, a nod that included a trip to in the critical position in the centre of as possible because it’s the best practice. Barcelona for the glitzy black-tie ceremony. the ‘window’ (continually developing But you always have to stay on top of It felt big, particularly so for a sportsman forward power like wakeboarding rather things, stay fit and just be ready for each more used to eyeing his fans from a than upwards lift) and using board speed competition. On the circuit there’s quite comfortable distance – on the beach while for ‘pop’ (good air). The competing riders’ a few guys who are pretty good, always he’s on water: “There were so many ages, meantime, have dropped to a late pushing, so you’ve always got to stay on people there,” he recalls. “I remember teen average in the PKRA world tour, stepping onto the red carpet with all ludicrously making Hadlow, 20, these photographers everywhere. something of a grand old man. “FOR ME, TO BE ABLE Imagine a grandstand of photographers, But the thrill hasn’t gone. No way. TO INNOVATE IN THE it was mad. I just stood there with all Ten years on, he still gets the buzz that SPORT, BRING NEW STUFF, these flashes going crazy and all these sucked him in first time around: “It’s people shouting my name to look here still a sport of pure adrenaline,” he grins, CREATE NEW TRICKS or there. I was just freaking out, laughing “and just having the ability to be able to, AND STUFF LIKE THAT at what I was doing. I had to do these like, travel and get paid to do what you IS REALLY APPEALING” interviews and I’d look a little further love and meet people, to see the world… down the carpet and there were famous it’s just the feeling you get… and for me, footballers doing the same thing.” to be able to innovate in the sport and top of the game. If I’m stuck in the UK for He gushes now and in that there’s bring new stuff and create new tricks a week and I see there’s going to be no still a hint of youth, a reminder that he and stuff like that is really appealing.” wind before the event I’ll go somewhere is just 20 years old. But it’s deceptive: Spend any time with Hadlow, and it’s else to practise. I’m very competitive.” there’s no doubt his eye remains firmly quickly apparent that his globetrotting, With practice and competition, come on the prize. Push him, and he’ll admit – self-reliant years on the circuit have injuries – “I was out a few years back quietly, no pomp – that he’s a pioneer; instilled an uncommon maturity. Today, for a couple of months with an ankle that for those who care, he’s taking for example, we’re chatting in the dim, injury. Last year I was having to wear a young sport into realms where the surroundings of a back-street south a knee-brace. There’s lots of repetitive possibilities remain unknown. “I really London photo studio – almost as far impact coming down on your knees want to help steer the sport in the right removed from the blissful beaches of and ankles, it’s quite strenuous” – and direction,” he reflects, calmly. “I know the PKRA world tour as it’s possible to danger, such as the very real threat of I’ve made up quite a few tricks in the past, be. He’s relaxed in spite of the time being garrotted by a cable: “Oh yeah, for but those were more for competitions. Now demands being made, amenable despite sure, that’s a risk.” Hadlow’s grimacing, I’m trying to bring a style that’s nicer to being hung from guy ropes and doused dead serious now. “These lines are really watch. I look to sports like snowboarding in cold water for the sake of The Shot. taut when you’re up with the kite, but and motocross and the styles are really These are, he understands, the demands luckily nothing serious has happened. It’s defined. I’m trying to bring that to our made of a professional sportsman; the just the person flying it needs to be totally sport now, so people look at that and are price of a gilded life: “I don’t really enjoy in control. It’s all about kite control.” really amazed by it. I want to be part of having to answer loads of questions and Bit by bit, the profile grows: Hadlow the upbringing of kitesurfing. That’s what check my emails all the time, but it’s is recognised everywhere he goes on the I’m trying to bring to the sport now, just work and I’ve just learned how to cope PKRA tour. Just over a year ago, during to make it bigger and mainstream.” with it. Whatever comes along I’ll do it a week spent in Tenerife, Hadlow and He is. He will. and it’s all good, but the fun bit is still travel partner Ruben Lenten would Jim Gaunt is editor of Kiteworld magazine being with your friends and going kiting. draw crowds to watch their impromptu M`j`knnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd&Xik`Zc\j&XXifeV_X[cfn&\e I started off in England doing the tour displays, and before they could pack kfnXkZ_fli\oZclj`m\`ek\im`\nn`k_k_\Z_Xdg 48 49 ACTION ACTION SKY CAPTAIN As Red Bull Air Race World Champion pilot Hannes Arch prepares to defend his title, The Red Bulletin visited him in his off-season training base – a lonely airstrip located on the South African Highveld Words Matt Youson Photography Julian Broad 50 51 ACTION ACTION ‘GETTING THE PLANE RIGHT IS THE PRIORITY’ H annes Arch is scaring the wildlife. The Kikuyu away. Instead of getting reacquainted with his race Game Lodge, in Gauteng Province, South Africa, plane and building up essential G-tolerance, the has been his home for the off-season, and every days are filled with physical and mental exercises, couple of minutes the reigning Red Bull Air Race hanging out with the local flying fraternity, dutifully World Champion leaps from his chair on the veranda blogging on www.hannesarch.com, and repeated, to stalk the garden, barking into the mobile phone sometimes irate, phone conferences with sluggish clamped to his ear. Antelope and ostriches look suppliers and technical partners. on warily. Arch isn’t the typical predator, but, It’s a change of pace for a man who, now in here on the Highveld, it pays to be cautious. his 40s, has spent most of his career far from the Arch is in Gauteng in preparation for his madding crowd. Once the youngest mountain guide title defence in the ‘premier league’ of air racing. in Austria at 19, his interests spread to hang-gliding, Although, it’s more comparable to Formula One paragliding and BASE jumping. He was the first racing from the 1960s than today’s F1, lacking the to jump from the north face of the Eiger. Chasing polished, professional team’s modern structures. up aviation spares is a new experience. Arch is very much his own boss, acting as team It’s irritating, but Arch values a positive mental manager, sponsorship director, press officer and a attitude above almost anything else, hence, after yet thousand other jobs all rolled into one. Fielding another agitated phone conversation, he looks to phone calls and answering email is his day job; the sky, breathes in and delves deep to find a smile. flying the plane, he insists wryly, is just a hobby. “This is something we have to live with,” he offers. But not much of a hobby at the moment. Arch “Getting the plane right is the priority. Maybe I is grounded, his customised aerobatics aircraft in won’t get as much flight-training as I wanted, but pieces in a hangar at the local airfield. Under the that would only give me an advantage for the first care of a race technician, its carbon-fibre fuselage race; having a better plane will be an advantage all is being modified for the new season; a touch of season. The timescale we set to get the plane ready streamlining here, a gram of weight-saving there. was ambitious; the time it’s taking is more realistic.” It’s taking longer than expected, and time the Arch wants a faster, more powerful aircraft, but Austrian pilot planned to spend airborne is slipping also one that gives him the feelgood factor. “It should ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: ALEX SCHELBERT/RED BULL PHOTOFILES CREDITS 52 53 ACTION ACTION feel like two wings attached to my body, y’know? I have to feel it, like an extension of myself. If there has to be a compromise, then I would rather have the plane a little slower, but a perfect fit. Air racing is like a downhill ski race: it’s all about finding the right line, not going too wide or not making sharp edges, and just gliding through the gates with smooth, energy-conserving lines.” Arch gives an impression of a balletic, graceful sport. The picture presented by the in-cockpit cameras is rather different however. Air racing is a brutal assault on the body. With speeds of up to 230mph, it is one of the most rapid motorsports around, but the real metric setting it apart is G-force. Today’s rules limit the pilots to 12G, with instant disqualification for transgressors. Some commentators have suggested it lessens the spirit of this most extreme of sports – pilots disagree. “More than 12G just hurts your body. It’s dangerous, too: we have limits and so do the aeroplanes,” says Arch. “I think the 12G limit is good for the sport because it adds another element to the competition. We need to get as close as we can to the limit without going over. It requires a sensitive pilot to make sharp decisions while in those high-G Fconditions. It isn’t like the sport’s gone soft!” or the non-flyer, G-force-induced blackouts begin at around the 5G or 6G mark. Not being gifted with superhuman powers, race pilots gradually build up their tolerance by regularly performing high-G manoeuvres. Much of their winter training, therefore, is dedicated to rebuilding G-tolerance – the key fitness ingredient in the make-up of a Red Bull Air Race pilot. “You can only get there by flying,” says Arch. “During the season, it’s simple to maintain because we’re flying every weekend, either racing or training, or at an airshow, but before the season begins it’s important to tune yourself up to race level, which is high. I’ll be starting late, but if I’m flying constantly it will be enough time. You can’t do it in one day, but it only takes a few weeks of steadily increasing the number of Gs you pull. I’ll have time enough to ensure I’m ready and feeling good for the first race.” ‘MORE THAN 12G With his race plane temporarily grounded, Arch immerses himself in physical training. Back home JUST HURTS YOUR in Austria, he defaults to climbing, his first love; in South Africa, it’s a high-protein, low-carb diet, BODY. WE HAVE daily trips to the local gym and jogging at dawn or dusk. He talks the talk but also manages to convey LIMITS AND SO DO the impression that purely physical training isn’t THE AEROPLANES’ much of a hardship, an impression reinforced by CREDITS CREDITS the occasional cigarette spotted dangling guiltily 54 55 ACTION ACTION between his fingers. Most Air Racers come from an easier life in commercial aviation and find the ‘ IN THE FIRST RACE, fitness requirements of racing a challenge. Arch’s background gives him a rather different perspective: I COULDN’T EVEN “Air racing is more comfortable,” he admits. “There’s FLY IN A STRAIGHT plenty of recovery time, good hotels, soft beds, room service… Compare it to mountaineering in Alaska LINE. IT MADE where you’re hiking for days with all your food and survival gear, just to get to the mountain you want ME CHANGE MY to climb. You’re tired and under a great deal of stress because you have to make good decisions MINDSET TOTALLY’ Tor you die. And there are no excuses.” hose very G-forces that pilots spend so much time training to resist actually gifted Arch his title victory last year. Paul Bonhomme, his rival in the overall standings, exceeded the G-limit in the penultimate race, ensuring Arch went into the final round with a dominant lead. He was an unexpected champion: when the Red Bull Air Race World Championship began in 2005, he was Race Director. He made the unlikely transition to Rookie pilot for the 2007 season, but rarely troubled the scorers. ‘Rookie’ sells Arch short, however. Glen Dell, a fellow competitor who was a Rookie himself last season, notes that their respective learning curves aren’t really comparable: “Hannes did really well last year – he couldn’t have done much better, but I think he had a few advantages. “I didn’t really see him as one of the 2007 Rookies because, [as the former Race Director] he’s been around the Red Bull Air Race probably for longer than anybody, and, as I found out last year, to succeed in the series, it’s not only the flying that counts. You also need to be aware of the procedures and processes, and generally how things happen over the race weekend. Hannes had that experience when he started and, without wishing to diminish his achievement, he was one of the more experienced Red Bull Air Race pilots even when he was a Rookie.” But experience alone wasn’t enough to prevent Arch’s first season being a disappointment – a chastening episode that was, he claims, a decisive factor in his current pre-eminence: “This isn’t like racing cars. The first year is only about learning. At the start, you don’t know anything. You think you do, but you don’t. I came into the series with high hopes. I was European Aerobatics Champion and I entered the championship thinking, ‘Watch out, here I come.’ Then, in that first race, I couldn’t even fly in a straight line. It made me change my mindset – totally. I told myself to forget about winning and forget about the rankings. Instead, I spent the year simply observing. I watched everyone ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: ANDREAS SCHAAD/RED BULL AIR RACE NEWSROOM 56 57 ACTION ACTION else, probably more than they knew. I watched how aspirations were to break into the midfield. Ending they treated their technicians, and how they worked the season in the middle of the pack would have on their aeroplanes and on their tactics.” been great. Of course I intended to get to the top, Arch also needed to discover his will to compete. but I really thought it would take longer. This is a “Until I started racing, I didn’t know if I was a good serious business and success doesn’t come cheaply. competitor… I didn’t know if I could compete against I definitely didn’t expect to qualify for the final at the other people, rather than compete against nature. first round of the year – that’s why I screwed it up.” My other sports have an element of togetherness; it’s never me versus the other guy. In climbing, if the other guy needs help, you help. Equally, if he felt he needed to be first to the top, I’d let him. In extreme sports, you’re there for each other. There’s competition, but usually it’s to do something no one else has done; to succeed where others have failed. T The Red Bull Air Race is totally different. It’s like running the 100m: you line up alongside the other his was a trait that would continue throughout guy and simply have to be faster than him. Until the first half of the season. Arch was never out I raced, I never knew if I had that in me. of the top four, but never able to stand on the top “I learned that I could compete. And at the end step of the podium either. His own evaluation is that of the year I was able to put that and everything else he risked too much in the latter stages of each event, I’d learned into the pot, then add a few ingredients lacking the discipline required to fly well. “I was ‘ I WASN’T THE BEST of my own. I think, for some of the other guys, getting ready to win in the first half of the season, mental preparation is about thinking, ‘I’m a good but mentally I wasn’t quite there,” he says. PILOT LAST YEAR… pilot.’ For me, it’s the opposite: my attitude is always Success finally arrived in August, Arch beating to think, ‘I’m not good – I have to improve.’ I used Steve Jones in a Budapest duel above the Danube BUT I WAS THE FASTEST’ the 2007-08 off-season to prepare mentally as well watched by over a million spectators. “Before the as physically and technically. I have a mental race, I felt it could be my mine. But that sort of trainer, but I also needed to get my environment confidence isn’t something I was entirely happy right. That included little things like having team with, because it felt like I was concentrating on clothes that felt good, but also big things like hiring the wrong thing. 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There are gXiX^c`[`e^nfic[ Z_Xdg`fej_`gÆ (00. 2 I know what’s going on inside the cockpit and what’s plenty who have been flying far longer than me and CREDITS ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: MIGUEL VIDAL/RED BULL AIR RACE NEWSROOM kiXejXcg`e\iXZ\ the start of the year, I just wasn’t ready to win. 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IXZ\eldY\i10 CHAMPIONSHIP ON ITV E\nkfk_\I\[9lcc8`i Gi\m`fljI\[9lcc8`iIXZ\ E\nkfk_\I\[9lcc8`i Gi\m`fljI\[9lcc8`iIXZ\ Gi\m`fljI\[9lcc8`iIXZ\ Le`hl\]\Xkli\1DX[\\ek`i\cp THE QUADRO ITV4 IXZ\Nfic[:_Xdg`fej_`g Y\jk1,k_#)''- IXZ\Nfic[:_Xdg`fej_`g Y\jk1.k_#)''.#)'', Y\jk1.k_#)''/ f]X\ifjgXZ\$^iX[\ZXiYfe$]`Yi\ JLE(.&', )''/J<8JFEI Y\jk1-k_#)''. Y\jk1Nfic[:_Xdg`fe# IXZ\Nfic[:_Xdg`fej_`g IXZ\Nfic[:_Xdg`fej_`g Y\jk1((k_#)''/ WORDS: PAUL WILSON. PHOTOGRAPHY: DANIEL GRUND/RED BULL PHOTOFILES (15), BALAZS GARDI (1), MARKUS KUCERA (1). ILLUSTRATIONS: SES JgX`e19XiZ\cfeX#FZkfY\i*$+ Y\]cfne`ej`[\k_\jX]\kpXi\X kff_`^_1knf$j\Zfe[g\eXckp Kl\j[Xpe`^_k]fccfn`e^k_\@KM+kiXejd`jj`fe )''.#)'', ACTION RACHEL DAN GEE WE ARE Deep in the Welsh countryside, nestling shoes. They belong to Rachel, the long- under the purple scree slopes and amber haired blonde who lives in the cottage bracken of the steep-sided mountains, along with her two elder brothers, Dan sits an old stone cottage, gently breathing and Gee. A third of the body armour, woodsmoke into the misty morning. The protection pads and helmets is hers, too, cottage is picturesque, but the garden and five of the 15 bikes in the workshop. isn’t: it’s been dug up, all the earth thrown If you aren’t into downhill mountain into the air in a series of huge man-sized biking, you won’t know this family. But mounds. Push open the back door, peer you should. These three are the greatest FAMILY in and you will see a small room stacked sporting siblings in Britain today. Two floor-to-ceiling with muddy coats, shoes, are reigning world champions; all body armour, knee pads, elbow pads, three have won world cups. Meet the Athertons: two brothers and one sister who bring a new meaning goggles and rows of helmets. Near the These three siblings should be feted to the phrase ‘keeping it in the family’ – all of them down-to-earth world door that leads deeper into the house sits and adored, their faces across the front something that seems slightly out of place: of glossy magazines and their smiles on Words Huw Williams champions in every sense PHOTOGRAPHY: JOHN GIBSON/RED BULL PHOTOFILES (3) a pair of stylish, bottle-green, high-heeled mid-morning chat shows. But they are 62 63 ACTION not. Despite its growing popularity, their that can snatch at wheels and hurl sport is not on the Olympic favoured list riders from their mounts in arcing flight and is not found on the back pages of towards trees and the unforgiving earth. national newspapers. If they had been It’s in downhill that Rachel and Gee part of the Olympics, the chances are excel. Rachel is world champion, the that all three would have added to first British woman to claim the crown. Britain’s gold haul, and you, along with Gee is the reigning men’s world champ. every housewife, schoolkid and van The World Championship is a single driver in the land, would know their event and this year it will be held in names. But they didn’t and you don’t. Canberra, Australia. In 2008, 24,600 So, for everyone who doesn’t know spectators turned up to watch the them, let me introduce the Athertons. Australian races and even bigger Dan is the eldest at 26, intelligent crowds are expected this time around. and serious, yet with a sharp sardonic Here are three siblings at the top humour and a naughty, boyish grin. of the same sport at the same time, Rachel is 21, fearless but feminine, and it’s all down to Dan. RIDING WITH svelte, funny and fiercely independent. “We lived in a tiny village. It was 30 THE PROS The man in the middle is Gee, three miles to the big town and there was What it’s really like trying to keep years younger than Dan. He is a tall nothing much to do except ride BMX. up with the Athertons down a hill? action hero with a hidden sensitivity and Gee wasn’t interested. He was running Huw Williams grabs the body perception that belie his playboy façade. around with his mates playing army and armour and finds out All three ride mountain bikes. Dan’s building dens. But I thought, ‘Sod it,’ speciality, four-cross (also called 4X), and bought him his first BMX. Then @Ëm\fecp[fe\XZflgc\f]iXZ\jaljk]fi]le#Ylk is an event where four body-armour-clad he got into it and loved it.” @_Xm\nfieXiXZ\a\ij\pXe[Zifjj\[k_\]`e`j_ c`e\`e]ifekf]k_\^lpk_Xk]`e`j_\[cXjk%9lkk_\ mountain bikers race each other down First it was BMX, then mountain fe\k_`e^pfliXi\cpbefn#efdXkk\i_fnf]k\e a prepared track of steeply-banked bikes, but the pattern was always thus: pfli`[\#`j#È?fn^ff[Xd@#i\Xccp6É turns and huge ramp jumps. The fitness, Dan started and Gee followed. Rachel K_`ikpj\Zfe[jX]k\ij\kk`e^f]][fneXjk\\g# speed, skills, nerve, tactics and strength refused to be left out, so she joined jc`gg\ipgXk_#@Xd[\jg\iXk\cpkip`e^kfb\\glg required are significant. So are crashes. in. A significant chapter opened when n`k_IXZ_\cXe[;Xe8k_\ikfe%K_\pXi\eËk\m\e Dan was 16 and Gee was 13, and they ^f`e^]XjkYpk_\`ijkXe[Xi[j#ZfXjk`e^gifYXYcp# n_`c\@Ëdi`^_kfek_\iXqfiËj\[^\f]dpjb`ccj% entered their first mountain bike race. ‘IF MOUNTAIN BIKING WERE Fe\klie`eXe[k_\p[`jXgg\Xi#n_`Z_Xk AN OLYMPIC SPORT, EVERY “We went flat-out, crashed, got up… c\XjkjXm\jdpYclj_\j%8_l^\jcXYf]jc`ZbifZb HOUSEWIFE, SCHOOLKID AND went flat-out, crashed… We had no idea jcXek`e^m`Z`fljcpXnXp]ifdk_\Z\eki\f]k_\ about strategy. But even after that first kiXZbjeXkZ_\jdpYXZbn_\\c]ifdle[\id\ VAN DRIVER IN THE LAND race, we knew we could be competitive, Xe[@jgiXnc_Xi[fek_\^ifle[%@^\kkfdp]\\k# WOULD KNOW THEIR NAMES’ because people were saying we did XnXi\f]Xe`ek\ej\gX`e`edpi`^_kYlkkZ_\\b Xe[Xeo`fljXYflkk_\jkXk\f]k_\nfic[$Zlg$ certain sections faster than anyone else.” jg\Z[fne_`ccY`b\k_Xk>\\_Xjc\ekd\%ClZb`cp# Dan finished third in the 2008 world Gee looks up from a concentrated k_\i\Ëjdfi\[XdX^\kfd\k_Xek_\Y`b\% rankings. He also races downhill. study of his beans on toast to concur 8]\nZfie\ijfe#@ZXkZ_lg%K_\pËi\efk`e World Cup downhill racing takes with his brother. “Yeah, we knew. We k_\c\XjkgXkife`j`e^XYflkk_\ZiXj_%N\i`[\fe% place in the most mountainous and were watching everyone else go down @j\\k_\-]k[ifg$f]]Xkk_\cXjkdfd\ek#[`^[\\g rugged regions of the world. It’s a and we knew we could do it. We just `ekfdpi\j\im\jf]jki\e^k_#jb`ccXe[[Xi`e^kf cf]kk_\]ifekf]k_\Y`b\Xe[kipkfi`[\k_ifl^_ points-series competition and for 2009 lacked the knowledge and experience.” `k#Ylk-`ef]dl[jlZbdp]ifekn_\\ckfXe the races will be held in eight countries, Rachel grins. “Everyone I knew was `dd\[`Xk\jkXe[jk`ccXe[@ËdYXZb`ek_\[`ik% one more than last year. The whole into bikes, my brothers and all their 9pk_\\e[#k_\i\ËjXdXjj`m\^i`efedp circus of competitors and support crews friends. At lunchtimes in school I would ]XZ\#Ylk@Ëd^\ekcpj_Xb`e^]ifd]\XiXe[ will travel to Canada, Australia, South go out to the trails with all the boys and \o_`cXiXk`fe%N_\ek_\pjl^^\jkXi\ile#@ZXeËk Africa, Scotland, France, Slovenia, hang out there and ride. I was never k_`ebf]Xepk_`e^@nXekdfi\%K_`jk`d\k_\p klkfid\1k_\pkn\XbdpYf[pgfj`k`fejf@Ëd Austria and Andorra. into hanging out with the girls, going dfi\YXcXeZ\[Xe[i\cXo\[#X[aljkdpj_flc[\ij Imagine a cross between the World shopping. I tried it, but I didn’t like it. Xe[^\kd\kfY\e[dpbe\\jdfi\#Xe[g\ijlX[\ Rally Championship and ski racing, But when I first started riding, I didn’t d\efkkf^iXYXkk_\YiXb\j`e[\jg\iXk`fe# then put the competitors on full like the riding, I just liked the racing.” Ylkdf[lcXk\dpYiXb`e^jfk_Xk\m\ipk_`e^`j suspension bicycles that look like But what’s the difference? Gee breaks Zfekifcc\[%K_`ji`[\`jjdffk_\i%@]\\c]Xidfi\ motorbikes without an engine and hurl away from his food again. “I know! Zfe]`[\ekfek_\Y`b\#c`b\X]cXgg`e^]c\[^c`e^ \X^c\Y\`e^nXkZ_\[YpgXi\ekjjfXi`e^Y\j`[\ them down a hill. It’s a race against the Riding was hard work and you had d\%EfZiXj_\jk_`jk`d\#aljkXk_i`cc`e^i`[\% clock down steep rutted tracks that to get muddy and push your heavy I`[`e^n`k_Xgif]\jj`feXc#pflc\Xiek_Xk would be difficult to walk, let alone downhill bike up the hills. But racing… pflic`d`kjXi\efk\m\efek_\`ijZXc\f]jb`cc%P\k scream along at breakneck speed with she pretty much won from her first jfd\_fnk_`j`ej`^_kf]_fnk_\p[fn_Xkk_\p[f a bicycle between your legs. Sometimes race. She was always doing well and [`jg\cjk_\dpjk`hl\Xe[jfdXb\jk_\`iXY`c`k`\j the trails are slick with mud; at other she was loving the glory; that was what dfi\`dgi\jj`m\%8ilec`b\k_Xknflc[kXb\k_\d XYflkknfd`elk\jXk]lccjg\\[%@]@giXZk`j\[]fi times they are dusty, dry and loose. she was all about, right from the start.” cfe^\efl^_#k_\edXpY\#feX^ff[[Xp#@Zflc[ N`k_X_Xk]lcf]nfic[k`kc\j Whatever the conditions, they are littered Dan is slouching sage-like against [f`k`e\`^_k%9lkn_Xknflc[Y\k_\gf`ekf] Y\kn\\ek_\d#8k_\ikfej>\\ with boulders, three-at-a-stride rock the wood-burning range in the corner gif]\jj`feXcjgfikjg\fgc\`]k_\pn\i\eËkXk c\]k #;Xe Z\eki\ Xe[IXZ_\c staircases and exposed gnarled roots of the kitchen, listening to our c\Xjk]flik`d\jY\kk\ik_XepflXkpfliY\jk6 PHOTOGRAPHY: MAURITS SILLEM (2) ZXejkXe[k_\_\Xk`eXepb`kZ_\e 64 65 ACTION THE CHAMPIONS’ BIKE conversation around the big wooden ‘THE ATHERTONS ARE THREE holy trinity, but it does get on their Fancy yourself as the next mountain bike star? This is the ride you’ll need table, interjecting where necessary. DISTINCT CHARACTERS WHO nerves. After all, as Rachel points out, “Rachel is full of energy. She always INTERACT SEAMLESSLY, LIKE A when you are each at the top in your K_\Y`b\k_\8k_\ikfejiXZ\`enfic[Zlgj`j Xk`kXe`ldjgi`e^%N`k_k_\=fo+'I:)]ifek has been ever since she was young. She own right, to be constantly lumped X:fdd\eXcJlgi\d\;?#Xe[k_`jiXZ\i\gc`ZX jljg\ej`fe#`k`jgfjj`Yc\kfdXb\Xcck_\jXd\ SYNCHRONISED SIBLING TEAM’ does occasionally have moments when together wears a bit thin. “We are quite _XjaljkY\\edX[\XmX`cXYc\kfk_\glYc`ZkfYlp k\Z_e`ZXcX[aljkd\ekjjfk_\jljg\ej`feZXe X]k\idfek_jXe[dfek_jf][\j`^e`e^Xe[k\jk`e^% Y\Zljkfd`j\[]fiXepi`[\ifeXepkiXZb% her temper kicks in or she is as low as focused on keeping our individuality. K_\j`Yc`e^jnfib\[Zcfj\cpn`k_:fdd\eXc# K_\i\Xi\Xcfkf]jdXcckn\Xbjk_Xkk_\ you can go, depressed, but then straight seem to have been taken as fair. Now Whatever we do, at races or when we k\jk`e^`e8e[fiiXkfZfd\lgn`k_XY`b\k_Xk 8k_\ikfej[fkfdXb\k_\Y`b\jl`k\XZ_f] away she’s back up again. Rachel is also Gee takes his turn as the family analyst. are with the media, we like to make it nflc[Y\k_\]Xjk\jk`ek_\nfic[%@kn\`^_j k_\dÆk_`e^jc`b\Xck\i`e^k_\Y\e[fek_\ the best racer. When it comes to all-out, “Dan is a very dedicated person.” known that we are different people.” `eXkXkflZ_fm\i+'cY#Xe[`k_Xj_p[iXlc`Z YiXb\c\m\ij#Zlkk`e^k_\_Xe[c\YXij[fne flat-out racing, she’s the best. She’s Then Rachel butts in using that Dan looks up from making a round YiXb\jXe[/`ef]jljg\ej`fe]ifekXe[i\Xi% jc`^_kcpXe[Zlkk`e^k_\ki\X[`ek_\kpi\j a good rider, but sometimes she will be sharp disappointed tone that can only of teas. “We are definitely supportive K_\jljg\ej`fe`jdX[\Yp=foIXZ`e^ kfX[`]]\i\ekj_Xg\ÆYlkfk_\in`j\k_\Y`b\ J_fo#k_\i\Xij_fZbY\`e^XZljkfd$Yl`ck ZXeY\Yfl^_kfek_\_`^_jki\\k%K_\i\Xi\ struggling with something on the course be made by the youngest. “I was going of each other. We would do anything to gifkfkpg\n`k_X[aljkXYc\_`^_$Xe[cfn$jg\\[ X]\njg\Z`Xcdf[`]`ZXk`fejk_XkXi\efk during practice and she will be really to say dedicated!” Gee flashes a wry help the other two if needed. But at the Zfdgi\jj`fe#X[aljkXYc\i\Yfle[[Xdg\e`e^# XmX`cXYc\kfk_\glYc`Z#Ylkfk_\in`j\`k worried about it, but then in the race big-brother smile and continues. same time, we all want to be top dog.” gif^i\jj`m\Zfdgi\jj`feX[aljkXY`c`kpXe[ ZXeXccY\Yfl^_k]ifdXep^ff[Y`b\j_fg% she will nail it. That ability to just give “He’s always been like it. That carries But if you are that competitive, and 100 per cent to the race is excellent.” him through, the amount of effort he that good, isn’t it frustrating to be in ?Xe[c\YXi1Jlec`e\M( Gee nods in agreement; Rachel looks puts in and what he is willing to do in a sport that isn’t even on the radar for humbled but pleased. “I think I have order to make it to wherever he needs to anyone other than the aficionados? Jk\d1Jlec`e\[`i\Zkdflek learned that from watching these two be. That will get you a long way in life.” All three are up for this one. It’s race. I have two of the best coaches. Rachel jumps in again as the three- their personal crusade to make mountain Oh boys! I can’t thank you enough!” way compliments and critiques between biking more widely appreciated. They But her competitiveness and the brothers and their sister continue. believe that people are missing out by not JX[[c\1Jlec`e\ ?\X[j\k1:_i`jB`e^ commitment come at a cost: she was “If Dan decides to do something, he watching it. Gee is the first to answer. knocked off her road bike during winter will put 110 per cent into it.” “There’s the technology, the training, the 9iXb\j1J_`dXefJX`ek training, resulting in a shoulder injury Gee nods. “He’s also very smart. At emotion and the excitement of watching that will force her to miss the season- races, he always thinks things through. a rider rattling down through the woods opener in South Africa later this month. You can see it when he’s on the track at high speed between rocks and trees, Gee, by contrast, is more level- with three other people, anticipating jumping huge gaps. It’s amazing to J\Xkgfjk1Jlec`e\ headed, according to Dan: “He’s focused what they might do, seeing potential watch. It’s just getting it shown to the on what has to be done, and doesn’t moves to get ahead. That fast, smart right people in the right way.” =iXd\1:fdd\eXcJlgi\d\;? care about what he has to do to achieve thinking is essential when you are Then Dan joins in. “It’s not just the G\[Xcj1J_`dXef;O it. That’s what he’s going to do and racing ‘four-man’ on a mountain bike.” races, either. There are events like everyone else just has to deal with it. Supportive yet challenging, humorous Red Bull Rampage. That grabs their I think that’s how you have to be if you but honest. Spend time with them and attention. Show people pictures of want to be a professional athlete. There’s you soon witness their triple act. They’re someone jumping a 60ft gap in the blue no point running around trying to look three distinct characters who interact sky on a bike and it captures them.” =ifekkpi\1:fek`e\ekXcBX`j\i)%, after other people if you’re trying to seamlessly, like a synchronised sibling So, mountain biking has untapped be the best in the world.” team. Not surprisingly, that’s how the televisual potential; it’s got excitement, There’s no disagreement from the media often portray them: not as three danger, good-looking competitors and other two; the comments and criticisms individual sporting gods but as a conjoined exotic locations. Isn’t that even more =fib1=fo+'I:) reason to be bitter that they aren’t adored? @jk_\i\XY\kk\inXpkf\eafpXjleep This time it’s Rachel’s turn to be N\cj_[Xpk_Xe]cp`e^[fneXe`dgfjj`Ycp philosophical. “We didn’t get into it to jk\\g_`ccfeXgif$jg\ZdflekX`eY`b\6 be household names around the world; we got into it because we loved it. You can’t be bitter about it. Mum gets frustrated a lot, especially during the Olympics, seeing the coverage and all I\Xi[\iX`cc\li1 the attention they get. She feels that :_X`ei`e^1 J_`dXefJX`ek we should be getting similar acclaim J_`dXef*/k for what we have achieved. But you just have to do what you can to help the :iXebj\k sport along and build that exposure.” J_`dXefJX`ek We’ve been here several hours and many sporting stars would have been =ifek_lY1;KJN@JJ)+' clock-watching ages ago, keen for the interlopers to leave. Not the Athertons. As we draw things to a close, they are more concerned that the drive from their I\Xikpi\1:fek`e\ekXcBX`j\i)%, remote home will be long. As goodbyes are said, Rachel extends her hand holding a can. “Red Bull for the road?” J\\Xm`[\ff]>\\`eXZk`fe1nnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e% =ifeki`d1;KJN@JJ-%( PHOTOGRAPHY: SIMON REA (1), MAURITS SILLEM (1) Zfd&Xik`Zc\j&d\\kVk_\VXk_\ikfej&\e 66 67 ACTION Steeped in myth and legend, the brutal-but- beautiful pastime of hurling is more than a mere game – it’s part of the very fabric of Irish society. This is sport as living culture THE FASTEST FIELD SPORT IN THE WORLD Steeped in myth and legend, the brutal-but-beautiful game of hurling is much more than a pastime – it’s part of the very fabric of Irish society. This is sport as living culture Words Justin Hynes Photography Neil Massey JkXigcXp\i1Af\:Xee`e^ fenXpkfXn`ee`e^jZfi\ ACTION and perhaps even the storied Christy surface it’s a crude stereotype, a bad Ni`kcXi^\1_lic`e^`jdfi\ Ring, a Corkman so revered that joke to be used to define the backward k_Xealjkjgfik`e@i\cXe[Æ disputing his pre-eminent status is akin ways of the ‘Fightin’ Oirish’. It’s a lazy `kjgi\j\eZ\`j`e\jZXgXYc\ to heresy. But that is the weight Shefflin cliché, one that bypasses the significance carries into this game. If he’s on form, of sport as a function of culture, of a he could win this single-handedly for game that has been played here since Ballyhale. Lining out against that kind the history of the land was first written, of reputation means that, today, for since the rules which governed these Portumna, it’s an uphill battle. fields were first codified. “This is huge,” says O’Neill. “For The fifth-century Brehon Laws, the club players this is the biggest day of orally transmitted code of Celtic Ireland, their lives. This is like the FA Cup mention the sport as an approved method final. It’s D-Day.” of settling disputes between villages. By There’s nothing flippant in the the seventh century, when the country’s statement. In fact, there’s something mythology was first written down, the J almost maniacal in the intensity with game features in the stories of this land’s which it’s delivered. “How important heroes. The boy warrior Setanta, invited ust an hour to go before the start is this for the club?” O’Neill adds flatly. to attend a feast held by the blacksmith of the match and in the corner of the “Today, they have to die out there.” Culann, arrives late and is prevented stadium, a small boy, no more than This is what it means to be involved from entering by a monstrous wolfhound. seven or eight years old, is hitting in hurling in rural Ireland. From the The beast is slain by a young hurler, who a thickly-ridged ball back and forth outside, it’s easy to see the sport as hits a ball down the dog’s throat. to his father. As he swings his half-size almost comic. Take 30 grown men, That though is myth, a hoary old hurley, he keeps having to shove the arm them with 40in lengths of solid reminder that hurling is a sport built in sleeves of his shirt up his arms. His ash and throw them into combat on mists of antiquity. Good for the tourists. small frame is swamped by the a muddy field in a small town buried in The modern reality is that, against the outsize blue and yellow team jersey, countryside that still largely owes any odds, hurling still represents some kind the colours of Portumna’s hurling prosperity it enjoys to farming. On the of spirited identity and a kind of unshowy club. The back is covered with scrawls individualism. You grow up representing from a variety of marker pens. Black school and parish club and then one day, and blue, green and red, each one if you’re lucky, your county. And if you the mark of a hero. are very, very lucky, it could take you In just under 60 minutes the from a small town in Galway to Croke owners of most of those names will Park, a shining 80,000-capacity concrete take to the pitch here in Thurles’ and steel cathedral of the sport in Semple Stadium – Gaelic Games’ self- Dublin, the home of the Gaelic Athletic styled ‘Field of Legends’ – to contest Association. Here, you might play in an the semi-final of the All-Ireland Senior All-Ireland final and write your name in Club Championship. For now though, the history books of your county, club, the dull smack of the ball hitting the parish, all the way back to the family end of the boy’s hurley is the only who first shoved a stick in your tiny fist sound in the empty stadium. and intoned the words “keep, hook, “He got that shirt after last year’s block” in your ear. All-Ireland,” says his father. “He got In a homogenised, commercially everyone at the club to sign it. All the calculating world, where children players. And the management too, everywhere are brought up to idolise and the selectors. Great day.” untouchable perma-tanned Premier The boy is the son of Oisín O’Neill, League celebrities, to dream of Ferraris, physio for Portumna. The Galway side tabloid notoriety and a sprawling mock- are defending club champions, have Tudor ‘crib’ in Cheshire, a game like played countless matches to get to this this has no right to survive. semi-final, have won two of the last Yet it does. And thrives. Portumna three finals, but today are underdogs. is a tiny town on the borders of Galway Their opposition, Ballyhale Shamrocks, and Tipperary. There is no major industry hail from Kilkenny, hurling’s heartland, here beyond farming and the tourism the county that currently defines the that comes from being located on the standard in this ancient sport. On the banks of the Shannon, on the shores of Ballyhale team are some of the finest Lough Derg. It has a population of just players currently gracing the game. 2,000 people. Here, the idea of anyone Ballyhale centre half-forward getting paid a hundred thousand a week Henry Shefflin is reckoned by many to play sport is simply ludicrous. to be the greatest player in the sport’s In towns and villages like this, you recent history, the 29-year-old poised I\X[p]fiYXkkc\19Xccp_Xc\ kfg Xe[ are handed a hurley as soon as you can to eclipse his own predecessor DJ Carey GfikldeX XYfm\ Z_Xi^\]ifdk_\klee\c stand, you turn out for your parish club ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY, PREVIOUS PAGE: CATHAL NOONAN/INPHO 70 71 ACTION for the love of playing a game that A ROUGH GUIDE is woven into the fabric of society. In towns like this, heroes are real, tangible. TO HURLING They fix your car when it breaks down, How it started, the rules of play manage your bank account when you and what the scoreline means deposit your wages, grow the food that eventually winds up on your plate. K_\\Xic`\jkni`kk\e jcXgg\[n`k_k_\ Hurling, the fastest field sport on the i\Zfi[f]_lic`e^`j gXcdf]k_\_Xe[ kf planet, a game that marries almost ]fle[`ek_\XeZ`\ek Xefk_\igcXp\i#Ylk balletic grace to the speed and aggression @i`j_9i\_feCXnj `kZXeefkY\k_ifne% f]k_\]`]k_Z\eklip% of an international rugby three-quarter JZfi`e^`jXZ_`\m\[ @kËjY\c`\m\[kf and the hand-eye co-ordination of the \`k_\iYp_`kk`e^k_\ gi\[Xk\:_i`jk`Xe`kp# fighter pilot, is a sport grounded in YXccfm\ik_\YXi Zfd`e^kf@i\cXe[ a reality and in community. So much Xe[Y\kn\\ek_\ n`k_k_\:\ckj% so that it is still resolutely amateur. lgi`^_kj]fiXj`e^c\ Today, in Thurles, the mirror for K_\ 72 73 ACTION kids. Canning waits patiently for the exchange to be over before continuing. It’s the same all over the pitch. These players have laboured through to a great victory. On Sunday morning, pundits had reckoned this to be the ‘real’ final. What will take place at Croke Park on St Patrick’s Day will be a formality. You wouldn’t know it. The atmosphere on the pitch is like a church social. Kids skitter between the legs of adults, half-sized hurls flashing past their ankles. Others dutifully line up to be introduced to the players to get their programmes signed, while the grown-ups chat. The players ruffle the hair of kids who are their neighbours. One kid makes a smart remark to a player and receives a playful kick in the pants as reward. If it seems strange that sports stars, men whose faces are plastered across the sides of buses and on billboards in the capital, do this, that they linger for close to an hour on a pitch invaded by the faithful, then that’s because it is. But this is the special quality of hurling. Its inextricable link to community. There is a sense of something being passed on. When kids are still able to walk up to their heroes and congratulate Ki`ldg_Xe[[\jgX`i1GfikldeX them for making their own dreams NO ORDINARY JOE Z\c\YiXk\#n_`c\9Xccp_Xc\ come true, when a seven-year-old boy XYfm\ c\Xm\k_\g`kZ_[\a\Zk\[ can practise his skills on the pitch on He’s tipped to take over the crown of hurling which those idols will later play, then hero Henry Shefflin, but what is it that there is a real feeling of connectivity, makes Portumna’s Joe Canning (above) tick? of a sport being handed down from generation to generation in a way that =\ngcXp\ij`e_lic`e^ p\Xij#f]X]Xd`cpf] kiX[\dXibjkifb\# seems organic, real and inspired by _Xm\\oZ`k\[XjdlZ_ j\m\eZ_`c[i\e#:Xee`e^ c\X[`e^jfd\kfcXl[ kXcbXjAf\:Xee`e^fm\i ^i\nlgnXkZ_`e^m`[\fj _`dXjX9\Zb_Xd$\jhl\ the place in which the players grow up. k_\gXjkZflgc\f]p\Xij% f]_`jYifk_\ijgcXp`e^ ]`^li\#jfle\ii`e^Xi\ There is nothing Hollywood about the N\Y]fildj[\jZi`Y\_`d ]fiGfikldeXXe[k_\ _`j[\X[$YXccjb`ccj% passion it inspires, about the essential XjÊk_\^i\Xk\jkgifjg\Zk Zflekpj`[\#Xe[nXkZ_`e^ @]k_\i\`jX]Xlck#`k quality of the game as a cultural `ek_\^Xd\Ë#ÊXYi`cc`Xek# _`jj`jk\i;\`i[i\gcXp `j#Xjn`k_9\Zb_Xd#`e touchstone. It simply is. Yi`cc`XekgcXp\iËXe[ÊX ZXdf^`\]fi>XcnXp% :Xee`e^ËjXggXi\ekcXZb On his way back to the dressing room, ]!!!`e^^\e`ljË%F]]`Z`Xc ?`jYifk_\iFcc`\nflc[ f]gXZ\%KXccXe[Ylicp# right half-forward Niall Hayes, still d\[`XZ_Xee\cj_Xm\ kXb\_`jYXYpYifk_\ikf _`j`jefkk_\`[\Xc]iXd\ fizzing with adrenaline, is intercepted Y\\eefc\jj\]]lj`m\#k_\ kiX`e`e^j\jj`fej%?`j ]fi_lic`e^Ëj^iXZ\Xe[ by reporters and delivers the message :fib ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID CLERIHEW (1) It certainly is. K_\pfle^\jk#Ypj\m\e Xe^c\j#`j:Xee`e^Ëj cXjkc`m\lgkfk_\_pg\% 74 75 Jfd\dlj`ZjkXij_Xe[c\]Xd\ Y\kk\ik_Xefk_\ij#Ylkk_\e k_\i\ËjCX[p_Xnb\#n_fYXi\cp i\Zf^e`j\jk_Xkj_\ËjXZ\c\Yi`kp `ek_\]`ijkgcXZ\%=`e[flkn_pÆ Xe[n_pj_\ËjXjkXiÆfegX^\//% G_fkf^iXg_p1AXd\jG\Xijfe$?fn\j More Body & Mind Excite your senses with our hot picks to see, hear and savour 78 NEW YORK 80 HANGAR-7 INTERVIEW 82 RED BULL PAPER WINGS 83 GET THE GEAR 84 HOT SPOTS 86 NIGHT SPOTS 94 BULLSEYE 96 SHORT STORY 98 MIND’S EYE MORE BODY & MIND Ki\mfiÊKiflYc\Ë8e[i\nYi`e^j_`jjbXk\ C`e[j\p>l\ii\iXXe[CXliX;Xnjfe glebj_\eXe`^XejkfI\[9lccJgXZ\ [`jZljj]`eXcgi\gXiXk`fej]fik_\j_fn Picture a space where Tony ever seen,” says Lawrence Hawk can rub shoulders with Marazzi, a businessman and his skate buddies in a low-lit, Dawson’s fiancé. “This was intimate setting big enough nothing like Bryant Park; at for a few hundred, but with Bryant Park you end up with a well-edited guestlist and a cookie-cutter shows.” At Bryant tight door. Then picture one Park, it can also cost up to where hip-hop’s rising star $50,000 just to lease a tent; Kid Cudi might pop bottles another $50,000 or so for with Kanye West. Finally, production. Red Bull Space, picture a runway at New York meanwhile, provides its Fashion Week, where an partners with a cost-effective avant-garde designer wows way to create premium events. 8df[\ckXb\jkfk_\ilenXp]ifd editors with her clever use of While the Dawson show k_\^\f[\j`Z[fd\XkCXliX;XnjfeËj space as much as with her took six months to produce, E\nPfib=Xj_`feN\\bj_fn collection. All worlds apart, others can be whipped up and yet Red Bull Space in in weeks, or even days. New York has hosted all three. Thanks to the AV room – the “The beauty of the space ‘guts’ of the place – with its is that it can be whatever you intimidating piles of sound, want it to be,” says Lindsey light and video equipment, Guerrera, events manager the space transforms for the 3,000sq ft SoHo loft. depending on the nature of The space boasts a few white the event. That means glow- leather ottomans, two white in-the-dark stickers and clever support columns and huge projections for the nascent floor-to-ceiling windows. hip-hop artist Izza Kizza’s The look is industrial chic upcoming mixtape release meets downtown cool. party, which has an outer- Five days a week, from space theme. At the NBA 2K9 ;i\jj`e^kf`dgi\jj 8d\i`ZXe^iX]]`k` fe?Xccfn\\ee`^_k XkG`ZkfgcXjdX 10am until 8 or 9pm, you will party, projectors descended find Guerrera, hauling around from the ceiling so that couches, poking away at her basketball star Kevin Garnett BlackBerry and meeting could challenge himself to a clients. She collaborates live game on the big screen. closely on every event the “We love crazy ideas, space hosts and attends them and we always try to find all, too. “These are unique a solution no matter what,” collaborations, where we says Guerrera. “I don’t think all have input,” she says, in the time I have worked “I hate to miss even one!” here we’ve had to say, ‘No we Most recently, Red Bull can’t pull that off.’” But only Space teamed up with Laura a year and a half ago, the Dawson, an emerging designer, loft was mostly unused. Long for Dawson’s Fashion Week ago, it was a brewery; then show. Shirking the conventions an ill-fated hotspot called of the Bryant Park fashion Chaos. But by the end of O>Xd\j]i\\jb`\iKXee\i?Xccglccjf]] 9$YfpXZk`fefek_\ Df[\cY\_Xm`fli show stages, Dawson wanted 2008, Red Bull Space had FXbc\pI\mKfli Xefk_\i`dgi\jj`m\dXef\lmi\`eE\nPfib Xkk_\CXliX a space where she could pull hosted 70 events, and is on ;Xnjfe Watch this j_fn off the kind of show she’d pace to better that this year. spent a lifetime thinking about. Since the Laura Dawson So with the help of Guerrera show, the phone’s been ringing and her team, and the more than usual. “We’ve Space Buckminster Fuller institute, gotten lots of calls from the Dawson commissioned a huge fashion world,” says Guerrera. geodesic dome to be erected And though the genius of the From hosting star-studded parties inside the space; come show geodesic dome might never to fashion shows and groundbreaking night, the models would again be replicated, that’s emerge from the dome and sort of the point. “We kept art installations, Red Bull Space is onto the runway – a perfect it,” says Guerrera. “We can fast becoming the coolest – and most synergy between interior always find something new adventurous – venue in New York space, fashion, and design. to do with what we have.” “It was one of the most I\[9lccJgXZ\#+'K_fdgjfeJk# Words Siobhan O’Connor PHOTOGRAPHY: KANSHISH SHRESTHA(7), ANDREW ANDERSON(1) profound fashion events I’ve E\nPfib#EP#nnn%i\YlccjgXZ\%Zfd 78 79 MORE BODY & MIND The Hangar-7 interview You come from the wine-growing Cape, so what are your favourites? Cabernet and Shiraz are the best. Giniel de And Merlot after them. How do you explain the boom in South African wines? Villiers South Africa has phenomenal wine- He was the first African to growers. And that’s to do with history. My ancestors, for example, came to win the Paris-Dakar rally South Africa from France three centuries – in the first year it wasn’t ago and brought their culture with them. South African wine would never have held in Africa. But part of got so big on good marketing alone. the great continent will Have you tried wine-growing yourself? always be with the Red Bull No, I’ve preferred to whizz around the VW driver, as he likes vineyards in a car. eating springboks… What’s your favourite place for dinner? All over South Africa there are vineyards where you can eat, too. It’s so peaceful The Red Bulletin met De Villiers at there, so with a beautiful landscape Hangar-7, in Salzburg, Austria, and nice company, it’s perfect. Red Bull’s unofficial headquarters. The Dakar has a fearsome reputation And what do you choose to eat? as an endurance test. How do you Meat! And without much fuss. Meat can eat on those long desert stages? be so good on its own that I don’t need The stages last six or seven hours, and you much with it. I don’t like fussy food. won’t get far on normal food, so the car is full of power-bars; they’re easy to eat and What meat? they give you energy over a long period. A great steak. Argentinian beef is phenomenal. I’ve been to Brazil and they Many drivers reward themselves with know what to do with meat, too. The a treat at the end of a stage. Did you? food I ate really brought home to me that Absolutely. A little treat works wonders the Dakar had been relocated to South for your morale. I always have some America. Good beef is as good as game. biltong with me. It’s strips of dried, very South African springbok is a real delicacy. salty beef – a South African delicacy. I’ve eaten alligator, too; it tastes like rabbit. It tastes lovely, and after a day in the VW Touareg rally car you need salt anyway. What about sweet things? They’re not really my thing. What What do you drink? are we eating now? Isotonic drinks; up to 6 litres per stage. The temperature in the car can get up Kaiserschmarrn. to between 60 and 70ºC and there’s a What’s in it? constant risk of dehydration. The drinks are cooled, which makes them taste Eggs, flour, sugar, a bit of milk… better. At the end of the stage, there’s It’s good. And the fruity thing? always diluted Red Bull for the drivers. Stewed plums… How often do And how good does your first beer you cook for yourself? taste after two weeks in the sand? Not often. I might invite friends over The best beer you’ve ever had! Actually, who cook. Otherwise I eat out. that’s not true. The second one is the best, especially if you’ve won. 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Donate on www.wingsforlife.com 94 MORE BODY & MIND MORE BODY & MIND A story by Oliver Uschmann The snow is melting slowly this year. seventh day of the year, with the “On the 10th day my He hangs up, gives me the phone, Just like us. cold abating and the ability to work snatches up a third of the letters and You can hardly tell if he has pulled threatening to return completely, holiday came to an end. goes back indoors. I take another third a dirty grey sheet over his body or whether Hartmut stormed out of the house in It took me three hours and follow him in. Yannick dashes into the filth that’s swimming in his stomach a panic and began to ring neighbouring to find a puddle frozen the flat and runs to his dish. He’s still A Bad Start is showing through his thinned skin. doorbells with some excuse or other, enough for me to slip full, but he’s got used to taking up the Both would apply to us in any case. until someone with the flu and swollen food distribution position as soon as To Hartmut, lying there on the sofa as eyes appeared at the door. He then and sprain my ankle” someone enters the flat as a matter of limply as if someone had laid him there breathed in strong and deep, held the principle. He has a discerning supply like a towel. To me, crouching on the air, dashed back into the house, closed mentality. Hartmut says, “Hello from to the Year Flokati rug and listlessly playing on the door and breathed out wetly in my mother.” He ignores the cat. his PlayStation as if it was a minimum every room. Our colds were back and finally on. He comes back to the living Back in the living room, Susanne is Can you really have the Monday morning requirement beyond breathing. Our cat we had won a few more days. On the room. And says, “You can’t see it. You still sitting in her chair, but appears to blues for a whole month? Yannick is the only lively one; he wanders 10th day, my holiday came to an end can’t see it at all. A whole machine’s have found the strength to change the around us purring. It’s not a satisfied and UPS was expecting me back on the worth of dirty clothes has been put on game in the console. She is now guiding purr; it’s a purr that’s trying to rouse assembly line. It took me three hours to but you can’t see the difference.” The Bruce Willis through the apocalypse and us. Rouse us from the numbness that find a puddle down on Prince Regent fact overwhelms him. His eyes plead casually shooting anything that moves. we’ve fallen into since the New Year Street that was frozen enough for me for salvation, but the energy drink is “And?” she asks. and that we can’t overcome. to slip on and sprain my ankle. still working. “I’ll go and check the mail Hartmut walks over to the sofa, turns his On New Year’s Eve, everything was “What the hell’s wrong with us?” now,” he says. Susanne looks at me back to it, darts a glance over his shoulder as it had always been. Twinkling stars, I ask while Susanne swings quietly and as if to say, “You go with him. I can’t at his bum as if aiming and folds himself fireworks, the prospects of a long night squeakily and Hartmut’s eyes goggle at get out of this chair now.” back onto the sofa like a cover as if he’d ahead, New Year’s Day in your dressing- the TV as if stuck on a sofa-cover from I put the controller down, leave my never got up. I crouch in front of the chair. gown, then a new beginning by January 5 a joke shop. A cover with eyes. civilisation – which I’d neglected anyway – Hartmut says, “There’s been a death at the very latest! But now it’s the 21st “An existential crisis,” says the to its own devices and follow Hartmut in the family. No one can expect me and there’s no beginning in sight. cover. “We’ve somehow understood through the hallway to the entrance. He to work now.” “Who finished the coffee?” asks that everything always starts over again. opens the front door and sticks his key in Susanne opens her eyes wide and leans Susanne from the kitchen in a rasping I answer a client and, as soon as I send the mailbox, which is already overflowing. forward slightly. I make my lips mouth, voice. She is the only one moving at the email, three new ones come. You “Wait!” I say. But it’s already too late. “the second cousin in Merseburg’s all at the moment. Hartmut and I try fixed up a motorbike, Susanne, and then The mail, compressed to the density of a grandfather”, which isn’t as easy as to, but always instantly find reasons to there were two neighbouring kids with black hole, expands to its original volume it sounds. Susanne leans back. stop again. The coffee’s all gone. And it their mopeds at the door…” within a millisecond and the flood of “No,” she says. “No one could expect didn’t help. There’s a row of 21 empty, “And the flow of parcels on the paper throws Hartmut over the banister that of you.” shiny, silver-and-blue cans on the conveyor belt never stops…” I sigh. and onto the weathered ground. He falls “Oh yeah,” I say, and sink deeper into windowsill. We got up after every can, “Exactly,” says Hartmut. “We’ve never nastily on his back. “Ow!” he groans. the rug. Yannick meows mournfully, wanting to start the year at last. But we accepted it before. We steadfastly do the The last few letters flutter their way even though his dish is full. were back where we started after two washing-up in the hope that this might down to the gravel. We should get the year started. hours at the most, every time. be the last time and the crockery will Nothing but bills. But there’s still time. “It’s all gone,” Hartmut calls out to stay clean forever now.” So I’m standing on the stairs and the kitchen, languidly, and Susanne “It’s awful,” I say. he’s lying in front of me, felled by his shuffles into the living room to join “Yeah,” says Susanne as she chews own postal procrastination. A neighbour us, hurling herself into the swing chair, on the rest of the weeks-old cracker. comes past. His dog greets us. Hartmut a hemisphere suspended from a heavy Yannick jumps onto the windowsill, works his way out of the paper. “Gimme steel column. She looks casually at the lumbers around the empty cans and your phone,” he says. I take my mobile screen, showing the console version knocks one of them onto the floor. out of my trouser pocket and hand it of Civilization II. I don’t know why I’m “He wants us to at least give it a to him. He coughs. Yannick stands About the author playing this life-simulation game instead shot,” I say. excitedly in the doorway. He wags his When German writer Oliver Uschmann of a run-of-the-mill shoot-’em-up that “The daily attempt,” says Susanne. tail like the neighbour’s dog. The chimes would better suit this kind of day. Maybe “I’m going to do it,” says Hartmut. on the door opposite ring. Hartmut dials (born 1977) was in kindergarten, I want to show us what we’re doing in He unfolds himself from the sofa. The a number, waits a couple of seconds he got his head stuck in a chair and real life on the screen. My civilisation is cover body gradually gains in volume. till someone answers and says, “Yeah, had to be cut free. In Wesel, he wrote collapsing definitively. I’m not making Hartmut goes into the kitchen, takes hi Mum! Look, this may seem a little his first stories, worked as a packer any decisions; I’m letting it slide. Yannick another can out of the fridge, cracks it strange, but Manfred from Merseburg and staged wrestling shows in the walks over my legs, his tail held high. open and drinks it in such huge gulps is my… what is it again?” playground. In Bochum, he studied “We need to get the year started,” I say. that starting the year really seems Hartmut’s mother answers on the literature, worked as an events “We’re sick,” says Hartmut. A fly possible. Susanne and I hear him clap his other end of the line. organiser, for a fanzine, as a singer, lands in his sideburns and cleans its hands. “So, now we can get things going. “Second cousin once removed? Yeah, an activist and plotted a revolution. feet on them. Susanne looks around in I think I’ll start with the washing.” that’s what I thought. 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