The Red Bulletin February 2015 - ZA

SOUTH AFRICA

BEYOND THE ORDINARY

AN D I LE PH EH LU KWAYO

I NTO TH E MATR IX

Is he the new Lance Klusener?

Inside the parallel universe of SA gaming

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MY CAR DOES

Andy Green on the road to the world land speed record

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LOOK MUM, NO BOARD!

Bodyboarding as you’ve never seen it: the amazing results of a collaboration between photographer Chris Burkard and big-wave surfer-cum-filmmaker Keith Malloy

Some world records are better than others, and the next attempt at the world land speed record will definitely be something special.

Andy Green hopes to be the first man to drive a car at 1,600kph – that’s about four-and-ahalf times faster than current F1 cars. We met him and his team as they take their first trip on the road to glory. Not quite so fast but just as fascinating is the world of South African gaming, and we sent our writer straight into the belly of the beast. From Durban, we have Andile Phehlukwayo, quite possibly the next Lance Klusener, and from Austria, the incredible story of the man who ran further than 36,000 other racers to win the first Wings For Life World Run. All this and much more. We hope you enjoy the issue.

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‘I understand every aspect of the car. Why should I be scared?’

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SHAMIL TANNA (COVER), CHRIS BURKARD

WELCOME

FEBRUARY 2015

AT A GLANCE GALLERY 08 This month’s most amazing images

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16 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOUTUBE

Celebrating 10 years of videos

FEATURES

DC MEETS GT

24 Swell guys

David Coulthard gives the super-coupé Mercedes-AMG GT a track workout

Braving big waves without a board

36 Andile Phehlukwayo

Young star of South African cricket

38 Olly Alexander

BERNHARD SPÖTTEL, OLIVER JISZDA, STEPHEN BOXALL/ZERO-G EXPERIENCE®, SUGURU SAITO/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

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Rising star of soul, dance and pop

40 Land speed record

Andy Green and his team are building a car to break the 1,000mph barrier

46 Tree fellas

Whittling down the best lumberjacks

54 Lemawork Ketema

The champion of the Wings For Life World Run aims for more glory

56 Mzansi gaming scene At the rAge Expo in Johannesburg

‘TIMBER SPORT IS ABOUT CUTTING-EDGE PERFECTION’

The best lumberjacks in the world wear their scars with pride, their iron socks for safety and they devise yoga routines to keep themselves in fine felling shape

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YOU IN A WINGSUIT

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DAYS AND NIGHTS IN TOKYO

At the Red Bull Music Academy, the world’s best rookie musicians work with industry legends. And party with robots

62 David Coulthard

The F1 legend is back on the track

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TRAINING Fit for top-level surfing MY CITY A musician’s Brisbane TRAVEL Wingsuit aerodynamics WATCHES Best new timepieces NIGHTLIFE Red Bull Music Academy PARTY Chicago’s coolest club MUSIC TV On The Radio’s top tracks GAMING Zombie special MOVIES Hot Tub Time Machine 2 BUYER’S GUIDE Top motorcycles SAVE THE DATE Unmissable events MAGIC MOMENT Marc Marquez

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CONTRIBUTORS WHO’S ON BOARD THIS ISSUE “It’s almost too good to be true until you bounce off the coral and end up in the hospital” Chris Burkard shooting from under the waves, page 24

BERNHARD SPÖTTEL

CHRIS BURKARD

AMI KAPILEVICH

The German photographer was on hand to document what happened when we let 13-time Grand Prix winner David Coulthard loose on the new Mercedes-AMG GT at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. “I first worked with him 10 years ago at a show run in Istanbul,” says Spöttel.

“Since then I’ve known DC as a true pro with a great sense of humour.” But the Bavaria-based snapper was less impressed with the coupé than Coulthard: “All of my equipment wouldn’t fit in it.”

See what happens on page 62.

As part of his senior staff photographer job at Surfer Magazine, the California snapper has spent plenty of time above water taking traditional surf shots. But shooting bodysurfers in dangerous waters off Tahiti for The Red Bulletin required a new vantage point under the waves, leaving him with a nasty infected gash. “It’s almost too good to be true until you bounce off the coral and end up in the hospital,” he says. “But capturing those images was worth the effort.”

Check them out on page 24.

His childhood love of Space Invaders may not have led the Capetown-based writer to a career in video games, but his love of books did result in an MA in English and its associated careers as a waiter, stable hand, cricket ground guard, auction lackey, house builder, boat cleaner and journalist. “Writing this piece about the rAge gaming expo in Johannesburg, I realised that my fascination with gaming that started when my stepdad brought home a ZX Spectrum never really left me,” he says.

Read more on page 56.

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IN FOCUS

Behind the lens Shamil Tanna

We tasked the London-based lensman with shooting the fastest man on four wheels for this month’s cover. “Andy Green has been in the military and I wasn’t sure how to handle him,” says Tanna, who is more used to working with Lady Gaga and Pelé.

“But he could strike a pose and was able to adapt to each setting with ease.”

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Andy Green and his Bloodhound car.

More on page 40

This month’s SA edition of The Red Bulletin features Bloodhound SSC driver Andy Green. You can watch a behind-the-scenes video at redbulletin.com

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WET WORK The Volvo Ocean Race is sailing’s toughest challenge.

Justin Slattery is currently taking part in his fifth; this wave washed over him somewhere between Alicante and Cape Town, during the first leg of the 2014-15 race.

In January, Slattery’s Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing team will, along with six other crews, tackle the third of nine legs, from Abu Dhabi to Sanya, in China. All seven yachts are the same design; human endeavour will determine the winning boat, at the finish line in Gothenburg in June. volvooceanrace.com Photography: Matt Knighton/Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing

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B OVEC , S LOVEN IA

WELCOME ABOARD This is no take-off: it’s a once-in-a lifetime landing. The hardest part for hang glider pilot Matjaz Klemencic was “getting the speed right”. Nejc Faganelj, in the cockpit, felt that “keeping the glider still” was his biggest challenge. Their joint efforts led to a brief but brilliant moment. “I only managed three seconds,” said Klemencic, “but it was worth the risk.” redbull.com/adventure Photography: Samo Vidic/Red Bull Content Pool

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RUTH I N , WALE S

OFF OFF-ROAD When naming the challenges at Wales Rally GB, final stop of the 2014 World Rally Championship, the WRC put “slippery forest tracks” and “isolated patches of ice” on the list. Jari-Matti Latvala found both on the ninth special stage. The Finn skidded on a turn 6km in, lost his rear spoiler and ended up in eighth place; he finished the season second overall behind Sébastien Ogier. Good news for Latvala is that the 2015 WRC starts in Monaco on January 22: no forest for sure, only some ice. wrc.com Photography: Jaanus Ree/Red Bull Content Pool

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FR AN S C H H O EK , S O UTH AFRI C A

WILD RUN Ryan Sandes, ultra trail runner extraordinaire, has competed in some pretty far out places with some pretty far out wildlife. Think Amazon river crossings with caimans and piranhas, aggressive territorial birds in Antarctica, massive spiders in Tasmania, and puff adders and Cape cobras on Table Mountain. In preparation for the RacingThePlanet Madagascar event last year (a 250km self-supported, six-day sufferfest, which he ultimately won), he put in some unique training time at Le Bonheur Crocodile Farm, 80km outside Cape Town. ryansandes.com Photography: Kolesky/Nikon/Lexar

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10 YEARS OF YOUTUBE

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LET’S PLAY!

The giant PewDiePie only wants to play and breaks YouTube records in the process It’s a dream come true: Felix Kjellberg makes a living playing computer games.

Or, rather, from everyone watching him playing them.

More than 32 million subscribers – YouTube’s most watched channel – can’t get enough of the Swede’s videos.

Anyone who has witnessed PewDiePie and the rush of energy that goes into his videos must now be asking themselves how we got him to stay still to take the photo.

“YouTubers are just weird people who’ve found a place to nerd out” PewDiePie

YouTube turns 10

She isn’t giving you make-up tips!

BEST OF YOUTUBE

Do you remember?

From sore fingers to sore ears: these eight short-form masterpieces are milestones in internet video history

2005

JORGE SOLORZANO/MAKER STUDIOS, GYSLAIN YARHI/CAMERA PRESS/PICTUREDESK.COM, YOUTUBE.COM(4), GETTY IMAGES, CORBIS(2), RED BULL STRATOS/RED BULL CONTENT POOL, UNIVERSAL MUSIC(2)

Me at the zoo The first 18 seconds of YouTube: Jawed Karim, one of the site’s founders, gawping at elephants.

2006 Touch of Gold Advertising goes viral: Ronaldinho cracked the million-views mark with this Nike ad full of tricks.

2007 Charlie bit my finger Ouch! The most famous fraternal feud on Earth – sorry, Cain and Abel – has more than 800 million views.

2009 Fred Figglehorn His chipmunk voice makes him the first YouTube user to secure more than a million subscribers.

2010 Baby Justin Bieber’s hit remains the most-viewed video for two years and is still the one with the most dislikes.

1:13 / 4:46

2012 SELF-CROWNED QUEEN

Shall we play my video?

Lana Del Rey turned the music industry on its head with the help of YouTube. To this day, no other self-produced video has got anywhere close to Video Games: a solemn piece of magic.

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2013 Harlem Shake Everyone’s gone mad: even the Norwegian army did it. That’s what happens when something goes viral.

2014

Commentary Lana Might Say “If I’d known so many people were going to watch, I’d have put more effort into it.”

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Gangnam Style Still out in front with over 2bn views. Also this year: 8m people watch Red Bull Stratos live, another record.

Happy Pharrell Williams’s amazingly catchy song still inspiring virals a year after release.

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YOUTUBE’S SERVER

What the web looks like A humming, green info hive that powers what we watch A peek down a ventilation shaft at the Google Data Center in Mayes, Oklahoma. All the GoPro videos, fail compilations, funny cat clips and everything else resides here. Google snapped up YouTube in 2006 for US$1.65bn and has since managed vast swathes of data. Users upload hundreds of thousands of hours of video every day, and the picture quality is constantly improving.

What this image can’t show you is the deafening noise the thousands of ventilators make. They ensure the server stays on and the place remains bathed in light from green LEDs.

Commentary Adjustin Bieber I don’t read your annoying comments!

Why? That’s why: Hide YouTube Comments (Chrome), No YouTube Comments (Firefox), A Cleaner YouTube (Safari).

“The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats” Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965 ‘predicting’ YouTube

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YouTube turns 10

VIDEO STAR

Be a YouTube millionaire

Stay true to yourself Focus on your own crowd. Why else would SkyDoesMinecraft have 10 million subscribers?

Befriend the lens Look straight into the camera. If you don’t connect with people, they’ll stop watching.

Popular YouTubers pull in more viewers than big TV channels. How do they do it?

Get real Viewers can tell when your passion is genuine. There’s enough fake emotion on TV as it is.

Get to the point Your video has to resonate with people immediately. Like ‘How to Piss Off Every New Yorker in 36 Seconds’.

Show yourself Open up your private world: it’s the most interesting thing about you. Even if you think it’s boring.

Keep it up You only make the first videos for yourself.

If you do have fans, you only make more videos to keep them.

Hit the spot Choose the best tags so that people find you and can recommend you to others as simply as possible.

Anyone with a channel can become a YouTube partner.

That means money from advertising and subscriptions plus extra know-how from seminars

Show them the way Recommend other cool videos to your fans. Those clickthroughs will make them even more loyal.

Know your video types

Set your stall out Give regular updates in the same format and from a similar perspective. If it’s well received, repeat.

Push it real good Always ask your viewers to subscribe to your channel and like your videos, even if they don’t.

KAINRATH COMPUTES

That’s An Unwrap

Walkthrough Stuck on a level?

Another gamer can show you the way. (Retain your credibility and don’t tell anyone you watched the vid.)

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Unboxing Is there anything better than lovingly unpacking a new piece of kit? Yes! Filming the act for others with the same boxfresh fetish.

Machinima Fanatical amateur developers spend hours creating often impressive films by the orchestrated playing of video games.

The future of television

The end of television

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DIETMAR KAINRATH

Plus two more favourite film formats

YouTube turns 10

Rebecca Black

HERE TODAY, GONE TODAY

Flamed on and off

“The worst song ever” was one of the nicer things said about Friday, a track and video her parents paid producers to make.

She had the last laugh: her YouTube channel has over a million subscribers.

On YouTube, Andy Warhol’s prediction of 15 minutes of fame might be too generous

Antoine Dodson Hide yo kids, hide yo wife! The star of the Bed Intruder song now has a wife and kid of his own having announced in 2013 that, no, he isn’t gay.

YOUTUBE IN NUMBERS

Stats amazing Other moving image providers dream of ratings like these

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billion people use YouTube a month

50

per cent of all hits come from mobile devices

400 years’ worth of video material is scanned for copyright infringements on a daily basis

> 1

million people earn money via the YouTube Partner Program

Look and listen

World Wide Wurlitzer

CORBIS, PICTUREDESK.COM, CHARLIE SCHMID, GETTY IMAGES

YouTube has changed the way we listen to and make music – in good ways and bad

Watch and learn. Given the right tutorial, anyone can become a musician.

Filming at a concert just so you can be the first on YouTube.

Bands no longer have to pay an arm and a leg to get their video shown.

Club nights where the DJ plays straight from YouTube; clubgoers spend the whole time watching videos.

Music nerds can find all sorts on a public database.

Thanks to the YouTube Mixer, DJs now have the crossfader for a smooth transition every time.

Deserved parodying.

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Sound quality got worse.

The unimaginative cover craze that won’t go away.

YouTube’s new music streaming service unsettles indie labels.

Keyboard Cat

Fatso the musical cat became an internet star back in 2007. Sadly he wasn’t around to see it. The video was shot in 1984 and Fatso died in 1987.

Commentary

Bars Ulrich Stream my music if you’re not going to buy it. If you want to get to my drum so­lo at 2:40, just add #t=02m40 at end of the link.

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hours’ worth of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

90 million

hits a day come from Saudi Arabia.

Nowhere else is YouTube as popular

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YouTube turns 10

CENSORSHIP

This man saves your deleted clips

YouTube is Earth’s third-largest website, but state censorship and national copyright laws mean it’s not available worldwide

Dominic Gagnon. If a YouTube video falls foul of YouTube, does it make a sound?

Yes, we ban!

Don’t waste your time looking for it on YouTube: the film Pieces And Love All To Hell shows the videos that were too hot for YouTube, even if they featured no pornographic content. Like apocalyptic inflammatory speeches against the patriarchy, for example. Or crude tips from women holding a baby in one hand and a gun in the other. Dominic Gagnon has sought out videos that have been uploaded by YouTube users only to be deleted. He is yet to get answers from YouTube to the following questions: What do you delete? Why do you delete it? And who decides what’s OK and what isn’t? Gagnon’s video, which you can watch at arte.tv, shows all too clearly that the internet can store your data in perpetuity and still have a memory like a sieve.

Nothing to see here: where YouTube has encountered problems

Blocked now Blocked in the past

TURKEY President Erdogan doesn’t like videos that are critical of him.

So in 2014 he had YouTube blocked. The Constitutional Court got it back online.

GERMANY

IRAN YouTube has been down here since 2012. But trends like Happy have still made it into the country, with harsh punishments for uploaders.

NORTH KOREA

Google and GEMA – the German performance rights organisation – can’t reach a copyright agreement, so Germans get YouTube lite.

BRAZIL

You can only access the state-controlled Uriminzokkiri web channel, with a lot of videos about cookery, Kim Jong-un and war propaganda.

Ronaldo’s ex-girlfriend had a temporary block placed on the whole of YouTube in 2007 after a paparazzi-shot sex video with her in it ended up on the site.

Sources: Google Transparency Report, Wikipedia – Censorship of YouTube; as of November 2014

CAN TALK

Commentary Kim Dot-un WTF?! Who cares about national borders? You can get around blocks!

Ever heard of proxy servers or a VPN? Google it! Or Hola or DuckDuckGo it.

Couldn’t be easier!

YouTube alternatives

Site Surf Can’t find what you want on YouTube? Hit up these instead Wimp Family-friendly content from editors who say they are “anti-sensationalistic” Vimeo Streaming platform that’s a favourite with artists and filmmakers and their fans

What you need is another cat video

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This man is of the opinion that only women can save the world. YouTube deleted him

Dailymotion YouTube’s French cousin.

Founded around the same time and not lagging too far behind

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VITHEQUE.COM, GETTY IMAGES, YOUTUBE.COM

CHINA You have about as much chance of accessing YouTube here as you do of using Google.

You’ll have to use the Chinese equivalent, Youku, instead.

YouTube turns 10

WHAT TO WATCH

’Tube journeys

Fred Bull Two tips for the price of none: you can watch all the videos listed here at redbulletin.com. We humbly suggest you may wish to subscribe for more like this.

What if you had to view Youtube like old-fashioned TV? A guide to the most weird and wonderful entertainment that the website has to offer

Your perfect schedule TRASH

6AM - MIDDAY

Wear it well A crash course in tie-tying. It’s called the four-in-hand knot, even though a tie only has two ends.

How To Tie A Tie – Quick And Easy

Waiting… to go shopping iJustine is a YouTube star, not for ranting about standing in queues.

No, for reporting from them.

First In Line For iPhone 6 – The Story

The cat dogs are afraid of A little boy is playing on his back when a bad dog appears. Luckily, Tara was also on hand…

Hero House Cat Saves Boy From Dog Attack

What does Malala Yousafzai say?

Nobel Peace Prize-winner shot for attending school in Pakistan, picks up her award. Inspiring stuff.

Malala Yousafzai’s Entire Nobel Prize Speech

Look at all the things we can do!

Levels of crazy are always relative. But here the crazy will only leave you in awe of the human race.

People Are Awesome 2014

Hidden camera This hotel elevator, as operated

by Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis, speaks to you. Please, select language!

The Intelevator Episode 1

Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates Romeo and Juliet vs Bonnie and Clyde. Rasputin vs Stalin.

All in the name of MC-ing.

Epic Rap Battles Of History

Be job-happy An animated antidote to those who can’t get no job satisfaction.

Re-imagining Work

Super Mario lives A real-life Mario? Super. But now he won’t do what I want him to.

Super Mario Bros Parkour

A wedding dress is no tree And people can fly further than they thought.

The Ultimate Fails Compilation

Pop-art blockbuster Man with white hair puts ketchup on a Whopper; consumes it.

Andy Warhol Eating A Hamburger (1981)

Is it OK to betray your country?

Harvard Professor meets NSA whistleblower.

Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden

Limits? They’re so yesterday Skateboarding over the Great Wall of China.

Danny Way Jumps The Great Wall

For their viewing pleasure What women really want, according to their web browser search histories.

Top 10 Porn Searches For Women

Your hand is your instrument Gerry Phillips belts out the hits digitally. It’s a real talent.

Manualist Plays Tijuana Brass-Spanish Flea On His Hand!

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6PM – 8PM

3PM – 6PM

SPORT / GAMES

MIDDAY – 3PM

DOCUMENTARY / NEWS

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HIGH-BROW

What’s really real?

The power of powerful images.

They’re enough to give you vertigo even when you’ve got both feet on the ground.

Best Of 3D Street Art Illusion

TO TIP P

It’s OK to be smart Our planet is more than just an onion full of magma.

The Structure Of Earth

Be part of a toy universe Follow the world’s best street trials rider back into his childhood.

Danny MacAskill’s Imaginate

Better call Saul “Let’s just say I know a guy who knows a guy…”

Best Lines From Breaking Bad

The beautiful game 1,840 naked people at a football stadium. Keep your eye on the ball.

Spencer Tunick 2013

FIFA vs football Wonderful satire about what is perhaps the most powerful organisation on Earth.

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: FIFA And The World Cup

Nobody plays with men...

“I’m gonna be one of the dumb men, because they might be strong but they’re as slow as s--t.”

If Gamer Girls Acted Like Gamer Guys

Videos to get you hooked We’d never have tried that reindeer-high-onmushrooms pee. Ever!

10 Dumbest Ways People Have Tried To Get High

Original fright night The world’s first horror film is now 119 years old, with special effects by the pioneering Georges Méliès, he of Hugo.

The Haunted Castle 1896

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Look mum, no board! Mark Cunningham bodysurfs a wave at Teahupoo, which translates to “sever the head” or “broken skulls”, belying the danger of bodysurfing this reef

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COOL RUSH

‘ BODYSURFERS ARE

OFTEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED IN THE WATER AND USUALLY THEY GET THE LEAST RESPECT’

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here are no surfboards to ride or bodyboards to rest on. No leashes to tether athlete to equipment that’s non-existent anyway. No jet-ski to give a motorised leg up on Mother Nature’s monsters. Just a pair of flippers, a wave and a shot of pure adrenalin.

“Bodysurfing is the most minimalistic, pareddown way that you can experience the ocean,” says photographer Chris Burkard. And he should know. As a man who takes pictures of adventure sports, far-flung surf trips to Russia and Iceland and more static subjects, including computer equipment, cars and beer for a living, it’s the thrill of hanging beneath titanic Tahitian waves capturing aquatic imagery of human torpedoes rocketing through the crystal blue that gets his pulse racing.

Burkard joined filmmaker and big-wave surfer Keith Malloy on his globetrotting trip to Maine, California, Hawaii, New Zealand and Tahiti for the 2011 film Come Hell Or High Water and its subsequent companion book, The Plight Of The Torpedo People. It was a passion project done partly to create the kind of art seen on these pages and partly to push the limits of the athletes who engage in this under-appreciated activity that, in

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one form or another, has been around as long as man and wave have cohabited the planet.

“If you’ve stepped into the ocean or jumped into a wave, you’ve bodysurfed, ” says Burkard.

“Everybody’s done it at some point.”

Everybody, maybe, but only a rare few at the level of skill and daring of such legendary watermen as Hawaiian lifeguard Mark Cunningham, competitive bodysurfer Mike Stewart, Hawaiian surf scene fixture Chris Kalima and Dan Malloy, big-wave surfer and brother of filmmaker Keith.

“Bodysurfers are often the most experienced in the water,” says Burkard. “And usually they get the least amount of respect. They understand the currents and the sun and the tides. There’s such a connection to the ocean. As esoteric as that might sound, it’s really very true: you have to be in tune with what’s happening around you, or you’ll get seriously injured.”

That’s especially the case in Tahiti, where the wave rises out of very deep water and breaks over an extremely shallow – and brutally unforgiving – coral reef. “It’s a huge slab of water that just unloads onto the reef,” says Burkard. “It’s incredible. It’s kind of the worst wave you could bodysurf. Ever. But these guys wanted to see if it could be done. They wanted to test the limits of what was possible. It was really cool to watch.”

Indeed, Burkard had the best seat in the house for this project. “The water was the clearest I have ever seen in my life. I would take a big breath and go down and just try to catch these guys as they followed the back of the wave. I would lose track of how long I had been down and then suddenly think, ‘Oh, I’m out of breath, I’ve got to rush to the surface.’ But I didn’t want to miss a single moment, because it was unique and so abstract.”

And thus the term ‘torpedo people’. “When the guys have their arms by their sides,” says Burkard, “gliding toward the surface, they look like torpedoes.”

Surf’s up, boys. Bombs away. chrisburkard.com

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You can’t get any closer to a wave than being inside it.

Above and right: bodysurfer Keith Malloy feels the power of a Tahitian barrel. Below: the boys take to the water with the only required tools of the trade, a pair of flippers. That and perfect wave make for a perfect day

‘THERE’S SUCH A CONNECTION TO THE WATER. YOU HAVE TO BE IN TUNE WITH WHAT’S HAPPENING OR YOU’LL GET SERIOUSLY INJURED’

Top: Lifeguard and bodysurfer Mark Cunningham is part man, part fish. Above: Durdam Rocherolle, a bodysurfing enthusiast from San Diego, suffered a bloody, abrasive encounter with the reef. Left: Chris Kalima drops into a massive wave as the sun sinks below the horizon

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Chris Kalima launches through a wave, giving true meaning to the term ‘torpedo people’

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Keith Malloy gets an upclose-and-personal look at Tahiti’s backside

‘ WHEN THE GUYS HAVE THEIR ARMS AT THEIR SIDES, GLIDING TOWARDS THE SURFACE, THEY LOOK LIKE TORPEDOES’

Left: the crew race towards the action.

Facing page: Chris Kalima gets a fish-eye view of Mike Stewart (below) pulling out after a perfect ride. Below, inset: sunburned, sore from an infected reef cut and with a hard drive full of epic imagery, photographer Chris Burkard packs up after capturing the torpedo people

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ANDILE PHEHLUKWAYO

‘Go in with a game plan’

On the back of his cricketing prowess, the boy from Margate travelled the world in 2014. He’s hoping to do even better this year as he embarks on a semi-professional contract at the Durban-based Dolphins Words: Luke Alfred Photography: Sean Laurenz

Andile Phehlukwayo, the Dolphins allrounder, had a matric year that other young cricketers can only dream of. He spent the early part of 2014 representing the victorious South African Under-19 side at the Under-19 World Cup in Dubai and later in the year travelled with the Under-19s to England, the home of cricket.

Shortly after arriving back from England, he was yanked into the Dolphins fold, awarded a semi-pro contract and sent to India with the Dolphins for the Champions League T20. It was a disappointing tournament for the team as a whole, but Phehlukwayo, originally from Margate on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, got to face one of the world’s best spinners in the Kolkata Knight Riders’ Sunil Narine. It was an experience he won’t forget in a hurry. the red bulletin: Tell us about your background.

Andile Phehlukwayo: I wasn’t really supported so much by my mum [a domestic worker] growing up in Margate.

My guardian, Rosemary Dismore, who used to employ my mother, was cricketcrazy. We used to watch cricket on television together. She knew the rules and everything. She knew about cricket and helped me to understand it. She played a big role in my love of the game.

You got a bursary to Glenwood High…

Yes. Originally it was a bursary for hockey – I don’t think they knew I played cricket.

Then, in Grade 8, I went to nets for the Under-14 trials and they saw I could play.

You’re slightly unusual in that you bat left-handed but bowl with your right.

Yes, I do most things right-handed because it’s my stronger hand – I write right-handed – but I’m working on improving my skills with my left arm, like 36

throwing. I’m also trying to make my left side stronger, so I kick with my left foot.

Someone famous in the Dolphins set-up did exactly the same thing.

Yes, that’s right, Lance [Klusener, the Dolphins coach]. We haven’t really spoken about it much. He’s just said I should concentrate more on the straight hitting of the spinners and I need to be more aggressive in my bowling.

What was it like playing with the South African Under-19 side last year?

‘My guardian, Rosemary Dismore, was cricket-crazy. We used to watch on TV together’ We went to the Under-19 World Cup in Dubai earlier in the year. I didn’t get too much opportunity because I only featured in two games – against Canada and in a warm-up game. Then we went to England in August. Going there was another experience. In cricket terms we didn’t do that well [drawing the ‘Tests’ 0-0 and losing the 50-over matches 5-0], but we learned from how we lost and that was important.

How have your studies gone with all the cricket?

It’s been pretty tough. I had to change subjects and do Tourism rather than Geography, and do a lot of catch-up work.

I got hope from teachers when I came back from India and they helped me a lot.

In the end I did IsiZulu, English, Tourism,

Maths Lit, Science and History. My exams weren’t quite as I’d like them to be because I had so much work to catch up.

You also managed a trip to India…

Yes, India was amazing. It wasn’t so difficult [in the CLT20] because I’d been there before with the SA Under-19s, so I knew what to expect. The level was much higher than school cricket. I didn’t cope so badly. The team didn’t do so positively, but the vibe was good and we promised ourselves to perform better next time.

Your highlight of the tournament?

Facing Sunil Narine of the Kolkata Knight Riders. I went in with a game plan. I was going to sweep him or reverse sweep him because I thought that was the best approach and I was finding it difficult to spot his doosra. It could have ended up a bit of a nightmare.

Are you superstitious?

No. I like to listen to music and talk to the guys before a game because that helps me relax and keep my mind free. If I do that in a high-profile game, there’s no stressing. I listen to R&B, hip-hop, house, that kind of thing. Khaya Zondo, Prenelan Subrayen and Craig Alexander like their R&B and so do Cody Chetty and Brandon ‘Scully’ Scullard, so there are lots of Dolphins guys listening to their music.

We hear you asked for some advice on Twitter from Dale Steyn.

Did I? I don’t remember that. He’s one of the world’s great fast bowlers. It would be really great to get some advice from him.

And your plans for the future?

I’m part of the Dolphins now on a semiprofessional contract. Maybe I’ll study as well as playing cricket this year. It would be nice to do a Business Management degree. I’m thinking about that. dolphinscricket.co.za THE RED BULLETIN

Big hitter Phehlukwayo provided a late flurry of resistance against the Kolkata Knight Riders in the CLT20 with a 22-ball 37, featuring six fours and a six. It wasn’t quite enough to overtake the Riders’ 187 but the innings showed ballsy courage as Phehlukwayo refused to bow to the likelihood of a loss and was prepared to take on Sunil Narine.

OLLY ALEXANDER

‘Singing in the shower got me the job’ The London multitasker is putting Hollywood on hold to front his band’s brand of soulful dance-pop

Steel drums drown out Olly Alexander’s voice as he answers the phone to talk to The Red Bulletin. He’s in the studio working on Years & Years’ debut album, following 12 months in which their electronica with a heart has earned them a major record deal, support slots for Sam Smith and Clean Bandit and love from unexpected corners of the world.

Alexander has given up a lucrative acting career to be here. His CV includes TV shows Skins, Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, and films including last year’s British drama The Riot Club. But the decision was an easy one for the 24-year-old: frontman is the role he most wants to play. the red bulletin : Is Years & Years your first foray into the music world? olly alexander : No, I wrote a song when I was 10 for my school assembly, embarrassingly. I think it was called The Leaves Are Falling and it had an autumnal theme of heartbreak that really set the tone for the rest of my songwriting life.

Then I was in a band at school playing covers of TLC and Hanson and Destiny’s Child. And I sometimes performed alone, just me and a keyboard.

How did the band come into being?

I moved to London five years ago and met Mikey [Goldsworthy, bass and synths] at a house party. He told me he was in a band with Emre [Turkmen, beats and synths] and basically I forced my way in. I begged.

Then he heard me singing in the shower and I knew that would swing things in my favour. I can’t remember exactly what I was singing, but probably the Fugees or another one of my shower songs.

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People will recognise you from your TV and film work. Do you miss it now you’re focusing on music?

I started acting when I was young; it just sort of happened. I dropped out of school to work around the world, which was amazing. But I never had this burning ambition to be an actor, I always felt uncomfortable in that role. You’re doing what other people tell you to do. When it looked like the band had a real shot, it was an obvious decision. There’s nothing better than being able to create something yourself, to write music with your friends and perform it. I still find that amazing.

‘To write music with your friends and perform it: I still find that amazing’ How would you describe your sound?

We started with guitar-based stuff, with vocals and piano. Then we gradually became more electronic, with synths and Emre doing production on his laptop. We make electronic soulful pop music. We’re all really nostalgic about late ’90s and early 2000s dance music, garage and R&B. But there are lots of different elements to it.

We all have different tastes, which mix to make a strange but delicious cocktail.

Are your lyrics consciously melancholy?

It comes down to what inspires you to write a song. For me that’s usually painful

emotions or feeling like I’m not good enough. Emotional honesty is really important to me when I listen to artists that I respect. Throwaway pop songs have their place, but I wouldn’t want to be in the music industry unless I was making some emotionally honest statement.

Is going on stage as a frontman different to being in the spotlight as an actor?

I’m amazed by how different it is. As an actor you have a character and lines to hide behind. You’re not exposing anything of yourself, really. So when I started performing as a singer, I found it really hard to judge, I just didn’t know what to do. I still get really nervous before a show, as it exposes you, you’re vulnerable. But then I think you should be: you’re trying to communicate stories about your life.

What’s been the most surprising thing that’s happened to Years & Years in the last year?

So many things: people from all corners of the world, as far as Colombia, saying they’re listening to our music; getting signed; getting played on Radio 1.

Appearing on Later… with Jools Holland was insane, so surreal. Mikey and Emre had this joke that they’d quit once they got there as it couldn’t get any better than that. But they’re still in the band, thankfully. I felt physically sick with nerves. I grew up watching that show. I’ve kept a diary since I was 11, and afterwards I just sat down and wrote this epic entry about it like an emotional teenage girl.

On tour in the UK from February 26: yearsandyearsofficial.com THE RED BULLETIN

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Most curious concert Playing a solo gig at the entrance to a maze made of maize in the Forest of Dean aged 15.

Musical muses “I listen to all sorts, from Joni Mitchell to FKA Twigs.

And, like all other men under the age of 30, I love Jeff Buckley.�

THE FASTEST MAN ON EARTH A n dy Gre en dr i ves jet-and- ro c ket c ars.

H e and hi s team have built a new o ne and he’s g o i ng to dr i ve it at 1 ,000 m iles an ho ur Word s: Anth ony Row l i n son Photography: Shamil Tanner

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here’s a blue-and-orange flash as a tall man dressed in an Alpinestars race suit strides into view with purpose. He’s straight-backed, closecropped, with cool blue eyes. Wing Commander Andy Green is the fastest man on earth and, boy, does he look it.

He is the holder of the world land speed record, a mark he set in 1997 with the Thrust Supersonic Car (SSC), pushing that twin-jet machine through the sound barrier, to 763.035mph (1,228kph) over a measured mile, in the crystalline wastes of Nevada’s Black Rock desert. Now there’s a new goal: 1,000mph (1,609kph).

The first speed tests of Bloodhound SSC, the car created to reach that goal, are due to take place in 2015. They’ll take the car to 500mph, 600mph, 700mph, then 800mph and a new land speed record.

The full assault on 1,000mph is scheduled for 2016. At a predicted peak of 1,050mph, Bloodhound will literally be travelling faster than a bullet. Its measured mile, the distance over which the record speed is timed, will be covered in 3.6 seconds.

And the man inside? Well, if his demeanour and evidently glacier-cool core are any guide, he’ll be well in control, engaged at a peak of mental intensity even this first-class maths graduate and combat veteran RAF fast-jet pilot may never before have experienced.

‘For all the preparation, there is a bit where we actually just need to go and test it’

STEFAN MARJORAM

Grand designs: to break the 1,000mph mark, Bloodhound will move from its Bristol HQ in 2015 to a desert track in South Africa

“It is,” Green says, “a very demanding and very focused job. You’re taking a car faster than it has ever been before and pushing the technology to a place it hasn’t been before. And however much preparation you do, there is a bit where we actually just need to go and test it.

But I’ll have a very clear mental picture of what I’m doing and how I’m trying to do it. If everything works as expected, that’s just great. We’ll just make a note and tick that off later on. But if I find the hydraulics have gone to zero and I press on anyway... that’s a pretty stupid idea.”

Green, 52, is the perfect technocrat test pilot for the digital age. As Chuck Yeager broke Mach 1 in his Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, he is said to have told his ground

crew: “Make another note will ya? There’s something wrong with this ol’ machometer.

It’s gone kinda screwy on me.” Yeager’s drawl will be replaced in Bloodhound by the clipped-English military reports of Green, a man used to delivering only essentials of information while flying combat missions. “This is a technical process, not an emotional one,” he says.

“I’m a member of the engineering and development test team. In that respect, I am not a racing driver but a test pilot – developing test pilot skills, but in a car.”

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‘I understand ever y aspect of Bloodhound’s design. Why woul d I be worried about driving it?’

The other big numbers: to the end of 2014, Bloodhound’s team of engineers had put in more than 10,000 hours of work, at a cost of over £10 million

ago: “I’ve been shot at by much better people, with better weapons systems, frankly, so it wasn’t that much of a deal.”

He’ll need every shred of sang-froid when he and his team head for South Africa’s Northern Cape, to Hakskeenpan, where a land speed record strip measuring 19km by 500m (surrounded by a 300m safety zone) has been hand-cleared by local volunteers of hundreds of thousands of tiny stones, to create the smoothest surface possible.

Bloodhound, all 7.8 tonnes of jetand-rocket-powered intent, looks like a military aircraft that’s lost its wings.

Fitting, given that many of the crew are British military personnel seconded to the project from active service in hotspots such as Afghanistan.

Their training will serve them well, Green reckons, when they head south from the workaday industrial unit in the west of England near Bristol, where Bloodhound is being assembled, to the

STEFAN MARJORAM (2)

Safe and sound: in the high-tech cockpit of Bloodhound SSC, Wing Commander Andy Green (left) is protected by ballistic armour put there to safeguard him from stones flying up or bird strikes. Without it, either could kill him

wide-open scorched desert that will become their home for several months.

“In the military, we take our people to some pretty harsh places and ask them to do some pretty hard things,” says Green. “They can be ripped out from their family at very short notice for a very long period of time. That’s physically, mentally and emotionally demanding, so they have to be looked after to make sure they are able to look after themselves. It’s no different here.

We’ll go through exactly that next year when we get out to South Africa. A lot of them haven’t been out to the desert environment. So it’s going to be an interesting learning process for them.”

There’s a risk that Green’s tone, his frill-free military manner, might portray him as some kind of automaton. The truth is far from that. While no cuddly toy, he is not overbearing, arrogant or in any way high on his own supply.

Possessed of an almighty inner steel, yes, coupled with the battle-hardened self-confidence of those who thrive in the bullshit-free military. So why, given that he is a manifestly rational human being, would he undertake an adventure many would consider bonkers?

The answer, for Green, lies in the science and his desire to inspire a generation of young minds. He cites the Bloodhound mission statement as the clearest possible insight into his own motivation: “To create a unique, high-technology project, focused around a 1,000mph world land speed record attempt. To share this engineering adventure with a global audience and inspire the next generation by bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics to life in the most exciting way possible.”

Computer modelling can predict how Bloodhound will behave at 900mph and above, and of course it says “all will be well”. But only Green will experience the sensation of the machine taken to its limit. Only he will be in a position to react should anything go wrong.

“I’ve never been nervous flying fast jets,” he says. “It’s the same with Bloodhound. I understand every aspect of its design and the standards to which it’s been built. Why would I be worried?”

Land speed record-breakers aren’t like the rest of us. By way of relaxation, Green flies stunt planes to competitive standard, and thinks nothing of taking his engineers for ‘joyrides’, to help build team spirit. Those around him speak warmly of Green’s leadership qualities, unforced authority, and his softer side.

An example of the latter comes when he hands Bloodhound communications director Richard Knight, in the middle of a conversation with someone else, a gift-wrapped box and card. “Just a little something for you and Lizzie,” he says. Barely a day earlier, Knight’s wife had given birth to a daughter.

This hint of humanity is a reminder that amid the scientific endeavour and talk of triumph of technology, a man will be at the heart of the machine when Bloodhound’s Rolex speedo trips from 999 to 1,000. A man in touch with normality, with a life unlike the violently noisy, info-loaded, hot, brutal, claustrophobic clamour of his bulletbeating manned missile mission.

“Are we all going to need a break at the end of it? Hell yes,” he says.

“I’m very lucky, therefore, to have a fantastic wife who loves sailing nearly as much as I do. There’s nothing like cruising along at about five knots, slowing your brain down, while you go to some little harbour somewhere for a late lunch, with the boat parked up in front of the pub. And that’s just where I see myself in three years’ time.” bloodhoundssc.com

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THEY CAME, THEY SAWED, THEY CONQUERED: BLOOD, SWEAT WO R D S: A N D R E A S R OT T E N S C H L AGE R P H OTO GR A P H Y: O L I V E R J I S Z DA

TIMBER

AND IRON SOCKS WITH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP LUMBERJACKS

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DISCIPLINE STANDING BLOCK CHOP HOW TO WIN IT “IT’S A NUMBERS GAME: FOUR 45-DEGREE STRIKES FROM ABOVE, THEN FOUR FROM BELOW. CHANGE SIDES. REPEAT”

“MY

SCAR MOTIVATES ME”

STIRLING HART 25, Canada “I was 21 when my axe slit my right cheek open during a competition. There was sticky blood everywhere. I had 88 stitches. I didn’t recognise my face after the operation, which was a horrible feeling.

But the first time I went to a bar after that cheered me up; everyone wanted to hear the axe story. Especially the women. The scar has been my best friend ever since.

And it gives me motivation.

In 2014, I won my first national championship title.”

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DIRK BRAUN 44, Germany

“I EVEN SAW

AT NIGHT” DISCIPLINE HOT SAW HOW TO WIN IT “THE WEIGHT-POWER RATIO IS IMPORTANT: THE SAW WEIGHS 28KG AND RUNS ON A 72HP KART ENGINE. IT’S LOUDER THAN A FIGHTER JET”

“When the national championships were held in Winterberg in 2003, the organisers were on the lookout for a local hero.

So of course they asked me.

I was working as a forest manager and was a competitive bodybuilder.

I came sixth without any preparation. That spurred me on. My training regime since then has been: 5am, weights; 7am, my forestry job; 5pm, timber sport training. I’ve bought floodlights to light up my garden at night. My wife isn’t so keen on that part.”

DISCIPLINE STOCK SAW HOW TO WIN IT “EVERY CUT TAKES FULL BODY MOVEMENT. WHICH IS WHY I’VE DEVELOPED YOGA EXERCISES FOR LUMBERJACKS. THEY KEEP SHOULDERS AND HIPS FLEXIBLE”

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“I STAY FIT WITH YOGA” ARDEN COGAR 44, USA “Most people think I’m a full-time lumberjack, but I have a day job as a lawyer.

Law is what I studied and I specialise in accidents in the workplace. Litigation and timber sport competitions have a lot in common: you prepare for months in advance to hit the nail on the head on the day. As a lawyer your tools are specialists and paperwork, as a lumberjack an axe and a saw. But the same rule applies for both: preparation plus sweat equals success.”

DISCIPLINE SPRINGBOARD ASCENT 2.5M HOW TO WIN IT “KEEP YOUR BALANCE. THE FORCE OF YOUR STRIKE COMES FROM YOUR LEGS, ABS AND SHOULDERS”

MARTIN KOMÁREK 38, Czech Republic

“I SPENT

A YEAR’S WAGES ON AXES”

“I grew up in a small town. I first saw competitive timber sports on TV when I was a teenager, and thought, ‘Wow! They are real men.’

At 21, I gave up my job as a paramedic and spent a whole year’s wages on sport axes from New Zealand. My parents asked if I’d gone mad. Now I’m the five-time European champion. I think of it like this: chopping tree stumps releases endorphins. Timber sports make you happy.”

JASON WYNYARD 41, New Zealand “I grew up in the Kaingaroa Forest, the largest plantation in the southern hemisphere. It’s 2,900km2 of Monterey pine; I sort of had to chop my way out of there. I’m a six-time world champion and the current champ.

The bad news is that with every competition comes the potential for mistakes. Timber sport is a constant search for perfection.”

“TIMBER

SPORT IS ABOUT PERFECTION” DISCIPLINE SINGLE BUCK HOW TO WIN IT “YOUR SAW TAKES A LOT OF SHARPENING. THAT’S HARD WORK, BUT IT TAKES MORE WOOD OUT OF THE LOG WITH EACH CUT”

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BRAD DELOSA 37, Australia “Australians are good at axe sports because we’ve had competitions for more than 100 years. I entered my first one when I was 16, and in 2013 I was crowned world champion. I’ve learnt an aggressive chopping technique. The crowd love it. The fact that timber sports are becoming increasingly popular is down to the increase in sedentary jobs.

People like to watch big guys hacking through blocks of wood.”

“I USE

AN APP

TO PRACTISE”

DISCIPLINE UNDERHAND CHOP HOW TO WIN IT “WELL-PLACED SWINGS OF YOUR AXE. YOU CAN PRACTISE THEM IN THE SAME WAY YOU WOULD YOUR GOLF SWING. THERE’S AN IPHONE VIDEO APP CALLED COACH’S EYE AND IT’S BRILLIANT” HOW TO KEEP YOUR FEET IN ONE PIECE “WE WEAR IRON SOCKS UNDER OUR SHOES, IN CASE A STRIKE OF THE AXE GOES ASTRAY” stihl-timbersports.com

LEMAWORK KETEMA

‘Running is easy when you do it right’ Reigning Wings For Life World Run champion talks school runs, language lessons and how to push yourself further than anyone

Last year, Lemawork Ketema ran against the world and won. The 29-year-old Ethiopian became the inaugural Wings for Life World Run champion, running 78.57km (48.83 miles) in just over five hours in the race that began in Donataul, Austria. There were another 33 races across 32 countries, and almost 36,000 runners. Ketema was the last one to be caught by a ‘catcher car’, which runners strive to stay ahead of; when it reaches them, they’re eliminated. He lives in Austria in conditions that are far from ideal. But he intends to defend his title in May – and thinks he’ll go further. the red bulletin: So, is running 100km a realistic target? lemawork ketema: It is realistic, but whether it’ll actually be possible depends on a lot of things you can’t control, such as the weather. But I’ll do everything I can to be in better shape in 2015 than last time.

Did you consider running in another country instead of Austria?

I’m an asylum seeker and can’t leave the country. I’ve had offers to run in large marathons, but I can’t do it right now.

I’ve already had my asylum hearing, but we’re still waiting for the verdict.

[Since we interviewed Ketema he’s had some news: the verdict was positive.]

Where do you live?

In an asylum seekers’ hostel about 20km from Vienna, in Greifenstein. There are four of us to a room, which isn’t always straightforward, especially when it comes to getting a night’s sleep. But I don’t see it as a problem. Running is all that counts.

Are you the star of the hostel?

Some people look up to me, while others envy me for my trainers and clothes. It’s 54

mainly the locals who say hello and cheer me on when I’m on training runs. There’s a fisherman on the Danube that I always have to stop for. He says a fish always bites when I stop to say hello. Sometimes he gives me one to take home.

Do you give tips to fun runners?

Of course, and I enjoy working with young people. Running is easy when done right.

What’s your daily routine?

I get up at 6am and do my first run: 25km or sometimes 30km. Then I go to Vienna for my German classes and do my second

“My marathon time is nothing special: 2:14; but that was at altitude” training session in the evening. And then a massage or even physio, if that’s possible.

What do you do in your free time?

I don’t have much. I like being busy.

What does your first name mean?

Lema means green but it also means beautiful. And work is work, as in English.

Beautiful work in the green. Appropriate.

True, it’s very fitting for Greifenstein.

I think that every day when I step out of the door and set off on my training run.

What was your life in Ethiopia like?

It was a 7km journey to and from school every day. I always used to run it. My mother worked in a hospital as a masseuse.

We speak on the phone once or twice a week. My mother is very important to me.

I also learnt how to massage and worked with marathon runners whose best times

were around the 2:04 mark. I understood their bodies and the problems they had and I knew how they approached races. I’m still benefiting from that knowledge now.

What’s your best marathon time?

It’s nothing special: 2:14. But that was years ago and set at altitude.

What do marathon runners think of the Wings for Life World Run? It depends. Some of them just look at the kilometre split times and think we’re dawdlers. Others think 78km and more is too far. But the most difficult thing for specialist marathon runners is the lack of structure because there’s no finish line.

The man you beat in second last year, Peru’s Remigio Quispe, is racing in Austria this time around. Is that an advantage or disadvantage?

A huge advantage! You can push yourself much harder in company. The greatest disadvantage of being in Austria is the lack of training groups. I either train alone or someone bikes alongside me.

How were you the day after you won?

I woke up with a smile on my face. It was wonderful. I’d achieved what I’d set out to.

What tips do you have for keen amateurs who want to take part in this year’s Wings For Life World Run? Train every day. Going for a run once a week won’t make you any better. It’s the same for me with my German classes.

Getting better is hard work.

The starting pistol for the 2015 Wings for Life World Run will be fired simultaneously in 35 locations in 33 countries around the world on May 3, 2015. Who will hold the Catcher Car at bay the longest? All the info you need to take part: wingsforlifeworldrun.com THE RED BULLETIN

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Interview: Werner Jessner

Born October 22, 1985 Nationality Ethiopian It was a very good year As well as winning the Wings for Life World Run, Ketema also won Austria’s 2014 Graz Marathon

SOUTH AFRICA’S GAMING INDUSTRY MIGHT LACK THE FINANCIAL SCOPE OF ITS OVERSEAS COUNTERPARTS, BUT IT STILL HAS PLENTY OF CLOUT. THE RED BULLETIN VISITED JOBURG’S RAGE EXPO TO PUSH SOME BUTTONS

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE

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PERHAPS THE MOST REMARKABLE ASPECT IS THAT THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR GAME, LEAGUE OF LEGENDS, IS FREE TO DOWNLOAD AND PLAY. EVERY DAY, MORE THAN 27 MILLION PEOPLE PLAY IT

t’s 10 o’clock on Saturday night at the rAge Expo – South Africa’s annual gaming cornucopia in Johannesburg. The main area, which showcases the latest games and technology, closed at 6pm and the crowds headed off to finish that level of Assassin’s Creed or curl up with a hacked Netflix account. But the serious gamers, for whom the show is more than just a show, remain. Real gamers don’t sleep, so neither does rAge. Downstairs, in a carpeted basement hall teeming with computer stacks and monitors, team Fear Adept is playing in the Call of Duty Xbox final of the Do Gaming League (DGL) Championship. Call of Duty is particularly accessible for a layperson – you’re watching two teams of four soldiers shoot one another – and Fear Adept is a team that’s particularly easy to support: a well-spoken 30-something guy from Durban, two close high-school mates and a bona-fide child prodigy.

“Specialist bonus… in a final,” gasps a fan as the miracle kid, Kyle ‘Frost’ Nortje, lays waste to Fear Adept’s opposition.

The guy takes a photo of the prodigy’s screen. Otherwise his friends would never believe him.

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Which way out? In the world of gaming, fantasy is reality

Thirteen-year-old kid? Specialist bonus? In a final? No way.

The rAge Expo traditionally hosts the DGL Championship finals, a culmination of the year-long season that sees about 6,000 competitors whittled down to 413 elite players who make up the 78 teams that specialise in six championship games. This is where they’ll battle it out for bragging rights and a million rand’s worth of prize money and merchandise.

The internet represents the biggest evolutionary leap forward in computer gaming history. Allowing humans to play against one another in a virtual playing field multiplied the processing power of the most powerful computers in the world by the infinite processing ability of the mightiest supercomputer

of them all, the human brain.

“A lot of people rely on gun skill,” says Fear Adept’s manager, Glenn Alexander, “but really it’s more to do with chemistry.”

The four to six hours of practice that the team put in every day pays off. For winning the Call of Duty Xbox final, each member of Fear Adept receives an Xbox One console, a gaming headset worth R1,500, the latest Call of Duty game and their share of R22,000 in cash. But when you consider that US-based team CompLexity won the equivalent of R4.4 million in the 2014 Call of Duty Championship in Los Angeles, you begin to understand why there are no professional gamers in South Africa – and why it has become a serious career path in other countries.

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The main obstacle to the development of competitive gaming in South Africa is ping.

Ping is the delay that all SA gamers experience during the split-seconds that it takes data to travel between their computers or consoles and the world’s gaming servers located in the USA, Europe and Asia. It’s a serious handicap that results in a lack of consistent and fair exposure to top-flight international competition.

The world’s top tournaments are played by a select few, but viewed by millions of fans on live-streaming platforms like Twitch. Last year, 32 million people tuned into Twitch to watch the League of Legends World Championship final, with its R11m grand prize.

In stark contrast, about 17,000 people watched the DGL Championship on Twitch.

“It’s a pity that they put us downstairs,” says Alexander.

“It would have been good to have more spectators, to grow the league as a whole and build our individual brands. We’re hungry for sponsorships, and sponsors require exposure.”

Ryan Bell, a team manager in the BeZerk clan concurs: “There is still a mindset in South Africa that this is just a game. But it isn’t a game. Not any more. It’s a sport.”

Above: 13-year-old gaming prodigy Kyle ‘Frost’ Nortje Left: LAN routers used by the Do Gaming League during their Championships in the basement THE RED BULLETIN

Despite these challenges, South Africa was ranked 10th in last year’s IeSF World Championships – computer gaming’s annual Olympics. The International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) was formed in 2008 to “promote e-Sport as a true sport”, like football or athletics, and the organisation has been winning significant victories. In August 2013, the US recognised League of Legends as a professional sport, which means that overseas players can be issued with the same visa that allows foreign athletes to ply their trade in the country’s top-flight basketball, baseball or hockey leagues.

South Africa is one of 42 countries affiliated to the IeSF, and is represented by Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA), a SASCOC affiliate.

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Left: rAge Expo’s recordbreaking LAN gamers play on through the night Right: a cosplayer in character as a Psycho, one of the insane baddies from Borderlands

“When you play in South Africa, ping is always an issue, so you adapt to that,” says Conradie van Heerden, who captained the South African LoL team.

“When we went to Romania, we played with no lag. It’s super. You’re so much faster.”

As with most ‘true’ sports, representing your country tends to play second fiddle to competing for your clan. Most teams that play in South Africa’s gaming leagues and tournaments are made up of players from different parts of the country, and the lack of prize money at the tournaments set up by MSSA to select a Proteas e-sports team makes it not worth their while.

“We usually attract the type of player who isn’t in it for the reward, but rather the award,” says MSSA’s Colin Webster. He emphasises the currency of Proteas colours, both in terms of national pride and the fact that any Proteas gamer is eligible to receive a university bursary.

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Much of MSSA’s marketing is aimed at schools, so in 2013 the team that represented SA were 16-year-olds from Afrikaans high schools in Cape Town’s northern suburbs. In their minds, one of the biggest advantages of receiving Proteas colours was that their parents allowed them to play for longer. “In the beginning, it was hard,” says Van Heerden. “But when your parents see you in the green and gold, they become cool.”

In the main area of the rAge Expo, manufacturers showcase their latest releases to 35,000 square-eyed enthusiasts. It’s absolutely packed. Kids drag their parents. Parents drag their kids. Denim-clad developers receive standing ovations on the main stage. A group of high school boys ogle a pretty cosplay girl dressed as Lara Croft from Tombraider.

By 2016, the South African games industry is predicted to

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LAST YEAR, GRAND THEFT AUTO V MADE R9.4 BILLION IN ITS FIRST 24 HOURS OF RELEASE, MAKING IT THE MOST LUCRATIVE ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCT IN THE HISTORY OF GAMING, FILM AND MUSIC generate R1.8 billion in revenue.

But it’s a drop in the ocean compared to the R880bn global revenue the industry made in 2014. Last year, Grand Theft Auto V made R9.4bn in its first 24 hours of release, making it the most lucrative entertainment product in the history of gaming, film and music.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the industry is the fact that the world’s most popular game, League of Legends, is free to download and play. Every day, more than 27 million people play it. Riot Games, the game’s developers, make money by licensing distribution rights and selling ‘Riot Points’, an in-game currency that allows players to buy characters, customisable skins,and experience boosts. The Company made R10.2bn in 2014.

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The expo officially opened on Friday morning, but by Thursday night the first LAN geeks were already camping outside. Not for tickets; they already had tickets.

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(Tickets to the LAN sell out within hours.) They were camping to secure their preferred seats among the lattice of trestle tables and cables that had been set out for them. These hardcore gamers bring their sleeping bags and camp cots and inflatable mattresses to create a small village over the weekend. Sleep is a heinous inconvenience, but when they absolutely have to, the LAN gamers pass out under the tables or as close as possible to their data-gulping machines.

With all the gamers wearing headsets, the atmosphere is eerily quiet. Every now and then a cheer or slow-clap rings out in the middle of the night for no reason other than to ironically recreate the competitive tension of the players in the DGL below, and to keep the sandman at bay.

By 6pm on Sunday, when the expo cut off the LAN’s ping-free 5.2 Gigabit per second line, the unwashed, sleep-deprived horde had gorged themselves on 99.64 terabytes of data. (A 1TB hard drive can store 17,000 hours of music, or 250 movies.)

“It’s brilliant,” says Josh Tselon, 21, from Durban. “At home it takes me a week to download 50GB. Here, I can do it in less than a day. And at the same time I get to actually see the people that I play against, and spend time with the friends that I’ve made by playing online.”

For the next 12 months, the gamers will go back to their solitary yet social pastime, honing their skills and growing their network of teammates and adversaries. If one thing encapsulates the SA gaming scene, it’s the promise that even though this year’s rAge Expo was the biggest so far – with the most attendees, the hungriest LAN, and the loudest DGL Championship – next year will be bigger still. rageexpo.co.za

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Track stars: the Mercedes-AMG GT and David Coulthard

A 13-time Grand Prix winner at the reins of a 510hp sportscar on 4.32km of the finest racetrack.

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‘YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH WRITING OFF A CAR WHEN YOU’RE 16. AT 43, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE’

Race ready: Coulthard in fireproof suit and helmet prepares to put the Mercedes-AMG GT through its paces

Ergonomic design: the bottom of the steering wheel has been levelled off. Behind it is the paddle-shift gearbox. The centre console allows you to change driving mode

avid Coulthard, what car are you driving at the moment?

“The last car I bought myself was a Smart Fortwo BRABUS. It’s practical, easy to park and perfect for taking my six-year-old son to school in. I still have the light blue Mercedes SL280 that was all I could afford back when I was a young racing driver and there’s a Mercedes M-Class at my holiday home in Switzerland. It’s eight years old now and I don’t see any reason to upgrade. Everything still works.”

So, there’s no place for fun cars in this pragmatic private fleet? “I am one of the few people who have had the privilege of driving in Formula One. F1 is the Premier League, which is why driving fast on public roads is no fun for me. I’d need to have

a private racetrack in my backyard to drive like that.

But I live in Monaco, so that’s why I drive a Smart.”

The morning after he says this, Coulthard is standing next to something entirely different: a 310kph, pearl-white Mercedes-AMG GT, a car that technically doesn’t exist. Overnight rain means he has to wait for the tarmac of the Red Bull Ring racing circuit in Spielberg to dry off under the Austrian winter sun before getting behind the wheel. “This car,” says Coulthard, “will make a lot of people who’ve driven a Porsche 911 up till now think again. What marks out BMW, Audi, Porsche and Mercedes-AMG is that they make cars that work on a racetrack, but are still suitable for everyday use. That’s actually a really tough job.”

Once the track is dry enough, Coulthard, in full driver garb, takes a minute to get his bearings in the cockpit, where he is joined by The Red Bulletin.

He adjusts the driver’s seat and pulls the steering wheel (covered in fine-grain leather and levelled off at the bottom) as far out as it will go. He does this to get the greatest degree of control. You can spot a bad driver a mile off with their arms outstretched at the wheel; a habit almost as bad has having a smartphone held to your ear.

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NO SOONER HAS COULTHARD LEFT THE PITLANE THAN THE CAR IS NOWHERE NEAR STRAIGHT: “LET ME TELL YOU, IT’S DAMNED SLIPPERY“

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stifled power. The engine in each AMG GT is assembled by one person only from start to finish and their signature appears on the engine plate.

If anything should go wrong with it, the customer is to get in touch directly. In this case, that man is Jens Müller, and he must be a genius. The spec: an S-Class with 510hp, rather than the standard 462hp.

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ou select from four different driving modes – comfort, standard, sport or sport plus – on a dial positioned by the driver’s knee. In view of the wet conditions, Coulthard plumps for sport, as the engine and gearbox characteristics aren’t as aggressive as in sport plus and the chassis less stiff.

The Red Bull Ring is notorious for making a victim of even the best of drivers, and there is the added detail of the AMG GT being a special pre-release version of a six-figure-sum sportscar. “If you write off a car when you’re 16, you can get away with it for not knowing any better. At 43, you have no excuse,” he says.

No sooner has Coulthard come out of the pit lane than the car is nowhere near straight, and lightningquick steering is required to reel in the live weight of 1,570kg. “Let me tell you, it’s damned slippery.”

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The long bonnet is a formidable presence in front of the cockpit, which some might say is where the car most differs from the Porsche 911. Coulthard hurtles uphill towards the second bend, Remus, a tight right-hander. A tug on the right-hand paddle shift behind the steering wheel and we’re going up through the gears. “It’s not as quick as in Formula One, but it’s miles better and quicker than any manual transmission. You can fully concentrate on the line you’re going to take.”

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“Rubber particles make it almost impossible to drive the racing line under tough conditions.”

Out of Remus, on the Schönberg straight, he positions the Mercedes-AMG GT where the layman would. A glance at the speedometer shows 240kph. It’s then downhill towards Schlossgold, another, less tight, right-hander, where Coulthard says perfectly coolly, “if you lose grip on the front axle when you brake here, you’ll be getting the car back out of the gravel before you know it.”

Professional viewpoint: “It’s easy to make an out-andout racing car. It’s all about performance.

Giving them creature comforts is much harder to do”

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This is exactly what happens, but it was intentional, and he brakes, seemingly out of control, to move away from the slippery racing line. The coupé recovers on the pristine tarmac, which is enough for a pro to adjust the car’s direction slightly. He then crosses the racing line again, finds grip on the outside of the track, just before the turn, and the car finally makes the corner.

The Red Bulletin simply says, “Wow.” “That would have been better the other way round,” says Coulthard. “Lose speed when you’re

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coming into the turn and you can put your foot back down sooner and get out of the turn more quickly. That definitely cost us 5 to 10kph, but it’s great how well balanced the car is.”

The Mercedes-AMG GT comes with ESP, a traction and stability control system. It can’t be turned off completely, but you can still lose control if you’re stupid enough, and it’s very easy to be like that when you’re dealing with 510hp. Racing drivers communicate with the car sensibly. “I use the engine brake to take pressure off the rear of the car and stabilise the rear axle with the means I have available to me – brake pressure, the steering wheel – in the same way you balance a pencil on your fingertip.

The only use I have for the ESP is as an orientation tool, so I know where the back of the car is.”

This translates as: whereas the rough and ready driver barely notices if he’s made a faux pas, the professional is ashamed to have blown his nose on the tablecloth.

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At midday, David’s wife, Karen, turns up to collect her husband. “Looking good,” she says, but she’s talking about the Mercedes-AMG GT. “Can I get in it?” She takes a long time to electronically adjust her position in the cockpit, and also opens the boot.

This is more than just polite-but-faked interest.

“Would you really want to take the kids to school in it, baby?” her husband asks and she fleetingly lets on that, when it comes to many things, she might not think as pragmatically as he would. projekt-spielberg.at/en

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Beating the breaks HOW THREE-TIME WORLD SURFING CHAMPION MICK FANNING TURNED HIS LOWEST EBB INTO HIGH PERFORMANCE TRAINING, page 72

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Swell guy: Fanning takes on the waves at Haleiwa in Hawaii

Tough as a board SURFING MICK FANNING HAS A SEVERE ACCIDENT TO THANK FOR HIS FITNESS REGIME

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FANNING SWEARS BY YOGA AND PROPER BREATHING TECHNIQUE

“Stret­ching and yoga are part of my daily workout. Yoga classics, such as the tree and the boat, are good exercises for improving your balance. Breathing technique exercises have helped me with my surfing enormously.

If you breathe correctly while training or competing, it can have an enormously positive impact on how you control your body and mind.”

Ideal for all surfers: a dynamic exercise that simulates intense turns and strengthens your torso and legs. Ideally do three sets of 25 repetitions

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“There was a loud snap and then hellish pain. My surfing career was basically over in 2004,” says Mick Fanning. The 33-year-old Australian was surfing in Indonesia when he tore his left hamstring right away from the bone. “I couldn’t even sit down for the first five to six weeks after the operation. But the rehab, which lasted for almost six months, was, in hindsight, vital to my career.

In that time I learnt a great deal about my body, including which muscles to work on and how in order to improve my performance as a surfer. Ever since, I’ve ensured that I have core muscle strength and that my legs have enough strength, flexibility and stamina. I have to have a flexible workout plan because it depends on the quality of the waves. There’s no better workout than surfing. If the waves are too small, I keep fit by going to the gym three or four times a week.”

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BRISBANE AUSTRALIA’S BEST BACKYARD HAS MORE THAN 40 WEEKS OF SUN A YEAR AND NO WORRIES “Brisbane is a city of over two million people, but we call it ‘the biggest country town in Australia’,” says local boy Pete Kilroy, vocalist of Hey Geronimo, a rapidly rising indie band, “and we mean that positively. It’s less densely populated, greener and quieter than Sydney and Melbourne, which is why an increasing number of Australians are drawn here, not just on holidays, but permanently. With a sub-tropical climate and 300 days of sunshine a year, the outdoors rules supreme in Brisbane. Everyone makes the most of it with big back yards, verandas, pools and the ‘must-have’, a BBQ. If this city had a slogan it would be ‘No Worries’, and that’s exactly how life is lived here.” But that doesn’t mean that there’s nowhere to go out. Here are Kilroy’s top five spots. heygeronimo.com

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322 Brunswick St “Brisbane’s music scene is like no other in Australia. This place is my secret tip. You can discover the next big thing here.”

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Crucially, the burgers are great.”

Dream of flying a helicopter? After a crash course in piloting, you’ll be at the joystick of a whirlybird (with an experienced copilot, of course). redballoon.com.au

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2 BRISBANE POWERHOUSE 119 Lamington St “This old powerhouse is now a hive of cultural activity. There are photographic shows, art exhibitions and jazz sessions.

Most are free of charge.”

3 WESTERN MAGPIES CLUB 41 Chelmer St “You can’t come here and not see a sporting event. My choice: Sherwood, a long-established Australian Rules Football Club,

5 MERTHYR BOWLS CLUB 60 Oxlade Drive “I recommend this outdoor bowling club where you don’t have to be a member. So order yourself a cool beer and throw a few barefoot bowls on the perfectly manicured lawn.

Fantastic.”

From 0 to 100kph in two seconds: once you’ve been in an 850hp car, you’ll never forget what it feels like, just for a moment, to be a racing driver. adrenalin.com.au

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FLORI DA PLUS AFTER THE WINGSUIT COMES MORE ADVENTURE

RACE Feel the torque on a shotgun ride in a two-seater stock car driven by a pro, who’ll reach speeds of 230kph around the Walt Disney World Speedway in Orlando. drivepetty.com

W INGSUIT LOVERS OF AERIAL ADRENALIN CAN’T GET HIGHER THAN A SOAR-LIKE-SUPERMAN ADVENTURE Navigating through the skies at speed was once the preserve of superheroes. But thanks to the wingsuit, anyone with enough skydiving experience can swoop and dive like a bird at speeds of up to 360kph.

A wingsuit is a high-tech jumpsuit with fabric slung between the legs and under the arms to increase lift, and anyone with 200 jumps under their belt can freefall in a whole new way after half a day’s instruction at Skydive City in Zephyrhills, Florida. The basics of controlling the suit are taught on the ground in training drills. After three hours, you’re lead onto a Twin Otter plane for a drop from 3,660m with an instructor communicating tips with sign language.

“Before the flight, there’s a lot of muscle memory training to help get the body position right, and practice exits and deployments,” says instructor Travis Mickle. “When that starts to feel natural, you can focus on all the amazing aerobatic possibilities.”

After two assisted drops, the next one’s solo. “You need to process, react and adjust a lot faster than when skydiving,” says Jonathan Francis, a 25-yearold advertising strategist from London, who took his first wingsuit flight in 2010. “In a split second you can put hundreds of metres between yourself and another flyer, I can make a sharp, banking 90-degree turn with just a tweak of the head, swooping to build up speed. The feeling is just incredible.”

Instruction starts at US$100: skydivecity.com

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Is it a bird is it a plane? No, it’s a wingsuit flyer

ADVICE FROM THE INSIDE HEAD FOR HEIGHTS “If you maintain the right body position, it’s not physically strenuous,” says Tony Uragallo, the godfather of wingsuit flying who tests his designs at Skydive City’s drop zone. “Mental stress, fighting the concern that ‘this is dangerous’, is the biggest problem for the first-timer. Learning to relax is key.”

RISE Leave gravity behind on Zero-G’s specially modified Boeing 727. Your 15 parabolic manoeuvres each create 20-30 seconds of weightlessness. gozerog.com

SURVIVE High times: preparing to fly

Cloud control

“The best fun is flying a wingsuit around clouds,” says Tony Uragallo. “When you’ve learnt control, you can sometimes get two or more minutes flying in and out of all the different shapes of the cloud, trying never to touch them. Now that’s a buzz.”

Take the plunge to get up close and personal with sharks at The Florida Aquarium.

Exit the cage and dive with a trained instructor among the ocean’s most fearsome predators. flaquarium.org

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THIS ONE CAME FIRST The first Heure Universelle, the 1937 Patek Philippe Ref 542 HU, was a gamechanger. It was both beautiful and technologically advanced. A notdissimilar 1937 Ref 96 HU sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2011 for US$482,500.

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presented the Heure Universelle (HU) watch. Harking back to the work of Geneva watchmaker Louis Cottier, it was the first wristwatch that could display standard time in multiple time zones. The names of various cities were engraved on its rotating bezel; turn it and you can work out the times, based on the difference from GMT. Local time was displayed with both the hour and minute hands – an amazing advance in horology technology at the time. From 1939, an increasing number of manufacturers adopted the Heure Universelle system.

Watches don’t display time zones, they show the standard time in time zones.

HEURE UNIVERSELLE VS GMT/UTC An Heure Universelle watch displays the time in 23 time zones as well as the local time, while a GMT/UTC watch can ‘only’ show one extra standard time of your choosing (see the three watches on the facing page).

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he first person to split between adjacent zones. (The the world into 24 time system takes into account both zones was natural and geographic a Canadian boundaries, to avoid railway engineer arbitrary borders named Sandford between time zones Fleming. In 1879, arising.) Fleming’s he divided the system was first 360 degrees of adopted by Canada longitude into twoin 1883 and then dozen time zones, later that same year using the Greenwich by the US. Germany Meridian as his was the first European NOMOS starting point. Each country to come on ZURICH WELTZEIT zone is 15 degrees of side in 1893. On On the road wearing longitude (360/24) this, change to the local October 16, 1937, and time shifts by an Swiss watchmaker time zone with a simple push of a button hour at the boundaries Patek Philippe

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All hail King Hayek HOW THE FOUNDER OF SWATCH REINVENTED WRISTWEAR AND SAVED THE WATCH INDUSTRY

By Joe Thompson, editor-in-chief of US magazine WatchTime

Swiss watches are much sought after. Brands such as Rolex, Omega and Patek Philippe and are seen as status symbols the world over.

In 2014, the Swiss watchmaking industry made record sales for the third year in a row.

Yet not all too long ago, that same industry was seen to be losing out globally and deemed a national disgrace. By the early 1980s, ultra-thin, precise quartz watches made by Seiko, Citizen and other manufacturers based in the Far East had become the big hit in the world of watches. Swiss manufacturers, lagging behind

Nicolas G Hayek Snr was born in Lebanon in 1928, raised in France and became a Swiss citizen through marriage. His life and the Swiss watchmaking industry changed irrevocably when the banks approached him. Hayek heralded change by merging two ailing corporations to found what is now Swatch Group. He maintained production in Switzerland, overseeing the roll-out of Swatch watches while breathing new life into ailing brands such as Omega, Longines and Breguet. Hayek was chairman of the board from the time of its founding in 1985 until his death in 2010, aged 82. Today, Swatch Group is run by his daughter, Nayla, and son, Nick. In 2013 it recorded sales of €7.33 billion.

For more than 25 years, Hayek dominated Swiss watchmaking.

He was powerful, controversial, extravagant – he wore two or three watches on each wrist – and direct. He joked that the initials in SMH Ltd – the original name for Swatch Group – simply stood for ‘Seine Majestät Hayek’ – His Majesty, Hayek. No one would begrudge him his crown.

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Sports watches ONLY TAKE TWO TIME ZONES INTO THE SHOWER? THEN THESE ARE THE GMT/UMC TIMEPIECES YOU’RE LOOKING FOR Rolex GMT-Master II In 1955, this was the first timepiece to display an extra time with no fuss, made possible by a second, freely adjustable 24-hour hand and a 24-hour scale on the bezel.

Small wonder, then, that the Rolex GMTMaster and now the GMT-Master II are the most successful and popular watches of their type. rolex.com

Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days GMT 24H A Luminor with a real added benefit for frequent fliers. The 24-hour hand, freely adjustable regardless of the local time, means you can display a second standard time using a 24-hour scale on the inner ring next to the bezel, known as the rehaut.

Comes with black leather and black rubber straps and the tools to switch them. panerai.com

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with their old-fashioned, clockwork timepieces, were close to bankruptcy and dependent on rescue packages from Swiss banks.

In one of the darkest hours in the industry’s 450-year history, the banks, in their desperation, turned to a management consultant to turn everything around.

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With this descendant of the original Swiss sports watch of 1938, you can, as with the Panerai (above), set a freely adjustable standard time using its red-tipped 24-hour hand and then read the time off the 24-hour scale on the rehaut. This stainless steel beauty also has anti-shock and anti-magnetic properties. alpina-watches.com

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THIRTY YOUNG MUSICIANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD MEET LIFESIZE VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS WHILE DAFT PUNK’S COUSINS LASH OUT AT A PANDA. IT’S THE RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY IN TOKYO WORDS: FLORIAN OBKIRCHER

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Music Academy. Nowhere else do rookie musicians get as close to their heroes. Every year since 1998, the music camp has invited two groups of 30 young hopefuls from all over the world to come together in a city somewhere for two weeks at a time, be that in New York, London or Sao Paulo. It is always run the same way. An old building in the centre of the host city is rented and rebooted, fitted it out with recording studios and a lecture hall. During the daytime, music legends give talks; at night they make music in the recording studios with the Academy participants and perform with them at the best clubs in the city.

Last autumn, the Red Bull Music Academy set up shop in Tokyo, for 28 days and 28 nights, which meant 28 lectures, 25 gigs and nights out.

Out Of The Comfort Zone

Chelsea Jade is 25. She has a dainty face and long blonde hair. Three years ago, she uploaded a demo of a song on her website without thinking too much about it. A year later, she won

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hree years ago, aged 18, King Bruce made a decision to pursue a music career and not a career in football. He wanted to produce tracks like his idol Carl Craig, the Detroit legend who gave the world techno and laid the foundation for drum ’n’ bass in 1993 with his track Bug In The Bassbin.

Now King Bruce is sitting next to Carl Craig in a lavish recording studio in Shibuya, Tokyo. It’s 2am and they have spent the last six hours recording a track together.

“What do you think?” says Craig, who’s wearing a black T-shirt, black leather trousers, black trainers and black sunglasses. “Let’s listen to it.”

King Bruce clicks a mouse and bass drum comes booming out of the speakers. Then come the hi-hats and some heavy synthesizer, which makes the speaker cover vibrate.

Craig nods along.

A couple of minutes later, King Bruce takes a break and fetches a bottle of water from the fridge in the studio corridor. “If someone had told me a year ago that I’d be working through the night in the studio with Carl Craig, I’d have said they were mad,” the 21-year-old South African explains. “It was completely chilled, like hanging out with a friend. But, at the same time, I’ve probably never learnt as much about music as I did tonight.”

This is the sort of thing that happens all the time at Red Bull

Japanese noise maestro Yamantaka Eye conducts a laptop orchestra (left), including Chelsea Jade (middle left, grey coat).

Video game composer Hirokazu Tanaka (middle right) performs one of his rare live gigs at club Womb in which he mingles hyperactive house beats with his music from games such as Tetris and Super Mario Land. Bottom: dancing metal giants at the Robot Restaurant.

Facing page, centre: Chilean participant Alejandro Paz performs

the most important music prize in her country, New Zealand. She’s been seen as the next big thing on the New Zealand music scene ever since – a successor to Lorde, with whom she’s already worked. Now she’s sitting on a grey futon in the Academy lounge and staring at a piece of paper covered with hand gestures that look like sign language. “It’s the instructions for tonight’s show,” she says.

Tonight’s show is a Yamantaka Eye gig. He is the vocalist of Japanoise band Boredoms and quite the star in his home country. The 50-year-old has been making music, which sounds like an exorcism set to the accompaniment of electric guitars, for 30 years now.

Seven years ago, he performed a gig alongside 77 drummers. For the Red Bull Music Academy, he is conducting a concert for laptops. The players are the Academy participants.

Eye has developed a 30-sign system of gestures as instructions. “If Eye makes the peace sign, we turn the oscillator up,” Jade explains.

She is used to working with synthesizers, but an improvised gig with laptops is new territory. “But that’s exactly what I find exciting about the Academy,” she says.

“The fact that you’re ripped out of your comfort zone.”

The gig begins four hours later in a 50-year-old ballroom with wooden floors and dark red walls. Waitresses in blue dresses and butterfly masks serve drinks. The stage is in the middle, around which a mixed,

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colourful crowd clusters. There are about 500 people in all: hipsters, people in suits, elegant older ladies.

Eye’s music isn’t thought of as noise in Japan. As one concertgoer explains: “Noise is ever-present in Tokyo.

Boredoms’ music is our blues.”

Eye enters the stage, followed by the Academy participants. The conductor takes his place on a swivel chair in the middle, while the young musicians sit around him in a circle with their laptops on their laps.

All eyes are on Eye. He raises his left hand like a puppeteer.

Rooooaaaar!

A hum of bass fills the room.

Eye shoots an arm into the air and high-pitched sine waves come screeching out of the speakers. It’s an extreme physical experience. The high squeak drills its way into your brain, while the low frequencies churn your stomach.

Thirty minutes later, Eye bows theatrically. The noise fades out.

Frantic applause.

South African participant King Bruce (above right) at club Womb with his Japanese colleague Albino Sound; and below working with techno legend Carl Craig (left) and Pakistani participant Tollcrane (right) on a track in one of the Academy studios

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of a horse, some 2m tall, is led out onto the stage. A young woman in the saddle sings a Lady Gaga song. Two mitten-wearing Power Rangers have a boxing match. Robots who could be Daft Punk’s cousins start attacking a man in a panda suit riding a huge cow across the floor. All set to the theme from Jurassic Park. A tank, flashing multi-coloured lights, comes onto the stage. Ten women in bikinis are dancing samba on top of it. The show lasts for 30 minutes.

“Holy sh–t!” says Wills, with a dumbfounded look on his face.

“What was that all about?”

The three Academy participants are still dazed on the journey home. They

grin inanely. “It was like a computer game had come to life,” says Valesuchi.

Gotham City, No Batman

The eight recording studios on the fourth floor of the Red Bull Music Academy headquarters are not large, but they each have state-of-the-art equipment. They spring into life every evening once the daytime lectures have finished. The entire floor becomes a hive of creativity.

Producers dash from one studio to another, carrying drum machines and headphones; DJs show each other rare records they’ve bought at a flea market. In the studios’ kitchen, two singers are bent over

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Over dinner on the third-last night of the Academy, Briton Joe Wills and Valesuchi, from Chile, discuss what they’ve seen of Tokyo so far and are quick to agree: not enough.

The only trips they’ve made other than to the clubs hosting events have been between the hotel and the Academy itself.

“High time we changed that,” says Wills. He asks fellow Academy participant Albino Sound, who comes from Japan, for a recommendation.

He answers, “If you want to see something really weird, let’s go to the robot restaurant.”

Half an hour later, Wills, Valesuchi and Estii/Yale, a participant from Australia, are at a bar that looks like a Kubrick set full of Swarovski crystal. Everything sparkles, from the rounded, snail-shell armchairs to the short dress worn by the bar hostess delivering a quiet Japanese version of My Heart Will Go On. She finishes and an announcement in English comes over the tannoy: “The show is about to begin. Everyone please take your seats.” The lights go out. A battle cry.

“Raaaahhh!”

Robot warriors dance with Japanese dragons amid a hail of flashing lasers. A glittering model

THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO THE TIME THE PARTICIPANTS CAN SPEND MAKING MUSIC. THE STUDIOS NEVER CLOSE

The Red Bull Music Academy encourages the Tokyo public to make music (left).

On a synthesizer 2.5m high, placed on the boardwalk in a busy hotspot of Shibuya, curious people tweak oversized knobs and listen to the spacey sounds coming from the black box

a sheet of paper and humming the lines of a song, crossing out lyrics and scribbling in new ones.

Over in studio No.4, Tollcrane, an Academy participant from Pakistan, is working on a noisy techno track.

For this gangly, moustachioed 28year-old, the Academy is an exciting collection of firsts. It’s his first time abroad. Four days ago was his first time in a nightclub and he shared the decks with one of his musical heroes: BBC radio DJ Benji B. Most importantly to him, it’s the first time he has been able to make music with like-minded souls. “Karachi, my home town, is like Gotham City,” he says, “but there’s no Batman.” He lives in a country where the government blocks YouTube. Where you have to make sure you don’t get caught up in a riot on the way home from work.

“I can think of no greater luxury than being able to dedicate myself solely to music for two weeks,” he says.

Tollcrane has produced three tracks over five nights in Tokyo, and helped out on a whole load more. He has recorded vocals for Austrian Academy participant Mimu Merz and a bass line for King Bruce. “When I’m not getting anywhere with a track of my own, I wander around and look in on the others in the studio and start working with them, just like that.”

There are no limits on the time that participants can spend making music. The studios never close. Last night, Tollcrane was in the studio until 7am and could then only snatch four hours’ sleep to be back in time for the lecture by techno veteran Robert Hood.

But that’s something the head of the Academy, Torsten Schmidt, hinted at in his welcome speech. “He said, ‘Don’t try to understand the Academy.

Just take advantage of everything.

And don’t sleep too much,’” Tollcrane says. “’Sleep is for losers.’” redbullmusicacademy.com

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PARTY

COME BACK DOWN STILL BUZZING FROM DANCING? THESE SONGS WILL HELP YOU SLEEP

BRIAN ENO

Partying with Miley THE UNDERGROUND FAMOUS FOLKS AND AVERAGE BLOKES KEEP CHICAGO’S COOLEST CLUB HOTTER THAN EVER Imagine a party where Kanye West, R. Kelly and the Glee cast are passing the mic, singing their lungs out. At Chicago’s Underground, that stuff happens all the time. It opened in 2007 in a basement of a once derelict building and helped turn a moribund area into a vibrant entertainment hub. The post-apocalyptic/ military-themed club was a hit from the start, attracting A-listers like Miley Cyrus, Common, Katy Perry, Skrillex and Mark Ronson. When owner Billy Dec decided to expand and refresh, he took a risk and closed shop to do the job. A sleeker, higher-tech Underground emerged, and it’s a success once again. Dec prides himself on the “ropeless” vibe – there’s no cordoned-off VIP area, and everyone’s fine with that. Sure, Miley and her crew were taken aback at first. “But she keeps returning,” says Dec. He and his team must be doing something right.

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NIGHT OWL VALENTINE’S DAY TIPS FOR CHICAGO, FROM COLIN REBEY, AKA DJ PHENOM

GET COSY At Rodan in Wicker Park, when there aren’t DJs, it’s a mix of everything from The Knife to A Tribe Called Quest. Craft cocktails are out of this world.

GET LUCKY Headquarters for arcade games, indie rock and a great-looking crowd. Or Ay Chiwowa for tequila.

GET SWEATY Millennium Park for ice skating. Nothing beats watching friends wipe out.

GET FREAKY Smart Bar or Spybar. With lights low and house music pumping, you’ll find someone to hang out with.

Marconi Union Weightless The band sought the advice of sleep researchers and in 2011 produced the ultimate track to nod off to. Experts advise against listening to it behind the wheel.

ADELE

Skyfall Every two years, the hotel chain Travelodge asks 2,000 guests their favourite song to fall asleep to. The current queen of the snorers is Adele with her Bond theme.

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Billy Dec with rapper Lil Jon, model Jaslene Gonzalez; with Miley Cyrus (below)

1/1 Eno composed this in 1978 in reaction to the dull background noise at Cologne Bonn Airport.

Sophisticated ambient music to cure your stress.

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MUSIC

H EY RUDE TV On The Radio pulled one out of the top drawer with their 2004 debut album, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. The band elegantly combined what had until then had been seen as incompatible: soulful gospel singing, noisy punk guitars, funk bass runs and electro-flavoured drums. David Bowie was so captivated that he wanted to sing on the band’s second album. Other fans, such as Liam Gallagher and Scarlett Johansson, had their records produced by band member David Sitek. He also took charge of recording TV On The Radio’s latest, fifth and poppiest album, Seeds. The band’s drummer, Jaleel Bunton, tells us which songs inspired them while they were making it.

Show man: Jaleel Bunton of TV On The Radio

‘ Nina Simone is a shaman’ PLAYLIST THE BEST GUITAR SOLO, THE GUILTIEST PLEASURE, THE GREATEST COVER. JALEEL BUNTON ON THE FIVE SONGS HE COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT

1 Nina Simone

2 Jimi Hendrix

3 Lianne La Havas

“The mix of Simone’s voice and Cohen’s lyrics is so moving and beautiful, like a master shaman read a master spell.

There’s a live version; she makes the band start again. She’s like, ‘No, no, stop.

Don’t put anything in the music that’s not asking for it.’ She’s saying: don’t try to put too much of you in the song. Let it go through you rather than be you.”

“It’s hard to choose one Hendrix song.

I’ve gone for One Rainy Wish, because it is often overlooked.

It’s amazing what Hendrix packs into three minutes.

It starts off in a serious, beautiful place and then it goes to this place that’s really passionate, almost violent, and then to a psychedelic end. And the song does it really effortlessly in this one statement.”

“Prince is this young British woman’s number one fan. I’m not far behind.

This song is a masterpiece.

It’s a pop song, but it’s also it takes this darker turn in the chorus. You can see it started as a classical music-inspired song, but at the same time it feels contemporary.

If there was a club that played this kind of pop, I’d be there all the time.”

4 Tears for Fears

5 The Deftones

“I think I’m going to embarrass the whole band by picking this, but I love it.

This song will endure.

Everything about it is perfect. To me, honestly, it has one of the best guitar solos I’ve ever heard in my life.

It doesn’t just burst in and dominate the song like most guitar solos do – it’s just perfect for it.”

“This song probably falls into the guilty pleasures category. I’m generally not a nu-metal fan, but this is kind of the best version of Korn and Linkin Park in one song. I hear the singer and I feel I get him: yes, you are a purple dark evil overlord with feelings. I listen to this song when I ride my bike and think, ‘Man, everything you say I feel in my bones.’”

Suzanne

Everybody Wants to Rule the World

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One Rainy Wish

My Own Summer (Shove It)

THE STORIES BEHIND SOME BEATLES SONGS ARE FOR ADULTS ONLY

TICKET TO RIDE The title refers to cards indicating a clean bill of health that Hamburg prostitutes had to carry with them in the 1960s. The Beatles learned to play live there.

Forget

TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS Lennon was high on LSD when he wrote it, with lyrics inspired by The Psychedelic Experience, Timothy Leary’s drug-taking manual adapted from Tibetan Book Of The Dead.

LET ’ S PLAYLI ST SOCIALLY AWARE SPEAKER

PRIZM This pyramid-shaped speaker selects the perfect music for every situation.

It connects via Bluetooth to the smartphones of everyone in the room.

Based on the time of day, number of people present and their musical tastes, Prizm will generate and play a Spotify playlist. Perfect for every party. meetprizm.com

I AM THE WALRUS They sing of ‘the egg man’.

Fellow musician Eric Burdon of The Animals had a girlfriend who broke an egg over him and then devoured it.

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ACTION!

GAMES

Zombie nation: your chance to shine in Dying Light

EYE ON i PA D HIDDEN-GEM GAMES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

THE SILENT AGE: EPISODE 2 Adventure game with riddles to be unravelled, in the 1970s and today, by its timetravelling hero.

Go back yourself and play Episode One first. thesilentage.com

Undead good

TH EY ’ R E A LIVE! FOUR MORE ZOMBIE GAMES FOR 2015

D YING LIGHT FINISHED THE GAMES YOU GOT FOR CHRISTMAS? THIS ZOMBIE EPIC WILL SATISFY YOUR NEEDS There’s a theory as to why zombies in pop culture are so massive. The Resident Evil games made a significant impression on a generation which then went on to make books, comics, films and TV about something that seared into their young minds. And now new zombie games reflect that culture back. The circle of (undead) life.

Dying Light has the scent of The Walking Dead about it, but only the merest whiff. The game’s title points to one of its excellent original ideas: that gameplay alters radically when night falls. As long as the sun’s out, you, playing as a plague survivor, scavenge a city for weapons and supplies under the noses of fellow desperates, to use after dark to stay alive while fighting off plague-infected creatures.

You can go all out and attack, or lay traps and defend your ground. Upgrading weapons ‘realistically’, with lighters and barbed wire, is a neat touch.

The other innovative element here is Be The Zombie mode. Playing online, you can flip the game on its head, become prey-turned-hunter and rid the city of pesky humans.

There’s also a four-player co-op online mode. Plenty to get your teeth into, then; just be careful what – or who – you bite. Dying Light is unleashed worldwide from January 27.

Available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC

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Resident Evil Resident Evil: Revelations 2 Granddaddy of them all returns, first as four weekly game episodes, set between RE5 and RE6.

Another in the stream of addictive and fiendish puzzle games, with 180 brain-boggling tasks. Simple graphics but you’ll think deep.

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Dead Island 2 Action-heavy adventure with eight-player co-op set in a future quarantined California.

SPACE AGE

State Of Decay State Of Decay: Year One Survival Edition Xbox One revamp for the tactical apocalypse adventure that’s more survival than action.

Human Element Two-tier zombie gaming: main game on PC and consoles, side missions on mobile platforms.

Old-school sci-fi in which you lead a team of planetary explorers in the sort of game – text-heavy, sense of humour – they don’t make any more. spaceageapp.com

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CLARK DUKE

BREAKING OUT THE WHIPS AND CHAINS

With a name like that, he could be a square-jawed matinee idol. But the 29year-old does a mean line in lovable nerds. Known for his roles in the Kick-Ass movies and TV’s The Office, this month he and co-stars Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson get back to wet work in Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Fifty Shades Of Grey, starring Rita Ora (above), hopes to transition from bestseller to blockbuster. How will the steamy S&M romance stack up against previous erotic offerings?

Words: Geoff Berkshire

LUKE WOODEN, UNIVERSAL

Fatal Attraction the red bulletin: What was your reaction when you heard there was going to be a Hot Tub sequel?

CLARK DUKE: I was shocked, honestly. Just saying it out loud is pretty silly. It wasn’t a massive box-office hit, but I think the reason is it just did so well on video and TV that it ended up justifying a sequel.

Do you have random people approaching you wanting to talk about the movie?

Definitely. I get a lot of dudeson-the-sidewalk kind of action from it. It all checks out.

Do they like to quote a particular line or do they just yell “Hot Tub Time Machine”?

People will generally yell the title from the other side of the street, that kind of thing.

Or from a passing car. I’ve seen that happen with other people, too. I think it’s pretty common to just yell out the title of the movie or TV show of whoever you recognise.

Does that happen with Kick-Ass, too?

Yeah, but it depends on the age and gender and location – you get different stuff. I’m sure Christopher Walken still has people yelling, “Deer Hunter!”

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(1987) Married man’s fling comes home to roost.

Stars: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close Hot or not? Hot

Basic Instinct (1992) Detective becomes involved with beautiful woman who could be a murderer.

Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone Hot or not? Hot

Showgirls

‘ Sitting in a tepid pool of water with three guys for 12 hours at a time for three days is not that glamorous’ Are you utterly sick of hot tubs yet?

On the press tour for the first movie, everybody thought they were being so clever to interview us in a hot tub. There were so many interviewers who said, “Guess what?

We’re doing it in a hot tub.”

Did you ever say no?

I’m contractually obligated to say yes. That’s my deal with MGM. [Laughs.]

How are the hot tubs on set?

They’re a complete nightmare.

Those are the worst days, by far. They’re not real hot tubs, first of all. It’s a big contraption they build so they can have cameras underneath. They have these big turbines to make the water swirl. It’s lukewarm water because you can’t work for 12 hours a day in hot water, you’d get sick. And they’re on a stage that’s freezing all the time, so as soon as you get out you’re miserably cold. Within an hour the water is supergross. Just think what it’s like sitting in a tepid pool of water with three other guys for 12 hours at a time for three days.

It’s not that glamorous.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is out worldwide from January 15: hottubtimemachine.com

(1995) Ambitious Vegas dancer claws – and sleeps – her way to the top.

Stars: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan Hot or not? Not

Wild Things (1998) School girls and counsellor cap conspiracy with a threesome.

Stars: Neve Campbell, Denise Richards Hot or not? Hot

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Nicole nearly cheats, Tom sets sail on a kinky sexual cruise.

Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman Hot or not? Not

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Hopefully someone who knows what he’s doing.

Four-cylinder engine, 998cc, 310hp, 216kg

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Those who want to be first to the top of the pass.

Four-cylinder engine, 749cc or 999cc, 213kg

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On the road between the big city and your weekend bolthole.

Busy people looking for somewhere to park.

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The hottest, and most radical weapon in the concrete jungle.

It has an electric engine, so somewhere near a power outlet.

Early adopters, queue-jumpers, friends of the Earth.

Nippy as a moped, but big enough for two people plus luggage.

Every home should have one.

Solves parking and tailback problems.

Those who don’t like refuelling much, as it runs for up to 125mpg.

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On those frosty Alpine passes with their hairpin bends.

Seasoned bikers in need of some extra comfort and efficiency.

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Because freedom sometimes comes on four wheels too.

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Nature-lovers, adrenalin junkies, outdoor types, long-term drifters.

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An all-rounder with the talents of a trail bike and a touring bike.

On a long holiday trip, and perfect for two with the right kit.

Technically savvy frequent riders for whom enjoyment comes first.

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SAVE THE DATE Taking flight: fivetime kiteboarding world champ Aaron Hadlow at the Red Bull King of the Air

January 31–February 15

King of the Air The world’s premier kiteboarding competition, Red Bull King of the Air, returns to the south-easter-swept beach breaks at Bloubergstrand, Cape Town.

Every year this event pushes the limits of extreme board-riding, so fans should expect wild tricks and seriously big air as 24 of the most talented riders go head to head in a bid to rule the skies. redbullkingoftheair.com

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February 19-21

Three days in the Valley The Dusi is the toughest canoe marathon in the world. Paddlers can expect a meandering course from Pietermaritzburg to Durban through the sweltering heat of mid-summer in the Valley of a Thousand Hills. After his third place in the recent 50 Miler, Sbonelo Khwela (left) will fancy his chances, but he will have to dig deep to fight off danger man Andy Birkett. dusi.co.za

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More athletes compete at the Buffelspoort Xterra than in the entire Xterra USA series.

There’s only one way to find out why Saffas have such an appetite for off-road triathlon… join the likes of Xterra legends Conrad Stoltz and Dan Hugo, as well as super-talents Brad Weiss and Stuart Marais on the start line.

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January 17-February 8

Africa Cup of Nations Bafana Bafana are back in the big time, having earned their entry to a major tournament after years of squeezing in by the back door as hosts. They’ll have their work cut out – ranked a lowly 57th in the world, and with nine African nations in the top 42, South Africa will be nobody’s favourites. However, coach Shakes Mashaba has worked wonders with a young team so far. The question is: can they take the next step? cafonline.com

This year, the dress code for Mzansi’s biggest horse race is “Made for the Mix” but the business end of proceedings at Kenilworth Racecourse will concern the almost R2 million purse. jbscotch.co.za

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Ultra Music Festival

DESIGN FOR LIFE Cutting edge African creativity and design goes on show at the Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town.

Prepare for a mindblowing array of art and artisanship.

South Africa is in line for another double dose of mega partying when Ultra Music Festival touches down for a Mother City/Jozi double-header.

Electronic superstars Hardwell and Armin van Buuren headline, along with Martin Garrix and Axwell Λ Ingrosso. Goldfish, Black Coffee, Fresh & Euphonik and Roger Goode represent for the locals. If you can’t make the Cape Town gig, no excuses for missing the Joburg jol.

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Rugby’s biggest party

Inner city beats

So far, so Super

The Cape Town Electronic Music Festival brings together the finest international and local electronic music talent for a three-day takeover of the Grand Parade in the Cape Town CBD. The party doesn’t stop there though, with a solid schedule of satellite events and workshops to spread the EDM gospel. ctemf.com

The 20th season of Super Rugby kicks off with the usual suspects of 15 teams playing in a conference format. Enjoy it while it lasts, because next year the tournament expands to 18 sides, with an extra South African entry – the Southern Kings – joining teams from Argentina and Japan. sanzarrugby.com

Cricket World Cup

More than 2,000 social rugby and netball players will descend on the Cape Town 10s tournament for a great couple of days of on- and offfield athletic (and not-soathletic) feats. Teams travel from around the country for this unique competition – it’s well worth checking out. capetowntens.com

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A cynic – nay, a realist – would say it’s choking time again, as the Proteas go in search of a first Cricket World Cup title in 23 years. They get their campaign under way with a walk in the park against Zimbabwe before heading for a tougher assignment against India at the MCG. icc-cricket.com

CINE CITY The fourth annual Jozi Film Festival showcases provocative new films from local and international filmmakers.

Workshops and Q&A sessions with the directors add to the experience. jozifilmfestival.co.za

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What goes around, comes around When Marc Marquez won the final race of the 2014 MotoGP season he didn’t win the world championship.

He’d won that after race 15 of 18, in Japan. His 13 wins in the season, including the first 10 races in a row, is a record; aged 21, his list of ‘youngest’ records is astonishingly long. But it was always on the cards: 12 years ago, he won the Open Racc 50, a six-race series Catalan championship. marcmarquez93.com/en

‘ During the race, at times, I was thinking of my brother’ Marc Marquez on Valencia; younger bro Alex, 18, won the Moto3 title earlier that day, on the same circuit

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