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THE WORLD OF RED BULL

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The return of red bull air race

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The best pilots in the world show off their G thang.

hollyweird

Sure, sometimes it seems like all movies are comic-book adaptations or star Disney tweens, but as our Academy Awards coverage starting on page 10 details, there remains something enthralling about going to the movies—the spectacle, the story, the characters. Speaking of characters, Nicolas Cage has repeatedly proved his resiliency in the shark tank of Hollywood.

He’s pioneered the way modern actors have learned to adapt to business demands while keeping their soul: Do one big-budget blow-’emup movie, followed by a smaller, more personal passion project. Not bad for a guy who, as a kid, was pretty sure the doctor was going to diagnose him as being an alien. No, really. See the “I have to immerse myself in the rest of the story on page 40. thing that scares me.” Nicolas CagE, p. 40 the red bulletin

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Features

It’s part hockey, part downhill skiing; St. Paul, Minn., prepares for adrenaline on ice.

28 Red Bull Air Race

The return of the pinnacle of airborne motorsports

40 Nicolas Cage

When the weird turn pro

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46 Red Bull Kirimbawa Not your average jungle race

54 Sebastian Copeland

The polar explorer’s latest adventure

56 Highlining

Think tightrope walking—but on a slackline that moves in the wind

89 carrera panamericana

One of the world’s classic races sees historic cars take to the daunting back roads of Mexico.

62 Muhammad Ali

Training: Ivana Spanovic

The long jumper focuses on core and lower body work to go the distance during track-and-field events.

50 years after his hallmark bout

68 Red Bull Crashed Ice Two brothers thrill to the chill

76 Carrera Panamericana Revving up historic cars in Mexico

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46 red bull Kirimbawa

A hellish three-sport relay race through the jungles of Brazil. Competitors earn the title of Kirimbawa, or warrior.

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The Greatest

Muhammad Ali’s biographer, Thomas Hauser, examines the legacy of the boxer 50 years after his classic fight.

86 travel Siberia 87 nightlife Los Angeles 88 Get the gear Dorian Concept 89 training Ivana Spanovic 90 WFL World Run Ready, set, go!

92 My city Copenhagen 94 music Katy B 95 gamES Sleep is for the weak 96 save the Date Events for your diary 98 magic moment Ice climbing

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DAN KRAUSS

thomas hauser To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Cassius Clay’s epic win over Sonny Liston for the heavyweight title, we commissioned the award-winning author of Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. “Ali is thought of differently than he was 50 years ago. People can’t possibly feel the excitement he created,” Hauser says. “Fifty years from now, that feeling won’t be there. But the image people will have will be of a strong, vibrant young man.” The story begins on page 62.

BALAZS GARDI Gardi is a veteran conflict photographer, but his other job is globehopping to document Red Bull events, including Stratos, Air Race, and Cliff Diving. This time it was shooting two skaters participating in Red Bull Crashed Ice, bringing him to Minnesota amid the coldest weather in 20 years. “I suspected it required next-level commitment, but seeing these guys sprint up and down while caught in a Polar Vortex is definitely something else,” he says. Chill out on page 68.

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Los Angeles– based photographer Krauss previously shot The Red Bulletin’s cover with DJ A-Trak, but for this issue, we asked him to get far above the madding crowd for a feature on one of his hobbies, highlining. Think tightrope walking—but the line is pliable, and it sways. “I’ve been slacklining for five years and highlining for the past two,” he says. “It’s an indescribable feeling, toeing your way across what feels like a giant shoelace.” Find your balance with Krauss on page 56.

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peter strain Strain’s detailed illustrations regularly enhance stories for Time, The Guardian, and Esquire. For this month’s issue, we commissioned the award-winning artist, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to illustrate our interview with Hollywood’s gleefully eccentric Nicolas Cage. “He’s an enigmatic and complex character,” Strain says. “Cage stands beside the choices he has made—despite some of the critical reaction he has received.” Get in line on page 40.

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Michael DouGlas

In 1988, Douglas won an Oscar for Best Actor playing the greedy financier Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, but he won’t get one for his most stunning turn in years—his role as Liberace in HBO’s Behind the Candelabra. Thanks to the big budgets of pay-cable networks—and network-that’s-not-a-network Netflix—2013 marks the end of the long-held notion that TV is a ghetto for actors. It’s not like Douglas’ mantel is bare—he did win a Golden Globe and an Emmy for the role.

Greed, perhaps, is good.

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The best performance of the year won’t receive an Oscar—because TV is the new star showcase.

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Be st pixel oscars If there were awards for Best Animated Acting

minion Little guys with a fervor for drama. The Academy agrees—Despicable Me 2 earned a Best Animated Feature nod.

DONKEY Without him, Shrek is simply about an unjolly green giant. All together: “Are we there yet?”

t h e O S CAR S

THE OSCARS’ MOST SPECIAL EFFECTS

CGI DON’T BELIEVE IT! Three films that revolutionized

cinema’s computer-generated wonder.

Avata r James Cameron gave the new 3D generation its first blockbuster in 2009. In fact, it’s still the benchmark for 3D … and three sequels have been announced for 2016, 2017, and 2018.

t h e M at r i x In 1999, motion slowed right down to make “bullet time.” Shot with 124 cameras, action could effectively be stopped and viewed from any angle. Still influential 15 years later.

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AND THE OSCAR FOR BEST INVISIBLE ACTRESS GOES TO...

Scarlett johansson. She’s been the muse in three Woody Allen films, voted Sexiest Woman Alive twice, and in Her, her voice alone is enough to make Joaquin Phoenix fall in love with his smartphone’s speech software. Once you’ve seen—and heard—the film, you’ll understand exactly why.

Me! Me! Me! Some people get one for every movie; others learn to clap and smile as the winners walk past. Here are Oscar’s current lucky and unlucky few:

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Buzz Lightyear This is what real plastic toy heroes should look like: Who wouldn’t go “to infinity and beyond” with this guy?

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Pa c i f i c r i m Guillermo del Toro’s monsters vs. giant robots epic of 2013 had a real impact in terms of visual force. It was snubbed by the Academy—obviously too cool for school.

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t h e OSCA R S

infuriating blockbusters

DECODING THE WINNERS

Why do some Academy favorites polarize their audience (if they even get one)?

T H E HU R T L OCK E R

A MOU R

Kathryn Bigelow’s riveting war film about bomb disposal experts in Iraq is the least popular Oscar winner of all time among moviegoers. A box office splat of $17 million in earnings.

Love vS. Death, that age-old

w h y n o Ha p p y ending ?

WH AT M A K E S US YAW N ?

WH AT ’ S M I SS I N G ?

A deliberately slow-paced movie that dragged on for what seemed like more than its 2 hour and 7 minute running time.

Decent career advice.

N O T T O B E CO N FUS E D W I T H

P E R F E C T FO R

WE Don’T ALWAYS NEED REALITY AT THE MOVIES. WHO ’ S M I SS I N G ?

george clooney.

death becomes her, with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn.

OR SEAN PENN. OR DENZEL WASHINGTON. OR DANIEL DAY-LEWIS.

p er f e c t f o r

military recruiters

WHO ’ S M I SS I N G ?

brad pitt

as Joe Black.

Daigo is a cellist and unemployed.

So he takes a job preparing the dead for funerals. Won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for 2008.

THE ARTIST

Best Picture at the awards in 2012.

A silent-movie star falls in love with a dancer. But then come the talkies.

She has a career on the big screen.

He spends his days on the sauce.

WHO ’ S T H E R E A L H E R O ?

Six Feet Under fans suffering from

withdrawal symptoms.

s ticks in t h e m em ory … ... because you will need to go and see Daigo eventually, too.

Uggie the dog. w h at m a k e s u s yaw n ?

it’s a silent film!

ANd the anti-war movement

WHO ’ S T H E R E A L H E R O ?

Anyone who goes to see this film on a first date, because, for such a couple,

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A N A LT E R N AT E E N D I N G

bruce lee

comes back to life on the bamboo mat.

w h at ’ s m i s s ing ?

Apart from sound and color? A few

more laughs. And more Uggie.

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Because, duh, war is hell.

matchup. In director Michael Haneke’s hands it won last year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

D E PA R T U R E S

star attractions

FANTASTICAL LEADING LADIES Great performances in sci-fi and fantasy films are rarely recognized by the Academy.

Sandra Bullock just received a Best Actress nomination for Gravity, and Sigourney Weaver got one for Aliens— and that’s about it. Female stars in such movies tend to be remembered for other reasons ...

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Avatar’s leading lady may be blue, but that wouldn’t stop many a red-blooded human male looking for romance in the jungles of outer space. In 3D.

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Somewhere there is a lascivious illustrator to thank for her cartoon curves in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but the love for this femme fatale is oh-so-real.

CAT W O M a N

The movie of the same name was a flop, but as far as whip-crackers go, Halle Berry in a cat mask is definitely sexier than Indiana Jones in a floppy hat.

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WHY NO OSCAR FOR STUNTS?

HOLLYWOOD’S TRUE HEROES

Stuntmen and women risk their skin for cinema action, as demonstrated in this scene from Fast & Furious 6. There are no Oscars for their work, although they are eligible for a Screen Actors Guild Award and have their very own Taurus World Stunt Awards. But, c’mon Academy, how about a little love? taurusworldstuntawards.com

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This might look like Tyrese Gibson leaping out of one car and into another. But it isn’t. It’s Mens-Sana Tamakloe, his stuntman.

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CULT CLASSICS

will go down in history and yet they didn’t win an Oscar. We honor them here:

ALFRED HITCHCOCK, 1968: “Thank you very much indeed.”

i ’ l l b e b ac k !

Three words was all it took for Arnie to write cinema history in THE TERMINATOR. And what did the Academy go and do?

They didn’t even invite him to that year’s awards ceremony.

Gwyneth paltrow, 1999: “I would like to thank the Academy from the bottom of my heart [continues, through tears, for another 2 mins. and 33 secs., thanking 23 friends, family members and colleagues, a film company, and the rest of her family].”

LUCKY STARS THANKING

GET TO THE POINT! Remember this, nominees: No one in the entire auditorium or watching at home believes that you actually didn’t prepare a speech— you’re an actor, you’ve been practicing for this moment since you were a kid—so you better get up on stage and act polished and professional. Adrien Brody, who snogged Halle Berry on stage in 2003, has never made the shortlist again ever since.

Greer Garson gave the longest acceptance speech in 1943, blabbing on for seven minutes. It would be the only Oscar she ever won.

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“The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.” The Os­car voters agreed and overlooked Brad Pitt, who was magnificent, malevolent, and never better.

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In PULP FICTION, Uma Thurman and John Travolta made one of cinema’s finest couplings, even thought they weren’t a couple. Celluloid history ensued; little gold men did not.

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VOODOO DRUMMING King of the Zombies (1941) This horror comedy was a flop, but the Oscarnominated soundtrack, heavy with hypnotic beats and chanting, became a blueprint for scary movie music.

GREGORIAN CHANTS The Omen (1976) Legendary cinema composer Jerry Goldsmith’s Oscarwinning score, including theme “Ave Satani,” left cinemagoers unsure as to whether they should cover their eyes or their ears.

BOOM-KNIRSSSCH! The Social Network (2010) Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails doesn’t do tear-jerking soundtracks, but he does do Oscar-winning and wonderfully dark electronic music.

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Too cool for an Award They’ve given us classic moments that

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T W O A C C E P TA N C E SPEECHES IN THEIR ENTIRETY

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Geoff Berkshire

DANIEL BRÜHL: working with an oscar veteran

Rush hours

“If you get the opportunity to work with a genius like [Oscar-winning] director Ron Howard, you don’t normally complain, even if you have to sit in makeup for seven hours a day while filming. But I did have to take deep breaths a few times when I looked at the daily schedule: Chris Hemsworth, first scene: Kisses nurse.

Chris Hemsworth, second scene: Has sex with nurse. Daniel Brühl, first scene: Checks tires. Those were hard times for my ego.”

12 steps to success

how to build a blockbuster

Aristotle first noted the three-act structure for stories about 2,400 years ago. Since then, the work of other writers, such as Joseph Campbell and Christopher Vogler, has led to a 12-step “hero’s journey” that has proved popular in Hollywood screenplays.

1 An ordinary man in an ordinary world

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Adventure comes calling

The call, first ignored, is then heeded

4 Our hero meets his mentor

5 The journey begins

6 First test of bravery/brains

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Our man gets his reward

Hero arrives at villain’s lair

Villain fought and defeated

12 Back in his world, changed for better

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10 The journey home begins

One last struggle

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TV OR NOT TV?

small screen, Oscar quality

As House of Cards returns for a second season on Netflix, showrunner Beau Willimon discusses bringing stories with the scope of great films to TV.

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Geoff Berkshire

the red bulletin: How do you avoid a sophomore slump?

It’s always encouraging to know that people connect with the show—that you have an engaged audience for the following season. You never want to settle. The idea is to keep experimenting, keep pushing one’s boundaries, surprise yourself as much as the viewers.

Do you consider [Oscar winner Kevin Spacey’s character] Frank Underwood an anti-hero?

The word “anti-hero” is problematic in some

ways because it suggests that protagonists can be lumped into either good or bad. Frank Underwood does not operate within that dialectic. Moral designations are not useful to him. He does not wrestle with his conscience. He accepts himself for what he is—a self-serving being. Orson Welles said that all Shakespeare’s greatest characters were villains. And that’s true: Richard III, MacBeth, even Hamlet. There’s something liberating in seeing these characters unshackle themselves from the rules the rest of us tend to abide by.

Do you get feedback via social media?

Most of the feedback I get on Twitter is positive, although I do get occasional criticism. And I seek out criticism elsewhere online. It’s always helpful to understand why people do and do not connect with your work. Ultimately, however, you need to set all that aside when you roll up the sleeves Beau Willimon, and get back to work. Otherwise you creator of House run the risk of pandering.

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will’s way

fresh ideas

oscarwinning music movies

Will Smith’s move from music to acting was perfect timing.

In 1990, Will Smith was 22 and broke. He’d released two bubblegum rap albums as The Fresh Prince and his single, “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” was the first song to win the Best Rap Performance Grammy.

But lil’ Will didn’t know how to budget: The taxman was demanding $2.8 million in unpaid taxes. What saved him was his first acting role, in a TV show created for him, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It went on to become one of the most successful sitcoms of the 1990s and is still shown today. These days, Smith, who has twice been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor (Ali, The Pursuit of Happyness), has no financial problems. He earned $30 million in 2013, making him the sixth-highestearning actor in the world.

“ M o n ey a n d s uc c e s s do n ’ t c h a nge p e ople .

Th ey m e re ly a m pl i fy wh at ’s a l re a dy t h e re .”

Will Smith

Art usually imitates life, but sometimes it’s the other way around. Films have given us fictional blueprints for once far-off tech that is now becoming a reality. One thing we’re still waiting on is warp drive, though.

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Wa l k t h e Line Addiction, prison gigs, one true love. The life of Johnny Cash, for which Reese Witherspoon won a little gold man.

se a rc h ing f or sug a r m a n A long-lost minor musician, Sixto

Rodriguez, is tracked down by two fans. Winner of the Best Documentary Feature Oscar in 2013.

h o v er bo a r d

The floating skateboard in Back to the Future II is, says Haltek Industries, just a few million in R&D cash away, with a launch planned for 2015, when the film was partly set.

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BIOMETRIC GUNS

In 007 adventure Skyfall, Q gives James Bond a smart gun that will only react to its owner’s fingerprints.

Work is under way on the real thing in both Europe and the U.S.

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When Fa n t a sy Becomes Re a l ity

r ay Jamie Foxx plays R&B legend Ray Charles and reveals stunning vocal talents.

He won a Best Actor Oscar for his efforts.

Movies’ marvelous motors

STAR VEHICLES

Cars as memorable—or maybe more so—than the films they were in.

lotus esprit

Known as Wet Nellie on the set of the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, it worked underwater and on dry land, and was auctioned off in September 2013.

DelorEan DMC-12

A failed, expensive sports coupe, of which about 9,000 were made, became a truly iconic car when it was featured as the time machine in Back to the Future.

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b at m o b i l e

In Batman & Robin, Bruce Wayne’s ride had an afterburner that gave it a theoretical top speed of 350 mph. In tests it hit 140 mph.

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SPORTS films

F u l ly F l a r e d ( 2 0 0 7 )

Street skateboarding at the very highest level: Guy Mariano, Eric Koston, and other legends in front of the camera; Spike Jonze and Ty Evans behind. Awesome slow-motion sequences.

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What it’s like to be the exceptionally talented South African surfer Jordy Smith. Especially noteworthy for epic action shot at some of the world’s most breathtaking surf locations.

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Superbly filmed, it only seems to be a matter of time before an action sports movie gets the Oscar acclaim of Rocky and Hoop Dreams.

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Where the Trail e n d s (2013)

A crew of absurdly talented freeride mountain bikers risk everything to conquer the off-road places where no man on a bike has gone before.

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FLUFFED IT

BAD FILMS, GOOD ACTORS

They’ve done some good stuff, but this wasn’t it.

“ Th ey s hou l d p ut s o m e u n de rwe a r o n h i m . H e’s a f re e b a l le r a n d h e’s got a ve ry b ig swo rd .”

Nominee jared Leto on the oscar statue

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Ti lda Swinton

Oscar winner starred in Female Perversions, an erotic thriller that was neither.

Sharon stone

Eleven years after a Best Actress nod for Casino, she starred in Basic Instinct 2.

George Clooney

Eight Oscar noms, two wins, always a star of Return of the Killer Tomatoes.

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TOMORROW’S HEROES

passing the baton

Three talents who will go down in cinema history.

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Mulligan has recently stood out in Drive, Shame, The Great Gatsby and Inside Llewyn Davis. Oscar winner Dame Helen has an heiress apparent.

GONE WITH THE WIND *KOMA: Kainrath’s Œuvres of modern art

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Talent alone can’t rescue a poor script: That was a maxim of six-time Oscar winner Billy Wilder. It’s now a favorite excuse of film actors with hindsight, and a prior need for cash.

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roar talent

godzilla

The Jack Nicholson of monsters: penetrating gaze, icy grin, fire beneath.

Back on the big screen—for the 29th time—in May.

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The Christian Bale of sea creatures: potential to snap at any moment.

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The Brad Pitt of dogs: magnificent hair, but no Oscar.

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When votes were counted for the first Oscars, in 1929, canine star Rin Tin Tin was top in the Best Actor category, but the Academy wouldn’t throw the dog a bone. Other big-screen beasts have shown Oscar-winner-like qualities.

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red bull air race, the world’s fastest motorsportS series, is back in the skies.

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Racing in the clouds

Abu Dhabi stages the first event of this year’s Red Bull Air Race.

Next up: Croatia in April.

“ I love doing it. I’m an adrenalinE junkie.

I have to go back to it.”

PILOT Kirby chambliss

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Brazil

In 2007, Rio de Janeiro became the first South American city to host a Red Bull Air Race event.

lessed with a Texan’s natural ability to tell you exactly what he thinks, Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss is not a man to mince words. Today, however, the transatlantic phone lines are doing their best to do just that for him.

As every third sentence whirls away in a whoosh of clanging electronica, it’s hard to pin down just what the double champion is saying, but when the veteran flier talks about his motivation to return to Red Bull Air Race again after the series took an almost four-year hiatus, he’s crystal clear.

“It’s just me, it’s what I do,” he says. “I’ll tell you, I don’t like the international travel, all the logistics, that’s a nightmare. And as regards safety, well, I have a 9-year-old kid now, so it wasn’t an easy decision. But I definitely want to be a part of it.

I love doing it. I’m an adrenaline junkie … I have to go back to it.”

A couple of days later, fellow Red Bull Air Race World Championship pilot Nigel Lamb is echoing Chambliss’s enthusiasm. “I’ve earned a living for nearly 30 years doing air displays, but to me the Red Bull Air Race is the pinnacle of what I’ve done in that time,” he says. “To go back to air racing is really what I want to do. It’s a no-brainer.”

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into the air has been a far more complex procedure.

After seven years, the series had, by the eve of the 2010 championship, become an unwieldy beast. With average crowds in 2009 topping half a million at each stop, the logistics and finances required to haul the series around the world had become burdensome.

It wasn’t only on the ground that issues were becoming apparent, however. In the air, too, problems were arising as a technical arms race pushed planes to their limits. When logistical issues forced the cancellation of the final two rounds of the championship, enough was enough. The series was grounded.

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our years have passed since then, and the championship has been reinvented with new rules, new formats, and a fresh approach to safety, as new series CEO Erich Wolf explains.

“The real business started at the beginning of 2013, and from that moment on we had to sign contracts with all the locations and relaunch the sport from an aviation point of view,” he says. “However, we also realized we have to open it up to new pilots. We will have a Super License class of 12 pilots, who are competing in a certain schedule, in a certain format. But there will be a second class of pilots, the Challenger class, which is open for qualified pilots, male or female, on a global scale.

“We have also simplified the rules in order to make it easier to understand for the consumer, the spectator on site and for fans watching on TV.” The safety matters that raised concerns in 2010 have been dealt with via the introduction of a number of standard parts, a change designed to put an end to the engine arms race that had begun to develop in the sport. Also, in a bid to improve safety, the fabric pylons used to delineate the course have been raised from 65 feet to 82 feet in height, a small increase but one that Head of Aviation Sergio Pla says will make a big difference. “It may not look like much, but in the plane, reaction time is much better than before. We didn’t have any surprises in training. The pilots have a big margin of time and the altitude to resolve it. It makes a dramatic difference.

New locations have also been sourced, with the city-based tracks the series previously favored giving way to a mix of circuits over land, water, and, in a new development, more races in controlled environments—such as U.S. speedways, which turn out to be ideal locations for air races as well.

“Red Bull Air Race is a motorsport, and we should go to the home of motorsports,” Wolf says.

“We have to provide the spectators with the best quality venues, so they can see the whole racetrack.

They should also have food and beverage services and parking. These locations are huge, plus the venue is prepared already. You have grandstands

“ we have simplified the rules to make it easier to understand.”

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American aviator Michael Goulian prepares for takeoff in the 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Championship.

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Matthias Dolderer of Germany wows the crowds during the 2010 Red Bull Air Race Qualifying Day.

there that hold 200,000 spectators, and they have the best view of the track. U.S. speedways are a perfect venue for us. However you’ll still find us in city centers as well.”

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he pilots, too, are enthusiastic about the changes that have taken place, with Lamb insisting that the standardized engines introduced will result in closer, more exciting competition.

“The engines thing I think is just fantastic, and it was something that I always argued for,” he says. “It makes sense on many levels. From a safety point of view it is definitely relevant, from a cost point of view it is relevant, but also most importantly it just creates a much better, even playing field, where it is not all checkbook driven. You will find that the margins of power are much less between the best and the worst, and I think it sets up the potential for an absolutely fantastic 2014 season.”

Chambliss is also optimistic, and while he acknowledges that Red Bull Air Race 2014 is likely to be a flight into the unknown, he’s more than happy to strap himself in for the ride.

“My goal is always to win. I’m not going to just play,” he says. “Some friends said it would be really nice if you could go, just cruise it and take it easy, but what I say is, sure, enjoy it, but remember why you’re there, that you’ve won the nationals five times and that you’re a very competitive person. So I’ll get the plane as close as I can, I’ll think about the fastest way to get from this gate to the next one. I’ll be doing the same thing I’ve always done—trying to win. That’s what I do.”

Getting the planes as close to the edge as possible is also what the Red Bull Air Race has been redesigned to do, this time in the right conditions and in the right arenas, as Pla insists. “This is the most exciting motorsport in existence,” he says. “We’re the fastest series in the world. You really shouldn’t miss it.”

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1 Airspeed Indicator This shows the plane’s speed in knots relative to the air.

2 Altimeter Indicates the aircraft’s altitude in feet above a reference level by measuring the static air pressure.

EFIS (Electronic Flight information System) Gives the pilot lap information.

The touchscreen can switch between display modes.

It also sends speed or G-force info to the Race Tower.

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After a flight, info is downloaded for analysis. The switch on top is a voice alarm that warns the pilot in case of any system failure.

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7 Pedals The pedals direct the plane to the left or right on the ground.

In flight, they are used to activate the rudder.

8 Propeller Control Adjusts the pitch of the propeller blades.

Used to switch between the three fuel tanks: right wing, left wing, and main tank. Planes burn around .5 gallons of fuel per minute in the air.

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6 G-Meter Shows how many Gs are being pulled. Pilots must not exceed 10 G.

10 Smoke On/Off Toggled at the start of a run to emit colored smoke and attract attention.

9 Radio For talking to race

11 Start button Fires it up!

12 Stick Left or right causes the plane to roll, forwards pitches the nose down, backwards pitches it up.

13 Throttle control The power control.

14 Transponder Relays information to the tower concerning the plane’s position and altitude.

15 Vertical Card Compass Indicates the plane’s heading.

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Return of the king defending champion Paul Bonhomme admits he has been consumed by racing in the past, but in 2014 he’ll just enjoy the ride.

when they were watching celebrations of them landing on the moon and Aldrin said: “Hey Neil, I guess we missed the whole goddamn thing.” That’s how I think about the championship now.

Before, I was so tied up in it that I think I missed the whole thing. So I’m looking forward to going back this year and enjoying it. One of the things I want to improve on is my ability to just smile my way through the race.

Are you smiling at the moment?

Not much. In fact, I’d say stress levels are running fairly high. Once we’re in Abu Dhabi [for the season opener] it will be fine, but right now it’s a little

“ My first goal for the 2014 season is not to scare myself. the second is to win.”

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bit nail-biting. It will be a race to get everything ready in time. Also, if I knew how to find an advantage in the new regulations, I’d be happier, but I have no idea how it will pan out. Now that we’ll all have the same power, weight is going to be even more important, which, for me, isn’t great. I’m one of the heavier pilots, and if I’ve got to make 180 pounds, then I suspect that’s going to be a bit too much to ask. I’m 6 feet 1 inch and ... wide-boned! It’s going to come down to a blend of pilot skill and aerodynamics. I think in terms of aerodynamics we’re OK, we’ve got a pretty slick airplane, but you never know.

What’s your No. 1 goal for the 2014 season?

Not to frighten myself. If I manage not to scare myself, then by default it should be a fairly safe year, and that’s the most important thing. The second most important thing is to win. So, to be safe, not frighten myself, to win and, like I said, to enjoy it. I think that whatever order you put those in it should all work out … I think! the red bulletin

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Double Red Bull Air Race champion Paul Bonhomme: “It’s going to come down to a blend of pilot skill and aerodynamics.”

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the red bulletin: Are you happy to be going back to the Red Bull Air Race? paul bonhomme: I will be as long as I win. I say to my kids: “Listen, it’s not the taking part that matters, it’s the winning that counts.” That sounds flippant, but to me that’s why you enter a competition— because you want to win. I can’t see the day I would ever turn up knowing I was going to be last and just doing it for a laugh. If I was doing that I could just go flying on my days off.

Will you be approaching the championship differently this time?

I’ll admit I did get slightly consumed by doing well. It’s tempting to say it didn’t bother me, I was just out there for fun, but you don’t get anywhere like that.

You’ve got to be consumed by it to do well. I had a pretty intense rivalry with Hannes [Arch], and I think actually if you asked him, and if he was honest, he’d say, yes, he was consumed by it too.

Was the decision to return easy to make?

I had to think long and hard about it. It did take me a while to make the decision because my life’s changed in the years the series has been away. I’ve got three small children and an older stepson, so the house is very different compared to when I started in the Red Bull Air Race.

I’ve got a very understanding wife, though, and she echoed what I had been thinking, which was: “Go and do well, but enjoy it. Have a good time rather than it being all-consuming.”

What comes to mind is the remark that Buzz Aldrin made to Neil Armstrong

The new air force How does a sport that rewards decades of experience bring UP young racing talent? Simple, give them their own piece of sky to race in.

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here aren’t too many sports in which the cult of youth is turned on its head, but the Red Bull Air Race is one. With the 2014 field having an average age of 45, this is a sport in which the voice of experience shouts loudest.

The dilemma, then, is how to progress younger pilots through the ranks. The answer is for the series to groom a new generation of air racers through a dedicated competition, the Challenger Cup. The event will see a select band of new pilots race supplied planes on a simplified track designed to hone their skills. The goal will be for the pilots to obtain a Super License and graduate to the main series.

“They will fly with much less pressure than the race teams,” says Head of Aviation Sergio Pla. “All of them will attend at least two training camps before their first race, which means that they are having at least two to three times the training time pilots had in the past [when coming to the series].

The safety margin in air racing is not big, so we need mature people who know what they are doing.”

Ensuring that the younger pilots have the necessary maturity is psychologist and Red Bull Air Race Crew and Safety Manager Christian Czihak.

“You can be an experienced jet pilot or aerobatic pilot, but it is different to fly around a race track less than 150 feet off the ground—totally different,” he insists.

“You may have the skill set, but it does not mean that you can do it automatically.

What we were looking for are people who can complete the goal under stress or trauma. It is often not about how much risk they are willing to take, but how much risk they are able to take and whether they can stay within the rules.”

Red Bull Air Race CEO Erich Wolf is convinced the competition will eventually shake up the pilot order. “I am sure they will challenge the current pilots pretty soon. In 2015 we will see some new faces.”

The 2014 Red Bull Air Race starts in Abu Dhabi and finishes in China.

High-G turns can induce tunnel vision and blackouts.

Feel the Force Imagine trying to bench press a small car half a dozen times in a minute and you’ll have some idea of just what kind of physical punishment Red Bull Air Race pilots endure during a racing lap. weighing in Red Bull Air Race pilots are subject to extreme forces in flight. For 2014, pilots will be limited to 10G, meaning that during the tightest turns the pilot’s body weight is 10 times its normal figure. For a 175-pound pilot it’s like having a small car dumped onto his chest. “It’s like being hit with a sledgehammer,” says defending champion Paul Bonhomme. “The moment of G onset is the hardest. In less than half a second you go to 10-12 times your body weight. You’ve got to concentrate at not losing consciousness. If you keep pulling Gs you’ll gray out.”

In the gray area Grayout occurs due to blood being forced to the body’s lower extremities when

under high G-forces. The subsequent lowering of blood pressure in the brain causes vision to dim, a precursor to blacking out.

“You can combat it by squeezing your stomach muscles,” says pilot Nigel Lamb. “And if you contract your stomach and your thigh muscles just for a second you’ll restrict the blood going downward and your head will clear.”

Suiting Up While the series’ pilots are used to using muscle contractions to beat the effects of high-G turns, the now mandatory G-Race suit helps the pilot perform the task far more effectively.

Manufactured by German company Autoflug, the suit reduces the need for muscle

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The mandatory G-Race suit works when G-forces cause water-filled tubes that run the length of the suit to squeeze the pilot, thus preventing the downward flow of blood when under high Gs. Normal blood flow

contraction on the part of the pilot by using waterfilled “fluid muscles” and non-stretch fabrics. The suit builds up a counter pressure that combats the effect of high-G loads on the pilot, reducing the movement of blood to the lower extremities. “The suit compresses your legs and abdomen,” says Bonhomme.

“Instead of tensing yourself, the suit does it for you and that gives you about a 1.5 G benefit. It might not seem much, but where it really works is in reducing fatigue.”

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The Plane Facts Aerodynamics

With the powerplant and its ancillaries being standardized, it’s likely that pilots will start to look elsewhere for an edge over their rivals. Improving the aerodynamics of a plane is the first step.

The Propeller

The propeller for 2014 has been standardized, with all teams set to use the socalled “Claw” from the American manufacturer Hartzell, as well as the company’s carbon-fiber composite spinner.

The Engine

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Unlike its steel-frame-fuselage rivals, the MXS-R, developed specifically for racing by MX Aircraft from its MXS plane, features a carbon-fiber monocoque fuselage, meaning it’s extremely light and strong but cannot be substantially modified. The lightness does contribute speed, however, which is the plane’s great strength.

technical data MANUFACTURER: MX Aircraft, USA

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LENGTH: 21.35 ft.

ENGINE: Lycoming AEIO-540-EXP (Tuner: Thunderbolt)

WINGSPAN: 24 ft. standard WEIGHT: 1,260 lbs.

POWER: Approximately 300 hp TOP SPEED: 265 mph ROLL RATE: 420°/sec

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WING DESIGN: Symmetric, carbon fiber PROPELLER: Hartzell

In previous years teams were required to use engines built by American manufacturer Lycoming, but they were then allowed to send them to outside tuning houses. The 2014 season will see teams limited to Lycoming’s Thunderbolt AEIO-540EXP engine.

Data analysis

One school of thought says that with no engine advantage, pilots will begin looking at their own input in order to improve lap times. And that will come through F1-style telemetry systems. The information will allow pilots to tailor their flying to get close to the best possible lap time.

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The last piece of the standardization jigsaw is the exhaust system.

Constructed from lightweight materials by American company Sky Dynamics, this will be tailored for use with whatever model plane the pilots use.

In any form of motorsports, the pursuit of performance advantage is always shrouded in mystery. The Red Bull Air Race of the past was no less complex in its drive to get the edge, but when all the subtle modifications were boiled down, the essential target for the pilots was simple— maximizing power against weight.

The desire to extract maximum power from the engine and to simultaneously lighten its load by taking weight from the plane led the series down a potentially dangerous path. So for 2014, the playing field has been equalized among all the competitors with the introduction of standardized engines, propellers, and exhausts.

It’s a move welcomed by pilot Nigel Lamb. “It makes sense on many levels,” he insists. “Not being able to tweak engines makes it relevant from a safety perspective, and from a cost point of view it is definitely relevant. Most importantly, it creates a much better level playing field.”

The bottom line for 2014 is that the Red Bull Air Race will no longer be a power play, and pilots will have to look elsewhere for the edge needed to stand on the top step of the podium.

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Corvus CA-41 Racer

The plane of choice for most pilots, the Edge has been the title-winning plane in every season. It utilizes a steel-tube frame, which, though not as light as composite materials, is, according to company boss Eric Zivko, more practical. In 2014, two versions are used: the old V2 and the new V3.

The Corvus Racer was developed by Corvus Aircraft and Institute of Aviation at the University of Budapest, in Hungary, with input from Peter Besenyei, who has been flying it since the Red Bull Air Race round at Windsor in 2010.

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icolas Cage is a man of extremes.

He was married (very briefly) to the daughter of Elvis Presley and named his second son, Kal-El, after the birth name of Superman. He has owned haunted houses and been haunted for real by the taxman. First and foremost he has played characters of a variety and manic energy that most of his colleagues shy way from—angels and alcoholics, sorcerers and soldiers—for which he has garnered awards, including an Oscar, as well as scathing reviews, and became the object of both sneers and cultish reverence. These contradictions notwithstanding, he comes across in conversation as a man in harmony with himself and also a proficient teller of tales— about the alien creature who grew into Nicolas Cage. the red bulletin: Do you think about death? nicolas cage: It is wise to think about death from time to time. I am working on my natural fear of death, because it is a better way of life not to harbor such feelings. And I am by no means a master of that.

But I am definitely in no rush to leave.

So why did you pick up a cottonmouth viper with your bare hands when filming your most recent movie, Joe? Its poison is potentially lethal.

Because it relaxes me.

Couldn’t you think of a less suicidal method?

I discovered doing adventure films that one of the things that relaxes me is stunts. When I drive a car at 100 mph and dodge other cars and try to not hit the wall, it’s like a meditation. Also, I am one of those people that the more coffee I drink the more relaxed I am. Now that day on Joe I was filming a very complicated scene, and my adrenaline was going in the wrong direction. So I asked director David Gordon Green would he mind if I picked up the snake.

He said: “You have to promise me you’re not going to die. Otherwise I’ll look like a real jackass.”

And I said: “I promise you, and I will finish the scene.” the red bulletin

So when I took the snake, it was more about the surfing of the adrenaline, so I could get control of my own anxiety in order to play the scene—and in the end I gently tossed it into the grass and said, “Don’t kill it, it’s a friend of mine.”

Why aren’t you scared in such situations?

There is always an element of fear, but it is the fear itself that makes me want to face it. Because I have to break its power, which means I have to immerse myself in that very thing that scares me so it loses its hold over me.

It sounds as if you have had other hair-raising encounters?

That’s right. Some years ago I went diving in a shark cage in South Africa to confront a great white, because that was one of my most primal fears. It wound up being a remarkably calm, gorgeous experience. There was this massive shark staring at me, and I felt a strange connection with this awesome animal. I also went to the swampland in New Orleans, where I used to live.

There was this 800-pound alligator. I saw him from the surface of the water looking up at me; he looked like a dinosaur.

What did you do?

I fed him marshmallows. They like that.

Perhaps the profession of an adventurer would’ve been more appropriate.

In fact, I made the contract with myself when I was 16 that if acting didn’t work out, I was going to become a fisherman or merchant marine. My first love is the ocean. I feel there is an almost indescribable calm that comes over me when I’m near the water, where I can actually feel every cell in my body relaxing.

But you seem quite relaxed now.

Because with acting I found an outlet for the energy and passion in me—and at one time anger. Without it I might have made mistakes that would have been irreversible. I could have gone in the wrong direction.

Why anger?

I wasn’t popular at school, and that was painful, because I wasn’t able to connect with people.

I can remember being shocked when I would come back as a child from the doctor’s office that I had normal organs and that I had a normal skeleton.

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of proportion in terms of excessive spending. the feeling that something else I simply had to put my money somewhere, I was in store for me, that there didn’t believe in banks, so I invested in real was some purpose. estate. But then the whole market went in the And these negative feelings wrong direction, and I got caught up in it. have evaporated?

Oscar Oscar marriages children noms But I am feeling good. I am still passionate I am not an angry man. I had my and blessed to be working with some of the moments. I find life is much easier best people in the business. And ultimately when you’re not angry. I am happy everything happens for a reason. to be on this planet. I am all about That’s easy enough to say, but what my family and my kids. But I’d exactly is the reason in this instance? rather stay home and play toys with Since then, I have found a different lifestyle my son and watch him grow up. for myself that keeps me in touch with So why was show business the humanity. I live with my family in a house first option?

Percentage of positive Reviews of cage Film in the Mojave Desert. I am not behind This may have had to do with my Red Rock West (1993) a gate anymore, I am not on some yacht or father [August Coppola, a literature some private jet somewhere, tucked away. professor and brother of famed Percentage of positive I get to interact with people every day, director Francis Ford Coppola]. He did reviews of cage Film which is a much better way to be. a lot to stimulate my imagination. For Deadfall (1993) You’ve also seemed to change your choice example, we would do this game of movies. Joe is a far cry from the where we would take a classic novel Ag e d iffe r en ce bizarre action spectacles you did in and I would write a new chapter. I did in y ea rs b e tw een the recent past. it on Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, h im a n d h is That’s true I am in the process of Huxley’s Brave New World, and Moby cu r r en t ( t hir d ) w ife , A l i ce K im reinventing myself in terms of the movies Dick. Also, when I was a boy, he built I want to do. I am returning to my roots, me a wooden castle in our backyard. I purchase price of a dinosaur skull which is independently spirited, dramatic spent most of my hours there. This was bought by cage at auction in 2007 characters. Before Joe, I had taken a year my protective bubble, where I would off to re-evaluate everything I had done, nurture my imagination and play different kinds of performances I had done, different characters, which helped me the more operatic and more baroque stuff a lot with acting eventually. like Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Drive Weren’t you and your father Angry, or Season of the Witch. I wanted to alienated from each other for ta x l i a b i l i t i e s , 2 0 1 0 find something where I could use my life some years? experience, my memories, and my emotions.

But we were very close in the last Do you regret some of your choices? five years before his death in 2008.

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Competitors received a blessing from members of the local Inhaa-Be tribe before setting off.

t’s 3 a.m. in the heart of the Amazon jungle, and members of the Indian tribe called Inhaa-Be are wearing flashlights attached to their foreheads. It is hot and humid here, with the temperature rising past 82°F. Four Indians dance, evoking courage and support of the gods to the kirimbawas—the name given to the great warriors of the tribe. A fifth, an elderly woman, walks in circles, carrying a basket in which grass is burning. “This is to purify our souls,” she says, spreading the smoke.

The tribespeople are at the start of Red Bull Kirimbawa, a multisport relay race of running, mountain biking, and kayaking made up of 90 elite athletes divided into 30 teams of three. One of the runners is Pericles Villaca. “Running here is like running on a treadmill inside a sauna,” says the 39-yearold Brazilian. “The jungle is extreme: Very hot and humid.”

Pericles and the other 29 runners slept at the start, reclining on hammocks. They didn’t get a good night’s sleep. Fernanda Maciel, 33, was bitten by an insect and woke up at 2 a.m. with a swollen eye. “When I finally managed to settle, this bug bit me.

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Athletes had to cross a river on the final, exhausting stretch of the run.

“I couldn’t DECIDE what was worse: THE soaking RIDE IN THE shadows or the heat of the sun.”

Stage two of the race involved mountain biking over 53 miles of deep mud.

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Red Bull Kirimbawa competitors had to contend with the sweltering midday sun and the strong currents of the Amazon, Negro, and Solimões rivers in the 31-mile-long kayak part of the race.

through dense Amazon forest, over bumpy roads and even across rivers.

With the sun rising behind the trees, the first runner to finish completes this initial part of the challenge in 3 hours and 15 minutes, managing to tell, through heaving breaths, of a “fast, black animal” that crossed his path during the race.

The first riders to start the muddy 53 miles of ups-and-downs on their mountain bikes didn’t know what to expect. “It’s impossible to know the depth of some muddy holes during the track,” says Rubens Donizete. The 34-year-old nevertheless managed to finish first, crossing the finish line at a Brazilian Army base with a time of 2 hours and 55 minutes. “About one mile in, I started to pour with sweat and didn’t stop.

It’s unbelievable; it was impossible to get dry,” he says, a few moments out of the saddle, arms and legs still shaking with adrenaline. “And then at the end there was this very open, hot stretch. I couldn’t decide what was worse: the soaking ride in the shadows or the heat straight from the sun.”

The merciless late-morning sun makes the work of the kayakers more demanding than they had imagined. Struggling against the tides of three rivers—the the red bulletin

“ I have never been in such a hard race in my life.

I had the most terrible time.”

Amazon, Negro, and Solimões—eight of the 30 boatmen drop out before the finish line in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state in Brazil. The fastest time was 5 hours, 30 minutes; the slowest just over 7 hours.

“I had never been in such a hard race in my life,” Marcelo Lins, the canoeist on the winning team, says later that day.

“I have bruises all over my hands, I had the most terrible time with the heat and the thirst, but after managing to finish the race, I can consider myself a warrior.” www.redbull.com

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sebastian copeland

The Iceman

The British explorer and filmmaker has crossed Antarctica with broken ribs, explored Greenland by kite, and is friends with Leonardo DiCaprio. Here he tells us his survival tips.

the red bulletin: When you crossed Greenland in 2010, you and your expedition partner, Eric McNair-Landry, had to sit out a blizzard for seven days in your tent. How did you stop yourselves from going crazy? sebastian copeland: Adrenaline keeps you alert, to start with. I was worried the storm would damage the tent. Then, getting to sleep became a problem. The wind shook the sides of the tent at speeds of up to 80 mph. It felt like camping in a jet turbine.

What did you both talk about?

The thing is, you don’t go on a polar expedition with the aim of making friends for life. You seek out a professional like Eric who in all likelihood is going to see the mission through. We didn’t have any profound discussions about our childhoods.

We spent most of the day in thought; we played the odd game of chess.

What’s the most important mental quality an explorer is required to have for a polar expedition?

Your head is more important than your body—that’s beyond question. The physical preparation is the easy part.

You go to the gym and you get in shape.

Dealing with pain is more difficult.

One part of my training involves me putting on a 110-pound vest and trekking through the mountains for two hours.

Obviously, you’re completely exhausted after five minutes, but you’ve got to get through it, even if it hurts. If you flag on an exercise like that, what business have you got going to Antarctica?

When you were in Greenland, you traveled on skis and were pulled along by a kite and set a new record for traveling that way: 370 miles in 24 hours. When did you eat?

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We cooked meals in snowmelt in the morning and evening. You can buy almost all foods in dehydrated form: beef bourguignon, fettuccine alfredo.

You need a lot of fat and carbs. I ate Brazil nuts between stages. They have the best weight-calorie ratio. You need to be scientifically rigorous when choosing your provisions. Every calorie is counted.

In your photography and film

“You don’t sleep well when 80 mph winds shake the tent. It’s like camping in a jet turbine.” projects, you seek to address the risks of climate change. What’s the most difficult thing about raising environmental awareness?

We’re increasingly isolated from the consequences of our actions. Your electricity bill, your trash disposal, it’s all dealt with easily just by you writing a check. But when you’re living in a tent in the snow for weeks

at a time, you become aware of every single tin can. You think to yourself, “What idiot chose to camp here?”

How did you get Leonardo DiCaprio to write the introduction to your book of photography, The Global Warning?

I work for an environmental organization called Green Cross International and helped prepare an initiati­ve for the Earth Summit in Johannesburg with Leo in 2002. After that he started coming to my presentations. I consider Leo to be one of the most committed environmentalists from the world of show business.

You can believe what this man says.

You broke two ribs right at the beginning of your 2011 Antarctic expedition. How did you persevere for the remaining 75 days?

I fell on a sastruga, an ice formation shaped by the wind, during a kiting maneuver. Ironically, I’d met an adventurer friend for dinner in Cape Town a couple of days before. He told me about how he’d broken a rib once during an expedition. I asked, “What did you do?” He answered, “Took painkillers and soldiered on.” And I took that as advice after my own accident because I knew that he’d managed with a broken rib.

What lessons do you take from your expeditions into everyday life?

First, that problems don’t solve themselves by you moaning about them. Secondly, learn some humility. Expeditions require you to have a strong ego but there’s no more efficient way of learning humility than being exposed to the elements in a desert of ice. You get out of the plane, set foot on the ice, and you know that you have 2,500 miles ahead of you. sebastiancopelandadventures.com the red bulletin

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Sebastian Copeland on his way to the North Pole in 2009: “Problems aren’t solved by moaning.”

Born April 3, 1964 Copeland on Film Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul (2010) is a documentary about his 375mile trek to the North Pole.

Hell on Ice (2013) is about him kiting his way 1,400 miles across Greenland.

Minus-Ten Degrees to Six Degrees Copeland is a cousin of actor Orlando Bloom, and was married to the model and actress Brigitte Nielsen from 1990-92

Hayden Nickell does a trick on a highline above the Las Vegas Strip.

High-altitude slacklining takes tightrope walking to the next level—a nerve-racking test of balance on a swaying rope hundreds of feet in the air.

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In October, several highliners walked across the chasm between buildings at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

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ne inch is the length of a blade of grass, a baby carrot, a toothpick. It is the proverbial next to nothing.

But for slackliners, this tiniest of measurements is the key to their sport.

First, a definition: Slacklining is not tightrope walking. No offense to Nik Wallenda and his recent mammoth Niagara Falls and Grand Canyon crossings, but slacklining is a different discipline altogether. A tightrope, as the name implies, is a half-inch wire stretched taut. There is no give to the line, and the performer’s balance and center of gravity is augmented by carrying a pole dozens of feet long.

Slacklining takes place on inch-wide stretchy webbing anchored across a gap.

Because it is pliable, a slackline is responsive to the elements—in particular the wind and the movement of athletes as they walk across. While a tightrope just lies there, a slackline oscillates, and walkers can end up clinging to a line that’s behaving like a jump rope whipped around by a sugar-fueled elementary school kid.

Andy Lewis sets his own highline before nailing his worldrecord-setting walk at the Mandalay Bay.

WHILE A TIGHTROPE JUST LIES THERE, A SLACKLINE OSCILLATES AND TAKES WALKERS FOR A RIDE.

The safety leash used by highliners is attached at one point on the body, usually either the ankle or waist.

“Instead of controlling the line and walking it, you’re along for the ride,” says Hayden Nickell, a 22-year-old professional slackliner from Nederland, Colorado. “You have to walk in these weird intervals. As the line goes up, you have moments where you can take eight steps. At the opposite, you’re out of control and you’re at the mercy of the line and the wind.”

Once relegated to parks and beaches as a hobby of the hippier-than-thou, slacklining is now branching out into professional disciplines: tricklining, where performers combine gymnastics and choreography at competitions; urbanlining, which eschews the chasms of nature for the canyons between 60

buildings; and yogalining, which adds asanas for those balancing on the line.

The most spectacular incarnation, though, is highlining, where a slackline is rigged hundreds of feet in the air, in aweinspiring locations both natural and manmade—Yosemite National Park, Hell Roaring Canyon in Utah, the Las Vegas Strip—bringing national attention to this nascent daredevil sport. Protected from falling by nothing more than a leash around their waist or ankle, slackliners constantly respond to the dynamic changes in balance underfoot.

“It’s like surfing,” Nickell says. “You wait for the good set to come in. You wait for the wind to die out and then you have

a 15-to-20-minute window to go out there and do your thing. Then another set of wind will come in and you back off for a minute.”

The wind gives the highline an ominous sound, an eerie plucked bass note as the webbing reverberates in between its anchors. When a walker looks ahead on a slackline, the brain can only register a certain amount of height through its 45 degrees of peripheral vision—at more than 100 feet in the air, it’s pretty much a wash, Nickell says. Going up higher—300, 400, 500 feet—doesn’t create a perceptible difference. But that’s when the chattering monkeys in your head start up.

“In your mind, you’re thinking ‘instant the red bulletin

“ T here’s no respect for Skill Anymore.

People are afraid to take risks nowadays.”

Falling is terrifying for all the obvious reasons—and getting back into position is an additional challenge.

After a tumble and a catch by the safety leash, a highliner has to pull himself up on a bouncing line.

death’ as opposed to only being merely mangled at the bottom,” Nickell says.

“The highline is a direct reflection of how you’re feeling on the inside. If you’re nervous, if you’re thinking about anything, all of a sudden the line is all f*cked up and you’re like, ‘Ohhhh no!’ ” For the sport’s adherents, it’s this blend of acute concentration and life-ordeath risk that makes the pursuit of slacklining a near-spiritual endeavor.

Andy Lewis, 27, has a résumé that should be the envy of any athlete in a niche sport: He holds multiple slackline world records: In October 2013, he set the urban highlining world record by walking a 360-foot-long line 480 feet up at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. He’s been the star of numerous scenery-porn slackline videos in gorgeous locales—he lives in Moab, Utah—and he performed alongside Madonna during the halftime show at the 2012 Super Bowl.

But, honestly, he couldn’t care less about all that.

“Why can’t I call slacklining a religion?” he asks. “The lifestyle behind slacklining has all the metaphors: One step at a time. Keep in balance. Control your fate. It directly translates to life.”

Lewis has the word “Slacklife” tattooed on his arm and earned the nickname Sketchy Andy from his more adrenalinefueled endeavors, including BASE jumping off slacklines and free-solo highlining, where he doesn’t wear a protective leash as he walks across lines hundreds of feet up. Lewis believes that pushing the limits is the essence of slacklining, and as the sport continues to grow, he will conquer longer and higher and more dazzling lines to feed his soul— even if it terrifies the public.

“People don’t want to watch you do things like that,” Lewis says. “But it’s horrible that today in life, there’s no respect for skill anymore. People are too afraid to take risks nowadays. All these f*cking pussies all over the place, they won’t even let their kids scrape their f*cking knees. Risk isn’t bad—you can be the safest motherf*cker on the planet and die when you crash your car.” www.slacklink.org

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When Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston in February 50 years ago, sports changed, politics changed, what it meant to be black in America changed ... the world changed. Today, the power still resonates.

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On Feb. 25, 1964, a young man named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. entered a boxing ring in Miami and stood opposite Sonny Liston.

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n the early 1960s, sport was one of few areas in American life where blacks could compete on equal footing with whites. But in many respects, sports reflected the old order. Black athletes could become stars, but only within guidelines dictated by the establishment.

The heavyweight championship was the most coveted title in sports. The man who held the crown was supposed to be a role model. That meant being modest,

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Cassius Clay, the Louisville Lip, lands a left on Sonny Liston, the Big Bear, at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Feb. 25, 1964.

respectful of authority, and accepting of a class structure that denominated black Americans as second-class citizens. Clay himself later said, “Many black people thought it was better to be white.”

Clay defied that stereotype. In 1961, he’d met a man named Sam Saxon, one of a small group of adherents known to the media as Black Muslims, who followed the black separatist teachings of the selfproclaimed messenger of the Nation of Islam, named Elijah Muhammad. Clay accepted Saxon’s invitation to attend a Nation of Islam service at a Miami temple and thereafter was indoctrinated with the tenets of the religion.

The Nation of Islam taught that white people were devils who had been genetically created by an evil scientist with a big head named Mr. Yacub. It maintained that there was a wheelshaped Mother of Planes half a mile wide manned by black men in the sky, and that, on Allah’s chosen day of retribution, 1,500 planes from the Mother of Planes would drop deadly explosives destroying all but the righteous on Earth. Neither

of these views are part of traditional Islamic thought or find justification in the Quran. Moreover, while the concepts of Heaven and Hell are central to traditional Islamic doctrine, the National of Islam rejected both. More significantly, as far as most Americans were concerned, Islam adheres to the premise that hearts and souls have no color. Nation of Islam ministers preached that, for black Americans, integration meant destruction. It wasn’t public knowledge that Clay was a convert to the Nation of Islam at the time he fought Liston, but the young fighter felt that a powerful force was on his side.

Betty Shabazz, the wife of Malcolm X, a follower of Elijah Muhammad, later recalled, “My husband indoctrinated [Clay] continuously about the fact that, not only was he young, strong and skillful; he was a man who believed in God. They talked continuously about how David slew Goliath, and how God would not allow someone who believed in him to fail, regardless of how powerful the opponent was.” the red bulletin

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Liston was heavyweight champion of the world and a cold, menacing presence.

After a stint in prison for armed robbery, he’d found employment as a strong-arm man for organized crime. Then the mob decided to promote him as a fighter.

He won and successfully defended the heavyweight championship by knocking out Floyd Patterson twice. Each time, he needed only slightly more than two minutes to accomplish the task.

Many in the boxing community thought of Liston as unbeatable.

“I remember being very nervous that night,” Pulitzer Prize–winning writer David Halberstam later acknowledged.

“Clay seemed so young and vulnerable.

And I remember caring about what would happen to him, being frightened that a dark shadow would fall over him, because Liston seemed to be what he was supposed to be.”

Clay later admitted, “Just before the fight, when the referee was giving us instructions, Liston was giving me that stare. I won’t lie; I was scared. Sonny Liston hit hard and he was fixing to kill me. But I was there. I didn’t have no choice but to go out and fight. The first round, I was dancing, moving back, and side-to-side. I hit him with a couple of combinations, and he got me once with a right hand to the stomach. At the end of the round, I went back to my corner and I felt good because I knew I could survive.”

Something on Liston’s gloves gave Clay eye trouble. He came back to the corner after the fourth round, shouting, ‘I can’t see!’ Midway through round five, his vision cleared.

Liston quit before round seven.

In round three of the Liston fight, Clay went on the offensive. Mort Sharnik, then a young sportswriter, would recount the moment when the tide turned.

“Liston had seemed indestructible,” Sharnik reminisced. “But Cassius had incredibly swift hands and a manner of punching where he twisted his fist at the moment of impact, which had the effect of a pretty sharp knife. He hit Liston with a one-two combination; a jab followed by a straight right. It was like the armor plate on a battleship being pierced. Cassius pulled his jab back, and there was a mouse [a severe bruise] underneath Sonny’s right eye. Then he pulled his right hand back and there was a gash underneath the other eye. Liston’s skin had seemed so thick; I didn’t think it could possibly burst like that. And I said to myself, ‘My God! Cassius Clay is winning this fight.’ ” Then things got complicated.

In round four, Clay began having trouble with his vision. A caustic substance—most likely an astringent illegally rubbed on Liston’s gloves by one of his cornermen, after the third round— temporarily blinded the challenger.

Clay’s trainer, Angelo Dundee, later recalled, “Cassius came back to the corner after the fourth round and started shouting, ‘I can’t see! My eyes!’

Something was wrong. His eyes were watery. He was saying, ‘Cut the gloves off! We’re going home!’ You can imagine what was going through his mind. He was winning the fight, and all of a sudden he can’t see. I told him, ‘Forget the bullshit.

This is the championship. Sit down.’

I pushed him down, took a towel, and started cleaning out his eyes. Then I threw the towel away, grabbed a sponge, rinsed his eyes and threw the sponge away.

I got his mouthpiece back in, stood him up and said, ‘This is the big one, Daddy. Stay away from him. Run!’ ” Just going out for the fifth round was an incredibly brave thing to do, said Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, Clay’s physician. “It was like blinding someone and then sending

him out to fight Mike Tyson. Cassius was absolutely brilliant then. The things he did, staying out of range, reaching out with his left hand, touching Liston when he got too close, to break Sonny’s concentration. It was an amazing, astonishing, breathtaking performance.

Here’s a fighter who’s supposed to be Godzilla, who will reign for maybe a thousand years. Nobody can stand up to him. Cassius can’t see and still Liston couldn’t do anything with him.”

Midway through round five, Clay’s vision cleared. For the rest of the stanza, the two men fought on even terms.

Round six belonged to the challenger.

He hit Liston at will and Sonny couldn’t hit him. Just before the start of round seven, Liston quit on his stool.

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lay’s conquest of Liston showcased the attributes that would make him a legendary fighter: speed, sharp punching, masterful footwork, creativity, courage, and defensive genius.

In his own one-of-a-kind way, he was a ring craftsman of the highest order.

But much of that brilliance was overlooked in the chaos that followed.

One day after the fight, Clay held a press conference and stated that he was no longer a Christian. The following day, at a second press conference, he announced that he was a follower of Elijah Muhammad. Ten days later, the Nation of Islam leader proclaimed that: “This Clay name has no divine meaning.

I hope he will accept being called by a better name. Muhammad Ali is what I will give him for as long as he believes in Allah and follows me.”

Robert Lipsyte, who covered ClayListon for The New York Times, later said, “At that point, the press had no choice.

We were hooked into the story and had to follow it. Clay was not dismissable.

People were stuck with a heavyweight champion who said, ‘I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be me.’ And among the things he didn’t have to be were Christian, a good soldier of American democracy in the mold of Joe Louis, or the kind of athlete-prince white America wanted.”

Many Americans, black and white, took issue with Ali’s beliefs.

“I never went along with the pronouncements of Elijah Muhammad that the white man was the devil and that blacks should be striving for separate development, a sort of American apartheid,” said triple Grand 65

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“It was a racist ideology, and I didn’t like it.”

But for many, Ali was the ultimate symbol of black pride and black resistance to an unjust social order.

And, from 1964 until his conversion to orthodox Islam in 1975, he was the Nation of Islam’s most visible and vocal spokesman. Among the positions he preached were opposition to integration, opposition to intermarriage, and the need for a separate black homeland.

“We’re not all brothers,” Ali said. “You can say we’re brothers, but we’re not.”

Meanwhile, the war in Vietnam was raging and American men between the ages of 18 and 26 were subject to a military draft. In 1964, Ali had been classified 1-Y—not qualified for military service—as a result of scoring poorly on a Selective Service mental aptitude examination. But in early 1966, with the war expanding and manpower needs growing, the test score required for induction into the armed forces was lowered, leaving him eligible for the draft. Ali requested a deferment. But on February 17, 1966, he was reclassified 1-A: available for the draft. Several hours later, a frustrated Ali blurted out to reporters, “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong.”

The following day, Ali’s outburst was front-page news across the country. Then, on April 28, 1967, citing his religious beliefs, he refused induction into the United States Army. Almost immediately, he was stripped of his title and prevented from boxing by state athletic commissions throughout the country. Less than two months later, he was convicted of refusing induction and sentenced to five years in prison. His exile from boxing lasted for more than three years.

Aided by a series of court decisions, Ali returned to the ring, and his criminal conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court without him having served any time in prison. In 1974, he journeyed to the heart of Africa and dethroned George Foreman to reclaim the crown that had been unfairly taken from him.

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Then, on Feb. 25, 1975, Elijah Muhammad died.

“After Elijah died,” Ali later recalled, “his son Wallace took over as leader.

That didn’t surprise us, because we’d been told Wallace would come after his father. But what surprised some people was, Wallace changed the direction of the Nation. He’d learned from his studies that his father wasn’t teaching true Islam, and Wallace taught us the true meaning of the Quran.”

Muhammad’s death marked a seismic shift for the Nation of Islam and foreshadowed a significant change in Ali’s public pronouncements on race.

In the past, the public and private Ali had seemed almost at war with one another over whether white people were truly evil. Now he was able to say openly, “I don’t hate whites. That was history, but it’s coming to an end.”

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li fought for the last time more than three decades ago.

His health has deteriorated markedly since then, but he remains the pre-eminent athlete of our time. His love affair with America and the world reached its zenith in 1996 when he was chosen to light the flame at the opening ceremonies for the 26th Olympiad in Atlanta. Three billion people around the world watched on television and were united by love and caring for one man.

It’s generally acknowledged that Ali’s most significant contributions came in

the 1960s, when he was most closely scrutinized, his conduct bordered on revolutionary, and he was at his most controversial. Ali in the 1960s stood for the proposition that principles matter; that equality among people is just and proper; that the war in Vietnam was wrong. Every time he looked in the mirror and preened, “I’m so pretty,” he was saying “black is beautiful” before it became fashionable.

Hall of Fame baseball player Reggie Jackson spoke to that point when he declared, “Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? As a young black, at times I was ashamed of my color; I was ashamed of my hair. And Ali made me proud. I’m just as happy being black now as somebody else is being white, and Ali was part of that growing process.

Think about it! Do you understand what it did for black Americans to know that the most physically gifted, possibly the most handsome, and one of the most charismatic men in the world was black?

Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of people because of Ali.” Ali today is a symbol of tolerance and understanding.

“When I was young,” he has said, “I followed a teaching that disrespected other people and said that white people were devils. I was wrong. Color doesn’t make a man a devil. It’s the heart and soul and mind that count. Hating people because of their color is wrong. It doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.”

But Ali is unrepentant regarding his past beliefs.

“Elijah Muhammad was a good man,” Ali has said, “even if he wasn’t the Messenger of God we thought he was. Elijah taught us to be independent, to clean ourselves up, to be proud and healthy. If you look at what our people were like then, a lot of us didn’t have self-respect. We didn’t have anything after being in America for hundreds of years. Elijah Muhammad was trying to lift us up and get our people out of the gutter. I think he was wrong when he talked about white devils, but part of what he did was make people feel it was good to be black. So I’m not apologizing for what I believed.”

Thomas Hauser is author of Muhammad Ali: His Life And Times, widely regarded as the definitive Ali biography. His most recent book is Straight Writes and Jabs: An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing. His email address is: thauser@rcn.com the red bulletin

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“I followed a teaching that disrespected other people , that said white people were devils. I was wrong. But part of what it did was make people feel it was good to be black. So I’m not apologizing for what I believed. ”

Clay was jubilant after beating Liston, becoming world heavyweight champion for the first time. Ten days later, he became Muhammad Ali. the red bulletin

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Andrew Bergeson, left, and his brother, Danny, built a downhill ice cross course in the backyard of Andrew’s home in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.

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It takes a certain type to participate in crashed ice—someone who feels skiing would be more satisfying on blades.

hen Andrew Bergeson bought his house in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, his neighbor gravely intoned one overarching community rule: Out here, people buy acreage lots for a reason. That reason may be privacy, it may be the silence, or it may be the glacial beauty of the adjacent golf course in winter, when it’s covered in several feet of snow that serenely leads down to the banks of the frozen Mississippi River.

Bergeson nodded. He understood.

Because when he bought this house he had his own reasons. First, it was exactly equidistant between where his wife, 70

Samantha, works up near Minneapolis, and where he works as a nuclear power plant operator a half an hour south.

And with two acres of land and a steep hill, he and his younger brother could build a really kick-ass 600-foot-long downhill ice cross course in the backyard, complete with ramps that could launch them up to four feet in the air, double kicker jumps, and a sloping turn that finishes perfectly adjacent to the main road after the two reach speeds of 35 mph. It would be the ideal location to set up an at-home training facility in their bid to achieve global domination of the the red bulletin

After seeing an ad for the Crashed Ice qualifying rounds, the Bergesons tried out.

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sport’s championship series, Red Bull Crashed Ice. He didn’t tell his neighbor that right away, of course.

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t takes a certain type to participate in downhill ice cross. Physical skills aside, it appeals to someone with the double banzai belief that hockey just doesn’t have enough startling elevation changes, and that downhill skiing would be much more satisfying if it was done on something less stable than skis—say, blades.

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Since 2010, Red Bull Crashed Ice has hosted the downhill ice cross world championships, a series of events where elevated ice tracks are built in city centers and an elite group of skaters compete against each other to be the first to reach the bottom. It’s a mad scramble that includes several hundred feet of elevation change and course features that require guts for glory: rolling hills, kicker jumps, step-ups, and queasy, centrifugal-forcebaiting corkscrews. In 2014, there are four stops in the series: Helsinki; Moscow; Quebec—and in Bergeson’s other backyard of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Since downhill ice cross is in its infancy, there’s no generally accepted training regimen, no practice drills that have been used for generations, no threering binders full of laminated workout routines to check off. There are precious few permanent downhill ice cross tracks in the world, and they are all located in Europe: Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Finland. For American competitors, doing the sport means doing it yourself.

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wo years ago, Bergeson was paging through the newspaper during a down moment in his night shift at the nuclear power plant. He saw a small advertisement seeking local athletes to try out to qualify for Crashed Ice. There was a postcard-sized photo of skaters in action—and Bergeson was sold.

He called his younger brother, Danny.

“It was 11 o’clock at night, and I’m like, ‘Dude, you’ve got to look at this,’ ” Andrew says. “ ‘I’ve never heard of this!

This is the thing!’ ” “This is insane,” Danny replied.

Andrew eventually cajoled his brother into signing up for the qualifier up in Duluth. It was a hectic buildup to the event—with Danny still a college student and the tryouts being held during finals week. Duluth is more than a three-hour drive away, which meant Danny had to drive and then complete a term paper while sitting in his car outside of a Caribou Coffee and hijacking the Wi-Fi as Andrew kept threatening to go to a bar unless he wrote quicker.

It all worked out in the end: Danny turned in his paper on time and finished first in the qualifier; Andrew finished third.

This will be the third season that Andrew, 27, and Danny, 23, have competed in Crashed Ice. Through trial and error, they’ve learned some techniques and seen progress—but they

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This is the second year the Bergeson brothers have built a track. It takes about 100 hours to create.

Right: Checking is not allowed—on purpose.

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WITH No permanent downhill ice cross tracks in the U.s.,training for the sport means doing it yourself.

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There is no training partner that compares to sibling rivalry.

Don’t try this at home. Oh wait, totally try this at home.

The Red Bull Crashed Ice calendar for 2014 consists of four main events. The season opened on Feb. 1 in Helsinki and continues Feb. 22 in St. Paul, Minnesota; March 8 in Moscow; and March 22 in Quebec City, where a champion will be crowned.

still aren’t happy with their standings in the competition. In 2013, Andrew finished 39th in the world rankings and Danny 55th out of more than 225 competitors.

“The first race, I did it just to try it,” Andrew says, “but since then I’m not going to go out there unless I’m trying to win.”

In the family room of his house, there is a group of framed photos hanging on the wall: Andrew and Samantha at their wedding, groups of friends and family.

One frame has space for three photographs, and right now it features two pictures dedicated to Crashed Ice: a shot of the finish line and one of Andrew, Danny, and Samantha goofing off in the cold. The top spot in the frame remains empty.

“That one without a picture? That’s for the podium,” Andrew says. “That’s the goal.”

Here, then, are the essential elements of the patent-pending Bergeson Brothers Training Regimen to excelling in downhill ice cross: Spend upwards of 100 hours building a Crashed Ice track in your backyard. Water it down often to get the ice to freeze to the perfect consistency.

Practice every night after work, even if you have to wear a headlamp and set up spotlights alongside the course.

Kindly share a mouthguard with your brother after you goad him into attempting bigger, crazier jumps, so he doesn’t blow his teeth out if he crashes.

In the offseason, head over to the local skate park to practice by rollerblading—and ignore the taunts from middle school snots on their skateboards and their attendant soccer moms. “Little kids can be nasty,” Danny says.

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Get a tiny piece of paper and change the labeling on your refrigerator’s ice cube dispenser so instead of churning out crushed ice, it gives you “crashed ice”—and serves as a reminder every single time you get water to keep your eyes on the prize.

Love it. “I think about it every day, every time I’m training,” Andrew says. “It is fun and games—but we’d like to make it more of a sport.”

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It helps that both brothers are Minnesota born and bred, and have been skating since they were 3 years old and skiing for years—making it almost a natural evolution to downhill ice cross. Both played football at Augsburg College and have an ingrained habit of preparing for competition. “I did unenjoyable football weightlifting for four years,” Andrew says. “Any time I put into this, I don’t consider it work.”

They have been injured: Andrew dislocated his shoulder during a Crashed Ice event in the Netherlands; Danny tore his MCL in Quebec during the final race of the 2013 season after he got tangled in a step-up jump. There are risks—and the financial stipends and sponsorships only allow them to break even on their costs.

Are their families concerned that their hobby could throw the rest of their lives out of whack?

“My parents are surprisingly into it,” Andrew says. “The first time we competed, someone [went big] on one of the double jumps and broke their leg, and I was like, ‘Ugh, my parents saw that.’ Afterwards, I was like, ‘What did you think when that guy broke his leg?’ and they were like, ‘Nah, we knew you were better than that—you weren’t

going to look like that guy did.’ ” Sitting at the dining room table, Danny gapes at his brother. “Well, that’s hilarious, because I saw Mom and Dad right after that and they were like: ‘Make sure you go for it! You’ve got to clear it!’ ” This is the off-ice dynamic between the Bergeson brothers—Andrew is effusive, extroverted, and chatty, Danny more laidback and contemplative. At a restaurant near their home, it is Andrew who leaves Danny’s cell phone number for the cute trainee waitress on the bill as his younger brother, embarrassed, speeds out through the front door of the restaurant like a man on fire. (Editor’s note for anyone at The Tavern Grill who happens to see this: Andrew is really sorry he transposed two of the digits to Danny’s number and he didn’t mean to leave a fake and you should really ask him about his younger brother next time he comes in.)

On the ice, however, Danny is the aggressor, the one who guns down the hill, the first to try a jump backwards on a whim. Andrew usually wheedles him into going for something big—making a double jump into a single—and then Danny goes out and lands it. Which forces Andrew to do the same thing, proving that there is no training partner that compares to sibling rivalry.

“Anytime I beat him, it’s like I’m getting first,” Danny says.

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o how did Bergeson’s neighbors react to the course? Some of them tease him about wanting his autograph, and the folks across the street sit in their car with the heat on and watch the brothers practice.

Others on the block ask Andrew if he ever intends to use the track for sledding.

(No, but they once did a couple of skate runs down the hill naked after a dare from their brother-in-law. The poor choice may have been doing the au naturel turns at 2 p.m., just as the little kids in the neighborhood were being let off of the school bus in front of their house. “I actually don’t know where the video of that is now,” Danny says.)

And the neighbor with the ominous warning about respecting the privacy of acreage lots actually turned out to be very supportive.

“He said I could build the course all the way up next to his front door, if I wanted,” Andrew says. “But I’d have to drag myself back to my own property if I got hurt.”

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The legendary Carrera Panamericana is the last true road race. After racing the length of Mexico, winners earn bragging rights, and the accompanying police convoy needs new tires.

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The stages usually end in town centers, such as in this park right in front of Oaxaca’s cathedral (right).

Facing page (clockwise from top): NASCAR technology in the old bodywork but with stopwatches and GPS on board; each car sports special stickers that allow them to ignore red lights; Guillermo Rojas won the Carrera Panamericana 25 years ago. His son, Memo, debuted in 2013.

Se disputó desde 1950 hasta 1954, 34 años después volvió en su forma moderna actual.

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memorable order came through to the Mexican Na­tional Army in November 1953. In order to avoid unnecessary bloodshed among the participants in the Carrera Panamericana, they were to shoot on sight anything—be that man or beast—that crossed the road during the race.

Of all the pioneering road races, the Carrera, which was first held in 1950 to mark the opening of the Mexican section of the Pan-American Highway, has always been the one with a reputation for unpredictability, adventure, and danger. The star racers of the day had to be press-ganged into making the trip to Mexico, even though the Carrera—in Spanish it means

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“race”—was part of the Sports Car World Championship, the most important motorsport category of its day. The Formula One World Championship was only established in 1955.

The Pan-American Highway was merely the race’s namesake. Some of the roads being hurtled along were barely tarmacked in places. Hundreds of racing drivers took a gamble on this great adventure. Many of them fatally overestimated their abilities. Cars fell into ravines, lost wheels and axles, burst into flames as they hit rocks, rolled over, had vultures fly into their windshields.

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“ I t’s the first time I’ve ever been afraid in a car. Tense, nervous— yes. But today I was afraid.” assistance would be automatically disqualified; it applied in the case of accidents.

No reliable data exists on the exact number of deaths during the race, nor is there any official record of the Mexican National Army acting on its order to shoot. In any case, the Carrera Panamericana was called to a halt after the race in 1954. It had spun out of control.

The 1954 winner’s average speed was 138 mph —dangerous even by today’s standards.

The race was revived in 1988, and new rules stated it was now to be driven in “appropriate cars.” For the sake of precision, the rules also broke the cars down into seven categories.

Racing for 2,175 miles across Mexico is no easy task for cars with the look of old Studebakers, Oldsmobiles, and Cadillacs about them. But their bodywork now hides a tubular frame chassis with heftily souped-up V8 engines, SUV axles, and racing-car brakes. The people tuning the engines don’t go easy either: 700 hp comes as standard if you want to roar along at 186 mph.

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Veracruz-to-Oaxaca stage and seems oddly contemplative after suffering a tire blowout.

“That’s the first time I’ve ever been afraid in a car,” he says. “I know what it’s like to be tense, nervous, and focused at the start. But today I was afraid. The car is shit. It’s an overpowered piece of shit. There’s no undercarriage, no passive safety. Barrelling along at 180 in this piece of junk I was scared. You want to brake but you can’t.”

Memo’s father, Guillermo, won here 25 years earlier, in 1988. “We weren’t sluggish back then either,” says the elder Rojas with a smile. “We went at similar speeds. This is Memo’s first road race; when I won it, I knew every road, every turn. He doesn’t know any of that.”

At the end of day one, Memo is down in 40th place, adrift among Mexico’s elite rally drivers out in front. The pace they set on the shorter-distance special stages is breathtaking, whereas on the longer, untimed liaison stages, they go in for some advanced pack racing. In the middle of it all, where there are 172 Dodge Chargers, the Federales, the Mexican police, make sure that the pace doesn’t drop. The Carrera stickers on the cars the red bulletin

From dry heat to cold and fog, the weather gods bring it all to the Carrera Americana.

Left: The hairpin bends make bruised front hoods a common feature of the race.

Below: Tires suffer more than the rest of the car—mechanics put water in them to make sure they swell up evenly.

Pin-ups and religious icons nestle side by side at the Carrera Paname­ricana.

Indeed, the loving way in which cars are decorated is a large part of the race’s charm. The route itself is shown religious reverence.

“If I die,” one driver says to his co-driver, “promise me you’ll scatter my ashes on the route.”

Memo Rojas and his Studebaker. After a tire blowout, the driver’s side of the car has gallant battle scars.

One car comes home on its wheel rims. “The best cars fall apart at the finish,” says its driver. give them carte blanche. Anyone who stops at a red light in a village somewhere is frantically waved on. Vete, pendejo! [Move it, asshole!]

Before long there are the first dropouts.

A Dodge manages to find the gap between the end of a fence and the beginning of a crash barrier and wedges itself against a tree. Some kind of brake problem, the driver groans.

One of the Studebakers flips over multiple times and six cars slip on the trail of oil it leaves and come crashing off the road. Other drivers decide that from this point on, the Carrera Panamericana should be more of a vacation and choose to spend their technical budget on appropriate provisions: a good bottle of wine to go with dinner, a daily steak with champagne.

Many of the participants seem to have a healthy cushion in their finances. Some are heroes just for crossing the finish line.

More drama comes on the final stage: American Doug Mockett suffers tire damage with about a mile to go. He virtually drags his Oldsmobile through the finish line on its wheel rims—and that’s after he’d ripped out the gearstick. “The best racing cars fall apart at the finish line,” he says, repeating an old mechanic’s the red bulletin

adage. A conspicuous number of the bangers have no working clutch and struggle across the finish in third gear, stinking to high heaven. Young Mexican Pasqual Piccolo takes a spin on the last morning of the race and two concrete pillars rip off his left rear wheel. He makes repairs and struggles on, but then the engine cuts out. The radiator has taken some sort of hit, too. He makes a phone call and gets pushed, bumper to bumper, toward the finish line in Zacatecas, where a 16-strong contingent of locals help to drag his mortally wounded Datsun to complete the race.

The center of this former silver-mining town has long since turned into a Mexican fiesta scene. All around there is trumpeting, drumming, confetti, enchiladas, mezcal, Coronas, singing, dancing, madness. Memo Rojas comes in third in this, his first Carrera Panamericana. Not bad after an accident at the start and a whole load of other mishaps along the way. He is dancing arm in arm with the winners and the second-place team. “Viva Mexico! Viva la Carrera Panamericana!

We are a family! See you next year!”

His father looks on with a smile on his face.

He knows exactly what his son is talking about. panamrace.com

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Play time: A cassette deck for your iPhone.

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Where to go and what to do

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T r a v e l / G e a r / T r a i n i n g / N i g h t l i f e / M U S I C / p a r t i e s / c i t i e s / c l u b s / E v e n ts Sound lineup: Australian DJ duo NERVO bring down the house.

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Bring the bass

The likes of AfroJack and Tiesto usually play stadiums and mega-clubs, but they make an exception For Sound, the Hollywood club where star DJs spin their favorite underground tracks. nightlife, page 87

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And anoth er thing Love russia

Aim high Scale gutwrenching stone pillars and cliff faces in the Stolby Nature Reserve, Siberia’s Mecca for free-solo climbing. sibtourguide.com

Learning the ropes Heading out into the wilds of Siberia is, in itself, a leap of faith. As one of the world’s last real offthe-beaten-track destinations, just getting to and around the Russian wilderness is demanding enough for some. Others, however, want more. Attaching yourself to a climbing rope and leaping off a bridge or disused building is one way of adding the extreme to your Russian experience. Siberia is the unofficial home of the unauthorized sport of rope jumping, an activity not unlike bungee jumping, except for two significant details: The jump locations are usually in built-up urban areas, and you don’t use an elastic cord. “We find a bridge or abandoned building in the city, attach a mountain-climbing rope to our harness, with the other end firmly fastened to a structure, then jump off,” says Dmitri Glebov, a regular in the annual Cup of Siberia rope-jumping competition.

“The weightlessness of the leap puts your heart in your mouth before the momentum swings you under with a rush like a corkscrew roller coaster.” The buzz is enhanced by the climb to the jump-off point, which can be up to 1,500 feet above ground, and hazardous enough on its own without the thrill being cranked up by a potential chase. “It’s not technically illegal,” says Glebov, “but the police aren’t Extreme sports happy about us doing it.” Though if tours in Siberia you’re willing to leap off a derelict are organized building in the middle of Siberia, by 56th Parallel, being pursued by angry Russian from $2,500.

56thparallel.com police is unlikely to put you off.

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Leap in time: This is not your school playground rope jumping.

Ride out Jump on a raft made of pure ice and take a trip through the Arctic waters of the Angara River as it runs off Lake Baikal.

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Advice from the inside Smooth operators “The trick is to jump far enough out to get a good swing through the hole in the building or under the bridge,” says Dmitri Glebov. “It also helps to prevent jolts. Remember, this is a rope, not a bungee, and it will hurt if you just drop.”

Spike up

Calm the nerves

If you’re in need of Siberian courage before you jump or a place to wind down afterward, head for the Bulgakov Bar in Krasnoyarsk. “It’s a cool place, like a St. Petersburg bar in the heart of Siberia, with great food and expertly blended cocktails,” says local tour guide Elin Kekovska. “The homemade fruit shots are particularly amazing.” barbulgakov.ru/o-bare

Join runners from over 20 countries each March for the annual Baikal Ice Marathon, the world’s fastest footrace on ice. absolute-siberia.com

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R ope Jumping If you’re bored of bungee, this Russian craze offers a serious adrenalinE rush.

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Sound’s dance floor can hold 650 music fans.

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Everyone knows the big crazy-ass dance-party EDM sound—but what if star DJs want to change it up a bit? At Sound in Los Angeles, DJs spin their favorite underground tracks. “If Afrojack usually plays his big-room, bigfestival sound, he comes into the club and he’ll play a darker set, a more underground set,” says Kobi Danan, the managing partner at Sound. Sound differentiates from most Hollywood clubs’ blingy velvet-rope attitude—“It used to be about standing around looking for the next celebrity, and now it’s evolved into what’s cool, and what’s cool is electronic dance music,” says Partner/CEO Rob Vinokur—and that includes the care taken with its interior, which matches Caravaggio-inspired fabrics with wood detailing sourced from Frank Sinatra’s house. sound nightclub 1642 N. Las Palmas Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90028 www.soundnightclub.com

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Hollywood night spots with old hollywood style

Musso & Frank grill It was here that Charlie Chaplin challenged Douglas Fairbanks to a horse race down Hollywood Boulevard. This may be because they have the best martinis in town.

6667 Hollywood Blvd.

Sound effects los angeles See your favorite DJ at the club that encourages musicians to delve into their deep cuts.

V i nta g e vibe

R3hab (right) und Tiësto (above) man the decks.

Do u b le D uty Musicians who found fame going off-genrE

Iggy Pop Was a blues-band drummer in Chicago before becoming a punk god.

Heroin is a heckuva drug.

Katy Perry Ever wonder about the “Jesus” tattoo on her wrist?

She was a Christian songbird before she became a pop tart.

Michael Bolton Once opened for Ozzy Osbourne before taking the mantle as the king of easy listening. We are not kidding.

Darius Rucker Went from being the lead singer of aggravatingly catchy soft-rock balladeers Hootie & the Blowfish to an award-winning country singer.

Avalon Hollywood It started as a theater to host plays in the 1920s, evolved to a live radio studio in the ’40s and then to the music venue it is today. Home to The Beatles’ first West Coast show.

1735 Vine St.

Roosevelt HOTEL Grab a farmers’ market-inspired drink and watch for the ghost of Marilyn Monroe, who reputedly haunts where she lived for two years.

7000 Hollywood Blvd.

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Revolution in sound: The microKORG korg.com

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Make some noise

E LECTRONIC MUSIC Making the maximum out of a micro-synth turned one young YouTube star into an international player.

“The microKORG is a simple synthesizer,” says Dorian Concept. “It doesn’t really have that design that you see on other synths where you have all these different crazy knobs.” The Vienna-based musician, 29, has this music box to thank for kickstarting his career. In 2006, he posted the first of a series of videos on YouTube in which he displays total mastery of the microKORG, his fingers flying over the mini-keyboard and tweaking the knobs.

The clips garnered many hits and the admiration of musicians, including Flying Lotus, who were impressed by the otherworldly sounds Concept was creating.

A year later, he’d gone from bedroom twiddler to graduating from the Red Bull Music Academy in Toronto and playing music festivals. A debut album followed in 2009, and he has continued to play live and record since, all while staying loyal to the machine that gave him his start. ninjatune.net

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PROGRAM “The program select divides 128 sounds into eight categories, ranging from trance to drum ’n’ bass. It’s all a bit fixed, I know, but it makes for a solid starting point.”

RIGHT “As I have a nervous left hand, I am always very active with the pitch and the mod wheel.

But then again, this is how I love to make my music.”

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“During the live show I use Ableton Live software mainly for backing-track purposes,” says Dorian Concept. “I take all the lead parts of my original tracks and try to recreate them on the spot with the microKORG. Sometimes in a club I feel like a one-man wedding band.”

“Take a standard sound like the clavichord or organ, turn the release button right up and set the oscillator to the highest level: All of a sudden it sounds pretty weird.”

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TO HIM “People are always curious about a dubby, pitchy effect that I get a lot. It’s basically me messing with the delay, which, on the microKORG is very responsive and fluid.”

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For laptop artists who like twiddling real knobs, a hands-on MIDI controller developed by legendary DJ Richie Hawtin.

Today’s DJ can have all his music on a USB stick and those tracks can be manipulated like vinyl on this multiformat machine.

The software used by live electronic musicians, including Dorian Concept, because it’s so intuitive to use and feature-packed.

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Ivana Spanovic’s personal best: “My legs are my main assets.”

Going the distance t rack and field Long-jump queen Ivana Spanovic needs to stay small in order to achieve big results.

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“Takeoff power isn’t the only key factor in the long jump,” says Ivana Spanovic, who won bronze in the long jump at the 2013 athletics World Championships in Moscow.

“Your run-up speed is just as important. So my legs are my main asset. In the buildup to competition, I work on them every day in two training sets, each of which lasts for hours. The fitness center is my second home.” The Serbian, 23, has to strike a balance between her power and her weight. “Because you have to dynamically make your body as small as possible in the air, I’m very careful about what I eat and weigh myself regularly. If you’re two pounds overweight, you’re already at a disadvantage. The lighter you are, the further you can jump. It’s as simple as that.”

Pressing time: Spanovic works on her leg muscles.

hot tunes, cold water

“My iPod is my full-time training partner,” says Spanovic. “Jay-Z’s hip-hop spurs me on for tougher sets, and I relax to Thomas Newman during cooldown. Speaking of cooldowns: After a heavy workout, it’s off to the ice bath to avoid aches and pains.”

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EXERCISE 1:

Abs training with a difference: Going against gravity increases the pressure on your abdominal muscles and lessens the strain on your spine.

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Put more spring in your step for a better takeoff.

Hang upside-down, holding a ball in your hands. Raise your upper body toward your knees.

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Touch the tips of your toes with the ball and then slowly—that’s important!—return to Position 1.

Step on a stool carrying a 33 lb. barbell. Once on the stool, straighten your bent leg quickly.

Once both legs are straight, quickly raise the other knee.

Repeat 10 to 15 times on each leg.

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So far, so good

AT THE WINGS FOR LIFE WORLD RUN, THE GLOBAL RUNNING EVENT TAKING PLACE IN 35 COUNTRIES—INCLUDING THIS ONE—ON MAY 4, IT’S NOT YOUR TIME THAT MATTERS. IT’S THE DISTANCE YOU COVER. HOW FAR CAN YOU RUN BEFORE BEING CAUGHT? AND CAN YOU OUTRUN THE WORLD?

WHETHER YOU’RE A RELUCTANT RUNNER OR AN ULTRA-RUNNER, TEST HOW FAR YOU CAN RUN AT THE WORLD’S FIRST SYNCHRONIzED GLOBAL RUN. FIRST Decide WHICH KIND OF RUNNER YOU ARE, THEN do three SIMPLE CALCULATIONS (See below) TO FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF WINGS FOR LIFE WORLD RUNNER YOU CAN BE.

The Keep-Fit Fan This is you because:

You run three times a week to stay in shape.

Vitals:

The Non-Runner This is you because:

You run very occasionally or not at all.

Vitals:

The Hobbyist This is you because:

You run once or twice a week for your health.

Vitals:

1. Cooper test: Probably not recommended 2. Resting heart rate: >65 bpm 3. BMI: 30-35

1. Cooper test: 1.1-1.3 mi.

2. Resting heart rate: 50-60 bpm 3. BMI: 20-30

Current predicted World Run distance: .5 mi.

Start training* tomorrow and at the World Run you’ll achieve a distance of …

Current predicted World Run distance: 6.2 mi.

Start training tomorrow and at the World Run, you’ll achieve a distance of …

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Miles run per week: 3-6

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The Marathoner This is you because:

You run almost every day and know the rigors of the 26.2-mile race.

Vitals:

The Ultra-Runner This is you because:

You think you can win Wings for Life World Run.

Vitals:

1. Cooper test: 1.5-1.7 mi.

2. Resting heart rate: 50 bpm 3. BMI: 18-25

1. Cooper test: 2.1-2.3 mi.

2. Resting heart rate: 35-45 bpm 3. BMI: 16-20

1. Cooper test: >2.5 mi.

2. Resting heart rate: 30-40 bpm 3. BMI: 16-20

Current predicted World Run distance: 9.3 mi.

Up your training, and at the World Run you’ll do a half-marathon in 1 hr. 48 min.

Predicted World Run distance: 18.6 mi.

Increase your training, and at the World Run you’ll run a marathon in 3 hr. 8 min.

Current predicted World Run distance: 40-65 mi.

Miles run per week: 18-25

13.1 miles

1 COOPER TEST Determine the distance you can run in 12 minutes.

Miles run per week: >40

26.2 miles

2 RESTING HEART RATE Number of heartbeats per minute at rest.

Miles run per week: >60

You might have to—and can—run 61.5 mi. in 5 hr. 48 min. to be the global champion.

43.4-62.1 miles

3 BMI (Body Mass Index) Body weight in lbs./(height in in.)2 x 703.

*Work out your pace with the personal goal calculator: wingsforlifeworldrun.com

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WHAT’S THE GOAL OF THE WINGS FOR LIFE WORLD RUN? “It’s a moving target. You start with the crowd but you’re not running against the others. You’re running against the Catcher Car. So there might only be one ultimate victor, but there’ll be lots of winners.”

Global gathering W ings For Life World Run A starter’s gun on six continents: The first worldwide running race in sporting history gets under way in May 2014. Anyone who wants to race against the rest of the world can take part. Here are the details:

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HOW DO YOU GET MOTIVATED FOR TOUGH RUNS? “Make it into an adventure. Run to the woods, sit down, enjoy nature or have a picnic, and then run back. Then it stops being hard work and becomes fun.”

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WHAT ABOUT ROOKIES? HOW CAN THEY GET UP TO SPEED? “Start with a run around the block and make a note of it. Then increase your distance. Keep notes! They’re inspiring. I still log every mile.”

1. THE WAY IT WORKS

4. THE RESULT

In 35 countries, 37 races will all begin at 10 a.m. UTC (6 a.m. EST) on May 4, 2014. “Catcher cars” will depart 30 minutes later to chase the pack and start reeling in the participants. The last person in the world to be caught wins.

The last man and last woman running will be crowned global champions and win a special roundthe-world trip. Each country will also record its national winners. All runners will be able to check online to see how they did. “Who in the world ran farther than I did?”

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WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE WHEN YOU’RE IN THE ZONE? “Any pain disappears. You feel like you could do anything and carry on running forever. Beginners get into that flow very early on. In my case now, sadly, it doesn’t happen until I’ve run about 35 miles.”

“Write down the distance each time you run.”

Wings For Life World Run ambassador Christian Schiester

The “catcher cars” gradually increase their speed at predetermined intervals. Once a runner is caught or passed by a car, he or she must drop out of the race, and the distance run at that point is automatically recorded.

5. THE PARTICIPANTS

3. THE COURSES

6. THE MISSION

They fall into five categories around the world: coastal runs, river runs, city runs, nature runs and runs with a view. The event’s homepage (wingsforlife worldrun.com) gives you the latest weather reports, detailed course information, training plans and a distance-time calculator.

The Wings for Life World Run motto is: Running For Those Who Can’t.

All of the money earned will go to the Wings For Life Foundation, which supports worldwide scientific research programs looking for a cure for spinal cord injury. You can find more information at: wingsforlife.com.

Beginners, hobby runners, top athletes and stars, such as former F1 driver David Coulthard.

The aim is to cover as much of the course as you can in the name of research on spinal cord injuries.

Compete against the rest of the world in the Wings For Life World Run. You can register online until April 20, 2014, at wingsforlifeworldrun.com

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the fashion scene here, and it’s as good as any New York boutique. You’ll find the latest thing, from streetwear to brands such as Kenzo, Comme des Garçons, and Nike.”

Eske Kath, artist, sculptor, and performance artist

Great Dane days copenhagen New old bars, pizza in the meatpacking district, and the entire universe under one roof: the best of the Danish capital, according to local artist Eske Kath.

“What do I like about Copenhagen? The fact that it’s dynamic and lively, but also small and nicely manageable,” says painter and perfor­mance artist Eske Kath. He has designed album covers for Danish pop singer Oh Land and had the honor of painting a ceiling at Amalien­borg, the home of the Danish royal family. “You soon feel at home here, mainly because of the people who, for the most part, wander the streets with a smile on their faces.” Kath has lived in New York for a while now, but he is always drawn back to his hometown. “If New York is the heart of the world,” he says, “Copenhagen is the heart of Scandinavia.” eskekath.dk

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COPENHAGEN SKATEPARK Indoor paradise for skaters: the best in the city, with the biggest vertical ramp in Scandinavia. Both pros and amateurs are welcome.

1 Mikael Andersen

Gallery Bredgade 63 “This modern art gallery shows work by talented young artists.

It’s a real springboard if you want to make a career of it: My works have been shown here.”

4 Kodbyen

Vesterbro “The so-called meatpacking district is one of Copenhagen’s up-and-coming areas. I go to art exhibitions there, and I like to treat myself to pizza at a bar called Mother.”

2 Cafe Dyrehaven

Sonder Boulevard 72 “Copenhagen is extremely expensive, but in this ’70s-style hipster bar you can get really cheap beer and the best openface sandwiches in the city.”

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Gronnegade 1 “This place is a real focal point of

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Planetarium Gammel Kongevej 10 “This is my favorite place in the city. It’s so inspiring to relax and meditate as you look at the constellations. Nothing’s better for driving your creativity.”

URBAN HIGHLINING At the world’s highest highlining course, you negotiate the lines 150 feet above ground. You can also go climbing, rappelling, or experience free fall.

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Experience the feel of skydiving at the only wind tunnel in Scandinavia, with vertical wind speeds of up to 75 mph. airexperience.dk

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Finally ripping and tossing CDs? Here’s how to beat scratches.

Kathleen Anne Brien, alias Katy B

In 2011 Katy B pulled off a huge coup. The 24-yearold Londoner managed to combine dubstep and garage in her debut album, On a Mission, bringing together the seemingly incompatible underground club sound of her hometown with great pop melodies. The album shot to No. 2 in the U.K. charts, and her new style quickly spawned a number of imitators. Her new album, Little Red, out now, sees her still innovating while building on the sound she is famous for— and staying ahead of the pack. It’s full of hymns to the night, meetings under lights, and the magic of clubs. Here she tells us about songs that have inspired her, and that she can’t resist when the DJ drops.

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“I don’t really have a soft spot for guitar music, but the way Alex Turner tells stories is what I love in a songwriter.

I discovered this song last year when I downloaded all the Mercury Prize–nominated albums, as I was on a panel that night.

The guitar riff is so sexy. It reminds me of ‘Bad Boys for Life’ by P Diddy. That’s probably why I connect to it even more.”

“My parents would play this at their parties when I was growing up. It’s so simple and catchy, I wish I had written it myself. It’s got a bassline and a drumbeat, a singer and some strange rap at the end: That’s it. No matter what kind of party you play it at, it always goes off. That’s probably the best thing you can achieve with a dance song.”

“Banks reminds me of the kind of person who, when I was younger, I would look up to—she’s classy and interesting. I love her and her music, which is electronic but quite R&B as well. This song reminds me of Timbaland but it’s a bit darker.

This young singer is the real deal, and definitely one to watch in 2014.”

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“Ciara is an amazing performer.

I love her last album, and this song in particular because the beat is so hard and she really owns it. Obviously we all love Nicki, but some of her tunes go to a younger crowd, so I forgot how good she was. She’s spitting for half of the tune. Her lyrics are just so sick and she’s so gangster on it.”

“This track, from Skream’s debut album, was a big influence for On a Mission.

It’s dark but you can still dance to it.

It reminds me of when I was 18, going to FWD [seminal club night in London where, legend says, dubstep was born].

Now, Skream and I work together occasionally: It’s amazing when those you’ve grown up respecting respect you.”

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Free data recovery programs such as Recuva can also read damaged CDs. Once you’ve backed up your data, burn it onto a new blank disc.

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Spread some on a scratched CD with a soft cloth and polish: This removes part of the protective layer so scratches become less deep. Rinse with warm water.

Put a disc in a freezer bag for a couple of hours, to reduce the density of the CD material.

As it expands again in the warmth, the smaller scratches will disappear.

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Playlist The chart-topping Katy B sings about life under the disco ball. So what are the tunes that get her out on the dance floor?

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Hideo Kojima: Directing the action.

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South Park The Stick of Truth is the sixth game to feature Cartman and friends. Out in March; last year the show mocked its delayed release.

Hideo Kojima is the Quentin Tarantino of video games. He’s one of a few gamemakers with a profile like that of a cult-film auteur—Kojima bills himself as the director of his works—and through his Metal Gear series of games he is as responsible as anyone for gaming being referred to as cinematic. As well as proudly displaying his movie influences—Die Hard, James Bond, Heat, Children of Men—he is determined to be innovative. Players have had to find clues on game packaging and plug a controller into the “wrong” socket to defeat a boss. With Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, he is mashing up two game genres: Stealth and open-world. Not all the fans are happy about this, and they’re worried that the challenging, sneaky claustrophobia of previous black-ops adventures—this one takes place in Cuba in 1975—won’t be possible on a vast canvas. Naturally, Kojima says he has devised new ways to play. “With the stress and tension levels that players will experience going through the game,” he says, “I can guarantee that it’s not going to make [it] easier for anyone.” Out in March for Xbox and PlayStation, with linked elements for smartphones. metalgearsolid.com

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Size of the development team who, since May 2012, have been working on The Elder Scrolls Online, a massive fantasy RPG out in April. elderscrollsonline. com

Cuban missile crisis: The latest Metal Gear Solid game.

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Rule the pop culture world with Geek Resort Design, build, and run a theme park with a geeky theme: sci-fi, manga, fantasy, horror, or other nerdly subjects. Looks cute and cuddly, but this is seriously involving and fiendishly addictive. Extra nerd points: You can get 3D-printed models of your characters. On Android and, as of February, iOS. amastudios.com

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Fight! Fight! Fight!

Old-school GEAR for new-gen machines There is a generation of gamers who did not spend formative time in arcades, and that is just very sad. You can bring the arcade back—without the sticky floor and the annoying kid jogging your elbow—with a FightStick Tournament Edition 2. Ball-handled joystick, eight big buttons: fighting-game perfection. madcatz.com

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A recent update to the free racing game added five new tracks, making 40 in total. games.redbull.com

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March 18, 2014

March Madness And so, the fine spring days of really poor workplace productivity and hiding your brackets from the boss get under way. Every game of the NCAA basketball championships will be shown live on TV, which means the Duke fan in your office will immediately be outed and shunned. www.ncaa.com/march-madness

March 22, 2014

L.A. Dodgers vs. Arizona Diamondbacks March 15, 2014

The Mint 400 Started in 1967 as a hotel promotion, this off-road race outside of Las Vegas has grown into one of the most thrilling— and dusty—rides of the season for both racers and spectators. www.themint400.com

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Batter up down under as Major League Baseball starts its season with two games in Sydney, Australia, between these National League West division rivals. The Sydney Cricket Ground will be reconfigured to a baseball field for the event, but there hasn’t been any official word yet if the players will still get a tea break. www.sydneycricketground.com.au

March 7-16, 2014

South by Southwest Pick your flavor of nerdery to geek out on in Austin: South by Southwest includes sessions dedicated to music, film, interactive, and, for the first time this year, sports. Attend industry panels during the day to do some networking to please the expensereport overlords—and then at night check out the best bands and film premieres located across the city. www.sxsw.com

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Oh look! It’s yet another reason to party in the Big Easy. (They seem to be good at that.) This fest is two days of art and music in New Orleans, with the Flaming Lips, David Guetta, and Ellie Goulding (below) leading the charge at Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World on the east bank of the Mississippi River. www.thebukuproject.com

Atlanta’s Piedmont Park will host this nighttime display of the winners of the action sports and photography competition. Afraid of the dark?

Don’t be—you’ll make friends. The shots will be illuminated from sunset until 11 p.m. daily, and attendees are encouraged to walk among the giant installations and mingle. www.redbullillume.com

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L.A. Marathon

FILM The doc What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music, goes behind the scenes of the Red Bull Music Academy in New York. www.redbull musicacademy. com

If you must run 26.2 miles—and every year, more than 25,000 people do in Los Angeles—you might as well get some good sightseeing out of it. The L.A. Marathon course starts at Dodger Stadium and finishes by the ocean in Santa Monica, with stops (dammit, don’t stop—we’re speaking metaphorically) in Koreatown, Hollywood and Beverly Hills en route. www.lamarathon.com

March 20-23, 2014

Treefort Music Festival Sure, Portland gets all the hipster indie buzz—and the resulting mockery, of course—but Boise, Idaho, is managing to make a name for itself in a far less annoying manner with this four-day music festival downtown. Headliners include Run the Jewels with El-P and Killer Mike, The Joy Formidable (below), and local boys Built to Spill. www.treefortmusicfest.com

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TV Ellen DeGeneres hosts the 86th Academy Awards, and we wish her luck in making jokes about any of the seriously good but total downer films nominated this year.

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March 8, 2014

MLS Soccer Want to partake in all the World Cup partying this summer but clueless about the finer points of soccer?

With the start of the MLS Soccer regular season, you’ll have a chance to take a crash course on the rules of the sport and the lunacy of its fans. (Case in point: The Portland Timbers celebrate goals with a chainsaw. Take that, American football.)

music The estate of the legendary Johnny Cash will release Out Among the Stars, an album the singer recorded in the 1980s that was never released by his record label. johnnycash.com

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Lienz Dolomites, Austria, Nov. 7, 2013 “You actually feel safer climbing in arch-shaped sections,” says ice climber Peter Ortner. The Austrian, also a world-class free climber, has learned to recognize dozens of types of ice. His life depends on it. “Some look as if they’ll hold you, but they’re so soft, and vice versa.”

“ One tiny tap from the ice pick can cause huge chunks of ice to fall— and me with them.”

Martin Lugger

Peter Ortner, climber

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