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AN ALMOST INDEPENDENT MONTHLY MAGAZINE /APRIL 2009

Joe Cannıng WHY HURLING’S WONDER-BOY IS NO ORDINARY JOE

MOUNTAIN BIKE SUPERSIBLINGS THE ATHERTONS TAKE US DOWNHILL – FAST! WHY WORLD CHAMPION AIR RACER HANNES ARCH IS THE MAN TO BEAT PLUS BACKSTAGE WITH LADYHAWKE

FIRST ISSUE Exclusively with The Irish Independent on the first Tuesday of every month

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DEAR READER, BASE jumpers and neurologists, hip-hop artists and top chefs, classic planes and triathletes, visual artists and Formula One drivers: the world of Red Bull is shaped by creativity and adventure, by courage and a lust for life, and is populated with an inimitable group of heroes.

The mission of this magazine, the first issue of which to be published in Ireland you hold in your hands, is to feature stories about this world and its inhabitants, their ideas and their projects.

The idea for The Red Bulletin was conceived at 2.30 in the morning in a mountain hut in the Austrian Alps near Salzburg. It attempts to convey that spark of excitement that rushes through the unique people who manage to transform their crazy ideas into reality, thanks to the energy in their bodies and minds.

Viewed another way, this magazine is part of our logical development to become a content provider, thus enabling us to find a way to really tell the world about the incredible stories we create. These stories must be told by the best writers and best photographers, explored in real depth, with our obsessive attention to detail, but all with a wink of the eye.

There is no shortage of stories for us to draw from. Felix Baumgartner would have never skydived across the Channel without ‘wiiings’. Sebastian Vettel would never have made it to Formula One without Red Bull’s youth training programme. Freestyle motocross wouldn’t have gained worldwide recognition without the Red Bull X-Fighters. I remember the first reactions to our idea of creating a race for the best pilots in the world – no one could foresee that, a few years down the line, the Red Bull Air Race World Championship would attract millions of fans across the globe.

The Red Bulletin considers itself to be a global monthly publication, adapted to reflect different local cultures. The magazine first appeared in Austria, Red Bull’s home, at the end of 2007. The positive reaction to the concept left us with no other option but to expand internationally, and publishing in Ireland was a logical step. More will follow.

The Red Bulletin will be published on the first Tuesday of each month, and will be distributed with The Irish Independent, a newspaper that shares our vision, and which we are proud to have as a partner.

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Welcome to the world of Red Bull.

Fondly, Dietrich Mateschitz PS: The Red Bulletin is published on the first Tuesday of every month. The next issue is out on May 5.

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF RED BULL

Action

44 AARON HADLOW He’s the five-time world champion who’s been icon, innovator and insurgent for the sport of kiteboarding, and all this before he even turns 21

Dodging the April showers this month…

50 RED BULL AIR RACE We join Red Bull Air Race World Champion Hannes Arch in South Africa, for pre-season training

Bullevard

60 RED BULL AIR RACE GUIDE All the info you need as this year’s championship gets ready for take-off

10 GALLERY The month’s best shots in widescreen 16 NOW AND NEXT News of freerunning’s hottest talent and Scotland’s Cold Water Classic 19 LUCKY NUMBERS Sébastien Loeb is the World Rally Championship number one, but there are plenty more stats to go around 20 WINNING FORMULA Eddie Gustafsson, Red Bull Salzburg goalkeeper, talks us through the mind games involved in saving a spot-kick 23 WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT? We go 12 rounds with Hollywood hard man Jason Statham

68 JOE CANNING We catch up with the Portumna 20-year-old, whose impact on the sport of hurling means he’s now juggling university life with the commitments more commonly expected of a pro-athlete

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24 KIT EVOLUTION Ryan Sheckler’s pro skateboard goes head-to-head with a 1977 classic

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26 ME AND MY BODY Austrian climber Angela Eiter talks us through her ascent back to fitness

78 WATCH THIS SPACE Red Bull Space in New York is where ideas in art, fashion and music come alive

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27 HARD & FAST Our top athlete this month is Lindsey Van… No, that’s not a typo!

80 THE HANGAR-7 INTERVIEW Meet South African Giniel de Villiers, the winner of this year’s Dakar Rally

Heroes

82 RED BULL PAPER WINGS Paper planes – child’s play? Think again

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83 GET THE GEAR Top mountain-biking buys

30 DIETMAR KAINRATH You’ll see his unique cartoons in this magazine – meet the man behind them 32 HERO’S HERO Australian stunt rider Robbie Maddison doffs his helmet to the original daredevil, Evel Knievel 34 JUAN PABLO ANGEL The New York Red Bulls striker is showing that American Major League Soccer is more than just summer camp for a certain big-name midfielder 38 SAM CODY The man who made the first powered flight over Britain was a former Wild West gunslinger who befriended a king and was mourned as a national hero. Sam Cody was the American who carved his own special niche on the eastern side of the Atlantic 06

More Body & Mind

84 LISTINGS April’s entertainment and where to find it 88 NIGHTLIFE Ladyhawke rocks Paris; fashion label PPQ frock London; hip-hop’s Flying Lotus in LA; inside Abu Dhabi’s top nightspot

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94 BULL’S EYE Animals do the funniest things…

96 A STORY BY OLIVER USCHMANN Sometimes finding an excuse not to work is as time consuming as work itself

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98 MIND’S EYE Columnist Stephen Bayley bridges the gap between madness and genius FOR MORE LIKE THIS, VISIT: WWW.REDBULLETIN.COM

PHOTOGRAPHY: JAMES PEARSON HOWES, MIGUEL VIDAL, DAVID CLERIHEW, OLIVER GAST, JUERGEN SKARWAN, JULIAN BROAD, THEO COOK, HELGE KIRCHBERGER

62 THE ATHERTONS These three siblings are a mountainbiking dynasty who keep winning in the family. Dan, Gee and Rachel are world champions pushing themselves, the sport and each other

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QUOTE S

K A I N R AT H

WORD UP!

Wisecracks and wisdom from athletes, musicians and other big names from the world of Red Bull and beyond “I am starting the Red Bull wall. I hope to have the entire wall done by the time we finish the record. We are taking donations for it now, but just send whatever. An old suitcase, or a remote that you don’t know what it’s for… Or a shoe”

“People say that, because it’s an amateur sport and you’re not getting money, you might tire of it. But you’ve a sense of identity. That’s something I never get sick of”

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“I USED A CAN OF RED BULL, AS NONE OF MY WEIGHTS WAS SMALL ENOUGH”

“What does ‘Mickey Mouse league’ mean? I’m sure that American soccer teams are at the same level as the English lower divisions”

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“YEAH, WE’RE BIG ROCK STARS WHO STILL LIVE WITH OUR MUMS AND DADS” “We worked out the amount of time it was taking us just saying our band name every day. We’re getting an extra three hours a year back just by becoming The Cheek”

“YOU’D THINK, HAVING DONE ABOUT 10 ROUND TRIPS TO THE PLANET’S MAIN SURFING STOPS, I’D HAVE FIGURED OUT WHAT TO TAKE BY NOW”

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“Gravity makes us accelerate from zero to 100kph in three seconds, and the water brings us back to zero within four metres”

“It can happen very quickly – a driver can get sick or he can have an accident, or decide he’s no bloody good and want to stop”

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ILLUSTRATION: DIETMAR KAINRATH

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Bullevard The latest news, breathtaking action and amazing adventures

G O L D C OA ST, AU ST R A L I A

ON THE CREST OF A WAVE

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B R I T I S H C O LU M B I A , C A N A DA

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FO N TA N A , C A L I FO R N I A , U S A

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B U L L E VA R D

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MOUSE FOOD

LUCKY NUMBERS

WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP

Our relaunched website is full of good stuff

Rather than a stuffy symposium for physics professors, the Electron Festival, taking place on April 9-12, is in fact one of Europe’s leading electro/dance gatherings.

Over 100 acts, including Squarepusher, 2 Many DJs and Ebony Bones, are playing at seven venues across Geneva, with the city expecting 10,000 visitors over the weekend. This year, the Red Bull Music Academy will be promoting some of its brightest young turks and hosting workshop sessions with some of the biggest names in dance music on the Red Bull Music Academy stages at the Alhambar and Palladium venues.

World-renowned DJs A-Trak and DJ Mehdi (above) will be at Palladium from 9pm on Friday, April 10. A-Trak won the

DMC World DJ Championships aged just 15 in 1997, and since then the Canadian has hit the big time as Kanye West’s tour DJ. Parisian DJ Mehdi, who can boast Daft Punk and Justice as collaborators, will be adding his French disco sound to the mix.

The RBMA stages will also showcase the fresh talents of Radiorifle, Princess P and Breakplus, all ex-attendees of the academy.

Red Bull Music Academy is a travelling school that brings budding musicians closer to the pros who inspire them. Participants could find themselves chatting to Tony Allen about drum techniques or waxing lyrical with Chuck D. Applications for the 2010 sessions in London will be accepted between May 11 and July 27 this year.

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Where to listen to it, and how to make yours the next big thing

One helmet, one co-driver, two seatbelts and one gut-wrenchingly fast car.

Those are the basics everyone knows. You need to bone up on the smart stuff

WORDS: TOM HALL, PAUL KEITH. PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES. ILLUSTRATION: EBOY

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WINNING FORMULA

SAVING ACCOUNT

WORDS: PAUL WILSON, PROFESSOR THOMAS SCHREFL, PHOTOGRAPHY: HELGE KIRCHBERGER. ILLUSTRATION: MANDY FISCHER

The penalty-kick is one of football’s great dramas, but does science make the keeper favourite or is it his instinct that wins out?

It’s prof v pro and it’s sudden death…

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THE GOALKEEPER Eddie Gustafsson is the man between the sticks at Red Bull Salzburg, and he fancies his chances when faced with a spotkick. “Usually, I just feel that I have the upper hand,” says the 32-year-old, who was born in the United States but went on to earn eight caps for Sweden.

“I have to feel like this, because the player should score. The pressure is on the striker. I’m not helpless, but if I stay long enough and don’t dive too early, I have a big chance of saving.

“It’s cat and mouse. I might do a dummy one way and go the other way, or look right at the kicker. Nervous kickers look to the corner in which they want to score, or they tend to.

“I’ve been in penalty shootouts a couple of times, but I’m never nervous because I have nothing to lose – if the player scores, he’s a hero, but I’m not a loser. Even if I go the right way, the striker should score every time if he hits the ball hard enough. No goalkeeper should put pressure on himself.

“In recent years, goalkeeping coaches have had info about the strikers – what they do and don’t do with a penalty, what they’ve done recently, their overall record – but what do you do with that info? Do you stick with it and watch him look in a certain corner? And what if he puts the ball behind the spot when the info says he normally puts it in front?

“In 2004, I was playing for Molde, in Norway, and we were heading for relegation. We were 1-0 up against Bodø/Glimt, and whoever lost the game would go into a relegation play-off. They got a penalty, so there was huge

pressure on the guy to score. I’m thinking he’s not going to dare to go too far into the corners, and I went the right way and saved it. He didn’t place it away from me at all.”

THE SCIENTIST Thomas Schrefl, Professor of Functional Materials at the University of Sheffield, says, “The change of angular momentum of leg and foot equals the angular momentum of the ball after impact. Because the total mass of leg and foot is several times that of the ball m, the ball leaves the foot with a higher velocity than that of the foot. If a player kicks the ball at a speed of vBALL = 36m/s, the velocity of the foot before contact with the ball is v1 = 27m/s. Here, v2 is the velocity of the foot after contact, j is the moment of inertia of the leg and foot about the hip, and l is length of the leg. The air time of the ball, which is the distance to the goal divided by the velocity of the ball, is 0.32s.

“The keeper has to decide to move in one direction at the point of the foot-to-ball contact. To reach the ball, he has to jump towards the ball with velocity of 8m/s. Neither knows whether the other will go left or right. The keeper will choose the probability of jumping left, jL, so as to make the kicker’s success probability identical for kicking the ball left and right. This strategy will maximise the keeper’s success rate. pLR is the scoring probability for a kick of the ball to the left and a jump of the keeper to the right.

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WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT?

JASON STATHAM The action hero is a man of many talents: martial arts, market trading and making hit movies. Here’s what makes him tick

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WORDS: JONATHAN CROCKER. ILLUSTRATION: LIE-INS AND TIGERS

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WORDS: PAUL WILSON. PHOTOGRAPHY: THEO COOK

It’s all hands on deck to witness the innovation that has taken skateboards from their first golden age in the 1970s to today’s cutting-edge product

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ME AND MY BODY

HARD & FAST

ANGELA EITER

The champions of speed and style on skis, two wheels and four wheels

The small but perfectly formed Austrian climber, who at 23 has already won two world championships and three overall world cup titles, talks mind over matter and having eyes on her feet

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WORDS: RUTH MORGAN. PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES, CITROËN PRESS, FRANÇOIS FLAMAND/DPPI, BERNHARD SPÖTTEL. ILLUSTRATION: DIETMAR KAINRATH

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DIETMAR KAINRATH You’ll recognise the deceptively simple pen-strokes of the cartoons throughout The Red Bulletin’s pages as the work of Dietmar Kainrath. But who’s the man behind the lines?

Words Herbert Völker Photography Jürgen Skarwan

A short background on the Kainrath we know from this magazine: he was a highly-respected cartoonist using unmistakable angular lines until, one fine day, a certain drinks can lumbered into his life.

The coolness of his harsh lines intertwined with the curving shape of the cylinder and a refreshing new geometry of the absurd was born.

Dietmar Kainrath comes from Innsbruck, in the Austrian Alps, and as such is a Tyrolean. The mountain people of Tyrol have the reputation in their homeland for being very particular and very brave. This is also the year of large-scale celebrations, as Tyroleans mark the 200-year anniversary of their heroic battles against Napoleon’s armies, when the French commander-in-chief ran away with his tail between his legs. When it comes to a brawl, you probably shouldn’t choose a Tyrolean as your opponent.

Going on his weight alone, you can see Kainrath’s no typical Tyrolean; he weighs about half what they normally weigh and he doesn’t show off with his derring-do on the slopes. Being the perfect Tyrolean is not his priority, but he appreciates the perfect view of the landscape he has from his studio, of Mt Patscherkofel and the Olympic downhill course.

A very young Dietmar Kainrath failed to capitalise on his talent; instead he wandered around from place to place and one day ended up at the famous Hagenbeck circus in Germany, looking after the exotic creatures: two camels, an elephant, a zebu (a type of cow), a water buffalo and a zebra. His favourite animal was a female camel called Leila who, one day, broke free and loped off towards central Nuremberg – though, oddly enough, she waited until she saw the green man before crossing the road at junctions. But the talented keeper managed to fetch her and lead her back.

This was one of his first successes in life; until then there hadn’t been much to write home about.

Things changed when he fell in love with Verena 40 years ago and started a family. His gentrification as a happy father might well have changed the direction 30

of his life, but what is certainly true is that he became a tamed Bohemian with a licence for occasional exuberance. This two-sided Kainrath played his hand between commercial and more refined art forms with technique and skill. He admired the estimable Saul Steinberg and Tomi Ungerer as pillars of artistry, and cartoon aficionados will see that they are kindred spirits in style and substance. In the grey area between drawing, illustration and painting, Kainrath has no qualms about being described as a cartoonist, and he finds the conventional wisdom that a ‘cartoon-only’ artist might one day run out of ideas preposterous.

That is of no concern to Kainrath – he’ll never be lacking the spark which set him off – the only problem being he can’t draw quickly enough to keep up with the ideas running wild in his head.

His old inclination towards the Bohemian would take Kainrath onto Bukowski-like subject matter with the unhealthy desire of addiction. The interaction with musicians – when jazz, literature and graphics set the framework from which they can then break out – excites him. The sensational Austrian trumpeter Franz Hackl (who now lives in America) thus became a close friend of the draftsman and was a competent guide around New York’s watering holes.

Kainrath says his own art is all in the ideas. His execution eventually became a matter of course: the sweep of the ink-pen, the occasional thin brush and the sparing use of watercolours. His main colours, vermilion and ultramarine, help underline his special talent for animals and cans. The bull, the artist explains, is a generous beast as far as drawing possibilities are concerned, and the can is a godsend for the geometry of his world. The catapult of his severe lines has found a meaningful missile to launch with minimalist graphics, spontaneous or odd associations, and quick witticisms.

From pointless oafishness to a relaxed existentialism, from barfly worries to grand prix folklore, there’s a place for everything. And Kainrath always lets the amused beholder make of them what they will.

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HERO’S HERO: ROBBIE MADDISON ON

EVEL KNIEVEL The world’s leading big-jump motorcycle daredevil is full of admiration for the man who made the great leaps forward in his field Words Andreas Tzortzis

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that. Especially at times like now, when people need inspiration, it’s a good thing.

There’s something inside me that gives me the confidence to go a long way. I know that feeling, and sense of being alive, to face all your demons and take it on. I like the mental clarity it gives me afterwards, because you deal with so much just to bring it to that point.

I want to jump the world record, to prove to myself that’s what I can do. I’m a natural showman. I found a passion and I stuck with it. I’d like to do it as long as I can. I love putting on the big shows; knowing that it’s successful. I’d like to keep doing bigger and better jumps, draw more attention every time.

I don’t have a long-term plan. I know Evel made a big thing of it, and I’d be stoked if I could do the same. But right now I’m just happy I did the last jump and I’m here to think about the next one.

I’d love to jump a Harley, like Evel did. But at that point in time, he was

jumping 20 school buses. And now, on the equipment I’m on, I can jump five times what he was doing, so it’s a question of what people want to see. Do they want to see me jump a mediocre-size jump on a Harley or do they want me to jump five times further on a bike that’s more capable?

I’m looking for fresh angles and fresh jumps that will blow people’s minds.

I have respect for what Evel did, because if you look at what he did on the equipment he was on, it was so friggin’ crazy; it was so outrageously gnarly. The predicament he put himself in... he was facing the slimmest of margins to make it a successful jump.

What he was trying to do was pretty much impossible for the type of machinery he was on. I’m on state-ofthe-art bikes and it’s almost impossible to do the things I do on the machinery I’m on. We’re doing the same kind of stuff, I’m just doing it in a new-age way.

The first big jump I did was in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve 2007, the 40th anniversary of Evel Knievel’s jump [over the fountains at Caesars Palace]. I was jumping in Vegas [soon after he passed away], and obviously he had been a role model to me and many other people.

I went to his funeral because I cared and I was genuinely upset that he was gone and I was grieving. And one way to get over it was to dedicate a jump to him. I knew what he meant to a lot of people and I wanted people to know that I was grieving also and that I was here to carry the flame. ?\Xi dfi\ ]ifd IfYY`\ DX[[`jfe Xk nnn%i\[Ylcc\k`e%Zfd&Xik`Zc\j&\m\cVbe`\m\c&\e

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I first became aware of Evel when I was about five years old. I would jump my bicycle and people would say, “Oh, you’re going to be the next Evel Knievel.”

Ever since I was a kid I’ve loved to jump my bike. I love the airtime. I snapped the first bike I had in half from jumping it too far. My parents would buy me videos of jumps and I’d watch them.

Evel’s son Robbie Knievel jumped at Caesars Palace; I remember we were at a restaurant for my mom’s birthday and it came on the television, and it stuck in my head so much.

I look at anyone who’s making an impact on the sport around the globe, but Evel Knievel was the guy who went big. That whole big-jump thing had gone underground and stopped happening for a while. But in 2005, that whole movement came back again and it was all based around the talk of Evel Knievel and that long-distance record. By that stage – people had been telling me I was like him for years – I was ready to step up to the plate and take it on and try to be that guy.

Everywhere I go, people know I’m that big long-distance guy, and the spectacular shows are what do it for me. I love the fact that people flock from miles away when they hear someone is going to go long on a bike, and they just want to see that feat. Obviously it changes their point of view and perspective.

People can come and switch off and put themselves in my shoes. If I can do these jumps, kids and people of all walks of life come up to me, saying it’s the most amazing thing they’ve seen, and I think people need to see stuff like

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JUAN PABLO ANGEL The former Aston Villa striker made his mark in Major League Soccer before David Beckham and has quietly gone about scoring goals, reaching finals and winning plaudits Words Andy Jaros Portrait Jamie-James Medina

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A savage mixture of rain and snow is lashing Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken, New Jersey.

The conditions don’t seem to be bothering Juan Pablo Angel, as the New York Red Bulls captain juggles a football impassively on this artificial pitch on the banks of the Hudson River.

Into the sky behind him, across the swirling Hudson, reach the tan-coloured apartment blocks and glinting skyscrapers of Manhattan.

In a city of buildings and personalities as grand as its ambitions, the quiet Colombian has carved out a level of fan devotion and on-pitch success that rivals the other international stars who have come in recent years to help America improve its troubled relationship with the beautiful game.

It’s worth mentioning that he has done this quietly, minus the fanfare and hype following a certain Englishman’s tenure in the US, which began just a few months after Angel’s. While David Beckham’s success seems to have been limited to bringing in curious fans and selling shirts, the former fans’ favourite at Aston Villa has established himself as the league’s best striker,

scoring 33 goals in 47 games. When he went on the hunt for new points at the start of the season, his goal tally was just nine behind Giovanni Savarese’s club record for goals scored in regular season games.

Last autumn, Angel helped the Red Bulls to the first championship final in the club’s history (which they lost 3-1 to Columbus Crew). Coming just two seasons after Red Bull took over the former New York/New Jersey Metrostars – a club where players were often forced to change practice fields weekly and a favourite stop for MLS teams in need of a few easy points – the result was a sensation.

Now, with America’s finest purpose-built soccer stadium due for completion in a few months and with the Red Bulls gunning for some first-ever silverware this season, team bosses have done everything to whet Angel’s appetite. Just a few days before he set off for the team’s final training session in Buenos Aires, they extended the 33-yearold’s contract as a ‘designated player’ – where the usual upper salary limit of $415,000 is removed.

This was when ‘club loyalty’ was becoming a taboo subject at LA Galaxy, after the latest episode of the Beckham-in-Milan soap opera ended with an unprecedented timeshare agreement between the Galaxy and AC Milan in early March.

Angel must now pay back their faith with goals.

He’ll include being an ambassador to improve the reputation of the US league for free, well aware of the smirks and eye-rolling directed across the Atlantic towards the upstarts in Major League Soccer.

“MLS is just 13 years old,” he points out. “In England, football’s a religion. They’ve been playing for generations and the budgets are astronomical.

While we have a salary cap, we can’t compensate for the quality problem as regards players. But I’m convinced that MLS teams could compete against English clubs from the lower leagues.”

After getting his start at Atlético Nacional in his hometown of Medellin, in Colombia, and four seasons with Argentinian giants River Plate, Angel’s

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stint in England lasted six years, playing under Graham Taylor and later David O’Leary at Aston Villa from 2001 to 2007. His speed lent itself to goal-poaching, but Angel’s arsenal also includes exquisite curving balls from the tightest of angles – with his left or right foot – as well as cracking shots, headers, footwork and penalties. He had his best season in 2003/04, with 16 goals in Premier League competition and seven in cup ties. By the time he left the club in 2007, only Dwight Yorke had done better than his 74 goals in 205 games.

After considering a move to Spain, Angel signed for the Red Bulls on April 19, 2007, a season after they came into being. Three months before Beckham all but floated into LA on a cloud of irrepressible hype, Angel slipped quietly into a team in search of an identity and continuity.

He made his mark straight away. After his arrival in April, he was MLS player of the month in May and June. On the occasion of Beckham’s first full game for LA Galaxy, Angel stole some of his thunder. In front of 66,237 spectators at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, the Red Bulls beat Goldenballs’ side 5-4, with Angel scoring twice in the match, including the winner.

“The 5-4 against the Galaxy in the summer of 2007 was one the league’s all-time highlights,” says Angel. “There were almost 70,000 supporters, and the stadium was full for the first time.”

The success of a player like Angel is vital for the growth of the league, says Paul Gardner, the US soccer scribe for World Soccer magazine.

Gardner considers Angel “the most successful” of the raft of recent top international soccer talent that has included Cuauhtémoc Blanco of Mexico, Denílson and, this year, former Arsenal winger Freddie Ljungberg. “Angel has played well, at times brilliantly, scored goals and helped the team get to the MLS Cup Final last year,” Gardner says. “He’s a popular player and a true professional, and his excellent English has greatly helped him.”

Keen, nevertheless, to keep a low profile, Angel has gone about his work in a quiet manner, helping team-mates on the training pitch and preferring the relative anonymity that is the life of a professional footballer in the US. “It’s not that I don’t care about my career.

I love my career,” he says. “But what I can really do without is being in the spotlight.”

That means no journalists coming to the family man’s house in Saddle River in northern New Jersey for a soft-focus exposé to be splashed across the pages of a glossy magazine. It doesn’t boast a dozen bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, either, but he’s willing to gush just a little about his new home. “It’s so wonderfully green here, like in the countryside.

We look out onto a garden, not a concrete jungle,” he says. “I was surprised at how beautiful New Jersey is if you know the right spots.”

Perhaps that’s why he’s in a hurry to disappear after the team’s practice session is over. Under his arm is a turquoise-coloured gift box from Tiffany.

The contents? A crystal award for Angel, who the fans voted the team’s most valuable player.

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After World Cup ’94, American Major League Soccer was born into a nation of sceptics.

To be fair, things in 1996 could only have been better than the first attempt in the 1970s, when the North American Soccer League (NASL) arrived with a bang and left with a whimper.

Sprightly veterans such as Pelé, George Best, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff failed to sustain the long-term interest of a US sporting public already saturated with major sports, from baseball and American football to basketball and ice hockey.

“The mistake the NASL made was expanding from 14 to 28 teams too quickly,” says Jeff Agoos, who won 134 caps for the US national team and is now sporting director at the New York Red Bulls. “You have to grow slowly, with the right people in the right place.

What’s clear is that it takes more than just famous player names.”

Today, MLS is on a solid footing and the infrastructure is getting better and better. By 2008, half of the teams had their own stadiums instead of tenancies at ill-suited American football or concert venues. But the restrictive budget policy and salary cap get in the way of financial ventures and big-money transfers.

Critics will say that even when MLS has managed to attract superstars, their frequent tendency to flee to greener pastures at the first opportunity has been counterproductive to development. MLS needs highquality players who aren’t only interested in making a fast buck but also want to help the US game in the long term. Latin

players have helped bring style and technique to the US. Ageing foreign players, on the other hand, have sometimes been astounded by the fitness levels required by the teams.

“The Americans place no value on stamina, only speed.

I was seeing stars during training when I’d just arrived in California,” Andreas Herzog, the former Austrian international, has said.

“I just hung there like a complete idiot when it came to chin-ups.

And I can remember the club’s programme, too: ‘Second week – double everything!’

At one point, my pulse-rate was up to 203bpm.”

Herzog’s former coach Sigi Schmid guided Columbus Crew to the championship last year. The German is now the head coach at Seattle Sounders, who have signed former Arsenal star Freddie Ljungberg. They are new to the league: the 2009 championship, which has just got underway, is now made up of 15 teams. The Eastern Conference consists of Red Bull New York, Chicago Fire, Columbus Crew, DC United, Kansas City Wizards, New England Revolution and Toronto FC. In the Western Conference are Chivas USA, Colorado Rapids, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes and Seattle Sounders FC. After 30 matches, the top two from each conference plus four wildcards qualify for the play-offs, which start on October 29. The final to decide the overall champions will be held on November 22.

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Sam Cody was an American-born, poorly educated ex-cowboy and sometime actor who wore his hair long and specialised in staging bad melodramas.

Yet his funeral, back in 1913 when he was just 46 years old, was so big it has even been compared to Princess Diana’s. An estimated 100,000 people lined the route (some claim it was twice that number) from his modest home in Frimley Road, Farnborough, to Aldershot’s military cemetery, where a further 50,000 waited. King George V himself ordered that the coffin be placed on a gun carriage and escorted by the pipes and muffled drums of The Black Watch.

Behind it, politicians, generals, admirals, stars of the London stage, friends, family and admirers formed a procession more than a mile long. Several weeks later, to raise money for Cody’s widow, Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George organised a celebrity matinee at the London Hippodrome, in which stars such as Sarah Bernhardt, Gladys Cooper and George Robey (accepting no fee) staged 45 different acts between them. The paying public turned up in such numbers that many had to stand.

Photographs of Samuel Franklin Cody – often confused with Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody) – show a handsome man with a trimmed goatee beard and waxed moustache, which, twirled constantly, made him look rather like a long-whiskered cat.

Despite his immense physical strength (he could tie knots in steel bracing wire with his bare hands) he was said, in manner and appearance, to have resembled ‘a large-sized Peter Pan’. And he shared with his friend and fellow aviator Wilbur Wright an odd characteristic: neither of them could whistle.

Cody spent his early years chasing buffalo herds on horseback, supplying meat to the gangs laying Texas’s railways. Then, tiring of the slaughter – “Cody shoots ’em faster ’n we can skin ’em,” said one contracted butcher – he drifted east to join the Wild West shows that had become all the rage. He married Maud Lee, a pretty young actress, brought her to England, found work in Wild West Burlesque at London’s Olympia (Sam shot at glass balls strung 38

about Maud’s person) then met Lela Davis, wife of a Chelsea licensed victualler. Mother-of-four Lela was 15 years older than Cody, yet for both it was love at first sight. He remained in the UK while poor Maud, returned to the US, became a cocaine addict and a resident of the Norristown Hospital for the Insane.

Though Lela and Cody never married, her children adored him. In his new act, ‘SF Cody and Family, Champion Shooters of America’, Lela wore the glass balls while the boys, who affected Cody’s long, tangled hair, buckskins and sombrero, became variety stars in their own right (Vivien in particular being known for his trick shooting at London’s Alhambra Music Hall). They also travelled to Paris, where Cody called himself ‘Le Roi des Cowboys’.

He enjoyed theatre, and in 1896 devised ‘The Klondike Nugget’ show, which, opening in Walsall, featured blazing bridges, leaping horses, ferocious duels and a beautiful heroine (Lela) being snatched from the jaws of death by the dashing hero (Cody).

It was during this period that Cody somehow grew interested in kites, and built and flew them during every spare minute: between matinees and evening performances, on the beach at Blackpool and from the roof of the Metropole, Glasgow, where, down in the streets, people kept walking into each other as they gazed distractedly upwards. It was in Glasgow he told a well-wisher: “It is my intention, sir, to build a kite that will carry a man.”

The development of this kite involved Cody being involved in several painful crashes, but by the turn of the century, the world’s first successful man-lifting kite took Cody into the skies over Plumstead. Next he fashioned a canoe, which, towed by a 15ft kite, left Calais at dusk and brought him to Dover in time for breakfast. By now, the whole family had become kite-mad. The boys flew regularly, and even Lela, feet planted in flower baskets, made frequent ascents.

Finally, the War Office started taking an interest in Cody’s efforts. In 1906, he was appointed Chief Kiting Instructor to the British Army. Clad in his usual buckskins and spurs, with a sombrero planted

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on his head, he supervised the ascents from a white horse named Vichy and, to entertain the soldiers, periodically drew his pearl-handled Colt 45s and blasted sixpences from the sky. His kites worked.

Heights of 2,000ft were routinely achieved, while a breathless Captain PW Broke-Smith once got to 3,000ft, a new world record for a kite pilot.

A cathedral-sized structure overlooking Farnborough Common, known as The Balloon Factory, was the home of flying in Britain. In 1907, a full four years after the Wright Brothers had first flown, its commandant, Colonel John Capper, finally got permission from the War Office to begin work on a project known as British Army Aeroplane No 1. And he knew just the man to build it.

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milliner named Miss Copeland, and a borrowed French motorboat engine. Early on the morning of September 30, 1908, horses towed the finished aircraft to a stretch where the army did its morning gallops. Cody, lurching across the turf, seemed to rise a few inches. Though it was established that, for 78yd, there were no wheel-tracks in the dew, Cody chose to discount it. “It was only a jump,” he said.

On October 16, he tried again. “The machine,” reported the Morning Post, “was set full speed up the slopes of Farnborough Hill, from the top of which it took a rise into the air.’ It then flew for 27 seconds before crashing. Cody had just become the first person in Britain to fly an aeroplane and, though badly cut, scrambled from the wreckage grinning broadly. Uppermost in Capper’s mind, however, was the undeniable fact that Cody couldn’t really fly; and, but for trial and error, had no means of learning. Early in 1909, at least 40 Britons were building aeroplanes, and they all watched Cody. He

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was coming along, in his fashion. He crashed on January 9; again on January 21. Colonel Capper wrote to the War Office anticipating “a good many more smashes before Mr Cody has learned to manipulate the controls”. In time, however, he discovered the secret of setting down: “You must imitate the squatting posture of a crow.” That directive went rippling out across the country and young aeronauts everywhere began applying that principle to their own turbulent touchdowns.

In April, Cody managed to complete a circuit of Laffan’s Plain (where Farnborough’s airport is now located), the longest flight, as it happened, ever made in Britain. The Prince of Wales, in residence at Farnborough’s Government House, rode over to offer his congratulations. The two men got talking, and a friendship developed. Indeed, when the prince became George V, he said, “If I were ever to go up in an aeroplane, Mr Cody, I would choose to go with you. Sadly, however, my Ministers forbid me to fly.”

Then, without warning, Cody was sacked. The British government had decreed (five years before the outbreak of World War I) that aeroplanes were “useless” for military purposes; from now on the nation’s defence would rely on airships. He was, however, allowed to build a shed under the pines of Laffan’s Plain – and to keep Army Aeroplane No 1.

He fitted it with a pair of tractor seats and began

giving rides, the first to Colonel Capper (making him Britain’s premier air passenger). Soon after that, he achieved a new world altitude record of 800ft and began attracting such crowds that Aldershot’s Military Police were needed to control them.

In October 1909, at an aero meeting on Doncaster Racecourse, Cody became a British subject. Having recited the Oath of Allegiance to Doncaster’s town clerk, he signed his naturalisation papers on the town clerk’s back, then, as the Yorkshire Dragoons band played the National Anthem he threw a quivering Brigade of Guards salute.

Three deafening cheers echoed from the packed grandstand. “Good old Cody!” yelled the crowd.

At the time, the owner of an Aintree jam factory was offering a prize of £1,000 for the first flight from Liverpool to Manchester. Cody’s attempt ended after only 12 miles, when his old aeroplane flew into a hedge. It was time, he decided, to build a new one. Big and fast, named the Cody Flyer, and driven by a giant single propeller, it was the machine he took to Bournemouth the day Charles Rolls was killed. Cody saw the accident happen and, racing to the crash site, wept as Rolls, the first Briton to lose his life while flying, died in his arms.

But the Flyer served him well, winning him the coveted British Empire Michelin Cup, presented to the pilot who, in the course of a calendar year, made the longest trip within the British Isles. On the last day of 1910, in weather so bitter he had to insulate his clothing with brown paper, Cody began circling Laffan’s Plain. Teeth chattering, seriously hypothermic, he was aloft for four hours, 47 minutes, and only stopped when, after 186 miles, his tank ran dry. Beard and clothing coated in ice, he was welcomed by a crowd singing See the Conquering Hero Comes. The trophy was his.

The following year he won it again.

Then, in 1912, he won the British Military Trials.

Whitehall, realising that the coming war might, after all, require aeroplanes, offered a £5,000 prize for the most suitable. Cody intended entering his latest, but a heavy landing sent it spinning into trees, so, starting from scratch, he built a sleek monoplane.

Three weeks before the Trials began, however, it hit a cow. Now, working day and night, he constructed a biplane so advanced it beat the best that any rival could offer. The King, delighted, began addressing him as ‘Colonel Cody’, so everyone else did, too.

When, in 1913, the Daily Mail announced a ‘water plane’ race around Britain, Cody used his prize money to create a giant hydroplane with pontoons and 60ft wings. The most elegant, aesthetically pleasing machine he’d ever made was also, ironically, the one that would kill him.

On Thursday, August 7, he was due to fly to Calshot, the starting point for the Coastal Britain race. First, though, he took a friend, the famous ex-cricketer WHB Evans, for a spin. But, over Laffan’s Plain, the plane suddenly buckled and broke, throwing its occupants clear. Stunned observers saw Cody falling with arms spread wide, as if trying to test certain notions of balance and control: as if, actually, trying to fly.

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THE PRODIGY Aaron Hadlow is kitesurfing’s most successful competitor ever. His contributions to the sport are often so new and inventive he has to shelve them until the pack catches up. The Red Bulletin met with the five-time world champion to find out what it’s like to be innovator, maverick, pin-up and veteran all at once Words Tom Hall and Jim Gaunt Photography Rick Guest

Aaron Hadlow was just 15 when he won his first world championship. Fifteen.

Four years on from dipping a toe in the Atlantic waters off Cornwall, where he grew up, hand-held by a kiteboard-crazy dad, he had taken on all-comers in this fast-growing, fast-flowing arena, and won.

Almost without noticing what he had achieved, Hadlow had become the first superstar and poster-boy for of kiteboarding, a sport that was scooting from the extreme sports heartland into the recreational mainstream. Exactly the right person in exactly the right place at exactly the right time, he’d caught a break he had no intention of letting slip. Over the next four seasons, he became champ 44

again. And again. And again. And again.

‘Dominance’ barely does justice to the Rottweiler-grip Hadlow – a friendly, tousle-haired 20-year-old – has exerted on his chosen sport, and he continues to reframe the parameters by which it is judged. Over the past five years, as ‘new’ became ‘norm’, Hadlow hit the reset button, forcing kiteboarding’s governing body, the PKRA (Professional Kiteboard Riders Association), to recalibrate its judging criteria, as the levels of skill, finesse and technique he displayed in his routines went beyond their marking scale. In 2008, for example, he battled as much against the PKRA judges’ verdict of what constitutes the most difficult and 45

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demanding moves, as he did against his rivals. Remarkably, then, for one of such tender years, he’s already a victim of his own success – forced to dumb down his tricks to ensure they’re understood and correctly marked, while knowing he can ride faster, higher, better.

Frustrating? He’s phlegmatic. “There’s a weird mentality towards winners,” he notes, casually, at ease with his success.

“When you start winning, people feel the need to knock you; not all people, but sometimes it feels like that. We’ve got top judges and it’s a really difficult job, but obviously they’re not riding at the same level as us competitors because then they’d be competing as well!” he explains. “About halfway through last season I was trying to push my riding in a different style. Just making it a bit smoother. But it wasn’t scoring as much as the really technical tricks, so I just changed my tack and did what they wanted for the competition.”

That change of approach, a decision he now makes sound like a mild shift in routine, actually won him his fifth consecutive world title. But Hadlow is mature enough to know when and where to spend his creative energy. He even toyed with the idea of not competing in 2009, in order to pursue his love of innovation more freely.

“This year I thought I would wait for the dates to come out and check how it goes. I wanted to go and do some video projects instead (Hadlow’s movie Calibrate was released in March). But I’ve seen the calendar and it doesn’t take up so much time, so this year I’m just gonna follow the criteria and push my technical riding that way. Then with the time I have off, maybe I’ll do some other projects which can show off my freeriding.”

If he sounds like an image-savvy veteran of the sports-leisure battlefield, that’s because he is – however strongly his boy-band blond looks tempt you to think otherwise. Like others who excel young, travelling far and fast, he’s a curious mix of the world-weary and the wide-eyed.

“I think I’ve changed as a person,” he says, “but not from when I wasn’t winning. I look at some people and I just think, ‘What an idiot, why would you be doing that?’ I’ve had it before, though, where you can feel yourself starting to get a bit cocky and I’m like, ‘What am I doing?’ I just focus on my friends around me when that happens and think about how I was brought up.”

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the initial introduction to the sport in 2000 and the decision to move the family to South Africa two years later to give Aaron the best possible environment in which to learn, then hone his skills.

“My dad has guided me through everything,” he confesses. “He started kiteboarding before me and got me into the whole thing. I used to come back from school on the bus and I’d see him out, and I’d watch. Then we went on holiday to the Dominican Republic for two weeks and I was up and going because of the great conditions. He’s still there for me now. If I’m ever in trouble, I just call him and more than likely he’s been in a similar situation in one way or another. Eventually he turns from a dad into a friend, I think as you get older that just happens for most people.”

Ian has sent his protégé out solo for the past three seasons, with Hadlow junior mature enough to handle the pressures of international competition alone. Those fixed, familial points of reference ground Hadlow as he dances across a global stage. Check out that

“MY DAD HAD GUIDED THROUGH EVERYTHING. HE STARTED KITEBOARDING BEFORE ME AND GOT ME INTO THE WHOLE THING. HE’S THERE FOR ME NOW” 2009 schedule: from April to November the freestylers jet from France to Mexico, through the Dominican Republic, Spain, Germany, Brazil, before the finale in New Caledonia, in the south Pacific. Heady stuff for a gifted young man with a surfbuff athlete’s physique, global corporations as backers, and occasional wind-slack days when there’s time to burn…

How easy would it be to sway, go giddy in the sun, and be suckered in by the easy charms of simpering bikini-clad beauties? Very… but there’s steel in the Hadlow genes, a wary (though not hostile) suspicion of newcomers, a sense that he understands his gift is a rare one to be nurtured.

Hadlow senior was cute enough to recognise within weeks of Aaron being kitted up that he had an explosive talent on his hands, one whose native ability had the potential to upset the established order and routines of an older generation of professional riders.

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a young boy the freedom to express himself through athletic endeavour and bust convention without fear of failure or ridicule. From the beginning, Hadlow innovated rather than aped. To those who understood, the signals were clear, very early, that freestyle kiteboarding was about to become the domain of a certain, powerful young man from the south coast of England.

Aaron Hadlow, prodigy and pioneer, has crested the wave of dynamic change in kiteboarding, since it erupted in the late ’90s as ‘the fastest growing water sport in the world’. The once winning moves from those early days a decade or so ago, when riders carved huge, dangling, spinning, paragliding-like airs, have been replaced with powered choreography. The height and speed are developed from the kite being always in the critical position in the centre of the ‘window’ (continually developing forward power like wakeboarding rather than upwards lift) and using board speed for ‘pop’ (good air). The competing riders’ ages, meantime, have dropped to a late teen average in the PKRA world tour, ludicrously making Hadlow, 20, something of a grand old man.

But the thrill hasn’t gone. No way.

Ten years on, he still gets the buzz that sucked him in first time around: “It’s still a sport of pure adrenaline,” he grins, “and just having the ability to be able to, like, travel and get paid to do what you love and meet people, to see the world… it’s just the feeling you get… and for me, to be able to innovate in the sport and bring new stuff and create new tricks and stuff like that is really appealing.”

Spend any time with Hadlow, and it’s quickly apparent that his globetrotting, self-reliant years on the circuit have instilled an uncommon maturity. Today, for example, we’re chatting in the dim, surroundings of a back-street south London photo studio – almost as far removed from the blissful beaches of the PKRA world tour as it’s possible to be. He’s relaxed in spite of the time demands being made, amenable despite being hung from guy ropes and doused in cold water for the sake of The Shot.

These are, he understands, the demands made of a professional sportsman; the price of a gilded life: “I don’t really enjoy having to answer loads of questions and check my emails all the time, but it’s work and I’ve just learned how to cope with it. Whatever comes along I’ll do it and it’s all good, but the fun bit is still being with your friends and going kiting.

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because I just wanted to compete and, you know, loads of us all got on really well and just met up with each other. Now I meet everyone at each event and loads of my friends are from abroad. Just being social is one of the good things about it.”

Those close to Hadlow reckon his essential ‘sameness’, his sanity, is rooted in self-belief and professionalism: selfbelief to experiment; professionalism that keeps him ahead of the chasing pack.

And he’s smart. Despite kiteboarding’s burgeoning popularity, there’s less money in the professional pot than in 2002, when American Mark Shinn was main man. Still, the cream rises and Hadlow employs an agent to handle business affairs and maximise exposure, while still keeping schedule space for training and travel.

“Yeah, I don’t have a training regime as such,” he laughs. “I just kite as much as possible because it’s the best practice.

But you always have to stay on top of things, stay fit and just be ready for each competition. On the circuit there’s quite a few guys who are pretty good, always pushing, so you’ve always got to stay on

“FOR ME, TO BE ABLE TO INNOVATE IN THE SPORT, BRING NEW STUFF, CREATE NEW TRICKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT IS REALLY APPEALING” top of the game. If I’m stuck in the UK for a week and I see there’s going to be no wind before the event I’ll go somewhere else to practise. I’m very competitive.”

With practice and competition, come injuries – “I was out a few years back for a couple of months with an ankle injury. Last year I was having to wear a knee-brace. There’s lots of repetitive impact coming down on your knees and ankles, it’s quite strenuous” – and danger, such as the very real threat of being garrotted by a cable: “Oh yeah, for sure, that’s a risk.” Hadlow’s grimacing, dead serious now. “These lines are really taut when you’re up with the kite, but luckily nothing serious has happened. It’s just the person flying it needs to be totally in control. It’s all about kite control.”

Bit by bit, the profile grows: Hadlow is recognised everywhere he goes on the PKRA tour. Just over a year ago, during a week spent in Tenerife, Hadlow and travel partner Ruben Lenten would draw crowds to watch their impromptu displays, and before they could pack

up their kites, the duo would have to negotiate a trail of autograph-hunters.

With a simple, shy reluctance, he admits: “There was a real big change in the sport where a younger generation came into it. I started off thinking, yeah, I could probably do pretty well at this and for it to happen so soon is really, really amazing. And the sport’s starting to get way bigger. The media’s getting behind it now and I’m doing more photo shoots and studio shoots and things like that. It’s definitely growing. We can feel it happening around us.”

Think of Hadlow’s as a cult rock-star’s lifestyle: within touching distance of kitchen-sink familiarity, yet still far from being a household name. It’s coming, though. In 2007 he was nominated for the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards, a nod that included a trip to Barcelona for the glitzy black-tie ceremony.

It felt big, particularly so for a sportsman more used to eyeing his fans from a comfortable distance – on the beach while he’s on water: “There were so many people there,” he recalls. “I remember stepping onto the red carpet with all these photographers everywhere.

Imagine a grandstand of photographers, it was mad. I just stood there with all these flashes going crazy and all these people shouting my name to look here or there. I was just freaking out, laughing at what I was doing. I had to do these interviews and I’d look a little further down the carpet and there were famous footballers doing the same thing.”

He gushes now and in that there’s still a hint of youth, a reminder that he is just 20 years old. But it’s deceptive: there’s no doubt his eye remains firmly on the prize. Push him, and he’ll admit – quietly, no pomp – that he’s a pioneer; that for those who care, he’s taking a young sport into realms where the possibilities remain unknown. “I really want to help steer the sport in the right direction,” he reflects, calmly. “I know I’ve made up quite a few tricks in the past, but those were more for competitions. Now I’m trying to bring a style that’s nicer to watch. I look to sports like snowboarding and motocross and the styles are really defined. I’m trying to bring that to our sport now, so people look at that and are really amazed by it. I want to be part of the upbringing of kitesurfing. That’s what I’m trying to bring to the sport now, just to make it bigger and mainstream.”

He is. He will.

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annes Arch is scaring the wildlife. The Kikuyu Game Lodge, in Gauteng Province, South Africa, has been his home for the off-season, and every couple of minutes the reigning Red Bull Air Race World Champion leaps from his chair on the veranda to stalk the garden, barking into the mobile phone clamped to his ear. Antelope and ostriches look on warily. Arch isn’t the typical predator, but, here on the Highveld, it pays to be cautious.

Arch is in Gauteng in preparation for his title defence in the ‘premier league’ of air racing.

Although, it’s more comparable to Formula One racing from the 1960s than today’s F1, lacking the polished, professional team’s modern structures.

Arch is very much his own boss, acting as team manager, sponsorship director, press officer and a thousand other jobs all rolled into one. Fielding phone calls and answering email is his day job; flying the plane, he insists wryly, is just a hobby.

But not much of a hobby at the moment. Arch is grounded, his customised aerobatics aircraft in pieces in a hangar at the local airfield. Under the care of a race technician, its carbon-fibre fuselage is being modified for the new season; a touch of streamlining here, a gram of weight-saving there.

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away. Instead of getting reacquainted with his race plane and building up essential G-tolerance, the days are filled with physical and mental exercises, hanging out with the local flying fraternity, dutifully blogging on www.hannesarch.com, and repeated, sometimes irate, phone conferences with sluggish suppliers and technical partners.

It’s a change of pace for a man who, now in his 40s, has spent most of his career far from the madding crowd. Once the youngest mountain guide in Austria at 19, his interests spread to hang-gliding, paragliding and BASE jumping. He was the first to jump from the north face of the Eiger. Chasing up aviation spares is a new experience.

It’s irritating, but Arch values a positive mental attitude above almost anything else, hence, after yet another agitated phone conversation, he looks to the sky, breathes in and delves deep to find a smile.

“This is something we have to live with,” he offers.

“Getting the plane right is the priority. Maybe I won’t get as much flight-training as I wanted, but that would only give me an advantage for the first race; having a better plane will be an advantage all season. The timescale we set to get the plane ready was ambitious; the time it’s taking is more realistic.”

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feel like two wings attached to my body, y’know?

I have to feel it, like an extension of myself. If there has to be a compromise, then I would rather have the plane a little slower, but a perfect fit. Air racing is like a downhill ski race: it’s all about finding the right line, not going too wide or not making sharp edges, and just gliding through the gates with smooth, energy-conserving lines.”

Arch gives an impression of a balletic, graceful sport. The picture presented by the in-cockpit cameras is rather different however. Air racing is a brutal assault on the body. With speeds of up to 230mph, it is one of the most rapid motorsports around, but the real metric setting it apart is G-force. Today’s rules limit the pilots to 12G, with instant disqualification for transgressors. Some commentators have suggested it lessens the spirit of this most extreme of sports – pilots disagree.

“More than 12G just hurts your body. It’s dangerous, too: we have limits and so do the aeroplanes,” says Arch. “I think the 12G limit is good for the sport because it adds another element to the competition.

We need to get as close as we can to the limit without going over. It requires a sensitive pilot to make sharp decisions while in those high-G conditions. It isn’t like the sport’s gone soft!”

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or the non-flyer, G-force-induced blackouts begin at around the 5G or 6G mark. Not being gifted with superhuman powers, race pilots gradually build up their tolerance by regularly performing high-G manoeuvres. Much of their winter training, therefore, is dedicated to rebuilding G-tolerance – the key fitness ingredient in the make-up of a Red Bull Air Race pilot. “You can only get there by flying,” says Arch. “During the season, it’s simple to maintain because we’re flying every weekend, either racing or training, or at an airshow, but before the season begins it’s important to tune yourself up to race level, which is high. I’ll be starting late, but if I’m flying constantly it will be enough time. You can’t do it in one day, but it only takes a few weeks of steadily increasing the number of Gs you pull. I’ll have time enough to ensure I’m ready and feeling good for the first race.”

With his race plane temporarily grounded, Arch immerses himself in physical training. Back home in Austria, he defaults to climbing, his first love; in South Africa, it’s a high-protein, low-carb diet, daily trips to the local gym and jogging at dawn or dusk. He talks the talk but also manages to convey the impression that purely physical training isn’t much of a hardship, an impression reinforced by the occasional cigarette spotted dangling guiltily 55

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between his fingers. Most Air Racers come from an easier life in commercial aviation and find the fitness requirements of racing a challenge. Arch’s background gives him a rather different perspective: “Air racing is more comfortable,” he admits. “There’s plenty of recovery time, good hotels, soft beds, room service… Compare it to mountaineering in Alaska where you’re hiking for days with all your food and survival gear, just to get to the mountain you want to climb. You’re tired and under a great deal of stress because you have to make good decisions or you die. And there are no excuses.”

hose very G-forces that pilots spend so much time training to resist actually gifted Arch his title victory last year. Paul Bonhomme, his rival in the overall standings, exceeded the G-limit in the penultimate race, ensuring Arch went into the final round with a dominant lead. He was an unexpected champion: when the Red Bull Air Race World Championship began in 2005, he was Race Director. He made the unlikely transition to Rookie pilot for the 2007 season, but rarely troubled the scorers.

‘Rookie’ sells Arch short, however. Glen Dell, a fellow competitor who was a Rookie himself last season, notes that their respective learning curves aren’t really comparable: “Hannes did really well last year – he couldn’t have done much better, but I think he had a few advantages.

“I didn’t really see him as one of the 2007 Rookies because, [as the former Race Director] he’s been around the Red Bull Air Race probably for longer than anybody, and, as I found out last year, to succeed in the series, it’s not only the flying that counts. You also need to be aware of the procedures and processes, and generally how things happen over the race weekend. Hannes had that experience when he started and, without wishing to diminish his achievement, he was one of the more experienced Red Bull Air Race pilots even when he was a Rookie.”

But experience alone wasn’t enough to prevent Arch’s first season being a disappointment – a chastening episode that was, he claims, a decisive factor in his current pre-eminence: “This isn’t like racing cars. The first year is only about learning.

At the start, you don’t know anything. You think you do, but you don’t. I came into the series with high hopes. I was European Aerobatics Champion and I entered the championship thinking, ‘Watch out, here I come.’ Then, in that first race, I couldn’t even fly in a straight line. It made me change my mindset – totally. I told myself to forget about winning and forget about the rankings. Instead, I spent the year simply observing. I watched everyone 56

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else, probably more than they knew. I watched how they treated their technicians, and how they worked on their aeroplanes and on their tactics.”

Arch also needed to discover his will to compete.

“Until I started racing, I didn’t know if I was a good competitor… I didn’t know if I could compete against other people, rather than compete against nature.

My other sports have an element of togetherness; it’s never me versus the other guy. In climbing, if the other guy needs help, you help. Equally, if he felt he needed to be first to the top, I’d let him. In extreme sports, you’re there for each other. There’s competition, but usually it’s to do something no one else has done; to succeed where others have failed.

The Red Bull Air Race is totally different. It’s like running the 100m: you line up alongside the other guy and simply have to be faster than him. Until I raced, I never knew if I had that in me.

“I learned that I could compete. And at the end of the year I was able to put that and everything else I’d learned into the pot, then add a few ingredients of my own. I think, for some of the other guys, mental preparation is about thinking, ‘I’m a good pilot.’ For me, it’s the opposite: my attitude is always to think, ‘I’m not good – I have to improve.’ I used the 2007-08 off-season to prepare mentally as well as physically and technically. I have a mental trainer, but I also needed to get my environment right. That included little things like having team clothes that felt good, but also big things like hiring an excellent, young technician who approaches the aeroplane with an open mind. Obviously, the plane must be fast, but there’s more to it. I’m only strong in my mind if I get a good feeling about the aircraft from my technician. At a race, I don’t care about the aeroplane. It’s his responsibility and I have to trust him to prepare it perfectly. Having a technician I get along with was a crucial part of last year’s success.”

That technician is Swiss Vito Wyprächtiger. “I’ve got pretty good at judging Hannes’s mood,” he says.

“I know when I can talk to him and when I can’t – because sometimes it’s not a good idea to crowd the pilot’s head. Thankfully, he trusts me to deal with the aeroplane. It helps that I fly aerobatics myself: I know what’s going on inside the cockpit and what’s going on inside his mind – and he knows I know. So, when Hannes is preparing to race, he doesn’t need to think about the aeroplane at all.”

Arch won the 2008 championship by virtue of a consistency that took him to at least the semifinals in every round, taking victories towards the end of the season in Budapest and Porto.

“He was getting better all the time,” says Wyprächtiger. “In the first half of the year, he was coping with a new plane, and when he did well at the first race [finishing second], we thought that maybe it was luck, or maybe us simply having a very good day. By the end of the year, he was flying with much more consistency; his style had improved a lot.” Arch offers a slightly different explanation. “At the start of the year, I just wasn’t ready to win. My

aspirations were to break into the midfield. Ending the season in the middle of the pack would have been great. Of course I intended to get to the top, but I really thought it would take longer. This is a serious business and success doesn’t come cheaply.

I definitely didn’t expect to qualify for the final at the first round of the year – that’s why I screwed it up.”

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his was a trait that would continue throughout the first half of the season. Arch was never out of the top four, but never able to stand on the top step of the podium either. His own evaluation is that he risked too much in the latter stages of each event, lacking the discipline required to fly well. “I was getting ready to win in the first half of the season, but mentally I wasn’t quite there,” he says.

Success finally arrived in August, Arch beating Steve Jones in a Budapest duel above the Danube watched by over a million spectators. “Before the race, I felt it could be my mine. But that sort of confidence isn’t something I was entirely happy with, because it felt like I was concentrating on the wrong thing. Afterwards, I altered my opinion a little; it convinced me that the difference between winning and losing really was all in my head.”

In his head and against the clock: one way in which Arch made the leap from runner-up to winner is his preference to race the stopwatch, rather than the other pilots. “I look at the numbers, not the people,” he says. “If you’re trying to beat the man rather than the time, then you’re racing for pride.

If you’re too proud, you can’t learn: you become caged. If you want to get better, you need to look around and see the qualities in the people around you. I don’t see myself flying against enemies. I’m surrounded by pilots I can look up to. I know I’m not the best, most skilful pilot out there. There are plenty who have been flying far longer than me and have skills and experience that I can learn from.”

There’s no harm in modesty – and Arch seems particularly well-grounded in that respect – but selfdeprecation rings a little hollow from the reigning champ. Arch counters, claiming that speed between the pylons isn’t what wins a championship. “Really, it isn’t all about flying. There’s tactics and preparation and attitude and teamwork. I think I won last year because I did my homework better than anyone else – basically, I think my advantage was that I’m a workaholic. I wasn’t the best pilot last year… but I was the fastest.” This is said with a brief, predatory smile. With the new season approaching, it’s not only the antelope that should be wary of Hannes Arch.

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Deep in the Welsh countryside, nestling under the purple scree slopes and amber bracken of the steep-sided mountains, sits an old stone cottage, gently breathing woodsmoke into the misty morning. The cottage is picturesque, but the garden isn’t: it’s been dug up, all the earth thrown into the air in a series of huge man-sized mounds. Push open the back door, peer in and you will see a small room stacked floor-to-ceiling with muddy coats, shoes, body armour, knee pads, elbow pads, goggles and rows of helmets. Near the door that leads deeper into the house sits something that seems slightly out of place: a pair of stylish, bottle-green, high-heeled

shoes. They belong to Rachel, the longhaired blonde who lives in the cottage along with her two elder brothers, Dan and Gee. A third of the body armour, protection pads and helmets is hers, too, and five of the 15 bikes in the workshop.

If you aren’t into downhill mountain biking, you won’t know this family .

But you should. Of these three sporting siblings, two are reigning world champions and all three have won world cups.

These three siblings should be feted and adored, their faces across the front of glossy magazines and their smiles on mid-morning chat shows. But they are not. Despite its growing popularity, their 63

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‘WE WENT FLAT-OUT, CRASHED , GOT UP… WENT FLAT-OUT, CRASHED… WE HAD NO IDEA ABOUT STRATEGY, BUT WE KNEW WE WERE COMPETITIVE’ World Cup downhill racing takes place in the most mountainous and rugged regions of the world. It’s a points-series competition and for 2009 the races will be held in eight countries, one more than last year. The whole circus of competitors and support crews will be travelling to Canada, Australia, South Africa, Scotland, France, Slovenia, Austria and Andorra.

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their mounts in arcing flight towards trees and the unforgiving earth.

It’s in the downhill category that Rachel and Gee excel. Rachel is world champion, the first British woman to claim the crown. Gee is the reigning men’s world champion. The World Championship is a single event and this year it will be held in Canberra, Australia. In 2008, 24,600 spectators turned up to watch the Australian races and the crowds are expected to be even bigger this time around.

Here are three siblings at the top of the same sport at the same time, and it’s all down to Dan. “We lived in a tiny village. It was 30 miles to the big town and there was nothing much to do except ride BMX. Gee wasn’t interested. He was running around with his mates playing army and building dens. But I thought, ‘Sod it,’ and bought him his first BMX. Then he got into it and loved it.”

First it was BMX, then mountain bikes, but the pattern was always thus: Dan started and Gee followed. Rachel refused to be left out, so she joined in. A significant chapter opened when Dan was 16 and Gee was 13, and they entered their first mountain bike race.

“We went flat-out, crashed, got up… went flat-out, crashed… We had no idea about strategy. But even after that first race, we knew we could be competitive, because people were saying we did certain sections faster than anyone else.”

Gee looks up from a concentrated study of his beans on toast to concur with his brother. “Yeah, we knew. We were watching everyone else go down and we knew we could do it. We just lacked the knowledge and experience.”

Rachel grins. “Everyone I knew was into bikes, my brothers and all their friends. At lunchtimes in school I would go out to the trails with all the boys and hang out there and ride. I was never into hanging out with the girls, going shopping. I tried it, but I didn’t like it.

But when I first started riding, I didn’t like the riding, I just liked the racing.”

But what’s the difference? Gee breaks away from his food again. “I know!

Riding was hard work and you had to get muddy and push your heavy downhill bike up the hills. But racing… she pretty much won from her first race. She was always doing well and she was loving the glory; that was what she was all about, right from the start.”

Dan is slouching sage-like against the wood-burning range in the corner of the kitchen, listening to our

RIDING WITH THE PROS What it’s really like trying to keep up with the Athertons down a hill?

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sport is not on the Olympic favoured list and is not found on the back pages of national newspapers. If they had been part of the Olympics, the chances are that all three would have picked up gold medals, and having three Olympians in the same family would have been a huge news story, read by millions of people. But they didn’t, so for everyone who doesn’t know them, let me introduce the Athertons.

Dan is the eldest at 26, intelligent and serious, yet with a sharp sardonic humour and a naughty, boyish grin.

Rachel is 21, fearless but feminine, svelte, funny and fiercely independent.

The man in the middle is Gee, three years younger than Dan. He is a tall action hero with a hidden sensitivity and perception that belie his playboy façade.

All three ride mountain bikes. Dan’s speciality, four-cross (also called 4X), is an event where four body-armour-clad mountain bikers race each other down a prepared track of steeply-banked turns and huge ramp jumps. The fitness, speed, skills, nerve, tactics and strength required are significant. So are crashes.

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conversation around the big wooden table, interjecting where necessary.

“Rachel is full of energy. She always has been ever since she was young. She does occasionally have moments when her temper kicks in or she is as low as you can go, depressed, but then straight away she’s back up again. Rachel is also the best racer. When it comes to all-out, flat-out racing, she’s the best. She’s a good rider, but sometimes she will be struggling with something on the course during practice and she will be really worried about it, but then in the race she will nail it. That ability to just give 100 per cent to the race is excellent.”

Gee nods in agreement; Rachel looks humbled but pleased. “I think I have learned that from watching these two race. I have two of the best coaches.

Oh boys! I can’t thank you enough!”

But her competitiveness and commitment come at a cost: she was knocked off her road bike during winter training, resulting in a shoulder injury that will force her to miss the seasonopener in South Africa later this month.

Gee, by contrast, is more levelheaded, according to Dan: “He’s focused on what has to be done, and doesn’t care about what he has to do to achieve it. That’s what he’s going to do and everyone else just has to deal with it.

I think that’s how you have to be if you want to be a professional athlete. There’s no point running around trying to look after other people if you’re trying to be the best in the world.”

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‘THE ATHERTONS ARE THREE DISTINCT CHARACTERS WHO INTERACT SEAMLESSLY, LIKE A SYNCHRONISED SIBLING TEAM’ seem to have been taken as fair. Now Gee takes his turn as the family analyst.

“Dan is a very dedicated person.”

Then Rachel butts in using that sharp disappointed tone that can only be made by the youngest. “I was going to say dedicated!” Gee flashes a wry big-brother smile and continues.

“He’s always been like it. That carries him through, the amount of effort he puts in and what he is willing to do in order to make it to wherever he needs to be. That will get you a long way in life.”

Rachel jumps in again as the threeway compliments and critiques between the brothers and their sister continue.

“If Dan decides to do something, he will put 110 per cent into it.”

Gee nods. “He’s also very smart. At races, he always thinks things through.

You can see it when he’s on the track with three other people, anticipating what they might do, seeing potential moves to get ahead. That fast, smart thinking is essential when you are racing ‘four-man’ on a mountain bike.”

Supportive yet challenging, humorous but honest. Spend time with them and you soon witness their triple act. They’re three distinct characters who interact seamlessly, like a synchronised sibling team. Not surprisingly, that’s how the media often portray them: not as three individual sporting gods but as a conjoined

holy trinity, but it does get on their nerves. After all, as Rachel points out, when you are each at the top in your own right, to be constantly lumped together wears a bit thin. “We are quite focused on keeping our individuality.

Whatever we do, at races or when we are with the media, we like to make it known that we are different people.”

Dan looks up from making a round of teas. “We are definitely supportive of each other. We would do anything to help the other two if needed. But at the same time, we all want to be top dog.”

But if you are that competitive, and that good, isn’t it frustrating to be in a sport that isn’t even on the radar for anyone other than the aficionados?

All three are up for this one. It’s their personal crusade to make mountain biking more widely appreciated. They believe that people are missing out by not watching it. Gee is the first to answer.

“There’s the technology, the training, the emotion and the excitement of watching a rider rattling down through the woods at high speed between rocks and trees, jumping huge gaps. It’s amazing to watch. It’s just getting it shown to the right people in the right way.”

Then Dan joins in. “It’s not just the races, either. There are events like Red Bull Rampage. That grabs their attention. Show people pictures of someone jumping a 60ft gap in the blue sky on a bike and it captures them.”

So, mountain biking has untapped televisual potential; it’s got excitement, danger, good-looking competitors and exotic locations. Isn’t that even more reason to be bitter that they aren’t adored?

This time it’s Rachel’s turn to be philosophical. “We didn’t get into it to be household names around the world; we got into it because we loved it. You can’t be bitter about it. Mum gets frustrated a lot, especially during the Olympics, seeing the coverage and all the attention they get. She feels that we should be getting similar acclaim for what we have achieved. But you just have to do what you can to help the sport along and build that exposure.”

We’ve been here several hours and many sporting stars would have been clock-watching ages ago, keen for the interlopers to leave. Not the Athertons.

As we draw things to a close, they are more concerned that the drive from their remote home will be long. As goodbyes are said, Rachel extends her hand holding a can. “Red Bull for the road?”

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NO ORDINARY JOE He’s one of the great young talents in hurling, but Joe Canning insists that he still has much to prove, both for his club and his county

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Joe Canning settles his large frame into a leather armchair and tries to describe the afternoon he has just spent in London. “It was… t’was kinda…”

He pauses for a moment, shrugs and tries again to find the right word. “Weird. It was a bit strange.”

So it is. Here, in a small, ‘clubby’ hotel in the leafy London suburb of Richmond, Canning is a man removed from his normal environment. A waiter glides in with a silver coffee pot and, on the low table, makes a ceremony out of pouring coffee into delicate china. Canning regards the process with a patient half-smile. It’s not the usual routine for a college student from Portumna.

But then, Canning’s life these days isn’t normal.

Today, he ditched college and training to fly to London for a sportswear photo shoot: a day spent in hair and make-up, and a day being pushed and prodded by photographers and assistants in the company of some stellar talents. “Danny Cipriani was there,” he says, “and loads of other guys.

A lot of English Olympic people; guys who won medals. I’m not sure who they were. Cipriani’s a lot smaller than I thought he’d be.”

He smiles again, thinking about the strangeness of being an amateur in what seems, to non-Irish eyes at least, an obscure and vaguely brutal sport, mixing it with these professional sportsmen. “It

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was a bit surreal. That was the first time I’ve ever done anything like that – well, the first kind of global thing. I could tell some of them were thinking, ‘Who is this guy? He’s only an amateur or whatever.’” He adds, drily, “To be honest, this kind of thing just happened. I was offered a free pair of boots and I thought, ‘Fair enough.’ That was three years ago. Today was kind of embarrassing, though. These are guys who are on the world stage and I’m just from Ireland. You just stand there kind of pinching yourself, thinking, ‘Am I in a dream or something?’”

Truth is, there’s very little difference between Canning and the pros in his dream. At the end of a game for Portumna, he might chuck his helmet and hurl into a kit bag and trek back to his student digs in Limerick to figure out the next part of his coursework in marketing, but the passion for the game is no different; the impact he makes is no less than that of any professional.

“Sure,” he says, again with wry humour. “The commitment is the same – no social life.”

A small cameo of how big an impact Canning makes. Thurles in late February. Midway through the second half of the Club championship semi-final and Ballyhale are staging an ultimately forlorn mini-fightback. They’ve struck six points on the bounce without reply. Portumna, a juggernaut in

‘THERE’S A LOT OF IMPROVEMENT I HAVE TO MAKE – A LOT OF THINGS I SEE IN MY HEAD THAT CAN MAKE ME WAY BETTER’ the first half, suddenly look nervous. The huge lead they’ve built is being whittled away. A loose ball spins out across the sideline in front of the old stand and is awarded Portumna’s way. It’s the first break they’ve had in five or six minutes of play.

Canning jogs past the stand on his way upfield and sweeps a clenched fist through the air in an effort to take the crowd with him. Every man, woman and child is suddenly on their feet, dragged back into a game that, for them, was turning.

That is Canning’s role, though: touchstone; talisman; charm. At just 20 years of age, he has no right to be such, but this is where the wicked combination of precocious talent and hype has brought him. He’s a wonderkid and the future of hurling – potentially the greatest player of his generation. “The hype is totally unjustified,” he says with a small grimace. “A lot of it is blown out of proportion to make a story. God, I’m only 20. There is a lot of improvement that I have to make – a lot of things that I see in my own head that can make me way better, and lots of goals that I set for myself to improve this year and in years to come. I’d like to be a lot better than I am.

“People have freedom of speech, so if they want to say it, they can say it, but it adds more pressure on me to achieve that every day. If they’re thinking that about me, I have to live up to it. Unless I do 70

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOE CANNING

it and perform the way they think I can perform, I feel I’ve let them down in some way.”

For Canning, though, it’s not an unwelcome set of expectations. “It’s a good pressure,” he says.

“Without that pressure, there’d be nothing. It’s something that drives me on to be better. I could take that negatively and say, ‘Well, I’m just not able to do it,’ maybe play a few bad games, relieve the pressure from myself and carry on. But I think it will improve me. If people are saying that I should be doing this, I’ll try to get there.”

It has been that way since the youngest of seven Canning kids first picked up a hurl, fascinated by what his siblings were achieving and envious of the fun they seemed to be having. “Everybody in the family was playing it, so I suppose there was a bit of jealousy of the others. I’ve a big family – five brothers and one sister – and there’s a seven-year age gap between me and my next brother. I used to see them all going away, having the craic, and I’d get left behind because I was so young… and anyway, we couldn’t overload the car!

“I used to love watching videos. They’d bring a video home and I used to be up some mornings before school at seven o’clock watching – videos of club games, videos that people had shot from the sideline, videos of Galway, The Sunday Game – anything I could get my hands on. Also, I used to love dressing up when I was younger, in team kit that’d be hanging off me, just anything to get closer to it. I used to think I was great.”

Canning’s upbringing seems to have predestined greatness. Joe, the youngest, fuelled by envy, is determined to gain his family’s approval, to go one better than them. “They taught me, but obviously I’ve introduced my own techniques as well along the way. But it was always there, that thing of wanting to be better than them,” he admits. “You see, there’s a thing in our family that they never gave me praise or credit. That’s not strictly true, as they encouraged me greatly, but while they might have admitted to themselves that I was getting better, they’d never say it to me. If they had, I might have been happy with myself and not tried to improve, so it was a good thing that they didn’t give me much praise. It just drove me on to do better.”

‘Better’ equals a couple of All-Ireland minor titles by the age of 16, an under-21 title, six county final appearances in a row, and now, following a masterful performance on St Patrick’s Day, beating De la Salle by 2-24 to 1-08, a third club title in four years.

The net result is some kind of hysteria, Canning generating more rapturous column inches than any hurler since DJ Carey. The only comparable player of the last 10 years has been Henry Shefflin, but, in Thurles in February, Canning’s Portumna destroyed Shefflin’s Ballyhale in a dizzying start that saw the oddly unfancied champions put 2-2 past Ballyhale in the first six minutes. Having talked up the battle of the game’s two most incendiary forwards in the morning, by Sunday evening the only talk in the media was of Shefflin’s eclipse.

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Portumna defence, was grounding his kid brother again. “He’s no Shefflin yet,” said Ollie simply. Business as usual. Move on; next topic.

The assessment is greeted by Joe with a firm nod.

“That’s the truth,” he says. “That’s not a thing to keep me grounded – it’s just a simple fact. I have a long, long way to go to be like Henry. He is the most complete hurler of the last 10 years. I know people say he has a good team around him, but the thing is that he makes everything – everything good happens around him. He makes them tick.

You have to admire that completeness and the reliability of him, day-in, day-out.” There’s a small shake of the head. “Unbelievable.”

Completeness is Canning’s watchword, and Shefflin is the yardstick. “I definitely see my role being as a team player, contributing to everything,” he adds. “I don’t score a lot from play, which is something I have to work on, but I see myself as more of a creator. That aspect of Henry’s game is something that I would aspire to. He is a total team player. That’s the level I want to be at and it’s a goal I have set myself – to be able to play at that kind of consistently high level. I might not be good enough, but I have to go for it.”

But first he has to lay to rest the one criticism constantly levelled against him – a lack of pace.

Canning’s own page on social networking website

‘IF I DIDN’T THINK THAT WINNING AN ALL-IRELAND WAS REALISTIC, I’D BE SAYING, “WHY AM I BOTHERING?”’ Bebo is jokingly called ‘slowandonesided’, a nickname handed to him by his Limerick college housemates. And it’s an acknowledgement that, away from the hysteria, there are areas of his game that do not meet his own expectations. “I do get a good bit of stick for being a bit slow. Rightly so,” he says. “We just came up with that tagline. I don’t mind it so much. Other guys might be a bit upset, but it’s OK.” And there is work to be done there.

“I feel that if I read the game well enough, I can compensate,” he says. “If I work hard on that, I’ll compensate for that yard or two off the mark.

Lately, though, I feel I am getting a bit better; a bit faster. I’d feel that I look slower than I am. I do have a longer stride. I have a lazy way about me – that’s just the way I am. To be honest, I don’t find that I get caught that much. If I feel that if I’m able to read the game that little bit better than the marker on me, then that gives me the edge.

That’s an instinct thing. You can’t train for that and I think I’m lucky enough to have that ability.”

It’s an ability that will receive the ultimate test in the summer. The Club Championship has again kept Canning and his Portumna team-mates away from the county panel for the winter. There’s a new Galway manager in John McIntyre, a new set of standards to assimilate, a reshaped panel to integrate with and a new challenge in playing 74

in Leinster. There’s a lot to do if Galway are finally to live up to the potential that has evaporated at crucial points in recent years. “It’s hard to explain what the missing ingredient is,” Canning says. “You’re playing for the pride of your county, whereas with the club you’re playing for your parish and your community. In Portumna, we know each other inside-out now, whereas with Galway there’s always new guys coming in, maybe every year or two. I do think it’s a case of just spending more time together to get it right. But still, it’s good at the moment and the guys who are there now have been there for a while, through underage and everything. It’s just that we need confidence, I suppose.”

McIntyre’s arrival is an unspoken boon. After a tumultuous period under Ger Loughnane, during which the Cannings’ rollercoaster relationship with the Galway management often took centre stage, Joe admits to cautious optimism about the new regime. “To be honest, I haven’t had too many dealings with him yet, as Portumna have obviously been involved in the club championship, but the feedback from the guys is that the set-up is very professional. If that is the case, then it’s time for us as players to step up to the mark. We are in Leinster this year, so we have no excuses any more,” he says.

“The thing is that Galway always have a good panel,” he adds. “The hurlers are there. The talent is definitely there. After that, it’s down to finding the right mix of youth and experience. You need some quality leadership as well as young guys to bring on. And with the fact that we’ll have more games this year, hopefully we can do that.” The question mark remains, however.

Throughout a long interview, pride in club, parish, family and community are at the heart of Canning’s pleasure in the game. The prospect of another club title animates Canning more than any other topic. “In Portumna, our first county final win was in 2003. We’d never won one before, and it brought tears to the eyes of many of the older, retired guys. And I still look up to them. I still want to do it for them,” he says emphatically. Maybe that is central to Galway’s failure to truly ignite – the translation of that fierce, unalloyed pride in community and family to a broader stage, to the prospect of taking the ultimate prize at inter-county level. Canning is adamant that’s not the case, at least not for him. “If I didn’t think winning an AllIreland was realistic, I’d be saying, ‘Why am I here?

Why am I bothering?’ It has to be the goal to win the whole thing,” he says with heavy emphasis.

“It’s 21 years since we won an All-Ireland and, for a county like Galway that has so much underage talent, that’s too long. We have to improve everything to match – no, to be better than – Kilkenny. It only needs a small bit of luck or a small bit of mental toughness to get us over that line.”

He pauses for a moment, mentally looking at the road ahead. Maybe this time it is just possible.

“I don’t know,” he says finally, “it’s there all right. Whatever it takes, we just have to do it.”

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Picture a space where Tony Hawk can rub shoulders with his skate buddies in a low-lit, intimate setting big enough for a few hundred, but with a well-edited guestlist and a tight door. Then picture one where hip-hop’s rising star Kid Cudi might pop bottles with Kanye West. Finally, picture a runway at New York Fashion Week, where an avant-garde designer wows editors with her clever use of space as much as with her collection. All worlds apart, and yet Red Bull Space in New York has hosted all three.

“The beauty of the space is that it can be whatever you want it to be,” says Lindsey Guerrera, events manager for the 3,000sq ft SoHo loft.

The space boasts a few white leather ottomans, two white support columns and huge floor-to-ceiling windows.

The look is industrial chic meets downtown cool.

Five days a week, from 10am until 8 or 9pm, you will find Guerrera, hauling around couches, poking away at her BlackBerry and meeting clients. She collaborates closely on every event the space hosts and attends them all, too. “These are unique collaborations, where we all have input,” she says, “I hate to miss even one!”

Most recently, Red Bull Space teamed up with Laura Dawson, an emerging designer, for Dawson’s Fashion Week show. Shirking the conventions of the Bryant Park fashion show stages, Dawson wanted a space where she could pull off the kind of show she’d spent a lifetime thinking about.

So with the help of Guerrera and her team, and the Buckminster Fuller institute, Dawson commissioned a huge geodesic dome to be erected inside the space; come show night, the models would emerge from the dome and onto the runway – a perfect synergy between interior space, fashion, and design.

“It was one of the most profound fashion events I’ve

ever seen,” says Lawrence Marazzi, a businessman and Dawson’s fiancé. “This was nothing like Bryant Park; at Bryant Park you end up with cookie-cutter shows.” At Bryant Park, it can also cost up to $50,000 just to lease a tent; another $50,000 or so for production. Red Bull Space, meanwhile, provides its partners with a cost-effective way to create premium events.

While the Dawson show took six months to produce, others can be whipped up in weeks, or even days.

Thanks to the AV room – the ‘guts’ of the place – with its intimidating piles of sound, light and video equipment, the space transforms depending on the nature of the event. That means glowin-the-dark stickers and clever projections for the nascent hip-hop artist Izza Kizza’s upcoming mixtape release party, which has an outerspace theme. At the NBA 2K9 party, projectors descended from the ceiling so that basketball star Kevin Garnett could challenge himself to a live game on the big screen.

“We love crazy ideas, and we always try to find a solution no matter what,” says Guerrera. “I don’t think in the time I have worked here we’ve had to say, ‘No we can’t pull that off.’” But only a year and a half ago, the loft was mostly unused. Long ago, it was a brewery; then an ill-fated hotspot called Chaos. But by the end of 2008, Red Bull Space had hosted 70 events, and is on pace to better that this year.

Since the Laura Dawson show, the phone’s been ringing more than usual. “We’ve gotten lots of calls from the fashion world,” says Guerrera.

And though the genius of the geodesic dome might never again be replicated, that’s sort of the point. “We kept it,” says Guerrera. “We can always find something new to do with what we have.”

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Giniel de Villiers He was the first African to win the Paris-Dakar rally – in the first year it wasn’t held in Africa. But part of the great continent will always be with the Red Bull VW driver, as he likes eating springboks…

The Red Bulletin met De Villiers at Hangar-7, in Salzburg, Austria, Red Bull’s unofficial headquarters.

The Dakar has a fearsome reputation as an endurance test. How do you eat on those long desert stages?

The stages last six or seven hours, and you won’t get far on normal food, so the car is full of power-bars; they’re easy to eat and they give you energy over a long period.

Many drivers reward themselves with a treat at the end of a stage. Did you?

Absolutely. A little treat works wonders for your morale. I always have some biltong with me. It’s strips of dried, very salty beef – a South African delicacy.

It tastes lovely, and after a day in the VW Touareg rally car you need salt anyway.

What do you drink?

Isotonic drinks; up to 6 litres per stage.

The temperature in the car can get up to between 60 and 70ºC and there’s a constant risk of dehydration. The drinks are cooled, which makes them taste better. At the end of the stage, there’s always diluted Red Bull for the drivers.

And how good does your first beer taste after two weeks in the sand?

The best beer you’ve ever had! Actually, that’s not true. The second one is the best, especially if you’ve won. You knock back the first one just to get rid of the dust, but you enjoy the second one.

So if you had to choose, beer or wine?

It depends. There’s something to be said for an ice-cold beer or a cool white wine on hot days. Or a glass of good red.

There’s a time for everything.

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You come from the wine-growing Cape, so what are your favourites?

Cabernet and Shiraz are the best.

And Merlot after them.

How do you explain the boom in South African wines?

South Africa has phenomenal winegrowers. And that’s to do with history.

My ancestors, for example, came to South Africa from France three centuries ago and brought their culture with them.

South African wine would never have got so big on good marketing alone.

Have you tried wine-growing yourself?

No, I’ve preferred to whizz around the vineyards in a car.

What’s your favourite place for dinner?

All over South Africa there are vineyards where you can eat, too. It’s so peaceful there, so with a beautiful landscape and nice company, it’s perfect.

And what do you choose to eat?

Meat! And without much fuss. Meat can be so good on its own that I don’t need much with it. I don’t like fussy food.

What meat?

A great steak. Argentinian beef is phenomenal. I’ve been to Brazil and they know what to do with meat, too. The food I ate really brought home to me that the Dakar had been relocated to South America. Good beef is as good as game.

South African springbok is a real delicacy.

I’ve eaten alligator, too; it tastes like rabbit.

What about sweet things?

They’re not really my thing. What are we eating now?

Kaiserschmarrn.

What’s in it?

Eggs, flour, sugar, a bit of milk…

It’s good. And the fruity thing?

Stewed plums… How often do you cook for yourself?

Not often. I might invite friends over who cook. Otherwise I eat out.

What would have to happen for you to cook dinner for your co-driver, Dirk von Zitzewitz?

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FLYING LOTUS & KODE 9 17.04.09

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DERRICK MAY 14.04.09 K_\ ;\kif`k k\Z_ef g`fe\\i Xii`m\j `e K\c 8m`m kf j_fn @jiX\c _`j `e[`m`[lXc YiXe[ f] _flj\ dlj`Z% ;\ii`Zb DXp Xcjf befne Xj DXp[Xp Xe[ I_pk_d `j I_pk_d nXj fe\ f] k_\ Ô ijk kf ]lj\ k_\ Zc`e`ZXc Xe[ X^^i\jj`m\ jfle[j f] \c\Zkif n`k_ dfi\ XZZ\jj`Yc\ _flj\ Y\Xkj% 9Xiq`cXp :clY# K\c 8m`m# @jiX\c

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New Runway in London Backstage at London Fashion Week doesn’t have to be a chaotic affair. Paul Wilson follows cool operators PPQ from catwalk to a giant double bed

PPQ LONDON FASHION WEEK

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YOU ME AT SIX 17.04.09 K_\ gfg gleb Ô m\$g`\Z\ kXb\ k_\`i jb`ccj ]ifd I\[ 9lcc 9\[iffd AXd kf k_\ ]\jk`mXc Z`iZl`k `e 9\c^`ld% F] Zflij\# k_\p XZklXccp jkfgg\[ aXdd`e^ `e Y\[iffdj X cfe^ k`d\ X^f Xe[ Xi\ efn Xe `ek\ieXk`feXc ]fiZ\ fe k_\ c`m\ jZ\e\# n`k_ LJ [Xk\j kf ]fccfn k_`j jldd\i% >if\qifZb# D\\i_flk# 9\c^`ld

NIGHT OF THE JUMPS 17.04.09 – 18.04.09

COACHELLA FESTIVAL 17.04.09 – 19.04.09 K_\ Ê:Xc`]fie`Xe >cXjkfeYlipË i\kliej% @ejk\X[ f] n_Xk dXp klie `ekf X j\X f] dl[# :fXZ_\ccX kXb\j gcXZ\ `e g\i]\Zkcp$^iffd\[ @e[`f gfcf Ô \c[j le[\i \e[c\jj jlej_`e\% K_\ c`e\$lg `j Xj `dgi\jj`m\ Xj \m\i# n`k_ Dfii`jj\p# GXlc DZ:Xike\p Xe[ GlYc`Z <e\dp Xdfe^ k_\ \Zc\Zk`Z c`jk f] g\i]fid\ij% @e[`f# :Xc`]fie`X# LJ8

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Cultural void? Not this Los Angeles. Flying Lotus, AKA experimental hip-hop producer Steven Ellison, proves as much, as he takes John McDonnell on a tour of his hometown favourites

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A Bad Start to the Year Can you really have the Monday morning blues for a whole month?

The snow is melting slowly this year.

Just like us.

You can hardly tell if he has pulled a dirty grey sheet over his body or whether the filth that’s swimming in his stomach is showing through his thinned skin.

Both would apply to us in any case.

To Hartmut, lying there on the sofa as limply as if someone had laid him there like a towel. To me, crouching on the Flokati rug and listlessly playing on his PlayStation as if it was a minimum requirement beyond breathing. Our cat Yannick is the only lively one; he wanders around us purring. It’s not a satisfied purr; it’s a purr that’s trying to rouse us. Rouse us from the numbness that we’ve fallen into since the New Year and that we can’t overcome.

On New Year’s Eve, everything was as it had always been. Twinkling stars, fireworks, the prospects of a long night ahead, New Year’s Day in your dressinggown, then a new beginning by January 5 at the very latest! But now it’s the 21st and there’s no beginning in sight.

“Who finished the coffee?” asks Susanne from the kitchen in a rasping voice. She is the only one moving at all at the moment. Hartmut and I try to, but always instantly find reasons to stop again. The coffee’s all gone. And it didn’t help. There’s a row of 21 empty, shiny, silver-and-blue cans on the windowsill. We got up after every can, wanting to start the year at last. But we were back where we started after two hours at the most, every time.

“It’s all gone,” Hartmut calls out to the kitchen, languidly, and Susanne shuffles into the living room to join us, hurling herself into the swing chair, a hemisphere suspended from a heavy steel column. She looks casually at the screen, showing the console version of Civilization II. I don’t know why I’m playing this life-simulation game instead of a run-of-the-mill shoot-’em-up that would better suit this kind of day. Maybe I want to show us what we’re doing in real life on the screen. My civilisation is collapsing definitively. I’m not making any decisions; I’m letting it slide. Yannick walks over my legs, his tail held high.

“We need to get the year started,” I say.

“We’re sick,” says Hartmut. A fly lands in his sideburns and cleans its feet on them. Susanne looks around in the hanging chair, finds a cracker amid the cushions, holds it up in front of her eyes and bites into it.

The illness Hartmut is speaking about is a pretext. Granted, all three of us have got a bit of a cold; that much we can say.

But what we can also say is that on the

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MORE BODY & MIND seventh day of the year, with the cold abating and the ability to work threatening to return completely, Hartmut stormed out of the house in a panic and began to ring neighbouring doorbells with some excuse or other, until someone with the flu and swollen eyes appeared at the door. He then breathed in strong and deep, held the air, dashed back into the house, closed the door and breathed out wetly in every room. Our colds were back and we had won a few more days. On the 10th day, my holiday came to an end and UPS was expecting me back on the assembly line. It took me three hours to find a puddle down on Prince Regent Street that was frozen enough for me to slip on and sprain my ankle.

“What the hell’s wrong with us?”

I ask while Susanne swings quietly and squeakily and Hartmut’s eyes goggle at the TV as if stuck on a sofa-cover from a joke shop. A cover with eyes.

“An existential crisis,” says the cover. “We’ve somehow understood that everything always starts over again.

I answer a client and, as soon as I send the email, three new ones come. You fixed up a motorbike, Susanne, and then there were two neighbouring kids with their mopeds at the door…”

“And the flow of parcels on the conveyor belt never stops…” I sigh.

“Exactly,” says Hartmut. “We’ve never accepted it before. We steadfastly do the washing-up in the hope that this might be the last time and the crockery will stay clean forever now.”

“It’s awful,” I say.

“Yeah,” says Susanne as she chews on the rest of the weeks-old cracker.

Yannick jumps onto the windowsill, lumbers around the empty cans and knocks one of them onto the floor.

“He wants us to at least give it a shot,” I say.

“The daily attempt,” says Susanne.

“I’m going to do it,” says Hartmut.

He unfolds himself from the sofa. The cover body gradually gains in volume.

Hartmut goes into the kitchen, takes another can out of the fridge, cracks it open and drinks it in such huge gulps that starting the year really seems possible. Susanne and I hear him clap his hands. “So, now we can get things going.

I think I’ll start with the washing.”

His steps fade away in the direction of the bathroom. But as soon as he crosses the threshold, they fall silent because there is no more bathroom floor for all the dirty washing. We hear him arranging and rearranging the items.

Twenty minutes later, the first load is

“On the 10th day my holiday came to an end.

It took me three hours to find a puddle frozen enough for me to slip and sprain my ankle”

finally on. He comes back to the living room. And says, “You can’t see it. You can’t see it at all. A whole machine’s worth of dirty clothes has been put on but you can’t see the difference.” The fact overwhelms him. His eyes plead for salvation, but the energy drink is still working. “I’ll go and check the mail now,” he says. Susanne looks at me as if to say, “You go with him. I can’t get out of this chair now.”

I put the controller down, leave my civilisation – which I’d neglected anyway – to its own devices and follow Hartmut through the hallway to the entrance. He opens the front door and sticks his key in the mailbox, which is already overflowing.

“Wait!” I say. But it’s already too late.

The mail, compressed to the density of a black hole, expands to its original volume within a millisecond and the flood of paper throws Hartmut over the banister and onto the weathered ground. He falls nastily on his back. “Ow!” he groans.

The last few letters flutter their way down to the gravel.

Nothing but bills.

So I’m standing on the stairs and he’s lying in front of me, felled by his own postal procrastination. A neighbour comes past. His dog greets us. Hartmut works his way out of the paper. “Gimme your phone,” he says. I take my mobile out of my trouser pocket and hand it to him. He coughs. Yannick stands excitedly in the doorway. He wags his tail like the neighbour’s dog. The chimes on the door opposite ring. Hartmut dials a number, waits a couple of seconds till someone answers and says, “Yeah, hi Mum! Look, this may seem a little strange, but Manfred from Merseburg is my… what is it again?”

Hartmut’s mother answers on the other end of the line.

“Second cousin once removed? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Didn’t something happen to his grandfather recently?”

An answer.

“Really?” Hartmut makes an indefinable face. His mother confirms.

“Good, Mum. Thanks. I just wanted to… yeah, otherwise everything’s fine.

Yeah, I will. OK, Mum. Yeah. Bye.”

He hangs up, gives me the phone, snatches up a third of the letters and goes back indoors. I take another third and follow him in. Yannick dashes into the flat and runs to his dish. He’s still full, but he’s got used to taking up the food distribution position as soon as someone enters the flat as a matter of principle. He has a discerning supply mentality. Hartmut says, “Hello from my mother.” He ignores the cat.

Back in the living room, Susanne is still sitting in her chair, but appears to have found the strength to change the game in the console. She is now guiding Bruce Willis through the apocalypse and casually shooting anything that moves.

“And?” she asks.

Hartmut walks over to the sofa, turns his back to it, darts a glance over his shoulder at his bum as if aiming and folds himself back onto the sofa like a cover as if he’d never got up. I crouch in front of the chair.

Hartmut says, “There’s been a death in the family. No one can expect me to work now.”

Susanne opens her eyes wide and leans forward slightly. I make my lips mouth, “the second cousin in Merseburg’s grandfather”, which isn’t as easy as it sounds. Susanne leans back.

“No,” she says. “No one could expect that of you.”

“Oh yeah,” I say, and sink deeper into the rug. Yannick meows mournfully, even though his dish is full.

We should get the year started.

But there’s still time.

About the author When German writer Oliver Uschmann (born 1977) was in kindergarten, he got his head stuck in a chair and had to be cut free. In Wesel, he wrote his first stories, worked as a packer and staged wrestling shows in the playground. In Bochum, he studied literature, worked as an events organiser, for a fanzine, as a singer, an activist and plotted a revolution.

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How useful is it to be mad? Before I answer that question, consider the history of the word. This is a history that is not very long. The Oxford English Dictionary has no citation earlier than 1538. So while that certainly predates DVD and MP3, in one sense this means madness is, at least as an idea, rather modern.

The sense of ‘mad’ that we use today is a part of the contemporary idea of personality that is an invention of the past few hundred years. Medieval people did not, perhaps, have personalities. Or if they did, these personalities were defined by God, not by their own will. The cost of having your own personality is… someone might very possibly decide you are mad.

And what does mad mean? Clearly, there is in some sad cases massive impairment of the higher cerebral functions, which means people cannot perform ordinary tasks. But that’s, in fact, rather rare. Instead, the dictionary offers us: insane, lunatic, maniacal, frenzied, foolish, unwise, wildly excited. If we are honest, not all bad, then. Like the word ‘idiot’, mad has got itself a bad name. Idiot did not originally mean someone with compromised intellectual faculties. It meant ‘outsider’; the word ‘idiosyncrasy’ retains something of this meaning.

So, being mad suggests a sort of originality in behaviour. Because if a mad person’s behaviour were normal, then, it follows, it would not be mad. As the great contrarian psychologist RD Laing explained during a moment of lucidity in his drug-fuelled 1960s, there is a sense in which sanity is statistical. That is to say, if more than 50 per cent of the population is behaving in a certain way, can it

remembered there are some alarmingly negative aspects to originality. After all, the clinically diagnosed schizophrenic has an ‘original’ view of the world. Some medical researchers believe there may be a gene that is shared between the schizophrenic and the genius.

So here is the root of the old question about genius and madness. Or, as Alexander Pope had it: “Great wits to madness nearly are allied.” But great wits are by no means always mad. It is, for example, almost impossible to imagine Shakespeare as mad. On the other hand, another great wit, the playwright August Strindberg, who suffered from severe bouts of distinctly odd behaviour, was able to keep his ‘madness’ under control.

He thought this madness was a creative tool that he was lucky to possess.

Edgar Allen Poe (who suffered from what we would call bipolar disorder) thought madness might, in fact, be “the loftiest intelligence”. Certainly, madness and originality are linked. The madman talks to himself, but it is this access to the inner self that is, perhaps, also the source of original creative inspiration. Wagner’s greatest work came only after he realised that his best musical ideas came from within himself, not the world outside.

So to get back to the question about the thin partitions between genius and madness: yes, madness is useful for the creative, but needs to be kept in check.

Against all the benefits of mania and excitement and originality enjoyed by the mad have to be weighed the advantages of judgement and control. Maybe that denies the possibility of madness.

Perhaps, after all, the true test of greatness is a sense of realism, a self-deprecating assessment of one’s own position in the world.

Why be a manic original? Better a dull, rich lawyer than an inspired and impoverished madman.

Very possibly. But better still, what about an absolutely original assessment of one’s calling?

Muhammad Ali explained himself: “It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand, I beat people up.” Now there’s something truly original: a great athlete with a sense of humour.

And no one ever said Ali was mad.

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Regular columnist Stephen Bayley considers the age-old question about the link between genius and insanity

be mad? If only slightly more than half of us dressed like Napoleon Bonaparte and believed we could fly, then that would be normal. Or is it mad to argue thus?

Mad means standing out from the norm. Therefore it is mad not to watch X Factor. Yet, this is a form of madness to which many would dutifully aspire.

Mad, it thus follows, means originality.

And originality is one of the tests of creativity. You don’t call people creative if their work is predictable or repetitive.

Or if they watch X Factor.

What then is the urge to be original?

Is there a Darwinian explanation?

Originality has a curious relationship with intelligence or ability. For example, a lawyer might be highly intelligent and have consummate skill in drafting clear, precise prose. But he may be happy to use these attributes in pursuit of property conveyancing for clients. He may have no interest in doing original work.

Psychologists have long wondered if the possession of creative ability means that you always want to find something interesting to do with it. And the answer appears to be: no, not necessarily. It seems very likely that many individuals possessing the wherewithal to be creative are entirely happy to leave this talent dormant, neglected, idle. And it has to be

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