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PULLING NO PUNCHES 70 YEARS OF MAGNUM SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY
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Fashion photographer Lutz, who currently lives between Barcelona and Zürich, is an expert at capturing the energy of fugitive moments. But our reportage of German techno DJ Alex.Do tested his stamina as well as his artistic eye. Lutz travelled to Cologne in the evening, shot until eight in the morning, and then took a flight home without catching so much as a minute’s sleep. PAGE 76
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The moment of truth Sport, at its most elevated level, provides not only compelling drama but, in its most highly charged moments, also serves to open a window into the soul, amplifying moments of passion, emotion, joy and despair into thrilling truths about the human condition. Nothing captures this experience like a picture, and the masters of exposing such truths are the photographers of the Magnum agency. As The Red Bulletin embarks on a collaboration with the legendary collective, we look back on 70 years of supreme sports storytelling. Elsewhere in this issue, the spotlight is turned on matters of life and death. First, there’s the iron lady of enduro biking, Kirsten Landman, who survived her brush with the grim reaper and emerged stronger than ever. Then we meet the Volunteer Wildfire Services – a human barrier between fire and fynbos. Meanwhile, in the world of culture, musical visionary Björk explains why for her art and nature are inextricably linked. And ever wondered how much prep goes into a killer set? We get inside the head of Berlin superstar techno DJ Alex.Do. We hope you enjoy the issue. THE RED BULLETIN
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“Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually,” says Cartier-Bresson, one of its founding fathers. The photo agency celebrates its 70th birthday at magnumphotos.com/magnumphotos-70/ and with a book titled Magnum Manifesto (Thames & Hudson). See Magnum’s best sports photos on PAGE 38.
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CONTENTS May
BULLEVARD GUIDE 14 Tougher than the rest: Fate 16 18 19 20 22 23 24 26 28 29
Of The Furious’ Elsa Pataky Smokin’ hot: the Jaguar XKSS returns – at a price The man who photographs the stars’ possessions Mister magic: Adam Trent Club glamour, Parisian style Festivals for grown-ups Running a profit: the highstakes trade in rare trainers Claudio Caluori, YouTube’s mountain biking sensation Next-level rides from Unno Chilling with the Iceman The taco goes upmarket
Get It, Do It, See It 84 What’s on Red Bull TV
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is coming – are you ready? Unmissable events for your diary Adventure time: our pick of the best action watches Global team Freerunning in Tinseltown
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KIRSTEN LANDMAN
A life-threatening accident in 2013 left the enduro rider from Joburg in intensive care. Now, scarred but wiser, she's back in the saddle and setting herself new goals
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Onboard the beast of a trimaran that’s as robust as a rally car, and smashes records wherever it sets sail
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Life & Style Beyond The Ordinary
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Hulls for heroes: the mighty trimaran that’s a match for any ocean Fully focused: enduring images from a giant in the world of photography
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The music innovator talks technology, trolls and the power of nature
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Kirsten Landman
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Nightlife
Mountain blazes are a constant threat to life and property in the Cape. Meet the team of brave volunteers who form the last line of defence The SA enduro star who raced back from serious injury stronger than ever
MAGNUM
As one of the photo industry’s biggest hitters celebrates its 70th year, we showcase some of its most iconic sporting shots – including Ali, below
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The club: Bootshaus in Cologne, Germany. The time: 6am. The mission: to keep the place rocking. Here’s how techno DJ Alex.Do earned his stripes…
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Pataky reprises her role as tough gal Elena Neves in The Fate Of The Furious
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Avenging angel
First, she captured the heart of an Avenger – now Elsa Pataky is collaring bad guys on the big screen in The Fate Of The Furious
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ong before she married Hollywood superhero Chris Hemsworth, actor and model Elsa Pataky was a star in her native Spain. The multilingual beauty – besides English and Spanish, she’s also fluent in French, Italian and Romanian – reprises her role as the incorruptible cop Elena Neves in The Fate
Of The Furious, the eighth instalment of the blockbuster Fast & Furious franchise. It’s a natural fit for the globetrotter and sports/fitness enthusiast, who enjoys riding dirt bikes near her home in Byron Bay, Australia, and challenging Hemsworth during their rigorous workout routines. And if she can keep up with Thor, she’s clearly a goddess. @elsapatakyconfidential THE RED BULLETIN
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Jaguar XKSS
Out of the ashes of a fire at Jaguar’s factory that destroyed the originals, nine new cars have been reborn
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PHOENIX FROM THE FLAMES
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he odds of getting your hands on a Jaguar XKSS, often referred to as the original supercar, aren’t quite as monumental as those of winning the lottery – they’re worse. In order to pocket the keys to one of just 16 known examples, you’ll need to pick the lucky numbers just to get the funds to enter the real lottery to buy one. Need proof? Last month an original XKSS, chassis 716, was put up for sale by US auction house Gooding & Co. It was the first time an XKSS had come to market since
2005 and the conservative pre-sale valuation was an eye-watering €17 million. Lucky, then, that Jaguar last year decided to offer a ‘budget’ alternative, priced at a mere €1.2m. The only catch is that just nine all-new, perfectly detailed examples of the XKSS have been made – and they’re all sold. Why nine? In January 1957, a few months before its D-Type racer would take five of the top six places at Le Mans in the hands of privateer drivers, Jaguar called time on its works motorsport programme. Left with 25 D-Types, the decision was taken to homologate them for sale in the lucrative US market. Sixteen were built and eventually shipped. However, on the night of February 12, 1957 a devastating fire broke out at Jaguar’s Coventry plant and the remaining nine cars were destroyed.
Almost 60 years on, Jaguar’s Classic division intervened, announcing last year that it would build ‘continuation’ versions of the nine lost XKSS cars to the exact specification of the originals – featuring perfect recreations of every nut and bolt, from the 262hp, 3.4-litre, straight six-cylinder D-type engine, to the grain of the leather seats, the brass knobs on the dashboard, even the original Smiths gauges. Problem solved, right? Not quite. Because the cars are built to exact 1957 spec, they don’t satisfy current emissions or safety standards. It means that the cars can’t be legally driven on the open road and owners are being advised that they’ll have to seek individual permissions or stick to closed circuits or private roads. At €1.2m a pop, we’re pretty sure the owners will have those in their back yards already. jaguar.com
The new XKSS is not a replica as it has been built from the original drawings for the car
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Henry Leutwyler
The New York-based lensman tells us about his idols from the last century, with very particular photographs of their possessions
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harlie Chaplin’s cane, Michael Jackson’s dancing shoes, Elvis Presley’s TV with a bullet hole in it… Twelve years ago, Swiss celebrity photographer Henry Leutwyler decided to track down everyday objects that had belonged to his idols and photograph them. He has now brought together 124 of these in his book, Document. The Red BulleTin: You became famous thanks to your portraits of the stars. Why did start photographing their belongings? henRy R leuTwyleR: Because Ry objects often say more about their owners than photos do.
How do you mean? These days, magazine portraits are enormously retouched. When it came to the objects in the book, I set about my work with the sober-mindedness of a photographer at a crime scene: I took the photos from above. They are harsh, undoctored images. How do you come across objects like Elvis’s TV set? The King’s family invited me to Memphis to take pictures of his legacy for the book, Elvis By The Presleys. What’s the story behind the bullet hole? Elvis was a gun fanatic… but clearly not a fan of TV news. henryleutwyler.com
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Elvis’s TV, snapped by Leutwyler, from Elvis By The Presleys
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Is there a tougher career path in entertainment than that of a magician? Adam Trent played the streets and cruise ships before hitting the heights
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Trent, 31, appears in The Road Trick on Red Bull TV
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dam Trent’s career in magic began with a stutter. It was a fierce, uncontrollable one that plagued him as a child, but disappeared when Trent was doing his tricks in front of others. Performance boosted the American’s confidence, and magic gave him the ability to read an audience and win them over. the red bulletin: You worked as a busker for a year, then performed on cruise ships and at colleges before hitting Broadway with The Illusionists. The perseverance paid off… adam trent: The people who want it will get it, one way or another. The people who don’t want it won’t get it, no matter what. There are magicians who are much better than me; people who are more talented. The thing I’ve always been able to do is outwork people. What do you like about street performing? My whole life, magic has opened doors for me. At the bar, you’re getting free drinks bought for you. And you’re meeting these crazy people because you can do magic. You can say ‘women’, by the way… Well, it’s definitely the world’s best icebreaker. For the full interview, subscribe to The Red Bulletin podcast on iTunes 19
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he night started at the VIP Room on Rue de Rivoli where we were celebrating Playboy coming back to France. There were two models turning heads on the dancefloor: Olga Kobzar and Maria Demina. “We met in Moscow,” Olga explains. “And we travelled to Paris together several times. Maria is younger than me and more of a party girl.” Olga started modelling at 18 just for fun and turned it into a job. The 25-year-old Russian joined the elite Playmates for a shoot with photographer Ana Dias. “I loved posing for Ana and Playboy. It’s important to Playboy work with someone who shares your point of view when it comes to beauty and photography.” On this occasion, Olga was at VIP Room to “get the night started and meet some interesting people”. She and Keffer then moved on to Versailles, a superluxurious loft run by Swiss photographer Damien Ropero. Does she work as hard at partying as she does on a photo shoot? “No, I expend a lot more energy at a photo shoot,” she insists. “I prefer small-scale parties with friends to clubs. And I like small Parisian bars like La Maison Sage [on the Boulevard Saint Martin].” She may actually be telling the truth, as a look at her Instagram account reveals. instagram.com/bugs_bunny_gf
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Parisian photographer Keffer is king of the big night out. Here, he’s joined by model Olga Kobzar for a tour of the City of Lights
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Bunny hop! Playboy France party at the VIP Room: Russian model Olga Kobzar (right) believes in the benefits of wine
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Comfort zone
Don’t want to stay awake for three days any more? How to survive a music festival when you’re over 30
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estivals are great as long as you’re 20. You drink a lot, you wallow in mud, you don’t wash for three days and yet, if you’re very lucky, you still find someone willing to share a tent with you. Trouble is, there comes a point when 20 is a distant memory and your idea of a wild night is hitting play on that last Netflix episode, even though it’s past 10pm and you’ve got a breakfast meeting to make. And yet lots of people still like the idea of festivals, so even if you no longer know your FKA Twigs from your Lemon Twigs, you can still get your festival freak on. Here’s how.
Don’t stay in a tent
Try to find a way of sleeping in a proper bed. A lot of festivals have cabins for hire. Others provide shuttle
services to bring guests from hotels in nearby towns to the festival site and back. You’re not a student any more, you have disposable income, so invest in rest.
Enjoy the music
You’ve already seen a thing or two and you don’t have to go wild about every group that’s being hyped right now. Work out in advance what you want to see and plan accordingly.
Dress the part
Functional clothing, for example something warm and waterproof, with loads of pockets, may look odd, but who are you trying to impress? You’re a grown-up. Wear what you want to wear and feel comfortable.
Spend, spend, spend What did we say
about disposable income? Make the most of it. A lot of festivals offer opportunities for you to blow your hardearned on anything from bungee jumping and aligning your chakras to carving your very own wizard’s staff. Embrace the madness.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are over 50. If they can still attend festivals, so can you
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Care less! Do you want to wallow in the mud and not wash for three days? Then do. Rules are made to be broken. Even if you are over 30.
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Shoegazing
Chances are that buying and selling trainers won’t make you rich, but who cares – few investments are this much fun
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emember that friend of yours whose collection of rare trainers was strictly lookbut-don’t-touch? He probably thought he was sitting on a gold mine. Turns out he might still be. StockX, an online marketplace, is the brainchild of sneakerhead Josh Luber. “If you look at the resale market over time, it looks exactly like a Nike swoosh,” he says. “The price starts high pre-release, comes down, then climbs.” How steep it rises depends, of course, on demand: a pair of zebra-striped Yeezy Boosts, which cost
The Nike Mag debuted in the 1985 film Back To The Future – 89 self-lacing pairs went on sale last autumn
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around $220 on release by Adidas in February, are now trading at five times that, due to rumours of a limited run. So, how do you beat the market? “You should plan on holding onto a pair at least two years,” says Luber; in other words, enough time for supplies of deadstock [boxed, unworn pairs] to dwindle. And the ultimate insider tip is knowing the production run – a closely guarded secret. For example, only 89 pairs of the self-lacing Nike Mag were released. Which explains why one pair sold for more than $200,000 at a charity auction, and another is trading at close to $33,000 on StockX. stockx.com
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Caluori shows you how the likes of downhill star Greg Minnaar (pictured) ride courses
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The YouTube millionaire
He talks to himself at 70kph, expresses fear, joy and jubilation, and it’s all unfiltered. Claudio Caluori has totally captivated his audience
HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF A SHOOTING STAR F
ormer professional downhill mountain bike racer Claudio Caluori showcases the world’s quickest and toughest bike tracks on Red Bull TV. His YouTube videos are cult viewing for millions of fans. Here, he reveals the three steps you need to take to become a YouTube sensation.
Step 1: Get the right equipment
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“Three GoPros – one on your helmet, one on the handlebars and one on your chest – plus a highly sensitive microphone that doesn’t pick up wind noise. That will guarantee you razor-sharp recordings and impressive sound.”
amazing from a viewer’s point of view. I can only get the sensation across if I go for it myself and I can only do that if I’m perfectly prepared. I know the courses from the old days or I check them out before the recording. And during the run itself I’m as focused as if I was still racing for World Cup points.”
Step 3: Show how much fun you’re having… and how afraid you are
“What’s the strategy behind my live commentary? There isn’t one. There are two things I pay attention to: a live analysis of the track (‘Lots of dust, slippery!’) and concrete tips on line and technique (‘Try to take the inside line – no, that doesn’t work’). And another thing: when I’m really scared or really having fun, then I start to talk to myself. ‘First little crash at the first corner, you better focus, Claudio.’ Or, ‘Oh, oh, oh, whoa! Stay on your bike, stay on your bike, Claudio!’ As soon as you hear me saying my name, you know it’s a crucial moment!”
Search for ‘Claudio’ on the Red Bull YouTube channel. As a bonus, Red Bull TV is broadcasting all 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup races live. The first downhill of the season is in Lourdes, France on April 30.
Step 2: Know what you’re talking about “Riding through the woods at up to 70kph and doing jumps of up to 20m is routine for the likes of World Champion Loïc Bruni or World Cup winner Aaron Gwin, but it’s THE RED BULLETIN
Claudio Caluori and his work tools: helmet, GoPro and downhill bike
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he heart and soul of a bicycle rests in the frame – a structure that gives a bike its beauty and character – and it’s an element former Downhill World Cup mountain bike racer Cesar Rojo has been tinkering with for decades. Having worked with Spanish bike designers Mondraker,
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Rojo has now struck out on his own. As CEO of Cero Design in Barcelona, he has developed a unique series of bikes under the name Unno. As Cesar is still perfectly happy hurtling headlong downhill on a bike – he was World Champion in his age category in 2015 – Unno bikes reflect his nature as an uncompromising stickler
for detail. The star attraction is the carbon structure. Four hundred individual parts are placed in aluminium moulds, glued together, and transferred to an autoclave set to 400°C and 10 standard atmospheres (atm) of positive pressure. Cero will make 25 frames in 2017, retailing from €4,000. It’s not work; it’s a labour of love. unno.com 27
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Journalist Scott Carney set out to expose endurance artist Wim Hof – and came back a convert. His latest book reveals how humans can push past their limits
ubbed ‘The Iceman’ for his ability to withstand the freezing cold using little more than controlled breathing techniques and mental strength, renowned Dutch daredevil Wim Hof is no stranger to scepticism. A few years ago, investigative journalist Scott Carney set out to disprove the shirtless adventurer and expose him as nothing but a genetic anomaly and a dangerous charlatan. “When I first met Wim in 2011, I was sure I was going to debunk him as another fake guru with some sort of miracle cure,” Carney says. “But it turns out he wasn’t a sham.” As the American writer explains in his latest book, What Doesn’t Kill Us, Hof’s methods trigger reactions deeply embedded in our DNA. Up until fairly recently in our history, humans were routinely exposed to the
Using Hof’s methods, Carney climbed a mountain – shirtless
variations in our environment – cold at night, hot during the day. So while the modern individual has grown accustomed to the comfort of temperature-controlled surroundings, our bodies are capable of adapting to more extreme conditions. “What the Wim Hof method and – more important – evolutionary biology shows,” adds Carney, “is that when you reintroduce variations into your environment, all that machinery in your body has something to do. It sounds nuts, but you are able to heat yourself consciously.” Gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘central heating’, eh?
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Rene Redzepi’s Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, won best in the world four times. But his style trumps any location
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efore seasonal became the byword for every new restaurant hoping to create a mystique thick enough to attract well-heeled hipsters, Rene Redzepi was foraging alone in Denmark. The trainee from the renowned French Laundry in California was only 23 when he was tapped to head up a
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new restaurant on the harbour in Copenhagen. His tours yielded seasonal recipes such as carrot sautéed in goat’s butter with chamomile sprigs; or oysters steamed with greens gathered on the nearby beach. The reaction was unanimous: Restaurant magazine named Noma best restaurant in the world in 2010-12, and 2014. Following successful popups in Tokyo and Sydney,
Redzepi, 39, and his staff have been touring Mexico, gathering ingredients and ideas, before a seven-week residency in Tulum. Expect a couple of innovative variations on tacos, tortillas and tamales when it opens between April 12 and May 28, but don’t expect to get in. Tickets – priced at $600 – sold out within a day. noma.dk/mexico
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SEA KINGS Built for outright speed and the toughest of conditions, multihull yachts such as Phaedo3 are the thoroughbreds of offshore racing. Owner Lloyd Thornburg and skipper Brian Thompson take us into the ocean’s fast lane Words: Justin Hynes Photography: Kelvin Trautman
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Bowman and trimmer Pete Cumming changes the sail on the bow. The weight of the sails and a lumpy swell makes this a tricky job
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“Our boat is a cross-country racer, a rally car; it’s built for speed… and rough conditions” Brian Thompson
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own a fizzing phone line from Antigua, yachtsman Brian Thompson is explaining the finer points of his current vessel. “A lot of people call these boats supercars,” he says, “but they’re so much more. For me, they’re more like Dakar cars. America’s Cup boats are Formula One, really they can only sail in flat water – on a circuit, so to speak. Our boat is a cross-country racer, a rally car; it’s built for speed… and rough conditions.” The boat in question is Phaedo3, a 21m trimaran in the MOD70 class. It’s a carbon-fibre wonder designed with the express purpose of being, well, an express: this multihull racer is capable of hammering across the waves at speeds of up to 75kph. Thompson, Phaedo3’s British co-skipper along with American owner Lloyd Thornburg, is speaking from Antigua’s Falmouth Harbour, where the duo are about to kick off their 2017 campaign with the RORC Caribbean 600, the headline event of that region’s racing season. Listing the islands that mark the waypoints of the 965km blast – Antigua, Anguilla, Monserrat, Guadeloupe, St Kitts & Nevis – it’s hard to envisage this kind of racing as anything other than the preserve of ‘thrillionaires’ with an overactive adrenal gland, and a heap of money to burn. Thornburg certainly fits the image of a time-rich, high-networth speed-freak. The 36-yearold son of an investor whose fund manages $55 billion in assets, he flies his own private jet, skydives, and drives fast cars. In light of those pastimes, racing high-power yachts is an almost too prosaic
extension of a lifestyle few will find tangible. But while it’s easy to raise an eyebrow at so gilded an existence, Thornburg’s wide-eyed, undiluted passion for his sport and the boat he races is infectious. “I started out wanting to sail around the world,” he explains, “so I built a boat for that – a catamaran – and sailed it across the South Atlantic to the Caribbean. I decided to race it, and we had a bit of success, but then we really got into racing and entered the Transpac [from LA to Honolulu] three or four years ago.” It was in that race Thornburg encountered Thompson. “It was quite a lonely, long motor back, and we were already planning and talking about what else was out there,” says the former. Thompson’s CV reads like a catalogue of must-dos at the outer limits of ocean racing. As well as being the first Briton to break the round-the-world sailing record twice, the 55-year-old has won the Volvo Ocean Race, the Jules Verne Trophy for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe, and finished fifth in the Vendée Globe solo round-the-world race in 2009. In conversation, the pair appear to compliment each other perfectly, Thornburg’s machine-gun delivery being offset by Thompson’s often more phlegmatic view of racing. There’s a clear meeting of minds, as proved by the pair’s decision – after discussions on the route home from Transpac – to move into MOD70 trimarans. “I’d been taken out on a test sail, and I got the chance to drive one for 10 minutes,” says Thornburg. “It was a mind-blowing experience.” Entranced, he tried to charter a MOD70, but failed to secure a boat. The dream of racing the cutting-edge trimarans seemed to be fading when, in late 2014, Thompson called to say one was on sale in France. Thornburg didn’t hesitate: “It was now or never. So we leapt; we just dove in. That was the beginning.” Since then, Thornburg and Thompson have made Phaedo3 arguably the most successful yacht of its kind on the planet, with a slew of records to their credit, including breaking the Bermudato-Plymouth transatlantic record by more than a week, then smashing America’s Cup hero Sir Ben Ainslie’s record for sailing around the Isle of Wight by almost half an hour. Most recently, the boat set a new benchmark for the run from Monaco to Port Cervo in Sardinia, breaking the record by more than two hours. “It was a huge leap going from the catamaran to the trimaran, but it really brought the thrill of motor racing,” admits Thornburg. “A lot of it has to do with the hardships and the extremity of being onboard, screaming along offshore at night, with 50 knots of apparent wind in your face, freezing cold and getting thrown around the boat. It’s probably the hardest sport to show how extreme it really is because all the starts and finishes generally occur in pretty benign conditions. But it really is amazing.” The forces at play can be extraordinary, says Thornburg. “It’s an incredible thrill when you’re approaching the very limit of what you can control – just the sheer power of the boat.” Thompson concurs, adding that the boat is capable of so much power that the key to success is often not to push for more speed, but to harness what’s being generated by the trimaran. “A lot of the time you’re slightly de-powering the sails you have, changing course to be in a position where you could easily escape if you get overpowered, and also, in the bigger sense, changing to smaller or larger sails. It’s like a car engine, except here you can change cylinders in the engine. You have a lot of choices to make about what sails to put up; what course to steer to keep it fast and safe. Anyone can go fast for a while, but to go fast and safe consistently is an absorbing challenge.” For Thornburg, the extremity is a fundamental part of the attraction. “You’re always one bad decision away from the limit; from – to use a motor-racing analogy – putting it in the wall. 35
“It’s like trying to sleep in the back of a pick-up truck driving down a dirt road at more than 100kph!” Lloyd Thornburg
“Once you’re on deck, it’s like being sprayed with a fire hose,” says Thornburg
Where it becomes really extreme is if it’s raining at night. It’s like being an instrument pilot: you’re only looking at the instruments and working on feel as you barrel into the darkness.” There’s also the thorny issue to trying to stay in control while battling not only the elements but also human limits, particularly tiredness. “You can only really sleep when you’re happy there are no massive decisions to make, and also that the boat is sailing safely,” says Thompson. “It’s a matter of looking at the weather visually, and at the forecast, and saying, ‘OK, I think there are a couple of hours of stable conditions, so it’s safe to have a rest.’ And you have to do that, otherwise you’ll make bad decisions.” Thornburg’s assessment of the likelihood of grabbing useful rest is more blunt: “It’s like trying to sleep in the back of a pickup truck driving down a dirt road at more than 100kph!” It’s not only sleeping that becomes a struggle; even the simplest of tasks can become problematic when Phaedo3 is at full speed. “It’s extreme in everything,” Thornburg adds. “It’s hard to put your wet weather gear on, and you’re tired before you even step on deck, because it can be that difficult to hold your body in place. Once you’re on deck, it’s like being sprayed with a fire hose. Everything’s a challenge when it’s going fast – even the basics, like making tea or eating, become really difficult.” It’s not only in the heat of battle that mistakes can be made, however, as the crew found out in last year’s Rolex Middle Sea Race. After opening up a solid lead over rival boat Maserati, the crew of Phaedo3 made a huge navigational error, effectively turning the wrong way as they headed for the island of Lampedusa, off the south-western tip of Sicily. By the time the mistake was rectified, they were more than 100km behind Maserati. The race was over. “The navigator entered the waypoint into the navigation computer several days before the race and did all the analysis with the course plotted incorrectly,” says Thornburg. “There are all these other forces around when you’re at sea, things that can really force an error, and this was simply a mistake made in a hotel room three days before the race. We did round an island, just not the right one!” The team made up for the catastrophe in spectacular style when they next met Maserati, in the RORC Transatlantic Race last December. “We were heading over the top of Tenerife, and Maserati was just maybe 7-8km behind us,” says Thompson. “We had to decide which side of Las Palmas to go through, so we took the gap between it and Tenerife, which carried the risk of light air. Maserati hacked off to the north and went around the top of Las Palmas. We managed to get through a period of light air and accelerated away. We finished almost 500km in front.” While the heroes’ welcomes that await in finish-line ports, along with the records the yachtsmen chase with assiduous glee, are the obvious spoils of racing, for Thornburg the rewards extend far beyond the accolades. “With all the technology at our disposal in our everyday lives, a lot of us have scattered minds, and there’s something calming about the sea. The very act of being in this limitless environment, having an endless horizon before you expands your thinking. This openness, being in this sort of formless world, is very relaxing and very interesting.” It’s this simplicity that Thornburg says is the ultimate draw: a distillation of life into a series of singular moments of clarity. This, he says, is the real thrill of racing a boat like Phaedo3. “When we’re out there, the focus is so singular and so clear. When you can get really hurt and there’s real danger involved, you’re not thinking about the electricity bill or whatever else. I guess people describe that as the flow, or the zone. To be able to sustain that flow for so many days is... incredible. Just incredible.” teamphaedo.com 37
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FORCE 70 YEARS OF SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY In 1947, photographers Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Vandivert, George Rodger and David ‘Chim’ Seymour set up a photographic agency in New York. As a large bottle of champagne had been involved in the process, it was named Magnum. Founded as a co-operative to be able to exert greater authority over clients when it came to quality and fees, Magnum and its creative members went on to set a benchmark in all areas of press photography. Here, The Red Bulletin, which will soon start working in partnership with Magnum, showcases the best sports pictures from 70 years of visual storytelling
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MICHAEL SCHUMACHER Peter Marlow, 2001
Already a three-time world champion, Michael Schumacher relaxes in his motorhome during testing at Ferrari’s Mugello circuit in Italy. In this photograph, Peter Marlow achieved something only great photographers can: he made himself virtually invisible and the photo into a painting.
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Ferdinando Scianna, 1982 Sicilian Ferdinando Scianna is that rare dual talent: a brilliant writer and a gifted photographer. A master at capturing the moment, he can make staged shots look spontaneous.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Elliott Erwitt, 1977
Raised in Paris and Milan before emigrating to the US in 1939, Elliott Erwitt had already worked with stars such as Marilyn Monroe before photographing Hollywood hopeful Arnold Schwarzenegger. At this point, the Austrian was still more famous as a bodybuilder than as an actor.
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RUGBY TRAINING John Vink, 1999
Factory workers, travelling salesmen, farmers‌ The rugby team of the small French town of Villefranchede-Lauragais was a team of amateurs. As such they would assemble for training after work and scrum down until late into the night, and until they were on the point of collapse.
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TOUR DE FRANCE Harry Gruyaert, 1982 Famous for reportage pictures of Morocco and India, Belgian Harry Gruyaert nonetheless retained a soft spot for cycling and, thus, the Tour de France. And not just the stars; he was also fascinated by the lesser lights, such as Austrian cyclist Harald Maier, pictured receiving medical treatment on the move, or absurd moments, such as this sit-in on the 12th stage. “I was interested in all the elements," said Gruyaert last year. "The details were as important as the humans.�
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AT THE VELODROME D’HIVER Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1957
The co-founder of Magnum and genius of black and white photography blazed a trail for decades. His MO was to creep up silently – a single word could have ruined everything – and then capture the decisive moment, as he did here during a break in the Six-Day Bicycle Race in Paris.
MUHAMMAD ALI Abbas, 1974 (above), Thomas Hoepker, 1966 (below) Two views of the greatest boxer of all time. Above, we see him in Kinshasa ahead of his epic fight against George Foreman – the Rumble in the Jungle – invulnerable and unmoved by the attention of the international press. Below, we see him in London at a film studio, being spooked by a bee – fearful, sensitive, frightened. Ali subsequently had the words “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” embroidered into the silk robe in which he entered the ring.
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Philippe Halsman, 1963 Halsman produced 103 covers for the illustrious magazine LIFE, including portraits of Salvador Dalí and Albert Einstein, unique testimony to his creative talent. The only way to achieve so much was, as Halsman always did, to look deeper. “Every face I see seems to hide […] the mystery of another human,” he said. When he photographed the greatest boxer of all time in New York, Ali was still called Cassius Clay, but he already wore his second face: that of undisputed champion.
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MEXICAN WRESTLING Alex Webb, 1978
The American sees himself as something of a street photographer, living a life of conflict and confrontation as he follows his inner compass. Sometimes Webb also seeks out indoor confrontation, such as to document the world of Mexican wrestling seen here.
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Peter Marlow, 1996 Their bouts may take place in the spotlight, but boxers train in the often lonely and down-at-heel atmosphere of the gym, a place with a pervasive smell of blood, sweat and broken dreams. Here we see ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed, then the WBO featherweight champion, in New York.
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MARADONA John Vink, 1986 Argentina won the 1986 World Cup, beating West Germany 3:2 in the final. John Vink thinks Argentinian No 10 Diego Maradona is the very image of success. On the one hand, there was his incredible skill, on the other, controversy in the shape of the infamous ‘Hand of God’ goal against England in the same tournament. The beauty and beastliness of Maradona’s game, and personality, led to glory and notoriety.
EN GARDE! Christopher Anderson, 2015 Canadian-born Christopher Anderson is well-known for his war photography. So it was only right that he should be invited to work his magic at the oldest fencing school in Paris – La Salle D’Armes Coudurier. The jousts are just as hard-fought as the battles he photographs elsewhere, but here, at least, there are set rules and the only casualty is pride.
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FOOTBALL Abbas, 1976 (above), Harry Gruyaert, 1998 (below) Why is it that football is the most captivating of all the games? A picture can say more than a thousand words. Whether it’s mired in the mud of a waterlogged pitch in Guapi, Colombia, or on the red earth of the Canons’ training ground in Yaoundé, Cameroon, bent goalposts, a ball and the players’ desire are all you need to spark that passion for the beautiful game.
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MAGNUM FORCE 70 YEARS OF SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY
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hen the Magnum photographic agency was set up over lunch one day during the spring of 1947 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, sport wasn’t really in the forefront of its founding fathers’ thoughts. Robert Capa, William Vandivert, David ‘Chim’ Seymour, George Rodger and Henri Cartier-Bresson had all been war correspondents. Now they were driven by an urge to satisfy people’s curiosity for things other than the horrors of conflict. To combine their skills as reporters and artists, the Magnum photographers were in search of unusual formats. Part of that meant limiting themselves to the very highest quality and barely 100 photographers have ever been good enough to work for Magnum to this day. Their work has often been a struggle against the mainstream to which the glossies and other magazines of the day have felt confined. It made perfect sense that Magnum should be an economic entity as well as an artistic one – the members made contributions they all benefited from – to make them less dependent on their clients. Even if sport was of almost zero interest to them, especially in those early days, when geniuses like Robert Capa or Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke on the subject, there was no hiding their mastery. Capa photographing wrestlers in Soviet Georgia in 1947 was one marvellous example of him finding his feet. John Steinbeck, Pulitzer Prize-winner and eventual Nobel laureate, wrote the report for the Ladies Home Journal and was paid $3,000 for
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Magnum photographers founded a language every eye could understand: James Dean by Dennis Stock (top), D-Day by Robert Capa (middle), Che Guevara by René Burri (bottom). Left: the book marking the anniversary
the piece. Capa was paid $20,000, showing in just what high regard he was held at the time. (A car would have set you back about $1,500 in those days.) From a technical point of view, the Magnum photographers had no problem finding their bearings in the world of sports photography. Capa’s well-known motto, “If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” applied with equal severity to shots taken when under enemy fire and to those taken at horse races, wrestling bouts or baseball games. What you needed in the trenches was similar to what you needed when snapping away on the sidelines: small, quick cameras and sensitive footage. In his book Images à la Sauvette (The Decisive Moment), published in 1952, Cartier-Bresson spoke of a photographer’s duty to create everlasting impressions of
fleeting events and in so doing he hit upon the salient point of Magnum’s sports photography. The aim wasn’t merely to freeze the action so that the beholder could take in the moment again. The aim was to show what was going on behind the scenes. Far more important was the fact that, even when it came to sports photography, Magnum photographers were still sublime storytellers. Their photographs aren’t the icing on the cake, they are the cake. A single image, with its multiplicity of details, figures, nuances and shade is enough to pull a second, third, fourth layer from an event, thus stimulating the beholder’s imagination and helping them to think an event through to the end. Magnum photographers have always seen sport as a particular challenge and Jonas Bendiksen is no exception. He often tears himself away from his work as a documentary photographer to capture skiing subjects. And 2014 was no different when he travelled with freeskier Henrik Windstedt, raving afterwards, “The most interesting moments for me are when art meets sport.” Magnum photographers are also willing to invest greater time and effort and to patiently lie in wait. Thomas Hoepker, who shot one of the most honest pictures of Muhammad Ali, spent almost 30 years shadowing the boxer. Hoepker aimed to become invisible at a certain point, as only then would he be able to catch the suspicious Ali off-guard. Hoepker’s role model in this approach was probably Magnum colleague Inge Morath. She virtually got under the skin of Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits in 1960 to get closer to the actress’s true self. “Monroe knew all the tricks about how to pose,” Morath revealed. But her time came eventually. magnumphotos.com
MAGNUM AT HANGAR-7 IN SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
The exhibition, ‘70 Years of Sports Photography’, runs from April 5 to May 1 at the architecturally unique Hangar-7, which also houses a collection of historic Flying Bulls aeroplanes and Formula One racing cars. Entry is free. In addition to the exhibition space, Hangar-7’s Restaurant Ikarus, two bars, outdoor lounge and café mean that it is not just an event location, but also a meeting point for art-lovers and connoisseurs. hangar-7.com
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“I’M TINDER FOR TECHNOLOGY” With each new album, Björk opens the door to the future. Here, the last great pop innovator reveals why her hi-tech ideas are a result of her strong bond with nature, how trolls fuel creativity and why Mark Zuckerberg should clean up the oceans Words: Florian Obkircher Photography: Santiago Felipe
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T hroughout her career, Björk has been a few steps ahead of technological and musical trends. She regularly collaborates with electronic music visionaries to propel her art forward, she was the first musician to shoot a 360-degree music video, and with 2011’s Biophilia she made the world’s first app album, used in science classes at schools throughout Scandinavia. When we sat down with the Icelandic icon at the Red Bull Music Academy in Montreal, where she presented a digital virtual reality exhibition, we wanted to find out just what it is that’s the motor behind her affinity with technology, only to find out that it all leads back to nature. And trolls, obviously. the red bulletin: You’ve performed in opera houses and small punk clubs. Where do you enjoy singing the most? björk: I sing the best when I’m on the top of a mountain. That’s where I usually have the best ideas for songs. Isn’t that unfortunate, as usually you don’t have an audience up there? Usually I try to imitate the mountaintop experience when I’m back in my recording studio. But I would like to try to make a recording facility I can take with me on my hikes. Does being outside fuel your creativity? It just feels very natural for the body to sing in nature. When I’m indoors I feel like I’m holding my breath. It also might have to do with my childhood. Walking 40 minutes to school in any weather was normal for me. I would sing to kill time. Also, in the mornings it could be a bit scary because it was really dark. So part of it was to sing to reassure myself.
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The idea of singing outside reminds us of The Sound of Music. Have you ever ventured into the wild in Iceland? Sadly, we haven’t. I can understand that some urbanites associate nature with hugging trees and playing acoustic guitar by the campfire. But nature in Iceland is hardcore; there’s nothing romantic about it. We don’t have a lot of animals. We don’t really have trees, either. It’s pretty empty. It’s raw and brutal. And yet, inspiring? The emptiness is particularly inspiring. There’s a big animist tradition in Iceland. Animism is the belief that each object has a soul. So the cliffs and the rocks, they all have stories. Where does that belief come from? It’s because of the trolls. Um… trolls? Trolls are nocturnal creatures. If they don’t make it back to their cave before the sun comes up they turn into stone. So we believe that the mountains and rocks in Iceland are fossilised trolls. And you get these rocks to tell you their stories? Everybody makes up their own stories. One of my best friends used to make money during the summers by being a guide. He used to make up these crazy tales for tourists. He would tell them that moss on bumpy lava was a flock of sheep that got caught in a volcanic eruption. It’s the emptiness and the space in Iceland that fuels creativity. It’s like a blank canvas for your imagination. If you don’t live in Iceland among fossilised trolls, do you still think that a strong bond with nature can fuel creativity? Absolutely. Brain scans show that after 45 minutes of hiking something happens to your body. There’s a certain rhythm to it that stimulates your thought process. I try to start each day with a walk, and usually after 45 minutes I feel this extreme relief. It goes click, it’s all in sync, and all of a sudden problems don’t matter that much anymore. What’s your advice for people who live in big cities? It’s a problem I’ve faced a lot, travelling and being on tour. That’s why I like being in cities by the sea. It’s not actually about the water itself, but if you walk by the ocean, you have 180 degrees of emptiness. For me, in order to reach that feeling of relief, it’s a lot about having space.
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It’s interesting that you’re such a fan of nature, considering that you’re always on the edge of new technology when it comes to music. I’m actually much less of a technology buff than people think. I need to get help from my friends to clean up my laptop. Says the artist who is dubbed pop music’s last great innovator, making app albums and shooting VR music videos. I’m trying to build a bridge between technology and music. There are new tools constantly coming out that have an impact on your life, whether you like it or not. With my art I am trying to make sense of them. I’m like the Tinder for technology. What do you mean? I’m a matchmaker app. Whenever there’s new technology coming out, I instantly have an idea for it. When I got my first laptop in 1999, I knew immediately that it would replace the THE RED BULLETIN
“Hate is an important tool in figuring out what you don’t want – it will lead you to what you do want in your career”
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traditional recording studio to a certain extent. When the touchscreen came out, I realised very quickly that it would be a great pedagogic tool. I was like, ‘Wow, with this tool I can map out my vision of musicology.’ I was a quite difficult youth in my music school. The teachers made musicology seem so academic, whereas it’s actually quite visceral. Björk was a rebellious music student? Yes, and I am proud of it. I think that the arrogance of youth is important. I’m paraphrasing, but Stravinsky said in his book Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons something like, it’s great to hate. When I was a teenager I couldn’t stand Bach and Beethoven. I was like, ‘They’re just dead German guys! Why should I care?’ Because they’re among the most important composers in history? My point is that hate is an important tool in figuring out what you don’t want, because subsequently, it will lead you to the realisation of what you want in your career. So I’d encourage anybody to be furious, to hate things. Has this ‘great to hate’ approach worked out for you? Definitely. I’m guilty of slagging off strings in my teenager years, now I work with orchestral instruments a lot. My teenage ignorance towards strings enabled me to approach them from a totally different angle and create something original. Back to the earlier subject, how are nature and technology intertwined in your opinion? I think this idea of nature as the past and technology being the future is nonsense. That’s why I’ve been saying, it’s not back to nature; it’s forward to nature. In the future we will have to put the connection between the two in focus even more. Just imagine a world where leading tech companies would properly invest in environmentalism. With the technology we have we could easily clean up the oceans. Is that a call to arms? Yes! With success comes responsibility. Therefore, I think we should ask 10 companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple to put one billion dollars each into cleaning the oceans. I’m sure it could be done by 2020. In case Mark Zuckerberg reads this piece, should he reach out? Definitely! I’ll invite all of the tech billionaires to come to my little cabin in Iceland. I’ll make them drinks. Maybe I’ll also cook for them.
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Raging inferno. A building in Paarl, outside Cape Town, is engulfed by flames
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United in their quest. A group of firefighters ponder their next move as another blaze rages on the Cape Peninsula
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In a place that can – and often does – burst into flames in mere minutes, one group of fearless men and women are the city’s last line of defence, physically halting raging infernos from wreaking untold destruction, and even death, upon Cape Town. In their world you simply can’t break line…
Left: A VWS volunteer takes aim as flames encroach on some fynbos. Right: A group of volunteers hasten to limit the damage to a vineyard in the Simonsberg, outside Stellenbosch
In one of the most fire-prone cities on Earth, a carelessly discarded cigarette can set an entire mountain ablaze. While both man and beast flee for their lives, some men and women march fearlessly in the opposite direction to stand faceto-face with the inferno, defiantly beating back the unbearable furnace. Ivan Johnson is one such man. “When you’re actually in the fire, it’s just so f--king hot,” he says. “You can’t believe how hot it actually is. Even if it’s just a few feet high, you can only go for a few seconds. You go in, beat it, you back out and another member of your crew takes your place. You cannot stay there. You will die. Then there’s 62
the smoke, which is worse. There’s no bravado in there. No ‘tough guys’. You go in for as long as you can, get out as quick as you can and go to the back of the line. Get in, get out, go again.” Johnson is a member of Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS), an organisation of roughly 260 men and women. Their number comprises drivers, logistics organisers, general volunteers, and about 200 firefighters who march – purely voluntarily – into Cape Town’s mountainous nature reserves, to stand face-to-face with out-of-control blazes that can set the night sky alight with their mesmerising, destructive power. Houses, pets, wildlife, people, infrastructure and decades-old plant life THE RED BULLETIN
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here. “Anyone who can pass our requirements gets on the line,” says Wynne. Crews often hike – at pace – up kilometres of rugged mountain terrain before their shifts (which have been known to last up to 36 hours) even begin. A lookout keeps watch, constantly communicating where the fire is and how it’s moving, while six firefighters and their leader hold the line, smashing back the flames with their “beaters” – crude but effective tools comprising a long handle, ending in a rectangle of heavy-duty rubber strips. Teamwork is everything. Individuals within crews must constantly watch each other’s backs as the fire dances unpredictably around them. Multiple crews attack the 63
Fighting the flames from the skies. A plane drops water on an out-of-control fire near the town of Somerset West in the Cape Town Metro
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Sometimes fires broach the defensive line between nature and man-made structures. The damage can be devastating
To protect them from the flames, firefighters wear layers of stifling, heavy-duty, treated cotton clothing
"WHEN WE MAN THE HOSES, IT’S EXTREME HIKING AND EXTREME GARDENING ALL AT ONCE!"
of it when it does, that’s it. We were able to walk all the way up the stuck there for hours, waiting for a safe mountain, dude! Sometimes, while they guard the structures and houses, path to the vehicle.” we take the hoses up the hill and man Even the volunteering process is them there. It’s extreme hiking and brutal. Successful applicants are invited extreme gardening all at once!” to attend initiation days. First there’s a 5km mountain hike in thick clothing, Johnson’s first fire happened just carrying a heavy tool. Johnson made after he qualified. After a late night it in 39 minutes. People less than half at work, a 5:30am SMS told him to his age took two hours. Others bowed report his ETA and go to Newlands out along the way. “I couldn’t walk for Base. “I leapt out of bed, thinking it was a test,” he recalls. “I geared up four days afterwards, but I was very and rushed off, chuffed,” he says, expecting them to say, smiling. “Then they fire from different strategic points at ‘Well done! That was showed us all the other once, in a carefully orchestrated assault. quick!’ But, they were things we’d have to According to VWS Newlands Like riflemen from a Civil War-era ready to go. Off we learn, like map-reading, Operations Manager pitched battle, each firefighter unleashes rushed to Redhill in GPS, comms, hoses, Peter Wynne, man is the main everything they have, while the one Simonstown. I was still pumps, the language cause of Cape Town’s wildfires. we use... After that, behind recovers and prepares for their in a dwaal. Then I’m out “Negligence, the inconsiderate an intense training next turn on the line. They attack from of the van, flash hood and carelessness are the main programme begins.” “the black” – already burnt areas, less on, and in the flippin’ causes. Braais and even Even their uniforms likely to erupt into new infernos – fire, dude. An hour cigarettes, if conditions are are overwhelming and navigating treacherous, rocky slopes, right. In some cases, even arson. and a half before, I was asleep. I was like, stifling. Treated, heavyembers, and fleeing animals (including Downed power lines can also duty cotton. Nothing deadly snakes), as they push forward. cause fires. There are some natural ‘what the f--k am I doing here?’ ha, ha!” nylon, which can melt The black only provides so much causes, though, like lightning, Amazingly, the onto your skin. An cover, though. Especially when the especially in the Boland.” VWS have not suffered undershirt, covered flames are popping up in new areas by a thick, yellow, any serious injuries faster than crews can move. Johnson long-sleeved top. Heavy-duty pants, or deaths during the 69,000 voluntary recalls being trapped on a patch of mountain socks, fire-resistant boots and man-hours since their inception in black, ring-fenced by unburnt terrain, 1999. Johnson puts it down to intense a “flash hood”. Plus, goggles, helmet, unable to traverse to safety for fear of drilling, teamwork and meticulous night light, spare batteries and gloves. becoming engulfed by the fire. “There safety protocols. “I got a small burn “We don’t wear those big suits like was about 80m of fynbos between us and our vehicle,” he recounts. “A on my arm once,” he chuckles. “I thought the Cape Town Fire Department, with an ember had gotten up my sleeve, short jog, but that stuff can go up in their braces and the jackets and all a heartbeat, and if you’re in the middle that,” Johnson adds. “We’ve gotta be but it turns out one of my buttons had come undone. The flames are so hot that even that tiny bit of exposed flesh was instantly singed.” As for heroics, he’s not after any “tough guy” cred. “We take our phones with us for safety reasons, but we’re forbidden from using them to post things on social media while we’re on duty. It’s ill-disciplined, and distracting,” he explains. “Our mission is not to talk. Just to go and put out the fire.” So why would a man like Johnson, and his 200-odd comrades in arms, put their lives on the line for no money, no fame, and no recognition? “I really wanted to join the army back in the day,” he recalls. “The teamwork, the discipline, the action. But I was the reason they had an army back then. I just find firefighting very satisfying. My daughter asks me what I do. She’s five. I tell her I make adverts and she just looks at me; no idea what that is. But I put on my uniform, tell her I’m going to go fight a fire, and she Firefighters battle the flames for hours at a time, often without sleep. There can be no rest until the dangerous flames are brought under control lights up. ‘Daddy, I’m so proud of you!’”
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irsten Landman is entirely at ease – not to say almost gaga with excitement – around the 2016 KTM 1290 Super Duke R superbike we’re using for our photoshoot. As one of very few female riders on the global enduro racing scene, the South African is hoping that her achievements will encourage more women and girls to take up the sport. Even more so than most sports, enduro racing is a boys’ club. Landman is not at all intimidated by this male-dominated world; she gets extremely fired up, she says, the moment someone tells her there’s something she can’t do. Yet seeing women racing on motorbikes in South Africa and elsewhere remains a rarity, or as the 25-year-old rider puts it, “Girls riding motorbikes out in the mountains, it’s unheard of.” While she finds it cool being at the forefront of the movement for gender equality in biking, Landman wishes more females would compete. “Of course I want to race against other women,” she says. “I’m always having to measure myself against the guys, which makes me more of a brand ambassador, because I can’t tell a sponsor I can go out and win them a world championship; I can’t, not competing against the best guys out there.” Yet it all could have been so different. At the Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race in 2013, Landman was involved in a life-threatening accident. “The bike washed because I was in a rut,” she explains, “and I fell into a tree stump that was at the wrong place.” The impact severed her pancreas from her small intestine, which was also burst, leaking waste into her abdomen and over her vital organs. It took more than an hour for emergency help to get to her. “I was severely winded, and I went into the foetal position,” she says. “There was a guy who had kept me awake, but I soon started shaking as I’d gone into shock.” All the damage, however, had happened internally and there were no external marks on Landman’s body. The race paramedics, therefore, were largely unconcerned, believing her injuries to be less serious than those of other riders injured that day; there had been four crashes, one of which had resulted in a serious head injury.
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By the time Landman got to a hospital in Gaborone, four hours had passed since the accident. X-rays, ultrasound tests and scans were conducted, but they detected no problems, which was fortunate as it later came to light that the hospital didn’t have any spare blood, so an operation would have proved fatal. Thankfully for Landman, Franziska Brandl, the managing director of KTM South Africa, was in contact with a doctor in Pretoria. After being told of the rider’s predicament and seeing some of her blood test results, the doctor escalated the situation, demanding that she be returned to South Africa as soon as possible. But first Landman’s medical aid providers had to fly someone up to Gaborone to ensure that her case was severe enough to warrant a helicopter flight to Lanseria. The accident had happened at 9:30am on Friday morning, but she didn’t arrive back in South Africa until after 3pm the next day, by which time doctors were in a panic over the delay. The human waste that travels through the small intestine had leaked into Landman’s abdomen, meaning every organ had gone septic. Her kidneys were failing and she had to be completely opened up and all her organs cleaned. “They cut me open and left me like that for 24 hours,” she says. “Then, every eight hours, they would take out all my organs, clean them up and put them back again.” Landman’s infection rate was stratospheric, and she was in so much pain that the medics had to administer extreme levels of morphine – to the point where her heart stopped and she had to be put on life support. “I was in an induced coma for four, five days, because I fought so much, constantly pulling pipes from my mouth,” she recounts. She ended up on life support in the intensive care unit for 11 days, tied to the bed because the morphine was making her aggressive. “I don’t remember much from my time in ICU,” Landman says. “But once I moved out of there and into the general ward, my recovery was quick, because I was so fit.” That wasn’t the end of her ordeal, however: there were complications from the surgery, caused by scar tissue around the small intestine, so Landman was taken back to hospital in severe pain. The surgeons didn’t want to operate again so soon as her wounds were so fresh and severe. Unfortunately, her small intestine burst again, resulting in another two weeks in hospital. These days, Landman has to keep an eye on what she eats, but thankfully there have been no more complications. She proudly shows off an impressive scar on her belly from the surgeon’s knife. the red bulletin: Where does an experience like that leave you? kirsten landman: It changed my life completely. I was a very serious person before, too serious. I took my friends and family for granted and thought that they would always be there. I didn’t spend enough time with my friends, just having fun. Now, I realise that enjoying life is more important than being a professional motorbike rider. So if one of my cousins has a birthday party and I’m supposed to be going for a training ride at the same time, I now choose to spend the time with my family. Because you know what? It could be gone in a flash: one minute it’s all there, the next it’s gone. I used to think that I was invincible; I was fit and strong and young and healthy, and probably a bit cocky. It [the accident and her experiences in hospital] brought me back down to earth big time. I enjoy the small things in life as well, and I don’t get worked up about stupid stuff. Ever since, I’ve had more fun and not taken myself too seriously. THE RED BULLETIN
“WHEN I CAME OUT OF THE COMA AFTER MY CRASH, I WAS LIKE, ‘MOM, I’M GOING TO RIDE ROOF THIS YEAR’” What has that meant for your riding? Since I started enjoying myself more, I’ve become a much better rider. Was there ever a time after the accident when you thought you wouldn’t ride again? Never. The accident happened in June 2013, and my goal at the beginning of that year had been to ride Roof Of Africa, so when I came out of my coma, I was like, ‘Mom, I’m going to ride Roof this year.’ And honestly, if I hadn’t had those complications, I would have been there. Getting back on the bike was the first thing I spoke about when I came to. I know biking is not the be all and end all, but it has definitely changed my life. Would you change anything that happened? Not a thing. It’s made me who I am. And the challenge is to show females that they can confidently take to off-road biking… A lot of the women say they can’t do it, the bikes are too heavy, it’s too hard, too technical. But in a lot of the races I’m competing in, like Megawatt or Sea To Sky, I’m one of only 25 riders who are finishing. And at Roof Of Africa there were only 36 finishers, so, you know, it’s possible. The first mistake women make is to think that because they’re female they can’t do it. Being told I can’t do something is all the motivation I need. I don’t think of myself as a girl. I want to be beating the next guy in front of me; it’s cool and it’s different. But I wish that there were more women competing. There are riders out there; they’re just not taking part in the competitions. Can you see yourself taking part in the Dakar Rally one day? I’ve been thinking about it. But not now – I definitely need more experience. It’s a hard race, and it’s life or death at certain stages. And it costs a lot of money. Also, the Dakar is a high-speed race, and since my accident I’ve been a little scared of going too fast. I like a challenge, and that is certainly the ultimate 73
Landman tries out the 2016 KTM 1290 Super Duke R – a beast of a bike. Her usual ride of choice is the nippy KTM Freeride 250 R
“I USED TO THINK I WAS INVINCIBLE; I WAS YOUNG, FIT AND STRONG, AND PROBABLY A BIT COCKY. THE ACCIDENT BROUGHT ME BACK DOWN TO EARTH”
motorbike race, but maybe in two or three years’ time. Look at Laia [Sanz, 13-time Women’s Trial World Champion, who is a multiple winner of the women’s section of the Dakar and has finished as high as ninth overall] – she’s already into her 30s and she’s killing it! There’s no age limit in the Dakar. If it’s so difficult for women to make it in biking, how did it happen for you? When I was eight, we lived next door to my cousins and they were into motorbiking, so I asked my dad, who had grown up around bikes, whether I could get one. He said I could if I made the provincial swimming team. I made the team, so I got a Peewee 80 [Yamaha PW80], and from that moment I was bike gaga. And when did you take things off-road? I bought a big [Suzuki] RM85 and started riding on the scramble track close to our house. I was always racing the guys, because there weren’t many girls who were into it, and when I started to do well, that led me to motocross. How did you end up in enduro? There are a lot of tracks in Joburg, so I started riding 125cc. Then I got a 250F and just rode and rode and rode until I was about 14, maybe 15. And then I started crashing – a lot! I broke a wrist, also my collarbone, and I did my knee, and my folks said to me that I wasn’t allowed to ride motocross any more; I had to ride enduro, which is much more injury-free. I was fine with that, so I started doing enduros.
Landman’s stomach bears the scar from the surgery she underwent after her 2013 accident. She also spent 11 days in intensive care THE RED BULLETIN
At what stage did you decide to do it full time? I took a gap year after school and rode as much as I could, and I did well. Then, in 2011, I got a sponsor who would pay for everything. But the following year at the Roof Of Africa, my bike broke down 20K from the end, meaning I got a bronze finish, but not an official one, so my sponsorship broke down. Soon afterwards, though, I met Franziska from KTM. We had a chat, and I signed a contract the next day. kirstenlandman.com 75
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How much planning goes into the playlist of a top DJ? Do beats really help you conquer tiredness? And how do you keep 1,000 people dancing past 6am? A report from a marathon club night, live from the mind of Berlin techno star Alex.Do Words: Andreas Rottenschlager Photography: Yuki Lutz
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5:50am
I’m finally here. This has to be it: a building that looks like an old factory or shipyard. There are people in thick winter jackets waiting at the barrier. Are they still in the mood? Slowly, the tension rises again. I don’t feel tired at all.
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morning, mid-February: Alex.Do – a Berlin DJ with 10 years’ experience on the club scene – is on the motorway, being chauffeured in a Jaguar F-PACE SUV to his last stop of the night. The 27-year-old DJ is playing for the first time at Cologne club Bootshaus, a venue that scene bible DJ Mag regularly counts among the best clubs in the world. As well as the fact he’s due to make his Bootshaus debut, Alex.Do faces another challenge: he's been booked to play the closing set, which starts at 5am, but his car is way behind schedule.
5:35am
I don’t like it when the night doesn’t go according to plan… We’re poking along at 70kph through fresh snow… It’s hopeless. There are 1,000 people waiting for me at Bootshaus and the set I’ve planned. But I can forget that – I’ll be playing for a much shorter time, because I’m late. The playlist I’ve prepared is useless.
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The Bootshaus gig is a double challenge for Alex.Do. Two top DJs have opened proceedings: German techno pioneer Chris Liebing and Rødhåd, poster boy of Alex.Do’s Berlin record label, Dystopian.
Alex.Do has just an hour to play his closing set – the set that will shape clubgoers’ memories of the night long after they have returned home. 5:55am
Yeah! People are still dancing. Which way to the decks? It’s pitch black. One step, then another. There’s Rødhåd, the consummate professional, taking it all in his stride. “So, you had to do some overtime?” He smirks. I slip off my jacket, take a swig of water and get a sense of where I am… Rødhåd plays deep, repetitive techno, perfect for this time of the morning… I have to build a seamless transition into my set.
6:15am
I’ve got to maintain the energy level Rødhåd has built up… Got to really go for it… No experimenting. First, I play hypnotic tunes to build up the energy, then tracks with more of a melody. Alex.Do says that he has two strategies when it comes to playing closing sets. The first approach is to keep the atmosphere at boiling point right up until the very end. The second is to get everyone’s adrenalin going and then forge a smooth transition in order to deliver the clubgoers into the cold light of day. The second option is the tougher of the two. Techno aesthete Alex.Do wants to pull it off in just 45 minutes.
6:01am
It’s in with the USB stick, 5,000 songs… There are tracks on my playlist I definitely can’t play now: there’s not enough time, and the atmosphere is much too intense. I’m going to have to improvise in front of 1,000 people. Rødhåd is already playing his last track… I’m scrolling… and scrolling… This one could get things going: Ricardo Garduno, Alteraciones de Amor. It’s classic techno: repetitive, hypnotic… And off we go!
6:20am
Anyone who’s still on the dancefloor at 6am is going to stick it out to the end. They’re the hardcore, the people I need to reach. What are they feeling right at this moment? I’ve got to see it in their faces. It only takes a fraction of a second and then it strikes me like a flash. There! Those women closest to the decks are dancing with their eyes closed. They’re swaying. That’s a good sign.
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“Anyone who’s still on the dancefloor at 6am is going to stick it out to the end,” says Alex.Do of his audience. “They’re the hardcore”
The crucial part of the night is the transition into the lower-key section of the DJ set. A good DJ will “build bridges”, says Alex.Do
ALEX.DO’S NIGHT ENDS AT 7:30AM. NEXT STOP: ROTTERDAM
6:35am
It’s amazing how quickly you switch to autopilot; over the last 15 minutes, my choice of track has virtually picked itself. Now I’m playing Lattice by Marcel Dettmann. I haven’t had this on my playlist for ages. It’s ultra-minimal: there are only three to four rhythm elements. We’ll see if it still works.
6:55am
OK, then… The very last track of the set has got to be almost chilled… I go for my remix of Howling’s still-unreleased track Phases, with the soul vocals… Slow it down… How are those women dancing?
6:59am
The whole place is flooded in an orange light. The person in charge knows what they’re doing; there’s nothing worse than strobe lighting right to the end. Now I can see everyone… They slowly stop dancing…
6:38am
It does. The crowd are fully immersing themselves in the music.
7:01am
Some people still have their eyes closed – it’s crazy… There’s applause… Phew! Mission accomplished.
According to Alex.Do, the crucial part of the night is the transition into the lower-key part of the set. A good DJ will “build bridges, pile one layer of atmosphere on top of another”, as he puts it.
Alex.Do pays very close attention to the crowd’s reaction as 7:30am he mixes one track Outside Bootshaus, Alex.Do breathes in into another. Has their the air of a winter morning in Cologne and buries his hands in his jacket pockets. dancing become less “I could collapse here right now,” he says. intense? Are the breaks “Once the adrenalin’s gone, fatigue hits you like that.” Later this evening he’ll in the songs working? play in Rotterdam. He checks his mobile Are there spontaneous and shrugs. “I can get five hours of sleep by midday,” he says. shouts of joy? For more techno, go to dystopian.de. 6:50am
For more on the party, visit bootshaus.tv
It’s time for me to slowly start bringing people down a bit. I’ve got completely carried away by the music. I need more of a tune to end on. Drenched will work. It’s one of my own tracks. It’s a bit more melodic, but still minimal… THE RED BULLETIN
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At this global run – the proceeds of which go to help find a cure for spinal cord injury – both amateur and pro runners outdo themselves. But why? Psychologist Dr Rhonda Cohen has the answer: “The Catcher Car is a huge motivating factor. Playing on the fear of being caught releases strengths you never knew you had.” The 2017 South African leg of the Wings for Life World Run starts at 1pm in Pretoria. To register, go to: wingsforlifeworldrun.com
FIVE WAYS TO BEAT YOUR WEAKER SELF A hugely talented rugby player who represented South Africa at age-group level, Dries Millard was involved in a car accident when he was 18. The spinal injury he sustained left him with only 18 per cent of his body function. However, his love for sport and refusal to become a victim of circumstance saw him take up surfing and go on to earn national colours in that discipline. If anyone knows how to overcome his weaker self, it’s Wings For Life World Run ambassador Millard!
1 Don’t be afraid to accept your own flaws "You need to keep a level head," says Dries Millard
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“If you have a flaw it means there is room for improvement, but by choosing to ignore your flaws, you are choosing to be a weaker version of yourself.”
2 Don’t work alone “No person in the history of mankind has achieved greatness by themselves. You have to trust someone if you want to get anywhere in life.”
3 Own up to your responsibilities “Before you do something, calculate the reactions to your actions. If you are not prepared to face the responsibility of your own actions, do not act.”
4 Passion rules reason “Do not lose your focus or allow small setbacks to alter your ambition. Always keep a level head, especially in situations where you are emotionally triggered.”
5 Sort out your priorities “I keep my priorities small and simple and I make sure I meet them above all else, the rest just falls into place.”
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The Bassline Africa Day Concert – held annually on the closest Saturday to May 25, the official celebration of the OAU’s foundation – is a huge party showcasing the continent’s contemporary music scene. Now in its 14th year, the show takes place in historic Mary Fitzgerald Square in the Newtown Cultural Precinct, drawing as many as 20,000 people, and is traditionally broadcast live across the continent to a television audience of millions. Expect a line-up featuring some of Africa’s biggest and most exciting acts, including Petite Noir (pictured).
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May Ready to roar Gauteng neighbours the Lions and the Bulls meet in what promises to be a pulsating Super Rugby derby. The Lions came so close to winning last year’s tournament, but slipped up after resting most of the first team for their final group game against Argentina’s Jaguars. The Lions lost, which meant they had to play away in the final, and they were hammered by NZ’s Hurricanes. They’ll be keen to set things straight against a Bulls side eyeing a return to former glories.
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For motorists this garage in Hollywood is simply a place to park, but for freerunner Gabriel Nunez it's the ideal playground to practise new and potentially risky moves. The stuntman and one of the founding fathers of the Tempest Freerunning Academy likes to push the limits, and goes by the appropriate nickname of ‘Jaywalker’. tempestfreerunning.com
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“Treat fear like a friend, rather than a foe” Freerunner Gabriel ‘Jaywalker’ Nunez is not scared of failing occasionally
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