The Red Bulletin October 2015 - NZ

NEW ZEALAND

BEYOND THE ORDINARY

Rugby World Cup

DODGING JAWS How to survive a shark attack

BEHIND THE LENS

HOW THE ALL BLACKS CAN RETAIN THE TITLE

World-class photographer Krystle Wright goes to extremes

JASON

CLARKE The Everest actor on enjoying the journey

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46 ROAD TO SUCCESS

How actor Jason Clarke made the move from small-town Australia to Hollywood movie stardom

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WELCOME We like risk takers here at The Red Bulletin, and we’ve got plenty in this month’s issue. There’s Aussie actor Jason Clarke, who left his home with a few dollars in his pocket and a sense of adventure that’s taken him to the Hollywood Hills (and the Hungry Valley, LA for our highoctane shoot). And the All Blacks, who are hoping to make it an historic two in a row at this year’s Rugby World Cup held in the UK. (We’ve also got the home nations hosts to give up their winning secrets.)

Also, we have tips from a man who doesn’t blink an eye at freediving with Great Whites about how you can avoid a shark attack. And spot Owen Wilson letting loose in Paris at one of the biggest hip-hop parties on the planet. We hope you enjoy the issue.

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“Coming to America was a big thing.

I didn’t have a Plan B” JASON CLARKE, PAGE 46

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AT A GLANCE GALLERY 14 GOOD SHOTS! Photos of the month

GRAND STYLE

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Behind the scenes at the Yard Party at the Grand Palais, the biggest hip-hop party in France

21 ADVENTURE SPECIAL We take you to the lightest and darkest places on Earth

FEATURES

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28 The All Blacks

Can the 2015 squad be the first team to defend a Rugby World Cup title?

36 Trying harder

Four stars explain what it will take to win this year’s Rugby World Cup

46 Jason Clarke

The Everest star on why the journey is more important than the destination

MAN WITH A PLAN

NZ hip-hop MC Diaz Grimm has a fiveyear global masterplan and a belief that you can get anywhere with hard work

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54 This month’s heroes

DayZ game creator Dean Hall, rap maverick Diaz Grimm, Emmy Rossum from the US version of Shameless, and turntablist Qbert

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Selects her best adventure photos

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Rap comes to Paris’s Grand Palais

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How Krystle Wright’s job as an action sports photographer has made an extreme sportswoman of her, too 06

79 SEE IT. GET IT. DO IT. The best travel, gadgets, cars, films, TV, games, music and events. Plus how to fight sharks

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BEYOND THE ORDINARY

Rugby World Cup

HOW THE ALL BLACKS CAN RETAIN THE TITLE

DODGING JAWS How to survive a shark attack

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From left: Clarke, Acer, US editor Andreas Tzortzis and Muller

Hollywood takes on the desert The shoot concept was set once we found out that Jason Clarke was a car fanatic. But who would lend photographer Michael Muller some wheels? Enter Robert Acer: Trophy truck racer, philanthropist, mystery millionaire and possible future Marvel superhero. Acer lent his truck and team for the shoot near Los Angeles and Clarke took to the controls with astonishing ease. “I’m threatened,” said Acer, who kept his identity secret by not removing his helmet all day. “He’s a natural.” Read the story on page 46.

IN FOCUS BEHIND THE LENS

The London-based photographer tackled a new discipline for our Rugby World Cup shoot on page 36.

“I knew nothing about the sport,” he admits, “so the shoot was a real collaboration with the players.”

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AROUND THE WORLD

RÜDIGER STURM

Film journalist Sturm is a Munich resident, but a Hollywood-insider by trade. For this month’s issue, he discussed life lessons, sex and cheese on toast with Shameless beauty Emmy Rossum. Page 58.

The Red Bulletin is available in 11 countries. This is the cover of this month’s Mexican edition, featuring Toro Rosso F1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr preparing for the Mexican GP. Read more: redbulletin.com

Shooting at 4,000m up in the mountains is just part of the job for Krystle Wright

“Routine is your biggest enemy” KRYSTLE WRIGHT Award-winning Australian photographer Krystle Wright is a real-life adventurer every time she goes to work. She freedives, climbs rocks and faces subzero temperatures to be close to her protagonists. In 2011, she even survived a paragliding accident in Pakistan’s high mountains while working on a project. She gives us an insight into her best shots on page 60.

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In the International Year Of Light, we take you to the brightest and darkest places on Earth

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James Cameron reached the highpoint of his career when he went as low as it’s possible to go in the Mariana Trench Blockbuster director James Cameron has a complicated relationship with the sea. In Titanic he sank a ship, in Expedition: Bismarck he got to the bottom of what happened to another one, and in The Abyss he met aliens on the seafloor. An extreme therapy session was the only option left: descending into the Mariana Trench, the deepest, darkest place in the world’s oceans, in a submarine.

He was only the third person in history to take the trip and the first to do it alone. Cameron documented the watery desert 11km below sea level, a place we know less about than we do Mars. But he didn’t get to see all that much in the three hours he was down there; his submarine had whipped up a whole lot of sand. It’s a problem he’s no doubt run into in his movie work – technical requirements getting in the way of the plot.

Dark times: James Cameron is a deep man – luckily he has a waterproof watch

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The sun’s rays can only penetrate 200m into the sea. Here are five diving adventures in the light and dark for anyone who gets their highs in the deep

930m above sea level Weissensee, Austria

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Prep for cold: diving in the highest mountain lake in Carinthia.

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See the light: tiny firefly squid turn the coast neon blue early each year.

- 2m Eastern Greenland

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Icebergs from below: the only thing that will give you any warmth in this icy water is the midnight sun.

- 10m Thingvellir, Iceland

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A deep high. This is where the infamous rapture of the deep sets in: expect euphoria, fear, hallucinations.

The (un)sinkable ship.

The Titanic shipwreck has lain off the coast southeast of Newfoundland for more than 100 years.

Rock bottom. It helps to be called James Cameron if you want to explore the depths of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific.

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Cruise control: pilot a submarine – watertight up to a maximum depth of 300m – for four days.

The cost? €8,000.

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Luckily, Keira Knightley stayed home in the drama Everest

DARK STAR

The glimmer of light on the big screen: Keira Knightley

TRUNK ARCHIVE

There’s one thing we’re certain of: this is no mountaineering outfit. At temperatures of -40ºC that fringe would offer little protection and we’re pretty sure shoes are essential. So, despite the snowy-looking setting, we can confirm that this is definitely not a still from new movie Everest, in which Knightley stars. She opts to remain at home in the disaster thriller, while her on-screen husband, Jason Clarke, goes and climbs the world’s highest mountain with Jake Gyllenhaal. By all accounts, a good decision.

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INTERNAL WORLDS The longest caves aren’t necessarily the most beautiful. We tell you how far into the mountain you have to go to see the best bits 20m The Lascaux Caves France

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After just 20m it’s possible to see the famous Stone Age bulls on the wall… If you can find your way in, that is. The cave has been closed to the public since the 1963.

30m Waitomo Glowworm Caves New Zealand

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Just 30m into this grotto, you’ll start to see evidence of Arachnocampa luminosa – or glowworms as they’re more commonly known.

120m Lechuguilla Cave New Mexico, USA

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One of the longest cave systems in the world at 222km, it’s stunningly beautiful. Think 6m gypsum chandeliers and cave pearls.

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500m Gouffre Berger France

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A climber’s paradise. After 500m of transverse descent, you come to the eerie stalactite formation known as the Salle des Treize.

1km Eisriesenwelt Austria

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Known as Elsa’s Ice Palace, only the first kilometre of this pure ice cave is accessible. Beyond that, it’s Elsa only.

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Meaning ‘gathering place of the genies’, the Majlis al Jinn in Oman is 120m high, and the second-largest cave chamber in the world

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Dug in 1943 by Polish slave labourers who, to the Nazis’ chagrin, not only refused to die but actually got stronger. All as a result of the mountain’s (slightly controversial) radioactive healing powers.

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6km Son-Doong Cave Vietnam

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Jungle gym: 6km into this vast cave you’re confronted with a wall 60m high, which has only just been conquered by mountaineers.

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1.9km Gasteiner Heilstollen Austria

DARKNESS IS BEAUTIFUL

YES, BUT SADLY IT’S SO HARD TO SEE

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Could you survive 24 hours in the City of Lights?

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one of the 76 casinos. If it all gets too much, a visit to the Koi Pond at the Wynn offers a rare spot for relaxation.

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Breathe in the dissolute aura of gambling and pulsate along with the neon lights. Away we go into never-ending nightlife.

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Cirque du Soleil show is as par for the course as a go on a one-armed bandit.

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Bellagio are a must-see at dusk: where else can you find illuminated water jets dancing to Frank Sinatra and Elvis?

Dine at the Stratosphere Tower for the best view in town. But to see real stars in the sky, head to the Grand Canyon.

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District, the only art you learn is how to sell anything.

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Museum gives old billboards another lease of life as pop art. Your entrance fee helps cover the electricity bill…

08.05 The past few hours come back to you hazily. The “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign at the city-limit reminds you where you are.

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Hunger drags you to the all-you-can-eat breakfast at Harrah’s. The chocolate fountain shows no sign of slowing down.

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to “old” Las Vegas, to check out the first hotel casinos that opened in the 1940s.

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More than 40 million people are attracted to the lights of Las Vegas every year

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DARK TOURISM Five trips you can take – but probably won’t

NORTH KOREA Take a digital detox in Pyongyang, the closed-off country’s capital.

AFGHANISTAN Go for a stroll around Kabul – but don’t forget your helmet and bullet-proof vest.

CHERNOBYL For anyone with a burning desire for unusual sites, get close to the nuclear reactor.

LONDON The Jack The Ripper tour takes you sightseeing in the serial killer’s stomping ground.

SOMALIA OK, so a sailing trip among the pirates isn’t on any tour operator’s list – yet.

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NASA

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In this, the year of light, we’re still light years away from flat-rate holidays in space Ever since Captain Kirk first talked of the final frontier in Star Trek in the 1960s, we’ve wanted to travel into space. And ever since Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in 2001, we’ve known that it’s expensive.

Companies such as Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures have already invested billions trying to make the dream reality.

For a mere $250,000, Virgin will let you look at the Earth as you orbit the planet.

In theory, at least. Sadly, last year their SpaceShipTwo fell like a star from the sky.

And with it disappeared all our hopes of

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widespread space tourism any time soon.

So it will be a while before we can open our first solar particle umbrella in orbit or hitchhike through the galaxy. Until then, let’s appreciate the stars in the sky.

Ideally somewhere with minimal light pollution like Uluru in Australia. Or in the Atacama Desert in Chile – you won’t see more stars anywhere else on Earth. And then there’s the next instalment of Star Wars hitting screens in December. It might just be enough to persuade us that the best spaceship is our own sofa.

Taking the weight off.

When will there be space travel for all?

See and be seen

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No team has successfully defended the Rugby World Cup title since the competition was first held in 1987. The All Blacks are hoping to bring an end to that hoodoo when the 2015 tournament kicks off in England on September 18 WORDS: SCOTTY STEVENSON

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were overrun by a French team that played the second half under some sort of Gallic spell. They were favourites again in 2003, but an intercept try by Wallaby centre Stirling Mortlock put paid to their chances. As the final minutes of the game ticked by, Australian half-back George Gregan reminded the All Blacks of their consistent failure to perform on the World Cup stage. “Four more years, boys,” he teased. “Four more years.”

Gregan was wrong; it took eight years for the All Blacks to end their World Cup curse. France bundled them out in the quarter-finals in 2007, but the men in black finally found redemption in 2011.

With the title comes the dubious honour of going into the tournament as defending champions. Dubious, because no team has ever defended the World Cup. Not Australia, not South Africa, not England and not the All Blacks. The last time the All Blacks were defending champions going into a World Cup was 1991. Their title defence faltered at the semi-final stage against eventual champions Australia. This year, the All Blacks want to be the first to end the hoodoo. But what lessons can they learn?

“It was a debacle, really,” says John Hart, of the 1991 campaign. Hart is as forthright today as he was as a coach. He doesn’t bother to glaze the doughnut of

his World Cup history. Before the 1991 tournament, he was controversially appointed All Blacks co-coach with Alex Wyllie. It turned out to be a terrible idea, not because Wyllie and Hart were bad coaches. In fact they were two of the best, and had both been selectors in 1987 when the All Blacks won the title. But they were different men: Hart, the Auckland industrial relations executive, and Wyllie, the North Canterbury farmer. These men weren’t just from different provinces, they were from different planets.

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ir John Kirwan was one of the breakthrough stars of the 1987 Rugby World Cup. In the opening match he had run through, around, and over, most of the Italian team to score what stands to this day as one of the great individual tries in international rugby. He well remembers how the awkward marriage of two polar opposite personalities impacted on the team.

“We felt the tension indirectly,” he says. “It wasn’t a happy team in many ways. A number of players had hung on for that tournament, and that, coupled with the controversy of the coaching appointments, didn’t create the harmony required for that kind of environment.”

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he All Blacks are the most dominant rugby team in the history of the game and are favourites to win the 2015 Rugby World Cup – just as they’ve been favourites to win every World Cup since the competition was first held in New Zealand in 1987.

The ‘favourite’ tag at this year’s tournament is well deserved.

The reigning world champions have been beaten just twice since they held aloft the William Webb Ellis Trophy on a still and breathless Auckland night in 2011, in front of a home crowd that would have burned down Eden Park had their beloved team failed to win. It was only the second time the All Blacks had been crowned world champions and it brought to an end 24 years of heartache for longsuffering New Zealand fans. Time and time again the All Blacks have gone to the World Cup as favourites only to come home with their tails between their legs.

They were favourites in 1995, when they were beaten in extra time in the final by Joel Stransky’s epic drop goal that sent South Africa into raptures. They looked unbeatable in 1999, until they

Irish Captain Willie Anderson faces up to New Zealand Captain Wayne Shelford as the All Blacks perform the Haka in 1989

Blade Thomson wins a line-out ball during a match with the Barbarians at Eden Park

The All Blacks’ Richie McCaw and Wales’ Jamie Roberts in 2014

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lesson learned. A team needs to build toward and through the World Cup, rather than peak before it. The All Blacks’ record between the World Cup triumph in 1987 and the 1991 World Cup mirrors that of the current side. From 1988 until the opening match at Twickenham in 1991, the All Blacks played 58 matches, won 53, drew once, and lost four. The current All Blacks side has played 45 matches since their 2011 Rugby World Cup victory for 41 wins, two draws and just two defeats. The All Blacks were marked men in 1991, and they’re marked men in 2015. Some things never change.

Yet, so much has changed in the landscape of world rugby in the intervening years, in particular, the increased importance of the World Cup. “The 1987 World Cup may have launched the event from a New Zealand point of view, but it’s no secret that the northern hemisphere teams didn’t truly buy into the concept,” says Hart. “It hadn’t developed that much further by 1991.”

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missing was a distinct, holistic, strategic plan for the tournament in its entirety.

Craig Innes, who made his debut with the All Blacks in 1989, was one of a handful of World Cup debutantes in the team (11 of the starting 15 in the opening game against England were in the 1987 All Blacks World Cup squad). Looking back, he thinks there was too much focus on the first match.

“We had talked a little about the World Cup, but whether there was anything approaching the planning and preparation of today is doubtful,” he says. “That first game at Twickenham consumed us – we just wanted to get off to a flyer and we didn’t think too far ahead.”

John Kirwan makes a similar point.

“We put so much effort into that first game that we were guilty of saying to ourselves, ‘Alright, that’s the big one out of the way, now let’s move on.’”

After an 18-12 win over England in the opening game, the team’s performances fell away. There were unimpressive wins against the USA, Italy and Canada, but the All Blacks seemed to be stuck in low gear. The poor performances did nothing to ease the tension between the senior players and the newer squad members.

It also impacted on the team’s external image. Despite not playing anywhere near their best, there was a swagger

about the side that did nothing to endear them to the European media or public.

“We didn’t help ourselves off the field,” says Innes. “It’s fair to say we created some problems for ourselves.

The UK was a new experience for us and we didn’t know what to expect.”

“With the World Cup in the UK there’s enormous pressure from a media point of view,” says Hart, “especially with the formidable English tabloid element.”

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The All Blacks may be most talked about for their winning tally, but that record relies upon a constant regeneration of talent. We take a look at three players who are set to shine for New Zealand over the coming years

CODIE TAYLOR

BLADE THOMSON

NEHE MILNER-SKUDDER

Taylor has always been impressive as a player with pace and athleticism in one of the most important positions on the field. He was selected for New Zealand schools in 2009, and the world champion New Zealand under-20 team in 2011. Like All Blacks starter Dane Coles, Taylor seems blessed with an ability to break the line, and to score tries – as he did in his All Blacks debut against Argentina in Christchurch. Coles and Taylor will redefine the hooking role in world rugby.

The versatile Thomson already found a place with the All Blacks in the North America Tour 2013. He’s now knocking on the selection door with a number of consistent, battering performances for the Hurricanes and the national champion Taranaki side.

Thomson, a dual threat as a back rower or lock, was a member of the 2010 New Zealand under-20 team and has four caps for the All Blacks. Close to a call up in 2015, it won’t be too long before he gets his shot.

Manawatu’s Milner-Skudder turned heads in the National Rugby League’s under-20 programme, but returned to New Zealand and to rugby several seasons ago. After stellar performances for his provincial side, he got a full contract with the Hurricanes in 2015 and with his first touch in the tournament, set up a try for teammate Julian Savea. With amazing acceleration and footwork, and a great eye for an opening in the defence, Milner-Skudder is a prospect with amazing promise.

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Provincial team Caps/Points Taranaki (2010-present) 36/50 Super Rugby Caps/Points Hurricanes (2013-present) 26/25 National team Caps/Points New Zealand (under 20; 2010) 5/15 Maori All Blacks (2014-present) 4/0

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blindsided by the depth of the Dublin crowd’s antipathy towards them and were outplayed on the day, much to the crowd’s delight.

For Sir John Kirwan, that day was more than defeat. It was a starting point on his journey to cope with and support others with mental illness. “It’s the first time I remember bursting into tears after a loss,” he says. “I wasn’t well, mentally, and I felt devastated, mixed with anxiety and uncertainty. It was a perfect storm.”

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factor that contributed to the downfall was over-reliance on experience.

“Experience wins World Cups, but we pushed the loyalty card too far,” says Hart. Even though young players had been brought in, they were not empowered.

That mentality, mercifully, has gone.

“When you’re in the All Blacks now, whether you’re on debut or have played 100 test matches, you feel like you can contribute,” says Cory Jane. “You wouldn’t be in the team if you weren’t good enough, so everyone’s input is valued.”

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fter 1991, coaches realised that each World Cup performance has to build on the previous one. You can’t win going backwards. Cory Jane, current All Blacks winger says that progression was the focus in 2011 and will be the focus in 2015.

“You have to discount the opposition and keep building on your own game plan,” he says. “You can’t set a benchmark in the first match and then rest on your

December 15, 1990 1.80m (5ft 11in) 90kg (14st 2lb) Fullback, Wing

laurels. Constant improvement, week on week is what we strived for in 2011 and it will be no different in 2015.”

And so the challenge remains for the 2015 All Blacks side to become the first team in history to claim back-toback Rugby World Cups. They have an empowered team, one that is at pains to play down its number one ranking, has agonised over World Cup planning for the last four years and always seeks to improve with each performance. In so many ways, they are more equipped to deal with the pressure than any All Blacks side before them.

Can they do it? Of course, but maybe they’ll be thinking about one final ingredient that every World Cupwinning team knows is required – luck.

“A World Cup tests the mental and physical strength of the entire squad,” says Innes. “And then there’s that one thing in rugby you can never rely on – the bounce of the ball.” allblacks.com

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ith 20 teams from across the globe battling for supremacy over six weeks of gruelling scrums, crunching tackles and heart-stopping penalty kicks, the Rugby World Cup is one of the most intense and bruising competitions on the international sporting calendar. Since its inception in 1987, the tournament has been almost exclusively dominated by sides from the Southern Hemisphere; aside from England’s emphatic win in 2003, the Webb Ellis trophy has been passed around between New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

This year, though, the tide could turn as the competition takes place on British turf. Since the 2011 World Cup, teams from the home nations have been leading the fight back, with England, Wales and Ireland all chalking up strong wins against their Southern counterparts. But it’ll take every ounce of strength, skill and determination if the North is to prevail once again. Four of rugby’s brightest talents – Irish winger Simon Zebo, English fly-half Owen Farrell, and Welsh backs George North and Jamie Roberts – share their unique insights on preparing for the biggest test of your life.

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1/ EMBRACE NEW WAYS OF TRAINING The home squads are known for their innovative training camps, and this year they’re exploring new territory. Take Wales – as well as eight days of cold conditioning at bootcamps in Spala, Poland, pre-tournament prep included a fortnight of intensive training in the Swiss Alps and nine brutal days at the worldrenowned Aspire Academy For Sports Excellence in Doha, Qatar. A regular haunt of Pep Guardiola’s multi-championship winning FC Bayern Munich, the Doha facility pushed the Welsh to their limits with high-altitude training in hypoxic chambers (which replicate conditions at 4,500m above sea level) and on-field tactics in temperatures above 40°C. The end result? Bodies used to functioning in extreme conditions, giving them the edge in a physically demanding competition.

“We’ve done the cryotherapy for a few campaigns now, so the coaches have gone, ‘What’s the opposite of cold?

Piping hot!’” says North. “That’s a prime example of using a new stimulus to challenge the boys and their bodies. It’s important to switch it up. These camps are unbelievably tough and massively intense, but they really help. We’re always trying to better ourselves. I like waking up and being able to say, ‘I challenged myself yesterday. Can I do it today?’”

“WE’RE ALWAYS TRYING TO BETTER OURSELVES” GEORGE NORTH

2/ STAY CALM UNDER PRESSURE The intense match-day atmosphere could put even the most seasoned player out of step, so staying calm and composed is key. “First and foremost, you’ve got to back yourself,” says Farrell. “You’ve got to have confidence in your ability, and with that comes calmness. If you’re not frantic, you can clearly see what’s in front of you – and unleash your strengths.”

3/ KNOW YOUR LIMITS Rugby is one of the world’s most punishing team contact sports, and players will inevitably pick up serious knocks along the way. But to win the tournament, short-term sacrifices have to be made. North is a prime example.

Earlier this year, he picked up three concussions in a row and, following medical advice, took an extended rest period to ensure he was fighting fit for the World Cup. “It’s a brutal game,” he says. “Concussion isn’t as well understood as more obvious injuries, so a lot of it was about following the right protocols. I was advised to take some time off and I was fortunate my club and my country were able to give it to me. There was a lot of hype in the media about [the concussions] and pressure from external sources, so just taking the time to nip it in the bud was key. I’m feeling great now.”

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“THE FANS ARE LIKE THE 16TH PLAYER” SIMON ZEBO 5/ LEAD BY EXAMPLE

4/ CRANK UP THE TUNES Ask any player what the first thing is that he packs in his match-day kit bag and the answer will probably be an mp3 player. “Music plays a big role in my prematch preparation,” says Zebo. “If I need to chill myself out before a game, I’ll listen to Andrea Bocelli; if I need to get myself fired up, I’ll listen to Kendrick Lamar. Every match is different – I just try to listen to my body and how I feel.”

At just 28, Jamie Roberts is already a rugby veteran. With two Lions tours and Wales’ 2011 World Cup campaign under his belt, he’s the man with the international experience, the one who the new talent will look to learn from.

“I’ve gone from being one of the youngest players in the squad to one of the most senior in the blink of an eye,” he says.

“But I thrive on responsibility. The more I’m given, the more empowered I feel and the better I perform. It’s not about dishing out advice to the new guys, it’s about setting examples in training and being vocal on the pitch as a motivator.

Communication has always been a big part of my game – the idiot in me doesn’t wear a gum shield for that reason.”

6/ ENJOY YOUR DOWNTIME Given the intensive preparation schedule, rest time is a precious commodity for players. “I think it’s as important as your training time, without a doubt,” says Roberts. “Once you get into training, you’re playing rugby for 11 months, so your off-season is crucial.

It’s important you get away with your friends. I’ve always had a bit of a blowout with mates, gone and partied somewhere, forgot about training for a few weeks and really switched off. I feel I have to tick that box to restart that 11-month cycle and love rugby again. It can be quite a monotonous job – you’re in the gym doing the same things, day after day; you’re on the pitch doing the same drills… Obviously that bond and the banter you have with the players keeps you sane. But that off-season is crucial. It means you can spike again.”

7/ GET THE FANS ON BOARD One key advantage the home nations have over their Southern Hemisphere rivals is that this year the tournament is taking place in England, meaning their fans will be out in force. “Playing a big match can be daunting, but the fans help spur you on,” says Zebo. “They’re like the 16th player. They’ll make a massive difference in this tournament.

It’s a short distance for them to travel, so there should be an unbelievable atmosphere. The last time the World Cup was in the Northern Hemisphere was in France in 2007 and England got to the final. If we want to be one of those teams, we have to play well from the start, and a great fanbase will help.”

8/ BE READY TO BEAT THE BEST There’s one thing all national rugby sides can agree on: winning this World Cup will be tough. England’s 2003 victory is the only time a Northern Hemisphere team has managed it, and reigning champs New Zealand – who’ve been top of the world rankings since 2009 – won’t let it go without a fight. “The tide hasn’t turned yet,” says Roberts. “Whether there is a watershed moment this year remains to be seen. But every team is moving forward. Rugby is changing year on year and all the teams are developing bigger, faster, stronger players. You have to keep evolving. It’ll be a challenge to beat those guys, but I don’t see it as pressure – I see it as an opportunity.”

9/ MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR EXPERIENCE George North witnessed one of rugby’s biggest lows early in his career when Wales suffered a crushing semi-final defeat to France in 2011. “It was pretty crappy,” he says. “But that experience was important. You will lose some games. I hate to lose, but you have to move on – you have to analyse what went wrong and make sure you know what to do and what not to do in the next one.” Having performed a key role in the successful 2013 Lions tour, and moved away from home to play his club rugby with Northampton Saints, North has built on that experience to give him a much bigger arsenal to draw from this time around. “I’m more mature now than at the last World Cup,” he says.

“All those experiences have forced me to grow up a bit quicker and adapt to the game and what it requires of me.

It’s helped me to find out who I am, what skills I’ve got, and what I can do in the heat of the battle.”

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“COMMUNICATION IS A BIG PART OF MY GAME” JAMIE ROBERTS

“AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT’S FUN. JUST ENJOY IT” SIMON ZEBO

10/ GET TO KNOW YOUR TEAM The home teams’ World Cup preparation involves spending weeks together at training camps in the lead-up to the tournament.

“That time together is key,” says Roberts. “Rugby’s a team sport and as much as you want to have 15 great individuals on the park who are peaking fitness-wise, you have to be ready to sacrifice yourself for the guy alongside you. That comes from being good friends with these people and wanting to go that extra yard for your teammate. It’s important that element remains. [Wales coach] Warren Gatland advocates that old-school ethos and knows these camps are a great opportunity for the players to get to know each other. In terms of performance, team bonding might even be more important than peak physical fitness.”

“YOU’VE GOT TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOUR ABILITY” OWEN FARRELL

11/ PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE Losing key players to injury can be disastrous for a team’s momentum, stopping a successful campaign in its tracks. No one can predict on-field mishaps, but the right preparation can prevent niggles becoming something worse. “I train for 45 minutes to an hour every morning on injury prevention and recovery,” says Roberts, who is also a qualified doctor. “I’ve had reconstructive surgery to my ankle, wrist, shoulder and knee, and I know that if I don’t do my work with those four joints, my career will be shorter.

The rehab is buying me a few more years. At 20 you don’t really appreciate the importance of stretching, but as you reach your late 20s you realise how crucial it is to keep your body in sync and train effectively. Doing my medical degree has served me well, certainly injury and training-wise – it’s given me a lot of knowledge that I can apply in the workplace.”

12/ REMEMBER WHY YOU’RE PLAYING Amid the madness of the World Cup, it’s easy to get swept up in the hype. But remembering why you’re on the field in the first place can have a grounding effect. “At the end of the day, it’s fun!” says Zebo. “There’s no better feeling than getting the ball, making a break, scoring a try and having a positive influence on the game. My advice to anyone coming into the squad would be to just enjoy it and do what you did when you first started playing rugby. There’s no point trying to reinvent the wheel.”

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JASON CLARKE HAS HAD AN IMPRESSIVE RUN OF NOTABLE FILM PERFORMANCES, CULMINATING IN THIS MONTH’S EVEREST. BUT IF STARDOM IS BECKONING, HE’S IN NO BIG HURRY TO GET THERE. FOR HIM, FOCUSING ON THE GOAL ISN’T REWARDING UNLESS YOU ENJOY THE JOURNEY W O R D S : A N D R E A S T Z O R T Z I S P H O T O G R A P H Y: M I C H A E L M U L L E R

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he guttural pock-pockpock of the idling 860hp engine sounds like the love child of a Harley and an Apache helicopter, and renders anything Jason Clarke could say completely inaudible.

The truck is unlike anything the actor – best known for roles in Terminator Genisys and Zero Dark Thirty – has ever driven. This is an all-carbon, NASCAR-engine-equipped rig straight out of Mad Max, totally different from the Porsches and opencockpit Radicals that petrolhead Clarke races in his downtime. Strapped in securely, he hits the gas and tears up a dusty hill in the Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area, north of LA. At the crest, Clarke brakes suddenly and spins the rig around, creating a huge cloud as he races back. He gets out, his face as white as a sheet.

“It freaked me out,” says the 46-year-old. “I was like, ‘Whoa whoa whoa, put the brake on! I can’t see f--king anything over there, let alone where the track is.’ ” Did he hit the top speed of 255kph?

Clarke doesn’t know. He has his own measure, however.

“I was going fast enough,” he says, “for my anus to tighten.”

When preparing for a role, Clarke totally immerses himself in the life of his character

Risk and reward are the currency of Clarke’s career, an anomaly in a town that emphasises the safe bet. The approach suits the affable Australian just fine: the destination has been the journey from the very start. The eyecatching role in director Phillip Noyce’s aboriginal drama Rabbit-Proof Fence; the lauded, chilling performance as a CIA operative in Zero Dark Thirty?

They were just stops along the way.

He’s since proved his blockbuster status as simian sympathiser Malcolm in Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and John Connor in Genisys. But it’s his tender performance as doomed mountain guide Rob Hall in this month’s Everest that could cement Clarke in the minds of mainstream audiences and place him on the brink.

“On the brink of what? Of taking over from Robert Downey Jr?” he laughs. “That would be one of the great gigs, by the way.”

Clarke is seated on a park bench in the fading afternoon light, away from the dust and noise of the day. The Trophy Truck is parked nearby in all its glorious menace. It’s owned by Robert Acer, an enigma in the motorsport community who keeps his real name and identity cloaked behind a character clad all in black who never removes his Daft Punk-like helmet in public. A man

‘‘FIND YOUR OWN WAY. I THINK THERE’S ADVENTURE IN THAT’’

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Not all airs are intentional.

The torque and power of the Trophy Truck took Clarke by surprise a couple of times

of means from Malibu, so the legend goes, Acer wouldn’t have minded if Clarke had wrecked the car, as long as the actor himself was unharmed.

“I didn’t want to tell Jason this,” says Acer, a muted voice behind a carbon helmet and a mirrored glass visor, “but the faster you go, the smoother it is.”

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‘‘COMING TO AMERICA WAS A BIG THING FOR ME. EVERYTHING WAS AT STAKE. I DIDN’T HAVE A PLAN B’’

larke was born the son of a sheep shearer and a court clerk in the tiny town of Winton, Queensland. The eldest of four, Clarke would lead his siblings on adventures in the vast expanse of the Outback. But the pull of the big city proved too strong.

He headed to Sydney, where he soon became infatuated with the backpackers who would stream through the café where he worked.

When he figured out that acting might be able to provide the same sense of adventure, Clarke went about it pragmatically, enrolling on a course at drama school. Cue several years of struggle and dead ends. Broke, he leant on friends for help and began to question his life choices.

“If it wasn’t going to happen,” says Clarke now, “I would have gone and done something else. I don’t think there’s any point sitting around and being a suffering or frustrated actor.”

Then, as he was about to give up at the age of 33, a break came in the form of Noyce and Rabbit-Proof Fence.

Clarke shone as a constable in the powerful aboriginal drama, and Noyce – a fellow Aussie who had successfully made the leap to the US – had an encouraging word in his ear. “Don’t be scared,” he told Clarke. So Clarke planned his next step, figuring how much it would cost, how much commitment he’d put into it, and readying himself for the possibility that he might return with nothing.

“Coming to America was a big thing for me,” he says. “It was an all-in thing. Everything was at stake. What are you going to do if it doesn’t work out? I didn’t have a Plan B. I grew up with my father and saw how hard that kind of labour is.”

Clarke had US$10,000 in his pocket when he landed in Los Angeles, eager to see how far the money would take him before it ran out. When the acting roles didn’t materialise, he climbed into the 1989 Ford Thunderbird he had bought himself and drove out to the desert, filling his time by rock 51

‘‘THERE’S THAT PERIOD WHEN YOU KEEP PUTTING YOUR FOOT IN THE DOOR AND IT JUST KEEPS GETTING CRUSHED’’ climbing, or else going backpacking in Northern California.

“I felt like I was doing something,” he says. “If it didn’t work, well, at least I’d get to see America. Desire needs opportunity to have a go. And there’s that period when you keep putting your foot in the door and it just keeps getting crushed. Then, finally, you get your foot in the door and you poke your head in, you do your thing and someone says, ‘C’mon in.’”

That break was Brotherhood, a US TV series in which creator Blake Masters cast the unknown 37-year-old as one of the two leads. “I’ve been lucky like that a few times in my career,” he says. “With [directors] Michael Mann for Public Enemies, Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty and Baltasar [Kormákur] for Everest. There was a lot of pressure to cast a lot bigger names than me. I mean, [Christian] Bale was originally doing it.”

But Bale left and the rest of the names never really existed, says

Kormákur. “I was interested in someone who was working his way up,” says the Icelandic director, who liked Clarke’s “gravity” in Zero Dark Thirty. “Someone who was hungry and ready to go the lengths with me.”

And Clarke did it the only way he knows how: all in.

“You learn it in drama school, but you also learn it when travelling, especially backpacking,” says Clarke.

“You’ve got to throw yourself into it.

I backpacked a lot. Going around China, if you don’t understand where you’re going to change your money, what are you going to do? You’ve got to find where it is. As an actor, that’s your job.”

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t Christmas a few years ago, the Everest cast was filming scenes at Pinewood Studios near London when a huge storm hit Ireland and Scotland. Seizing the opportunity, Clarke and real-life Everest guide and consultant Guy Cotter got on a plane and headed north to 1,344m-high Ben Nevis in the Scottish Highlands.

“For two days, we went night climbing and abseiling in the storm, just to feel what it was like,” says Clarke. He wanted to understand how the little things, like a lost glove or a late start, could doom an expedition like Rob Hall’s in 1996, as famously chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air. “No one was like Jason,” says Cotter.

“We would spend hours going through Driving the Trophy Truck was meant to be a challenge. But the enthusiastic racer took to it quickly

the books, comparing accounts and discussing it in fine detail.”

Cotter was a young man when he joined Hall + Ball Adventure Consultants (the company set up by Rob Hall and business partner Gary Ball) in 1992, and the prospect of a film about his good friend was slightly worrying. The 1996 tragedy, in which eight climbers – including Hall – lost their lives when a storm hit during their descent, was a traumatic event that resonated way beyond the climbing community.

“There was every chance for it to be Hollywood-ised,” says Cotter. But Kormákur and Clarke got in touch soon after filming began and asked him to join the production. He became Clarke’s tutor in all things Hall, taking Clarke climbing in the mountains of his native New Zealand and on the Tasman Glacier. In Nepal, close to Everest Base Camp at 5,364m, Clarke would pester Cotter, asking him how he would move with this amount of oxygen deprivation, and how he’d communicate with the team.

And then there was the yak.

There’s a shot in the film where a herd of the beasts crosses a bridge.

Kormákur demanded a few takes and the yaks protested. “You could see them getting irate,” says Cotter.

Suddenly, one began to stampede, so Clarke and co-star Josh Brolin grabbed it by the horns before it sent someone over the cliff. It’s the kind of anecdote that sums up Clarke.

The day’s driving has come to an end and Clarke pulls himself out of the cab of the truck, his shades still on, the helmet off. He makes small talk with the catering guys reclining in the shade to escape the 30°C heat, his Australian twang subtle and charming. However high up the celebrity chain this acting thing takes him, Clarke wants to avoid becoming the awkward star: “I like my life, I like meeting people.”

Clarke spent a few months filming in Thailand this summer, then it was off to Prague to play a despised Nazi leader in a WWII movie, each trip a chance to find out a little more about the world. He recently became a father, and now legacy is on his mind too.

“There’s this famous quote: ‘Apart from his health, a man’s most valuable possession is his name.’ I don’t want to leave my kid with hundreds of millions of dollars. Find your own way. I think there’s adventure in that.”

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“EXPERIENCES ARE WHAT I VALUE MOST” DEAN HALL How a crazy dream took a soldier

from near-starvation in the Brunei jungle to multimillion-dollar success in the games world

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the red bulletin: What effect did your experiences in Brunei have? dean hall: It was a grim period. I didn’t eat for almost a week. I lost 20kg, and you could make out every bone and blood vessel in my body.

I learnt a lot about myself at that time, and I wanted to know if you could create a similar experience in a video game. I wanted a game where the stakes are high and every decision means something. I wanted to see how people would react when faced with stark decisions.

or a car – I wanted to climb Everest. So I went and did it.

You could have retired on the money you made from DayZ. Why did you set up your own company?

There was stuff I still wanted to achieve and I had a way of going about things that wasn’t very traditional. Ion is a game that really should never have existed. It’s a crazy, esoteric idea about colonising the galaxy, and it’s set 150 years in the future. We’ve got some amazing people involved, including a concept designer who worked on the movie Gravity. It’s amazing to take a crazy design idea and combine it with a game idea that’s equally crazy.

“BRUNEI LIBERATED ME. I REALISED I DIDN’T WANT A HOUSE OR A CAR – I WANTED TO CLIMB EVEREST. SO I WENT AND DID IT” Is it that sense of jeopardy that attracted you to mountain climbing, too?

Well, when I was growing up, I was really fascinated by space, but joining NASA wasn’t a viable option.

Mountaineering seemed like a whole different world to me. There are no distractions when you’re climbing. It’s very pure. It’s just all about you and the decisions you make. I always feel like myself when I’m doing it.

But it didn’t put you off wanting to climb Mount Everest in May 2013…

At high school, Everest seemed like another world where normal laws didn’t apply. That really appealed to me. When you’re younger everything seems possible.

Somewhere along the way, though, I lost that feeling.

My experiences in Brunei completely liberated me from other people’s expectations.

I realised I didn’t want a house

Do you have any more crazy projects lined up?

It’s the crazy stuff that helps you figure things out in life.

I was incredibly inspired by the Red Bull Stratos space jump. I’d like to do one some day, and I also want to walk to the North and South Poles.

What I value in life more than anything else are experiences.

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hile on a mission with the Army in December 2010, Dean Hall had an idea for a video game that would change his life. Hall was taking part in survival training in the Brunei jungle, but having eaten all his food rations, he’d been forced to eat rotten fish and ferns. As he slept on a makeshift bed of sticks, close to starvation, he had feverish dreams about life, death and gaming. In his teens, Hall had taught himself how to program by pulling apart computers, and he was a big fan of role-playing adventures. He wondered if he could channel the fears and extreme emotions he felt in the jungle into a video game.

Out of that experience came DayZ, a zombie survival game that has sold more than three million copies worldwide and earned over US$100 million.

The success of DayZ allowed the Kiwi, who’s now 34, to set up his own company, called RocketWerkz, which has offices in Dunedin and London and is currently developing a new space-based game titled Ion.

Have you had any close calls while climbing?

At 18, I climbed Mount Cook for the first time and got really bad frostnip. Even now, I have problems with my fingers. That was the first time I’d faced my own mortality. We were climbing with skis and bad weather conditions forced us to turn around really quickly. I was absolutely exhausted and kept collapsing, and the bindings on my skis kept icing over.

The only way I could break out of them was by peeing into a cup and pouring it over the bindings to melt the ice.

That experience left a big impression on me and made me aware of my limitations.

Hall spent five weeks recovering from surgery after his Brunei ordeal

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“FAILING WAS NEVER AN OPTION” DIAZ GRIMM The NZ rap maverick has a five-year global masterplan – and a message that a bad start doesn’t have to mean a bad end

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Rotorua, I spent most of my time rolling with friends with our hoodies up, looking for trouble – I don’t recall many weekends that didn’t end in a fight or two. For my last year at school, I returned to Cambridge; that year began with my first ride in a paddy wagon after I aimed a BB gun at police, and it ended with me being kicked out of school for finishing a bottle of vodka before interval.

So, how did you turn the situation around?

I had a lot of ideas, but didn’t follow through with them, so

What’s your long-term plan of attack?

I’ve actually written out a five-year plan. Next year, I’m opening a creative space for my collective, G7NG, which will have a recording and photography studio, plus a store where we’ll sell music, merchandise and art.

The next phase will be stores in Los Angeles, New York and London. Ultimately, I want G7NG to be recognised globally as one of the creative companies that corporations come to for fresh ideas.

What lessons do you think others could learn from your life story?

What I’ve learnt over the years is that everything takes time

“I THINK A LOT ABOUT THE RIPPLE EFFECTS OF MY MUSIC. IF YOU HAVE SELF-BELIEF, YOU CAN PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION” I ended up bartending. Then, one night, the bar’s DJ had to pull out, so I jumped onto iTunes and double-clicked song after song all night.

And you were hooked?

From there, I came up with a concept for raves in secret locations. The second rave we held, 2,000 people turned up. I went home with $40,000 in a suitcase that night. Then, in 2012, I went on a road trip across America, funded with the money I’d made as a

how it could move the needle on pop culture. I think a lot about my music and the ripple effects it could have on society. I’ve never been one to talk about the usual hip-hop clichés: cars, girls, money. I’d rather speak on subjects like having respect for one another and believing in yourself. If you have self-belief and vision, you can pass that on to the next generation. Where you start from doesn’t determine where you’ll end up.

and hard work – there were no shortcuts to get where I am today. I never gave myself the option of failing, so I just stayed the course.

Three years ago, I had a plan to be here, but I was too impatient. I thought I was ready from the get-go, but I needed to put in my 10,000 hours first. Patience is a must if you want to make it.

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ou won’t come across many hip-hop MCs who cite historymaking outlier Steve Jobs alongside rap superstar A$AP Rocky in their list of role models – but then Waikatoraised, Auckland-based Diaz Grimm is far from typical.

The rap maverick was born in the sleepy town of Cambridge, but during his teens he moved to Rotorua, where he was exposed to gang life in the city’s underbelly. Instead of becoming trapped in a cycle of crime, however, Grimm dreamt big and pursued a career in music. The plan paid off: in April, his debut album, Osiris – recorded at Red Bull Studio in Auckland – stormed the top five of the NZ iTunes Album Chart. Grimm, 26, explains how he upgraded his career prospects…

promoter. It included a stop at Coachella, where A$AP Rocky was playing. During his set, he talked to the crowd about how only two years prior he hadn’t known what he wanted to do with his life. It was then that I decided I was going to take up music seriously.

In your list of influences, Steve Jobs sits side-by-side with Rocky. What cues have you taken from their lives?

I have this philosophy that if something’s been done before, it means that it’s possible; and if something is possible, that should be the baseline you start from. Take Steve Jobs, for example: he thought not only about the product he wanted to create, but also

Motor-vation: Grimm wrote many of the lyrics for Osiris while sitting in his car, parked beneath Auckland’s Harbour Bridge

Emmy Rossum, 28, never stops working. “Be the best version of yourself you can be�

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“VANITY IS YOUR ENEMY” EMMY ROSSUM The star of Shameless in the US

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rom big-screen hits Beautiful Creatures, The Day After Tomorrow and last year’s You’re Not You, starring Hilary Swank, to smallscreen stardom in the US version of hit TV series Shameless, American actress Emmy Rossum is learning lessons at every turn.

the red bulletin: You once said in an interview, “Men only need two things to be happy: cheese on toast and sex.” emmy rossum: I was only joking.

Well, I’m sure there are plenty of men who wouldn’t disagree…

It’s true that men are wired more simply when it comes to their biological make-up.

They’re normally thinking about food or sex.

How about women?

If you’ll allow me to resort to a ridiculous generalisation, women are a lot more complex. Mainly in that they’re more emotional.

You’ve got to say the right thing at the right time to us.

Does your life philosophy include cheese on toast?

I try to live by the motto, “Carpe diem”. Seize the day.

We need to make a conscious effort to live in the here and now, because we don’t know how much time we have.

I met a lot of patients with (neurodegenerative disease) ALS when I was filming You’re Not You. That sort of experience keeps your feet on the ground.

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How does that grounding manifest itself in you?

I’m less afraid of illness now than I used to be. And I try to make even more of an emotional commitment to people who have problems.

If I see someone who needs help, I’m the first to get up and offer it. Avoiding people who are sick or just in some way different is the easiest thing to do. But it only takes a tiny effort to start a conversation. “What is it you have?” And then we talk about it.

What do you do if there are no people in dire need around you?

It’s about a basic attitude to life. In Shameless, I play a woman earning minimum wage to help her five siblings survive. It couldn’t be less glamorous, but through her I learnt to give up vanity totally. Vanity is your enemy.

The moment you start thinking about how you look, your brain blocks off everything else.

You once said that your Jewish heritage influences your view on life...

I identify more with the culture than the religion.

I don’t speak Hebrew. I don’t keep kosher. But that’s not what it’s all about. The Jewish code of ethics and morals is at the heart of most other religions, too. Don’t lie.

Be good to your nearest and dearest. Work hard. If you see someone who needs help, help him. Be the best version of yourself you can be.

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Qbert, 45, makes things click. “You only get better by interacting with others”

“YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW” QBERT is one of the best turntablists in the world.

The secret of his success? He reveals his tricks the red bulletin: The deejaying world is very competitive, as you know from having won the world championship three times yourself. Why do you share your tricks with the competition? qbert: I used to read spiritual books when I was a teenager and I was impressed by the notion of karma: “You reap what you sow.” So that’s why I started teaching young DJs my skills early on. That gave my creativity an enormous boost.

So it’s all about cosmic balance?

Well, you automatically improve by performing your tricks.

Plus it gets you thinking about your technique, and that in turn gives you new ideas. You only get better by interacting with others. And quite aside from all that, there’s nothing more fulfilling than seeing the smile of a pupil the moment something clicks. Working with someone is more satisfying than competing against them.

Qbert and his DJ crew, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, will be performing at Red Bull Thre3style in Tokyo on September 20. Live stream: redbullthre3style.com

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“In late 2011, a friend asked me if I wanted to spend two months on a ship sailing around Antarctica to show travel photographers how to work under extreme conditions.

Of course I said yes. I mounted my camera onto a telescopic rod so that I could photograph underwater from the ship. This kayak belongs to kayak guide Valerie Lubrick, who’s from Canada.”

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Dangerously beautiful BASE-jumps, icy storms and flights through the mountains of Pakistan: Krystle Wright’s job as a photographer has made an extreme sportswoman of her. The Australian turns her adventures into unique artworks. Here, she talks us through some of her favourites WORDS: ANDREAS ROTTENSCHLAGER PHOTOGRAPHY: KRYSTLE WRIGHT

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“In Moab you come across some of the best BASE-jumpers in the world. I immersed myself in their scene for four years for one photography project. This is American Matt Fleischman leaping from Looking Glass Arch, an iconic sandstone structure. You take off just 39m above ground.�

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“I often go to countries that the media tells us to avoid. In Pakistan, I went on a paragliding expedition to the Karakoram mountain range. We climbed to 7,000m and I experienced the screaming barfies in my hands.

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“Nalle Hukkataival is one of the best boulderers in the world.

Here, the Finn tries his arm at rock-climbing on the Groove Train, one of the toughest routes in Australia. It’s important for me to follow the athlete as closely as possible. So I climbed a boulder myself and shot from there.”

“BUY YOURSELF A TENT AND ESCAPE YOUR ROUTINE” the red bulletin: You earn your living as an adventure photographer. When was the last time you were scared on the job? krystle wright: This May. We wanted to climb University Peak, a 4,100m mountain in south-east Alaska. There’s a downhill slope there that can only be used occasionally.

When we got to the mountain, an avalanche came roaring through the route we’d planned to take. And then there were six more. And I understood, yet again, that there are times when you wouldn’t have a hope in hell of surviving.

You’re constantly exposed to these sorts of risks. How do you minimise the danger?

I have three rules. Plan meticulously, get experienced people on board and call off projects if they get too dangerous. That’s what we did that day in Alaska.

But even that doesn’t always work. In 2011, you had to be rescued when your paraglider crashed into a rock-face in Pakistan.

We were in the RakaposhiHaramosh Mountains. I was a passenger in a tandem paraglider and a gust of wind blew us off trajectory. We were on a very steep hill and I saw a cluster of boulders coming towards me. Then there was a bang. I blacked out. I came to some minutes later and my face was bleeding.

How did you get from the mountains to a hospital?

Paraglider Tom De Dorlodot landed in the village and organised the rescue chain.

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waited there for another Jeep. We got to the hospital eight hours later. I reaped the rewards of rule two there: having professionals on board.

How do you cope with setbacks like that?

I didn’t have much choice but to throw myself into whatever work I could still do. As a freelancer, I had no salary to pay for the physiotherapist bills. I felt sorry for my exboyfriend as he tried helping me on a job where he carried my equipment out onto an Australian rules football field, while I followed on crutches.

My face had stitches and I had a very red eye. I think passers-by thought I was a victim of domestic abuse.

What do you learn about yourself when you’re constantly exposed to danger?

Your weaknesses are revealed mercilessly. So I can be patient when it comes to photography, but I can’t be at all when it comes to taking care of my health. That’s changed now.

Have you got any tips for how to get an adrenalin rush without risking your health?

Go camping.

Camping doesn’t sound all that extreme.

You’ll be surprised at all the things you learn about yourself when you leave your comfort zone and simply immerse yourself in the outdoors. twitter.com/krystlewright

“ For this photo, I was hoisted up the mast in a bosun’s chair. With the high winds, I tried my hardest to hang onto the mast while being shaken around. Luckily I managed to get this shot of kite surfer Brett Wright and his perfect turns.”

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Party people: MC Travis Scott gets the crowd jumping

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“IT’S THE BEST HIP-HOP PARTY IN FRANCE. IT’S A HUGE EVENT” The Grand Palais is 72,000m² and opened its doors in 1900.

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he queue is huge. It’s 1am and people are arriving in their hundreds, eager to get into the Grand Palais. It’s a 72,000m² monster of steel, stone and glass that was inaugurated at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900.

But there’s no Belle Époque nostalgia here. The Grand Palais is modern.

And this is where the biggest party of the summer in Paris is kicking off.

“Keffer to Yoan...” Photographer Keffer contacts Yoan Prat using

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a security guard’s walkie-talkie. Prat and Tom Brunet, founders of creative agency Yard, are in charge of the event, and Prat appears through a side entrance with the all-important access-all-areas passes. He’s wearing white Air Force 1 basketball shoes, which aren’t at all out of place. In fact, almost everyone at Yard is over 190cm tall. Prat and Brunet met on the court, and that fact is now reflected in the dress code.

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The party keeps going backstage too. Our photographer, Keffer, takes us with him behind the scenes

“AN AMAZINGLY MIXED CROWD WITH UNTOLD ENERGY. WILLING TO BE DIFFERENT TO MAKE A POINT” Girls Girls Girls, Kyu St33d, Endrixx and Yannick Do are all here.

If the crowd was a smoking volcano before, it erupts when the light show starts. There are already more than 3,500 people packing the venue. Leading up from the masses, a monumental, grand double staircase winds its way to the VIP floor. It’s up there you get the best view of the impressive and intricate Nave, fashioned from more steel than it took to make the Eiffel Tower.

The space is huge and the sound system is scaled to suit. “Here, you’re mostly getting modern hip-hop with Future Bass, African music and dancehall influences for modern, lively cities,” says Prat.

“It’s an incredibly mixed young crowd with endless energy,” adds Brunet. “They’re here to be different, to make a point.”

The crowd is a combination of white, black, Asian, Middle Eastern… People are dolled up to the nines in stylish designs or dressed very simply, like they’re headed to the basketball court. Some drink glasses of water, others champagne.

And there are lots of attractive women clearly in their element.

At about 2am, rapper Niska takes to the stage and the crowd is buzzing. It’s the reaction the organising duo hoped for. “Niska is the internet discovery of 2015,” says Brunet. “We totally wanted to be the first people to get him out there.”

But the person most of the revellers here are waiting for is American rapper Travis Scott. The excitement has been building all day on social networks, ticket holders boasting, those who missed out lamenting. “I want total chaos!” roars Scott when he finally arrives. But he isn’t on stage for long. He jumps into the crowd and then a few seconds later he reappears minus his top. Scott sprays champagne all over the sound system like a man possessed, soaking DJ Endrixx at the controls in the process. Virgil Abloh, a New Yorker who also happens to be the creative director for Kanye West, appears out of nowhere, clearly used to alcohol-related meltdowns. He hooks Travis up to another system and the 76

show goes on. Scott really gets the party going before leaving the stage. Then Pablo Attal from the Yard crew roars into the microphone, “All the Africans out there, make some noise!”

Anyone who loves sub-Saharan sounds gets their money’s worth from DJ Yannick Do, who brings the party to a close with music from Nigeria, Ghana, Congo and Ivory Coast. “African music at the Grand Palais is an historic moment,” Yannick shouts. “This is the future of France right here in front of me.” Though

this doesn’t apply to American Owen Wilson, it’s at this moment the actor appears on the grand staircase. As does Sonia Rolland, a former Miss France.

And then there’s Nekfeu, one of France’s best-known rappers, chilling on the dancefloor. Here, the eclectic crowd is just focused on the music, 5,000 dedicated revellers dancing until dawn.

It’s the last thing the 1,500 workers who built the Grand Palais more than 120 years ago could have imagined. oneyard.com THE RED BULLETIN

Partying in style: the crowd’s fashion sense is as eclectic as the music on offer

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Super trooper: DJ Supa! from Cambodia takes a well-earned break to enjoy the party

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Forget speedboats.

To experience what it’s like to fly over ocean waves at over 40mph (65kph) with nothing but brute strength to stop you being hurled overboard, you have to jump onboard a Zapcat.

Booming in popularity with adrenalin-seeking seafarers everywhere, Zapcats are small catamarans built for just one thing: going very, very fast.

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St Andrews, Scotland Edinburgh Want to learn how to perform stunts like a pro? Visit: blownaway.co.uk

Swing low Take in a few rounds in one of golf’s most historic settings.

The aptly named ‘Old Course’ has been hosting players since the 15th century and is the reason St Andrews is known as the home of golf. standrews.com

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“YOU HAVE TO BE RELATIVELY FIT,” SAYS McKENZIE. “YOU’LL BE USING YOUR LEG AND ARM MUSCLES TO HOLD YOURSELF IN THE BOAT, AND YOU HAVE TO BE AGILE AND NINJA-LIKE TO HELP MANOEUVRE IT. HOLD ON AND GET LOW TO GO FASTER”

speed going into 90- and 180-degree turns. They’re amazing pieces of kit.”

With turns that fast, Zapcat riders will experience a G-force of 3G – just below that of an F1 car. And newbies don’t get much adjustment time. “We have one co-pilot per driver to make it faster and more exciting,” McKenzie says. “But they’re not just sitting there holding on for dear life – they’re responsible for helping balance and manoeuvre the boat around the turns. If you have one person in a Zapcat, it’ll almost do a wheelie with the amount of power if you accelerate hard. You need the second person to keep the weight down at the front to allow it to travel forward, not up in the air.”

Racing at high speeds in a lightweight vessel means there’s a risk of wipeouts – search YouTube for ‘Bad Day at the Zapcat Office!’ However, McKenzie says, they’re few and far between. “Yeah, our insurance company saw that YouTube clip, too,” he laughs. “That’s the fully prepared racing guys who are out in a championship-style event. We’re looking to get the same feeling, but we’re not trying to kill people! It’s full on, though, definitely a ‘hold on tight’ experience.”

Known as the Prince of Pubs, the iconic Ma Bells is a classy bar favoured by students and locals alike, and was a regular haunt of Prince William and Kate Middleton during their uni days. If it’s good enough for them… hotelduvin.com

Wind power The adrenalin experience continues with X-sailing – land yachting across the expansive West Sands beach. With a constant wind, these agile three-wheelers can reach the same speeds as a Zapcat. x-sail.com

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There are no seats, no steering wheel and no harnesses: it’s just an inflatable twin hull and a 50bhp engine. Pilots navigate via a tiller system and rely on the shifting bodyweight of both themselves and their co-pilot to keep the vessel on course – especially when taking on Mother Nature’s mighty swells.

Jumping waves and leaping up to 1.8m in the air are all part of the fun, though, which is why the choppy waters of the North Sea are perfect for experiencing Zapcatting in all its rough-and-ready glory.

“A white-knuckle ride is a good description,” says Guy McKenzie, Zapcat pilot and co-founder of St Andrews-based adventure outfit Blown Away. “It’s high-adrenalin. In terms of car speeds, the Zapcats travel at 40mph (65kph) or more, which on water is pretty quick. You can even keep that

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The self-powered lights harness kinetic energy created on your ride through the bearings and send it to the wheels.

Celebrate the International Year Of Light with this illuminated kit

Mello LED Skateboard Perk up your evening skate sessions with this quirky, retro-style cruiser board, with innovative LED wheels to add impressive light trails to your tricks. In lime, blueberry and cherry, or choose your own combo. melloskateboards.co.uk

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Glow Headphones

An award-winning desk-lamp design featuring magnetic, conductive LED ‘crystals’ that can be assembled in a plethora of different shapes. Hours of fun. qisdesign.com

Imagine if Jedi Knights made headphones…

These premium buds use a light-diffusing fibre to conduct a pure laser light that pulses to your music. glowheadphones.com

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Combining the best of sleep tracker apps and simulated sunrise alarms, the Aura uses innovative light programs to wake you at the best time of your sleep cycle. withings.com

Become a guitar hero overnight with a Fretlight. Hook the instrument up to your computer and the LED lights in the neck will guide you through notes, chords and riffs. fretlight.com

A potentially life-saving Kickstarter success, this rechargeable helmet has integrated indicator and brake lights controlled by a wireless remote on your handlebar. lumoshelmet.co

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ROAD WARRIOR Hublot Big Bang Ferrari Titanium Carbon

Unmistakeable Scuderia hallmarks on the Big Bang Ferrari Titanium Carbon include the Cavallino Rampante (the prancing horse) on the left, and the chronograph counter in red and date window in yellow – the classic Ferrari colours – on the right

When it comes to cool watches based on fast cars, Hublot and Ferrari’s latest design isn’t so much ‘inspired by’ as forged in the garage itself. To mark the third year of their collaboration, the Hublot team spent time with the Ferrari design studio staff, engineers and technicians, visiting the factory and studying the materials they used. The result?

A timepiece that’s unlike anything else on the market. Making the most of the Swiss watchmaker’s taste for ‘fusion’, the Big Bang Ferrari’s sporty 45mm case blends advanced elements including versatile carbon fibre (lighter than aluminium, stronger than steel), anti-corrosive titanium and, erm, rubber to create a look and feel that’s unique. And, fittingly for a Ferrari, there’s just as much going on under the hood as on the surface: the self-winding Unico movement (manufactured in-house by Hublot) comprises 330 handassembled components, while the flyback chronograph means the watch is safe at pressures of up to 10 bar. It even has Ferrari’s exclusive edge; with only 1,000 of these bad boys in existence, expect them to disappear faster than the Scuderia’s finest. hublot.com

BEHIND THE WHEEL The perfect timepieces for when you’re out on the road

Chopard Superfast Chrono Porsche 919 Jacky Ickx Edition Chopard commemorates the 70th birthday of six-time Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx with this limited edition of 100. The 45mm steel case houses an in-house automatic mechanism, and it’s waterproof to 10 bar. chopard.com

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Oris Audi Sport GMT From the German carmaker comes the Audi Sport GMT, a steel watch with a 44mm case and a dial inspired by the dashboard of the car it’s named after.

The timepiece also has a rotor winding movement, 24-hour hand and significant function display. audi.com

Breitling Bentley GMT Light Body B04 Midnight Carbon Breitling has been working with Bentley since 2002, and their latest creation boasts a titanium case with a robust, carbon-based coating, automatic winding mechanism and a time-zone display on the bezel. breitling.com

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Top-gear fashion fixes from the pros

Ferrari goes big on turbo with fewer emissions

Mini Gentleman’s Collection Mini has unveiled a capsule collection of accessories by young Italian designers, comprising a hat, sunglasses, shoes, a bag, fragrance and a shaving kit. mini.com

Casa Maserati Maserati has opened a new shop and lounge bar on Piazza San Fedele in Milan’s famous fashion district, stocked with products from brands including Ermenegildo Zegna, La Martina, Dr Vranjes and Bulgari. maserati.com

Red Bull Racing Eyewear The colourful ‘Young Line’ collection consists of six different models with a mix of four fun designs. They’ve got a technical edge, too: the frames are made from TR90, a material that’s much more robust than the usual plastic used in sunglasses and is flexible enough to bend, not snap, under pressure. racing-eyewear.com

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To the delight of supercar fans and vendors of posters for teenagers’ bedroom walls, the Ferrari 488 GTB, unveiled earlier this year in Geneva, is now rolling out of showrooms.

The new model is a very different animal to its predecessor, the 458 Italia, dropping over half a litre of displacement, but delivering an extra 100hp from its new 3.9-litre twin-turbo direct-injection V8.

A turbocharged Ferrari is still everso-slightly controversial, but even the Scuderia has to live in the real world – or at least the real world as defined by government emissions drive cycles – and reduce CO2 output. The 488 GTB might not have quite the same emotional appeal as an old-school,

normally aspirated model that revs to infinity and beyond, but it’s still got the chops to turn wealthy middle-aged men into giggling schoolboys when they floor the throttle.

It’s also technically impressive.

Maranello may have been dragged kicking and screaming into Formula One’s economy era, but there’s doubtless crossover to be leveraged from the direct-injection turbo engine used in motorsport’s premier category. There’s an awful lot of literature about response times and power delivery, but the bottom line is a car that, in the hands of professionals, laps Ferrari’s Fiorano circuit slightly faster than the top-ofthe-range 458 Speciale. ferrari.com

The Ferrari 488 GTB: a twin-turbo supercar with a 3.9-litre V8 (below), taking you from 0-100kph in just three seconds

GOING FOR GOLD The GT-R celebrates its birthday in style

A 45th anniversary is traditionally celebrated with sapphires – but for its Limited Edition 45th Anniversary GT-R, Nissan has cracked open the champagne instead.

The modern GT-R shares little DNA with the original Skyline GT-R, but there’s still reason to rejoice. Nissan is making 100 special-edition models, painted champagne gold in a nod to 2001’s Skyline R34 GT-R M-spec. As well as the eye-catching paint job, you’ll find a commemorative plaque on the centre console and a special serial number in the engine bay, along with all the standard 2015 GT-R features. But if you don’t think a four-wheel drive, 3.8-litre, twin-turbo V6 that delivers 550hp is special already, you really need a test drive. nissan.co.uk

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COMING ATTRACTIONS The best new releases to keep you entertained

TV Heroes Reborn Heroes is back for a new 13-episode miniseries, following a five-year break.

Resurrected by original series creator Tim Kring, Heroes Reborn introduces a new group of people with extraordinary abilities. A UK deal is rumoured to be imminent. nbc.com/heroes-reborn

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New Zealand hip-hop movie Born To Dance hits the big screen this month. We talked to the film’s director, Tammy Davis The Red Bulletin: Are you a dancer?

Tammy Davis: No, but I did some dance training for a couple of years and I really enjoyed that. My connection was with the story. I want people to watch the movie and think, “Wow, they are some kick-ass dance moves,” but I also want them to think, “If I follow my dreams, I can make it too.”

Stan Walker is one of the stars of the movie. What was it like working with him?

Stan is just so professional, he puts me to shame. I’m up at six every morning and I work long hours, but some days we were filming and Stan had been in the recording studio all night.

He’d turn up for work, having not slept, and I’d say to him, “Hey, Stan, we need you to sing in this scene.” He’d be like, “Bang!

There you go, man.” His work ethic and intensity are incredible.

What are your hopes and dreams for the movie?

I don’t have any expectations. I can dream about the film making lots of money, but you can’t take your money with you when you go. In my 20s, I did a lot of work with youths at risk, and I’d visit prisons and get really down about it. One day, a colleague said to me, “If we save just one kid, we’ve done our job.” So if one kid sees this movie and is inspired to go out and make a success of their life because of it, I’ll be super stoked.

Born To Dance opens in New Zealand on September 24. facebook.com/borntodancefilm

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HAPPY FEET Three need-to-know facts about Born To Dance Star quality Parris Goebel, the New Zealand choreographer behind the film’s jaw-dropping dance moves, is currently in the US, working with Janet Jackson.

Hard yakka The hip-hop nationals sequence was shot over six gruelling days at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manakau. More than 60 dancers were required each day, with 500 extras for the crowd scenes.

FILM Crimson Peak Mexican director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) returns to his dark roots for this old-school gothic horror. Mia Wasikowska plays a young bride whose mysterious new husband (Thor’s Tom Hiddleston) is not all he seems. legendary.com

Lord of the dance The male lead, Tu, is played by Tia Maipi in his debut acting role. The Huntly teenager, who was a champion hip-hop dancer when he landed the part, is now working with Stan Walker on further projects.

GAME Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Set in Victorian London, the ninth instalment of the stealth combat series sees twin assassins Jacob and Evie Frye fight to regain control of the city.

Out in October on PS4 and Xbox One. assassinscreed.ubi.com

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CULTURE ROCK ’N’ READ Punk myths, riot grrl tales and 50 shades of Grace – new memoirs from three of music’s most iconic women

Chrissie Hynde Reckless From shop assistant at notorious boutique SEX (aka the birthplace of punk) to rock icon with The Pretenders, Hynde tells her story across 320 pages.

Carrie Brownstein Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl Memoirs at the age of 40? When you’ve been a feminist role model, rock icon (Sleater-Kinney) and TV star (Portlandia), it’s more than justified.

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Grace Jones I’ll Never Write My Memoirs In her 1981 song Art Groupie, Jones famously said she’d never write her memoirs. Luckily for us, she’s broken the promise with a book that reportedly contains juicy stories about Warhol and Schwarzenegger.

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Magical Cloudz

Iggy Pop

Bugs Don’t Buzz

The Passenger

“The first time I listened to this song [from the 2013 album Impersonator] was on New Year’s Day last year. It was like I had an intimate companion in my head, helping me through my hangover.

The tune is sparse – it’s all about the vocals. They make you feel like you’re in a poetic Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with someone telling you his innermost fears. It’s a dark, deep record, and I’ll love it for ever.”

“I discovered this song when I was 15. A girl I had a crush on made me a mix cassette with this tune on it. My parents didn’t listen to rock music, so it was the first time I realised that classic rock hits are classics for a reason. The Passenger is so amazing and timeless because it’s such a simple song – there’s no trickery.

That honesty is exactly what I crave when I write music.”

Darkside

BB & Group

Golden Arrow

Old Alabama

“I love this electronic duo, because every decision they make is the opposite of what I’d do musically. Take this track [from the 2013 album Psychic]: there are so many moments when I’d expect something to kick in, but they reverse it and create more negative space.

There’s a lot of space in Darkside’s psychedelic cosmos and yet it feels natural, which I enjoy a lot.”

“This song is on an album called Prison Songs Volume One: Murderous Home, a compilation of US recordings from the 1940s.

The way those incarcerated men sing is so touching. It’s like they’re channelling their souls through this song, drumming the rhythm with pickaxes. It’s haunting, and it reminds you that the most powerful music in the world is just a voice and a beat. You don’t need anything else.”

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Soundbrenner Pulse

An accurate sense of rhythm is an essential skill for those who play music, and the Soundbrenner Pulse – the first smartwatch for musicians – keeps you on the beat. This wearable metronome silently vibrates and flashes your chosen tempo, and has a training mode that corrects you if you stray. You can set the speed via an iPhone app, and even sync your entire band while performing live. soundbrenner.com

Dean Blunt War Report “This elusive producer does modern London like nobody else, and in his voice and lyrics, he captures a kind of fractured Britishness. War Report [from the recent EP Babyfather] is a weirdly appealing song that feels like he wrote it in half an hour in a hotel room. It’s thin and unadorned, which makes it sound very human. It’s surely not everybody’s cup of tea, but I’m a big fan of his.”

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PREVENT A SHARK ATTACK

Own the water “Great Whites are surprisingly meek in their interactions with other predators. When preying on seals, it’s the tiny, defenceless pups they’ll go for. In their confrontations with each other, they’ll swim side by side to compare who’s biggest, and the smaller one will swim off at top speed. When you’re in the water with a Great White, be big, have attitude and confidence, watch your back and the sharks will ignore you.”

Steve Backshall likes sharks. The award-winning wildlife TV presenter has had a lifelong fascination with the marine animals and is a patron of The Shark Trust, a charity dedicated to their conservation.

Through his work on programmes such as Deadly 60 and Swimming With Monsters, Backshall has learnt the importance of showing sharks a healthy respect when sharing their waters. If you encounter one in the wild, this lesson could save your life. “Bear in mind that if you do get attacked by a shark, these much-maligned and beautiful animals will be demonised,” he says, “regardless of whether it was their fault or not.” sharktrust.org/en/no_limits

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Choose carefully where you swim “There’s only one place on Earth I’m aware of where you can dive outside the cage with a Great White – in Guadelupe, Mexico, where the water is so clear the shark can see you’re not prey. [Only one operator is known to have offered this controversial practice.] Otherwise, diving with Great Whites is done from a cage, full stop. In the murky waters around Dyer Island in South Africa, where these sharks shoot up from depth to hit seals at the surface, to go for a swim would be… unwise.”

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Watch their body language “Sharks will tell you if they’re in a dangerous mood. If a shark has its back arched, its mouth open and gills billowing, pectoral fins dropped low, and its movements are sharp and angular, it’s ready for action.

Stay inside the cage! But if the shark is moving languidly with its mouth closed and its fins splayed wide like wings, it’s merely cruising.”

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Take note of your surroundings “It doesn’t matter how much money or time you’ve spent getting to Guadelupe or any other diving location. If it’s getting close to dusk – which is when sharks tend to switch into predatory mode – or if the visibility is poor, or there are more sharks than planned, or anything is less than perfect, don’t be a hero: pull the dive immediately.”

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Feel no fear “Don’t be afraid. Sharks have evolved to focus on stress signals in prey and can sense your fear.

Faster breathing and a quickened pulse are transmitted through the water as vibrations. So breathe deeply and relax.”

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Kiss bring their Spider mega-show to town

October 16 Destroyer Vector Arena, Auckland

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October 26 Hot buttered soul

October 14 Vive la revolution

Western Springs, Auckland

Vector Arena, Auckland

The soul, R&B and hip-hop smorgasbord that is Soulfest debuted at Auckland’s Western Springs last year, and the festival is back at the same spot for 2015, presenting big name soul providers across two stages. Queen of hip-hop soul Mary J Blige headlines an impressive line-up, which includes Jill Scott, De La Soul, Jhené Aiko and legendary Gap Band frontman Charlie Wilson. soulfest.com.au

Russell Brand morphed from comedian to radio host to movie star, but it’s his role as pop revolutionary that he’ll take to the NZ stage. It’s his Trew World Order show, riffing on his web series in which he deconstructs the news. The revolution will not be televised. ticketmaster.co.nz Welcome to Russell Brand’s world...

HAB HADDAD, YOU BASTARD

The Demon and The Starchild – better known as Kiss’s Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley – first brought their rock’n’roll theatrics to the country in 1980, when the band played Western Springs to a legion of their Kiss Army supporters. Thirty-five years and 100 million album sales later, the masked duo return with the latest version of the band they formed in 1973, this time with a stage production dubbed ‘The Spider’, capable of blasting out 400,000 watts of sound and featuring 900 pieces of pyrotechnics. You have been warned. kissonline.com

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October 10 Masters of all Bay of Plenty

Multisport big guns Richard and Elina Ussher and Sam Clark have all been winners of Opotiki’s Motu Challenge, racing a four-stage course that takes in a 65km mountain bike ride, 17km run, 52km road cycle, and a final stage of kayaking, road cycling and a 3km run to the finish. With these names associated with the Motu, you can be sure that this year’s challenge will bring the best of NZ’s multisport community to test their mettle. motuchallenge.co.nz

More dates for your diary

23 October Metal salute

First making a noise as Pagan Angel, Scouse prog rockers Anathema pare back the goth-rock riffery for their NZ run, turning down the volume for an acoustic tour. See why the sextet are faves at Christchurch’s Dux Live and Auckland’s Kings Arms the following day. anathema.ws

You have to be multi-skilled to take the Motu Challenge

October 18 Rush of blood

October 24 The drop

Bombay Hills

Auckland

Mud is a must at Mudd Rush, an 8km obstacle course that weaves through the Meremere Dragway, south of the Bombay Hills. There are 24 obstacles to tackle, plus a pocket-sized Mini Mudd Rush for pint-sized participants. Be ready for a slog of up to four hours. muddrush.co.nz/nz

Electronic funk, soul and dub collective Fat Freddy’s Drop recorded a gig 15 years ago. Live At The Matterhorn went on to make history as the first taste of the Drop live. To celebrate, the band play at the much bigger venue of Auckland Town Hall. fatfreddysdrop.com

24 Club of the month Whammy St Kevin’s Arcade, 183 Karangahape Rd, Auckland

October This is the one

Kiwi reggae foundation The Black Seeds will provide the soundtrack for foodies at the “it!” food and wine festival in the Bay of Islands. Look out for the pie-eating challenge, oyster shucking and kina sucking comps. paihianz.co.nz

25 NZ exposure at last for Maroon 5

October 1, 3, 4 Moves like Jagger Horncastle Arena, Christchurch & Vector Arena, Auckland With 10-times platinum album sales in New Zealand, Los Angelean pop-rock band Maroon 5 have bragging rights down under. Despite chart success and touring all around the world, the Adam Levinefronted outfit have yet to play a show here – a fact soon to be remedied, with dates locked in for Christchurch and Auckland.

Get in quick. livenation.co.nz

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Housed in K-Road’s majestic St Kevin’s Arcade, the live music HQ that is Whammy Bar was once known as Calibre to another generation of Auckland clubgoers.

These days Whammy’s MO is firmly rock’n’roll, with raucous gigs complemented by a weekly games night called ‘Whammy Wednesdays’ – table tennis, foosball and giant Jenga are all on offer, plus a pinball machine designed by Slash! Add a generously stocked bar and vegan pies in the pie warmer, and Whammy punters are not left wanting. whammy.co.nz

October Street fighter

You know you’re in a hog-friendly spot when the CBD shuts down for a bike race! The 23rd annual Greymouth Motorcycle Street Race sees eight classes of motorbikes ride through the town, and the Westland Kart Club show off their wheels. greymouthstreet race.com

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Capstone 22-litre hiking pack by Thule thule.com

HEAD TO TOE Whether you’re heading out on an urban adventure or exploring remote mountainous wilds, with this collection of stylish-yet-rugged kit we’ve got you covered

VivoActive GPS smartwatch by Garmin garmin.com

Honolulu sunglasses by Maui Jim mauijim.com

ZPump Fusion running shoes by Reebok reebok.com

Merino Fleece Plus hoodie by Ortovox ortovox.com

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Wildcat helmet by Quiksilver quiksilver.com

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TOP FORM Get a head start with gear that captures, protects or reflects without sacrificing style

Uranium Collection Prizm Golf Flak 2.0 XL sunglasses by Oakley oakley.com

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Anso sunglasses by O’Neill oneill.com

Hero 4 Session camera by GoPro gopro.com

This tech-heavy helmet won’t weigh you down For riders on two wheels, a pair of skis or a snowboard, this new offering from K2 has what you need. It ain’t heavy, weighing in at just 60g more than the lightest helmet ever created, but that doesn’t mean it’s light on tech. Its magnetic goggle strap eliminates fuss, and its new Passive Channel Ventilation System is designed to keep you cool in all conditions. Then there’s the built-in Baseline Audio system, which means all you need to worry about is choosing the right soundtrack for your session.

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Hunter balaclava by Dakine dakine.com

Stash audio helmet by K2 k2ski.com

Skylab John Jackson Collab goggles by VonZipper vonzipper.com

M3 Merrill Pro goggles by Anon anonoptics.com

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Outrival jacket by Dare2b dare2b.com

Lite-Show jacket by Asics asics.com

Pace Norviz Heat jacket by Helly Hansen hellyhansen.com

Ventura Elvis 80 wristwatch by Hamilton hamiltonwatch.com

Induction shell by Black Diamond blackdiamondequipment.com

A distinctive jacket that’s related to a stunt kite More than just a pretty pattern, there’s substance to go with the style.

This jacket is made from ripstop polyester, the same fabric used for stunt kites and paragliding canopies.

But rather than giving you a lift, in this case it keeps the wind firmly at bay, as do the adjustable scuba hood, cuffs and hem. You’ll still be as agile as ever while enjoying respite from the elements, with underarm insets ensuring you have a full range of movement.

So you can wave when your striking slicker gets you noticed.

Kilowatt Jacket by The North Face thenorthface.com

SB Steele Lightweight Geo Dye Jacket

by Nike nike.com

UPPER CLASS Welcome whatever nature decides to throw at you with versatile bodywear that won’t let you down

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The pants for taking on the toughest terrain in comfort

Easy O’Riginals joggers by O’Neill oneill.com

If you’re on an adventure in tricky conditions, it’s important your trousers don’t leave you out in the cold. The outside of these snow pants is waterproof and windproof, so you can stride fearlessly into the unknown. On the inside, a unique inner layer of merino wool ensures you stay comfortable and sweat-free. With built-in gaiters and three layers of insulation, they should be every winter explorer’s best friend.

Guardian shell snow pants by Ortovox ortovox.com

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Daybreaker joggers by Adidas adidas.com

War Paint joggers by Quiksilver quiksilver.com

Kilowatt pant by The North Face thenorthface.com

Karl trousers by Fjall Raven fjallraven.com

Workpant from the Skateboard collection

by Levis levis.com

FRESH LEGS Drinks with friends? Hitting the slopes? Working out? Make sure your trousers are good to go

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Pace Norviz tights by Helly Hansen hellyhansen.com

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FEET FIRST Always be prepared for action with footwear that performs, supports and looks great too

Rover Mid-Top shoes by Reef reef.com/eu

Speedform Fortis running shoes by Under Armour underarmour.com

SB Stefan Janoski Skateboarding shoes

by Nike nike.com

Clifton 2 running shoes by Hoka One One hokaoneone.eu

Hammer Run shoes by Supra suprafootwear.com

33-DFA running shoes by Asics asics.com

These boots are as happy in town as in the mountains There’s no doubting this is one tough pair of boots. The suede finish is durable, and the Gortex lining ensures that anything that’s encountered on the outside doesn’t get anywhere near you. Then there’s the microporous, shock-absorbent sole and ankle support to ease wear and tear on your feet. But, although these boots won’t be phased by a trek or two, you don’t have to go scaling mountains in order to wear them. Italian brand Dolomite has given them a sleek design and muted colour that makes them an equally attractive choice for urban exploring, perhaps in the less demanding terrain of the pub.

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Cinquantaquattro High Fg Gtx boots

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Kinvara 6 running shoes by Saucony saucony.com

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“I perform at the top of my game when things get dangerous” Helicopter pilot Felix Baumgartner flies low in pursuit of a 1,000hp Toyota, putting the nerves of steel he honed for Red Bull Stratos to good use

DEBRZNO, POLAND, JUNE 15, 2015 A Hollywood stunt in Debrzno? Not a problem for Felix Baumgartner and drifting ace Jakub Przygonski. Felix pursued the state-of-the-art drift car in a two-tonne helicopter down a former airstrip. His zigzagging and wild tilting, all perilously close to the ground, resulted in a three-minute blockbuster. Watch it at: redbulletin.com/helidrifting

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