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Welcome Where do you want to go? This very special issue of The Red Bulletin is your time-travelling, multi-destination passport into the past, present and future. Arto Saari’s brilliant photo portfolio showcases how skateboarding has grown in the last 20 years. Then, the cream of the planet’s adventure sports athletes choose the best adrenalin playgrounds in the world right now. looking ahead, a field-leading futurologist trend-spots and analyses a route through to the future of football. Is a match-up of humans versus robots really only a few decades away? All the evidence presented by current technology says ‘Yes’. All that, plus an exclusive interview with Neymar, who might be about to have the summer of his life in, and for, Brazil. We hope that you enjoy the

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82into the deepWhy would you want to swim under the water when you can fly in a Super-Aviator, a one-of-a-kind submersible

skate eyeBoarder-turned-photographerArto Saari has captured his sport’semergence into the mainstream

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get the gearRickie Fowler brings colours to the fairways, but his new shoes are more than just a fashion statement

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the state of skateTo thrive in the lucrative skateboarding business, a champion must also be a businessman. Just ask Ryan Sheckler

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at a glance

land of linkinWith the music industry in a state of flux, Linkin Park figured out how to make hits. What do they know that others don’t?

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Bullevard 10 gallery Amazing pics16 give peace a chance Marking 100 years since the outbreak of World War I

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32 great adventuresTop destinations for extreme sports

44 Queen of clubsDancefloor filler Louisahhh!!!

46 linkin ParkThe secrets behind their staying power

50 neymar’s World cupPlaying without a care in the world while carrying the hopes of a nation

56 High HoopsHotly tipped Aucklander with a talent for inventing new musical genres

58 Sam SmoothyThe Kiwi freeskier who almost quit is now a bona-fide star of the sport

60 Skate and shoot The amazing work of skateboarder- turned photographer Arto Saari

72 Ryan ShecklerThe child prodigy of skateboarding on growing up and turning pro

action 82 Travel Plunging the depths83 geT The gear Kitted out for golf84 my ciTy A filmmaker’s Shanghai85 music Owen Pallett’s top tracks86 parTy Legendary London club, Fabric88 WaTches Breitling’s best90 Training Get fit for pole vault92 gaming The Evil Within94 buyer’s guide Weekend wear96 save The daTe Unmissable events98 magic momenT Running results A

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The Auckland photographer’s work has appeared in publications all over the world, including Sense (Japan), Dazed and Confused (UK and Australia) and German GQ. He was recruited to snap rising Kiwi star Jordan Arts, aka high hoops, for The Red Bulletin, and he is delighted with how

it turned out. “I always look for the subject to show me a spontaneous moment,” he explains. “Jordan is a very easy-

going guy, and I enjoyed getting to know him and his creative instincts during the photoshoot.” See for yourself on page 56.

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Brazilian footballer neymar came, saw and wrapped our photographer David Clerihew and writer Simon Kuper around his little finger. “He is one cool guy,” says Clarihew. “He has such a distinctive look, the job is half done before you start.” Kuper is a football columnist for the Financial Times and has written several books about the

beautiful game. “You almost never see a footballer show up on time for a meeting with people from outside football, but he did,” says Kuper. “Then there’s his smile, which is impossible not to love. After his dribble, I’d say that’s Neymar’s main weapon.” After undertaking serious

research ahead of his trip to meet the Barcelona playmaker, Kuper reckons he got Neymar to open up in ways others haven’t. And one other thing: “Isn’t it unfair that Barcelona, one of world’s nicest cities, also has one of the best football clubs?” The interview begins on page 50.

arto sa ariThe Finnish photographer

learned his way around a lens after he became a professional skateboarder at the tender age of 16. Now 32, Saari is a still top skater and has brought the strength, agility, and grace of his sport to The Red Bulletin this month for a pictorial that catches skaters in unguarded moments away from the traditional competition circuit. “It helps to have a drained pool in my backyard,” says Los Angeles-based Saari, “it allows me to capture the impromptu action.” His portraits start on page 60.

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leisure pursuits

Alfredo Gomez, one of the world’s best enduro riders, has an unusual hobby: enduro racing. Here he

is, in his free time, ploughing his Husqvarna bike over a flat dirt track. That, too, is uncommon: enduro

is mostly about thrashing a bike down steep slopes until you can thrash no more. The thing is, says the

Spaniard, “I love anything that burns petrol.” alfredogomez.com

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rushin’ russianAt the first race of the Formula One season in Melbourne, Daniil Kvyat finished ninth. By scoring World Championship points in his debut race, the Scuderia Toro Rosso driver, aged 19 years and 24 days, beat the old record for youngest points- scorer, held by Sebastian Vettel. Kvyat has since turned 20 and, after five races of F1 in 2014, had three top-10 finishes. “There’s no such thing as a prodigy in motorsport,” says the man from Ufa, about 1,200km east of Moscow. “Just hard work.”scuderiatororosso.com Photo: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images/Red Bull Content Pool

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spray timeTeammates vying for the world title is a hot topic in motorsport. Atop the World Rally Championship are Frenchman Sebastien Ogier, reigning champ, and Volkswagen teammate Jari-Matti Latvala. In the fourth special stage of the Rally de Portugal, Latvala first found a water feature, and later flipped over spectacularly, which led him to finish 14th (Ogier won). “That’s rallying,” said the Finn, who bounced back to win the next race, in Argentina. jmlatvala.com Photo: Richard Balint/Volkswagen Motorsport

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a christmas miracle Hundreds of German and British soldiers agree their own truce on the Western Front in Flanders, after months of fighting during World War I. Christmas is more important than war, and for one afternoon, the enemy troops shoot at goal, not each other. The no man’s land between the trenches becomes a football pitch, their caps marking the goals. Legend has it that, of course, the Germans won 3-2, but the winners did at least have the decency to provide a barrel of beer.

TOMMY VERSUS FRITZ

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WomanSocialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg says we should strike, not fight. She campaigns for workers’ rights, is jailed for incitement to civil disobedience and killed by German

soldiers in 1919.

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P r i Z EThe Red Cross receives the Nobel Peace Prize

for its good works during the War. To this day, military hospitals and staff carrying the

red symbol are off-limits in international law.

b l O O d b A n k Oswald Hope Robertson is the first man to carry out a blood transfusion using blood that had been stored. His medical breakthrough goes on to save millions of lives. It’s quite an improvement on the first ‘transfusion’, in 1492, when a dying Pope Innocent VIII drank the blood of three 10-year-old boys. All four of them died.

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World War I began 100 years ago, on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. In this special section we pay tribute to 101 people and ideas who have defied this kind of madness and championed peace and humanity ever since19 14

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girl power The suffragettes of the 1910s are no longer willing to be second-class citizens. They want to mark a cross on the election ballot. They roll up their sleeves, go on strike and hold demonstrations including chaining themselves to railings and setting postboxes on fire. By the end of the decade, 27 countries have given women the vote; America follows suit in 1920. Slowest on the uptake are the Swiss. In the district of Appenzell Innerrhoden, women have only had the vote since 1990.

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C l a r e N C e d a r r O W is a fierce Ohio lawyer with a mission to defend the innocent. A few months after defending a schoolteacher for teaching evolution (still a hot-potato subject in the US) he joins a headline-grabbing trial in Detroit, of a group of black men accused of murdering a white man who was part of a mob that had stormed a house. Darrow’s closing argument, lasting seven hours, convinces the jurors of the defendants’ innocence and becomes a key text in the civil rights movement.

r a d i O The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) goes on air and lays the cornerstone for press freedom and impartiality. People in trouble spots worldwide tune in to the BBC news, often risking their personal safety to do so. Jolly good show, indeed.

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The man who brought down apartheid in South Africa, and

embodied peace and reconciliation

worldwide, is born.

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Technological advances don’t come more soothing than this: the Theremin, forerunner of the

synthesizer, makes its public debut.

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Lady Liberty looks relaxed. The US mints Art Deco peace dollars.

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Feminist activists Anita Augspurg and Lida

Gustava Heymann, try, in vain, to have Hitler

expelled from Germany for incitement of

the masses.

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The American Peace Award, endowed by

Edward W Bok to the tune of $100,000, is awarded for the first

time. It wasn’t awarded again until 2008.

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A bear, a piglet, a donkey, an owl and

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Sent by US missionary Sidney Gulick to Japan, to foster friendships

among children.

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The German WWI vet secures a publisher

for his book, All Quiet on the Western Front, which becomes the

classic pacifist novel.

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The famous nun moves to India on her mission of service to

the poorest of the poor.

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Declares his country independent. Britain doesn’t recognise it for 17 years; Gandhi practises his non-violent struggle.

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The a hangover loses its first battle to

Alka-Seltzer when the miracle treatment is introduced in the US.

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In Berlin, 91-year-old Julie Bonhoeffer

breaks a Nazi cordon to shop at a Jewish-

owned store.

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A right-wing coup in France is thwarted. Several anti-fascist organisations are

founded in its wake.

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Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron,

Ohio, USA.

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The Phantom, the first fully costumed superhero, begins

fighting crime in US newspapers on Feb 17.

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W h Y Wa r ? Alber t Einstein a smart fellow if ever there was one, has one problem that he just can’t get his head around. “Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?” he asks fellow genius Sigmund Freud. In reply, the Austrian shrink says, “The ill success… of all the efforts made during the last decade to reach this goal leaves us no room to doubt that strong psychological factors are at work which paralyse these efforts.” In English: people, foolishly, like destroying things.

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1 9 37 GUERNICAG e r m a n B O m B e r S destroy the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. Pablo Picasso captures the ruins and suffering on canvas in his famous painting, which he says can be given to Spain once Franco’s fascist dictatorship has come to an end. Sadly, the artist did not live to see it: he died in 1972, nine years before his greatest work came home.

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“This train is going to hell.” These words come to Franz Jagerstatter in a dream, and will him to vote against Austria’s Anschluss with Nazi Germany,

the only person in his village to do so. He is executed in 1943 and beatified by the

Pope in 2007.

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When Norway is occupied by Hitler’s troops, naval officer turned pacifist Olaf Kullmann pedals his

bike around the entire country in protest. He died in a concentration

camp in 1942.

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Mother Courage, Bertolt Brechts

anti-war play, is first performed, in Zurich.

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In the red-and-white chequered notebook she got for her 13th birthday, the Dutch

girl begins a diary of her family’s two years

in hiding from the occupying Nazis.

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In Albania, besa refers to a code of honour

which must be upheld. In WWII, the

country is 70 per cent Muslim, but besa means its people ignore religious

differences to save 2,000 Jews from Nazi persecution.

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German industrialist Oskar Schindler

catalogues, for the Nazis, indispensable staff required for the

smooth running of his munitions factory,

thus saving the lives of 1,200 Jews.

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9josephine baker, a girl from Missouri, dances her way into the hearts of Parisian audiences at scandalous revue shows and from there takes continental Europe by storm. When the Nazis occupy France, she doesn’t want to sing any more. She works for the Resistance instead, sweet-talking officers to get information out of them and smuggling secret documents over the border. When that fight ends, another begins: Baker goes on to support the civil rights movement in the US.

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1 9 4 5 W O R L D I N M O T I O N : T H E U N I T E D N AT I O N S “To keep peace throughout the world.” That is one of the pillars of this international community of 193 member states established on October 24, 1945. Even if it doesn’t always succeed, that ambitious mission statement is inarguably noble.

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G I V E M E A S I G N Graphic designer Gerald Holtom is asked to make a logo for the CND’s first major protest march. And he comes up with a new Mercedes star. That’s not quite fair: his design incorporates the letters N(uclear) and D(isarmament) as displayed by the flag-wavers doing semaphore, inside a circle.

S p u t N I k 1 is launched into orbit from what is now Kazakhstan. The era of space travel begins with the Soviet satellite, which gives us a new perspective on our home planet. Many people learn that the Earth is smaller and more worthy of protection than they had previously thought.

pablo picasso doesn’t come up with the dove as a symbol of peace. the white bird with an olive branch in its beak was a peace-loving icon in the Bible. But it is the painter from malaga who makes the bird the emblem of the modern peace movement. He is asked to design a poster for the International peace congress in paris and makes the white dove its centrepiece. childhood memories could have come into it, too. His father, an art teacher, enjoyed painting pictures of pigeons and doves above all else.

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The Fulbright Program sends US scholars

and students overseas to learn and educate.

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Raphael Lemkin coins the term genocide and

lays the foundation for its prevention and punishment.

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The UN dispatches peacekeepers for the

first time, to the Middle East.

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Occupation of the North Sea island by

former residents leads to its return to civilian life after military use.

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The UN regulates humanitarian care

of refugees.

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The US humour mag’s satire and critique

would go on to inspire students worldwide.

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Imre Nagy appointed leader of communist Hungary, but breaks with Soviet ideology.

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Franco-German thinker Albert Schweitzer

warns of the dangers of the nuclear arms race.

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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin in the four-hour

Secret Speech.

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hundreds of thousands of people gather at the Lincoln memorial in Washington dc to hear civil rights campaigner martin Luther king deliver his speech for equality and against racism. advisors had actually cut the “I have a dream...” passages, but king improvises them back in during his 17 minutes at the microphone and writes a truly significant page of history.

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Hungarian censorship does not quash journalist and

Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz’s

drive to write about his experiences. His 1975 novel

Fatelessness, about a teenage boy in

the Holocaust, gets worldwide acclaim.

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Twelve countries, including the Soviet Union and the US,

agree that the uninhabited Antarctic will only be used for peaceful purposes

and scientific research.

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British philosopher Bertrand Russell intervenes in the

Cuban Missile Crisis by sending telegrams

to Kennedy and Khrushchev. He

warns them of the consequences of

impending nuclear war, and they listen.

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t w o S t u D E N t S drink a toast to freedom in Lisbon and are arrested. Reading of this injustice is allegedly what makes English lawyer Peter Benenson start Amnesty International. The organisation has fought for political prisoners and against human rights abuses all over the world ever since.

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Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned To

Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, a

potent and hilarious anti-nuclear war film, comes at the height

of the Cold War.

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The slogan for the anti-war movement

supposedly comes to US poet Allen Ginsberg

during an LSD trip.

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Peace activist Abie Nathan flies from

Israel to Egypt on his Shalom 1 plane to

urge peace talks. He is arrested on landing.

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Jan Rose Kasmir holds a daisy to the bayonet of a soldier at a demo outside the Pentagon and becomes an icon of the anti-Vietnam

War movement.

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At the Mexico Olympic Games, 200m

medallists Tommie Smith (gold) and

John Carlos (bronze) give the Black Power salute on the podium.

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With his appointment as assistant bishop of San Salvador, Oscar

Romero’s stand against social injustice and the dictatorial government becomes more visible. In 1980, as Archbishop, he’s killed saying Mass.

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The same year a two-year-old environmental

organisation makes its first waves after

US coastguards turn its boat back before it can reach an Alaskan

nuclear-test site, it also settles on a

name: Greenpeace.

T H e l I e o F T H e l a N d This is how John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend their honeymoon. For a week they welcome journalists to the Presidential Suite of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel to promote world peace. The press pack expects something scandalous, but the newly-weds keep things chaste. They just sit there among the pillows and placards, “like angels”, as Lennon puts it.19 6 9

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rumble in the jungle Muhammad Ali and George Foreman punch each other’s lights out and it’s somehow about peace? not right there in the ring, maybe, but that legendary fight for the world heavyweight championship in Kinshasa, in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) raises the profile and self-esteem of an entire continent. And with the eyes of the world on Africa, what dictators want hidden can be seen. Muhammad Ali, conscientious objector, wins again.

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19 7 5 NAU T S C RO S S OV E RTwo years before Star Wars, the biggest thing in space is no science fiction, but Cold War-defying fact. Alexey Leonov is weightless alongside Deke Slayton after the first joint US-Soviet space mission. An Apollo module docks with a Soyuz craft, after which three astronauts and two cosmonauts spend 44 hours together.

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Nick Ut’s photo of a naked napalm-burned

Kim Phuc turns public and political opinion against the

Vietnam War.

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Over 1bn watch Elvis in Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite, the first

concert broadcast live in this way.

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Peace People is formed of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

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In Argentina, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo demand to know what happened to their children ‘disappeared’ during the Dirty War.

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…and feel alright: Bob Marley reconciles rival Jamaican politicians on stage at the One Love Peace Concert.

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The greatest war movie ever made is released.

Peace KO’d: Muhammad Ali v George Foreman

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5B u r n i n g u p At a small event on Baker Beach in San Francisco, the eponymous wooden sculpture defining the Burning Man Festival is set alight for the first time. Today, pyromaniacs and the counter-cultural meet in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, to honour the Burning Man’s 10 principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, immediacy. In a nutshell: peace.

THE WORLD STAGE Bob Geldof rounds up rock and pop royalty for two simultaneous concerts on July 13 in London and Philadelphia. More than 1.5 billion people watch Live Aid live on tV, and the next day the donations are around £50 million, about £135m in today’s money. Queen, U2, David Bowie and the Beach Boys do turns; Phil Collins flies on Concorde to appear at both venues. Led Zeppelin, the Who and Black sabbath reform for a day to fight hunger in Ethiopia and, like many of the acts, enjoy a boost in record sales.

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19 8 0 F r O M T i n Y a C O r n S

Jadav Payeng plants a tree on the banks of

the Brahmaputra in India. Where there

was once just a single tree, there are now

over five million.

19 8 1 p r O T e S T C a M p

William Thomas pitches his tent by the White House as

a protest against nuclear weapons. He would stay 27 years.

19 8 2 d e a r M r p r e M i e r

US schoolgirl Samantha Smith, 10,

writes to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov.

He writes back. Samantha realises

they’re “just like us”.

19 8 3 l i T T l e a l O n g WaY

Muhammad Yunus founds the Grameen

Bank, which gives microloans to the

poorest of the poor.

19 8 4 C H e S T r e a d T H i S

Designer Katharine Hamnett wears an anti-nuclear slogan

T-shirt while meeting Margaret Thatcher at an official reception.

19 8 5 l i v e a i d C O n C e r T

19 8 6 B u r n i n g M a n F e S T i va l

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H O M e F r O n T

In Canada, the Raging Grannies group of elder ladies forms to protest

against nuclear-powered US Navy ships

in Victoria harbour.

19 8 8 g r av e O F T H e F i r e F l i e S

One of the most powerful anti-war films, an animated drama from Japan,

is released.

19 89 W H aT g O e S u p

David Hasselhoff sings Looking For Freedom

to 100,000 fans from a crumbling Berlin Wall.

T H E B E ST PE AC E S ONG S OF A L L T I M E

19 67 T H e Y O u n g B l O O d S

G e t To g e t h e r

“Come on, people now. Smile on your brother.

Everybody get together. Try to love one another.

Right now!”

19 8 5 Q u e e n

O n e V i s i o n

“No hate no fight Just excitation!

All through the night It’s celebration.

Wo-wo-wo-wo-yeah!”

2 0 03 M i C H a e l F r a n T i B o m b T h e W o r l d

“We can chase down all our enemies, bring them to their knees.

We can bomb the world to pieces. But we can’t bomb

it into peace.”

19 7 1 C aT S T e v e n S P e a c e T r a i n

“Everyone jump upon the peace train.

Come on, come on, come on.

Yes, come on the peace train.

Yes, it’s a peace train.”

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Tim Berners Lee invents the World

Wide Web. It’s thanks to him we can now

tweet and hyperlink messages of love.

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1 9 9 3 V I k t o r P o P k o V

The Russian pacifist delivers food to

Abkhazian towns besieged by Georgians.

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1 9 9 5 P e a c e V I l l a g e s

Areas free of violence founded in crisis-torn parts of Latin America.

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Yoko Ono asks fans to write their wishes on bits of paper and attach them to her

wish trees.

I n t h e r u b b l e o F s a r a J e V o Vedran Smailovic sits in the ruins with his cello and plays Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio in G-Minor while the war-torn city is shelled by Bosnian Serb troops. Thousands of people lose their lives, with 22 civilians queuing for bread among the first victims. The cellist performs 22 solo concerts on 22 consecutive days, at exactly the time and place a grenade hit, each time wearing his tails, and each time putting his own life at risk.

premiers in league? leonid Brezhnev and erich honecker no doubt spent plenty of time together, as the respective heads of the soviet Union and east germany, but exactly how close they got is not recorded in the official minutes. in 1991, the Ussr shows solidarity with the gDr in together exiting the stage of world history. Muscovite artist Dmitri vrubel paints his most famous work – the goodbye kiss – on the Berlin Wall.

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l o V e k I l l s The Pentagon comes up with the concept for a new sort of “weapon”: the sex bomb, but – sadly? – they never produce it. Aphrodisiacs would rouse the enemy to the point of sexual ecstasy and put them out of action without force of arms. The bad breath bomb was also shelved.

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South Korean Okhwan Yoon sets off on a

round-the-world bike ride aiming to reconcile North and South Korea. Number of countries

visited: 192. Crashes: 6.

YOGA: FOR INNER PEACE“sun salutation” and “mountain pose”. Yoga has promoted harmony between body and mind for thousands of years. But Bellur krishnamachar sundararaja iyengar is the first person to systematise the various yoga poses. that makes yoga popular in the West, which is why Time magazine lists the guru among the world’s 100 most influential people. it is an honour that will probably never be awarded to yoga starlet tara stiles, but she has time on her side.

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hot pillsSearching for a high

blood pressure treatment, scientists discover a drug that

unleashes high pressure somewhere else. Viagra provides

peace of mind between the sheets ever since.

2 0 0 0 bAng!

The British Royal Navy orders its soldiers to stop

using live ammunition. They

are to shout “Bang!” instead. Sadly this

only applies to training exercises and new recruits.

1 9 9 7 L I B R A R Y I N T H E S A D D L E

Luis Soriano rides his donkeys to remote

villages in Colombia and lends out the books they have carried there. His library has grown

from 70 titles when he started out to

more than 4,500 now.

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1 9 9 9 A N N A P O L I T K O v S K AYA

The Russian journalist begins her columns

critical of the Kremlin and on the horrors of the war in Chechnya.

She is murdered seven years later.

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SportsUnited takes Americans abroad and brings young

foreigners to the US to do sport together,

in a scheme to promote international

dialogue and co-operation.

2 0 03 P E A C E R A C E

Tegla Loroupe is the first African woman to win the New York City Marathon. Back home in Kenya she organises an annual Peace Race, where politicians and soldiers from all over

East Africa run together instead of waging war

on each other.

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2 0 0 5 F O O T B A L L I N G T R u C E

When Ivory Coast qualifies for the World Cup in Germany, Didier Drogba goes on TV and asks the parties in his country’s civil war to

“lay down your arms!” It begins peace talks

and a truce is observed from 2007-2010.

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“ I f you don’t l i ke how somet h i n g

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2 0 0 6 H I G H P O I N T O F P E A C E

In the Himalayas, the border crossing between India and

Chinese Tibet at Nathu La reopens

after 44 years.

2 0 0 7 S k AT E I S TA N

2 0 0 8 F O O T b A l l d I P l O m A C y

Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan and his Turkish

counterpart Abdullah Gul watch a World

Cup qualifier between their two countries together on TV: no

small measure, due to the Turkish genocide

of the Armenians during World War I.

2 0 0 9 S O u N d S O F wA r

The British Post War Orchestra makes

musical instruments out of old weapons,

thus turning the harmful harmonious.

2 0 1 0 d O u b ly G O O d

India’s Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-

ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan team up in doubles and show

that tennis can bridge the political divide. They go on to reach

the final of the US Open.

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In June, 100 years after the assassination in Sarajevo that

triggered World War I, Bosnia’s capital will host thousands of

young people, activists and peace

researchers from around the world.

There they will share info, hold discussions and party for peace.

Mir svijetu! (Peace to the world!)

2 0 07skateistan With three skateboards in his luggage, Oliver

Percovich heads from his homeland of Australia to war-torn Kabul. It doesn’t take long for the skateboards to attract the attention of

local kids. With every trick and ride, social barriers disappear and a little light is shone on dark lives. Percovich’s bright idea

becomes an NGO, Skateistan. He gives courses and arranges for a skatepark to be built. Soon, his young freestyle pupils are a

common sight in the city – and about half of them are girls.

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anonymous is still the leading hacktivist group, promoting freedom and ‘lulz’ with anti-corporate stunts.

PEACE AT THE PUSH OF A BUTTON

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Kony 2012 wants to save all Africa in one fell swoop, but feels the wind of criticism and fizzles out.2

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#royalbaby is a common hashtag this year. Will cuddly little George bring us peace on Earth? 2

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The two-stage Toketee Waterfalls in Oregon, USA,

are 36m high, remote, demanding and dangerous

– an irresistible spot for extreme kayakers.

American Fred Norquist had to abseil down into

the gorge with his kayak in order to reach the falls.

“The reward was worth the hassle,” he says. “A

magnificent view and 20m drop into raging

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Ten years ago, the municipality wanted to rebuild the dilapidated dam. Thankfully they didn’t. The Ruins create extreme waves, the biggest waves I know of. Which means a huge amount of airtime when you take off and you can perform tricks that you couldn’t do anywhere else. The current is also damned fast, intense and steady. You never have to wait for a wave. Or, to put it another way, you never get your breath back. It’s paradise.

Dane JacksonKayak freestyle world champion

o t t a w a r i v e r , C a n a d aThe Deschenes rapids, west of the capital city, are fascinating and dangerous. The Ruins, the remains of a 19th-century dam, have turned these rapids into a kayaking whirlpool and wave paradise. There is no better place for whitewater freaks, especially in the spring when the river is in flood.

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Sandstone paradise. You can choose from a wonderfully large selection of demanding, unspoiled routes. The best thing of all is the quality of the rock face. All the compact sandstone’s grips are nice. There are no sharp edges or broken fragments: that’s a real luxury. But sometimes the rock gets so hot that freeclimbing isn’t possible here. Oh, and look out for the monkeys! They’re as quick as a flash and notorious thieves. Food, rucksacks, lighters. Always leave your stuff out of sight.

KiliAn FischhuberWorld-class competitive climber and boulderer

B a d a m i , I n d i aAbout 150km south of the well-known Indian bouldering location of Hampi is the small town of Badami, which is gaining favour with competitive climbers. There is wonderful sandstone to climb. That badami has barely been developed for tourism means you can choose your own climbing routes, many of them unspoiled. There’s an old-style sense of adventure here. The downside: rural india public facilities and infrastructure.

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Life in Tahiti takes place in the water, and Teahupo’o is one of the most infamous surfing locations in the world. Its powerful waves and the reef just below the surface of the water are a dangerous combination and even top surfers get scared. My tip for those on their first surfing trip to Teahupo’o is to wait for the gentlest conditions! Ideally, you should paddle out at low tide between five and nine in the morning. The best-case scenario would be waves from the south-west, a northerly wind and clear water.

MIchel BourezASP World Surfing Tour event winner

ta h i t i , F r e n c h P o l y n e s i aPeople have been surfing in Tahiti since the 1960s. conditions are consistently good between May and September when the wind – the so-called ‘roaring forties’ because this is about 40 degrees latitude – creates permanent waves that break off the Tahitian coastline.

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e l o y , U S AA small town in the middle of the Arizona desert is the centre of the biggest skydiving region in the US, and a hotspot for parachutists who flock here from all over the world. Its favourable climate offers good conditions all year round: hardly any rain, wind or clouds. There is a large number of both skydiving clubs and suitable aircraft.

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We took off under a full moon in powered paragliders at 5am, just above the trees. Our plan was to do a not-necessarily-permitted scenic flight over the falls before the first sightseeing helicopters arrived. It’s dangerous competing for airspace with helicopters and the authorities, including the army, have no time for paragliders. Plus, there’s nowhere really to land if you have engine trouble. But it all went well: it was a breathtaking experience. Incredible rainbows in the mist, the violent roar of the water. Faced with the biggest curtain of water on Earth, we felt like Livingstone, the first European to see the falls back in 1855.

ThOmas de dOrlOdOTParaglider who once flew 225km in eight hours

v i c t o r i a Fa l l s , Z a m b i a / Z i m b a b w eOn the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, these falls are the largest in Africa. The Zambezi river, almost 1,700m wide at this point, drops 100m into a narrow gully. locals call the resulting mist of spray mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders. It can reach 300m into the air. Book an official guided tour by helicopter if you want to see the falls from above.

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L a b r a d o r , C a n a d aThere are only 400 people living in the hamlet of Makkovik, on the north Canadian coast. The average annual temperature is 0°C: ideal conditions for icebergs, which drift not far off land even at the height of summer. And these are very particular icebergs. The significant difference between the temperatures of the core and the surface create such tension that an iceberg could explode at any second and fall to pieces.

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The DJ and music-maker found enlightenment and big laughs on the dancefloor after trading a career with horses for the search for unicorns

Words: Florian Obkircher

Louisahhh!!!

Queen of clubs

mating ritual for the human race. We go into a cave and listen to big sounds, and perhaps go home with somebody we shared a spiritual experience with.So what role does the DJ play?The DJ is the shaman. To be in this role is a great honour. Did you always want to be a techno shaman?My options are very limited in terms of what jobs I can do because I’m not that good at working for other people. But a DJ is beholden to their audience.Of course. DJs are part of a service industry, at the end of the day. If the crowd is not feeling what you are doing,

Three aitches and three exclamation marks. The name says it all, loudly, but it fits: Louisahhh!!! is always welcomed on stage with a high degree of fervour. The 28-year-old Paris-based New Yorker, born Louisa Pillot, is an electronic musician and highly sought-after DJ. Her 2011 debut track, Palmaditas de Muerte, fuses flamenco guitars with cutting synthesizers and was a worldwide club hit. Through it, she came to the attention of Kanye West’s producer, Gesaffelstein, and has been promoted by him ever since. Today she performs in the best clubs in the world and produces records that sound like unicorns’ laughter.

the red bulletin: What’s the correct pronunciation of your name?louisahhh!!!: Just like you’d normally pronounce it: Louisa. So why the three aitches and the exclamation marks?I was 18 and pretty wasted when I came up with the name. It seemed like good decision at the time. Now I’m not too sure about that anymore. But it’s probably too late to rebrand.One of the tracks on your new EP, Traces, is called Night Clubbing. What’s the best part of a night out on the town?The physical act of participating in a communal music experience is something magical. I love it when I’m on the dancefloor and the kick drum pounds my ego out of me as I get caught up in the crowd. Dancing is also like meditating, it’s an introspective process.There are many people who would say the opposite of that.I see clubbing as a sort of modern tribal ritual. It is essentially a dressed-up

in the States, but I still wanted to be a DJ. Everyone around me said, “You are newly sober and a recovering cocaine addict. Can you please do anything but club music?” But I wanted to go through with it and I wanted to do it sober. Yes, so I work in the lion’s den. The former slutty cokehead playing music for other slutty cokeheads. But I’ve got to the stage that my experiences mean I pass that message on to somebody who might be struggling. That’s why I’m here. It’s not for money, success and glamour. That would be a small life.Why, on Traces, are you singing more than on your previous records?Growing up, all my heroes were frontwomen of bands. So that has been a secret desire, but I was also highly judgmental of women in the dance music scene, because I thought it was lame. They were mostly presented as disposable accessories for some star producer. It’s why I learnt to programme tracks and operate the equipment myself. Now I do both, and I love it.You once described your music as sounding like unicorn laughter. What does an amused unicorn actually sound like? I have no idea. But I’d like to think that my spiritual animal, my shaman creature, would be a unicorn. It’s a horse, but it is magical.And why is it laughing?I really like the physics of music. In a club, when you get pummelled with the sub-bass, it feels like the low rumble of a laugh, like the space is filling you with laughter. It is kind of silly, but I like that, I want that, I crave that. That is the spot I want to be in.

then you better do something different. But it’s a fine line between artist and entertainer, and the question is always how can I serve the music and how can I serve the crowd?Can you do both?I think so. I see myself as a go-between. It is a delight to let the music flow through you. I try to create a connection between people and my music.Sounds like you’ve found your vocation.Yes, I think so. My original career path until I was 17 was to train horses. Then I started to find myself in nightlife and quickly took a shine to its darker sides. I got sober and came into recovery when I was 20. So I’ve never had a legal drink

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Discography Traces – EP, 2014 Bromance #9: Transcend – EP, 2013 Translations – EP, 2013 Palmaditas de Muerte – EP, 2011

Bro fo’ sho Louisahhh!!! is on Bromance, record label of star French producer Gesaffelstein, who has worked with Daft Punk, Lana Del Rey and ASAP Rocky.

Everything is great Danny Daze’s house track Your Everything (ft. Louisahhh!!!) was the hit of summer 2011 on Ibiza. Electronic music mag Resident Advisor voted it a year’s best.

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the red bulletin: The Hunting Party has a heavy, propulsive sound. It’s a style not often heard these days. Why did you take that route?mike shinoda: I read a piece somewhere online with the headline ‘Rock Music Sucks Now And It’s Depressing’. Its tone was, think back to Nirvana, and then think about where rock is at right now. His gripe was, ‘Really? Rock is like Mumford & Sons?’ The word he used was ‘pussified’ rock. I have felt this way at various points – that there’s this thing that is missing out there that I want to hear. If we wanted to fill that void, where would we go to fill it? What would we listen to? It ended up being albums like The Shape Of Punk To Come by Refused, At the Drive-In’s Relationship Of Command and the first couple of records by Helmet. When I go back to those albums, I feel like that’s the visceral, grimy inspired music. You’re about to go on a massive tour with Thirty Seconds To Mars and AFI. It seems like this kind of heavy rock music is best when it’s played live in front of a lot of people.dave farrell: Totally. It’s good that

When Linkin Park released their first album, Hybrid

Theory, in 2000, people still bought cassettes to listen to

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the best way to hear new music was on the radio. Times have changed, and no band has adapted better than Linkin Park. With the release of their latest album, The Hunting Party, they can anticipate hitting the top of the album charts for the fifth time in a row, a streak that extends more than 10 years. A thrashy guitar throwback to the days when rock music actually rocked, The Hunting Party has been marketed and distributed in the same innovative style that has earned the six-piece fan allegiance for more than a decade, this time employing everything from smartphone apps to video games. Band founder and rapper Mike Shinoda and bassist Dave Farrell sat down with The Red Bulletin in West Hollywood to talk about the state of rock and the brave new world of geekery.

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one. They never got us one, but once I got a generation one Nintendo, that literally defined me for like years. df: My brother and I, on the game RBI Baseball, we used to keep stats. We set up our whole season, with each team playing each other team maybe three times.ms: You played a whole season?!df: Dude. It took us months and months and months. And we’d always update, from the game, the top pitchers, the top batting averages, stolen bases. It was really crazy. Technology, games and otherwise, has changed radically since then – do you think you’ve adapted well?ms: Over time, the technology part of it is something that’s just built in to the band. It’s as simple as, like, this morning, I just showed Chester [Bennington, the lead singer] this photo app I just found out about, Facetune. It’s a photoshopping, airbrushing thing that’s really good at smoothing out people’s faces and wrinkles. And I know that some people are using that to glamorise their photos, but I want to use it to make people look really crazy. I want to take somebody’s picture, and then I want to zombiefy it, and then I want to take them into Facetune and smooth it out. And this is the dumb stuff that goes on in my head! Technology isn’t exciting because we’re going to change the world, it’s exciting because I get to kill time doing dumb shit that makes my friends laugh. What about social media? ms: I’m not a believer that every band or every person with a fan base needs to be on social media. We have two guys in the band, Brad [Delson, guitarist] and Rob [Bourdon, drummer], that do not have a Facebook account, do not have a Twitter account and don’t have an Instagram account.df: Thankfully.ms: Right? First of all, it would be madness. Second of all, madness in the most boring sense. Brad’s sense of humour does not lend itself to Twitter. df: My Twitter feed is usually more personal. Not in the sense of here’s my family, but in the sense of this is my idea of a funny joke and has nothing to do with the band. It’s more of my personality than information about what’s coming up.ms: That’s your Twitter feed? What about your Tinder feed?df: That gets crazy. And if you follow me on Pinterest, watch out, because it’s about to get wild.linkinpark.com

venues on landline phones. We’d pull over and somebody would get on the pay phone and call the venue. For real. df: And ask for directions.ms: It was crazy.So while some of your music is still released on cassette, your latest album was launched with help from mobile music recognition app Shazam.ms: We did two promotions this time that I was really excited about, and Shazam was one of them, because I use it, and everybody uses it. I remember the first time I used it, we were in Mexico, and I was sitting at the little bar in the hotel. It was outside on the beach, and it was so nice. This cool song came on, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I just got this new app,’ and it worked! So the promotion was that any time anybody Shazamed anything, they got their results and a banner for Linkin Park’s new song, and that was the first place anyone could hear it. The other thing that we did that was really exciting is instead of making a video for Guilty All the Same, we worked with Microsoft’s Project Spark. They have this new community-slash-technology that allows people to make and remix their own games in a social way. You’ve also been involved with video games: as well as recording a song for Call Of Duty, in 2010 you created your own multiplayer smartphone app game called 8-Bit Rebellion. Are you gamers?df: We have a history of video games extending back to like when we were six years old. ms: Were you ever, like, super jealous that you had a friend that had a ColecoVision, or whatever?df: Yeah! Baseball on Intellivision was better than baseball on the Atari 2600.ms: Totally! I had a cousin that had an Intellivision, and I couldn’t have been a bigger pest to my parents about getting

The band that still rocks: Linkin Park’s Carnivores Tour takes in huge arenas and stadia across the US, with Thirty Seconds to Mars and AFI supporting

you heard that, too, because at different points in the process for me, part of the way you think about what you’re hearing is, ‘Would it be fun to play live?’ During the research for this interview, we learned that Hybrid Theory came out on cassette, which speaks volumes about how long you’ve been around.ms: I was surprised to find out that a lot of our albums are still released on cassette. Certain territories, particularly Asia, love the cassette.df: Particularly Nashville.ms: Particularly truck stops and Cracker Barrel restaurants. They love cassette. But yeah, I’ll do you one better than that. Back when we were starting out and playing clubs in LA, we started a mailing list for people to sign up to if they were interested in more info from the band, and more often than not they would sign up with their snail mail home address because people didn’t have email yet.df: Those were the days. When we started touring, I didn’t even have a cell phone. That was crazy. ms: And neither did our crew! When we first started hiring crew, cell phones were new and people would still check in with

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Being the best Brazil player of your generation comes with a large weight of expectation, but Neymar seems to be taking it all in his stride

Neymar is the latest iN a loNg liNe of superstar braziliaN footballers.

the 22-year-old playmaker is uNder No illusioN about what is expected of him

this summer: play well aNd help his team wiN the world cup oN home soil for the first time. No pressure theN

I n t e r v I e w : S I m o n K u p e r , p h o t o g r a p h y : D a v I D C l e r I h e w , p r o D u C t I o n : J o S e f S I e g l e

a painfully thin little chap walks into our meeting place, an old industrial loft converted into a studio in a quiet corner of Barcelona. This is Neymar: the first great Brazilian footballer to emerge in over a decade, hero of teenage girls and middle-aged men, and the forward who, aged just 22, is charged with delivering his country its sixth World Cup this year.

Neymar greets us with that magical smile – which you sense he uses as a weapon to charm and ward off the world. Then he walks into the dressing-room, and we are granted a sight for which some would kill: the shirt comes off. Beneath the tattoos, he still looks slight, not like the typical muscle-pack footballers of today. But then he has only been in playing in Europe, with FC Barcelona, for a year.

The camera loves Neymar. He isn’t beautiful, like David Beckham, but his smile is, and he has ‘ginga’ – that peculiarly Brazilian rhythmic, jaunty way of moving, almost like dancing. Finally he sits down – shoulders hunched defensively, but still with that smile – and talks for an hour in his informal, colloquial Portuguese about what it’s like to be Neymar.

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the red bulletin: How do you deal with the pressure of the whole country asking you to win the World Cup?neymar: It’s been a dream since I was young, and today it’s right before me: I’m Brazil’s number 10, I’m going to play the World Cup, in my own country. I can’t see that as pressure. It has to give me pride and happiness to take onto the pitch. Everyone says winning the World Cup is an indescribable joy, so I’m dying to feel that myself. I can’t wait to shout “We’re champions!” They say, “You’re under pressure, being the big name in the squad.” I’m not under pressure, I’m happy. I’ve always done things my way. I’ve had press with me since I was 13, saying I’d be the new Robinho. I’m someone who doesn’t really worry. If you don’t tell me that I’m Neymar and that I play for Barcelona and Brazil, I’ll forget it. People imagine me as they see me on television, but I’m completely different because I don’t feel pressure about anything.What are your memories of Brazil’s last victory in the World Cup, in 2002?I was 10, so I understood football. I woke up before dawn to watch the final at home. I even had Ronaldo’s haircut. I watched with my parents and sister, everyone together. Then we went to my granny’s house, we had a barbecue, everyone shouting “We’re Champions!” like real fans. The World Cup has always been my goal in life. It’s funny that today it’s nearly come true.How was your childhood? Tough. We didn’t have much money, but I never went hungry, my Dad always provided. I don’t think I was ever unhappy, even if I didn’t have what my friends had, as they had more money. There’s a story I told my mum: that when I became rich, I’d buy a cookie factory so I could eat cookies whenever I wanted. So there were all these funny things I remember. I never complained or asked, “God, why am I poor?” I always fought for everything, all my family was like that. I always went to school; I wasn’t the kid who always paid attention, but I obeyed my parents. My dad was a footballer, and knows the footballer’s path. He always knew what was going to happen, and maybe I don’t go through the same difficulties he did.Did your childhood inspire you to start the Neymar Jr Institute, which uses sport to help needy young people?The institute was founded in Praia Grande, 50m from where I lived. The point was to inform parents, to help

them teach their kids that they can make their dreams come true, if they fight and work for them. I think you can make any dream come true. Your gift is dribbling. Did you copy feints from other players?I followed Robinho closely because when I went to Santos, he was the star there. He’s my idol, and he dribbled a lot. And I’d watch Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo; any skilful player you can think of, I’ve seen videos of them. In kickabouts or training, I’d try and do the same. When it was game time it would come naturally. All dribbles where you’re trying something different, it’s about practising them. I don’t have a trick that I’ve invented yet. I have normal dribbles like using your body to trick the opponent, or the step-over, which I train and use a lot. I’ve used Zidane’s roulette. I’ve copied a lot.Has dancing helped develop your football?I think every Brazilian likes to dance a little. Put on some music that gets you in the mood, and a Brazilian might be sitting down, but he’ll always dance a little. I come from a family that loves samba and pagode. I think I have a little Brazilian ginga, something in the hips. I love to mess around with friends, to dance. It even got into my goal celebrations at Santos: that‘s how we’d have fun, scoring and doing dances in tribute to a singer friend or to the song. Your football looks joyful. Do you still feel joy

playing or is it more a job now?It’s fun that has to be managed. You must be serious with it. But I’m always happy when I play. When you’re happy, things naturally work out; when you’re sad, things never work out. In 2010, you quarrelled on the field with Santos’s coach after he stopped you taking a penalty. Did that change you?It was one of the worst moments of my life because I knew I was wrong. After the match I apologised to the coach. But what shook me most was arriving home and finding my mum crying. She said she’d watched it on TV and that wasn’t the son she had raised. I cried all night, I didn’t sleep. It made me grow into a man. I think that was my worst moment in football because it involved the whole family. My dad was ill then, in bed, and my mum said he’d always fought for me.How do you look back on your first season at Barcelona?It wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t bad. It’s my first time living outside my country.

the world cup has always been my goal in life. it’s funny that today it’s nearly come true”

Full nameNeymar da Silva Santos Júnior

BornFebruary 5, 1992, Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil

Pelé who?Neymar is the only Brazilian athlete to ever grace the cover of Time magazine.

Team talkThere’s a good chance Neymar will come up against some Barça teammates at the World Cup. “We joke, saying, ‘We’re going to win it,’” he reveals. “I’ve joked with Messi and said, “This one is Brazil’s, and I’ve told Iniesta and Pique, ‘You’ve already won one, let us win this one.’”

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“My style? I can’t explain it, but you guys

who watch me know how I am. I’m chilled”

‘We’re all monkeys’ means we’re all the same, whether you’re white, yellow, rich or poor”

I miss my friends and family. It was hard at first. I’ve learned a lot, professionally, but also in my personal life. I study my teammates, what they talk about, how they act with other people. I take a little from many players and adapt it to my style. Some people are good on the pitch, others off it, some show good behaviour in training. I pick attributes from each one.What’s surprised you about Lionel Messi, seeing him every day here?He surprised me in every way. Before coming here, I heard all the horrible things people say: that he’s very reserved and doesn’t talk to anyone. Now I see it completely differently. Aside from being the genius, off the pitch he’s always great with me – not just me, but when I see him with other people too. There’s nothing bad I can say about him. What prompted your banana campaign, #somostodomacacos (“we’re all monkeys”), on social media against racism? The picture of you and your son with bananas went viral.The motivation is that I suffered racism in other matches. I think racism is practised by people without brains. I talked to my dad and people working for us, and the campaign was all practically ready. Then when this incident happened with Daniel [Alves, his Barcelona teammate who ate a banana thrown at him on the pitch], I thought it was the moment to launch this campaign. It was a joke: “we’re all monkeys” means we’re all the same, whether you’re white, yellow, rich or poor.You’re close to fans via social media, but they ask a lot of you. Does that bother you?It doesn’t as such. What bothers me is when they get into my personal life. I understand that fans love knowing everything, but my personal life is when I’m the same as anyone else’s. It was a little difficult to get used to at first when I was quite shy, but nowadays I’m used to it. I’ve always been the way I am, speaking to everyone, playing around. I’ve never changed and never improved.Diego Maradona used to long for the days before fame. Do you ever feel that?No… I get what he means. It’s difficult for me to do what a normal person does. For example, I can’t take my son to the beach in Santos. It’ll get crowded, people will take photos. In the street, a Brazilian will spot you a mile away. He’ll run over shouting, “Neymar!” Here in Barcelona, they’re more like, “Neymar, could I have a photo with you?” They’re more relaxed. You do miss taking your child to the fair or beach. I think that’s what he meant. But I don’t complain about it because this is something I asked of God. I always told Him I wanted to be

a footballer, to be famous, to give my family everything they want. I have to enjoy even the annoying parts. I always find a way to have fun, whether it’s going clubbing, to the beach, the cinema. There’s always someone who recognises you, and I will face them. If I have to talk to 50 people, I will. The moment I step onto the street, I have to remember I’m the Neymar everyone knows. But at home, I’m the Neymar the family knows. I’m not even Neymar, I’m ‘Juninho’ – I’m someone else. At home, you do things that people aren’t allowed to see! Let’s talk about Brazil’s team, the Seleçâo. Firstly, who chooses the dressing-room music? Anyone can choose a song. People like pagode, funk, sertanejo. I always go to the stadium wearing headphones, listening to gospel music. Then, to get in the mood, we put a pagode on the hi-fi so everyone can listen. We’re all close, we joke around, egos are left at the door. We only have one goal. Since we all help each other, we’ll very likely achieve it.Brazil’s coach, Felipe Scolari, won the 2002 World Cup. What does he tell you about that? He talks a lot about it. He says the World Cup is the toughest tournament. There’s no room for error, you must be at full speed from the get-go. It’s a short tournament where your margin of error is much smaller than in other matches. And he talks about the pleasure of winning, how good it feels. He’s certainly going to help us win another one.During last year’s Confederations Cup, Brazilians protested against corruption, poor public services and the cost of stadia. A banner at one of the protests said, ‘A teacher is worth more than Neymar’. What’s your response?I think the teacher‘s salaries have to be valued like all the professions. Even us football players because only five per cent receive more than the others. I agree that all us need to fight for better salary, better days and a great world with education, health and security. The value must exist in all areas.Should Brazilians protest again at the World Cup?I think we’ve already had the protests we needed, but I’m always for the protests. If it’s without violence, I don’t see any problem in people wanting to fight for a better country. I’m with the people. Now that the World Cup is happening, I think we have to enjoy it. We have this opportunity to show the world that we’re a country that can host any event, that can welcome any kind of person, everything that’s good about Brazil, not only the bad things. Will Brazil win the World Cup?It’s what I want more than anything. neymaroficial.com

We’re all close, We joke around,

egos are left at the door. We only have one goal. since We all help each

other, We’ll very likely achieve it”

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On a break from his band, a hotly-tipped Aucklander accidentally invented a new musical genre and made his live debut alongside Lorde

Words: Sam Wicks Photography: David K Shields

high hoops

Rebooted to suit

like we had a whole plan in place; we just had to go for it while the iron was hot.”

After the release of their sophomore effort, Modern Love, in 2012, Kids of 88 went their separate ways, with McCarthy leaving New Zealand to pursue his pop ambitions in Los Angeles. Arts held the fort in Royal Oak, where he developed a sound that had begun to take shape during the Modern Love sessions. It was here, in the wee smalls, that his solo project, High Hoops (which you might also see written as HIGH HØØPS), got its start. A sonic palette cleanser after Kids of 88’s restless electro-pop.

As the trade magazine of the US music industry, Billboard knows a thing or two about music’s shifting tastes. In February this year, it published a list of 10 New Zealand acts that could take what they termed to be a “Lorde-like leap” to the top of the charts. Among the contenders, with the likes of The Naked and Famous and David Dallas, was Broods, the brother-sister combo of Georgia and Caleb Nott, who drew up their icy alt-pop blueprint with Lorde collaborator Joel Little.

When Broods travelled through the States on a promotional tour, riding shotgun was local pop veteran Jordan Arts, whose synth-pop outfit Kids of 88 also made Billboard’s ones-to-watch list, despite being on hiatus. Arts joined the Broods junket as a videographer, documenting their adventures through Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, a run he was familiar with courtesy of his time with Kids in America.

“That trip definitely felt familiar from those days,” says Arts, 26, posted up at Red Bull Studio Auckland, a few days after returning from America. “Broods are in a pretty big hurricane. There’s a real buzz around New Zealand music over there, because of the Lorde thing. You really get the sense that the foot is in the door for us to showcase a few things, so it’s a pretty exciting time.”

Kids of 88 was a partnership between Arts and schoolmate Sam McCarthy, with McCarthy playing the role of frontman and studio boffin Arts refining their sugar rush tunes from the comfort of his studio in Auckland’s Royal Oak. The Kids’ rise to the top of the pops was a rapid one and, by Arts’ reckoning, came out of left field.

“It was a pleasant surprise, like a positive mistake,” he admits. “It wasn’t

Most of these tracks remained unfinished, and it wasn’t until Arts got an email from a local booking agent, inviting him to support Lorde at her first-ever public performance at intimate Auckland venue Galatos, that the pressure to complete his new material was on.

“I’d never performed live as High Hoops, so I had to turn down the offer. Then I made a coffee and thought about it, and I was like, ‘F––k it, this is it. I’m going to have to make a set from scratch and open for her’.”

Since that notable concert in May 2013, both artists are operating on different tiers of the future-pop world. Ella Yelich-O’Connor is a Billboard chart-topping, two-time Grammy winner. Arts’ victories are smaller than his compatriot’s, but they’re no less perfectly formed. He’s now a Red Bull Sound Select alumnus, who graced the Thunderdome stage at this year’s Laneway festival, and there are about 150 of his dreambop tracks in the can, a handful of which are poised to be released on his debut EP, due later this year.

Thinking back to his co-debut with Lorde, Arts laughs when he considers the baptism of fire that saw two acts perform live for the first time on the same stage on the same night.

“I was nervous as hell, but she was nervous too,” he admits. “We were sort of in it together. We talked about that backstage, and it made me feel quite old because I remembered how young Ella is. We just had a quiet yarn and I said, ‘Don’t worry, you’ll be sweet by the second verse.’”soundcloud.com/highhoops

“I’d go home after a full writing day with Kids of 88 and I’d have this different outlet that meant I didn’t have to think so much in a pop format,” says Arts. “I’d find myself up at three in the morning, writing downbeat disco tunes, half-paced with a single hook over the top. The vibe was kind of an escape, like retreating from everyday life.”

Arts coined the word “dreambop” to provide a steer on his warm, reverb-drenched house flavours, and it’s also a useful genre tag for the lo-fi disco tracks he was fine-tuning at the same time. With no deadlines looming, ideas for High Hoops were formed and realised in their own sweet time.

“I thought, ‘This is it. I’m going to

have to make a set from scratch and open for Lorde’”

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The line-upJordan Arts – vocals, production

DiscographyHigh Hoops untitled EP, due late 2014 Kids Of 88 Modern Love – album , 2012 Sugarpills EP – 2011 Sugarpills – album, 2010

Pop lifeArts’ outfit Kids of 88 was a big hit with uber-blogger Perez Hilton, who featured the duo in his One Night In... concert at SXSW 2011.

Video starBy day, Arts is a videographer at music discovery site theaudience.co.nz, a job which has led him to several musical collaborations.

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The Kiwi freeskier who almost quit three years ago is now a bona-fide global star of the sport

Words: Robert Tighe

sam smoothy

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filmed a few ski movies and picked up some sponsors. I was 20 when I realised I was a reasonable skier and decided to head overseas to see where it might lead.How did you measure up against the best back then?I was very hit-and-miss early on in my career, trying to ski at a level that was higher than I could consistently achieve and for a few years I had a history of crashing in the big competitions.So you’ve had your share of injuries?I’ve broken both my ankles twice. I broke

Cleaning up after a Paris Hilton party at the Cannes Film Festival was not what sam smoothy envisioned when he left new Zealand to chase fame and fortune as a professional freeskier. It was the european summer of 2009 and smoothy was working on a superyacht to pay off the nZ$20,000 debt he’d racked up the previous winter. “I was completely broke,” says the 27-year-old from Dunedin. “I was sleeping on a beach and I had to ring my parents to ask them to pay for a flight home. That was one of the lowlights in what’s been a long, hard slog.”

Fast-forward five years and smoothy is firmly established as one of the most consistent skiers on the Freeride World Tour. an untimely crash in the final round of his breakthrough season in 2012 spoiled his chances of winning the overall title, but he bounced back in 2014 to finish second behind French rookie sensation Loic Collomb-Patton.

the red bulletin: Do you come from a skiing family?sam smoothy: My mum was skiing the day I was born. she came down the mountain, went to a party and then drove to the hospital to have me. six weeks later, my parents went skiing and took me up the mountain in a backpack.When did you get serious about competitive skiing?I started racing downhill when I was 15. It didn’t do it for me though and I switched to freeskiing a couple of years later. after I left school, I worked as a ski instructor in america for a while, but I kept losing children. That’s not a good look for a ski instructor. I came home to new Zealand and worked odd jobs,

and went from almost quitting to being ranked number one in the world. after that, I started making some money and was able to call myself a professional skier. That year changed my life. Have you ever feared for your life on the slopes?one horror experience. I was skiing in Verbier, switzerland, four years ago and I looked up the mountain to see this wall of white coming towards me. The avalanche ripped me off the mountain and I was carried for a couple of hundred metres. I managed to cling on to a rocky outcrop about 10m short of where the avalanche filled a series of gullies 10-15m deep. That was a close call.How was the 2014 season for you?It started with me having my appendix out a few days before the first round of the Freeride World Tour in Italy. Then three events were hit by avalanches, and before the final round, I landed on a rock and thought I had fractured my back. The CT scan cleared me of a broken back, but I found out I’ve got scheuermann’s disease, which means my back has aged much quicker than the rest of my body. Hopefully it won’t affect me too much until later in life. What drives you to do what you do?There are a lot of reasons. I get so much out of being in nature. We spend a lot of time climbing mountains and you really get to appreciate how beautiful they are. Then you get to ski down the mountains and test the limits of your abilities. When you reach the bottom safely, you’re glowing. You’ve done something that would kill most people and you’ve nailed it. It’s just an incredible feeling. facebook.com/sam.smoothy1

my left ankle on my 13th birthday playing volleyball and I’ve also broken them playing basketball, skating and skiing. I’ve fractured my coccyx, torn ligaments in my knee and damaged my meniscus a few times. The worst injury was a fractured tibia in 2010. It was painful to ski for over a year and jumping off cliffs wasn’t the best thing for it. Did you ever consider quitting?There have been a few times when I’ve thought, ‘Maybe it’s time to try something else.’ Then, in 2012, I got a wildcard entry to the Freeride World Tour, won my first major competition

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One better next year: Sam Smoothy came second in the 2014 Freeride World Tour

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skateboarder-turned-PHotoGraPHer arto saari was on tHe front line as His sPort burst into tHe mainstream. Here, He tells stories of tHe sHots tHat HelPed define skatinG words: ann donaHue

Says Arto Saari: “Louie Lopez blasting

a very stylish frontside ollie over the hip in my pool”

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Facing page: “This is a rad DIY spot constructed by Pontus Alv

in Malmo, Sweden. Here, Pontus and Oski Rosenberg

are double trouble”

“This invert nose grab by Willis Kimbel at Washington

Street skatepark in San Diego, USA, was one of the best

things I’d seen in a while”

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“Scott Oster is epic. I have been lucky to be able to witness some of the manoeuvres he has executed with style and grace in my pit of concrete. Here is a photo of a perfect slash”

Facing page: (clockwise from top left) skaters Jay Adams, Heath Kirchart, Steve Olson, and Willis Kimbel

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Above: “I had an eerie feeling when I was shooting this, but after seeing Curren Caples perform this manoeuvre like it was child’s play I figured my worries were pointless. This is Curren doing a boneless under one of the freeways in Melbourne, Australia.” Below: “Andrew Reynolds doing a stylish frontside flip”

Above: “Curren Caples executing a very stylish kickflip in Malmo, Sweden.” Below: “My dog, Banger, and freshly blasted concrete in my garden”

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“Ryan Sheckler, here in Sydney, Australia, has an incredible amount of talent and skill on a skateboard, with strength and style and absolute passion”

Key to taking great skate shots, says the Finnish photographer, a house with a drained pool in the garden. Saari captures his friends from the skating world in their most unguarded, yet still triumphant, moments. One of his favourites in this collection is the opening image of 19-year-old Louie Lopez. “Louie is one of the best up-and-coming skateboarders. He is where style and skill come together in extraordinary fashion.”

Facing page: “I call these ‘Pooltown 1 and 2’. These two collages are the result of four years of skating and

shooting different pools with my friends. This, to me, represents the

very essence of skateboarding: fun”

Above: “This is a photo of my friend Kynan Tait on an excursion to the

Arctic Circle, through North America, on his bike. One of the raddest trips

I’ve ever been on and one of the best photos I’ve ever shot”

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coping,” says Matias, describing the black protective pieces on the rims of skatepark features to ease grinding. “It’s all chunked up and the thing I skate the most is the kerb ledge – it’s just so much fun. I can’t skate hubbas [a stair feature] or handrails yet, that’s scary.”

Matias and Ron’s plans are interrupted by the appearance of a black van with tinted windows that bumps down the adjacent street. Riding along outside on a skateboard, hanging onto the open passenger-side window and laughing, is a lanky tattooed skater who could care less about rolling alongside a two-tonne vehicle that could squash him with one rash move of the steering wheel.

The van turns into the car park and the skater breaks away. He rides up to the side of the skatepark, excited and beaming. He doesn’t hesitate before he drops in to the park, and judging by the tattoos, the devil-may-care attitude and the brash agility, it’s obvious that this skater is Ryan Sheckler.

“Uh oh,” says Matias. “Now I’m going to fangirl.”

At 24, Sheckler has been a professional skater for almost half his life, a prodigy who has grown with the sport to become the world-famous young face of street skateboarding. At 18 months old, Sheckler took his first ride on a skateboard; by the time he was four years old, he was sleeping in his helmet every night. He turned pro when he was 13, and even before then, sponsors were clamouring to sign him. Besides Red Bull, he includes Plan B Skateboards and Etnies, a long-time sponsor of more than 15 years – as long-term business partners.

Sheckler epitomises the current state of affairs in skateboarding. Not only does a professional skateboarder have to be a hell of an athlete, but now thanks to the omnipresence of social media, he has to know how to market himself with the same kind of force and flexibility that he shows in the skatepark. This means skateboarders travelling the world to shoot videos and distributing them online, keeping up with sponsor obligations and charitable events that are catalogued in real time on the internet. This is on top of the actual work of competing in events ranging from the X Games to the Dew Tour to Street League.

“As an amateur skater, when you’re just skating for fun, you don’t have to go on trips, you don’t have to go to autograph signings or photoshoots or promote a company,” says Sheckler. “But the second you sign that contract, you have to agree that the whole time you’re going to give

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On a crisp spring morning near Seattle – too hot with a jacket on, too cold without one – the Miguel brothers are planning their next trick amid the towering pines on the banks of Puget Sound.

Matias, 17, and Ron, 18, are assessing the new skatepark built on the land they call home, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Reservation. Technically, it opens tomorrow, but they have appointed themselves unofficial protectors – and test riders – of the skatepark behind the chain-link fence.

It’s a thing of beauty, with fresh, still-slick concrete, spray-painted with the art and slogans of the S’Klallam tribe. It hits the sweet spot between being adventurous enough for experienced skaters and not too intimidating for first-timers. Most importantly, it’s new.

“There’s a skatepark not too far from here and the ledges there don’t even have

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everything you have to these companies. People don’t really want to put in the extra work, but you have to.”

his is a far cry from the days when skateboarding had two essential rules: 1) Don’t be afraid to climb fences to access a prime skate spot and 2) Ignore the resulting signs that instructed people to refrain from climbing fences to access a prime skate spot.

Now communities routinely include skateparks as a point of civic pride. The Port Gamble S’Klallam tribe’s skatepark took two years to build and was funded in conjunction with Sheckler’s charitable foundation. It’s one of many examples of new facilities, and there are now more than 3,000 skateparks listed in the USA section of the Concrete Disciples website, an essential resource for skaters of all levels with an exhaustive directory of skateparks all over the world.

With those new skateparks come more skaters. There are around 6.2 million of them in America alone, according to a 2013 Skateboarding Participation Report from the London-based Sports And Fitness Industry Association.

But what really tells the tale behind the state of skateboarding is not the number of participants, but the household income level of skateboarders.

Of the US skaters who fall into the ‘casual’ bracket – those who get on the deck less than 25 times a year – more than 26 per cent report having a household income of more than NZ$100,000 a year. This means there are many families with a substantial annual income that include skateboarding as one of their once-in-a-while hobbies. It’s helped spawn a big-money industry. According to the Retail Distribution Study commissioned by the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association – which also tracks skate spending – in 2012, skate-specific retailers generated US$713 million (NZ$825m) in revenue.

All of this equates to tons of sponsorship opportunities for professional skateboarders, with many companies looking for fresh faces to promote their wares – and they know that covering the day-to-day of athletes’ lives via social media is an easy way to reach casual fans.

The immediacy of sponsors adds pressures that the previous generation of professional skaters didn’t have before. For Sheckler, there were times when one slip-up during competition would send

him into a spiral of doubt. It wasn’t just a bad day – it was his livelihood at stake. “I used to really freak out if I had a bad contest, like, ‘Ugh, my sponsors are going to drop me, I’m not the same, I’m not relevant to them any more,’” he recalls. “My dad really calmed me down on that one. He’s like ‘They still love you. With everything else you do? You can have one bad contest or two bad contests; that’s not life changing. That’s not the decider.’”

The market dynamics are the same for up-and-coming skaters. David Reyes, 24, feels like he’s on the brink of something big in his skateboarding career. He’s got sponsorship deals with Etnies and Mystery Skateboards, and he’s been filming video spots for online distribution non-stop since December to get his name out there, attract more sponsors and build up his fan base. “This year, I’m hustling,” he says. “I’m pushing for bigger and better things.”

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Watch the new season of Sheckler Sessions atyoutube.com/redbull

business acumen. “They get played,” Reyes says. “People are like, ‘Oh, we don’t have to pay this dude much… He just wants to skate and is hoping that whoever is watching will appreciate it and give him what he deserves.’ It’s not like that.”

It can be a ruthless business, he says, given that skateboarding starts weeding out potential professionals from the masses while they’re still teenagers. Reyes started skating when he was nine, and at 15 he moved from Colorado to Oceanside, California with $50 in his pocket. He couch-surfed with accommodating families – including the Shecklers – as he skated 12-hour days trying to impress the managers of skate companies. He was smart – he realised immediately that grinding on a skatepark wasn’t enough.

“One of the reasons a particular skate company was making changes [in their sponsored athlete roster] and kicking people off was that they weren’t getting 12 photos of themselves [published] in a year,” explains Reyes. “So I’ve always had to get at least 12 photos a year – I would make sure I got an interview, or put out a video. You have to be vocal and you have to let them know what you’re doing and when it’s coming out and tell them what you feel like you deserve. You have to know the business side, as well as the skating side of things.”

Brian Atlas, president of Street League Skateboarding, a competitive series and promotion company launched by pro

heckler and Reyes give the crowd a show at the S’Klallam skatepark, soaring over the edge of a bowl and landing flawlessly. There’s no indication of weariness from Sheckler – amazing, really, given that he’s been in the spotlight the entire time he’s been on the reservation, with constant requests for autographs, hugs, and pictures.

“Even today, waking up, all I wanted to do was skate that park,” he says. “Especially a fresh, new park like this. It’s something we all look forward to.”

On top of the dogged attention, this trip to Seattle is the latest leg of a relentless two months of travelling around and filming his YouTube show, Sheckler Sessions, as well as other video parts to distribute on the internet: he’s gone from Estonia to Australia to Mexico to Barcelona to Seattle.

“My passion for skateboarding has, if anything, grown just from being able to travel the way I travel and meeting the people who I get to meet and helping the people I really want to help,” says Sheckler. He knows that this is the life of a serious skateboarder: hitting the road for filming, for sponsors, for competition.

And thanks to his example, all the young skaters now know it, too.

This summer, Matias Miguel will be a youth skate-camp instructor at the S’Klallam’s new skatepark, helping elementary-school-age children master the basics of the sport during a three-week programme. His brother Ron has duties, too, capturing Matias’s burgeoning variety of tricks on his Sony NEX 5N camera.

“Matias came to me and said that he was tired of iPhone clips and still shots,” Ron says. “So I saved up for a camera, did my homework, bought the Sony – and became one of his dedicated cameramen.”

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skateboarder Rob Dyrdek in 2010, believes that while there is still a place for the low-key skaters who prefer not to promote their brand via social media, it’s becoming the only way to go for those who want to maximize their career. “Social media is a game changer for skaters who want to take advantage of it,” says Atlas. “You can become well-known without being pro or maintain a strong following by just putting out content that fans relate to and are inspired by.”

It’s an even tougher road for women professional skateboarders. Before she suffered a career-ending tear of her anterior cruciate ligament in 2010, Lauren Perkins was one of the stars of the women’s professional scene. She took podiums at the X Games and Gravity Games and was champion at the All Girls Street Jam.

“When I started out, women’s skateboarding was at a high point. We had contests every other weekend, all over the world,” says Perkins. “And then about five years into it, the economy went to crap. A lot of contests fell off the map, and then sponsors didn’t have the budget to pay a lot of girls.”

But as more girls take up skating, the dynamic may be changing. Where the consumer market goes – with its alluring dollars – the industry will follow. “I used to go to the skatepark, and I was the only girl, always,” says Perkins. “I go now, and there’s at least one girl. And the girls are doing a lot harder tricks. It’s growing.”

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“it’s not a passive experience,” says John Lewis. “Both cockpits have full flight controls, and we don’t carry passengers. to be in the sub, you need to learn to operate the sub. the actual flying is easy. Anyone

who’s played video games figures out the joystick and rudder pedals pretty quickly.”

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the Super aviator is less a submarine more an underwater plane. Where other mini-subs can be slow and cumbersome, the Super aviator is sleek and manoeuvrable, able to stop and hover, do banking turns and keep up with marine mammals that swim alongside. it’s seat-of-the-pants stuff. it was developed by Sub aviator Systems as a prototype for their orca sub, which is now available to anyone with a couple of million to spare. For lesser mortals, the company’s co-founder and managing director, John lewis, will be your co-pilot on the Super aviator during free time on the film and scientific projects for which it’s used. “the max speed for the Super aviator is six knots,” says lewis. “all conventional bubble subs max out at three knots. that’s fine if you’re near a reef, but if there’s any current you can’t deploy them. the Super aviator can operate perfectly in a current, so there’s a wealth of new places you can go.” John englander from Florida went down in the sub off hawaii. “as an oceanographer, i’ve spent thousands of hours in Scuba gear,” he says. “i’ve also been in a sub before, but being in the Super aviator was a new, exhilarating experience. it moves at far higher speeds than other subs or divers. it’s a great feeling and you’re not encumbered by

equipment. it feels weird to be in a dry, comfortable environment and have an amazing view of the underwater world. it’s right there. it feels like there’s nothing between you and the water.”

deep impact: speed past sharks and turtles in the world’s fastest bubble sub

think outside the cockpit“Everybody’s seen Das Boot and thinks being in a sub is going to be a claustrophobic experience,” says John englander. “But once the water comes down over the top of the super Aviator, the dome disappears, it’s optically perfect, so you don’t get any sort of distortion. it’s like flying in an open biplane.”

super Aviator experiences in hawaii start from us$3,350 for a day. incredible-adventures.com

row outfor hawaiian

adventure on top of the water, try a hardcore 16-mile kayak trip along the remote and

stunning na Pali coast, battling

strong seas and aching biceps.hawaiiactive.com

heAt uPhike to the

Kilauea volcano, which has been

continuously erupting since 1983, and get within feet of Pahoehoe, as

the molten lava flows are known.

kalapanalavaboat.com

tAKe inwe don’t expect you to take on Jaws, hawaii’s

colossal surf break, but a beer on the beach watching

world-class surfers do it is the next

best thing.gohawaii.com

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M A C H I N ERICKIE FOWLER

USES COBRA CLUBS AND GEAR.

HERE’S WHY

When Rickie Fowler turned pro, aged 20, it wasn’t just his golfing prowess that made him stand out. His colourful attire has, along with his ability to hit the greens, become something of a trademark. The Californian, who won the 2010 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Award and tied fifth at this year’s Masters,

worked with Puma on a new range of golf shoes, which of course is available in fabulous Fowler shades. “The levels of flexibility, lateral support and comfort are perfect,’ says the 25-year-old. “The Bio fusion is the best shoe I’ve ever worn and it provides ideal support on my swing.”rickiefowler.com

oranges and greens G o L F R I C K I E F o W L E R B R I N G S C o L o U R T o T H E FA I R WAY S , B U T H I S N E W S H o E S A R E M U C H M o R E T H A N J U S T A FA S H I o N S TAT E M E N T

Major factor: Rickie Fowler is a good outside bet for the US Open at Pinehurst on

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All tied upA lacing system separate from the upper helps to support your foot more correctly

Sticking pointPuma’s Swing Speed Quill spikes system is a hit with those who favour stability

Sole aimsGrooves here

aid flexibility, ensuring that the shoe moves only

when it should

Light fantasticThey’re tough,

durable and moisture-wicking

and each shoe weighs just 366g

BIO CELL IRONThere’s tungsten in the club heads:

of the long and mid-length irons, for forgiveness, and in the short

ones, to aid control.

BIO CELL PRO DRIVER

Eight different loft settings, which adjust the club

head angle, mean you can fine-tune

the trajectory of the ball.

BIO STAFF BAG In which Rickie Fowler’s caddy, Joe Skovron,

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Fuxing Park2 gaolan road

“this French-style park reminds me of my youth. the greatest charm about it is its diversity: you meet all kinds of people there, from lovestruck youngsters to grandmothers doing tai-Chi.”

40 Bars on one streetYongkang road

“a typical shanghai street, with boozing expats and calm locals. i used to live here, and i chose my neighbour, a chic old lady, for the leading role in one of my films.”

shanshan steamed dumPlings

774 xianxia road“a simple, hole-in-the-wall street restaurant. i always have breakfast here. the steamed dumplings are so much better than everywhere else. and the prices are hard to beat.”

riverside mansion400 north suzhou road

“this is my favourite old Colonial building in town. it lies next to the

suzhou river and is composed of British art deco style with a marvellous labyrinthine interior. there is a boutique hotel called Chai apartments inside, the rooms have a fantastic view.”

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“What’s special about shanghai? it’s a metropolis showing how modern and ancient chinese society is,” says cheng Liang, an up-and-coming director with a passion for bringing shanghainese culture to the screen. his silent short movie City Of Black And White has been viewed more than two million times on chinese websites and he’s touting his next project, an adaptation of Lu Wenfu’s novel Gourmet, at the cannes film festival. “as a former colonial city, shanghai has always had a diverse atmosphere,” he says, “and Western and chinese culture have merged into a unique shanghainese trait: pragmatic yet hedonistic.” Join cheng on a tour of his top hometown haunts, then watch City Of Black And White online: bit.ly/1rYhkjZ

director and filmmaker Cheng liang

T O p F i v eCheng’s shanghai sights

Wanshang FloWer & Bird market

417 south xizang road“this is an eye-opener. i have visited a lot of flower and bird markets in China, but this one is the biggest and best. You can also watch crickets fight and fish for goldfish with scoops.”

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Big e entertainment

a one-stop fun palace of bars,

laser tag and one of the city’s few

mini-golf courses – all done in a

glow-in-the-dark theme park.

bigecn.com

disC kartinga sizeable indoor

racing track with a fully equipped bar. Probably the only

place where a blind eye is turned

to driving under the influence.

kartingchina.com

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Want the thrill of skydiving, but without a

parachute? Feel the uprush as you hover in the only

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Opteka Bp-sc4000slimline solar-

powered charger. eight hours in the

sun will give it enough juice to

fully charge your phone or camera.

opteka.com

Yelpiethe mobile safe for those small

items of value. a 90-decibel alarm is activated if you

move it without entering a code.

yelpie.co.za

1“When i was five, i used to listen almost exclusively to classical music, but somehow eurythmics fitted into

that listening environment really well. it’s thought out like a game of chess. this song is the perfect fusion of a very sterile synthetic environment and a very mannered vocal performance with a deeper range of emotions.”

4 5“this scottish band released two critically acclaimed albums in the 1980s. the first bears the title of this song

and it is a masterpiece. that song’s iciness had a large influence on my song the secret seven. there’s this beautiful silence in it, where you hear warbling synths in the background. i got that from the Blue Nile.”

2“the feel of silver apples’ drum sound was what me and my drummer rob [Gordon] wanted on my new album. it

has to do with recording with no click track, so tempos are fluctuating. listen to my song, the sky Behind the flag: rob is getting tired towards the end and suddenly gets this burst of energy and rushes ahead. that feels very human.”

“i didn’t have much time for dance music until recently. But i’m really into the brutal approach to rhythm on this chicago

house track. Green velvet takes a simple rhythm and crosses it with another one to create a unique groove. that was the goal with the sky Behind the flag, to create simple brutal rhythmic interaction. it’s easy to understand.”

3“this song features an instrument called a moodswinger, a really bizarre and rare kind of guitar thing that looks like

it was made by a child. it creates this amazing eerie atmosphere, where the sound drifts and warps in and out of focus. i’m not an electric guitarist, but hearing the sound of that song informed a lot of string writing on my record.”

Action !Music

EurythmicsLove Is A Stranger

the Blue nileA Walk Across The Rooftops

Silver ApplesProgram

Green VelvetThe Stalker

the LuyasMoodslayer

the thing’s the strings: Owen pallett

m o b i l e m i x i n gGadGet Of the mONth

mONster GO-dJthe first professional dJ mixing unit that fits in your jacket pocket. select the tracks saved on the device and arrange them in real time via the two touchscreens. it’s easy to mix and effect tracks on the mini console in the middle. hook it up to a sound system and let rip. monsterproducts.com

speakaBOOBamboo bass-boosters for an

iphone, no power source needed.

perfect for parties around the campfire.

speakaboo.co.uk

Under the influences P l ay l i s t t H E M a N W H O P l ay s V i O l i N W i t H a R C a D E F i R E t E l l s U s a B O U t t H E F i V E R E C O R D s H i D i N G i N H i s N E W s O l O a l B U M

Over the last 10 years, Owen Pallett has earned a reputation as the Paganini of pop. In 2004, he signed up to play violin for Arcade Fire and has written all the string arrangements for their music. Now, other musicians, including robbie Williams and the National, let him give their songs the symphonic once-over. But Pallett’s solo work is closest to his

own heart. his emotional and melodically complex indie pop songs sound like Brian eno accompanying the young David Bowie on a Stradivarius. In January, the 34-year-old Canadian’s score for the Spike Jonze movie Her (feat. Arcade Fire) was nominated for an Oscar and out now is his fourth album, In Conflict. these songs inspired him while he was working on it.owenpalletteternal.com

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There used to be meat hanging on the walls at Fabric. Before the club opened on the premises in 1999, the east London venue was a cold storage warehouse for the market next door. “There wasn’t a lot going on in the area, culturally. There was no scene here,” recalls club manager Cameron Leslie. “That was one of the reasons why we started our own mini-cab service, because people couldn’t get away at that time of night because taxis didn’t come to this part of town.” Clubbers loved the place: 25,000 square feet of dance space with thumping under ground sounds, from techno to dubstep, over three dancefloors. one of them is ‘bodysonic’, because 400 built-in bass transducers turn sound waves into body-shaking vibrations. DJ Magazine has twice voted Fabric the best club in the world. what does Leslie love about the venue? “a lot of people find the club’s maze-like layout confusing,” he says, “but that’s exactly what’s great about it. You often end up in a new room by chance, which means you get to discover new Djs.”

british rapper JME is a regular at Fabric

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Ultimate party mix from the one-time Madon na producer.

His smooth transition from

al so Sprach Zarathu stra to Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics still remains unsurpassed.

FOUr TETwith this mix, the master of delicate electronica helped

bring about a revival of garage.

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Heads meet hits by young

talents such as Floating Points.

DaViD rODiGaNThe 62-year-old DJ

is a musical folk hero for bringing

reggae to the masses in England in the 1970s. This is his celebration of four decades of Jamaican music.

GET brEakFaSTMarket-traders and revellers come together at beautifully restored Victorian pub The Fox And Anchor, to see the sunrise and eat fortifying

bacon and eggs.foxandanchor.com

GO FOr a rUMMaGEOnly four Tube stops to the

shops and market stalls of Brick Lane: vintage

clothes and furniture, great coffee and music to go from Rough Trade East.

visitbricklane.org

kEEP ON GOiNG!London’s leading after-

hours party is Jaded, which starts at 5am on Sundays.

Endurance dancers and early-risers party there with

tea and techno beats. jadedlondon.com

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Breitling produced a technological stroke of genius for people on the go long before the calculator had been invented. The watchmakers from Grenchen in Switzerland unveiled a wristwatch in 1941 in which they had integrated a round slide rule. On the Breitling Chronomat, you could turn the bezel, the ring around the edge of the dial, in both directions so that you could align different scales and work out values such as currency exchange rates or fuel consumption. The watch was a hit with technicians, traders and the military.

Breitling launched a prototype for pilots 11 years later, on May 2 1952. The navitimer meant pilots could work out how long they had left to fly, when they should start their descent for landing and any number of other factors relevant to navigation. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association liked the chronograph so much they made it the official AOPA watch.

Did it their wayFor a long time, and as was the case with many other luxury brands of watches, Breitling timepieces didn’t use their own watch mechanisms. instead they used those made by specialist Swiss watch manufacturer eTA, who churned out calibre clockwork. But that all changed when Breit ling decided that henceforth all its mechanisms would be designated as ‘chronometers’, meaning they would have to go through the rigorous test cycle set by the Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres (COSC). For the calibre to achieve this level of excellence, the watchmakers had to take measurements including the moment of inertia of every balance wheel and the torque of every

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Navitimer: designed to

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coil spring. Then they only matched the parts in perfect harmony with each watch. The process is so exhaustive that Breitling decided to make the mechanisms themselves, thus freeing

themselves up and making them non-dependent on other suppliers.

Secret workshopin 2004, Breitling opened an office near the airport in Geneva

to develop its B01 calibre. This was strictly hush-hush. By 2005, the mechanisms had taken shape.

And in 2006, the first dozen prototypes were put together. That same year, the calibre passed the COSC chronometer

tests. Breitling then set up a ‘Chronométrie 2’ department. The aim was to automate B01 production. The experts adapted a high-tech assembly line concept from the pharmaceuticals industry,

whereby software intertwined the analysis and manufacture of separate components. The first equipment appeared at Chronométrie 2 in 2008. in 2009, a full five years after the project began, the first 1500 B01 calibre models were produced. The mechanisms were first used in the Chronomat model. The second Breitling to enjoy the privilege was the navitimer.breitling.com

LOVE THE LOGOSThe AOPA logo on

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Chrono mat: first wristwatch with integrated slide rule (pictured: 1946 model)

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“my daily training programme is a brutal, full-body workout,” says Raphael holzdeppe, of the routine that has kept him among the world’s elite pole-vaulters for the last four years. “Because, in our sport, you use every muscle,” he explains, “you need strong legs to be fast on the run-up, a buff upper body to get yourself up on the pole, pronounced abs so you can bend your hips quickly once you’re in the air and a strong torso for stability. if you can keep your body stable and still in the air, you’ll gain more height.” to achieve all this, the 24-year-old German trains six-and-a-half hours a day, monday to Friday. “lifting weights in the gym, sprints on the track, balan ce exercises on a medicine ball and vaulting, which i do about 100 times a week.”raphael-holzdeppe.net

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Fear factor: The Evil Within

The bodies are ravaged and burnt out, as are the buildings and the upturned ambulances. A psychiatric hospital has been ransacked by someone, or something. This could be the backdrop of a dozen survival horror video games, but only The Evil Within comes from the mind by Shinji Mikami, the man who devised Resident Evil.

The first Resident Evil game, on the original PlayStation in 1996, made survival horror – exploration, puzzles, action, unsettling atmosphere and genuine shocks – a pillar of gaming and gave new life to zombies in popular culture. Without its impact and popularity, there’d be no Shaun Of The Dead, The Walking Dead, The Last Of Us and none of the reboots and remakes of the …Of The Dead film series, the original three of which, Night, Dawn and Day, were huge influences on Mikami when he made that first game. His latest will emphasise survival over action.

“Not much has changed when it comes to instilling terror in the player,” Mikami said, at the most recent Tokyo Game Show, “but… in that sense it is harder to make them afraid.” No one has worked harder than Mikami to make playing games so thrillingly scary. The Evil Within is out worldwide in the last week of August for Windows, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. theevilwithin.com

Survival is thriving T H E E V I L W I T H I N T H E faT H E r o f R es i d ent evi l I s b a c k W I T H m o r E o f T H E f r I g H T s T u f f

Now see thisDon’T play XboX, WaTch iTThe discovery of old ET game cartridges in the new Mexico desert was notable for two reasons:

unearthing the nerd treasure chest of the games themselves, and that the TV show of the dig will only be available on Xbox. like netflix and amazon, Xbox wants to disrupt traditional TV with platform-specific content. its first show, on US music festival bonnaroo, is out this month; halo and street soccer series will follow.xbox.com

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oVErkill MaFia

Shoot-em-up from the makers the huge overkill games. in a retro

world of gangsters and guns, this has

a comic-book, Sin city feel. on android and ioS.

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general with this battle simulation game, which has a tough strategy-

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its colourful, cartoony armour.

on ioS. riskylab.com

boTanicUlaadventure-puzzle cross in which you control a team of

bugs trying to save the last seed on

the tree on which they live. Tricky and beautiful.

ipad only. botanicula.net

Definite LeeyoU can bE brUcE in Ea SporTS UFcon June 17, the Ultimate Fighting championship makes its debut

as one of the Ea Sports stable of games. There is the full-on, incredibly comprehensive redo of a sport, that Ea does so well with FiFa for soccer and Tiger Woods for golf, only this time for the top level of mixed martial arts. For fighting fans of a certain vintage, that bruce lee is an unlockable character in Ea Sports UFc is reason enough itself to buy the game.easports.com

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vans authentic italian leather$129.99

vans authentic black / black$99.99

vans authentic black / white$99.99

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kustom remark 2 dlx black / tan$119.99

kustom select white denim$99.99

converse chuck taylor hi optical white$89.99

converse chuck taylor hi black / white$89.99

supra sky top black croc suede$229.99

kustom cactus boot port leather$169.99

kustom remark 2 black micro$99.99

kustom remark 2 light denim suede$1199.99

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the bag Like two bags in one, the eagle Creek Morphus 22 zips apart to morph into a pair of carry-on size bags, doubling your packing capacity. The base is a spartan roller bag with an ultra-light polycarbonate back shell, while the full-featured front gear bag can be zipped on or off to be carried as backpack or messenger bag. $455, eaglecreek.com

the bottle Some plastic water bottles can leach BPA, phthalates and other toxins into your drink. It’s not pretty or tasty, so carry one of these. Klean Kanteen makes a 100 per cent stainless-steel bottle that holds 800ml of your favourite beverage, doesn’t leach harmful toxins, and won’t hold flavours, so today’s water doesn’t taste like yesterday’s sports drink.$23, kleankanteen.com

the headphones beats studio Wireless head phones connect via Bluetooth to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, providing a range of about 10m to roam. $440, beatsbydre.com

Fly awayW h e t h e r i t ’ s a b i g - c i t y m e e t i n g o r g e t t i n g aWay f o r a q u i c k W e e k e n d, h e r e ’ s t h e r i g h t g e a r f o r W h at e v e r yo u r d e s t i n at i o n

the WatCh With a second watch dial, the tag heuer Carrera Calibre 8 gMt makes it easy to keep track of the time where you are going and back home at the same time. Like all other Tags, this one features a sapphire crystal face that is so durable and hard that only a diamond can scratch it. $4,620, tagheuer.com

the CaMera Leave the DSLR camera at home and opt for a pocket digital snapper. Camera nerds will like the 10-megapixel leica d-lux 6 – it has a f1.4 lens and can shoot in manual mode with RAW files. $980, en.leica-camera.com

the shoes It’s hard to believe Chucks have been pounding pavements around the world for knocking on 100 years. First manufactured in the 1920s in Massachusetts and worn by everyone from professional basketball players to World War II soldiers, the timeless canvas and rubber shoes are still comfy, and they’re still cool. Our favourite new Chucks are the Converse Chuck taylor all star tie-dye. $70, converse.com

the Case The Mophie space pack snaps onto your iPhone 5/5s like an external case, adding just 80 grams in weight while providing enough extra juice to double your phone’s battery life. Best of all, it also provides 16GB of extra storage space (32GB for $210), which equates to about seven hours of video or 4,500 songs.$175, mophie.com

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the headphones Wired headphones are annoying; that’s why we’re impressed with the Blueant pump Bluetooth hd sportbuds. The earpieces fit comfortably over your ear and connect via a thin cord behind your head, while Bluetooth zaps music from a range of compatible devices to your ears. $150, blueantpump.com

the watch Keeping a close eye on the tides is key to maximizing your fun and staying safe in the surf. With tide data preprogrammed for 150 beaches worldwide, the Freestyle Mariner tide makes it easy. A comfortable yet durable silicone band keeps the watch in place, while the polycarbonate case makes it water resistant to 100m. $115, freestyleusa.com

the caMeRa Most rugged, waterproof point-and-shoots are disappointing when it comes to image quality. Not so with the 16-megapixel olympus tG-850. In addition

to being shockproof, crush-proof, freezeproof, and waterproof to 10m, the wide-angle 21mm lens produces very impressive images, high-def 1080p video and has a 360-degree panoramic mode, which is perfect for capturing big views in really wild places. $290, olympus.com.au

the shoes Simple and comfortable, Vans slip-ons come in a dizzying variety of colours and patterns. Our pick is a new take on the Vans that Sean Penn wore in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. $90, vans.com

the speakeR The durable and water-resistant Logitech Ue Boom fits into the side pocket of a backpack or the water bottle cage on your bicycle, so you can bring your music anywhere. The Bluetooth-enabled speaker pairs with your smartphone, and its sound quality is much better than most portable speakers we’ve tested. $300, ultimateears.com

the BaG For off-the-beaten-track adventures, ditch the roller bag and instead pack the north Face Base camp special edition duffel Medium. It’s versatile. with backpack straps and leather haul handles, and is made of a durable PVC fabric. $205, thenorthface.com

the chaRGeR The Goal Zero sherpa 100 power pack is a weather-resistant lithium-ion rechargeable battery pack with a range of inputs and enough power to charge a MacBook Pro twice. $750, goalzero.com.au

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Fight club June 24, 25

Lap dogs

June 28, July 19

Generation Xyou might not have a trip planned to red Bull X-Fighters World tour stops in madrid and munich, but you can still be up front and centre for all the freestyle motocross action. sky sport has full live coverage of the third and fourth events of red Bull X-Fighters World tour 2014. then there’s just the championship finale in south africa on august 23; also on sky. appointment viewing. skysport.co.nz

UFC Fight Night Auckland: Te Huna vs Marquardt marks the Ultimate Fighting Championships’ New Zealand debut. ‘Long-awaited’ is the right term: the mixed martial arts series turns 21 in November. Set to go down at Vector Arena, the event will feature local fighter James Te Huna’s debut as a middleweight, up against American Nate Marquardt in a five-round main event. Vector holds a capacity crowd of 12,000: expect the downtown arena to be rammed.ufc.com

Gentlemen, start your engines: Christchurch City’s Mike Pero Motorsport Park hosts the 400kw Holden V8 Hot Laps, giving armchair enthusiasts the chance to get behind the dash of a fully modified V8 Holden, with a pro driver piloting their ride. There are three options available: a two-; three- or five-flying lap circuit, followed by a cool-down lap.nzv8hotlaps.co.nz

Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook plays her intimate and poetic folk pop at an Auckland show on the back of supporting Neil Finn in Europe. Fullbrook will debut material from her brand new album, entitled

Brightly Painted One, at the historic Crystal Palace on Mount Eden Road – the culmination of a New Zealand- wide tour through June. tinyruins.com

June 28

From the ruins

Rob Adelberg in action at the finals of the

Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour in Mexico

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IN THE PAINTIn the NBL,

the Breakers Manawatu Jets

host the Waikato Pistons at

Palmerston North’s Arena

Manawatu. The visitors are

formidable under coach and

basketball legend Pero Cameron.

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No dIsPuTEPost-hardcore

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Composure in an all-ages show at Auckland’s Ellen Melville Hall, and the next night at

Zeal in Wellington. ladispute

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21june

EAsy rIdErThe Victoria

Motorcycle Club flies the flag

for road racing. The Bridgestone

Winter series, round 3, kicks off with a kiwi road

racing contingent doing battle on

Fielding’s 4.5km Manfeild circuit.

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on June 24 and 25, 1964, John, Paul, george and ringo unleashed Beatlemania on auckland, with four roof-raising sets at the town Hall. to mark the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four’s legendary shows, local songsmiths, including tim Finn, sJd, debbie Harwood and eddie rayner, will tread the municipal headquarters’ boards for A Strange Day’s Night, performing covers of some of the Beatles’ biggest tunes. playitstrange.org.nz

June 24, 25

50 years ago today

June 13, 14

School’s in session

until June 20

Snap to it

Black Hippy, the los angeles rap supergroup of kendrick lamar, schoolboy Q, ab-soul and Jay rock, has had a big year so far with the release of schoolboy’s Oxymoron album. up next is the crew’s debut release and lamar’s follow-up to 2012’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. schoolboy Q, the south central la rapper born Quincy Hanley, graces our shores for two shows in June: he’ll bring the ruckus to auckland’s logan campbell centre on June 13 and Wellington’s James cabaret the following night. dashtickets.co.nz

new Zealand’s largest photographic happening, the 2014 auckland Festival of Photography, turns its fixed-focused lens on the art of the camera this month. the programme includes specially commissioned work from south auckland urban documentarian tanu gago and Japanese performance artist and photographer tatsumi orimoto, otherwise known as Bread man. photographyfestival.org.nz

July 19, 20

Speed demonsthe crc speedshow is the country’s biggest automotive expo, bringing petrolheads of all persuasions to auckland’s asB showgrounds for a weekend of classic cars and motorcycles, race cars and bikes, customs and hot rods. one of the show’s high spots is the celebrity charity kart challenge. it takes place across both days, and was won last year by Jason Bargwanna. this year, the aussie V8 racer will be back to defend his title.speedshow.co.nz

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Donautal, AustriaMay 4, 2014 At 34 locations worldwide 35,397 runners together ran a total of 530,928km before they were overtaken by catcher cars, which had been following them with increasing speed. This was the first annual Wings For Life World Run, in support of spinal cord research. The last man running was Lemawork Ketema of Ethiopia. After 78.58km (48.83 miles) the 28-year-old prevailed over Peruvian Remigio Huaman Quispe, running in Lima, 11,200km away, and only 90m less than Ketema. wingsforlifeworldrun.com

“ I knew I would have to sprint at the end. so i saved up my energy” Lemawork Ketema, Wings For Life World Run winner

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