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A surfing trip in a class of its own
June 2009, somewhere in the Mentawai Island chain off the coast of West Sumatra, Indonesia: Surf stars like Mick Fanning and Sofia Mulanovich were brought together with the hottest upcoming talents at Red Bull Surfing Mentawais to strengthen their precision, performance and team spirit.
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On the heels of Mick Fanning
After a boom inaugural year in 2008, the Red Bull Junior Surf Masters heralded its return, back and bigger than ever, with some cracking performances by the Northern Beaches’ best surfers. It was David Vlug who took the spoils of victory at Curl Curl, the first Qualifier in the 2009 series on June 20.
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A new level
The season opening for European wakeboarding couldn’t have been better. On May 1 at Red Bull Wake the Line in Cologne, Germany, more than 7,000 spectators saw incredible wakeboarding action performed by top riders from all over the world.
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Orlando takes Italy by storm
The southern Italian city of Polignano a Mare – the European Mecca of cliff diving – hosted the half-time stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving Series 2009 on July 26, and 30,000 spectators witnessed a stormy lesson from the nine-time World Champion Orlando Duque (COL) who now distinctly leads the series into its second half.
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"Sometimes I'm too hard on myself …"
Dorien Llewellyn is 13, a highly talented sporting ace and member of the world’s most successful water ski family. In part two of our interview the young Austrian talks about ambition, his daily training routine – and discloses where he sees himself in ten years.
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No walk in the wakepark
On April 3 and 4, Tempe, Arizona, USA, played host to the second stop ever of the experimental wakeboarding event Red Bull Wake Lab. The two-day event drew more than 25,000 spectators, who witnessed wakeboarding's top guns battle it out on an innovative skatepark on water, dubbed ‘the Wake Lab.’
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