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BIKES CUSTOM KING The spectacular Zillers custom bike is based on the BMW R18 but worth almost twice as much... By BILL VARE TIMIDIS 1 0 MAXIM.COM.AU

T he BMW R18 cruiser has long been deployed from the belly. The Zillers R18’s complex tools, meaning you can do away a blank slate for customisation. It's instrument panel has also been moved to with downtime at the mechanics and worn crazy grilles, been converted the fuel tank and folded back into the fuel assemble it yourself. The complete motorcycle into a dragster, and had seating filler neck; elsewhere, the headlight and ($59,850) will take around six months to arrive setups even a gymnast would struggle with. taillight have been fitted with LEDs. at your door, whereas the kit can be delivered in four. Although the price is a little more than While no one knows what future Just 13 will be available worldwide, BMW’s latest R18 ($28,600), it's a small price motorcycles will look like, Russian workshop available complete or as a self assembly kit. to pay if you’ve got deep pockets and a serious Zillers Garage (known for the Yamaha SR400 If you go with the assembly, it comes with curiosity for customs. Insomnia) may have a better idea than most. detailed instructions and doesn’t require For their crack at the R18, they tossed away the user manual, totally reworked the exterior design with massive suspension modifications – and left almost no trace of the original’s retro style. Looking at it, there's nothing to suggest this bike was born a BMW. The base bike has been covered in hand-formed bodywork built from carbon fibre, milled aluminium and 3D printing. The carbon fibre parts include the stretched tank and chunky fork covers, and those aluminum wheels are milled on a CNC machine. The BMW boxer twin-engine's heads can be seen poking out from the side covers. The bike proudly retains the R18’s 1,802 cc two-cylinder engine and with it its monstrous 116 pound-feet of torque – the highest displacement boxer from BMW. It turns up with 91 horses (68 kW) for a top speed of 190 km/h, with the weight saving from the handcrafted titanium exhaust adding more pop. One of the most eye-raising mods is a Zillers air suspension system that replaces the factory-fitted steel setup. While air suspension systems are common in the car world, they're almost unheard of on motorcycles. You won't see this R18 up on a kickstand, it rests on a pair of spikes MAXIM.COM.AU 11

BIKES Unmistakeable A made in Italy design and craftsmanship combine with technology and innovation in a motorcycle made by Ducati in partnership with Poltrona Frau's Interiors... T urning out limited-edition models By BILL VARE TIMIDIS much the same brave Bolognan cruiser known has largely been a supercar thing standard, wide, or with a backrest to carry a since 2011, sharing the same basic design, for a while now. Case in point, the campagno (passenger). Also on the stitch list, technology, and mechanical components Bugatti... anything. Ducati though, are accompanying accessories wrapped in of the other two XDiavels - the XDiavel S have also been known to 'specialise' their matching leather, including a special key and XDiavel Dark. As such, the engine is a rides, including a wild Lamborghini fob and document folder. very capable edition of the 1262cc 90 degree Sian-themed XDiavel V-Twin Testastretta powerplant, with variable model. For their latest As suggested by the name, XDiavel desmo valve gear and dual plugs. Therefore, XDiavel, they have Nera comes in black-on-black decals it will generate 160 horsepower (113 kW) at teamed with renowned with bright red accents including 9,500 rpm and 92.9 pound-feet of torque at Italian interior maker Poltrona Frau, the front brake’s four piston Brembo 5,000 rpm - enough to make this freshed up to bring together two things calipers and the engine’s valve cruiser keep its rocket wheels. Italian autos are known for - speed and luxury. covers. As a machine, the Coming equipped with Pirelli Diablo bare XDiavel itself is Rosso III radials, the XDiavel Nera rolls on Dubbed the XDiavel Nera, forged aluminum wheels. Also unchanged is Poltrona Frau (known for crafting Ferrari the chassis, with the steel-tubing trellis frame and Maserati trim) focused mainly on the featuring a long 63.6-inch wheelbase and a seat. Hand made with laser engraved X plentiful 5.1 inches of trail - the most available logos, trims include in Borgo Panigale (home of Ducati). Siam Red, Steel Specific techs incude an electronic suite Blue, Cemento, that includes the most advanced safety India, and Selva functions, such as cornering ABS. Such a and come in pricey performance package is rarely seen in the two-wheeler segment - but then again this is Ducati. DUCATI XDIAVEL NERA “The XDiavel Nera will be produced in a limited-edition numbered ENGINE: 1262cc Testastretta 4 valves per cylinder series of 500 units.” TRANSMISSION: 6 speed belt drive POWER: 113 kW TORQUE: 92.9 lb ft @ 5000 rpm DRY WEIGHT: 221 kg SEAT HEIGHT: 755 mm FUEL CAPACITY: 18 litres PRICE: $44,900 (ride away) 1 2 MAXIM.COM.AU



BIKES LEAGTUheE OF DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMEN We head to Nashville with Triumph and Gibson to do our bit for the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride... By D U N C A N QU I N N Photography by M E L I S S A & C A L E B M C I N T U R F F Iwas riding a Ducati 955SP the night I walked a handful of people into a Hawwa. Inspired by a photo of Don Draper movie premiere at the Cannes Film astride a classic bike wearing a bespoke suit, Festival with no invite, no wristband, Hawwa decided a annual themed ride would no list – just a lot of chutzpah and a be a great way of connecting niche motorcycle enthusiasts and communities while raising fantastic black suit. Think a blond version of funds to support men’s health issues that Neo in The Matrix, only with sidekicks who none of us ever hope to meet in life (thank looked like an aging Nic Cage and perky Page 3 you, doctor). versions of Margot Robbie. On the way home I was of course all for it from the start I nearly learned the meaning of life as the and have partaken in the DGR as it’s known speedo indicated the north side of 160 mph whenever I’ve had the chance. A greater and I realised the chicane at Juan-les-Pins was collection of motorcycle-riding characters fast approaching. Tires scrubbing the curb on from all walks of life one cannot find. From the wrong side of the road I came to a halt on simple beginnings the DGR has now expanded the far side of life, heart pounding, drenched to 107 countries around the world, and raised in sweat. The feeling was much like the first over US$37 million for men’s health issues time I had my prostate tickled by a young lady since its inception. at a fancy Upper East Side doctor’s office in As it grew the vision expanded to Manhattan. This was a hell of a lot more fun, encompass not just physical health but also though there are parallels to be drawn, as you’ll mental issues affecting men. But who are these discover shortly. guys riding around for the greater good? As All of which is why I was in Nashville for Hawwa puts it, “The distinguished part comes the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride. One from inside. It doesn’t necessarily matter what part petrol, one part fancy dress, and one part you wear or what you ride. For me it’s the guys charity, this festival of mustaches, gasoline and that are willing to get up off their seat and give glory was started in Sydney in 2012 by Mark it to someone that’s a little bit elderly; it’s the 1 4 MAXIM.COM.AU

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BIKES guys that are willing to pull over on the side I swung my leg over the spanking new highest fund-raiser of the 2022 DGR came of the road and help someone else out. So, red hopper Triumph Speed Triple 1200RR about: a 1959 Legends custom edition Gibson the fashion aspect is a great means for us to and pondered all of this, and more, as I joined Les Paul Standard Reissue and a Bonneville break that stereotype and look distinguished a motley crew of the great and the good of T120, featuring a host of beautiful hand- on motorcycles.” Nashville, Tennessee on their Sunday morning detailed custom touches, complete with a DGR excursion. Suited, booted, tattooed, bespoke 1959 Legends Editions certificate of He adds that, “The true meaning of being mustached, bearded and bespoken, they had authenticity, signed by Triumph CEO Nick a gentleman to me is someone that’s willing risen to the challenge on everything from Bloor, and Cesar Gueikian, Brand President to go out of their way to help other people humble clunkers to hand-built retro 1970s of Gibson Brands. For those who didn’t reach and someone that’s willing to leave the world Hondas with 750 Gixxer motors transplanted such heady heights of fundraising there were a better place than they actually came in. And into them. By the time I had reached The still Triumph bikes, signed Gibson guitars, I think that’s the sort of ethos that we carry Gibson Garage, home to Gibson Guitars, and hand painted guitar cases by Nashville with everything that we do, and that’s what and slumped into the sofa of their secret artist James Willis. people, the general public, see on a ride. When green room to chat with CEO James Curleigh, you’ve got someone trying to cross the road I was ready for some honky tonk. Dress up, ride bikes, hang out with your and it might not be at a crossing but all the mates, support a great cause, and end up with guys are pulling up and going, ‘Yep, after you’. What I got was insight into why Gibson, an epic bike and equally spectacular guitar if It’s a cool vibe and if you get the opportunity Triumph, and DGR are the perfect mix, and you are top dog in fundraising. It doesn’t get to take part in it, I’d definitely suggest you do.” how the spectacular grand prize for the more distinguished than that. ■ TRIUMPH SPEED TRIPLE 1200RR ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF TRIUMPH MOTORCYCLES This may be the prettiest bike Triumph has ever built. It’s a modern rendition of a 1970s bubble-faired café racer with killer looks and a fierce 177 HP on tap from its 1160cc, three-cylinder motor. A litany of the best parts available to man complete the package, including the most advanced production Öhlins suspension, race-developed Brembo brakes, high-performance Pirelli Diablo Supercorsa SP V3 tyres, a lightweight castaluminum chassis, and state-of-the-art Optimised Cornering ABS and Optimised Cornering Traction Control systems. 1 6 MAXIM.COM.AU



COVER GIRL Introducing… TA R A S E N KO Howdy, partner! Yes, the model, entrepreneur and gorgeous WAG of an NHL world champion reveals all. Giddy up!... Photography by A N N A G U N S EL M A N Interview by S A N T I PIN TA D O 1 8 MAXIM.COM.AU

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COVER GIRL elcome to MAXIM Australia, Yana, and congrats on your debut cover. 2 0 MAXIM.COM.AU How do you feel? I feel great and very grateful. Thank you for this opportunity – it is a pleasure. The thing is, this is my first men’s magazine cover so far and MAXIM is a legendary brand – it embodies sexuality and passion. Needless to say, I’m very excited. What did you love most about this photo shoot? For starters, the location was exceptional – we shot this at a ranch in Malibu, California, and the owner of the ranch is Suze Randall, one of the most famous female photographers of the ’70s and ’80s. Although the horses were nice, they were quite challenging to handle at first but the team was super professional and the vibe was very special. Well, you look beautiful. What would you say is your best asset? I’m able to style out absolutely everything and I’m an incurable optimist. Long legs are also very helpful – I mean, helpful in being an optimist. Haha! When do you feel sexy? There is no “when” for me. When it comes to sexuality it’s either there, deep inside, or it’s not. My feeling of being sexy doesn’t depend on a setting, occasion or an outfit. What would people be most surprised to know about you? Maybe the fact that I really come alive at night time. I mean, I really feel a rush of energy in the evening and it needs to be released. Tell us a bit more about yourself and your life story so far. I was born in Siberia, Russia – there’s six months of winter and snow there, so it’s is not a piece of cake to stay a hot girl, even for the hottest ones –haha! I became a model when I was 13 and for several years modelling was the main part of my life. It was hard work but it was a joy as well. I happened to be engaged in many international projects but had to pause my career when my first son, Mark, was born. I wasn’t even thinking about relaunching it and considered participating in photo

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COVER GIRL “Professional athletes always impress me with their strength, endurance and audacity – I like being part of this world.” 2 2 MAXIM.COM.AU

shoots only as a hobby. Then I met Vladimir, we got married and I moved to the USA. Now we have three kids, a house, a dog and many plans together. And, you know, my modelling career seems to have a fresh start now and I’m receiving many interesting offers! As the partner of NHL champion Vladimir Tarasenko, who won the Stanley Cup with the St. Louis Blues in 2019, what are the pros and cons of being a “WAG”? I absolutely love it! It might be emotionally overwhelming sometimes because, you know, it’s sport – there are highs and lows – and the schedule during the season is usually very tight. But professional athletes always impress me with their strength, endurance and audacity – I like being part of this world. How did you meet Vladimir? You’re anticipating a great story, aren’t you? Well, it developed into a great story, eventually, but it started quite ordinary. We’re both from Novosibirsk – the city in the centre of Siberia – and we had several mutual friends. We would go to the same events but were never officially introduced to each other. Until one day I accidentally put a like on one of his photos on Instagram and… he proposed to me three months later. Was it love at first sight? For sure it was! It felt like it was meant to be. What did he do to win you over? Vladimir is a very romantic guy. In the very beginning of our story he would have flowers delivered several times a day wherever I was. I mean, we are talking about absolutely random spots in our city. I still have no idea how he managed to organise it. But neither romantic gestures nor his name were the key to winning me over – it was his maturity and responsibility. How big an ice hockey fan are you? I am a huge one, now! And, of course, first and foremost I’m a huge fan of my husband. I love everything about the sport except the injuries – ice hockey injuries are the worst. You’re the owner of Italian beauty centre Aldo Coppola. Tell us more about this gig. It started from my loyalty to the Aldo Coppola brand. Being a client of this centre I fell in love with its product, concept and approach. So, I was very determined to bring it to Novosibirsk and the centre celebrated its 11th birthday last year. I couldn’t have imagined myself being anything but a model or a businesswoman. As an entrepreneur and model, you’re also a mum and WAG. Which of these roles do you enjoy the most? I love the mix. This combination works perfectly for me. MAXIM.COM.AU 23

COVER GIRL “Pole dancing is always for pleasure. It does make the How do you stay looking so fit? With my daily sports routine and a healthy body more flexible diet for many years. I consider it as a part of and strong, though.” my WAG job – just kidding! I’m very into sport and can’t imagine my life without it. We hear your sports regime includes pole dancing? Right. Gym, boxing and other activities are for staying healthy and fit, but pole dancing is always for pleasure. It does make the body more flexible and strong, though. What have you learned about men over the years? Even the toughest of them sometimes need a hug. What’s one thing men should always remember about women? Oh, that’s an easy question to answer. Women are always right. Haha! Finally, have you ever been to Australia? Unfortunately, I’ve never been to Australia, but I’ve always wanted to! And who doesn’t? My sons play tennis – I’m really into this sport – and, of course, the Australian Open is a very significant tennis event which I would really love to see. It’s on this month, so you never know, I might come! T 2 4 MAXIM.COM.AU

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COVER GIRL STATUS Hair by V IC TOR F MEND OZ A UPDATE Make-up by SO N YA R ASOVA NAME: Styling by ANNA RUIZ Yana Tarasenko Produced by VALENTINA GUROVA BORN: January 5 HOME TOWN: Novosibirsk, Russia CURRENTLY LIVES: St. Louis, Missouri USA FIVE WORD SELF- DESCRIPTION: “Outspoken, caring, charismatic, fun, loving.” LIFE MOTTO: “Keep moving forward.” SNAPCHAT: @yana.tara TWITTER: @YanaTarasenko91 TIKTOK: @yana.tarasenko91 INSTAGRAM: @tarasenko.yana 2 6 MAXIM.COM.AU

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MAXIM FLASHBACK CANDICE WARNER From one sporting WAG to another, we take a look back at our beautiful 2014 cover photo shoot and interview with the amazing former ironwoman, reality TV star and partner to Australian cricketer David Warner... Photography by WAY N E DA N I E L S Interview by S A N T I PI N TA D O C ongrats on your Beach with all the boys down at first MAXIM cover, the surf club and my two older Candice. brothers. I was always the one Thank you, it’s really who made up the numbers in exciting. The likes of backyard basketball, footy, or Jennifer Hawkins, Jessica Gomes, soccer. I don’t own a hairdryer Erin McNaught, Lauryn Eagle… and don’t even know how to do have been on the cover and my own hair! So to be pampered they’re such established women and made-up to feel really at what they do, so to be in their special was a nice change. company is an honour. Well, you look awesome! Why did you decide to do What does your daily this photo shoot? training regime involve? So that in five or 10 years – I’m up at 4:08am every morning whatever it may be – I can look because 4:05am is too early back and have something I’m and 4:10am is too late. It’s only really proud of. I work so hard a few minutes here and there on my body and eating right, so but you don’t want to get to the it’s nice to have something like swimming pool too early. It’s this, so I can show my kids what been 4:08am for a few years their mum looked like back in the now. I swim between 5am and day and they can see all the hard 6:30am, go home and have work and effort I’ve put in. breakfast, then around 10am I have my second session, which How did you prepare yourself is sprint training with my coach, for the big shoot day? or I’ll go to the gym. I have a rest I always have to be in good mid-afternoon and then do surf shape and for what I do it’s all training in the afternoon. about power and strength. Before the shoot I cut back on a lot of Sounds easy enough. Tell the heavy weight training, which us about your background. usually bulks me up a bit, and did I have a lot of freckles, which a lot more running so I could be I get from my mum’s side. I call a little leaner. it my Aussie side because my father is full-blooded Maltese and Were you nervous posing in that’s where my olive skin is from. lingerie for the camera? I’m a bit of a mix but I’m pretty Every day I’m in the water in a happy with it. two-piece or swimming costume, so I’m used to showing some At the photo shoot you said, “It was good Being an ironwoman, do skin with what I do for my to feel girlie.” Do you not often feel girlie? men find you intimidating? career. Being in lingerie isn’t a I’m very much the tomboy. I do wear dresses, That’s a tough question. I’m big deal for me – I’m more than always have my nails done and that sort of the type of girl who is very comfortable in it. If anything it thing, but I grew up at Sydney's Maroubra approachable and honest was more fun and exciting to dress but any time girls have muscles or are up and wear some beautiful underwear confident, it can be a little off -putting and try on some amazing jewellery. for guys because they don’t know how to approach that kind of woman. 2 8 MAXIM.COM.AU

If Tony Stark asked you to marry him, would you leave David Warner? No, I wouldn’t leave David for anyone. He’s my ironman. What makes your relationship so good? We’re just a perfect match. We both grew up in the same area and both come from a bluecollar background. We know the importance of working hard to get somewhere in life and understand things don’t come easily. We share the same disciplines, morals, have very similar upbringings, and have this unbelievable connection. And we keep it fun. Every day he’s full of surprises and he’s a dream come true. I really am the luckiest girl in the world. Being athletes, are you guys competitive around the house? Yes, but in the best possible way. At home we just enjoy each other’s company but if we’re on the tennis court or challenge each other to a body surf competition or a swimming or running race, then all love is out the window and it’s all about who is going to win. If you’re going to have a race, you’ve always got to have a wager on it, so it’s all a bit of fun. He’s full of confidence and thinks he can beat me, and I always think I can beat him. On land he’s got me but in the water he’s no chance. We hear he’s a good cook, too. What’s his signature dish? He does go well on the barbeque but he makes a great chicken parmigiana. Describe your perfect date with David? We’d start off with a game of tennis, with the loser buying the winner dinner, then go home, get dressed up, and go out for a nice dinner, followed by some Cold Rock ice cream, then back home to watch a good movie. Or if it’s during the footy season we’d be watching the South Sydney Rabbitohs play. Being a WAG, what do you ladies certain things about me and don’t realise “Being in lingerie talk about at the cricket? how hard I work and what I’ve achieved. isn't a big deal We just talk about anything and everything. We’re no different to anyone else. I’m there How do you react when you read for me - I'm more to support David, so I make sure I’m cheering rumours about yourself in the tabloids? comfortable in it.” him on constantly, but I like to mix it up. I’ll sit If they’re positive stories it’s always nice in the stands with the other partners but I also but if it’s false things I’m pretty thickskinned. love to get amongst it and sit with the general I’ve been through a hell of a lot, as has David, public and feel the atmosphere. Punch a so we’ve learnt not to let things bother us too beach ball around the crowd, do the Mexican much. If it’s a constant negative then we turn wave, and all that kind of stuff – that’s what it around and use it as motivation and put it it’s all about. into our training. ■ What’s a big misconception about you? That I’m not serious about my sport and that I’m too interested in partying. It couldn’t be further from the truth. People only see or read MAXIM.COM.AU 29

MAXIM FLASHBACK STATUS “I’ve been through UPDATE a hell of a lot, as has David, so we’ve HOMETOWN: learnt not to let Sydney, NSW. BORN: March 13, 1985. things bother us too much.” FIVE WORD SELF-DESCRIPTION: Hair & Make-up by “Energetic, passionate, HELEN SHIELDS strong, determined, and loving. Oh, and BENNETTS loyal. Put loyal in Styling by there somewhere!” CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: CHERYL TAN “The ocean.” BEDTIME ATTIRE: “Undies. Always undies. You know, just in case someone walks in or if there’s a fire or something. You’ve always got to be wearing undies.” BEST LIFE ADVICE: “'It’s nice to be important but it’s important to be nice.' And, ‘Never give up.’” TWITTER: @CandiceWarner31 TIKTOK: @candywarner31 INSTAGRAM: @candywarner1 3 0 MAXIM.COM.AU



SPORT PHOTO: WAYNE CANT In the latest book BMX freestyle Olympic gold medallist, X-Games legend and world champion LOGAN MARTIN takes us on his inspiring journey to the top of the global podium. In this edited extract he shares the discipline, courage, sacrifices and perils required to be an international extreme sports athlete… 3 2 MAXIM.COM.AU

LOGAN’S RUN Gold Coast’s Logan Martin started freestyle BMX at the age of 12 after following his brother, Nathan, to the Crestmead Skate Park. Spending most of his spare time there, Martin started showing real talent at the age of 15, entering competitions with his parents, Donna and Sean, taking him to the events and buying bikes and parts. Logan first travelled overseas in 2012, where he won the first international event he entered. Martin won the International Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) World Series title in both 2015 and 2016, following those titles up by claiming the inaugural BMX Freestyle world title at the UCI Urban World Championships in China in 2017. A stellar 2019 followed, which saw Logan win dual X Games gold, the Urban Games gold, and a World Championship silver behind teammate Brandon Loupos. He also built a BMX ramp in the backyard of his home to prepare for his Olympic run during lockdown. At the 2020 and 2021 National Championships in Melbourne, Martin won gold, and added a second career rainbow jersey when he took out the 2021 UCI World Championships in France. The culmination of Logan’s career so far was claiming gold at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. He still lives on the Gold Coast with his wife, Kimberley, and their two children, Noah and Luna. MAXIM.COM.AU 33

SPORT CRASH & BURN you’d taken off from. On this particular day I wanted my followers to experience all the we were in Brisbane at the indoor skatepark ups and downs of my journey. The frontflip There is a comfort in getting uncomfortable. RampAttak, and my wife Kim had tagged flair has quite a unique spin, and if you miss Every day I’m riding on an adrenalin rush and along. She would often take video of my what we call “the pop” it’s hard to speed constantly scaring myself – some days more practice sessions, which I would then post up the rotation. I missed the pop, got than others, particularly if I’m trying new onto social media. There was one rule that I stuck upside down in the frontflip and things or almost crashing. That’s why there’s a was always reminding her of: if I crashed she then landed upside down, mashing my sense of pride walking away from each session, was to keep filming and not get scared. collarbone. It was nasty. because you’ve overcome the fear. The positive endorphins running through your “I got my foot stuck in the top body give you a feeling that is so addictive. of the wheel, which meant when You crave it. And that rush comes about only because you’ve pushed yourself out of your I landed my ankle was comfort zone. And you’ve survived. effectively pulled apart.” The ability to overcome fear has a lot PHOTOS: WAYNE CANT to do with your personality; it’s like you’re constantly having an internal chat with yourself. If I do crash my mindset isn’t, “What if I get hurt again?” Straightaway I’m thinking, “When can I get back into it?” I’m aware of the risks. I know what can go wrong, but I prefer to look at it in a positive light: what can go right. That is a better way to look at life and the precarious situations that I’m constantly confronted with in BMX. People often ask what I’m thinking about during tricks. Because I’ve been doing this for 17 years – professionally for nine years – I’m a lot more conscious of what’s going on in the trick or in a spin. As soon as I take off from the ramp I can feel if something is about to go wrong, or I can feel if something is about to go right. I know how to control things to a point. If I need to I can correct it in the air, or if I’m going to crash, I can slide out a little bit more smoothly than I would have 10 years ago, because I have more awareness of where I am and how the trick has gone wrong. When I first learned backflips I would shut my eyes in the middle of the trick, only opening them to see the landing. That was because I was scared to do the trick for a long time but, like a lot of things, the more you do them the more comfortable you become. I’ve found that the more relaxed you are on the bike, the more in control you are of what is happening around you. But sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. My first competition of 2018 was a small dirt contest over in America at a Supercross event. I lost my bearings on a jump and paid a hefty price, landing face-first on the ramp, which I then slid all the way down. It was a solid crash but I came away relatively unscathed – just a bit of whiplash. Unfortunately, it was a sign of things to come. When I got home my focus turned to the opening FISE World Series event of the season, which was in a new location: Hiroshima, Japan. I’d been focusing on a couple of new tricks, including a frontflip flair, which had a high degree of difficulty. It involved a frontflip with a 180-degree rotation, landing back on the ramp that 3 4 MAXIM.COM.AU

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SPORT Above: “The view couldn’t be better from up here.” (PHOTO: WAYNE CANT) An ambulance was called and the actually felt okay. However, the I suffered a really bad concussion in 2017 paramedics quickly put me on the green reality was I hadn’t done anything at the Nitro World Games in Salt Lake City, whistle. This is an inhaler with special for three weeks. My muscles Utah. I had just dropped in for my last practice medication in it that provides rapid pain weren’t ready to go, and it was run before the qualifying round, which was relief. I had initially been in extreme pain, too much of a risk on my body. only twenty minutes away. I attempted a so the whistle managed to at least make me frontflip barspin no-hander. It went horribly comfortable for my trip to hospital. Kim This was the second time I’d wrong, and I ended up knocking myself out. was understandably upset but proud that broken my collarbone, and while I don’t remember doing the trick, and barely she did her job. “I kept filming,” she said in my injury list was long, I felt pretty remember anything from the day itself. I an attempt to brighten my spirits. lucky compared to some of my continued to throw up the next day and then mates. Considering how long I’d been travelled home, still very sick. I had a headache Once I gotto the hospital they took doing this and what I’d achieved, I’d managed for a week. That was certainly a scary one, X-rays, which showed a broken collarbone to escape any serious injuries that kept me but it wasn’t my personality to dwell on such and bruising in the lungs. I was sent home that off the bike for long amounts of time. By things or think about the potential larger night, where I started to do my calculations comparison, plenty of my mates are broken. consequences. around whether I could recover for the trip I’ve dislocated my shoulder six times. The to Japan in three weeks’ time. first time I did it I went to hospital and they I’ve also torn ligaments in both of my popped it back in, but after that I learned ankles. I’ve dislocated one pinky finger and The only way to accelerate the process was to do it myself with the help of my mates. to have surgery, to the tune of $10,000. I had One time we were in France and I injured to wait a week for the procedure, which meant it at a contest on the Sunday, but with the I had a two-week recovery period. When I’m help of Kyle Baldock, we popped it straight in a moment like this, all I can see is my goal – back in. I had another event in France the in this case, it was boarding a plane to Japan. following weekend, so I stayed off the bike I waited until Sunday – the day before I would until Thursday – and then went out and have to fly out – to test out the shoulder. I took won the competition. the bandages off, got back on the bike and 3 6 MAXIM.COM.AU

Clockwise from top left: After a streak of silver, it was time to realise the dream: my first X Games gold in 2018 in Minneapolis, with my partner and best friend Kim by my side; Preparing for an FISE World Tour event in Tokyo in 2018, I came unstuck attempting the highly diffcult frontip air. Before I knew it I was puffng on the green whistle, bound for the hospital busted off the nails on both of them, as well as host country. Riders would earn points for angry about. In a massive boost for extreme breaking a bone in my hand. I have a bulging their countries at UCI-sanctioned events, sports in this country, the ESPN extravaganza disc in my back, the bottom line being my such as the FISE World Cup stops during the came to Sydney, but unfortunately the weather body never actually feels good. That’s just qualifying period that ran from 1 November in October didn’t play its part. something you get used to. But I’m the lucky 2018 to 11 May 2020. The country that scored one. There are so many stories about elite the most points could send two riders, second It was a dirt event held at Spotless Stadium riders who have had their careers cut down to fifth would send one rider each, while the (now the Sydney Showground Stadium) in because of nasty injuries. final two spots would go to countries based the Olympic Park precinct. Rain and dirt on individual rider performance at the 2019 aren’t a good mix, and the whole lead-up was RISE & REPEAT World Championships. a washout, which meant we barely got half an hour of practice on the course. The organisers Everything was geared towards two years’ It was hard to get your head around, but had spent a lot of time trying to harden up time in Tokyo, although getting there wasn’t we were one of the few countries who had an the jumps, even putting plywood on the floor going to be as easy as we thought, given the opportunity to win two spots, given Brandon where there were puddles in between features. complicated qualification pathway. Only Loupos and I were clearly in the top handful of It was a mess, and I struggled with the softness nine riders would be competing, with one riders in the world. Although I didn’t exactly of the jumps, which made it hard to get enough of those spots already going to Japan as the perform like that when the X Games made its speed coming off them. There were three debut in Australia, which is something I’m still jumps, and I managed to get through the first MAXIM.COM.AU 37

SPORT Top left: It didn’t take long for Noah to share in my BMX journey. He can’t get enough of the action outside his window – or travelling abroad to watch me compete around the world; Bottom left: Taking out the 2021 World Championship at one of my all-time favourite venues in Montpellier, France, was the perfect way to get momentum heading in to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. I never get tired of raising the flag two tricks. But with the last jump, where I was it was decided a few days down in Melbourne later in the day. I wanted to get as far away PHOTO (TOP RIGHT): WAYNE CANT trying to do a 720 double-barspin – which is a would work wonders. There was a good from this place as soon as possible. While the trick I do quite often – I was coming up a bit indoor skatepark called RampFest, and for initial report at the hospital was positive, I still short each time. I was getting more and more our sessions we set up a large airbag to soften couldn’t move my ankle, so I had an MRI scan frustrated. I kept repeating the same thing – the landing as we practised some of our on the Gold Coast. That scan revealed some coming up short and crashing. In hindsight, bigger tricks. I decided to focus on doing a spiral fractures in the high ankle, a section I should have dialled back the trick a little bit flip double-whip, which I hadn’t really got the known as the syndesmosis, plus there was to make it clean, and if I’d done that I probably chance to do too often at home because we some ligament damage. would have won. didn’t have the same quality facility. It wasn’t the first time I’d rolled my The winner, Polish rider Dawid Godziek, On the second day I went back in the ankle, and previously I’d taken painkillers, had done a simple trick on his second jump to morning and practised the trick again. After put tape around the ankle really tightly and ensure he got over the third jump, which was a couple of good run-throughs I decided to continued riding. Not this time. The world a sound plan. I ended up finishing ninth and move over to the resi (a foam and plastic safety championships were only a couple of weeks was pissed afterwards. It had been a golden layer), where the landing wasn’t as soft. I also away, but my doctor wasn’t entertaining a opportunity… and I’d blown it. But we didn’t nailed that, so I kept working my way through quick recovery. “If you make these spiral have long to stew on it; I was scheduled to the rest of the session, combining various fractures worse, it’s going to be a lifelong defend my world title the following month other tricks. Then, half an hour later, I thought injury. It will become an issue all the time,” back in China. I should go back and do one last flip double- he said. That wasn’t what I wanted to hear, whip, just to confirm in my mind that I was but it was apparent I was going to have to As part of the team’s preparation, Wade on top of it. It turns out I wasn’t. take this one on the chin and sit it out. asked us if we wanted a change of scenery from the Gold Coast for a training camp, and While I was in the air, my foot hit the I’d managed to bookend the year with bad wheel as the whip was coming around, which injuries. Thankfully, in between those tough put everything out of control. Then I got times, I’d also won my first X Games gold my foot stuck in the top of the wheel, which medal. And there was one other good thing to meant when I landed my ankle was effectively take out of 2018… I was going to be a father. ■ pulled apart. The moment I hit the ground I knew I was in serious trouble. As I sat on the Logan Martin: ground and started to take my ankle brace Journey to Gold off, Kyle and Loupos came over to survey by Logan Martin the damage. “Surely it’s not that bad. I bet with Scott Gullan you wake up tomorrow and it’ll be all good,” (published by Loupos said. “Nah, I’m telling you, Penguin, rrp$34.99) it’s seriously messed up.” is out now We went straight to hospital for X-rays, and while I waited I booked a flight home 3 8 MAXIM.COM.AU



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They say that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master a skill. If you want to be a good runner, then you need to run. Unfortunately, when it comes to training for endurance, it’s very easy to get caught up in an endless cycle of “chronic repetitive motion” while neglecting all the other stuff that actually keeps your body road worthy. Strength training plays a vital role in preparing your body for running. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW You can use weight training to address structural and strength imbalances and prevent injury, to improve power to weight ratio, to reinforce optimal posture and breathing and to develop athletic potential and speed. INJURY PREVENTION Addressing the most common structural and strength imbalances 1is key when it comes to bulletproofing the body against injury. ANTERIOR vs TOP TIP POSTERIOR CHAIN Always work to the weakest link. Start your reps on the weaker side, and whatever number you fail on, you repeat that number If you’ve ever been injured and spent time at on the stronger side. That will work to physio, you’re probably familiar with the old chestnut that “your glutes just aren’t firing”. 3even out the imbalances over time. Whilst this is a super simplistic way of looking LATERAL at things, there is in fact some truth to it. If you vs MEDIAL spend a bunch of time sitting down hunched IMBALANCE over a desk, your hip flexors will get short, tight and weak, and your glutes will have a hard time switching on when it comes time to do the hard yards. Strengthening Often knee injuries can be attributed to an the lower links in your posterior chain – imbalance between the outside of the leg your calves, hamstrings and glutes – will being too tight, and the inside of the leg being not only help support your ankles, knees, too weak. This causes incorrect tracking of and lower back, but it will also give you the the knee, leading to friction, inflammation and power to conquer heartbreak hill or win pain. Foam roll the outside of the leg first for that 1-on-1 sprint to the finish. myofascial release – go directly on the side of your legs for the IT bands and then shift your weight slightly forward to get the TFL (it’s in between the ITB and the quads) – and TOP TIP then add in direct work VMO work (vastus medialis). Terminal knee extensions (using a Hip flexors are important for improving stride band behind the knee to encourage lock out) length, and therefore speed, but they are and VMO Step Ups (with heels elevated on a weight plate and toes slightly turned out) are often neglected in training in favour of booty both great options. building. An easy way to add in some direct work is by including seated straight leg lifts TOP TIP 2and banded mountain climber variations. Spanish Squats are a phenomenal exercise SIDE TO SIDE to isolate the VMO, and are often used in IMBALANCES knee rehab. Essentially you’re using the premise of the terminal knee extension in Given that running is essentially the squat movement. Grab two thick bands a unilateral sport, if you have a weakness on one side, you will compensate on the other and secure them in a way that allows you side setting yourself up for injury. Single leg to step into them to feel the resistance work should make up the bulk of your training foundation. That goes for both mobility and pulling forward behind each knee. strength and stability. If you’re tighter on one When you squat, this allows you to sit side, then stretch on a 2:1 to 3:1 ratio. If you’re back whilst the shins stay vertical so you can load the quads and VMO safely. weaker on one side, add an extra set. MAXIM.COM.AU 41

FITNESS IMPROVING POWER THE WORKOUT TO WEIGHT RATIO Here is one of my favorite Muscle mass is not necessarily synonymous run-focused unilateral with strength. Having an optimal power to weight ratio means you have the right amount strength based workouts of muscle to carry your engine for the duration for you to try… of your task. It comes down to picking the right exercises in the right rep range. For WARMUP: maximal strength and power gains without 20 x Banded Dead Bugs adding unwanted mass, pick big compound “task-specific” movements like front squats, – band around feet back squats, deadlifts and Nordic Raises and 20 x Banded Mountain perform them in sets of 2-5 reps at 70-80% of Climbers (band around feet, your 1 rep maximum. These movements are pause with knees under chest) relatively easy to learn, pack a muscular punch 15 x Single Leg glute Bridge on the legs and posterior chain, and emphasise core stability and posture. each side 2 rounds TOP TIP MAIN CIRCUIT: Staying in the lower “strength based” rep 5 x Staggered Stance ranges means that you’ll also most likely avoid the DOMs (delayed onset muscle Romanian Deadlift soreness) that often goes hand in hand each side with hypertrophy work. If you’re an athlete, your work in the gym should complement 5 x Bulgarian Split Squat each side your sport, NOT make you so sore that you can’t perform. 12 x Seated Calf Raises (pop DB’s on top of knees) IMPROVE POSTURE 60-90 secs rest. 3-5 rounds AND BREATHING SUPPLEMENTALS: When you think of running, the last thing you 30 secs Hamstring Bridge Hold think of is training the upper body. However, your posture dictates the efficiency of your (legs are straighter than breathing, and if you’re hunched over, you’ll in a normal glute bridge) be compressing your diaphragm. This is very 30 secs Side Plank each side inefficient, and will cause you to tire much more quickly. Add corrective upper body 3 rounds “pull movements” into your program to strengthen your back and allow you to remain COOLDOWN: much more open and upright for the duration. 30-60 secs Couch Stretch (quads) Bent Over Rows, seated rows, banded pull 30-60 secs Pigeon Stretch (glutes) aparts, facepulls and bent over reverse flies are all good for improving posture. ■ 30-60 secs Straddle Stretch (seated or standing) – hamstrings/adductors ABOUT ALEXA “Action Alexa” is an internationally published celebrity trainer, sports model and nutrition and lifestyle coach with over 15 years’ experience in the health and fitness industry, and has worked with NZ’s world champion rugby team, the All Blacks. She has qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Champs and was named as one of the Five Toughest Trainers in Asia during her seven-year stint in an MMA gym in Hong Kong. 4 2 MAXIM.COM.AU



BUSINESS “Schmidt had an outsized impact on Google and hence the world.” 4 4 MAXIM.COM.AU

TITEARINC SCoHf MTIEDTCH &INTELLIGENCE How a visionary billionaire behind Google now envisions the future under artificial intelligence... By KEITH GORDON During the information age of who’s who of pioneering tech companies. initiated, executed and presented to the world. the last three decades, many A four-year stint at Xerox Corporation Without hyperbole, it was a triumvirate with innovators and entrepreneurs led to his move to the newly-founded Sun global power and influence that even Caesar have contributed to the creation, Microsystems, Inc. in 1983. He steadily and his colleagues likely never matched. It adoption and now near-universal usage of climbed the hierarchical ladder at Sun, also cemented Schmidt as one of the most computers and technology in our day-to-day and by 1994 he was the company’s Chief significant contributors to the rise of Google lives. Icons such as Bill Gates (Microsoft), Technology Officer. Beyond his role in turning from a search engine into the diverse company Larry Ellison (Oracle), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Sun into a global tech giant, he was also it is today. and Steve Jobs (Apple) certainly belong in integral in the development, and usage, of that category, alongside the founders of the Java programming language; a milestone During his time, Google produced or Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. development in the coding and software purchased many of the pillars of their non- development fields. search business. Gmail, Google Books, Google Whilst each of these names, and associated Earth, Google News and Google Maps were companies, have played their role in the By 1997, his reputation in Silicon Valley all introduced during Schmidt’s reign as CEO. current technological state of the world, it can was almost peerless, and as such he was He led the acquisitions of YouTube in 2006, be argued that Google has had the most wide- approached by Novell, Inc. that year to become and DoubleClick, which helped monetise the ranging global impact with the diverse slate of its Chairman and CEO. By 2001, Schmidt video platform as well as their search results, services, products and industries it has come was more than ready for the enormous task in 2007. Of course, there would be his return to dominate. Whereas Amazon still largely about to be handed to him. It was in March of to battling Microsoft, as he and Google did sells goods (despite a recent move into cloud that year that he was appointed chairman of with the enormously successful Chrome web services), and Microsoft largely sells software, the board by Google, and then months later browser. And finally, the Android mobile Google is in the business of information, in named the company’s CEO. The company operating system that holds a large market the information age. And while Page and Brin had grown to the point that founders Page share of today’s smartphone industry was also are the founders of the global behemoth that and Brin needed help overseeing a rapidly the result of Schmidt successfully facing off Google has become, it would be wrong to expanding organisation, and between his with other tech giants such as Apple. In short, ignore the outsised impact that Eric Schmidt technical and business experience, Schmidt a large percentage of the services and products had on the company, and therefore the world, was the perfect executive to both continue that have made Google a part of our daily lives once he became Chairman and CEO in 2001 their vision for the company and build the around the world were created, developed and – and continues to have in the age of artificial infrastructure and corporate resources released under the leadership of Eric Schmidt. intelligence. needed as Google grew by leaps and bounds. Over his decade as CEO, Schmidt Schmidt, now a billionaire many times The term triumvirate dates back to the oversaw the growth of Google from a search over, was raised in Blacksburg, Virginia, alliance created between the Roman leaders engine into a ubiquitous part of our daily where his father was an economics Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus and lives that impacts us through email, video, professor at Virginia Tech. He himself chose Pompey the Great, forming a partnership work platforms, advertising, data storage and Princeton University for college and began that combined the most powerful political, an almost mind-blowing quantity of other as an architecture student before, seemingly military and economic men in all of Rome. advancements. He oversaw the initial public prophetically, switching his studies to One could view the trio of Brin, Page and offering of the company’s shares in 2004. electrical engineering, earning his degree there Schmidt as a similar power structure at the When Page took over the CEO role in 2011, in 1976. He followed this by earning both his top of a globally impactful organisation. Each Schmidt stayed on as executive chairman, master’s and doctorate in computer science had strengths that could amplify came next continuing to push the company, and by at the University of California, Berkeley. will go down in technological history; due extension, our society, even further into the His early career included positions with a to the speed and size of the projects they technological and scientific future. When Opposite: Google CEO Eric Schmidt addressduring press conference about news technologies at the summit G8/G20 in France MAXIM.COM.AU 45

BUSINESS Google underwent corporate restructuring in Commission on Artificial Intelligence. it provides the reader with the tools to ask the 2015 and emerged as Alphabet Inc., Schmidt Given his professional and financial right questions moving forward as these issues kept the same role. Even towards the end arise, and the knowledge to recognise where of his time with the company, stepping successes, it would be easy to think Schmidt AI is already making inroads into our daily down as executive chairman at Alphabet in eventually moved along to a well-deserved lives, even when we don’t realise it. 2018, the tech industry icon continued his retirement on a private island or megayacht. contributions, serving as a technical adviser Instead, Schmidt has immersed himself in Schmidt, Kissinger and Huttenlocher are to the company for another two years. yet another technological revolution that is wise enough to know that they don’t have currently unfolding, and in doing so, stands many answers about how this will affect both Forbes currently estimates Schmidt’s net to play a role yet again in the drastic, and small and large events. Instead, they focus on worth at US$23.7 billion, putting him at #30 rapid, changes that our world is experiencing. finding the right questions to ask of the most on the 2021 Forbes 400 list, and #96 on the The revolution unfolding is that of artificial significant impacts (positive or negative) that 2021 list of the world’s billionaires. In 2017 he intelligence (AI), and Schmidt again finds may result from the expansion of AI. Examples began using his efforts outside of Alphabet himself a leading figure in a cutting edge include questions like “What do AI-enabled to cofound Schmidt Futures with his wife industry. The only problem? Neither he nor innovations in health, biology, space and Wendy. The goal of anyone else knows exactly what is going the philanthropic to unfold, when, or how. Quite a daunting quantum physics organisation is to proposition when considering something as look like?”, “What identify exceptional potentially powerful and worldshaking as does AI-enabled war people making AI, and the process of machine learning. look like?” and “Does exceptionally positive AI perceive aspects impacts on the world, It’s with this balance of excitement and of reality humans and provide them concern that Schmidt recently co-authored do not?” While with the financial The Age of AI: And Our Human Future these are certainly resources, personal alongside iconic statesman and geopolitical broad questions, connections and giant Henry A. Kissinger, and Daniel they are absolutely support needed to Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of the MIT vital as humanity turn their projects Schwarzman College of Computing and experiences the and dreams into one of the leading academic and industrial dramatic changes reality. Forbes called minds in computer sciences. Together, the that artificial it his “US$1 Billion three brilliant men spent years discussing the intelligence is, Moon Shot Plan” countless issues AI was bound to bring up, and will, cause to to fund promising and eventually decided to distill what they our global society. teenagers around the had learned and concluded into text form According to globe, and thereby and share it with the world. Schmidt and his “make the world co-authors, “While a better place.” The book, and Schmidt, don’t attempt the advancement of Forbes notes that to provide many simple answers or obvious AI may be inevitable, the Schmidt family solutions to the potential shortcomings, its ultimate is also “passionate complexities and contradictions that the AI- destination is not. about environmental revolution is certain to produce. Rather, Its advent, then, is sustainability and has donated to various both historically and projects related to renewable energy and philosophically significant. Attempts to halt its climate change,” while he has also “toured development will merely cede the future to the some of the world’s most tightly controlled element of humanity courageous enough to regimes to promote open internet access, face the implications of its own inventiveness.” including in Cuba and North Korea.” Rather than focus on exactly how AI may be used, or misused, Schmidt’s focus is on what Schmidt and his wife’s Schmidt Family he can foresee, such as AI’s inevitability. In this Foundation “focuses on sustainability and case, he can envision that even if some reject natural resources, and their Schmidt Ocean the development of AI, this will only mean that Institute has funded the construction of development is solely conducted by those few Falkor, an ocean research vessel used by who don’t have philosophical or moral issues academic oceanographers,” Forbes adds. with such technology. In all, the magazine estimates, Schmidt’s The book explains, “Humanity has family have “publicly committed more than experienced technological change throughout US$2 billion to charity so far, with more than history. Only rarely, however, has technology US$600 million already being doled out.” fundamentally transformed the social and Schmidt also continues to be involved not only political structure of our societies. More on corporate boards, but in academia, such as frequently, the preexisting frameworks his role as an MIT Visiting Innovation Fellow through which we order our social world and positions on several advisory boards at adapt and absorb new technology, evolving the university. He also has served the public, and innovating within recognisable categories. notably as Chairman of the Department of The car replaced the horse without forcing Defense’s Innovation Board for four years, and a total shift in social structure…. 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Schmidt recently co- authored The Age of AI: And Our Human Future alongside iconic statesman and geopolitical giant Henry A. Kissinger, and Daniel Huttenlocher, inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and one of the leading academic and industrial minds in computer sciences “AI promises to transform all Realms of human experience.” challenged our prevailing modes of explaining importantly, he asks open-ended questions yet formidable in their uncertainty. But it’s and ordering the world. But AI promises to that likely won’t have answers for years, if ever. good to know that the man who played such a transform all realms of human experience.” But just because there isn’t a clear answer huge role in shaping the modern information doesn’t mean it’s not vitally important for us age and the underlying technologies, is Schmidt provides a plethora of examples as a society to question and evaluate the role putting his mind and resources to use to of the ways AI has already been introduced AI is carving out for itself. make sure that when the time arrives and into our society, technology and daily life, these technologies force us to answer difficult ranging from increasing power efficiency at Artificial intelligence, the usage of machine questions, we’ll at least have the technical and server farms, to dogfighting military fighter learning and neural networks to advance these social understanding to ask the right questions jets, to making our online shopping more technologies, and the myriad of potential and maybe, just maybe, find the right answers. precisely tailored to our preferences. Most outcomes for our world are certainly exciting, THE KISSINGER CONNECTION In addition to being his co-author, Henry Kissinger, 98, considers fascinates me is that we are moving into a new period of human Eric Schmidt (in his words) “one of my best friends.” As Schmidt consciousness which we don’t yet fully understand,” as Kissinger told The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, “I am convinced that the secret to longevity is being a workaholic. told Time. “I think the technology companies have led The reason I say that is that Henry Kissinger, at the way into a new period of human consciousness, the age of 90, knew nothing about the digital like the Enlightenment generations did when world, although he had a lot of opinions they moved from religion to reason, and about it. But he has mastered the digital the technologists are showing us how world and artificial intelligence with to relate reason to artificial intelligence. the alacrity and the speed of people It’s a different kind of knowledge in who are just getting into it now.” It was some respects, because with reason Schmidt who first sparked his interest in – the world in which I grew up – each the subject during his tenure at Google evidence supports the other.” However, when he invited Kissinger to give a the statesman points out, “With artificial speech at the tech giant’s HQ. At a 2019 intelligence, the astounding thing is, National Security Commission on Artificial you come up with a conclusion which is Intelligence Conference, Kissinger reportedly correct. But you don’t know why. That’s a cited that as the beginning of their friendship. totally new challenge. And so in some ways, According to Time, Schmidt subsequently what they have invented is dangerous. But it persuaded Kissinger to attend a lecture on Artificial advances our culture. Would we be better off if it Intelligence while at the Bilderberg conference in 2016. had never been invented? I don’t know that. But now “The technological miracle doesn’t fascinate me so much; what that it exists, we have to understand it. And it cannot be eliminated. Too much of our life is already consumed by it.” ■ MAXIM.COM.AU 47

SPOTLIGHT Mademoiselle Meet the Australian model, influencer, social media star and promising actor you should be following… Photographed by R O C K Y BATC H ELO R Styling by K EOK E ST Y LING 4 8 MAXIM.COM.AU

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SPOTLIGHT ello, Paris, beautiful MAXIM What would impress you on a first date? photo shoot – tell us a bit about it. I have never really been a dater, but what It was quite unplanned and off the cuff, really, impresses me about a person is their level and because of this everything was super of awareness, people who can truly think relaxed – there were no expectations. I feel for themselves and who don’t operate from Rocky [MAXIM photographer] and I really a limited or fear-based mentality. produced magic given we shot this in only 40 minutes. Some of the best things really Got any advice for men? do happen when you least expect it. Be willing to exercise seeing things from the other persons perspective. There’s What’s the first thing you do when you always a reason why people do, say and get up in the morning? react to certain things. Embrace it, use I enjoy a nice morning walk to centre and that as an opportunity to learn more about ground myself before I start my day and the other person. interact with the rest of the world. Describe your ideal man in one sentence. What do you love most about yourself? Someone I can build businesses and travel My work ethic and my creative mind. Also, the world with. my ability to do things most people aren’t willing to do. What words do you live by? Everything happens for a reason. Everything Do you have a weird quirk you can is always working out for your highest good. share with us? I always have to wear socks to bed so Tell us about something new happening that I feel safe. in your life right now? Well, I’m travelling a lot at the moment, which What’s the first thing you notice I love. Greece, Egypt, Thailand and Bali all when it comes to the opposite sex? in two months – I’m really excited to bring Their smile, what they are wearing, how they to life many things in 2023. Stay tuned! present themselves and their confidence. Finally, what’s one thing you are taking What is the most attractive quality away from 2022? in a man? There is GOOD in absolutely everything! Their ability to allow you to be wholeheartedly Every adversity, every heartache, carries yourself. Someone who doesn’t hold you back with it the seeds of an equivalent or greater and genuinely celebrates you. benefit. Nothing is good or bad, only your thinking makes it so. ■ 5 0 MAXIM.COM.AU