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Extreme Sports
What is an extreme sport? There is no set definition, but they all share
common themes of exhilaration, skill and danger. Risk of injury is probably
one of the biggest adrenaline rushes there is.
People use their skill to minimise the risk of injury which takes it
from a dangerous pastime to a sport.
They are not team sports and there aren't formal rules for most of them.
If you feel terrified watching it then its probably an extreme sport.
We don't recommend you do anything other than watch!
If you think we've missed out an extreme sport then please let us know.
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Adventure Racing. |
| All-Terrain Boarding Think of this as off-road skateboarding. The boards have bigger wheels and you can find people doing this up mountains. |
Base Jumping |
| BMX As well as professional shows you can find online video of people riding across the roofs of buildings. Jumping can take riders 20+ft into the air. |
| Bungee Jumping Jumping off tied to a piece of elastic? No I wouldn't! What happens once you've stopped bouncing? You either get pulled back up or lowered down. Originally it was Indigenous people of the Penecoste Islands in the South Pacific who jumped from bamboo towers on ropes but in 1978 Oxford Dangerous Sports Club jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, and thus modern bungee jumping was invented! |
| Canopying Activities in the canopy of trees, such as abseiling and climbing. |
| Canyoning Often involves following a mountain stream to its source. |
| Cave Diving This is quite literally diving in pools in caves. This UK based site has galleries of photos of people cave diving |
| Hang Gliding Gliding off a simple frame. Unpowered. You can learn to do the basics in about two days. launching, turning, landing. However learnning about weather conditions is as vital as basic skills. |
Kitesurfing |
| Land Luge AKA street luge. Close to the ground on wheels (either flat board or some sort of bike.) Boards have become wider than skateboards which inspired the sport, you turn bends by leaning and brakes using feet. Can reach 80 mph under right circumstances. |
| Motocross This is off-road motorcycle racing. Tracks usually include a standing start, lots of turns and jumps, and is on a closed dirt circuit over rough terrain |
| Mountain Biking Think of this as motocross without the engine. |
| Paragliding paraglider pilots launch from gentle hillsides with their gliders already opened for flight. Pilot sits upright. Introductory courses lasting two days are available. |
| Parkour One place defines this as Agressive Walking. Or the art of movement. Def worth online for some sites a look just to see people doing strange things. This is the main UK Parkour site with local sites listed. |
| Rock Climbing - I've rock climbed several times in the past at Salford Uni Climbing wall and at a place in Marple. I've even climbed outside a few times. |
| Roller Skating Thats skating on wheels. Obviously the tame stuff we all do as kids doesn't count, but those inline skaters (have seen people skating on the roads into town... now if that isn't insane I don't know what is) |
| Skateboarding This is probably one of the most known extreme sports. |
| Ski Joring A sport in which a skier is drawn over ice or snow by a horse or vehicle. |
| Skiing sport in which participants travel on skis |
| Skydiving Jumping form a plane, then performing acrobatics in free fall before activating the parachute. |
| Snowboarding Skateboarding on snow without the wheels. |
| Snowcross Motocross with snow and special machines. |
| Surfing Waves, a board and a lot of falling off. The more extreme version presumably chases bigger waves. |
| Wakeboarding Like water skiing but with one board |
| Watercross Use of buoys and floating walls to create a hard course to navigate round on a special water scooter |
| Whitewater Canoe and Kayaking White water is fast water as in rapids or waterfalls - frothed up by mixing with air it appears white. Kayak is a decked boat propelled with a two-bladed paddle from seated position. Canoe, an open boat propelled with a single bladed paddle from a kneeling position |
| Whitewater Rafting Using a raft to navigate fast flowing water |
| Windsurfing A sail powered board |
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