Monday 8 April 2013

More Implausible Outdoor Sports

To entice people to your Scottish island, offer: nude otter dancing, cliff horse diving, scree ski-ing, alp zorbing, eagle-assisted islet hopping...

free Italian levitation
Tuvan reindeer racing
(may be real)
competitive wolf sledging
unicycle water polo
nude sequinned boa wrestling
(@fuggirls)
urban downhill skiing (probably illegal)


AND HERE ARE SOME REAL ONES:
"I was reading through the kindle version of my favourite extreme sports magazine looking for an exciting new pastime to take up (because honestly, naked dodge ball and ninja star golf are getting a little boring) when i came across a listing for the little-understood sport of yak skiing."

Mountainboarding,
also known as dirtboarding, offroad boarding, grass boarding and all-terrain boarding (ATB), is a well established if little-known action sport, derived from snowboarding. A mountainboard is made up of components including a deck, bindings to secure the rider to the deck, four wheels with pneumatic tires, and two steering mechanisms known as trucks. Mountainboarders, also known as riders, ride specifically designed boardercross tracks, slopestyle parks, grass hills, woodlands, gravel tracks, streets, skateparks, ski resorts, BMX courses and mountain bike trails.
(Wikipedia)

downhill skating
night mountain biking
Nordic pole walking
skijoring
(a bit like waterskiing on snow but being pulled by a horse)
snow cave diving

heli-biking,
heli-hiking
(you're helicoptered in - and out)
ghyll scrambling
(going down waterfalls headfirst)
bodyflying
(indoor skydiving)
heli-surfing
ultra running
paramotoring
wakeboarding
mountain scrambling
street luge
slalom canoeing
wetbiking
equestrian vaulting
(It’s in the Olympics and consists of gymnastics and dance on horseback.)
ice motorcycle racing
horse surfing/horse boarding
sport climbing
(fixed bolts)
roller sports
(artistic skating, slalom, hockey…)
dragon boating
chess boxing
(Alternate rounds. Really.)
paramotoring
aerial yoga
adventure racing
(running, biking, climbing up waterfalls while orienteering)

kneeboarding
(An aquatic sport where the participant is towed on a buoyant, convex, and hydrodynamically shaped board at a planing speed, most often behind a motorboat. Wikipedia)

green gorge walking
(Countryfile)
slalom canoeing
 (Countryfile)
underwater boxing (in the 50s)
motor hoop racing
(20s, 30s – you sit in a motorised wheel)

deep water soloing
(climbing a cliff without ropes but with deep water in case you fall off - Countryfile)
river buggying (sliding down waterfalls in rubber ring/dinghy)
bugging
(sliding down river in inflatable “bug”, wearing flippers and froghand gloves)

mounted wrestling
backwards running, retro-running
(BBC Breakfast)
jousting
sand racing
(motorbikes on beaches)
jetskiing
tubing
(riding over snow in an inflated tube)
flyboarding/water jetpacking
Nordic walking with dogs

polar bear plunge
(a group of people jump into the icy sea)
extreme pogo
night rowing
airboarding with blow-up sledge
snow sphere
aerotrekking
(low-level flying)
go-karting on ice


More implausible sports here.

No comments:

Post a Comment