In the past, cataloging an extreme sports list was easy — there wasn’t much to work with. A skateboard here and a parachute there. Now, curating a list of extreme sports is much more difficult, what with sports like bossaball, ZORB globe riding, WiSBASE and trampoline bridge jumping. I know, this whole extreme sports thing is getting a tad ridiculous. We love it. Aside from keeping track of the new and zany fringe extreme sports, there’s the matter of opinion. Is skateboarding an extreme sport? What about open-water swimming? I imagine the level of extreme-ness matters, but even that can be arbitrary. Some sports are undoubtedly extreme, but many of them, well, it simply depends. Does hopping on a mountain bike and taking a nicely groomed single-track trail through the woods count as extreme? I’m not sure. But this gut-wrenching and insane video of a Chilean downhill race — THAT IS EXTREME. Don’t get me started with semantics.

Extreme Sports list

Felix Baumgartner Stratosphere Jump

Felix Baumgartner born 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (24 mi), reaching an estimated speed of 1,342 kilometres per hour (834 mph), or Mach 1.24, on 14 October 2012, and became the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power on his descent. He is also renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career. Baumgartner spent time in the Austrian military where he practised parachute jumping, including training to land on small target zones. Baumgartner's most recent project was Red Bull Stratos, in which he jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012. As part of this project, he set the altitude record for a manned balloon flight, parachute jump from the highest altitude, and greatest free fall velocity.

Zorbing ball

Effectively throwing yourself down a slope in a giant ball, or ‘Zorbing”, is one of the latest extreme sport craze to sweep the world. This bizarre sport, invented in 2000, involves a giant plastic ball, which has two skins, one inside the other. The person zorbing is in the area between the skins, which is pumped up with air. The middle ball effectively suspends them on a cushion of air 700mm off the ground and the ball is then rolled down a hill. Like a number of other extreme sports, such as bungee jumping, zorbing originated in New Zealand. There are two different ways to zorb - either harnessed inside the ball, or "hydrozorbing", which involves putting water in the ball, which zorbers can slide around on as it revolves.








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Train surfing

Train Surfing

So what is Train surfing?  
Usually an illegal sport, train surfing involves riders climbing or "surfing" on the outside of a moving train or subway. The practice is a serious issue in South Africa, where many young people have been killed or injured. The 'sport' was made popular in the 1980s in Germany, where it was called "S-Bahn Surfing". The phenomenon was then forgotten, but in 2005 it was rediscovered by a gang from Frankfurt, Germany. The leader of the crew who called himself "The Trainrider" famously surfed the InterCityExpress, the fastest train in Germany. What do you think about train surfing? Would you dare try it?


Want to learn about other extreme sports? 

-Banzai Skydiving
-Zorbing Balll 
-Train Surfing  
-Sky surfing

Awesome quotes on risks taking

1. "Do not fear mistakes. There are none." -- Miles Davis
2."Do one thing every day that scares you." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
3."Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." -- Billy Wilder
4. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain
5. "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -- Anais Nin
6. "99 percent of success is built on failure." -- Charles Kettering
7."If you risk nothing, then you risk everything." -- Geena Davis
8."Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
9."You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -- Wayne Gretzky
10"Danger can never be overcome without taking risks." -- Latin Proverb

Extreme photoshots (17 pics)

The skateboard house

Skateboard house must be the ultimate dream for generations of skateboarders who wanted to bring their practice into their home. The PAS House is the project of a private residence, to be built in Malibu, California. In this house you will be able to skate any areas and surfaces, Indoor and Outdoor. The client and visionary of the project is Pierre Andre Senizergues (PAS), a former World champion and Pro Skater and the founder of Etnies.

The PAS house is the first house designed to be entirely used for skateboarding as well as being a traditional dwelling. The prototype of PAS House was recently presented at La Gaite Lyrique museum in Paris.