Learn About the Extreme Sport Inline Skating

A Skater Doing a Grind Trick

A type of inline skating known as aggressive inline skating is typically done on half pipes, skateparks, and urban obstacles. Street skating is typically done on ledges, rails, and also by leaping very high heights called “gaps.” In parks, inline skating is typically performed on a variety of obstacles that include bowls … Read more

Learn About the Extreme Sport Kite Ice Skating

Kiteskating aerial trick by rider Martins Sprogis

Ice-based kite ice skating, also known as kite skating, para-skating, or para ice skating, is a sport in which participants skate across frozen rivers, lakes, and other frozen surfaces while being propelled by a sizable, controllable kite. By angling a standard diamond-shaped kite, similar to how a sailboat can adjust its direction … Read more

Learn About the Extreme Sport Freestyle Scootering

Learn About the Extreme Sport Freestyle Scootering

Kick scooters are used to perform freestyle tricks in the extreme sport of freestyle scootering (also known as scootering or scooter riding). If you’ve ever been to a skateboarding park, you’ve probably seen this in action. Following the Razor craze in the early 2000s, freestyle scootering became popular after Micro Mobility Systems … Read more

Learn About the Extreme Sport Skysurfing

Skydiver

Team parachuting is a form of skysurfing. There are only two people on each team. One of them is a professional skydiver, while the other is a cameraman. Because everything takes place in the air, the participants need to be prepared. Each surfer is solely responsible for their own preparation prior to … Read more

Learn About the Extreme Sport Kitesurfing

Learn About the Extreme Sport Kitesurfing

In kiteboarding or kitesurfing, a large power kite is used to propel a rider across a body of water or a snowy expanse. Skateboarding, snowboarding, and wakeboarding are all incorporated into this unique sport. Kiteboarding is one of the more affordable and convenient sailing sports. The sport gained a wider audience in … Read more

Learn About the Extreme Sport Land Windsurfing

man standing on his skateboard with a sail

It’s a sport similar to traditional windsurfing, but it’s done on land rather than water, which is called “terrasailing” or “land windsurfing” or “dirt windsurfing.” Four-wheeled boards, like mountain boards or skateboards, are commonly used in tandem with a mast and sail to propel the board over land. Probably the first person … Read more

Learn About the Extreme Sport Paintballing

Men and women playing paintball

Paintball is a team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents by hitting them with paintballs. Paintballs are shot with low-energy air weapons called paintball markers, which were designed for remotely marking trees and cattle.  Wall Street stock trader Hayes Noel and outdoorsman/writer Charles Gaines invented the game in New Hampshire in … Read more

Learn About the Extreme Sport Canyoning

Young Lady with safety equipment abseiling through a waterfall

Canyoning (called “canyoneering” in the U.S. and “kloofing” in South Africa) is a type of mountaineering in which people travel through canyons using different methods, such as walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling (rappelling), and swimming. It’s a sport that goes by a lot of different names. People do it to explore hard-to-reach … Read more