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
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
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
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
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
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
Extreme ironing (also referred to as EI) is a dangerous sport in which participants travel long distances with ironing boards and clothes to be ironed. A new extreme sport called extreme ironing combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of an immaculately pressed shirt, according to an organization … Read more
Big wave surfing is a type of surfing where experienced surfers paddle into waves that are at least 20 feet (6.2 m) high or are towed into them on surf boards called “guns” or “towboards.” The size of the wave and the way the surfer gets to the wave affects the size … Read more