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

Learn About the Extreme Sport Extreme Ironing

Learn About the Extreme Sport Extreme Ironing

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

Learn About the Extreme Sport Big Wave Surfing

Person Surfing on Big Waves

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

Learn About the Extreme Sport Freediving

Freediver descending along the vivid reef wall. Red Sea, Egypt

Freediving is one way for some people to experience the ocean’s depths without having to wear bulky, awkward, and painful scuba gear. Freediving, in contrast to most other extreme sports that require intense adrenaline pumping, is perceived by some as an extreme sport with the unique quality of demanding deep relaxation and … Read more

Learn About the Extreme Sport Flowriding

Learn About the Extreme Sport Flowriding

The majority of these extreme sports, including surfing, bodyboarding, skating, skimboarding, snowboarding, and wakeboarding, are often performed outside. However, flowriding is an inside variation on these sports. On a 14-wheel skateboard, players engage in the indoor sport of flowriding. Flowriding or Flowboarding is a late-20th century alternative board sport combine elements of surfing, bodyboarding, skateboarding, … Read more

Learn About the Extreme Sport Volcano Boarding

A guy is doing volcano boarding in the Cerro Negro of Nicaragua

An activity that takes place on the crater rims of volcanoes is known as “volcano surfing” or “volcano boarding. The Cerro Negro near Leon in western Nicaragua is one of the most popular places for this activity to take place. Riders climb the volcano and slide down on a thin plywood or … Read more

Get to Know the American Chef and restaurateur Guy Fieri

Guy Fieri

Even after all these years, the spike-haired rhapsodist of roadside meals on television is still playing it for laughs. However, he is also gaining recognition inside the food industry as a kind of elderly eminence. Guy’s Big Bite, which Guy Fieri created and hosted for the first time, debuted on Food Network … Read more