Personally I’d say cave diving. I was contemplating between that and free climbing soloing but I honestly rather fall to my death than drown in a claustrophobic, dark, cold, silted up cave.
Competitive face slapping
I just watched some highlights with my kid during the weekend. It looks insane! I could never.
Apparently there are lots of concussions and TBI’s in that “sport”. Maybe more than boxing.
Extreme Cave diving.
all cave diving is extreme
Edd Sorenson has some fantastic cave rescue / body recovery stories incase anyone’s interested. The dude is an absolute legend in the cave diving circles.
Jesus that’s terrifying.
Three years ago, I broke my leg free climbing. It took two and a half years of physical therapy to get back to maybe 80% of what it used to be, and now I have a permanent metal plate. I was lucky it wasn’t any worse.
I don’t think I’ll ever free climb again, it’s just not worth it. However, I also would never do cave diving.
That’ll teach you to be cheap. Next time, pay a fair price for your climbing.
(Seriously though, that sucks and I’m glad it didn’t end even worse!)
Russian Roulette.
Niche sport that’s very hard to become pro in
I almost played Russian Roulette once, thankfully I was late to the game. The guys wanting to play didn’t have a revolver, so they used a semi-automatic pistol. I really dodged a bullet with that one
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Wrecking ball duelling. But I’d pay to see others do it with each their own tower crane.
I’d be up for that if you’ll find me an opponent - and a crane.
Knife Monopoly
What’s knife monopoly?
They stab you and then you skip a turn
Heaven help you if you pass “GO.”
There is no bankruptcy. If you can’t pay you get stabbed. First one to the ER looses.
Anything with an internal combustion engine. Fuck that
What about it, for curiosity’s sake? Is it the fumes? The crazyness of literally going so fast as to barely retain control in tons of metal? Or for things like motorbikes, doing all that without tons of metal for a modicum of protection? lol
I love motorsports, but no matter the power source, the extreme stuff kinda’ takes having a screw or two loose…
It boils down to hating interior combustion engines and being constantly exposed to their nuisances as a pedestrian, cyclist and kayakist.
So… things not actually restricted to intwrnal cpmbustion engines? That sounds… rather petty and foolish.
slope skiiing
I can’t tell if you’re trying to say Alpine skiing is scary or that you’re into all the stuff people consider to be extreme sports.
I would gladly skydive; but strapping some dead trees to my feet and hurtling myself at high speed towards a bunch of live trees, as though taunting them, seems like a bad idea.
Yes indeed, mocking gravity while hurling yourself directly towards the enormous local source of it all is much more sane (said as someone who has done plenty of both)
The one I would also most like to do, if only it was safe and I wasn’t disabled: wingsuiting. Even if I wasn’t disabled I still wouldn’t do it, just because I don’t want to die by smashing into the ground at 60 mph. But moving through the sky like that sounds incredible.
I may be wrong here but I think that just like sky diving vs BASE jumping, you can actually just do it from a plane, which sounds like it would be a lot less dangerous
Chess?
I know you didn’t ask and probably don’t care, but free climbing and free soloing are different things. Free climbing uses a rope, but does not allow you to use artificial means to ascend, like pulling on gear you put on the wall. The gear is just there to arrest a fall.
Free soloing is where you climb without a rope. Free climbing uses a rope for safety, but upward mobility is hands and feet on wall. Aid climbing is where you climb by fixing gear to the wall and use it to ascend.
If you know what you’re doing, free climbing is pretty safe. Free soloing is not, but people do it successfully without their huge balls weighing them down.
As a side note, bouldering is also climbing without a rope, but you don’t climb high enough to make a fall fatal.
Thanks! Yeah I meant free soloing. I was under the illusion that ‘Free Solo’ was just the name of the Alex Honnold documentary and free climbing was the term for the sport itself, like free diving.
Yeah, free soloing is the one. I climb all the time, totally happy doing anything at any height with a rope but without one? Nah.
I just watched the documentary Free Solo last weekend. I have never been climbing, not because I didn’t want to. But now I also don’t want to.
Bungie jumping. No skill and stupid aa fuck.
Bull riding.
I’ve done a little bit of cave diving. There are caves I would dive again, and some I absolutely would not. These experiences rank very highly among the coolest of my life. There’s things to see down there you can’t experience any other way. But yes, it is relatively dangerous and I spent a lot of time down there not thinking about how far away I was from the surface.
