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.
Free plummeting. Although that’s just a fancy way to say “jumping off of something really high and then dying when you hit the ground.” The problem is you can only do it once, but it will be the last extreme sport you will ever try.
Extreme Cave diving.
Jesus that’s terrifying.
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.
all cave diving is extreme
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.
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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(⌐■_■)Niche sport that’s very hard to become pro in
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
There is no bankruptcy. If you can’t pay you get stabbed. First one to the ER looses.
What’s knife monopoly?
They stab you and then you skip a turn
Heaven help you if you pass “GO.”
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
wingsuit. How do they even train?
Given a chance to truly fly, you’d pass on that?
Using a wingsuit is just fancy falling.
I used to know 2 wingsuit guys. Now I only know 1
You’re probably talking about proximity flying. I’ve done a bunch of wingsuit flying, in groups, from a plane. Skydiving but with wingsuits. With all of the correct training and gear, it felt completely safe.
I never BASE jumped, but when I was skydiving a lot I was considering giving it a go, but still leaning towards the ‘nah that’s probably a bit too dangerous for me’ side.
Then there’s base jumping with a wingsuit… Something that if I had gotten into base jumping, would still have probably been too scary.
Then, about 100x more dangerous and terrifying than all of that, is proximity flying - wingsuit base, with the intention of staying close to terrain the whole time. These psychos fly through valleys, between trees etc…
Knowing what I do about how tricky it is to fly a low-performance, gentle easy wingsuit in a stable formation, the idea of flying these bigger, twitchier high performance wingsuits through a valley just seems suicidal. Absolutely nope.
Start out with “simple” skydiving, then put on a wingsuit and train while skydiving.
Cave diving is a good one. But also underwater cave diving, if that’s the right term. Seeing pictures of those those “don’t go beyond this point you will die” signs underwater is pretty dang spooky
Don’t read about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave then. Quite a way to go out, 28 hours headfirst into a crevice you can’t back out of. RIP
I think “cave diving” is generally understood to refer to the underwater variety.
If you’re referring to general cave exploration, that would generally be called “spelunking”
… That would make sense haha
Aw yeah…i was gonna say that. Nightmare fuel…
Anvil firing
You get 2 anvils, stack them on top of each other, the bottom one upside down, pack some gunpowder between them, light it, run, and the top one shoots off into the air and eventually comes back down.
I’m sure it’s a blast (literally) but I’m not trying to looney tunes myself.
You have to try it with a piano.
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Extreme ironing. I don’t see the point of dragging a board and iron anywhere. Even at home I’d rather wear wrinkles than open that board. (which is why I buy perminant press church clothes)
Bungee Jumping.
I cannot do things upside down.
I did it one time with a pelvis area harness instead of the feet-hanger shit so I didn’t go upside down. It was like a carnival bungee jump thing that was about 80 feet high, cost $25 to do. It was scary as shit for the moment of falling but once the bouncing started it was pretty dang fun.
Honestly, I don’t know what’s supposed to be fun about cave diving. Like, normal diving doesn’t push your buttons any more so the next logical step is to go diving in a grave?
