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Aha – Definitive list of extreme sports?

One of the few photography competitions that I enter is the Red Bull Illume competition which only runs every few years. This is the rules page.

What’s nice about this is it has a list of the sports which the competition covers. Customarily I’d be hitting on the kitesurfing because that’s who/what I am. However, lately I have been trying to find a decent list of extreme sports to see a) how many I’ve tried and b) how many I have left still to try that I want to try.

I reckon this is a good list.

This is the list of stuff I have, actually, at some stage, tried.

  • Beach volley ball
  • BMX biking
  • Kayaking
  • Kitesurfing
  • skateboarding
  • skiing
  • surfing
  • windsurfing

In addition to those ones I have cableskiied and whitewater rafted. And I also do indoor climbing now.

Of the ones I’d like to try:

  • bodyboarding
  • cliff diving
  • free diving
  • mountainboarding although I don’t really have any excuse there…
  • bouldering – not much of an excuse there
  • skydiving
  • snowboarding
  • snowkiting
  • ice climbing

I did, for a while, want to try hang-gliding and also missing from the list canyoneering, but I ran into the Wall of Fear that I can’t quite over come at this stage. Hang-gliding was fine until I saw people stepping off cliffs in Australia one day. That was the day I realised I couldn’t do it.

The climbing has been a mess this week. It hasn’t happened. I am going to get such a slagging when I go back in on Saturday.

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