Ultimate X is Cape Town’s largest extreme sports lifestyle event bringing the adrenalin and excitement of extreme sports to over 3,000 consumers in an urban environment. On Sat February 20 2010, the V&A Granger Bay site will be transformed into an extreme sporting paradise. Burning rubber, searing adrenalin, high jumps & sunshine will create an unrivalled vibe.
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When Bex was in New Zealand, she went skydiving with Taupo Tandem Skydiving, who posted this awesome pic on their Facebook group today… Santa has found a more extreme way to travel…
Zac Efron was interviewed on David Letterman in 2008 to promote his film Me and Orson Welles, but spent most of the interview discussing his love of extreme sports. As a child, he’d been a keen skateboarder, then moved onto the bike, the surfboard, and just before this interview had done his first bungee jump (and plans to skydive!) – a true extreme sports junky! Zac indicated that there was a far higher chance of falling off a mountain bike, but that where he bungee jumped, they have a 10 year 100% safety record (that’s the kind of place I’d go with!), and he jumped from 275ft, maybe causing “a little whiplash”, but seeing that as all part of the fun… and in fact going for a second jump!
“Two kite surfers from West Sussex took advantage of strong winds on the south coast to realise an ambition to jump over Worthing pier.
Jake Scrace, 25, and Lewis Crathern, 24, had been planning Monday morning’s jump for three years but had to wait for perfect weather conditions.”
Amateurs: do not attempt!
Read full story from the BBC.
“Why fly your own plane? Everyone needs a strategy to de-stress. Work is hard (and seems to be getting harder). Taking home each day’s worries is no fun at all. At the end of the week, I need a way to distance myself from work and put frustrations and problems into perspective. So I go flying. As pastimes go, it is relatively solitary since most of us who indulge do so alone. If you’re after sociability, stick to golf.
Flying an aeroplane can be a busy activity, and while you are doing it there is no time to worry or even to think about much else. A one-hour flight gives me a mental workout. Flying is, I find, the ultimate pick-me-up. It exercises different yet complementary skills to those I call on at work but it also demands expertise in multitasking and managing a workload. Just like work, in fact.”
Read the full story in the Times Higher Education.
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Wow, wow, wow – these guys have got timing, they’ve got rhythm, they’ve got bounce! I just like having a taste of adrenalin sports – these guys have SERIOUS dedication to their art! Thanks to Tom Minter from Socks for Happy People for drawing it to my attention.
“After 15 successful years in Zurich, the guys responsible for Freestyle.CH decided to put on not one but two action sports extravaganzas for 2009. In addition to the well-known one that went down at the end of September, they brought the love to Berlin too.
For the first time, snowboarders and other extreme sports athletes were flying through the air at former airport Belin Tempelhof this year.es we’re flying through the air former airport Berlin Tempelhof this year.”
Whoa, what more can you say about this crazy skydiving stunt…, but you can find more on the Discovery Channel!
This summer I took a week’s holiday on the lovely island of Guernsey. At only nine miles long by three miles wide it has plenty of coastline, coves and beaches to provide super fun activity thrills!
As Guernsey has three other islands very nearby — Herm, Sark and Alderney – visiting by rib boat is quick and easy.
And what better way to enjoy it than going with Iron Man, Supergirl, Batgirl, and Mr and Mrs Incredible!
The strongest wind on the beach + the smallest kite = still massive fun.
We missed WhiteAir09 on Brighton Beach last weekend – looks awesome …. did you make it? What did you think of it? Is there one planned for 2010, because I’d quite like to go!
Extreme Sports Included….
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An awesome video created by Brendon Held, containing action packed video footage of his/friends extreme sport adventures around the world. In this video you will see kitesurfing, Surfing, Wakeboarding, Snowboarding, Sky-diving, Bungee Jumping, Mountain Biking, Jet-skiing and much more… Some of the destinations include South Africa, Mozambique, the USA and Austria. Bex says, “I can’t complain, I did a lot of these on my trip around the world… not tried kite-surfing yet though!”
“I’m standing in a field with a 180cc single-cylinder, two-stroke engine strapped to my back. A large fabric wing lies dormant on the ground in front of me. I look over my shoulder, shout “clear prop” and press the green start button. The engine roars into life.
I need to take off soon. There’s only so much standing around you can do with 42kg of engine and fuel on your back. Controlling the 24m2 wing like a large kite, I make one last check of the canopy, turn sharply into the wind and start running. In a few steps I’m airborne. I slide back into my seat, check my lines and wing again, record the time and start climbing.
This is the ultimate sense of freedom. This is paramotoring.”
Read more in the Times Higher Education, where Paul Chapman, another academic, pushes himself with the adrenalin sport of paragliding.
