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Extreme sports. Are they sports?
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| LIs | Дата: Понедельник, 16.04.2012, 08:51 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| Extreme sports are nontraditional sports. They are characterized by high speed and high risk. Among these are skydiving, street luge, bungee jumping, base jumping. Are they worth going in for? Why do people go in for these dangerous sports?
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| Fet | Дата: Пятница, 20.04.2012, 16:38 | Сообщение # 2 |
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| Speed, excitement, danger. You can find all these in the different extreme sports that have become popular last 10 years. Take bungee jumping. You jump off a bridge and you fall and fall, and then, just before you hit the ground or water, an elastic rope pulls you back. In skysurfing you jump out of aeroplane and use a board to “surf” the air, doing gymnastics in mid-air!
Winter sports have always an element of danger. For example snowboarding, which has all the excitement of surfing but on snow, is more dangerous even than skiing. Probably the most dangerous of all the new winter sports is snowrafting. You sit in a rubber boat and sail down a mountain at great speed – and you can't control the boat!
Of course, water sports have always been fun. Ice diving, for those people who are absolutely crasy. You put on diving equipment and dive under a frosen lake. And, if that's not enough, you try to walk upside down on the ice! I feel cold just thinking about it.
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| LIs | Дата: Пятница, 20.04.2012, 23:28 | Сообщение # 3 |
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| Oh, really. have never heard of such extreme like ice diving and hope you will never want to try these.
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| dimon | Дата: Среда, 02.05.2012, 19:03 | Сообщение # 4 |
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| I love zorbing.Zorbing is the recreation or sport of rolling downhill in an orb, generally made of transparent plastic.
Construction.
Construction zorbing is the zorb is double-sectioned, with one ball inside the other with an air layer between.
History.
Hamster balls, hard plastic single layer spheres made for small rodent pets, have been manufactured and sold since at least the 1970s.[3] A Russian article on the Zorb mentions a similar device having debuted in 1973.[4] In the early 1980s, the Dangerous Sports Club constructed a giant sphere (reportedly 23 metres / 75 feet across) with a gimbal arrangement supporting two deck chairs inside.
Records.
Longest sphereing ride held by Steve Camp who travelled 570 metres (1,870 ft).
Fastest sphereing ride held by Keith Kolver who reached a speed of 52 kilometres per hour (32 mph).
Fastest 100m in a Zorb - 26.59 seconds. Held by Andrew Flintoff who broke the record as part of his attempt to break 12 world records in 12 hours for BBC Sport Relief
Zorbing is extremal sport i love it and you would like it too.
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