Top 10 Extreme Actions Sports You Should Never Try
It's Tom Cruise on the side of a plane ! Wait, what? Not only hanging off the side of a plane, but also spending more time in extreme situations. Here are 10 extreme actions sports for the brave and foolhardy.
10. Street Luging
Looking for some weekend fun? How about you grab a long skateboard, drive up the largest hill you can find and then lay down on your board and luge your way down to the bottom without brakes along the same road you just came up?
9. Train Surfing
Climbing onto trains, surfing on the roofs and hanging precariously off the side while they are rumbling along at high speeds. If it sounds dangerous it’s because it is.
8. Volcano Surfing
For some, a Volcano isn’t just a geological time-bomb, it’s a place to surf. Particularly adventurous daredevils seek out these active volcanos, don a protective suit and sail down them on surfboards constructed of plywood, metal, and Formica.
7. Tow-In or Big Wave Surfing
To surfers, catching the big wave is the dream. But what you and I might think of as big pales in comparison to two, three and bigger waves that these thrill-seekers are riding.
6. Heli-skiing
Skiing is dangerous in a controlled environment, but for the truly daring there is heli-skiing.
5. Base Jumping
Base jumpers fling themselves off of relatively high places and attempt to parachute down. If you’re looking for a quick fix for your desire to leap off of something high then this might be the sport for you.
4. Wingsuit Flying
This sport is so dangerous that only skydivers with at least 200 successful jumps are allowed to participate in it. Like base jumping, the dangers associated with this sport involves chutes not opening, hitting something on the way down, or being caught in an unpredictable wind.
3. Cave Diving
Diving in itself is fairly dangerous, but cave diving take this sport to a whole new extreme. Since the 1960s over 500 people have died from cave diving in Florida, Mexico and the Caribbean.
2. Highlining
Tightrope walking over a net in a circus tent seems silly enough, but highlinging over a natural canyon might be downright insane.
1. Free Solo Climbing
Rock climbing with a partner, proper gear, and proper instruction can be a relatively safe affair - all things considered. But free soloing takes rock climbing to the next level. Only the most experienced climbers attempt this, and they usually limit their climbs to well-known routes.
