Extreme, extreme hobbies and sports. Unusual sports. Sports - list. extreme sports

Skydiving or skiing is a great way to overcome your fears. Seriously taking up base jumping, you will definitely get rid of the fear of airplanes, and after a downhill ride on any roller coaster, it will seem like an attraction to you.

Extreme sports give you more confidence. In addition, this is a great way to attract the attention of the fair sex. What girl refuses to go on a date with an extreme biker? And the parachutist lady is guaranteed to have a lot of enthusiastic fans. In addition, when doing extreme sports, incomparable emotions arise, and this helps to perfectly deal with stress. Add to this the production of endorphins that occurs with any physical activity, and any nitpicking of the authorities will not be able to anger or offend you.

Another plus - extreme requires good physical shape, which means that your body will be strong and trained. Also, practicing such sports causes an accelerated work of the heart and an increase in respiratory activity, the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

The most popular extreme sports include mountaineering, skydiving, diving, parkour, road jumping and.

Cons of extreme sports

By training too much, athletes not only overload the muscles and ligaments, but also wear out the heart. Constant bursts of adrenaline are also not very good for health. You can avoid these consequences by limiting your workouts. But extreme sports are akin to addiction - once you try it, you want to keep going.

Sometimes extreme sports are a manifestation of auto-aggression - an activity aimed at causing harm to oneself. This phenomenon occurs due to mental disorders.

The disadvantages include the peculiar lifestyle of an avid extreme. Often, only like-minded people are able to support the constant search for new experiences, the frantic pace of life and the athlete's regular risky activities. The extreme family often opposes such a sport, which leads to conflicts.

The last but not least disadvantage of extreme sports is its high cost. Good equipment is expensive. Also, the athlete may need additional funds, for example, to climb to a given height when skydiving or to travel to a good ski resort.

Adrenaline or life

Extreme sports help a person to either relieve stress, or vice versa to get it. There are more and more extreme sports every year, and the army of its fans is also growing rapidly. Those sports that seemed extreme 20 years ago are now perceived as ordinary sports, for example, auto racing. Existing extreme sports also do not stand still and are constantly being improved.

Consider the most extreme sports today, where getting injured, maimed or simply losing your life is easy.

Let's jump, friends?

One of the most dangerous and, accordingly, extreme sports is base jumping(English) base jumping).

Title B.A.S.E. - an acronym for English words: building(house); Antenna(antenna); Span(floor, bridge); Earth(rock). Its "progenitor" is parachuting. However, unlike skydiving from aircraft, base jumps are made from drastically lower heights in the immediate vicinity of the object from which the jumper (jumper) is jumping, be it a rock, a building, a factory chimney or something else.

In the base, due to low altitudes, the falling speed when performing jumps very rarely reaches high rates, but the flight time is very short, which often makes it difficult to take the correct body position before opening the parachute.

Even with a prepared jump and sufficient experience, this sport is extremely dangerous, and in some countries it is completely prohibited by law. And attempts at independent BASE jumps without the appropriate equipment and skills definitely lead to death.

Running with obstacles

Another type of extreme sports associated with buildings and structures - parkour.

parkour (fr. parkour, distorted from parcours, parcours du combattant- distance, obstacle course).
Parkour is the art of moving and overcoming obstacles. The essence of parkour is movement and overcoming obstacles of various nature. Both existing architectural structures (railings, parapets, walls, etc.) and specially made structures (used during various events and competitions) can be considered as such.

Many practitioners perceive it as a lifestyle. Founded by a group of French (David Belle, Sebastian Foucan and others). It is currently actively practiced and developed by many associations and individuals in many countries.

Parkour is not much less dangerous than base jumping, as high buildings and spans between them are often chosen for this sport.

Skiing! Ski track?

Next on the list for injuries and deaths is heliskiing.

heli-ski (English) Heliskiing) - a kind of skiing, freeride, the essence of which is to descend along untouched snowy slopes, away from prepared tracks with an ascent to the beginning of the descent by helicopter. The use of a helicopter for ascent allows you to find various options for descending from the mountains in the conditions of pristine nature, untouched by human invasion, where there is no other way to quickly climb.

First, the helicopter takes you to the top of the mountain, and then you ski down these mountain slopes.
Off-piste routes allow you to experience indescribable sensations - they are ten times more dangerous because of their unpredictability, and often complete impassability. But the skier, as they say, is already in flight...

Diving(English) diving from English. to dive- dive) is scuba diving with special equipment. In English, where the word was taken from, Eng. diving simply means "diving", and is used to describe scuba diving with equipment (Eng. scuba diving) or without it free diving), diving business (eng. hooka diving) and - without adjectives - just jumping into the water.

Scuba diving requires the skills to deal with most dive problems, but even with those skills, it's easy to come face to face with a shark or electric ray, which is often the case with even the most experienced divers. And then, the outcome of events can be very sad.

Cave diving(cave diving, hydrospeleology) - a type of technical diving performed in caves.
This sport is much more dangerous and more difficult than ordinary simple diving. After all, in cave diving you will not be able to immediately surface, in case of danger or lack of oxygen.

In addition, cave diving is often constrained by darkness, narrow spaces and the opportunity to meet very unpleasant underwater inhabitants when you least expect it. There is also a hidden danger - this is silt. It is found in almost every cave system. Consisting of clay and decayed plants, it is able to completely deprive the diver of visibility. One wrong move with flippers or a hand - and the water, clear as air, becomes cloudy brown. In this state, it can remain for several days.
If the diver swam far into the labyrinths of caves, then there is every chance of not getting out of there alive.

Above the water

Following underwater sports are surface sports - surfing and wakeboarding.

First there was surfing. Moreover, surfers claim that surfing has always existed, as far as the ocean exists in general.
Surfing (from the English surfing - riding on the surface) is riding a wave using surfboards of various formats.

Everything about surfing is easy. I took a board, swam away, saw a wave 2-3 meters high, caught it and rolled on it like from a mountain. Only instead of a mountain, the wave itself. In addition to the board, wind and swimming trunks, nothing is needed at all.
It would seem that there could be dangerous? But everything is not so simple. After all, you need to find a bigger wave, climb it, and ride it.

This is where danger awaits in the form of a wave absorbing you, from under which it is already impossible to get out, or in the form of reefs that unexpectedly stand in the way of a surfer. Not to mention surfing near sharks.

Catch the wave!

And if the ocean is not nearby and is not expected? You can forget about surfing altogether.
It is quite logical that everyone wanted endless and fast boarding, and it is not at all surprising that some daredevil once tied a cable to a boat and took a ride in tow. Judging by the fact that wakeboarding came out of all this tomfoolery, the brave feat was a success.]

Wakeboarding(often just a wake, from English. wakeboard: wake- ship wave, board- board) - one of the most actively developing water sports and recreation in the world. Wakeboarding can be compared to water skiing, with the only difference being that a wakeboarder not only rides behind a boat holding on to a cable, but also performs various tricks with the help of waves and springboards.

Today, special boats are used for wakeboarding, to which a special halyard with a special handle is attached to a special frame, and wakeboarders ride on special boards. These boards don't look like surfboards at all. Short and awkward-looking boards. But at high speed - what you need, especially considering that every wave from the boat is an ideal springboard for freestyle. A double somersault on a rope behind a boat is easy. By the way, the boat has a special ballast compartment for adjusting the displacement and, consequently, the size of the wave.

Now wakeboarding is practiced wherever there is a river, a large lake, the sea or the ocean. There are even covered "wakedromes" - pools, where instead of a boat there is a winch, and springboards are made of slippery soft material.
However, even soft springboards do not greatly alleviate the injury risk of this sport, because hitting the water at high speed is not as safe as it might seem.

How to ride through the air?

But a man would not be a man if he had not come up with the idea of ​​riding a board even in the air.
skysurfing- this is ski jumping to perform various figures in free fall - a relatively young type of parachuting.

Skysurfing appeared relatively recently, but has already received rapid development. A person who makes various figures in the air with a board (ski) is called a skier. The aerodynamics of a skier is very different from a simple free fall when skydiving, so ski jumping is considered almost a different sport. Since all work is done in free fall, an air operator is needed to evaluate the jump, who films the entire jump, and based on this video, an assessment is made.

A skydiver jumps with a board strapped to his feet. And "rolls" on it through the air, performing complex acrobatic elements. The board works like a wing, the movements of the legs control the rotation of the body in the air. The board in skysurfing allows the athlete to spin like a propeller, then stop abruptly and start spinning in a different plane. This is not the case in any sport.

This sport is little more dangerous than just skydiving. Indeed, in addition to the standard risks of a skydiver, such as an unopened parachute, tangled lines or a strong gust of wind, there are all the risks of breaking into some kind of peak and not getting out of it. Even with extremely experienced and skilled skydivers and skysurfers, extremely bad things happen.

When there is no ocean

Another dangerous sport is skateboarding, skateboarding, skateboarding (English skateboard, skate).

Skateboarding originated in America almost 50 years ago. Then the Californian surfers, who did not have enough ocean waves, invented a skateboard, that very board on wheels, as an analogue of a surfer board.
Skateboarding was brought to the Land of Soviets in the mid-80s of the last century. And our compatriots liked this kind of entertainment and sport. In stores, batches of skateboards of domestic and imported production were sold out in one day. And already in 1992, our country had its own skateboarding federation, the first competitions began to be held.

It would seem that there is nothing dangerous in this sport, if not for one "but". After all, a person cannot just ride a board, he begins to do various tricks on it.

As a result, skateboarding from its classic form has grown into several directions: vert (skating in a ramp), street (street skating), mini-ramp skating and pool skating (pool skating). Moreover, the first of these is the most difficult to execute.
And in these tricks lies an extremely high risk of injury.

If the head is not expensive

Another type of extreme skating is street lagging.

This extreme sport was invented in California back in the 70s, however, the name was invented much later. Teenagers hit the road, lying on skateboards, and accelerating along the track next to the cars. In this case, you can slow down either with your feet ... or colliding with an obstacle or a car ... Sometimes, even protective helmets do not help here ...

My climber, my climber...

No less dangerous than all of the above is rock climbing- a sport that came out of mountaineering.

Despite more than half a century of climbing history, the safety of the sport associated with climbing vertical walls to heights is still in question. Falling off cliffs can result in serious injury and death. But many climbers still believe that injury is just something that happens to others.

I pedal, I pedal

Another quite extreme sport - mountain bike.

A bicycle is such a thing that it is very good to ride downhill and very lazy to pedal uphill. But if you ride from a very steep mountain, then the bike may break. Or rather, he could, until a couple of inventors somewhere in California thought of putting motorcycle wheels on a bicycle first, and then a shock absorber. Who knew that their hobby - to ride a bike down an unkempt slope will gain worldwide popularity.

There are a huge number of types of mountain biking today, and unlike even a snowboard, all bikes are fundamentally different, although all mountain bikes.

Cross-country bikes are light and fast, but perform well on rough terrain. Cross-country bikes are just as light, but strong and ready to quickly rush down the mountain, go through sharp turns and fly 5 meters from the springboard to the receiver. Freeride full-suspension suspensions withstand a jump from a second floor or landing on a flight of stairs. Hardtails for street and dirt are lightweight and allow you to perform the most unthinkable aerial tricks. Trial "stock" with an ultra-low frame and without any hint of a saddle does not look like a bicycle at all. It's all mountain biking.

Alloy, Alloy!

Well, the last one, in our far from complete list of extreme sports - rafting, rafting on stormy rivers with rapids.

Rafting - rafting on a raft raft- raft) - varieties of inflatable boats:
- on stormy, rapids rivers, rafts without a frame and oarlocks are used, and a canoe rowing method is used (single-bladed oar);
- for the transportation of expeditionary cargo on multi-day tours, rafts are used, reinforced with a stiffening frame with oarlocks for oars, and the swing rowing method is used. Also, tourists who are not able or unwilling to row canoe oars are often transported on rafts with swing oars. Rafts with oar oars are operated on rivers of any complexity category, up to the fifth.

Rafting is fundamentally different from other types of water tourism both in the type of vessel on which the rafting is carried out and in ideology. Rafting can be both touristic, with minimal obstacles and risks, and sports, when the rivers and rapids are steep and dangerous. In any case, this sport can end in tears.

This list of dangerous sports goes on and on, there is no limit to perfection.

Alexander Ozerov,based on tennishop.ru, sport.crazys.info, liveiternet.ru, ru.wikipedia.org

It has been actively gaining momentum since the 1990s. Society is rapidly developing, giving rise to its new interesting types and branches.

Such a sport is definitely not for the faint of heart - it is a risk and adrenaline that pushes the daredevils to reach new heights. Athletes are constantly competing to see who can jump higher, run faster, or fly farther.

Often, love for such sports leads to injuries and even death.

extreme sports

Cliff jumping

An extreme sport with Polynesian origins is cliff jumping. Extreme lovers climb a rock 28-30 meters high and jump from it into the water. Often such jumps end in failure.
In order to tickle your nerves, it is not necessary to jump from a great height, for starters, you can choose a lower rock - in any case, you are guaranteed an adrenaline rush.

Bungee jumping with crocodiles

This unusual and very dangerous sport was invented in Australia. The whole point is that a person is tied with a cable to the bridge from which he jumps. The cable is shorter than the distance from the bridge to the ground, but this does not meanthat such entertainment has no consequences.

If just jumping off a bridge isn't enough for you, then the Australians will give you a small bonus - a river under the bridge, teeming with hungry crocodiles.

Climbing the rock by car

This sport will challenge any driver. You will need to drive your car along a terrible road cut by boulders and ravines.


The slightest miscalculation can lead to a car overturning or, even worse, throwing it off a cliff. Buckle up!

Walking on a tightrope

You have probably seen more than once how the tricksters in the circus walk alongrope under the dome.The slackline sling is not quite the rope we are used to. In fact, it is made of nylonout threads that are able to stretch.

Often it is used as a trampoline to perform various tricks, but some have gone further.The most daring athletes pull lines over gorges or between buildings. The sight is truly mesmerizing.

Higher and higher

A relatively new kind of extreme sport, pioneered by the Russians, is to climb the highest point of any structure.

Many extreme lovers even maintain their own blogs, where they talk about the peaks they have conquered. A place to climb can be a construction crane, a skyscraper, or even a monument.

On the wings of the wind

Those who like to tickle their nerves can not sit still, and they came up with another extreme and very unusual sport. Its essence is that for safety you are tied to the upper wing of a biplane, which will subsequently accelerate to 135 miles per hour.

For extreme adventurers, the pilot will be happy to perform some aerobatics that you will definitely never forget.

base jumping

Each of us at least once in our lives dreamed of learning to fly. Fortunately, today everyone has the opportunity to feel the beauty of free flight.

Be prepared to be dressed in a special suit, which in its structure resembles a flying squirrel. Such a suit increases the overall area of ​​​​your body, so you can glide for a long time in the air.

For a soft landing, of course, you need a parachute. Mortality among fans of this sport is quite high, as many athletes prefer to fly as close as possible to the rocks.

Train surfing

The creator of this sport is clearly not all at home. Train surfing is banned in many countries.

The fact is that a person involved in train surfing climbs onto the roof of the train and tries to stay on it while moving. People around the world are dying trying to do this. The sport was popular in the 80s and 90s and then reappeared in 2005.

parkour

Parkour is the art of overcoming obstacles quickly, accurately and efficiently. This sport does not require special special equipment - it can be practiced in any accessible place.

The steeper the obstacle, the greater the risk and adrenaline rush. Since there is no need for special equipment, parkour is one of the most accessible extreme sports.

speed skateboarding

These unusual skateboarders use long boards with softer wheels and a wide wheelbase, allowing them to reach incredibly high speeds.

They can go up to 70 miles per hour and the slightest miscalculation could be their last.

Although all extreme sports are dangerous, according to statistics, the highest mortality is observed among athletes involved in hang gliding.

Pilots use special equipment - a hang glider, and jump with it from a great height. The large wingspan of a hang glider creates enough lift to keep a person in the air. Sounds pretty fun and relaxing, but it's very dangerous.

encierro

For most people who have visited Spain, the encierro, or bull run, is an interesting tourist experience. However, it is worth remembering that the slightest mistake can lead to serious injury and even death.

Angry bulls are released into the streets of the city, and the task of the race participants is to escape from them. Pure madness.

Water extreme sports

Surfing

Westerners first learned about surfing during James Cook's first voyage, when his ship docked on the island of Tahiti. Surfing has been an integral part of ancient Polynesian culture and certainly predates the arrival of Europeans on the island.

Today, surfing is common in many countries with access to the sea or ocean, and thousands of fans of this sport, despite the risk, consider it the best pastime.

Diving without scuba gear

Many do not even realize that in order for diving to become an extreme sport, a person simply needs to take away the scuba gear. Imagine that some divers dive to depths of up to 100 meters without the oxygen tank they normally carry on their backs.

These athletes have larger lungs than normal people. This is due to the fact that they train long and hard, holding their breath.

One of the most rewarding activities is sports. Some do it because they want to look good, others because they like the boost of energy that sports give them. But there are those who go in for extreme sports to get a good dose of adrenaline. Not everyone dares to do this sport, as it is quite dangerous. In this rating, we will talk about the most extreme and dangerous sports.

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This is a young, rapidly gaining popularity sport, the basis of which is movement under the action of the traction force developed by a kite held and controlled by an athlete. This is a very fashionable and dynamic, spectacular and rather extreme sport. With the help of the wind, the kite tows you where you want, not the wind. For kitesurfing, any place with wind towards the shore is suitable. A large open body of water and a comfortable place to take off and land a kite are very important. Many people are engaged in kitesurfing along the coast of the ocean, as well as on large lakes and rivers. It all depends on the level of the surfer and his place of residence.

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It is the art of moving and overcoming obstacles, a discipline based on a simple philosophy: there are no boundaries, only obstacles. Many practitioners perceive it as a lifestyle. It is currently being actively practiced and developed in many countries. The essence of parkour is the movement and overcoming of various obstacles, both existing architectural structures such as railings, parapets, walls, etc., and specially made structures. A person who does parkour is called a tracer. People who have been doing parkour for a long time do it beautifully and clearly, but sometimes beginners cannot do without abrasions, bruises and fractures.

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Downhill skiing on a long skateboard in the prone position appeared in Southern California in the 70s of the last century. Over time, race organizers have become more serious about safety, track regulation and equipment requirements. Street lagging rules are now regulated by several racing associations, and the sport itself is included in the demonstration program of the summer X-Games. In total, there are about 1200 active riders in the world, but it can be assumed that there are many more of them and not all of them live according to the rules of official organizations.

Of the safety equipment, riders only have a helmet, elbow and knee pads, gloves and a tracksuit. This is quite a bit, considering that it is difficult to force a skateboard that has accelerated to slow down quickly. In street lagging, riders slow down on any objects that get in their way - walls, cars, stones and trees. Obviously, only the luckiest riders don't get hurt with this way of stopping!

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This is a time rafting on mountain rivers with the passage of natural and artificial obstacles on special 6-, 4- and 2-seater inflatable boats. Rafting is a team sport and each participant performs certain functions during the rafting, and the crew as a whole follows the instructions of the leader-captain. As a sport, it was included in the All-Russian Register of Sports in 2003. Rafting is a commercial type of rafting, which means that no previous experience is required to participate in the rafting. It is also quite a dangerous sport, especially when it comes to routes of the 3rd and higher category of difficulty. The main dangers are: overcoming powerful rapids and waterfalls, falling into rubble and underwater pockets, getting injured, hypothermia, remoteness from civilization and, as a rule, lack of communication with rescue services.

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Diving with special equipment that provides an autonomous supply of air for breathing under water from several minutes to 12 or more hours, depending on the depth, type of breathing apparatus and consumption of the gas mixture by the diver. There are 3 types of diving: recreational diving - diving for recreation and pleasure, professional diving and sport diving. To be a scuba diver, you need to have a set of skills to deal with the vast majority of diving problems. These skills and knowledge are acquired during the training process and are confirmed by a certificate from one of the diving associations. Diving is always associated with a danger to life and health. Main hazards: drowning, decompression sickness, barotrauma, gas poisoning and oxygen depletion or technical breakdown.

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Bull taming or Rodeo is a cowboy sport that includes taming a wild horse, riding a horse bareback, lassoing a bull, grappling with a wild bull and taming it with a lasso, riding a wild bull. Distributed in the USA, Canada and Australia. The cowboy must not only stay on horseback for 8 seconds, but also show the potential of the animal by spurring it. No other sport can be as dangerous in terms of bodily injury as bull rodeo. Here is a complete set for medical research: sprains and ruptures of muscles and ligaments, fractures of various degrees of severity, blows, etc. The rider takes a risk every time he mounts a bull.

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A type of technical diving done in caves where the so-called overhead environment exists. In fact, this is the same diving, only in underwater caves. It is a very dangerous sport and places extremely high demands on the skills of the swimmer, the reliability of the equipment and the configuration of the equipment. The main danger of cave diving is that it is difficult or impossible to make an emergency ascent. But there are other dangers as well. The risk of getting lost or not calculating the air supply - therefore the air reserve. There is always a chance of being left without artificial light, so you need to be able to swim and navigate in complete darkness. There is a danger of damaging the equipment by hitting a wall or ceiling. A large amount of silt can obstruct visibility for a long time, and just like in the dark, you have to look for a way out blindly.

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Paragliding is paragliding using the lift force of ascending air currents. Such currents arise due to wind and terrain, for example, when the wind blows towards a mountain or when there is an updraft of heated air. A steam glider is a simple system of a fabric wing, ropes and a system. The movement is carried out due to the special shape of the wing of the steam plane, into which air is drawn, due to which it is picked up by the wind and carried in any direction. Paragliding is a rather dangerous, but very fashionable kind of aviation extreme sport.

The athlete is required not only to be in good physical shape, but also to have a good knowledge of physics, the atmosphere, the behavior of air flows, etc. As a rule, the flight begins at the top of mountains, hills or rocks, where a powerful air flow rushes up at high speed, skirting the top. The pilot should not be either an alarmist or a scorcher. It's the same with risk - smart calculation is always better. And not only for the pilot himself. After all, he is not alone in the sky and, risking himself, can create a dangerous situation for other paragliders.

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The top three most extreme sports are mountaineering - climbing the tops of mountains. The sporting essence of mountaineering is to overcome the obstacles created by nature on the way to the top. In sports competitions in mountaineering, the object of the competition is the height of the peak, the technical complexity of the route traveled, its nature and length. When passing mountainous terrain and glaciers, there is a danger of falling, dislocations, fractures, avalanches and other dangerous situations that can happen even if safety precautions and all mountaineering rules are observed.

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A kind of alpine skiing, freeride, the essence of which is to descend along untouched snowy slopes, far from prepared tracks, with an ascent to the beginning of the descent by helicopter. Using a helicopter for ascent allows you to find various options for descending from the mountains in the conditions of pristine, untouched nature, where there is no other way to quickly climb. Depending on the type of helicopter, its carrying capacity, there may be several people in a group of skiers. The group, as a rule, is accompanied by a guide who knows well the peculiarities of the descent along certain slopes. Where there are mountains, there is always risk and danger. To practice heli-skiing, skiers must have a good command of the technique of descending on virgin lands on slopes of various steepness. To ensure safety, each skier must have an avalanche beacon, an avalanche probe, a shovel and other necessary equipment to quickly search for people in an avalanche, because. there is a risk of falling into an avalanche.

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The most extreme and dangerous sport that uses a special parachute for jumping from fixed objects. Base jumping is considered the most dangerous type of skydiving and is currently considered as an extremely extreme sport. The height from which the base jumper jumps can be from 40 to 1000 meters, while ordinary skydivers jump from a height of at least 1000 meters. The lower the object, the higher the jumper's skill is considered, and the more dangerous the jump. Another difficulty of this particular sport is that you need to open the parachute in just a few seconds at the very beginning of the jump.

For base jumping, specially designed parachutes are used, which are significantly different from ordinary ones. They do not have a reserve parachute, since it will not be useful at such a low altitude, and there are no belay devices. The difficulty in base jumping lies in the fact that landing usually occurs on limited surfaces, and therefore requires a lot of experience from the base jumper piloting a parachute. Attempts to base jump independently without the proper equipment and skills usually result in severe injury or death.

Once upon a time, bungee jumping or parachuting from a height of six thousand meters was considered the most dangerous. But today, this is not much of a surprise, because extreme sports do not stand still.

We present to your attention a list of dozens of dangerous types of extreme sports, the existence of which you, perhaps, did not even suspect.

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1. Volcanoboarding

Snowboarding is yesterday! We present to your attention a new sport - riding on a volcano. Volcanoboarding is as insane as it seems at first glance. The only place in the world where you can ride the slope of an active volcano is Nicaragua, Department of Leon. It is here that the active volcano Cerro Negro is located. Anyone can rush down from a height of 725 meters on a special wooden board at speeds up to 80 km / h, knowing that the volcano is still active, and its last eruption occurred just over 10 years ago. This is a truly powerful adrenaline rush! It will take 45 minutes to climb to the top of Cerro Negro, and God forbid you go down not only with a breeze, but in its entirety, because the slope of the mountain is really steep: 41 degrees.

2. Trainsurfing

This activity is completely illegal. But this article is not about laws, but about absolute extreme sports, so we will tell you about trainsurfing. Its essence lies in riding on the roof or on the running board of trains moving at full speed. You have probably seen a lot of shots with similar "passengers" made in Africa or India. An extensive campaign against this type of extreme is currently being launched. Its main hazard is that "passengers" may be thrown off the train at full speed or injured while driving over an overhead contact line or entering a tunnel. Although extreme is extreme, and it is unlikely that such difficulties will be able to frighten truly desperate people.

3. Human catapult

Airkick(R) is another extreme sport that is also called the "human catapult" (I think this name puts everything in its place). A special throwing device throws the extreme up along a pre-calculated trajectory using air pressure and water reverse technology. Extreme presses a button to lift himself into the air by 8 meters, and flies at high speed into a pool of water. At the same time, it is very important to enter the water correctly: if you fall flat on your stomach, you can get serious damage! This activity is clearly for those to whom the usual prefabricated pool for giving is already small.

4. Driving through the dunes in jeeps

Just imagine the most steep and high sand dunes, which are simply impossible to climb, and then imagine that you are overcoming these heights in a four-wheel drive car and at the same time you are overcome by the fear of falling - this is the indescribable feeling of extreme desert jeep tours. This type of extreme is popular in the United Arab Emirates, and this is not surprising, because local cars are best adapted for this. If you decide on such a trip, do not forget to take a video camera with you: there will be something to show your friends, otherwise they will not take your word for it!

5. Base jumping

For those who have the urge to jump off a very tall building...the help of experts is clearly needed! But for those extreme sportsmen who are already tired of banal skydiving, base jumping will help in search of thrills. It differs from conventional skydiving in that base jumpers skydive from fixed objects, as in paragliding. There are four types of fixed objects for base jumping: buildings, antennas, bridge spans and rocks. The danger lies in the fact that there is very little time for the parachute to open, so you need to pull the ring at the very beginning of the jump, otherwise the consequences can be disastrous.

6. Speedriding

Speedriding is an amazing mix of paragliding and skiing. Speedriders use a special kind of parachute and ski to go downhill quickly and gain speed in the process. This kind of extreme sport is very dangerous and involves such high speeds that it has already been banned on some ski slopes. Thanks to the use of a parachute, the glide speed is incredibly increased: it is impossible to accelerate so much just skiing.

7. Slacklining

This extreme sport requires strong but not too tight ropes. If the rope is not too tight, then if necessary, it can stretch like an elastic band. But the rope with a stretched string is easier to move, which allows you to perform some tricks! By the way, very dangerous. The slacklining record is held by Christian Schu, who walked a tightrope over a gorge at a height of one kilometer, which is equal to the height of three Eiffel towers.

8. Run with the bulls

is the perfect way to get a truly colossal dose of adrenaline. Not everyone is able to voluntarily run ahead of an angry animal that weighs a ton. Nevertheless, every July crowds of people gather in the Spanish city of Pamplona to participate in the race with the bulls, which are then used for bullfighting. The only criterion that the participant must meet is the age of over 18 years. Therefore, any adult can run a distance of 840 meters along with hundreds of other thrill-seekers. But you need to keep in mind that 14 people who took part in such races have already died.

9. Bird Man

Many of us fly in our dreams, but Birdman does it in reality. Flying made a reality a special wing suit, with which you can control your movements when jumping from a cliff. Using this miracle suit, you can reach speeds from 225 to 240 km / h. The Romsdal valley in Norway during the summer solstice is the most popular place for such flights. As the suit fills with air and the nylon wings carry Birdman forward, he can experience the unparalleled feeling of freefall.

10. Luge street sport

Last but not least is street luge, which originated in southern California among skateboarders. These guys once discovered that they could develop much faster speeds while lying on the board and sliding down very steep slopes. To date, this type of extreme has gained great popularity in Europe. If you want to try, then prepare for possible injuries, namely fractures, which are very possible, because when sledding down a slope at a speed of 96 km / h, the legs often serve as brakes.