Extreme Cave diving.
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all cave diving is extreme
Edd Sorenson has some fantastic cave rescue / body recovery stories incase anyone's interested. The dude is an absolute legend in the cave diving circles.
Cave diving is a good one. But also underwater cave diving, if that's the right term. Seeing pictures of those those "don't go beyond this point you will die" signs underwater is pretty dang spooky
I think "cave diving" is generally understood to refer to the underwater variety.
If you're referring to general cave exploration, that would generally be called "spelunking"
... That would make sense haha
Aw yeah....i was gonna say that. Nightmare fuel.....
Don't read about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty_Putty_Cave then. Quite a way to go out, 28 hours headfirst into a crevice you can't back out of. RIP
Anvil firing
You get 2 anvils, stack them on top of each other, the bottom one upside down, pack some gunpowder between them, light it, run, and the top one shoots off into the air and eventually comes back down.
I'm sure it's a blast (literally) but I'm not trying to looney tunes myself.
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You have to try it with a piano.
Three years ago, I broke my leg free climbing. It took two and a half years of physical therapy to get back to maybe 80% of what it used to be, and now I have a permanent metal plate. I was lucky it wasn't any worse.
I don't think I'll ever free climb again, it's just not worth it. However, I also would never do cave diving.
That'll teach you to be cheap. Next time, pay a fair price for your climbing.
(Seriously though, that sucks and I'm glad it didn't end even worse!)
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The kind of parkour runs which you do on top of high rise buildings
I know you didn’t ask and probably don’t care, but free climbing and free soloing are different things. Free climbing uses a rope, but does not allow you to use artificial means to ascend, like pulling on gear you put on the wall. The gear is just there to arrest a fall.
Free soloing is where you climb without a rope. Free climbing uses a rope for safety, but upward mobility is hands and feet on wall. Aid climbing is where you climb by fixing gear to the wall and use it to ascend.
If you know what you’re doing, free climbing is pretty safe. Free soloing is not, but people do it successfully without their huge balls weighing them down.
As a side note, bouldering is also climbing without a rope, but you don’t climb high enough to make a fall fatal.
Thanks! Yeah I meant free soloing. I was under the illusion that 'Free Solo' was just the name of the Alex Honnold documentary and free climbing was the term for the sport itself, like free diving.
wingsuit. How do they even train?
Start out with "simple" skydiving, then put on a wingsuit and train while skydiving.
You're probably talking about proximity flying. I've done a bunch of wingsuit flying, in groups, from a plane. Skydiving but with wingsuits. With all of the correct training and gear, it felt completely safe.
I never BASE jumped, but when I was skydiving a lot I was considering giving it a go, but still leaning towards the 'nah that's probably a bit too dangerous for me' side.
Then there's base jumping with a wingsuit... Something that if I had gotten into base jumping, would still have probably been too scary.
Then, about 100x more dangerous and terrifying than all of that, is proximity flying - wingsuit base, with the intention of staying close to terrain the whole time. These psychos fly through valleys, between trees etc...
Knowing what I do about how tricky it is to fly a low-performance, gentle easy wingsuit in a stable formation, the idea of flying these bigger, twitchier high performance wingsuits through a valley just seems suicidal. Absolutely nope.
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I used to know 2 wingsuit guys. Now I only know 1
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Honestly, I don't know what's supposed to be fun about cave diving. Like, normal diving doesn't push your buttons any more so the next logical step is to go diving in a grave?
Extreme ironing. I don't see the point of dragging a board and iron anywhere. Even at home I'd rather wear wrinkles than open that board. (which is why I buy perminant press church clothes)
I've done a little bit of cave diving. There are caves I would dive again, and some I absolutely would not. These experiences rank very highly among the coolest of my life. There's things to see down there you can't experience any other way. But yes, it is relatively dangerous and I spent a lot of time down there not thinking about how far away I was from the surface.
Cave diving.
Extremely risky even for the very experienced. You only need one thing to go wrong and that's it. Sometimes even the best planning can result in your death because something entirely out of your control happens.
Hard to pick one when I'll never do any of them.
Free plummeting. Although that's just a fancy way to say "jumping off of something really high and then dying when you hit the ground." The problem is you can only do it once, but it will be the last extreme sport you will ever try.
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Bungie jumping. No skill and stupid aa fuck.
Yeah, free soloing is the one. I climb all the time, totally happy doing anything at any height with a rope but without one? Nah.
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Chess?
The one I would also most like to do, if only it was safe and I wasn’t disabled: wingsuiting. Even if I wasn’t disabled I still wouldn’t do it, just because I don’t want to die by smashing into the ground at 60 mph. But moving through the sky like that sounds incredible.
I may be wrong here but I think that just like sky diving vs BASE jumping, you can actually just do it from a plane, which sounds like it would be a lot less dangerous
Bull riding.
slope skiiing
I can't tell if you're trying to say Alpine skiing is scary or that you're into all the stuff people consider to be extreme sports.
I would gladly skydive; but strapping some dead trees to my feet and hurtling myself at high speed towards a bunch of live trees, as though taunting them, seems like a bad idea.
Yes indeed, mocking gravity while hurling yourself directly towards the enormous local source of it all is much more sane (said as someone who has done plenty of both)
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