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I feel like i've done pretty much every cheap adrenaline sport there is to offer where i live......
-Kitesurfing, in flat water and in the waves up to 6ft...
-Downhill mountain biking, hitting huge drops/kickers ....
-Regular road cycling, bombing down steep hills up to 70km/h and flying through corners...
-Regular surfing, and SUP Surfing, some great memories of riding 4-6ft southerly swell on the gold coast..
-Wakeboarding, wakesurfing and waterskiing, I've ridden behind and driven top of the line tow boats that throw out a mega size wake...
So what is next then? To be honest with you, I am a bit bored with all of the above now. I've researched/dabbled with:
-Paragliding - I did a 3 day intro course on the Sunny Coast, it was great fun, but seems hard to get to an area where you can soar with plenty of uplift and room that is relatively close to home (i,e within 1/2hr drive)..also, highly regulated.
-Speed flying - as above, I think the closest areas suitable for this sport would be Byron Bay.
-Jetski? Seems a bit boring, plus I prefer minimal sports as I'm generally not a petrolhead bogan by nature.
-Moto x? As above.
-Foiling - a bit slower and crusier?.. would it be difficult without a deep water area...?
Anyone else have ideas or got to this point also?
These lads are on to it...
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/General-Discussion/Chat/Please-explain-
Maybe go out a couple of kms on a windsurfing board into a sharky channel, ditch the board, and swim in?
If that doesn't do it for you, swim back out to get the board and swim it back in.
If that doesn't work, there's no hope. I think the rest of us mere mortals struggle with just one or two of those.
Most of the sports you mention are really only adrenaline sports if you're doing it wrong. If you're under control and having fun then they're more about style and satisfaction than adrenaline.
For me foiling is probably the ultimate in pure fun. Any conditions from <10 knots to 40+ knots has something to offer that other water sports can't really match. I can do it almost every day and pretty much the worst thing that happens is I get a bit wet, or have to swim in.
I just had another thought for extreme sport. Go cycling in Sydney.
If you want to, peak hour traffic routes are sure to be fun, but if you are particularly crazy, go riding by yourself on a weekday morning. I have done it a few times, but I will stick to getting my adrenal from realising I have run out of milk for breakfast.
Hey, I'm on a roll... how about buying a 12.5m windsurf sail, and taking it out on your Formula board in a 25 knot southerly and trying to get back to where you started when all the board wants to do is rocket up wind. Its awesome fun. You get to waterstart and if the sail isn't ripped out of your hands you get to fly upwind and try and figure out how to make the thing go back downwind.
Sounds sedate doesn't? I didn't think so.
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Gorgo said..
Most of the sports you mention are really only adrenaline sports if you're doing it wrong. If you're under control and having fun then they're more about style and satisfaction than adrenaline.
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I have to agree. I have been windsurfing for almost 20 years, and rarely is it about adrenaline. Its about trying to improve my sailing, or trying to go faster than my buddies, or trying a new trick.
I started kitesurfing and wakeboarding as well, and its the same thing. Maybe I am doing these things too sedately?
, that is more extreme stress than anything else.... maybe I could also buy a house in sydney ant then go cycling, get a double hit of extreme.
well if your after Adrenalin then take up bow hunting & target wild buffalo in the top end ...
Did you mean "kiting in 6ft" as in head hi faces - or 6ft hawaiian?
You might need to go windsurf in big waves next.
I'll be keen for wingsuiting if u are. My local spots boring me have been thinking the same. If it's mid life crisis will be dying early lol
The trouble with all pure adrenaline sports is that once you can do them they are inherently boring if it is just a matter of going back and forwards (or up and down if that is the plane you are working on) doing the same thing.
That is where organised competitive sport has an advantage when it is combined with an exciting activity.
Sailing skiff racing for instance. Demanding, exciting, full of spills and all sorts of challenges. But you don't just need to be able to do it, or even just do it well. You constantly need to take it to the next level of perfection to beat the others. Ant it's not just physical skills, you need to be able mentally master the chess board that is a racing course; out thinking and out maneuvering the others. Add the social aspect of a club based sport and you have something that will hold the attention for much longer.
Muay Thai.
Started doing it a few years back as a way to keep fit, and have ended up accidentally getting better and better. Far too old to do a fight but I enjoy sparring. There are so many angles to it; physical endurance, mental endurance, muscle memory, breathing, focus, tactics, luck, trade-offs, rhythm, and on and on.
As a bonus it is indoors so completely weather-independent.
I like my local boxing club's this idea:
They train you for 4 weeks then find you much depending on age and ability, then you invite you family, relatives and friends watching you fight.
I am gonna do it for my next anniversary birthday,... if my tennis elbow goes away..
I will be yelling out loud at the end of the fight: Adrian !
