Personally I’d say cave diving. I was contemplating between that and free climbing soloing but I honestly rather fall to my death than drown in a claustrophobic, dark, cold, silted up cave.
Russian roulette, full chamber.
Russian Roulette.
Niche sport that’s very hard to become pro in
I almost played Russian Roulette once, thankfully I was late to the game. The guys wanting to play didn’t have a revolver, so they used a semi-automatic pistol. I really dodged a bullet with that one
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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!)
The kind of parkour runs which you do on top of high rise buildings
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.
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?
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.
I used to know 2 wingsuit guys. Now I only know 1
Bungee Jumping.
I cannot do things upside down.
I did it one time with a pelvis area harness instead of the feet-hanger shit so I didn’t go upside down. It was like a carnival bungee jump thing that was about 80 feet high, cost $25 to do. It was scary as shit for the moment of falling but once the bouncing started it was pretty dang fun.
I did the reverse bungee jumping where they shoot you up like a slingshot (in a cage). I shit you not, 2 weeks later the cord snapped. Cant recall how bad the people got hurt or died but the place tore it down
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.
How else can you appreciate the view from halfway down?
Competitive face slapping
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.
I just watched the documentary Free Solo last weekend. I have never been climbing, not because I didn’t want to. But now I also don’t want to.
My advice is to try it out at an indoor gym first! And also never to free solo anything! Ever!
Knife Monopoly
There is no bankruptcy. If you can’t pay you get stabbed. First one to the ER looses.
Chess?
