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godskid5
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just wondering how many climbers out there are also into other extreme sports. Skydiving, cliff jumping, kayaking, etc...... or do you just give it all to the rock?
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robmcc
Aug 25, 2004, 8:56 PM
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:roll:
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trenchdigger
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Nope, I gave up the dangerous stuff like soccer after destroying my knee last year. 4 months off from climbing after surgery was too much. I'm sticking to the safer stuff from now on.
~Adam~
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I gave up sponsorship for half-ironman distance tiathlons, and Xc mt-biking...all for climbing. Every dollar goes into gear, and my car to get me there.
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kimmyt
Aug 25, 2004, 11:13 PM
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Sometimes I eat those pretzels that the guys sell off the side of the road. That's pretty extreme, right? Or is that hardcore?
Great, now I'm confusing myself....
K.
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tchamber
Aug 26, 2004, 12:09 AM
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I don't know about "extreme sports" but I do seem to have more life threatening or possibly debilitating hobbies than my friends. I ride a motorcycle (constantly, only take the car if I'm driving someone else), I climb 3 times a week, and I play hockey (when not on motorcycle or climbing). I do a lot of running too, but I don't think that counts.
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lokiraven
Aug 26, 2004, 12:24 AM
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I used to fight "no holds barred" which is far more controlled and safe than most people think, but still considered extreme. I also used to mountain bike alot. Now I just climb as often as I can.
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godskid5
Aug 26, 2004, 1:42 AM
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In reply to: Sometimes I eat those pretzels that the guys sell off the side of the road. That's pretty extreme, right? Or is that hardcore? Great, now I'm confusing myself.... K.
that's just scary!
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jerrygarcia
Aug 26, 2004, 1:43 AM
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Taking LSD, now THAT was an extreme sport! I've been caving since 1992, I guess you can call that an extreme sport.
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godskid5
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In reply to: Taking LSD, now THAT was an extreme sport! I've been caving since 1992, I guess you can call that an extreme sport. |
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Aug 26, 2004, 1:54 AM
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I'm dating a 19 yr old!
I eat at Poncho's.
I used to mt bike.
I used to kayak.
I used to skin dive.
and now I climb eat and eat.
all my $ goes to those three things!
ohhh well I'm happy!
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thewyseclimber
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So I tried skydiving once...if I had money, and I didn't need more gear, I'd jump out of airplanes every weekend. It's the coolest thing I've ever done in my life, all climbing included. You all should try it.
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alan_ellis
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Skydiver for 23 years. 2700 jumps, instructor, and parachute rigger. The best part: My wife is a climber and skydiver too.
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Scuba diving? It never seemed extreme until that shark swam by...
It's very different from climbing, but it's the only hobby that I didn't give up when I took up climbing.
Also like climbing, diving involves spending way more time BS'ing about doing it than actually doing it. It has the same opportunities for camaraderie (i.e. drinking beer while BS'ing).
:robert:
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Aug 26, 2004, 2:49 AM
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ya'll are clueless. The sooner you realize that xlimbing is not an extreme (whatever the fukk extreme means) sport, the sooner you can progress in your own climbing.
"Climbing is not and never will be an 'x-treme' sport. It's too calculated, too natural, with no gratuitous stunts, not enough blood, and altogether too much class." --Jeff Achey, from Climbing 230.
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arschles
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i walk around town hitting big dudes in the face.
i also go deep water scuba diving with t-bone steaks tied to my legs.
oh wait. i made that up.
i used to skateboard and do the inline thing. i think they call it aggressive skating, but in that case i guess i do some aggressive walking sometimes. and aggressive running.
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dogma
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I race streetluge professionally also!
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tech_dog
Aug 26, 2004, 3:21 AM
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SCUBA is extreme, depending on how you do it. Spending time 150 feet under water takes knowledge and complete faith in your equipment... just like rock climbing.
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tech_dog
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This may sound strange, but I found skydiving to be a bit boring. You jump, you fall. A rock could do it.... except for the jumping part.
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i skate, longboard, surf, snowboard... anything that involves the risk of leaving some of my skin behind....
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The whole 'extreme' thing came out of extreme skiing, which in Europe meant 'you fall you die' i.e. very steep chutes etc. In the US the extreme skiing video series by Eric Perlman poplarized American style extreme skiing, i.e. jumping off cliffs.
Then it went everywhere.
At the first extreme games I saw a banner on an alley for extreme bowling! They were interviewing athletes asking "what does extreme mean to you?" and everyone was like "it means an overused lame marketing word". The next year they switched it to the X-Games. :lol:
I'm into too many damn sports:
skiing powder/steeps (fatties) or halfpipe/bumps (twin tips)
wakeboarding
skydive
bungee
trampoline
slackline
raft/kayak
scuba
jet skiing (in the waves preferably, only standup)
snowboarding/telemark
mtn bike
surfing
wind surfing
ice/alpine/mountaineering/backcountry skiing
my wife made me promise not to BASE jump though
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iclimblilrocks
Aug 26, 2004, 3:36 AM
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I paintball, And bang your mom..... And I also do hott chicks(which is very extream, just like your mom)
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jerrygarcia
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In reply to: I paintball, And bang your mom..... And I also do hott chicks(which is very extream, just like your mom)
I would think you are more mature than that.
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Aug 26, 2004, 4:34 AM
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I play golf...
and you should see what I can do with a golf cart :wink:
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i spend hours pretending i'm henry rollins :shock: ....he's pretty extreme?
?extreme???once in a while i'm falsely lead to believe that my friends KNOW how to belay....i learn the truth once i started the lead....
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godskid5
Aug 26, 2004, 6:31 AM
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In reply to: I paintball, And bang your mom..... And I also do hott chicks(which is very extream, just like your mom)
grow up.
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Aug 26, 2004, 9:55 AM
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In reply to: I play golf... and you should see what I can do with a golf cart Wink
I know. You can really rip a golf ball with rock-climbing shoulders. :roll: seriously
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Aug 26, 2004, 11:48 AM
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I do a lot of different In reply to: overused lame marketing word
- Mtn. Biking
- Skateboarding
- Backcountry Snowboarding
- used to "aggresive" Rollerblade
- Windsurf
- Sail (from Dinghies to tallships) I like to sail dinghies in storm conditions. Same goes for windsurfing
- Mountaineering
- Canoe
- Telemark
- I've bungee swnug
- probably forgetting somethnig here... :?
Nik
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tallnik
Aug 26, 2004, 11:51 AM
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I do a lot of different In reply to: overused lame marketing word
- Mtn. Biking
- Skateboarding
- Backcountry Snowboarding
- used to "aggresive" Rollerblade
- Windsurf
- Sail (from Dinghies to tallships) I like to sail dinghies in storm conditions. Same goes for windsurfing.
- Mountaineering
- Canoe
- Telemark
- I've bungee swnug
- Snowshoe-ski (on the old-schools shoes)
- probably forgetting something here... :?
Nik
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saltamonte
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Hobbies I enjoy that are labeled as extreme by some people
* adventure racing
* mountianbiking (down hill)
* barefoot skiing
* snow boarding & snowskiing
* canyoneering
* kayaking
* hydrofoiling
other hobbies not typically refered to as extreme
* paintball
* long distance running
* camping/ hiking
* primative weapon hunting Archery, and muzzle loader
* most every other kind of hunting (traditional fire arms)
* traditional water skiing,
* 4x4 off roading
* canoeing
* mtn biking (cross country)
* Fishing
* boating
* rollerblading
* triathalons
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karma
Oct 5, 2005, 5:51 PM
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In college I helped a friend of mine launch water balloons, eggs and left over hot dogs (uncooked) at a Frat party full of drunken, randomly moving targets using a three-man slingshot. We had a pretty high hit percentage, and we were shooting open-sights. Does that count?
All of my friends tell me I need to stop sports things that involve breaking bones but I tend to think I'd get hurt in a jump house or ball crawl so...
I sort of climb rocks, I ride a lot of road miles, a started mtb riding and broke my leg Thursday night, I used to road race motorcycles (properly, at the track) but broke lots of bones and acquired much debt and I used to race around in cars but that was kind of expensive, too. So, aside from paying for my doctor's vacation and feeding money to tire and oil companies, I'm just like everyone else.
Skydiving was very cool, but too expensive to pursue as a regular hobby.
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In reply to: I paintball, And bang your mom..... And I also do hott chicks(which is very extream, just like your mom)
Anyone who bagged on iclimblilrocks is wrong. Mom jokes are funny specifically because they're so blatantly stupid and immature...like your Mom.
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I snowboard, in the park ostly but also backcountry, dont know if its extreme, but I dont really think climbing is... Ive been hurt more often on the trail to the rocks than while climbing rocks themselves..
I also dirtbike, and surf... Id kayak and BASE jump if I had money
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I once read Kierkegaard. It was pretty intense.
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Well I don't really consider anything I do "Extreme", but the chix do so that's why I do it(I'll note ahead of time that if you think I'm serious you should practice kicking your own ass before I get there :D :twisted: )
But I:
Skydive, Cliffdive(into water), climbing, smoke cigarettes, used to do an ungodly amount of drugs, and jump off my friends house into his above ground swimming pool or off his house onto trampoline and into pool.
There are a few more activites I don't deem worthy of this list but there is the gist of it. And if you think that last one isn't "EXTREME!!!!!", my friend literaly broke his neck doing it last week. Now I have lost my craziest, best friend to all of the other extremem things we might have done.
Justin (friend who broke neck)-"You think I can do a flip from off my house into the pool?"
Me-"Hell yeah! Go for it pussy."
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In reply to: ya'll are clueless. The sooner you realize that xlimbing is not an extreme (whatever the fukk extreme means) sport, the sooner you can progress in your own climbing. "Climbing is not and never will be an 'x-treme' sport. It's too calculated, too natural, with no gratuitous stunts, not enough blood, and altogether too much class." --Jeff Achey, from Climbing 230.
But, hypothetically speaking I climbed with vaseline on my hands and bad pro. And I was naked. And I had a snapping turtle "fixed" to my johnson. Would climbing be extreme then?
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I drive to work and back every day...now many of you will think: that si not estreme, I drive to work too!!...yeah well, try to do it in Madrid...you will change your mind!
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saltamonte
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In reply to: ya'll are clueless. The sooner you realize that xlimbing is not an extreme (whatever the fukk extreme means) sport, the sooner you can progress in your own climbing. "Climbing is not and never will be an 'x-treme' sport. It's too calculated, too natural, with no gratuitous stunts, not enough blood, and altogether too much class." --Jeff Achey, from Climbing 230.
so if it is calculated then it can not be extreme. if that is the case then not even evil kenevil (spelling?) was extreme because all his stunts were VERY calculated even the ones that went wrong.
by your defination I would like to hear what is an extreme sport.
by following your defination:
it must be uncalculated, unnatural, posses gratuitous stunts, bloody, and unclassy.
I dont think anyone thinks of that combination when they hear extreme sport.
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Freeride snowboarding, love to hit those steep slopes. I guess its extreme due to the avalanche danger...
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In reply to: Sometimes I eat those pretzels that the guys sell off the side of the road. That's pretty extreme, right? Or is that hardcore? Great, now I'm confusing myself.... K.
That's the only way to eat a Philly Soft Pretzel
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In reply to: I once read Kierkegaard. It was pretty intense.
I once had a class on Hegel, Nietzche and Kierkegaard. Now THAT was extreme! I'm still working on the crux chapters of Phenomenology of Spirit :wink:
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Due to marketing futures, all "extreme" sports are now to be referred to as "action" sports. thank you.
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I climb, skydive, father 4 kids, and I am a scoutmaster. Yes I am extreme. If you think skydiving is boring you should try swooping.
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Sport Bikes, Skydiving, Bungee Jumping
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