Popular Extreme Sports
In this article, we’ll introduce some popular extreme sports!
Are you familiar with extreme sports?
“Extreme sports” are activities that involve performing daring feats using various gear or your own body, often incorporating intense elements, or competing in height and speed.
In recent years, activities like slacklining and bouldering have become especially popular.
For those who’ve thought, “I want to try at least once!”, we’ve put together a list of popular extreme sports this time.
Some can be dangerous, so don’t push yourself!
Know your limits and enjoy them to the fullest!
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Popular Extreme Sports (21–30)
Freediving
Unlike scuba diving, which involves snorkeling with an air tank on your back, freediving is done without any breathing apparatus.
Gliding gracefully with only fins on your feet and no other gear may look like a mermaid, but it’s anything but easy—it’s a sport that requires strong mental fortitude to endure long periods without breathing and dive to great depths.
Dual Snowboard
A so-called dual snowboard, which is like shrinking a snowboard and attaching one to each foot.
It’s a relatively new winter sport invented by an American snowboarder in 2011.
It’s also called a separated board.
Since your feet aren’t fixed together like on a snowboard, you can glide on one foot, jump freely, and enjoy a wide variety of tricks.
Parkour
Parkour is a sport performed solely with human physical ability, without using any equipment.
With movements like running, jumping, and climbing, practitioners nimbly kick off walls to spin or leap to high places.
It’s exhilarating to watch, but it also makes you wonder what kind of physical capabilities these people have… The superhuman feats are so astonishing that it’s hard to believe they’re the same humans as the rest of us.
Mountain board
A mountain board is a board equipped with rubber tires capable of handling rough terrain, with bindings that fix your feet like a snowboard, allowing you to ride downhill on mountain trails.
It looks just like snowboarding, but since you ride over routes with lots of roots and gravel, it’s more challenging than riding on snow.
It may look easy and feel great when you watch it, but it’s not so simple to ride like that yourself.
Street luge
Luge is a winter sport where you lie on a sled and speed across the ice.
Street luge is the same idea, but done on paved roads instead of ice.
Riders lie on their backs on a wheeled sled called a “sled” or “street luge board,” and race down roads to compete for the best time.
It may look simple at first, but the speeds can exceed 100 km/h, making it quite a thrilling sport.
hydrospeed
Rafting is a river sport where several people ride a rubber boat and enjoy descending rapids, whereas hydrospeed uses a one-person rubber board and fins on your feet.
Like using a kickboard at a pool, you lie face down on the board and ride down the river, letting you feel the water right at the surface—an extremely thrilling sport.
Windsurfing
Windsurfing is a marine sport that combines yachting and surfing: a sail is attached to a surfboard, and the wind captured by the sail powers you as you glide over the waves.
While the term windsurfing may evoke a relaxed image of gently drifting across the water, as a competitive sport it’s a different story—marked by incredible speed and intensity that’s truly overwhelming.