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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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The kind of parkour runs which you do on top of high rise buildings

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Aw yeah....i was gonna say that. Nightmare fuel.....

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

... That would make sense haha

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

wingsuit. How do they even train?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Start out with "simple" skydiving, then put on a wingsuit and train while skydiving.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Bungee Jumping.

I cannot do things upside down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anything with an internal combustion engine. Fuck that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What about it, for curiosity's sake? Is it the fumes? The crazyness of literally going so fast as to barely retain control in tons of metal? Or for things like motorbikes, doing all that without tons of metal for a modicum of protection? lol

I love motorsports, but no matter the power source, the extreme stuff kinda' takes having a screw or two loose...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wrecking ball duelling. But I'd pay to see others do it with each their own tower crane.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'd be up for that if you'll find me an opponent - and a crane.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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.

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