Thursday, November 18, 2010

Top 10 Most Dangerous and Extreme Sports in the World





1. BASE Jumping: BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; (B)uilding, (A)ntenna (an uninhabited tower such as an aerial mast), (S)pan (a bridge, arch or dome), and (E)arth (a cliff or other natural formation). BASE jumping is much more dangerous than skydiving from aircraft and is currently regarded as a fringe extreme sport.

2. Free Diving: Diving without any scuba or other equipment, in which divers attempt to reach great depths in a single breath.

3. Cave Diving: Cave diving is a type of technical diving in which specialized SCUBA equipment is used to enable the exploration of natural or artificial caves which are at least partially filled with water.

4. Speed Skiing: Speed skiing is the sport of skiing fastest in a straight line downhill. This is the world's fastest non-motorized sport speeds up to 160 miles (250 kms) per hour.

5. Rock Fishing: It is one of the world's dangerous and extreme sports. Rock fishing involves casting a line into the ocean from the shoreline.

6. Bull Riding: It is a rodeo sport that involves a rider getting on a large male bovine, weighing between 1,000 and 2,500 pounds, which is held in a small pipe enclosure called a bucking chute. The rider tightly fastens one hand to the bull with a long woven leather rope. When the rider says he is ready, the gate of the bucking chute is opened and the bull bursts out and attempts to throw or buck off the rider.

7. Supercross: Supercross is an exciting, highly-competitive sport in which athletes race high-performance off-road motorcycles on man-made dirt tracks consisting of steep jumps and obstacles.

8. Solo Yacht Racing: Yacht racing can be a dangerous sport when some longer offshore races take place cross open water with no help to hundreds of miles and water full of sharks, waves and other sea dangers.

9. Street Luging: Skateboards are used to race down a hill at high speeds which can go up to 80 miles or 128kms per hour.

10. Riding a Bike: Yes, believe it or not it can be dangerous too. Think, When you fall from a bike you hit ground hard and can break your bones
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