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Extreme Cave diving.

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

Russian Roulette.

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.

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.

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

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.

wingsuit. How do they even train?

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?

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)

I've done a little bit of cave diving. There are caves I would dive again, and some I absolutely would not. These experiences rank very highly among the coolest of my life. There's things to see down there you can't experience any other way. But yes, it is relatively dangerous and I spent a lot of time down there not thinking about how far away I was from the surface.

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.

https://youtu.be/tbdCfIAouig

Competitive face slapping

Bungee Jumping.

I cannot do things upside down.

Knife Monopoly

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.

Bungie jumping. No skill and stupid aa fuck.

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.

Hard to pick one when I'll never do any of them.

Anything with an internal combustion engine. Fuck that

Too late:

E4

Chess?

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.

Bull riding.

slope skiiing

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