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 Topic: Land ActivitiesThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
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There are lots of different driving experiences available. Choose from driving a tank, 4x4 or racing car. Learn skills such as rallying, drifting, and skid control. Use a safe environmentt to demonstrate your driving skills and impress your mates
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Outdoor photography is a great pastime where you can be creative with capturing images of your favourite things outdoors. You can take photos of people, objects, anaimals and landscapes. You can photograph outdoor action or just a lovely scene.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 3, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 3
Time needed: whatever you want Cost to try: £20 for a digital camera
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Go Karting is a fantastic activity that can be done outdoors or indoors where you race around a track in a squat four wheeled kart with tiny wheels and a petrol engine on the back. High speed fun.
Skills - Strength: 4, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 3, Agility: 1, Coordination: 4
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £34
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RC car and bike racing is a great way tobe outdoors and demonstrate your skill without having to exert yourself. RC cars and bikes are powered by battery or petrol motors and these days can really shift.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 5
Time needed: 1 hour, Cost to try: £free
Read full article: 'Radio Controlled Car and Bike Racing' (4549 bytes more)
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Slacklining is a dynamic balance sport, which involves walking, balancing, bouncing and even flipping on a stretchy line tensioned between two trees or anchor points. Walking across a slackline is like bouncing across a very thin trampoline.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 10, Flexibility: 6, Agility: 7, Coordination: 10
Time needed: travelling time +12 hours, Cost to try: £free
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Go Ape, the UK’s No.1 Tree Top Adventure, set up a fantastic site in London at the end of March 2012. Join the likes of TOm Daley and Go Ape on a high ropes adventure course up in the trees with huge rope swings and zip wires that are fantastic!
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Sandboarding gives you the rush of boarding on sand, as opposed to snowboarding on snow. And if you think it won't be fast, you'll wnat to have a go once you read on.
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Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, music, and dance
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Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 7, Flexibility: 7, Agility: 7, Coordination:7
Time needed: 1 hour, Cost to try: £6 per lesson
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Canyoning (also known as canyoneering) is traveling in canyons using a variety of techniques that may include walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling, and/or swimming.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 5, Flexibility: 6, Agility: 6, Coordination: 5
Time needed: 3 hours, Cost to try: £60
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Camping is where you live outdoors using a tent for shelter.
Skills - Strength: 3, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 3, Agility: 3, Coordination: 3
Time needed: 2 days or more, Cost to try: £30 per night site fees, plus all of your camping gear. (I would borrow it before you buy it in case it isn't for you).
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A BMX bike is a small stunt bicycle that is very versatile at performing tricks and stunts.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 7, Flexibility: 5, Agility:6, Coordination: 6
Time needed: 30mins +, Cost to try: £free if you borrow a mates bmx bike, else £70+
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Birdwatching and ornithology involve sitting still in some beautiful outdoor places and watching a huge variety of birds feeding, flying and nesting.
Skills - Strength: 3, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 4, Coordination: 3
Time needed: 30mins + depending on where you watch and what you see, Cost to try: £free + cost of binoculars.
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Beachcombing involves strolling along a beach looking for anything of interest left on the beach. You could find shells, stones, or interesting shaped driftwood.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 1
Time needed: as long as you want, Cost to try: £free
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Beach Activities cover not just the sand, but the waves and air too. Sandcastles, volleyball and kite surfing are just a few of the things you can do at the beach. But read on as there are plenty more ideas...
Skills - Strength: 1-6, Balance: 1-6, Flexibility: 1-5, Agility: 1-8, Coordination: 1-8
Time needed: As long as you want, Cost to try: £Free depending on gear needed.
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Battle Reenactments are where a large group of people dress up in period costume and armour and act out famous battles from history. this involves fighting, horses, seige weapons and cannons!
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 4, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 7, Coordination: 6
Time needed: a day, Cost to try: £Free, but you may have to pay to watch at an event.
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Baton Twirling is where a team perform routines usually to the music of a marching band whilst twirling a baton.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 4, Flexibility: 4, Agility: 1, Coordination: 10
Time needed: A couple of hours, Cost to try: £Free
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Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a 10 foot high hoop.
Skills - Strength: 2, Balance: 4, Flexibility: 3, Agility: 6, Coordination: 5
Time needed: As long as you want, Cost to try: £4 for a ball
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Baseball is a sport played between two teams which have nine players each. The goal of the game is to score ‘runs’ against your opponent, by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching four markers called bases that are arranged at the corners of a ninety foot square,
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 2, Flexibility: 2, Agility: 4, Coordination: 5
Time needed: 1 hour or more, Cost to try: £8 for a baseball bat and ball
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Track and Field Athletics is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing, jumping and walking.
Skills - Strength: 10, Balance: 10, Flexibility: 10, Agility: 10, Coordination: 10
Time needed: two hours, Cost to try: £free
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Adventure Racing is where you race as a team using a variety of different disciplines such as running, cycling, swimming, climbing etc. Not just a marathon but using your brain.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 5, Flexibility: 5, Agility: 5, Coordination: 4
Time needed: several days, Cost to try: £160
Read full article: 'Adventure Racing and Ultra-Marathons' (4872 bytes more)
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Geocaching is the use of a global positioning system (GPS) to find hidden caches of items. You then take an item and leave an item in the cache.
Skills - Strength: 2, Balance: 2, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 2, Coordination: 1
Time needed: 2 hours, Cost to try: £free is you borrow a GPS, else
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Backyard Sleepovers are where you camp in the back garden. No need to travel and you get the comforts of home nearby.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 1
Time needed: all night, Cost to try: £free
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Me Tarzan, you Jane? Fancy flying along a zip wire 10m in the air surrounded by a forest? Then you want to get yourself to an outdoor adventure course!
Assault Courses and Obstacle Courses are a physical challenge that consist of physical obstacles to get past. These include use of strength, balance, and general fitness.
Skills - Strength: 6, Balance: 6, Flexibility: 6, Agility: 6, Coordination: 6
Time needed: 1 hour, Cost to try: Free or minimal cost.
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Archery is where you use a bow to shoot an arrow at a target.
Skills - Strength: 4, Balance: 3, Flexibility: 3, Agility: 1, Coordination: 6
Time needed: 1 hour, Cost to try: £10
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Airsoft is a primarily recreational activity where replica firearms shooting plastic rounds are used for personal collection, gaming (similar to Paintball), or professional training purposes (Military Simulations and Police training exercises).
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 3, Flexibility: 4, Agility: 4, Coordination: 7
Time needed: 3 hours, Cost to try: £50
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Sphereing, Zorbing or Hill Rolling is the art of strapping yourself inside a large inflatable ball and being rolled head over heels down a big hill!
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 1
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £25
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Activity Summary
| Activity Title: | Young Driving |
| Activity Definition: | Driving a car on private land with an instructor before you are legally old enough to drive. |
| Environment: | Land |
| Adventure Rating: | Fun |
| Number of people required: | You and a driving instructor |
| Time Needed: | A couple of hours |
| Specialist Equipment: | A car and some private land. |
Read full article: 'Junior Driving Courses for Ages 11+' (2594 bytes more)
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Theme Parks and rollercoasters are the best for a spot of excitement and adventure that doesn't involve much physical exercise.
Our guide to the top theme parks and rollercoasters will help you get the best from your theme park visit.
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