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Wakeboarding involves strapping both of your feet to a single board and being towed across the surface of water. Wakeboarding is to water skiing what snowboarding is to skiing.
Skills - Strength: 6, Balance: 8, Flexibility: 4, Agility: 5, Coordination: 6
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £50
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Sailing can be a tranquil experience, or with stonger winds quite an adventure. Boats can be small or huge. It is a thrill to speed over the waves.
Skills - Strength: 4, Balance: 6, Flexibility: 5, Agility: 3, Coordination: 5
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £free
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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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Surfing the perfect wave is the dream for all surfers – from beginners to the most advanced surfers out there. Unfortunately not many people get to live in a place where that break exists, and so you may well find yourself hankering after a perfect surf holiday instead. So how do you wade through the thousands on offer?
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As the nights get darker sooner, you will probably wish you had a high power led torch in your pocket. Fear not. The best LED torch will fits into your pocket at a reasonable price.
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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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Paragliding and paramotoring is where you sit beneath a parachute type fabric wing and float around on the wind and thermals. Paramotoring is where you have a big fan behind you to propel you forwards.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 3, Flexibility: 3, Agility: 4, Coordination: 8
Time needed: 1-2 hours, Cost to try: £50
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Gliding is the most wonderful experience of flying an unpowered plane using just the wind, updrafts and thermals to provide lift. Silently swooping and soaring over the landscape, you gotta try it.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 5, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 6
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £60
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There are a great many wonderful horse riding holidays around the world, but whichever destination you choose you are likely to have an experience of a lifetime! Canter along a sun-drenched Spanish beach on a riding holiday in Spain; ride with big game in Botswana, join a cattle drive in Montana or discover the magical landscape of the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan.
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The Basque Country in Spain has been voted one of the top 50 best places to go mountain biking in Europe. With mountains, sunshine, and so many trails you could spend months riding them, Basque country mountain biking is just a short flight from the UK.
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Mountain Biking in Morzine provides an unforgetable experience. For a great mountain bike holiday in France, Morzine is the place to go for a mountain biking holiday in the Alps.
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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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Whitewater rafting is an outdoor activity using an inflatable raft to navigate a natural or manmade river. For wave after wave of thrills and excitement, get a youth group together and find a whitewater rafting venue for some fantastic fun.
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Take to the trees and speed down zip slides. They’re part of an exciting course of rope bridges, Tarzan swings and crossings; all set up to 120 feet above the forest floor.
The Go Ape tree-top adventures are growing UK-wide. The Go Ape result is spectacular. The experience gets the adrenalin pumping, gets people out of their comfort zones and above all (no pun intended), it’s just great fun.
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