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Category: Adventurous ActivitiesThe news items published under this category are as follows.
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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
Read full article: 'Wakeboarding' (5979 bytes more)  
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It's good news for hill walkers as the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) has appointed its first ever dedicated BMC hill walking development officer. The main aim of the new role is to provide information and advice to new hill walkers and to the many members for whom hill walking is their main activity.
Read full article: 'BMC appoints first ever hill walking officer' (5522 bytes more)
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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
Read full article: 'Getting Into Sailing' (9524 bytes more)
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Canoeing and Kayaking is all about paddling about on water in a long narrow boat. More fun added if used on whitewater or in the sea.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 7, Flexibility: 5, Agility: 4, Coordination: 4
Time needed: travelling time + 2 hours, Cost to try: £48
Read full article: 'Canoeing and Kayaking' (13395 bytes more)
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Dog Sledding is driving a team of dogs to pull a sled over ice and snow.
Skills - Strength: 7, Balance: 6, Flexibility: 3, Agility: 5, Coordination: 6
Time needed: travelling time + 3 hours, Cost to try: £100
Read full article: 'Dogsledding' (4520 bytes more)
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Bob Rafting is to snow what white water rafting is to water. Speed down a snowy hillside in a large inflatable raft.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 1
Time needed: travelling time + 2 hours, Cost to try: £50
Read full article: 'Bob Rafting' (352 bytes more)
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Biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 6, Flexibility: 4, Agility: 4, Coordination: 6
Time needed: 4 hours, Cost to try: £free at one of the biathlon clubs listed
Read full article: 'Biathlon' (904 bytes more)
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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
Read full article: 'Canyoning and Canyoneering' (1450 bytes more)
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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+
Read full article: 'BMX Biking' (2708 bytes more)
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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.
Read full article: 'Battle Reenactments' (5324 bytes more)
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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' (4540 bytes more)
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Parascending and Parasailing is where you are harnessed to a parachute and winched into the air by being towed behind a boat or vehicle like flying a kite.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 4
Time needed: 1 hour, Cost to try: £30
Read full article: 'Parascending and Parasailing' (2907 bytes more)
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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
Read full article: 'Paragliding and paramotoring' (933 bytes more)
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Microlights are ultralight aircraft that look like a small plane or like a hang glider with an undercarriage and propellor at the back.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 4, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 6
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £55
Read full article: 'Microlights' (3238 bytes more)
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Hot Air Ballooning is the wonderful ability to float across the sky in a basket hanging underneath the most enormous balloon filled with hot air to keep it up.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 1
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £150
Read full article: 'Hot Air Ballooning' (4464 bytes more)
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Hang Gliding is a great sport where you fly by hanging suspended from a triangular shaped canvas wing.
Skills - Strength: 7, Balance: 7, Flexibility: 4, Agility: 5, Coordination: 7
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £145
Read full article: 'Hang Gliding' (766 bytes more)
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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
Read full article: 'Gliding' (5887 bytes more)
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Aeroplane flying is a fantastic outdoor activity where you are free as a bird to climb high in the sky. Your flying experience will depend on what plane you get to fly.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 5, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 10
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £50
Read full article: 'Aeroplane Flying Experiences' (1807 bytes more)
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Urban Freeflow, the official worldwide free running and parkour network, have just completed the 2011 free running competition in London on March 20th. Competitors from around the world demonstrated their free running skills to see who was the best free runner.
Read full article: 'Free Running World Championships' (6697 bytes more)
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So you're thinking about a skiing holiday, and want some
ideas on where to go skiing and how to organise your holiday. Here is a guide to skiing holidays with a few pointers that will set you on your way.
Read full article: 'Skiing Holidays' (11689 bytes more)
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An activity holiday , also called an adventure holiday, is just what you need if you love outdoor activities and are in need of an active outdoor holiday. If you are wondering what do I need to know about when booking an activity holiday, then read on.
Read full article: 'Outdoor Activity Holidays' (7362 bytes more)
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Bushcraft, also known as wilderness skills, is the art of living in harmony with nature. Survival is a more extreme short term version where you need to use bushcraft skills to get yourself out of a dangerous situation. Bushcraft is knowing about survival and thriving in the natural environment.
Read full article: 'Bushcraft and Survival Kits' (5043 bytes more)
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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.
Read full article: 'Whitewater Rafting' (4457 bytes more)
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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.
Read full article: 'Go Ape!The UK's No.1 Award Winning High Wire Forest Adventure' (22495 bytes more)
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