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Category: Extreme ActivitiesThe news items published under this category are as follows.
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Heliskiing and Heliboarding use a helicopter to get you right to the top of inaccessible mountains for an extreme skiing or snowboarding experience.
Skills - Strength: 6, Balance: 9, Flexibility: 8, Agility: 8, Coordination: 8
Time needed: travelling time + 4 hours, Cost to try: £500
Read full article: 'Heliskiing and Heliboarding' (549 bytes more)  
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Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs that are combined to make your final score you slide down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.
Skills - Strength: 8, Balance: 3, Flexibility: 5, Agility: 7, Coordination: 7
Time needed: travelling time + 2 hours, Cost to try: £118
Read full article: 'Bobsleigh' (160 bytes more)
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Concrete Circus shown on Channel 4 is the most fantastic demonstration of what today's youth are truly capable when they set their mind to it.
The programme follows the making of several short fllms on parkour, inline skating parkour, Danny MacAskill mountain bike acrobatics, freeform skateboarding and flatland BMX biking stunts.
This is a must see.
Read full article: 'Urban Freestyle on film in Concrete Circus' (826 bytes more)
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Snowboarding is just sooo cool. Surfing on snow looking cool and performing spins, jumps and other tricks. Or just carving the piste looking good.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 7, Flexibility: 6, Agility: 7, Coordination: 9
Time needed: 2 hour or more, Cost to try: £15 for a taster lesson
Read full article: 'Snowboarding' (15470 bytes more)
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Wing walking is an aerial sport where you are strapped the a frame on the wing of a plane and then perform various moves whilst the plane flies at speed in front of an audience.
Skills - Strength: 5, Balance: 5, Flexibility: 5, Agility: 4, Coordination: 4
Time needed: travelling time + 2 hours, Cost to try: £500
Read full article: 'Wing Walking' (3121 bytes more)
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Skydiving is where you jump out of a plane and after a bit of falling free, open your parachute and float in a controlled way back to the ground.
Skills - Strength: 4, Balance: 4, Flexibility: 3, Agility: 3, Coordination: 6
Time needed: 2 hours, Cost to try: £250
Read full article: 'Skydiving' (6654 bytes more)
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SCAD jumping uses a very big net as a suspended catch air device.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 3, Flexibility: 3, Agility: 3, Coordination: 3
Time needed: 1 hour, Cost to try: £50
Read full article: 'SCAD Jumping' (520 bytes more)
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Bungee Jumping is a thrilling activity where you tie a huge elastic bungee cord to your ankles and jump off from a high structure such as a bridge or crane.
Skills - Strength: 1, Balance: 1, Flexibility: 1, Agility: 1, Coordination: 1
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £50
Read full article: 'Bungee Jumping' (2865 bytes more)
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BASE Jumping is where you jump off a cliff or structure at low level and open your parachute at the latest possible moment. Seriously extreme and seriously dangerous, with a high chance of injury or death.
Skills - Strength: 4, Balance: 4, Flexibility: 3, Agility: 2, Coordination: 4
Time needed: travelling time + 1 hour, Cost to try: £1000+ for all of your own kit.
Read full article: 'BASE Jumping' (968 bytes more)
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Airboarding is one of the newest extreme sports to hit the snowy slopes. An airboard is an inflatable sledge that you ride like a bodyboard and can reach speeds of 80mph!
Read full article: 'Airboard' (3201 bytes more)
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