Personally I’d say cave diving. I was contemplating between that and free climbing soloing but I honestly rather fall to my death than drown in a claustrophobic, dark, cold, silted up cave.

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    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

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    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.

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      What about it, for curiosity’s sake? Is it the fumes? The crazyness of literally going so fast as to barely retain control in tons of metal? Or for things like motorbikes, doing all that without tons of metal for a modicum of protection? lol

      I love motorsports, but no matter the power source, the extreme stuff kinda’ takes having a screw or two loose…

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      Start out with “simple” skydiving, then put on a wingsuit and train while skydiving.

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    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)

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    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?

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    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.

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    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.

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      I may be wrong here but I think that just like sky diving vs BASE jumping, you can actually just do it from a plane, which sounds like it would be a lot less dangerous

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      I can’t tell if you’re trying to say Alpine skiing is scary or that you’re into all the stuff people consider to be extreme sports.

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        I would gladly skydive; but strapping some dead trees to my feet and hurtling myself at high speed towards a bunch of live trees, as though taunting them, seems like a bad idea.

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      I did it one time with a pelvis area harness instead of the feet-hanger shit so I didn’t go upside down. It was like a carnival bungee jump thing that was about 80 feet high, cost $25 to do. It was scary as shit for the moment of falling but once the bouncing started it was pretty dang fun.

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