Each year I take some time off from traveling and participating in some crazy sports that most people call extreme sports. I like to take that time off to spend with family and usually my time off coincides with winter because I am no fan of cold weather. I am a sports junkie and an adrenaline seeker, but it is definitely great to get a break here and there. While I am on the break there is one thing I do not want to happen though. I do not want to get out of shape so that I have to recondition my body after each and every break.
Yesterday morning sad news broke out as it was learned that beloved motocross freestyle rider, Jim McNeil passed away after sustaining serious injuries during practice for an exhibition that was to take place at the Texas Motor Speedway before the NASCAR race. The exhibition was just one of the many stops on the Boost FMX team's tour with dates all over world.
After the accident, Jim McNeil was air lifter to the hospital in Fort Worth where he was pronounced dead. McNeil was only 32 years old, and he had been a member of the Boost Mobile FMX team for the last nine years. He got his start...
Loving extreme sports means that you have to live extremely too. You are not the type of person to go about you day in a calm and serene manner and then go off to go base jumping later on. Oh no, you are always up for adventure and living life to the very fullest, and we can get down with that. Here at Power Pro Sports we like to get all wild and crazy too, especially when it comes to our sports. We live our life extreme and love our sports to be even more extreme. Just so you are not thinking that we are a bunch of reckless wild men, we want you to be aware of this warning, extreme sports...
Is it the new extreme sport?
I think not. The other day I found this video that offered underwater skateboarding. I thought that maybe there was something that I was missing out on so I watched these kids in a pool full of water basically just hopping around and floating with a skateboard around their feet. It was not that interesting at all. Skateboarders have been using empty pools to skate in since the beginning, and these kids got it wrong when they tried to use the pool when it was filled. Watch the failed attempt below, and under that check out a sweet video on flowboarding that is a much...
There is a lot of extreme sports in todays society like parachuting, base jumping, extreme cross. The extreme sports usually is accompanied with some extreme gear or transportation device. There is one sports that does not need anything to participate in it. Free running requires of no special gear, you can do it anywhere, and this sport builds your body as well as your mind.
Free Running is a sports like any other it comes from a very similar sport called Pakour that is a non competitive way to get from one place to another. Free running while it has elements or techniques from Pakour, but it is a separate...