# Xtreme sports I'd like to see. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367 "2005-03-19T23:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rwjefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@rwjefferson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rwjefferson)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/21 "2005-03-21T00:03:33Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Been there, done that. > > I was running along a beaver dam, which requires careful watching your foot placement. I neglected to look ahead to the other end of the dam. About three-quarters along, I ran into a black bear and shouted “SHIT!”, then backed away. It did not run away, but instead slowly ambled along toward me until we both were off the dam, at which point it went its own way. Wow. Most would have said it _and_ done it. Great story. Another Taming Nature Game: Catching tigers by the tail. rwj ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/22 "2005-03-21T00:08:17Z")
How about lacrosse played with wolverines instead of with a ball? All sticks would have to be goalie sticks, I think. Also, if the wolverine was incapacitated, a fresh, active one would have to be substituted. Same for the players. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/23 "2005-03-21T00:50:21Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > - Motorcycle Jousting Mini-moto’s are minature motorcycles about two feet tall that have single cylinder engines (chainsaw motors?) There was a British motorcycle magazine that did an article after \*Mission Impossible II \* came out. That was the movie that had the bikes with magic tires; offroad knobbies, street tires, knobbies, street tires. Anyways, the magazine editors wanted to know what it was like to try to fight while on motorcycles. They did this on the top level of a parking garage with toy guns. Office dwellers on nearby buildings looking down saw this and called the police. The equivalant of London SWAT team stormed down on them. Much to the embarrasment of all parties involved. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/24 "2005-03-21T01:14:39Z")
Jerry Seinfeld once joked that the luge would be the only Olympic sport which you could force someone to do against their will. “They’re not really doing anything…they’re just kinda hanging on for their life.” So that’s my pick: the Forced Luge. Adam ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/25 "2005-03-21T01:29:00Z")
Sharkball! A team of 3 humans vs 3 sharks. A designated quarterback takes a huge steak ball and has to try to swim through the sharks to get it to the endzone. His teammates will play defense. They get blunt sticks which they use to prod the sharks in hopes of distracting them from the quarterback. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/26 "2005-03-21T01:33:58Z")
Baseball bat fencing. (Credit goes to National Lampoon on this one.) Downhill pairs figure skating. Bungee boxing. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/27 "2005-03-21T01:36:58Z")
Baseball bat fencing. (Credit goes to National Lampoon on this one.) Downhill pairs figure skating. Bungee boxing. Shot put soccer. (Hey! “Break it like Beckham”!) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/28 "2005-03-21T02:04:47Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > How about lacrosse played with wolverines instead of with a ball? > > All sticks would have to be goalie sticks, I think. > > Also, if the wolverine was incapacitated, a fresh, active one would have to be substituted. > > Same for the players. Mike P., a.k.a. “The Human Probe”, and his four brothers once played soccer with a very large rat that kept coming at them. An interesting group of siblings – it would take all five of them to cut down a tree. One to chop, and the remaining four to ride it down. He enjoyed a bit of minor pain in his activities. One time the s.o.b. grabbed on to an electric fence and then on to me just to watch me shout. He never winced, and managed to convince me that as long as you grab on to someone else first, you won’t get zapped. Of course when I tried that on our paramedic Paul C., I realized that Mike had only wanted to watch me jump and shout a second time, thus proving that I am dumber than a cow. Mike earned his moniker because if survivability was in question in a ski or kayak run, we would send him first to see what might happen. Here are some pics (Mike is in the first few shots and Paul is in the last few shots): [http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeper/IslandFalls.html](http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeper/IslandFalls.html) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/29 "2005-03-21T02:23:29Z")
> [@Guy Incognito](#): > > . . . Downhill pairs figure skating . . . On Friday evening, over a dozen of us tried skiing down a hill on telemark skis (cross country skis with metal edges) all linked arm in arm together. It took a few minutes to get everyone untangled after the inevitable crash, what with layer upon layer of crossed skis and entangled legs. Think of the old game of Twister on acid. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/30 "2005-03-21T02:44:10Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Twister on acid. Hey, there’s an idea! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/31 "2005-03-21T03:07:49Z")
You develop those tales a bit, **Muffin** , and they could be positively **Wang-Ka** -esque. Great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/32 "2005-03-21T04:27:40Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Full-contact chess. A couple years ago, I heard that Chessboxing was actually gaining a bit of a following. I even saw a video of it. They alternate rounds of chess and boxing. > [@Shagnasty](#): > > I want to see a reality show called “Survivor” but have it be the real deal this time. Take a group of people and drop them off on an island with poor natural resources armed with only a blanket, one book of matches, and a hunting knife. The last one alive wins $1 million dollars. There is absolutely no other aid and no way off the island. Isn’t this kind of sort of how they pitched the original _Survivor_ (except the part about contestants dying)? I’ve never seen an episode of the show, but I gather that it’s not actually much like this at all. I was quite dissapointed to start hearing about alliances and challenges and votes when the original hype sounded a lot like what you’re saying. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/33 "2005-03-21T04:43:04Z")
> [@brianjedi](#): > > I’ve always **pitched** some ideas for **golf** to my buddies, but they never want to try them: … Bolding mine. Interpretation of said bolding yours. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/34 "2005-03-21T06:38:22Z")
Not only is chess boxing real, but (empty) locomotive chicken was, long ago, a popular event. People thought it was a real hoot to aim a couple of out-of-service engines at each other and let fly. There were experts in this field, who travelled and put on shows much like professional pyrotechnicians do now. Advancing technology put an end to this innocent amusement – it just wasn’t as much fun without an exploding boiler tank to punctuate it. Today, we enjoy only metaphorical train wrecks. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/35 "2005-03-21T13:53:55Z")
How about water-ski jousting? Or team shark jumping? More passive might be XTREME WADING! ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/36 "2005-03-21T14:58:42Z")
Most of the suggestions involving animals have already been attempted by Steve Irwin AKA The Crocodile Hunter. I think a martial arts contest similiar to the WWE’s Royal Rumble but using UFC rules (I.E. full contact w/submissions) would be fun to watch. Put oh say a dozen martial artists in a ring like the UFC uses and let them knockout/submission each other until there is one dude left. I’d pay $50 bucks to watch that. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/37 "2005-03-22T00:04:03Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > How about water-ski jousting? Done lots of stand-up kayak jousting, but that’s more in the category of stupid paddler tricks than anything remotely extreme. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/38 "2005-03-22T04:34:18Z")
Extreme Sex. First prize goes to the couple who can orgasm in the most spectacular way, voted on by phone poll of Penthouse readers. Also, the sex act must involve in some fashion a vibrator longer than three feet long, at least seven sets of anal beads, a small swimming pool of lube, a skateboard, and a duck. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/39 "2005-03-22T12:52:24Z")
> [@rwjefferson](#): > > Counting coup on bears: Hunters are required to sneak as close as comfortable to the bear, then jump and shout “Shoo” before attempting to touch the bear. Points are awarded for chasing the bear (deducted for running), but close is not a coup. The highest honor is to the one that survives spanking (smack on behind with open palm) their Grizzly. Thank you, Reader’s Digest about 30 years ago, for one of their Condensed Books of the Month which was all about some Arapaho guy whose name I’ve long since forgotten. The chapter called “Bear Smacking” described exactly this. However, running away was not only permitted but pretty much _de rigeur_. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367/40 "2005-03-22T13:23:51Z")
I’ve always been fond of the idea of “Full Contact Golf” that showed up in one of those “joke” commercials a few years back. About the only thing that’d make the game interesting, in my book. Maybe it’s just me, but I’d love to see Tiger Woods or Kenny Perry or whoever get totally clocked. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xtreme-sports-id-like-to-see/295367.md?page=3)