Is Surfing Hard? (Or Is It Easy?)
Surfing is one of those activities where, to watch it, you wouldn’t think there was a huge amount to it. The best surfers make it look really easy, and at the end of the day all you really need to …
Do Surfers Wear Life Jackets? (Revealed!)
Surfing is the kind of activity that is so enduringly associated with a certain cool aesthetic that we often forget about the importance of safety measures. One of the most basic safety measures in most kinds of water sport is …
Is Base Jumping Illegal? (Find Out!)
Base jumping is a pretty scary sport on the face of it, and as you would expect with any such activity, you probably can’t just go out and do it wherever and whenever you want. But what are the actual …
What Is Base Jumping? (Answered!)
The parachute has been adopted in a variety of extreme sports, with the most obvious being the classic skydiving experience. But extreme sports enthusiasts are nothing if not innovators. You may have heard of base jumping but are not really …
Is Skiing Expensive? (Answered!)
The image of skiing often conjures up images of someone carving up a fresh layer of snow on a mountain slope, dressed in all the finest gear, then heading back to drink a hot chocolate in a fancy log cabin …