I feel like i've done pretty much every cheap adrenaline sport there is to offer where i live......

-Kitesurfing, in flat water and in the waves up to 6ft...
-Downhill mountain biking, hitting huge drops/kickers ....
-Regular road cycling, bombing down steep hills up to 70km/h and flying through corners...
-Regular surfing, and SUP Surfing, some great memories of riding 4-6ft southerly swell on the gold coast..
-Wakeboarding, wakesurfing and waterskiing, I've ridden behind and driven top of the line tow boats that throw out a mega size wake...

So what is next then? To be honest with you, I am a bit bored with all of the above now. I've researched/dabbled with:

-Paragliding - I did a 3 day intro course on the Sunny Coast, it was great fun, but seems hard to get to an area where you can soar with plenty of uplift and room that is relatively close to home (i,e within 1/2hr drive)..also, highly regulated.
-Speed flying - as above, I think the closest areas suitable for this sport would be Byron Bay.
-Jetski? Seems a bit boring, plus I prefer minimal sports as I'm generally not a petrolhead bogan by nature.
-Moto x? As above.
-Foiling - a bit slower and crusier?.. would it be difficult without a deep water area...?

Anyone else have ideas or got to this point also?

These lads are on to it...

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/General-Discussion/Chat/Please-explain-

Skydiving -> Wingsuiting -> Base wingsuiting...

Most of the sports you mention are really only adrenaline sports if you're doing it wrong. If you're under control and having fun then they're more about style and satisfaction than adrenaline.

For me foiling is probably the ultimate in pure fun. Any conditions from <10 knots to 40+ knots has something to offer that other water sports can't really match. I can do it almost every day and pretty much the worst thing that happens is I get a bit wet, or have to swim in.

I just had another thought for extreme sport. Go cycling in Sydney.

If you want to, peak hour traffic routes are sure to be fun, but if you are particularly crazy, go riding by yourself on a weekday morning. I have done it a few times, but I will stick to getting my adrenal from realising I have run out of milk for breakfast.

I'd probably go climbing

Gorgo said..
Most of the sports you mention are really only adrenaline sports if you're doing it wrong. If you're under control and having fun then they're more about style and satisfaction than adrenaline.

100% agree, but to the average pedestrian pleb, they are "adrenaline".

Carantoc said..

SUPSurferQLD said..
So what is next then? ..

But if you want the adrenalin sport then head over the Buy/sell ads on seabreeze.com.au and spend a few hundred bucks on some windsurf kit.

How high did you say you can jump with a windsurfer/?

SUPSurferQLD said..
How high did you say you can jump with a windsurfer/?

I didn't.

How high did you jump on your SUP before you got bored with it ?

I got to 1,700 feet with my paraglider once.

And that is nothing on the 10,000 feet I got to on a Metroliner last week.

But some days just trying to keep the board on the water and trying not to jump gets the heart going faster.


(although got to admit it was a friggin' bumpy decent in the Metroliner and then a very rapid ascent again when the pilot realised there was still another plane on the runway which did raise the heart rate just a little).

Join the SAS...enough said.

Did you mean "kiting in 6ft" as in head hi faces - or 6ft hawaiian?

You might need to go windsurf in big waves next.

I'll be keen for wingsuiting if u are. My local spots boring me have been thinking the same. If it's mid life crisis will be dying early lol

Drink lots of coffee...

Muay Thai.

Started doing it a few years back as a way to keep fit, and have ended up accidentally getting better and better. Far too old to do a fight but I enjoy sparring. There are so many angles to it; physical endurance, mental endurance, muscle memory, breathing, focus, tactics, luck, trade-offs, rhythm, and on and on.

As a bonus it is indoors so completely weather-independent.

I like my local boxing club's this idea:
They train you for 4 weeks then find you much depending on age and ability, then you invite you family, relatives and friends watching you fight.
I am gonna do it for my next anniversary birthday,... if my tennis elbow goes away..
I will be yelling out loud at the end of the fight: Adrian !

FIGHT CLUB