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Mega ramp skateboarding, ostrich racing, underwater golfing, pole dancing and pillow fighting are just a few of the innovative new sports featured in this mega gallery. 

Are the sports you play boring?  This list will either pump up your adrenaline with excitement or have you clinging to your couch for comfort.

Check out the pictures and videos of these intense new sports.

New Extreme Sports With Mega Air

Mega Ramp Skateboarding - 100 Foot Jumps to Become the Standard? (VIDEO)

Daredevil sports continue to push the boundaries driving traditional sports to also up the ante.  In this case, skateboarding is getting a crank up thanks to Danny Way of DC Shoes.  This mega ramp led Danny to set two world records, including the longest distance jump and the highest air together in… [More]

Flybar Elastomeric-Spring Pogo Stick (VIDEO)

Looking for another safe sport?  Why not try hopping around on a Flybar Elastomeric Spring Pogo Stick.  If the name doesn’t intimidate you, you’re probably ready.  Plus, it’s endorsed by a World Champion Skateboarder, so you know it’s safe.
“The revolutionary new FlyBar™ delivers a gravity-defying… [More]

Powerising - Jumping Stilts (VIDEO)

If you liked our coverage of the Flybar Extreme Pogo Stick video, then you’ll be dying to check out the new Powerisers Jumping Stilts.  Run up to 20 miles an hour (with medium risk of injury). Available from Gizoo for £199.95: Are you bored with your current fitness regime and fancy something a bi… [More]

Landing Without a Parachute - Bird Man Suits

In July, we introduced you to a man who is getting ready to Sky Dive From Space.  That’s a rush, but why bother with a parachute at all?  Birdman Suits let you fly in the sky and you can buy one for just 900 Euros.  The goal of those in the Bird Man tribe is to find a way to land without any use of… [More]

Sky Diving From Space (If You’re Crazy)

Frenchman Michel Fournier is readying himself and equipment to attempt a record-setting free fall from the stratosphere. Dubbed “The Big Jump”, Fournier is eyeing next month for his supersonic free fall from about 130,000 feet (40 kilometers)—roughly 25 miles above the Earth. The dive from a bal… [More]

Extreme Sports With Cables (You’re a Chicken)

Super Swings - 700 Foot Swing on World’s 2nd Highest Steel Tower (VIDEO)

A radio tower in Harbin City, China has installed a 700 foot swing.  Swingers start at the peak of the tower, which is 1,100 feet off the ground.  The tower is actually the world’s second highest steel tower, so it’s probably a good rush.  It’s also exciting because this ride brings an amusement par… [More]

Batman Rope Ascending - The Atlas Powered Rope Ascender (VIDEO)

Imagine the batman rope that pull up batman in the air. Now it came to reality.

This device is called the Atlas Rope Ascender… Check out the video! [More]

Ridewire - Trick Out While Hanging From Cables (VIDEO)

Adrenaline junkies will appreciate Ridewire, a new sport at Daytona Beach where you suspend yourself from cables while performing tricks on a board.  In addition to being pretty fun, the ridewire system helps extreme athletes train for surfing, snowboarding, kiteboarding and wakeboarding. [More]

Vertical Soccer - Adidas Billboard Comes to Life

In what might be the best billboard ever, Adidas brings vertical soccer to life.  The game is played when soccer players are suspended from cables on a billboard.  Then, one on one vertical soccer ensues.  If you want to know whether the ad is effective, just look at all the people taking pictures. [More]

New Extreme Snow Sports

KTraking - Track Drive and Ski Kit for Your Bike (VIDEO)

Scheduled for release in January 2007, the Ktrak rear drive track kit and ski kit convert your mountain bike into the ‘ultimate all-terrain machine’.  You can convert just the real wheel to a track drive system, or also opt for the ski on the front.  The Ktrak is designed for either snow or sand. [More]

Ski Biking - SMX is the BMX for Snow

BMX rider can now practice their sport also in winter. Northlegion designed a BMX for snow: the SMX. Carving turns, airs and tricks and easy transport in skilifts should be possible. Just an other snow-sport? We will see.. [More]

New Sports You Won’t Understand

Carpet Skates - A Great Way to Break Your Arm (VIDEO)

If you’re looking for a new way to race across the office, then you might be interested in carpet skates.  Allegedly, they’re even faster than email.  While the idea looks innovative, I found lots of carpet skating videos on YouTube.  So apparently underground carpet skating leagues have already s… [More]

Bossaball -  Volleyball + Soccer + Gymnastics (VIDEO)

I was in Spain a couple of weeks ago when I witnessed the “phenomenon” I thought you might like to know about.  It’s a sport named bossaball, which is a mix of volleyball, soccer and gymnastics on a pitch of inflatables and trampolines (a big bouncy arena).  It looks very spectacular and I think t… [More]

New Watersports

Jet Boarding - Extreme Sports of the Future

Are normal watersports getting you down?  Crank up your adrenaline adventures with an extreme sport of the future.  The PowerSki Jetboard is a revolutionary watertoy that takes motorsports to a new level.  “One of the most radical water toys ever invented, the PowerSkiJetBoard is an engineering mas… [More]

Jetbiking – 1250cc, 165 horsepower, 60mph Grand Prix motorcycle for the water

Imagine a motorcycle that it didn’t hurt to fall off. Or one that didn’t do costly damage to itself in an accident. The Aquajet Jetbike WX-1 1250(MAV) is just such a beastie - a new type of watercraft powered by a 165 horsepower three cylinder two-stroke engine via a jet drive to offer a wild 60… [More]

Human Powered Hydrofoil Water Scooting (VIDEO)

From Hammacher Schlemmer -
Unlike other watercraft, this unique hydrofoil frame allows you to skim across water simply by hopping gently up and down, propelling you as fast as 17 mph (more than four times faster than some world champion freestyle swimming speeds). At only 26 lbs., the lightweight a… [More]

Nuclear Globing - Play in a Giant Bubble

Yes, there is a person inside this bubble. Imagine the implications. The website shows pictures of how much fun you can have when you crawl into a little bubble and run around on top of the water. There’s not much else I have to say, so I’ll let them explain it for me:
Have a blast in the Nuclear G… [More]

New Underwater Sports

Underwater Ice Hockey World Championship

This unusual sport took place at the lake of Weissensee in southern Austria. It is the first underwater ice hockey world championship. There were 8 international teams from Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The divers competed under 30 cen… [More]

Underwater Golf Tournaments

Remember Underwater Hockey?  Well, now China has staged what is believed to be the world’s first underwater golf tournament.  The event took place at the Zuohai Aquarium in Fuzhou city which is in Fujian.  The game involved five players who golfed around in a 50ft deep tank. [More]

Disabled Become Abled

Bilateral Amputee Sprinting - Athlete Makes Controvercial Bid for Able-Bodied 2008 Olympics (VIDEO)

The sight of Oscar Pistorius zipping across a track is a bit mind blowing. Blade Runner is probably an apt nickname as it is both descriptive of his prosthetics and suggestive of the futuristic way he uses the prosthetic technology to propel himself. He holds the 100m, 200m and 400m world records at… [More]

Extreme Wheelchairing - Including Wheelchair Half Pipe (VIDEO)

In the category of extreme sports, there’s no reason that paralized people should be left out.  In this video, you can see some guys performing some truly awesome stunts in their wheelchairs.  They rock! There’s also a website, dedicated the cause.  The site notes, “Extreme Wheelchair Sports are sp… [More]

Golf Innovation

Ice Golfing - World Ice Golf Championship (GALLERY)

This is not the first time for the the World Ice Golf Championship. “The world championship has taken place since 1999 in Uummannaq, Greenland. ” The World Ice Golf Championship is held almost 600 km north of the Arctic Circle, on the west coast of Greenland in the little town of Uummannaq. From Dec… [More]

Long Distance Golfing - Man Golfs Across Mongolia

Do you have to yell fore if no one is around to hear it? Ask Andre Tolme. Although he completed this feat in 2004, it isn’t old news to those of us who didn’t hear about it. He spent 90 days hitting 12,170 golf balls a total of 1,234 miles across Mongolia. To learn more, read his aptly titled book, … [More]

Random New Sports

Ostrich Racing

The “Aventura Extrema” park located in Melgar, Colombia offers a bizarre extreme sports plan inspired in the ostrich races held in South Africa and Australia. Harsh races are settled among two enormous birds, brought from Rio de Janeiro and trained in Villa de Leyva (small town in central Colombia w… [More]

Trikke Riding - An Innovative Three Wheeled Scooter (VIDEO)

Looking for another way to get to work? Why not become the only yuppie in the office to arrive sporting the innovative Trikke. No peddling, no pushing, just swivel back and forth… “Trikke’s movement has the rhythm of in-line skating, surfing, snowboarding, or skiing on pavement because the entire… [More]

Hover Scooting - The Levitating Hover Scooter

Looking for a more interesting way to get to the convenience store for your mid weak groceries?  What about a minature flying saucer?  It’s only $17k and it comes in four colors. From Hammacher Schlemmer Hailed by The New York Times as a “miniature flying saucer with handlebars,² the hover scooter… [More]

Hover Scooting - Eco-Friendly Easy-Glider

If you’ve got $1,300 and you’re looking for a new form of eco-friendly transportation, why not get an eco-friendly Easy-Glider From Probotics: The Easy-Glider is the first multifunctional personal transport device designed to take you anywhere you want to go. It is pleasing to the environment, it g… [More]

Naughty New Sports

Pole Dancing Exercise - Sexy Movements Become the Latest Form of Exercise (VIDEO)

Pole dancing is becoming the latest form of exercise.  A year ago we already posted that you can buy a pole dancing kit, but fitness schools are offering pole dancing across the globe, from Toronto to Beuenos Aures. The Pole Dance has become a true rage between girls in the Barrio Norte neighborhoo… [More]

Naked Workout Clubs - Get Buff at the Gym

Fitworld, a Dutch gym has launched “Naked Sunday.” Media were invited to attend the first session in Heteren, a town 60 miles east of Amsterdam. Those in attendance were males in their middle ages and up as well as a hoard of journalists who watched them workout in the nude. From lifting weigh… [More]

Pillow Fighting Now a Sport (GALLERY)

Almost a year ago, we discovered that Pillow Fight Clubs were popping up around the world.  The Pillow Fight Clubs launched public pillow fights in the streets of Isreal, USA, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and Argentina.  Now, there’s a Pillow Fight League.  What next? [More]

Bonus: An Oldie But a Goodie

Parkour - Art Movement and Extreme Sport (VIDEO)

Parkour is an urban art movement / extreme sport where participants, known as traucers or tracers, jump between buildings and create fast, fluid and technical moves.  As you can imagine, it is very dangerous. While some define Parjour as an extreme sport, the players affirm that Parkour is a life p… [More]