Thread: Tell Me About Adrenaline Sports

I take it that nobody know anything lol, ah well, could i have this topic deleted?

Chill Winston!

I snowboard, and I think this is an adrenaline sport!! I mean you get such a rush from chucking yourself down a mountain and stupid speeds strapped to a board, going off piest down the mountain jumping over anything you can. Often the only thing stopping you going off the edge of the mountain, and more than likely to your death is a little piece of string lol..

LOVE IT!

Nice, i have only been skiing, snow boarding definately looks fun, its just unfortunate that the family isn't really into it, if they were i would maybe have more of an opportunity to try it out.

I was actually thinking of trying a bungee jump, it looks really fun, i'm not too keen on heights but i could see myself jumping off the top of some huge building attached to a bungee chord. Looks very fun!

Has anyone here ever bungee jumped off a bridge or what not?

Would never do that!!!

Why cant you just get a board when your family go Skiing? You are alowed on the same mountain you know

No, what i'm saying is that whenever i have been skiing it has not been with my family, all the skiing i did was on dryslopes, not been for years though, i may go on a holiday though at some point that would allow me to snowbard

Ah okay I get you. You can go to Milton Keynes or Tamworth near Birmingham to go on their slops, its man made snow, but the closest you will get to the real thing

Its a shame i can't get down to Tamworth because i don't think it would take too long to get there considering its near birmingham, it may take a few hours but still it would be fun.

I tell you what though, i really want to bungee jump now I may see if there is anywhere in the UK to go, may not be the best but maybe

Lucid seeker, Great topic.

I think that we need to separate the two, adrenaline and sports at least briefly to understand the idea as a whole.

Adrenaline is a natural process of or bodies to function in a time of priority. A chemical release to let the flood gates go and pour out the chemicals to provide your body with the essential capabilities to carry out unseemingly unnatural acts.

Participating in sports at any level can introduce or induce the same scenario to your mind and body. As if to build the situation into a frenzy, your body reacts as if it is in a flight or fight situation. Although a game. I guess in some manners it is. Win or loose!

The best part. Although it can happen at any level, there are two entirely different outcomes.
Practice makes perfect.
When an individual in well practiced in a variety of, competitive in nature like scenarios they can manipulate these circumstances and use adrenaline to their advantage --the "zone" they often call this.
There is nothing like it in the world if you have ever been there. (this explaining why some can't just walk away form sports)
Adrenaline junkie -- A junkie, addicted.

To the contrary, the energy flow of released adrenaline that comes with that can also too work as your enemy as you cannot think clearly as well as playing out of control.

When worked in parallel with each other, Adrenalin and sports can provide you and spectators with a great show.
I think that this can override confidence at times as well.

I personally have dunked playing basketball while spectaters where cheering on a fast break. On the other hand, in practice I have labored and labored to throw one down.

Wow, thanks for the explanation on things Howie, makes much more sense now. I must admit that whenever i have gotten then Adrenaline rush i always tend to not use it. For example i shall elaborate on this by giving an example of when i encountered alot of Adrenaline, well i think it was Adrenaline.

Basically this kid at school was causing me a bit of trouble previously but i thought we had cleared it up after a talk, we actually became mates for a while, then one day after school i was just waiting outside for my mates as usual and this guy came up to me and i thought he was just messing about but he pushed me and i gotta stress that this guy is very tall also and was pretty much an early grower and finished growing. Anyways he'd just pushed me and started having a go at me, he then punched me in the stomach, i then suddenly became very faint, dizzy in a way, my vision became very blurry and the following events felt like a dream. In the state i was i was no way ready for a fight which he was obviously out to get so i just said sorry for whatever i had supposedly done and he walked away. Seriously though, it was horrible, i used to have these dreams a few years back in which i'd be fighting people at school who didn't like me and i would sort of lose all of my strength, my arms would become limp and every hit would be weak. I felt useless and then when this happened outside school it felt just like the dreams.

I've never had such a weird experience, the funny thing was that i don't really feel to bad about backing out from that fight, probably because i knew i could have given it a go if i wasn't so dizzy and hazy, seriously it is one of the weirdest things i've ever experienced.

I think that the uncontestable #1 adrenaline sport is skydiving, something that everyone should do at least once in their life. I have a lot of experience with flying too, time goes by so fast when you're flying a plane, it always takes me a a few moments to gather myself a bit after I land (my mind likes to stay up in the clouds ). Aerobatic flying is even more insane. You feel and see things you wouldn't think was possible (if your stomach's up to it ). Pretty much anything that creates several kilometers of seperation in between you and the ground is an adrenaline sport .

I wakeboard, water ski, jet ski, tube, just about anything on boats. I guess it doesnt really give me adrenaline anymore unless I'm being watched by people (girls) lol. Also, street racing is fun, but also illegal, and I wrecked my good car. Oh, and when I lived up north, I loved snowboarding.

and as seeker mentioned about fighting, thats one of my favorite "adrenaline sports". I love to get drunk and box with friends, thats a weekly thing around here. That seriously sucks that that dude punched you in the stomach first thing. it was definatly adrenaline you felt because it causes you to have that "flight or fight" reaction and a huge rush. I cvant believe you got dizzy though because it should have made you pumped up. Maybe the rush was too much, too fast + the wind knocked out of you. And you were probably nervous. was it your first almost fight experience?

Originally Posted by Michael

Also, street racing is fun, but also illegal, and I wrecked my good car.

That`s got to be one of the stupidest things in existence, I don`t recommend it to anyone ...

Originally Posted by Spartiate

That`s got to be one of the stupidest things in existence,

Not as stupid as mountain biking. I mean wtf, you wheel your bike up a huge mountain and then have to somehow get down steep, loose gravel/stones paths on a bike?!? Saw quite a few of these idiots trying to navigate their way down dangerous slopes, mostly very slowly. A couple fell off.

On the subject of adrenaline, I played in a rugby match on Saturday and one player on the other team was playing really dirty. He got tackled and when both teams were rucking over I saw him elbowing the guy on our team who had tackled him in the head, again and again, really hard. The ref missed it.
Anyway I got really mad and could practically feel the adrenaline. I was so angry with the other team. Next time I got the ball I just ran through every one and kept on going through, and I scored. Definitely has its uses
Incidentally the same player bit me later in the match in a strange place.

I love mountain climbing as well. Even when you've got ropes supporting you when you almost fall it's damn scary. It's also very challenging, both on real mountains and on climbing walls.

I actually can't wait to be old enough to do bungee jumping, paragliding and maybe skydiving. That kind of thing really intices me. I'd love to be that high up and falling.

Haha toaster @ the guy who bit you . Anyways, I agree that conventional sports can provide quite the adrenaline rush in their own right. Having been in the competitive martial arts circle for nearly ten years, I know a thing or two about what you mean. You'd be surprised how pumped up you can get from kicking people in the face . Also, adrenaline becomes almost necessary to keep you alive during long tournaments. During the fights, I used to feel top notch and practically immune to pain. I would get massive punches to the head, only to shake them off and keep fighting like if nothing happened. Only after the fight would I fall apart all at once. I remember, after one tournament, I had a black eye, a broken rib, a sprained jaw, a few broken toes (from kicking people ), and a dislocated thumb (from punching people...). Anyways, I didn't feel any of that until I went out for supper with the rest of the gang from my club. It was funny seeing each other all withering in well earned pain .

Jack osbourne doesn't strike me as an "adrenaline sport" type of guy. More of a "sit down and eat nachos" type of guy.

I guess that's just me, though.

Martial arts dude. Sparring or in a Competition, once you land the right hit or you block and strike back at the right time, the adrenaline is just sometimes amazing.

The adrenaline rush you get from skydiving can make it seem like you are dreaming. Along with that natural altered state, you get an endorphin rush that is really blissful. You also have a really cool view of the area you are above. You get all of that, plus the feeling you would have if you drove a motorcycle at 120 miles per hour, with the fast wind and everything. It's about the coolest thing a person is capable of experiencing.

P.S.- I strongly recommend never doing it without a license or a tandem expert. You can easily die if you don't know what you are doing.

OK, skydiving, I'm fresh from some firsthand experience . It's totally insane, nothing else compares. The feeling that goes through you when that door opens 3 km in the skies is just . Oh, and my advice would be to not open your mouth to scream, because it gets really dry, really fast .

Originally Posted by Spartiate

OK, skydiving, I'm fresh from some firsthand experience . It's totally insane, nothing else compares. The feeling that goes through you when that door opens 3 km in the skies is just . Oh, and my advice would be to not open your mouth to scream, because it gets really dry, really fast .

It is completely impossible for you to hear yourself scream during freefall, unless your head is inside a full head helmet or something. I tandemed one time and had a misunderstanding with the tandem guy, an officer in the Coast Guard, because he militantly rushed through the instructions and acted extremely pissed every time I asked him a question. So we played footsie in the air because I kept trying to put my legs in a messed up position. We were both yelling at each other to the top of our lungs, but we couldn't make a sound.

I made a total jackass out of him in front of everybody when we got back to the office. He looked like he wanted to hide in a hole. That was my goal. You can't be a hot headed moron and have a job like that.

Sounds like I had more fun than you ...

Lol, I cant even scream when I'm freefalling. Actually it's hard enough for me to just breathe during the fall.

Originally Posted by Spartiate

Sounds like I had more fun than you ...

That was my only sort of bad time, but a lot of that fall was really cool. My first post in this thread represents the general feeling.