Dangerous sports

Dangerous sports:
(ZORBING and STREET LUGE)

Recently I’ve heard quite much about exciting activity called zorbing. It was brought to us by the same people who invented bungee-jumping, and it’s the latest adventure experience from New Zealand. It all is about rolling in a three-metre ball, or zorb, made of solid PVC. It requires from us no more skill than a hamster running in its wheel, because centrifugal force will keep you pinned inside of the zorb. Zorbonauts, people who have so much courage to try it, reached even 50 kilometres per hour rolling down the hill. While it looks like you’re being thrown inside of the zorb and have no control, the truth is you don’t really risk hurting yourself too much because of air cushioning inside. Today it’s not too popular activity, but with the time it will get its fame and we will be able to meet it on almost every huge hill on open space and taste some adventure.

Another interesting and far more amazing sport is Street luge. It made its beginning from ice luge that actually is established Olympic sport. It’s a pavement version and is undisciplined younger brother of ice version. They both involve lying flat on your back and steering a luge not much bigger than a skateboard, with your head just inches off the ground. It first started off in southern California by groups of riders who was trying to find some thrill on the roads. An essential requirement for this sport is a complete lack of fear, as a piece of rubber, mostly from car tyres, to save your feet from disaster. Top lugers reach an extreme speed of 145 kilometres per hour, when their only way to stop is to use their feet. It is not only the risk that prevents people from trying that sport. Not everyone can afford to pay $1500 skin-tight leather suit for race. All in all I wouldn’t like to take a place in such competiton, because it might end tragically with many injuries, or even death.