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The Olympics, with its focus on obscure winter sports like curling and luge, might make you motivated to pick up a new hobby. But, if you don’t have access to a track to practice your skeleton run, or a shooting range to hone your biathlon skills, you might want to consider these five options. All of them are cooler than ice dancing.
Fat Biking
Fat bikes, which have extra wide, grippy tires for riding on snow, have exploded in popularity over the past couple of years, especially in places like the Midwest and Alaska. They’re goofy looking, but they make winter riding possible, and, more important, fun. According to … More
Children as young as two are hopping on BMX bikes, climbing rock walls and attempting skateboard manoeuvres in a quest for more adrenalin-pumping pastimes than kicking the footy or going for a swim.
Once the domain of pre-teens and adolescents, extreme sports report an influx of younger participants as the sports become safer and more widely available.
”Extreme sport is seen by kids as cool and by parents as safe,” Monash University sports lecturer Tom Heenan said. ”It’s lost its fear factor.” … More