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Parkour diving, extreme ironing and skyaking – weird extreme sports

  • Adventurous athletes up the ante by combining outdoor sports for whole new levels of extreme

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Kent De Mond of the USA takes part in the 2012 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Oman. Photo: Romina Amato/Red Bull Content Pool

The pandemic lockdown is perhaps proving hardest for fans of outdoor and extreme sports.

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Football fans might miss the 90 minutes of action but that’s hardly the same as an ultramarathon or climbing a mountain.

Never fear, aside from the books, TED Talks and thrilling documentaries that have been rounded-up for your isolation enjoyment, there is plenty of adventure content on YouTube.

These are some of the more niche examples of the sport for outdoors enthusiasts to add to their bucket list and, for the rest of us, it is a glimpse into the weirdest sports that you are never likely to try (but cannot help watching).

Parkour is pretty extreme as is high diving so combining the two must at least double the danger. British pro parkour team Storror did just that with a video of them parkouring their way into the Rhine.

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It’s been viewed a whopping 23.5 million times but that does not stop each rewatch seeming like the one where it all goes awry.

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