New extreme sports push the limit for thrill seekers

So as some of you know there are sports and then there are “Extreme Sports” which involve people jumping off of 1000 foot buildings to release their parachute right before they hit the ground or the last possible moment.

To some this may sound fun. Yet others like to jump out of planes with a wingsuit on and fly through the sky for as long as possible and opening a parachute at the last moment as well.  Who or what kind of people might enjoy this you may be asking yourself, well Frank Farley a PhD, psychologist at Temple University, has been studying people like this and have named them “Type T” otherwise known as ( Thrill Seekers ). From what he has figured out about these people is that they love to lead an adventurous life. They are known to do things that others would just consider the scariest thing on the world.

Many other “extreme sports” would be something like “Underwater cave diving” which is very dangerous and is hardly practiced among many people because of cost and it requires special equipment, which cave divers have to have different types of suits, masks, lights and air supplies than a regular diver since the conditions are much more high in danger.

While this cost for this sport would run you around nine thousand dollars, that would help you buy the gear, training, travel cost and extra to get a quick fix on you parts or to buy spare parts.

Another is called “Wingsuiting”otherwise known as wingsuit flying, while Wingsuiting you jump out of a plane and you try to do whatever you can in the air before getting close to land and releasing your parachute.

Many people find this to be great if you love the rush, but a wingsuit is a special jumpsuit, called a wingsuit, allows skydivers and BASE jumpers to soar through the sky with their arms and legs spread open. While the average suit is around one thousand dollars or more for one that is better, but at the same time you have to have more money thinking of the cost for everything else. While falling in a wingsuit you can hit around 120 mph and you can slow yourself down to about 40 mph, also people say this is not for beginners.

The United States Parachute Association, requires any jumper flying a wingsuit for the first time to have a minimum of 200 free fall skydives, made within the past 18 months as well as training by an experienced jumper.

But if you find it fun to jump from high places like building, bridges or a super high cliff you might have to go out and try base jumping. While the word “BASE” is an acronym for Buildings or anything that provides a platform for jumping. While this sport is kind of like sky diving there is a huge difference like to BASE jump you would be jumping from feet less than 2,000 feet and sky diving is around 3,000 to 13,000 feet.

But one great thing to be a BASE jumper is that you cannot make any errors because your jumping from a shorter feet one mistake could cost you everything, but to some people they find that with that knowledge it adds to the thrill or to their rush. This however would have to be the cheapest extreme sport there is while the equipment ranges from two to three thousand dollars but this is still extremely dangerous.

At any rate these sports are extremely dangerous and should only be done with trained professionals and under the supervision of adults. We do not recommend anyone attempting these extreme sports on their own.

+Wes Phelps