Bonus Dad Bonus Daughter
Welcome to "Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter," a heartwarming and insightful podcast celebrating the unique bond between a stepfather Davey, and his stepdaughter Hannah.
Join them as they explore the joys, challenges, and everyday moments that make this relationship special.
Each episode they take a topic and discuss the differences, similarities and the effect each one had one them
Featuring candid conversations, personal stories, and many laughs
Whether you're a step-parent, stepchild, or simply interested in family dynamics, "Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter" offers a fresh perspective on love, family, and the bonds that unite us.
Bonus Dad Bonus Daughter
Exploring the Thrills: Extreme Sports and Adrenaline Adventures
Send us a Comment, Question or Request, we'd love to hear from you
Ever wondered what makes an extreme sport truly extreme? This episode kicks off with an exploration of our personal passions, starting with Hannah's compelling argument for surfing as an extreme sport due to its inherent risks like shark encounters. We then shift gears to celebrate a personal milestone—completing the Run Norwich 10K. Despite facing a chronic pain disorder, the journey from training hurdles to race day triumphs gets unraveled, showcasing the broader definitions of extreme sports.
From the nostalgic days of VHS tapes to the jaw-dropping feats in skydiving, get ready to travel through time and space with us. We highlight Felix Baumgartner's sound barrier-breaking Red Bull Stratus jump and ponder the courage of early parachuting pioneers. The evolution of skydiving, from military applications to the importance of modern equipment like reserve parachutes, forms the crux of our thrilling discussion. Whether you're a Gen X’er or a millennial, you’ll resonate with our trip down memory lane.
Hold on tight as we venture into the world of base jumping and wingsuit flying, where precision and danger go hand in hand. We examine the heart-pounding risks associated with each sport, from low-altitude jumps to the incredible skill required to fly in a wingsuit. Shifting to exhilarating land diving rituals and epic surfing tales, we celebrate iconic figures and jaw-dropping moments that define these sports. Finally, revel in discussions about skiing mishaps, whitewater rafting fears, and parkour’s urban landscape, concluding our adrenaline-packed episode on a high note.
Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades or you could choose one by contacting us via email, Instagram, Facebook or TikTok links in bio.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter. We are here, Just us two.
Speaker 1:We are here, just us two, just us two. Chilling, chilling, vibing, vibing, oh, vibing. Going back to the slang episode, chilling and vibing.
Speaker 2:Chilling and vibing. Yes, can you dig it? Yes, you can, I got, you get we get everybody, I'm gonna gift gone, stick it in the goal. It's down to move your body. Can we cut this down? Yeah, no, no, no, I'm gonna keep him, keep him.
Speaker 1:Yes, uh, so uh, today's episode is all about extreme sports extreme, extreme sports, because Extreme sports, extreme sports, because I'm well, I'm not a very sporty person.
Speaker 2:No, but I do like extreme sports, do you yeah?
Speaker 1:What kind of sports do you like? Well, surfing.
Speaker 2:It's on there. I mean you could die doing it. It's pretty extreme. It is on there. Shark attacks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Well, Bethany lost an arm. Bethany did lose an arm.
Speaker 2:She lost an arm yeah but she still surfs incredibly well with one arm?
Speaker 1:Yes, she does.
Speaker 2:Has an adapted surfboard for it as well.
Speaker 1:Indeed, indeed. We're kind of jumping ahead a little bit, though, aren't?
Speaker 2:we, we are Sorry, yes, so what we've kind an extreme sport, didn't you? I wouldn't class what I did as extreme, but it's extreme for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's also very extreme for me, because yeah.
Speaker 2:What he is referring to is I did complete Run Norwich 10K, which for me is my Everest, so I'm very, very happy and I got under an hour and 20, which was the time that I was hoping for I actually got. 10k was an hour and 16 for me, so shaved four minutes off my goal time, which is crack a lacking. It was mentally tough and physically demanding.
Speaker 1:You did really well. Thank you, you did really well. You did it, your mum did it, anya did it.
Speaker 2:And Lynn did it your mum-in-law. Yeah, it was a family affair, it was family affair. Everybody did it, except for me and Mitchell yes, but you came along and you cheered on and Mitchell, I think, caught me at five different points throughout the whole yeah, he was running around like a blue ass fart he was.
Speaker 1:I mean, unfortunately I did have to go into work, so I kind of dropped.
Speaker 2:Your mom came up to land which was probably the the worst part of the yeah the course, because it was all uphill from there, an uphill struggle but I was.
Speaker 1:I was there at the end. I watched you all finish and you all did incredibly well and you all looked. Actually, at the end of it you still looked fairly good, thank you I didn't look like death.
Speaker 2:No, you didn't. You all you, you know, you all did really, really well. I was proud of you all I think for me, the the training itself was tiring and taxing, particularly on my body as someone with a chronic pain disorder as well.
Speaker 2:It's just like an added thing, like I'm not an able-bodied runner, so for me running 10k is quite a feat, um it's a huge thing I think running 5k for me is quite tough, so being able to run 10k, it's the most I've ever the the longest distance I've ever ran so far in my running career yeah, not career, but running time yeah um, so, so yeah, very, very proud of myself, yeah yeah, and I don't let anybody, you know every. I try to get in conversations. Oh yeah, run a 10K.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's me.
Speaker 1:I think, yeah, I mean everybody who did it, you know, did an amazing job. It was a good event.
Speaker 2:Highly recommend it. Run Norwich. The question I keep being asked is will I do it again? And the answer is no. The reason I won't do it again is because it's something I've ticked off, thing I've ticked off. I know that I've done it and I know I can do it, but for me, I want to now work on my fitness and improve my 5k time. That's my goal, but now that I've done it, I've experienced it and I'm happy leaving it there. I might do other 10ks around the country potentially.
Speaker 1:But you wouldn't do the Norwich one again I might do that one again, and it is.
Speaker 2:A lot of people have told me it's a very gruelling. It's a very gruelling, it's a particularly difficult trail.
Speaker 1:It is very, very difficult.
Speaker 2:yeah, it's hilly People say that Norwich is flat. It's not.
Speaker 1:It really isn't, Not when you're a runner no no.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, amazing work to everyone that did it, including all the volunteers and everyone. It was an incredible event. Very much enjoyed being part of it.
Speaker 1:Oh well done. No, you all did an amazing job. You really did so extreme sports. So what would you? What would we really class as an extreme sport?
Speaker 2:I think an extreme sport for me, the reason I'm kind of like all surfing. When I think of extreme sports the first thing that always comes to my mind is, like the skateboarding stunts, and I think it's because they put themselves an individual in harm's way. Like you can very easily hurt yourself doing those sports yeah but it's weird to me.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking about extreme sports, but I also as as the listeners are probably quite well aware now is that I'm an f1 fan and there's a part of me that thinks that's probably an extreme sport because of the death factor. Yeah, you know they, they're athletes in their own right and they do put themselves in danger for our entertainment. Like you know, that's a large part of it, and no one wants to see a crash and no one wants to see, you know, cars going up in flames and things like that, like the Grosjean incident. But I think for me, there's got to be, with extreme sports, a high level of danger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think that's it. I mean it's extreme sports are kind of they are activities that are perceived as having that high level of inherent danger.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, speed high, high level of physical exertion or specialized gear yeah and I would agree that, yeah, yeah, often attract thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies. I think a lot of F1 drivers are adrenaline junkies, like I have seen Lewis Hamilton, for example, go on hot ones, the hot wings. When they go up in intensity of how hot the chicken wings are, have you seen that yeah. And you can see how adrenaline junkie competitive nature he is, because he's like oh yeah, I'll eat the whole thing.
Speaker 2:He doesn't just eat like a nibble of it and then waits it out. He'll eat the whole thing because he's got that competitive that kind of adrenaline junkie yeah yeah, I think you have to be. Any sport like that f1, yeah, skateboarding you've got to have. There's got to be a little part of you. That's that. That fear factor is turned off. That switch you don't have. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Definitely yeah. So I kind of took the top 10. So I thought we'd talk a little bit about each of these. So I thought we'll talk about skydiving, base jumping, wingsuit, flying, rock climbing, bungee jumping, surfing Of course I had to put surfing in there Snowboarding, whitewater rafting, parkour, parkour parkour and skateboarding.
Speaker 2:Hey, there it is.
Speaker 1:Indeed. So I thought I've got a few little facts on each of these and I thought we'd just kind of go through them and have a little chat, really.
Speaker 2:Before we do just one question. Before we do, just one question. As someone from Generation X me, a millennial I consume a lot of this via the telly. I would watch skateboarding. Skateboarding is now in the Olympics, for example, F1, anything like that. Skydiving is a little bit different. It's not necessarily classed as a sport, but I probably could see it on TV and I could look it up on YouTube. How would you view extreme sports?
Speaker 1:without YouTube. So yeah, we would get videos, because I can remember we would watch surfing videos. I'd go around a friend's house and they would have videos of people surfing and we'd sit and watch that. So yeah, youtube was a thing.
Speaker 2:What like a VHS tape? A VHS tape, Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a VHS tape, wow, okay, yeah, or magazines, things like that.
Speaker 2:Magazines famously pictures that don't move Exactly, I see, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know you'd get like somebody going through a tube. Yeah, some really really good what.
Speaker 2:Someone going through oh yeah yeah yeah, you just jump from skydiving to going for a tube and I was like sorry, where are they jumping into?
Speaker 1:you would get you know, because they would actually be. I say proper films. Proper films is the wrong thing, but they would actually be filmed ghetto indie films yeah, they would actually be filmed by, you know, filmographers and then released on VHS which you could go and get and buy Filmographer. Filmographer, you mean a videographer? A videographer? Yes, indeed, yeah, let's talk about skydiving.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about skydiving. So yeah, so skydiving. I did look. I kind of split each of these into four categories. Each one of these I've got a little bit about the history, equipment that people use, the variants, competitions and also who the most famous name is to do with it. Some of these names, obviously. As soon as I looked at surfing and skateboarding, these names popped out at me anyway.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:I've got clear indication about skateboarding. It is him, it is 100% him, who comes up as the most famous skateboarder, because it had to have been really, didn't it really?
Speaker 2:Let's start with skydiving. Let's go ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So what is skydiving? Essentially it's you are jumping out of an aircraft free-falling before deploying a parachute.
Speaker 2:Well, preferably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, preferably deploying a parachute. Otherwise, yeah, it's going to get messy and I'm going to probably pronounce this name wrong, but there's a guy called Felix Baumgartner. Now, in 2012, he did the Red Bull Stratus jump, actually broke the sound barrier.
Speaker 2:I remember this. I would not have remembered his name, but I remember him breaking the sound barrier.
Speaker 1:He reached a top speed of 843.6 miles per hour.
Speaker 2:He jumped 128,100 feet above the Earth's surface.
Speaker 1:And became the first person to break the sound barrier without being in a vehicle.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, how did your body?
Speaker 1:He had to have been wearing some kind of mask as well.
Speaker 2:Well, some sort of suit that would stop the heat as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because you would create natural heat from the velocity of your fall.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine how exhilarating that must have been for him?
Speaker 2:How poop pants, brown trousers Hang on.
Speaker 1:Isn't this the guy who went literally to the top where you could see the curvature of the earth, and they filmed it?
Speaker 2:That's brown trousers time. Was that that one? I think that's him. Yeah, brown trousers time.
Speaker 1:That is, isn't it?
Speaker 2:See, he's not right. They're mentally.
Speaker 1:Because if he'd have waited any longer, wasn't he going to end up like the gravity wouldn't have worked Well probably, and he would have just been floating off in space. That's nuts. That is nuts, that is absolutely insane.
Speaker 2:Man's got balls Flowed off into space.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man's got balls.
Speaker 2:Man has got balls or something wrong yeah.
Speaker 1:Jesus.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mad Congratulations.
Speaker 1:Well done, felix. Felix, you da man.
Speaker 2:You da man. If anyone's da man, you da man yeah.
Speaker 1:Jesus. But it says here as well History that skydiving Dates back to the Earliest 20th century With the first Recorded parachute as well. History that skydiving dates back to the earliest 20th century, with the first recorded parachute made by André Jacques Gamerin in 1797. Modern skydiving, yeah so.
Speaker 2:Oh, like it's a world war, like a war technique, because they would have had to jump out of the planes with a parachute.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean the SAS famously did something with parachutes that no other you know. They were the first kind of pioneers with parachute jumping as well in Africa. The way that they were jumping out of planes and doing things, it had never been tried before and they were the ones who did it. I only know that because I watched SAS Rogue Heroes.
Speaker 1:So it might not even be true, because it was just on a BBC television programme, nice, okay, but can you imagine being the first person to do it? So you know, there you are. You've been given a sheet Now that is brown trousers time. You've been given a sheet You're shitting yourself and with you know, packed in a bag right, and you're told to jump off a cliff or jump out of a plane and say don't worry, the sheet will break your fall. Yeah, nah, yeah, nah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nah, I mean, obviously I suppose they would have done stages beforehand to see they would have dropped anvils or something. I went quietly.
Speaker 1:Wiley-coated roadrunner. Yeah, but Jesus Christ, jesus, be the first person to do it. Nah, yeah, oh my word. So what does equipment do you use? Obviously, you have the main parachute, you have a reserve parachute I wonder how many times that happened, where somebody suddenly thought, actually we need a reserve in here because the main one isn't working all the time An altimeter and an automatic activation device that deploys the reserve parachute if the skydiver is unable to.
Speaker 2:That was a question I was going to have, because what if they pass out? Because that can happen they can pass out and not be able to deploy the chute, yeah. So that makes me feel a lot better that there's a device that does that for you yeah. Just in case.
Speaker 1:So I wonder how Well that's more of a modern thing, isn't it? They wouldn't have always had that.
Speaker 2:But I wonder how that device works. Does it know the proximity of the person to the ground?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would be an altimeter, wouldn't it? Altimeter? Try the alt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it must be to do with the air pressure and everything.
Speaker 2:Well, okay, we're here. Yeah, I've seen the air pressure.
Speaker 1:Suddenly deploy.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure how that works. I'd like to know. We'll Google after this session.
Speaker 1:Indeed. So the variants, other types of skydiving that there are. There's tandem skydiving, formation skydiving, and there's competitions as well Accuracy, landing, free accuracy landing free, flying, canopy piloting. I must admit, when you see the people with their things in their hands, and they're steering it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they try and land in that circle yeah, it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Must admit, it looks pretty cool yeah, would you skydive no?
Speaker 2:no you wouldn't even get me in the plane really nah, you wouldn't even even consider it. That's a scary to me than jumping out of it. You've been in a glider, haven't you? I've? Not been in a glider. Were you not in a glider? I have not been in a glider. You would not get me in a glider not a glider.
Speaker 1:So you know I flew. No, no, that was the glider that I flew years ago. But no, in your grandad's plane, I've been in grandad's plane yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. You were fine in that. That was a little problem. I was not fine, were you not?
Speaker 2:I was asleep.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Eyes closed, trauma.
Speaker 1:Sleep, even when I took the stick and started flying it.
Speaker 2:I didn't know. I was not aware of that until this very moment. Did you not know that I was the one flying?
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 2:I am glad to have only. Just. Oh, ptsd man, ptsd man, did you not know that? No, and I'm really glad I didn't.
Speaker 1:Your grandad took off and landed and I did the rest of the flying it's going to sound really weird to people that my grandad has a plane, not anymore, he hasn't.
Speaker 2:It was yeah he had a four seater yeah four seater little plane yeah, little plane.
Speaker 1:yeah yeah, he was a pilot, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was very fortunate to be able to have a grandad that has a plane.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's dead. Now the plane.
Speaker 2:Oh God, yeah, grandad's not.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no the plane.
Speaker 2:Something else I wasn't aware of, until right, this second.
Speaker 1:No, no is dead. The plane is dead. The plane is the plane not by crash, not by crash, no, it just got by age, just got too expensive to maintain rusty rusty and yeah, yeah so, but no, you wouldn't.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't do it then nope, not for me no, you wouldn't skydive no, look at that see, the funny thing is is because there's this thing about, because I don't genuinely like heights we've had this discussion before. Yes, but I'm fine in planes now. Now I think, do you know what? I think it's one of those my kind of thing about heights as well. It's more of like falling off a cliff or something like that, and I just feel uneasy at the edge of cliff faces yeah which I can understand, but skydiving and jumping out of a plane, yeah, I'd be all over that.
Speaker 2:Nah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Bugger, that I mean. You do it with someone anyway, don't you?
Speaker 2:for the first time, oh, yeah, you strap yourself first, but still not for me.
Speaker 1:I mean, you've seen that scene in Point Break with Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves? No, I haven't, where they're skydiving together, okay, no, no, okay. Have you ever seen Point Break? No, hannah, we need to watch that the original, not the remake.
Speaker 2:Okay yeah, base jumping.
Speaker 1:Now, this is something that I would not do.
Speaker 2:Jumping from fixed objects such as buildings, cliffs or bridges using a parachute? Yeah, A parachute is deployed.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Okay. So yeah, base jumping. I kind of thought this was parkour, so I think I may have accidentally got the two confused in my life thus far. But yeah, base jumping, Would I do it? I have mildly done it, but maybe not to the extreme, because of climbing and having to jump across stuff which I'm pretty sure you probably weren't aware of because of the face you're pulling at me right now.
Speaker 1:No, this is what worries me about when you and your mum go on your little kind of peak district and late district holidays and you don't tell me what you do, because that's the sort of shit that terrifies me.
Speaker 2:So there have been occasions where you do have to scale across rock formations. Yeah, we done Brimham Rocks. That was quite cool and yeah, I mean there's a picture of me standing, like Jebediah Springfield, on top of the but in order to get to that particular spot, there was obviously some precarious climbing that had to be done. So, yeah, not to the extreme and not with the height of what some people do it as, but I feel like I have done a little bit of base jumping.
Speaker 1:You've done a little bit of base jumping, just a little bit of base jumping.
Speaker 2:I've dabbled Like a little bit of put. I've dabbled Like a little bit of put. I've dabbled.
Speaker 1:I've dabbled Like the Aunty Donna reference there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a little bit of put A little bit of put.
Speaker 1:I think I'll have a little bit of put. I'll have a little bit of put. I'll have a little bit of put.
Speaker 2:So who's famous in this sport?
Speaker 1:Jeb Corliss apparently Ah, I don't know if he is he has jumped from the Eiffel Tower, the Seattle Space Needle and the Patronus Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
Speaker 2:Is that Patronus? As in.
Speaker 1:Inspecto Patronus. He survived a near fatal… it's.
Speaker 2:Petronas, it's actually a…. Oh, petronas, it's an F1 sponsor. I think… oh, I'm going to get this wrong.
Speaker 1:There's something to do with tyres All right, maybe Okay.
Speaker 2:Car things, okay, car things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know much about that. It's Petronas, not Petronas. He apparently survived a near-fatal wingsuit accident. We'll come on to wingsuit flying in a little while. In 2012, Table Mountain, South Africa, shattered both his legs.
Speaker 2:Oh, shattered, shattered both his legs. Oh, my Lord, oh, the word shattered makes me feel uncomfortable. Yeah, god, shattered.
Speaker 1:Not broken, shattered, shattered. Oh, if he'd have had cucumbers for legs, though.
Speaker 2:He would have had a very tasty treat. He did Refreshingly cool.
Speaker 1:I'm just thinking now if we don't release the other podcast episode before we release, that's going to sound so weird, but the reference to cucumber legs right, so yeah it's weird, isn't it? It's like I would jump out of a plane, but I wouldn't do base jumping.
Speaker 2:I think with base jumping, because you're closer to the ground, it doesn't feel as bad to me see that.
Speaker 1:That does me more I think, which is weird, because you're scared of heights yeah, but I'm scared of heights when you're on things this is what I'm saying like cliffs on a plane. Yeah, I know, but I, I jumping out of a plane. It seems natural, but I, I can get my head around that more than jumping off a cliff. Okay, you know, to a degree where you've got a parachute, I think it's because you close, close proximity to the thing that you're jumping off. Okay.
Speaker 2:And I would worry that you'd bang into it. I understand that. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Did you actually know that base jumping the word base is an acronym.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, I did not yeah.
Speaker 1:I didn't either, until Google told me Until now it stands for building Building antenna span, an earth representing the fixed objects from which jumps are made.
Speaker 2:Ah, antenna.
Speaker 1:Ah, have you seen that dude who basically climbs up that antenna to change the bulb? You seen him?
Speaker 2:I know what you mean, you know what I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, Because he does.
Speaker 1:He climbs up and then the base jumps off rather than climb back down.
Speaker 2:I mean it saves your endurance if you jump. Yeah, that, yeah, yeah, because he does. He climbs up and then he base jumps off rather than climb back down.
Speaker 1:I mean, it saves your endurance if you jump. Yeah, yeah, that's nuts, that's nuts.
Speaker 2:So what's required to be a base jumper? So you need Other than skill.
Speaker 1:A skill balls, balls, balls. You need a See? Ah right, this is what concerns me slightly as well. Now, when you were skydiving, you have a reserve parachute, a parachute, reserve parachute and an activation device. Yes, this uses a single parachute system designed for rapid deployment. Single parachute- and rapid deployment and rapid deployment wingsuits are also used for some jumps yeah, yeah, no, no, absolutely not, not for me, me, okay, okay. So it says here it's extremely dangerous due to the low altitude jumps.
Speaker 2:Don't try and say no.
Speaker 1:Yeah, limited time for parachute deployment and proximity to structures. There you go, good Lord. Those three things there, just one of those things, is a no for me. All three.
Speaker 2:Absolutely not Okay. Absolutely not Should we talk about wingsuit flying, then yeah.
Speaker 1:Seems like a natural, natural kind of slide in, slide. Yeah, do you want to take this one?
Speaker 2:Oh sure, go on then. So wingsuit flying, usually specifically designed suit to glide through the air before deploying a parachute. Whenever I think of wingsuit flying, I think of those little flying squirrels.
Speaker 1:That's exactly it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those little. They've got a bit more like bingo wingy arms, haven't they? And they're just like woohoo and they make themselves into a little parachute themselves. I'm going to struggle with the pronunciation of the most famous winged flyer. I'm going to give it a go.
Speaker 1:Yuli.
Speaker 2:Yuli Emmanuel yeah, I'll go with that. Yuli Emmanuel and daring, in particular his flight through a two metre wide cave in the mountainside of Switzerland. Oh, two metre wide.
Speaker 1:That's precision, isn't it?
Speaker 2:That is precision, but tragically, he died in a wingsuit accident in 2016, pushing the limits of human flight.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I guess that's a very sombre way of saying that. Of course, these sports people do it for themselves. Some people do it for entertainment and we have to appreciate and respect that. They are putting their lives on the line to give us an entertaining thing to look at as well, and I would like to think that you, lee emmanuel, died doing what he loved yeah, yeah, yeah not to bring it down about no, but I mean even to think about.
Speaker 2:Look what he did they wouldn't be be extreme if there wasn't a risk of death well, the clue is in.
Speaker 1:The clue is in the title, isn't it? It's an extreme sport extreme. I mean, look a two metre wide cape. So if you think he's jumped off, he's flying this suit like a flying, like you say, like a flying squirrel and through a two metre wide, bearing in mind, wingspan. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I'm 1.5 metres tall, so that makes my wingspan roughly 1.5, depending. Is your wingspan as high as tall as you are? I'm not sure actually.
Speaker 1:I don't know what the measurements are.
Speaker 2:Well, let's just say I'm at least a metre wide. Yeah, no, definitely, I'm well a metre If I do this with my arms.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, more than More than a metre.
Speaker 2:more than a metre, I would say 1.5, I'm 1.5, so imagine a 2 metre gap and someone that's actually of a normal height. I'm quite short for my, for my age, I suppose. Short, I'm just a short person, I'm petite.
Speaker 1:So yeah, like 2 metre wide is almost your wingspan yeah like that's I mean but, but also, can you imagine the first person again, like I was saying about the first person who skydived and the first person who base jumped, who on earth designed these things to start with and went? Do you know what? I'll probably be able to fly in this.
Speaker 2:Or they saw a squirrel and thought huh, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1:Well, that's probably what happened. Yeah, a flying squirrel, I imagine the flying squirrel was yeah, jesus.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's in the last 30 years. That makes you feel old, doesn't it yeah?
Speaker 1:Wing suits feature fabric wings between the arms and legs, and the parachute is then used for landing.
Speaker 2:Oh, so they have a parachute as well.
Speaker 1:Seen them a lot in films as well, haven't they Like? In spy films they crop up occasionally.
Speaker 2:Yeah, their little white puff of parachute, which probably doesn't help.
Speaker 1:So they manipulate their body position to control their flight path and speed. So it's all done.
Speaker 2:But you would only learn that through doing it.
Speaker 1:Through doing it.
Speaker 2:Like, you could watch as many documentaries on flying squirrels you wanted, but you'd have to put it into practice.
Speaker 1:You would own yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, what height do they start at before they start going extreme?
Speaker 1:There will be some science to this beforehand. Oh, you know, I imagine you know the theory.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of skill that you could only really get through, through, doing it, through, doing it yeah.
Speaker 1:That is, yeah, scary. And it says I. The last bit says wingsuit flying involves significant risk to high speeds or due to the high speeds and the need for precise control. I mean it says high speeds but I don't know what speeds these guys go at.
Speaker 2:I mean, they'd have to drop pretty quickly enough to need a parachute in order to reduce the speed of their landing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I assume that's what the parachute is being used for.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah or an emergency yeah. Yeah, absolutely nuts.
Speaker 2:Rest in peace.
Speaker 1:I'd like to give it a go though no, no, I mean in one of those tunnels. Do you know what I mean? Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Do you know what I mean? Skydiving like, yeah, indoor skydiving.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, but, as you know, in a wingsuit see if there was some way that you could do it in no jumping off a jumping out of a plane, wingsuit flying parachute nah, not for me for rock climbing rock climbing.
Speaker 2:So you do a bit of this, don't you? I used to. Yeah, I, I, I dabble once again, I dabble. I've dabbled more in rock climbing than I have any other extreme sport, admittedly.
Speaker 2:So rock climbing, I actually do bouldering, difference being that bouldering is uh less tall because you haven't got ropes, so bouldering is is free climbing, essentially, and you uh in in bouldering um gyms, you, you have a particular route which is usually color-coded um, and then the routes uh are increased in uh difficulty by either the colors or they are labeled, a certain coding system so that you know how difficult or or how easy a climb is going to be, and that helps you progress through, kind of like building up grades and building up like you would go to the gym and build up your weights. You build up like you would with difficulty of route. Some routes are difficult because they require more upper body, which is difficult for a lady like myself, or there could be more technical climb, or there might be a more flexible climb, which I am better at. But yes, I actually don't know. I'm reading some of the names of the rock climbers here and I actually don't know them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Alex Honnold, Never heard of him.
Speaker 2:No he's a free solo ascent of El Capitan.
Speaker 1:El Capitan.
Speaker 2:El Capitan Was documented in the Academy Award winning film Free Solo. His climbing feats are renowned for their mental and physical demands, given the absence of ropes or safety gear. So he was bouldering.
Speaker 1:Isn't he the French guy who they call the human?
Speaker 2:Spider-Man. Maybe he's the human Spider-Man, because I've seen loads of documentaries on him. I don't think his name was that though.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Because I think he's French. Yeah Well, I'm Sorry, alex, but I don't think his name Strikes me as French, but I could be.
Speaker 1:The guy who I'm thinking of Is definitely French.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 100% French yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm convinced he's French. He used to get arrested a lot, didn't he? Because he used to try and climb Like really random buildings. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think he tried the Eiffel Tower and things like that as well, yeah. Maybe I think he's French because he did the Eiffel Tower. Maybe he's not French.
Speaker 1:No, he is. He is definitely French.
Speaker 2:Because he was on the Russell Howard show but I just can't remember his name.
Speaker 1:He is definitely French, yeah.
Speaker 2:But maybe his name is Alex Might be but it doesn't appear French to me. I don.
Speaker 1:I actually think he's dead as well, that French guy. Oh no, I think he's dead. Yeah, I do think so, yeah rock climbing's fun.
Speaker 2:I enjoy it, but it is more for me. No, no, sorry, I'm going to just scratch whatever I was just about to say. It is definitely very physically demanding, but I would say the effort that I do and the climbs that I do in the easier categories are definitely more of a mental battle.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Sometimes because you're like, oh, I'm at the top and your leg's stuck to shake and it's brown trousers time and you just want to get down jump down. I've abseiled.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so with rope to climb.
Speaker 2:you tend to climb up the rope and then you abseil down. That's kind of the idea of doing rope to climbs but bouldering obviously you don't have that luxury no you can climb down on any color, on any any bit that you want to. If you're feeling frightened. The actual route itself getting up there, you use a color, but on the way back down you can use whatever abseiling is weird because you kind of you've got this attached, this rope.
Speaker 1:You're jumping down, aren't you? But remember, I'm one of the first kind of hop down yeah, the first time I did it I kind of walkedped down. Really, yeah, the first time I did it I kind of walked down, but the second time I did actually let the rope go and abseiled, as you probably would. I mean, not like proper abseilers do. I probably only went down like a couple of centimetres each time, but it felt like a massive drop when I did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But so it says that rock climbing has ancient origins but became a sport in the late 19th century, and modern techniques and safety equipment have evolved since the 1960s. Yay, yeah, and you get kind of harnesses, ropes, carabiners, cams, chalk. Yeah, chalk is a big thing, isn't it? For grip.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not a massive fan of using chalk myself.
Speaker 2:I don't get particularly sweaty hands, but people that do, Because getting clammy and sweaty, particularly in that environment, you're exerting a lot of energy, but also the fear factor A lot of people's fear responses is sweat. So naturally people will have sweaty palms, sweaty feet, sweaty all sorts of things. And you wear special shoes for bouldering and you wear special shoes for climbing as well rock climbing. They're sort of shaped a little bit differently than street shoes. They're quite high in the arch and they're fully rubbered soles as well for maximum grip. There are different styles and lots of things which I could go into, but no, they're very. Yeah, they're just lots of footwear. Yeah, if you're thinking about trying it, yeah, go easy on yourself, you can do this. You can definitely get tall, but get high up there. But, yeah, just don't freak out when you get to the top.
Speaker 1:This is one of those extreme sports where I think you kind of hit the nail on the head there a little bit. The other ones are you are jumping in at the deep end.
Speaker 2:This one. You can kind of ease yourself in a little bit to this one. If you're scared and you don't want to go any higher, don't climb any higher, just climb back down.
Speaker 1:You set your own pace in rock climbing, whereas the other ones, you are.
Speaker 2:That's it. You've leapt you've gone. With rock climbing you can actually control your intensity. You can control how difficult you make it for yourself. That's why I think people should give it a go, even if you are scared of heights. It's a lovely sport filled with lovely people, lovely supportive people who will also help you when you're up there and in the climb as well, and for your first time. I would go with someone that has climbed before.
Speaker 1:At least A lot of gyms won't let you climb without a I was going to say, because a lot of times you don't have to even go and climb a mountain. You can go to a gym and just climb the walls.
Speaker 2:You can you can. Most gyms will, or should, I should say, get you to do a little proficiency.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:A little test to become a supervisor.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:There's normally one supervisor to two beginners as well. That's good Two to one generally.
Speaker 1:So back to the ridiculous jumping off things with an elastic band attached to your leg.
Speaker 2:Bungee jumping, the thought no, I'm a no as well, and the reason I'm a no I don't mind, I would happily do. One of them swings like through the caves.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm okay with that. But the thought of Bouncing down and the feeling of coming back up as the bungee cord contracts again, bleh, not for me, not for me. I don't really like drop towers. When I go to theme parks it's the same feeling. Not a fan of my lunch coming back up.
Speaker 1:The thing that gets me is I know they're thick safety elastic cords, but you are attached by your ankle to essentially an elastic band.
Speaker 2:I think the ankle part annoys me as well. Actually, I don't know.
Speaker 1:No, it is your ankle, isn't it?
Speaker 2:I think it is your feet, and the thought of dangling upside down for a long time also does not bode well with me.
Speaker 1:I'm not a fan? Yeah, no. So it does not bode well with me. I'm not a fan, yeah, no. So apparently a guy called AJ Hackett made the headlines in 1987 when he bungee jumped from the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 2:The Eiffel Tower is like a hotspot for these extreme sport people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. He has since built a global empire of bungee jumping sites, promoting safety in the region of the sport. Don't do it like I did it, kids.
Speaker 2:We literally just downtrod him and now he's like I am the empire of safety. Good for him.
Speaker 1:Good for him, oh my God. It says here, inspired by the land diving ritual of Pentecost Island Yep. What's that?
Speaker 2:Right, this is such a weird throwback, do you remember, is it? Chris Pinkleton, pinkleton, pinkleton, him and Ricky Gervais had a show and he made it. Oh, carl Pilkington.
Speaker 1:Carl Pilkington. That's it. Sorry, I apologise if I got his name wrong. What an idiot abroad.
Speaker 2:Idiot abroad, that's it. He went and done this.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That's that. I think, that's that went and done this.
Speaker 1:Um, he did. He actually did it as well, which I was really surprised. I thought you'd well chicken out of it. Yeah, they just bungee jump, but they just fall on the floor. It's nuts, absolute nuts. Modern bungee jumping began with jumps from the clifton suspension bridge in the 1979. I like this, though. It says equipment a strong, elastic bungee cord attached to a harness.
Speaker 2:That's basically preferably.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a low equipment sport yeah jumpers can dive head first or perform flips and tricks. Popular site includes the carra raua bridge in new zealand and the victoria falls bridge in africa.
Speaker 2:Okay, I actually heard of that one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll let you take the next one my favorite, of course, surfing, course, surfing, yeah, yeah, surfing. So what is surfing? It is riding ocean waves on a surfboard, particularly in big wave surfing. Now, I've never done big wave surfing. I don't think I ever will do big wave surfing, I mean the most. The highest wave I think I've ever surfed would probably be between 8 and 10 feet, that's still pretty high.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not overly, you know, I mean, when you look at Nazaire in Portugal, 100-foot wave. I said about Garrett McNamara when he surfed a 100-foot wave, 100-foot wave. I mean that feeling you get. And I'm sort of talking from personal experience. So you know, you're on the surfboard, you see the wave coming, you start paddling and then suddenly and then you feel like you get lifted in the air. That's what it feels like, because the wave then lifts you and then you jump on the board and you're gone and you are coming in at a rate of knots. It doesn't look that fast, but when you're on the board and you're gone and you are coming in at a rate of knots, it doesn't look that fast but, when you're on that board.
Speaker 1:You are coming in at a rate of knots.
Speaker 2:Well, you're so streamlined, aren't you?
Speaker 1:You are. I mean, there's a really good photograph, isn't there, of me surfing at Bude. Have you seen that one?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:So your mum took it. She was in the water. Now I actually had to change the contrast on the picture for this one, so you can't see my face.
Speaker 2:Why? Because you're shitting yourself.
Speaker 1:No, because I'm shouting at your mum telling her to get out of the way.
Speaker 2:You've got this look of kind of anguish on my face as I'm like get out of the way.
Speaker 1:Because I was coming in that fast and she was taking the photograph. I missed her head by inches photograph. I missed her head by inches. Literally missed her head by inches coming, but she's got an amazing photograph.
Speaker 2:Oh well, the photograph was really cool, might have been worth it for the knock on the head.
Speaker 1:Yeah but yeah, there's um, yeah, I mean there's two types of surfing. There's a surfing kind of that I do, which is just basically just fun, fun. Or you've got the big wave ones and I mean these guys, that's. You know, they get toe surfing.
Speaker 2:What about competition surfing? How large is the wave usually?
Speaker 1:Depending on which competition it is and where it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, depending on where the competition is, because some waves are that big they actually have to get towed out past the waves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you can't literally get over the wave because they're that big yeah waves yeah because you can't literally get over the wave because they're that big, yeah, and when you go on you can know you can do one of the two things go under the wave or go over the wave. But yeah, um, because that's the other thing. When you fall off a surfboard and you and you, you end up in the wash and you're spinning around, you genuinely don't know which way is up. Yeah, yeah, I've swum where I thought I was swimming up before and I've swum down.
Speaker 1:Down yeah, yeah, it's so disorientated, but it's an amazing sport. I love it. So I think one of the we've already mentioned Bethany, who lost her arm from a shark attack yes, but I think the biggest name in surfing, well, there's Garrett McNamara, who's the guy who surfed the first 100-foot wave, but then Kelly Slater yes, kelly Slater is probably the most famous surfer.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Now. He won his first world title at age 20 and his latest at age 39. He also co-founded the Kelly Slater Wave Company, creating artificial wave technology for surfing as well. Obviously originated in Polynesian culture and was popularised in Hawaii. It really kind of started bringing up into the 20th century. You've got short boards, long boards, big wave surfing. Yeah, it mentions toe-in surfing as well here. So, yeah, you've got short boards and long boards. You've got different types of boards as well, depending on the type of surfing that you do.
Speaker 2:It's not a low equipment sport really, because it's just the surfboard, the wetsuit and the leash, I suppose.
Speaker 1:Essentially, yeah, that's kind of all it is. I mean I've got and the wax you have to wax your body. Oh, that's nice, mr Zog's sex wax, yes. So yeah, I've got a mini-mal which is in between a short board, long boards.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're quite tall though.
Speaker 1:I am quite tall. I mean short boards is. You need balance on that? It's just ridiculous. And they're for the tricks and spins, whereas I just get up and ride in. I'm not very good at turning, so, yeah, all you really need is a surfboard wetsuit, but don't go on your own if you're going to do it for the first time. Yes, I think a lot of these sports shouldn't be done solo.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, even though they are solo sports it should not be done solo. You need someone around, because they are extreme. Yeah, and you need someone around to make sure that you're okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and especially in the sea as well. You need to respect the ocean and need to respect the sea, because there's riptides, there's ebtides, there's all sorts of things I mean we used to use stupidly. Really, we did used to use the riptides to go out further. That's ridiculous. I wouldn't do that now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Absolutely not. I mean, there was one time surfing off Fistral Beach in Newquay when I was a lot younger. I didn't realize I got shifted across. So as I was paddling out, the actual the sea was dragging me across and I turned. I saw this wave. I turned around, jumped up on the board, started paddling and then realised I drifted that far, I was coming in on the rocks. I came off on the rocks and I was cut to shit, absolutely cut to shit. So it's yeah, not great, and that wasn't. That wasn't really extreme. Yeah, it can be. So it's yeah, not great. And that wasn't really extreme. Yeah, it can be. Yeah, you can hurt yourself if you don't know what you're doing Snowboarding, snowboarding.
Speaker 2:Okay, so snowboarding I think it's pretty self-explanatory. A lot of people will know what snowboarding is. It's probably the, I think, the most documented one, I would say, in the extreme sport list that we've got other than skateboarding? Potentially, yeah, so obviously snow is required. Snow is required. Biggest name in snowboarding and I knew this guy was coming up it's sean white yeah, uh funny lad got a good personality. Yeah, um, one would say quite a gnarly dude yeah, indeed yeah, he, um, he is shocking red hair.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he absolutely dominates snowboarding what's his nickname? It's the flying tomato. Yeah, he, because of the red hair he's. He's got Wii games out. Shaun White's snowboarding stream, but snowboarding as well. Like you had SSX Tricky on the Playstation, like you have games with this yeah you know you don't really have rock climbing games, no, you have skydiving games. Really, there might be an element of it in games.
Speaker 1:God we used to play SSX Tricky all the time, didn't we?
Speaker 2:It's treat to rock and roll. Yeah, it was brilliant. Yeah, yeah. So snowboarding developed in the 1960s and became an Olympic sport in 1998. In the 1960s and became an Olympic sport in 1998. There's lots of different styles. You've got free ride, alpine and freestyle, which is all the tricks and jumps and stuff. If you catch it in the Winter Olympics, it's quite an amazing thing to watch.
Speaker 1:What's heaven? Heaven is a halfpipe.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Although that's more skateboarding.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do do halfpipes in snowboarding as well. Obviously, snowboard is required Snow Bindings, boots and protective gear, because it's really easy to get sunburned snowboarding and skiing.
Speaker 1:It is yeah.
Speaker 2:Because the sun reflects off the white snow and that goes on your skin, particularly if you're white skinned as well. So, yeah, yeah, the X Games is where you'll find snowboarding. Winter Olympics, as I've mentioned, yeah, events like Halfpipe and Slopestyle. Catch them if you can. They are quite fun to watch. Right on to the next one, I don't think we should spend much time on that one.
Speaker 1:What on snowboarding Some people?
Speaker 2:know snowboarding.
Speaker 1:It's very common. It's a common extreme sport. Yeah, I have snowboarded. Oh yeah, of course you have. Yeah, because your mum bought me a day at the Milton Keynes Snowdome, which was really good. Really enjoyed that. Nice, that was really good. But yeah, again, similar to surfing, I just basically got on the road. I tried snowboarding Went down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm up for that fan of skiing, but snowboarding yes yeah, skiing to me is just so like people really hurt themselves skiing, and you think of michael schumacher a while a world-renowned f1 racer driving cars at however speed, he has his accident on a ski slope I know all the places, like the irony of the fact that he is a Formula One driver and you would have thought that if he's going to hurt himself, it's going to be in that car.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was on a ski slope.
Speaker 1:I know it's nuts I don't trust them. No.
Speaker 2:I don't trust them. I don't trust my legs. Yeah, whitewater rafting.
Speaker 1:Scares the absolute shit out of me, absolutely Scares your mum as well, because your mum did have an incident. She did have an incident when she was younger, whitewater rafting and nearly drowned, but long before you were even thought of as well, apparently.
Speaker 2:I'm named after one of her friends that was on that rafting trip.
Speaker 1:You are indeed. You are indeed, yeah. So yeah, she had a bit of an incident where she fell out of the boat and nearly drowned, nearly drowned, but I see now whitewater rafting is basically navigating rough river waters in an inflatable raft. There's the problem for me, the inflatable part, the inflatable raft. Now, if you were to put me in a small kayak and I would go in white water, yeah, I'll do that, but not white water rafting. I don't like the idea of that. You're too free and loose and you haven't, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not for me.
Speaker 1:No, no, it's definitely not for me, but one of the most famous. Have you ever heard of Rafa Ortiz? No, no, I never have either. Known for tackling extreme waterfalls, including an attempted descent of Niagara Falls. Attempted, attempted. What do you do, get to the edge, you went, nah. Nah not for me.
Speaker 2:I'm not. His adventures and exploits have been featured in documentaries showcasing the perilous nature of extreme kayaking. Oh, he does extreme kayaking as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah okay, whitewater often became popular in the mid-20th century with advances in raft technology. And what equipment do you need? Inflatable raft, paddle life, jackets and helmets, helmets, helmets Okay, more than one Colorado River, zambezi River.
Speaker 2:We've spoken about helmets, but every other sport we've mentioned other than surfing also probably requires a helmet. I would probably say yes, even skydiving, like if you were to fall and not land on your feet, a helmet would be a good idea.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, whitewater rafting, whitewater kayaking, yes.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:But whitewater rafting no.
Speaker 2:Absolutely not. Neither of those things appeal to me.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Any drowning issues? I uh no yeah surfing I can get on board with.
Speaker 1:But that's gonna say you've, I have surfed, you've surfed but whitewater rafting does not entice me no, okay, okay now I I've seen a lot of these videos on YouTube and I'll be brutally honest I think they're idiots.
Speaker 2:They're nuts they're idiots. Have you seen the ones where they think something's stable and it's not, and they either fall? Through it or the rock moves, it's proper like hot fuzz when the steeple tower falls off onto the tin messenger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, jesus, leslie Tiller was murdered. Fuzz when the steeple tower falls off onto the tin messenger. Yeah, jesus, I like how tiller was murdered I like how in all of the other ones they've got a section on equipment and parkour does not have a section on equipment just a human body, it's just you, you you and yeah I would think that a lot of them, because they wear quite baggy clothes generally.
Speaker 2:I'm wondering if they've got a few knee protectors elbow protectors, sometimes that we can't see because it's not cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably, so they put it under their baggy trousers?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but it says here I've made a wild assumption about who parkours right now and what they wear, but I don't know Parkouring. I imagine they train for parkouring in like gymnastic gyms and things like that I'd like to think that they practice on sprung floors first before attempting any of this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does say here that they train in urban environments, focusing on jumping, climbing and vaulting techniques.
Speaker 2:Vaulting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a guy called David Bell is credited with founding parkour, drawing on his father's military training. Parkour free running, emphasised efficiency of movement has influenced action choreography in films and video games.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I mean when I see, I mean it's beneficial for stuntmen, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:There's a real famous chase scene in Casino Royale and it was quite early on James Bond. You mean James Bond, yeah, and that was quite when parkour was quite early Parkour and that was quite good. I just think they're. I'll be brutally honest, I think they're nuts.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:There's no other way to describe them.
Speaker 2:I'm up for it. I would want to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's when you see them jumping from building to building, the high building ones.
Speaker 2:that is high stakes, that is ridiculous, that is splat territory. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean you can understand, no, sorry, I was going to say you can understand, no, I just can't understand it. I think they're idiots.
Speaker 2:I imagine the ones that do the top buildings must have a parachute on because they have rucksacks on, and I must admit they've got Because they have rucksacks on and I must admit they've got, They've got, I mean yeah. Because that is splat territory yeah it's just insane, Just insane.
Speaker 1:So do you want to take the last one? Hannah, I would love to take the last one.
Speaker 2:I thought you might. The last one's skateboarding. And, of course, it is to no one's surprise that Tony Hawk would be the revolutionary figure of this sport. Just because he's a legend, he's an absolute legend. What a lovely guy, yeah, and uh, really helpful of youth, um, really bringing like skateboarding, um and using it as a, as a tool to um inspire the youth as well, I just think it's incredible, uh, what he does.
Speaker 2:Games have been made about him. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is a lot of things that a lot of my generation would have played on. Yeah, incredible, incredible guy, incredible sport, but limb-breaking sport. I don't know if there's many fatalities with skateboarding. There is extreme skateboarding, but a lot of broken bones. Compared to all of the other sports, skateboarding is lower off the ground, I would say as well. Lower to the ground, sorry. So less fatalities, but definitely more broken bones.
Speaker 1:I'd say For sure, talking to Tony Hall. Have you ever seen that video of that when he's on that panel? No, you see, I don't know who she is, I don't know if she's the singer of a band, and they're all asking her questions, right, and she's answering them and she openly admits that she's kind of neurodivergent and she says things without thinking. I think that's part of the reason why I think. And she's talking to them, she obviously doesn't know who's on the panel. She's mid-sentence and goes holy shit, is that tony hawk? And then just, he's been sat there the whole time and she hasn't recognized him. Yeah, at that point. And then suddenly just clicks in who he is and it said in the comment section is like he is the most recognizable, unrecognizable person on the planet. It's like you see him and you're like normal, doesn't?
Speaker 2:yeah, he Is that, tony Hawk. He looks such like an average Jonah and I think that's what makes him more relatable as well. Tony Hawk is just a legend. There's a Slow Mo Guys video. If anyone has heard of Slow Mo Guys, gavin and Dan do Slow Mo Guys on YouTube. They're quite famous, a lot of people. I think would have heard of them, but they do. An episode with Tony Hawk and Dan actually breaks his arm in that episode.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they try and pinpoint the exact point of the break as well, oh Jesus. Tony Hawk was just loving it. Yeah, who are these guys trying to drop in on a thing? So yeah, legend.
Speaker 1:But yeah, he was the first skateboarder to land a 900, a 2.5 revolution aerial spin at the x games in 1999. That's nuts, dude, that is absolutely nuts and I was only three you're only three, only three. But yeah, it's a.
Speaker 1:Skateboarding began in the 1950s in cal in California as a way for surfers to practice on land yeah, makes a lot of sense yeah, yeah, but there's park skating, streets, street skating, you know, jumping on rails, half pipes, and again, heaven is a half pipe, heaven is a half pipe. Skateboards, protective gear and specialised shoes is what you need, and it does. And it says here it's got this. It has a very strong cultural influence as well. Yes, oh, 100%, you can.
Speaker 2:There is a way that people dress when they're skaters and yeah, loose fitting clothing yeah and yeah, it comes with its own music genre it does yeah what an incredible sport it is.
Speaker 1:I like skateboarding. I like skateboarding.
Speaker 2:It's cool do you ever had a skateboard? Yeah, I've had a skateboard. I was better at roller skating with my quad skates, but, yeah, I'm not very good at it.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not very good at skateboarding.
Speaker 2:Not very gifted.
Speaker 1:I can pretty much go and turn by pressing the board down, but coming flips and tricks and all that. No, I've never even attempted it, never even attempted it.
Speaker 2:Never even attempted it and the drops scare me. Drops into the bowls.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the whole idea of standing on the edge of the pipe and then just dropping down into the bowl no, I'd come off every single time. Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2:That is a tailbone cracking time.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh yeah. So let's just go back to the beginning and we'll end up the episode with yes or no. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2:Quickfire go.
Speaker 1:Skydiving.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Base jumping.
Speaker 2:Wait, are you not answering?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I thought I'll quickfire you and then you quickfire me.
Speaker 2:No, they're the same questions, all right, okay.
Speaker 1:All right, okay, sorry, skydiving. No, no, sorry, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:This is going so well.
Speaker 1:Start again.
Speaker 2:Skydiving.
Speaker 1:Yes, no. Base jumping no. Wingsuit flying no. Rock climbing yes. Bungee jumping Hell no. Surfing yes. Snowboarding yes. Whitewater rafting no, no Parkour yes.
Speaker 2:Absolutely not. Yes, white water rafting no, no um parkour, absolutely not. I parkour now, uh, skateboarding yes so yeah, I think that actually makes it sound like you're more adventurous than I am yeah but that's not the case yeah I just know my body's limits yeah, well, I know, I mean out of those I've done one, two, three, four. I think I've done three to a degree four.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, okay, yeah wow there you are, extreme sports we hope you enjoyed that extreme episode of bonus dad, bonus daughter. Please hit us up on our socials as usual and blocking out the haters. Bye-bye. Outro Music.