After hanging ten, T.J. the surfing dog was so wiped, he fell asleep with his sunglasses on! Next time you consider whether or not to hit the gym, think of T.J. If he can surf til he sleeps, you can afford at least 15 minutes of cardio.
Today in terrible ideas: diving down an escalator. Do you think he flew through the air calculating the cost of dental surgery?
Whether it's your fear of heights or fear of public nudity, no worries: everything looks bad at this altitude. Let's just hope nothing gets caught in the parachute straps.
Aspiring hard-asses walk through fire and other unwelcoming substances. Over 600 cases of hypothermia were treated, along with a bunch of broken bones and stuff. But the pictures are very cool.
Sports Buzz A growing number of women are practicing parkour, a kind of extreme gymnastics. Thrill-seeking housewives are joining parkour gyms and wall-jumping as a workout. I’ll be sticking to the elliptical.
Jason found this crazy downhill skateboarding video and gives the sage advice to fast forward two minutes in to get closer to the INSANE ACTION! You can also click here for the HD version.
Sports Buzz The new fitness/sports craze involves a pogo stick that lets you make six-foot jump. They cost around $250. From the videos, it looks totally terrifying so hopefully you have a good medical plan as well, with low deductibles.
Sports Buzz A group of rock climbers called the Stone Nudes do it with no clothing or special shoes or equipment. Images of the climbers have been captured in a 2009 calendar, and they happen to all be hot girls. Which is too bad, because I only buy calendars featuring fat balding men or playful kittens.
Sports Buzz An extreme sport involves strapping on a pair of jumping stilts that act like pogo sticks on your feet. A Korean company has made $400 knockoffs of these odd German stilts that allow you to run at 20 miles an hour and jump 6 feet in the air. And you thought rollerbladers looked ridiculous!
Sports Buzz An extreme sport that’s sort of like hang-gliding in the snow. Watching the video, it looks like something ridiculous they’d do on an episode of Jackass. But for the daring and the adventurous, this combination of snowboarding, mountain biking and hang gliding is something new to try.