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Posted By Stefan Daunt
I am in the TA and a freefall skydiver :)
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Posted By DaveCole
Am getting jittery now. I need to have a go at this sky diving thing. Feel like I'm missing out...
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Posted By Matt Hilton
I have been competing in 4x4 off road challenges for many years. Passed my Motorbike test in August last year then decided I fancied scuba diving. Over Christmas holidayed in Australia and dived with sharks.
hmmmm, I wouldn't say these were dangerous hobbies, just a bit more risky than others.
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Posted By doug bell
Scuba diving - none of the crasy jumping out of planes, careering down mountains, etc..
Suppose its pretty safe as long as you have air??
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Posted By Tabs
I hit people with blunt swords, poke them with blunt spears and shoot at them with rubber-tipped arrows!
It's called Dark Age battle re-enactment :-) this last weekend we were in glorious sunshine doing publicity shots at Winsford.
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Posted By Lilian McCartney
Mine was horse riding, at a course many years ago the guy asked what was the most dangerous sport. I said horse riding and he said he was thinking of fishing and that anyone who puts their life into the handsof a four legged, unpredictable animal isn't sporty their mad!
Recently booked team away day to deep Sea World. Before I let them team know where we were going I advised them that I'd promised they wouldn't throw me to the sharks in case i posioned them!
Lilian
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Posted By water67.
Hi, do some climbing in the far north (Scotland), have managed to fall on the odd occasion last time was in November..damaged my foot.. But for real danger i go into Glasgow on Friday nights.. for extreme risk some times i disagree with her who must be obeyed!!! ok only for a minute and only on 29Th February
Cheers
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Posted By clairel
Do or have done: solo parachute jump, paragliding, skiing (including off piste), snowmobiling, kayaking, white water kayaking, mountain biking, fell running, horse riding, sportsbikes, triathlon, climbing, abseiling.....
...still loads more I want to do too! Bring it on!!!
As far as I am concerned it is not about avoiding risks it is about managing them to an acceptable level. We all have a different idea of an acceptable level though - death seems to be a possibility in some of the things I've done and do, so I guess I have a relaxed view on what is accceptable.
Time I left H&S!
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Posted By Chloe Graham
I play netball in South East London, (the local kids can be quite scary!) Oh and i did a tandem skydive for charity last November but I am more scared about my NEBOSH Dip Unit A results on Friday than I was doing the skydive!
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Posted By Saz G
I play football for a Ladies team, doesn't get much more dangerous than that! ;-)
I am currently sporting a black eye, have no big toe nail and my knee modelling days are well and truly over! I broke my little finger last season and have countless bruises and grazes from the terrible pitches, but I love it!I also snowboard but that is tame compared to Sunday footy against the girls.
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Posted By DJohnson
Build competition kit cars and drive them on tracks sometimes to test, ride motorcycles on the road, build competition motorcycles for others to race, encourage my boy to ride motorcycles, he has riden in trails competition since he was 5, that any good?
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Posted By CFT
Oh a bit late, but did drag (not not that kind) at Santa Pod and Blackbush for a few years; actually held a world record for all of 7 days :-(
Now I'm older the most danger I face is riding my 1700cc Harley and climbing under the bike lift to polish underneath. Nearing completion of a drag bike (JV, not all mine) and many cuts and bruises to prove it, oh and yet another slipped disc when incorrectly lifting the engine; manual handling...do as I say - not as I do :-)
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Posted By Howard
Advanced motorcycle tutor for my local ROSPA Group if that counts.
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Posted By Mark Ellis
Drag raced (cars)on and off over the past 25 years, still waiting to peak!
ride my sons moto x bike sometimes,
go shopping with the wife now and again.
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Posted By Adam Worth
Capoeira! Amongst other things...
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Posted By jervis
I have been married twice !! So no more
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Posted By Chloe Graham
I also have two tattoos, my belly button pierced and i did once slide down the hand rail of a London Underground escalator, but that was before I started in H&S! I wouldn't dream of doing anything like that now ;)
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Posted By Steve M Granger
Chloe - where?
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Posted By jervis
Chloe why not you only live once!
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Posted By DaveCole
Surely we've all done the escalator thing??? If not, come on guys and girls... and good work Chloe.
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Posted By Mike DF
Mountain biking - and that includes the cycle to work in all seasons. There is a about one mile off road, frequently waterlogged, downhill with the occaisional deer or dog. A bit spooky at first but with 40W of headlights I can see where I am going - and spook anyone else on the route
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Posted By Frank E. Davidson
Shopping.
I sometimes carry shopping bags in both hands and walk down stairs without using the handrail just coz I can and there's no safety police around.
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Posted By simon coupland
Wow some good hobbies out there.
i manage to do some of the following,
Scuba diving, motorcycling, snowboarding, snowmobiling.
But mainly go 'down the front' at lots of gigs and get pushed around. great fun but getting to old for the recovery time afterwards and seem to bruise easier.
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Posted By Chloe Graham
Long flares, stairs and cats can be a dangerous combination! Not a hobby (that would be downright weird!) but potentially dangerous all the same :)
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Posted By David Gault
I ride my motorcycle on a daily basis, even in winter, and I take it to track days a few times a year.
I am also yet another former martial artist (only gave up 5 years ago after 30 years). Looking at the list of responses we could set up our own dojo!
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Posted By DaveCole
Now theres a thought... Does seem to be a lot of us on here. Maybe it's the constant need to defend ourselves..
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Posted By Anthony Edwards
Ex Marine, Power boating, skiing, motorbiking on/off road, Judo, Rugby, white water rafting, canyoning when I went to New Zealand but by far the most dangerous, cycling, loads of nutters on the roads.
Tony
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Posted By Chris Packham
Looking at all the hobbies that all you people get up to I wonder how much time is left for the day job!
Chris
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Posted By Renny Thomson
In the winter I go skiing (though I do wear a helmet!), in the summer I crew on keel boats and drive safety boats at the local sailing club. I help organise 4x4 Hill Rallies, am a Safety Scrutineer at other motorsport events from navigation rallies to F1 (at last years qualifying for the British GP I was standing on the end of the pit wall pointing a radar gun for the pitlane speed limit). I used to play lacrosse, shinty and hockey before I realised as I got older it took longer to recover from the injuries.
Good to see we are not all risk averse...
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Posted By Faye
Long flares, stairs and Cats????
Try high heels, red wine and door thresholds! (no i was not drunk!)
2 broken ribs and a black eye - 3 weeks before Christmas............... hee hee i hear you all say!
I knew i wouldn't get any sympathy.
Keep smiling - nearly going home time.
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Posted By Adam Worth
"Looking at all the hobbies that all you people get up to I wonder how much time is left for the day job!"
Tell me about it the risk assessments take me hours :)
In a previous post I miss read moving the comma, on/off road Judo sounded cool!
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Posted By Jeffrey Watt
Statiscally all that jumpin out of planes and extreme ironing and shooting yourself out of a cannon stuff is safe.
Do some really dangerous stuff like me this weekend.
Lamb vindaloo, 2 peshwari nanns and 6 cobras(pints not snakes), topped off with a nice Cohiba and a Blackbush(5 or 10 glass). Watch as the blood pressure goes 180/100 and the cholesterol rockets to 10milliwotsits.
Then keep the BMI stoked up to Defcon One by curing all that the next morning with an Ulster Fry.
After the fry and at least 6 cups of full fat caffenated 4 star leaded coffee, head down the beach when the tides out and see if the creel has nabbed any lobsters. If so, breadcrumb the toes and tail, deep fat fry and scoff with white bread and home made garlic mayonaise. Wash along with some Hoegarden and finish off with a Jamesons or 5 across the road in the pub. Fall asleep, if fortunate, in the recovery position.
Repeat for as long as possible. The unit of measurement for this lifestyle is 61 years or 1 ORSU(Oliver Reed Standard Unit).
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Posted By Sharastani
I consume about 50 units of alcohol a week.
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Posted By Mark hbsg
I have played semi-pro rugby league for the last 13 years....broken nose 3 times, 4 broken fingers, dislocated elbow, broken wrist and numerous stitches....none of it as demanding as being the father of 6 week old twins!!
Regards
Mark
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Posted By Andrew Robertson-Böber
I am an Englishman with a foreign surname and Scottish education. Not necessarily a hobby, but you can’t get much more dangerous than that.
Otherwise, I am a climber and occasional mountaineer.
Andrew Böber CMIOSH FRSH FRGS
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Posted By andy tetlow
I am a karaoke king and a black belt in Origami.....both deadly in the wrong hands.....you have been warned.
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Posted By Scott Finding
Scuba diver, sky diver & Special Constable; Dealing with drunks at weekends.... ah the joy, great way of clearing frustration. Easy way to get injured though, but hey... who cares?
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Posted By Tommo123
Tried kite surfing which was quality, then tried wave boarding fell off and hurt my coxin, more practice required one thinks!!
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Posted By Andy Petrie
using the tube without an antiviral face mask
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Posted By wayne purchase
OK i mountain bike( off road) track days with both car and bike, started to free dive last year on holiday and managed to get down far enough to make me sick!! i really don't class any of these hobbies as really dangerous though!
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