Extreme Sports

Name an extreme sport.

If you won a parachute jump, would you do it?

• Yes, I'd definitely do it.

• Yes, if a friend jumped with me.

• No, I would rather die.

Street Luge: Participants wear motorcycle helmets. They lie on sleds with wheels. (These look like giant skateboards.) They race down city streets at 70 mph.

• Real Sport

• Fake Sport

Heliboarding: Snowboarders jump out of a helicopter at the top of a mountain. Then they snowboard down the mountain.

• Real Sport

• Fake Sport

Mountain Unicycling: Bike riders go up and down mountain trails on one-wheeled cycles.

• Real Sport

• Fake Sport

Pumpkin Ball: Players throw pumpkins through basketball hoops.

• Real Sport

• Fake Sport

Elephant Polo: People play polo while they ride on elephants.

• Real Sport

• Fake Sport

Curling: Players slide a large stone (20kg/441bs) with a broom across an ice rink.

• Real Sport

• Fake Sport

Shredding: Players tear telephone books in half with their bare hands.

• Real Sport

• Fake Sport

Carving: Roller-skating on hard sand on a beach.

• Real Sport

• Fake Sport