{"id":1584,"date":"2018-11-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longislandskydiving.com\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:50:46","slug":"is-skydiving-the-most-extreme-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longislandskydiving.com\/blog\/is-skydiving-the-most-extreme-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Skydiving the Most Extreme Sport?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is skydiving the most extreme sport?<\/strong> No. Is skydiving the most extreme sport that most people will ever try? Yes. Absolutely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most sports that qualify as “extreme” require many years of training on the approach, as well as a total willingness to accept long hospitalizations (and even, y’know, funerals) as part and parcel of participation. Skydiving is something of a “hack” – in so far that modern equipment and techniques make the sport significantly safer than the others on the “extreme sports” roster. But let’s compare, shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PARKOUR \/ FREERUNNING<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sure, mid-air collisions can happen in sports skydiving — but any skydiver will tell you that the last couple of feet are kinda-sorta all that really count as far as injury is concerned. With that in mind, parkour<\/a> athletes spend pretty much 100% of the time in the danger zone – whether it’s careening up and down the vertical faces of the city like a real-life Sonic the Hedgehog, or bouncing from roof to roof like a plotless action movie performed in baggy jogging pants. The clear goal: to out-Jason-Bourne Jason Bourne, every damn day. After watching a few freerunning videos<\/a>, you tell us how many of those flips probably end up with a skinned face. In skydiving, we don’t skin our faces too often. Truth be told, we like it that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HIGHLINING<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

You’ve probably seen slacklines strung up between the trees in your local park and enjoyed the spectacle of the folks popping up onto them and wandering back and forth across it. Now imagine those trees in the park are skyscrapers — or cliffs. And maybe the line is three thousand meters long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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