General Links


  • Doctor Danger Our (nutter) friends in the north. Covers almost everything, including cheese rolling, bull running and shrovetide football.
  • Adrenaline: The Alternative High OSF bungee-meister Chris Mearns, site of fun.
  • The Dangerous Sports Club They did it first. What more needs to be said?
  • ExtremeLand Founded by the OSF's own Ulrich Stange. Links for just about every sport under the sun. Highly recommended.
  • Extremo Total Search engine for related sites
  • Thrillnet.com Mainly US Extreme Sports.
  • Scared Shitless shirts & Merchandise. The Funniest line of extreme sports gear. (Which is essential, because we all know you can't be a real bungee jumper/parachutist/tech-diver/street luger if you don't have expensive clothing.)
  • Extreme Sports Magazine
  • AdventureTime Magazine. An excellent on-line magazine covering a wide range of dangerous sports.
  • The Kamikaze Magazine A good miscellany of extreme sports links, together with a Swedish-only dangerous sports mag.
  • Dangerless Aerial Sports Club
  • The Art of Adrenaline a compilation of extreme sports photographers from around the globe.

    Scuba Diving

  • Rebreather Archive These are very shiny bits of kit indeed.

    Bungee Jumping

  • Alex Knowles' Bungee Page. You need no other Bungee page than this. Everything you could possibly want, and more. Includes the ethically questionable " bungee disasters" section.
  • Icarus Bungee Home Page. A Bungee Company based in California offering a wide range of bridge jumps.
  • www.bungee.no Midnight Sun Bungee Team. Bungee jumping up north. Pages in English and Norwiegn.

    Climbing


  • Cambridge Highs A nightclimbing journal from our fenland cousins.

    BASE Jumping


  • Doug Blane's Home Page. A MUST SEE SITE! A veritable rogue's gallery of all the best sites in the UK. All the old favorites are here. Cheddar Gorge, Clifton Suspension Bridge, and the tour de force, a picture of Russell Powell's infamous jump from the Whispering Gallery,inside St Paul's Cathedral. Also includes a stack of links to other BASE sites.

    Street Luge


  • www.streetluge.co.uk Official UK web site for streetluge, results, plans, reviews, pictures.
  • Adventures of the british street luge team Not written for a wider audience, but here anyway.
  • Pete Love's Luge Page Luge pictures from one of the UKs premiere racers.
  • www.streetluge.com Hosts the offical homepages of IGSA (International Gravity Sports Association) and RAIL street luge organisations. IGSA are organising the 1997 Extreme Games Street luge competition.
  • WWW.skateluge.com Excellent Luge Page containing a good set of construction plans to get started.
  • HomeArts street luge article.
  • ESPN Street Luge Section Find out about the Extreme Games Luge competition.
  • Extreme Sport's magazine Luge section.
  • QuasiActive Street Luge Team Homepage. American luger Pete Laurina is currently breaking into the American Pro Street Luge circuit. Follow his progress on the team's web page.
  • North East Street luge. Street Lugers based in the northeastern US.
  • Land Luge Las Vegas Includes the Street Luge message board. Find out about all the latest gossip and events.
  • Team Epic Streetluge Tongue in cheek luging page, complete with "Name that injury" section and possibly the world's first street luge B movie.
  • www.roadluge.org Large site full of gossip, tips, a message board and more.
  • Gravity Publishing Publishers of Darren Lott's Street Luge Survival Guide. < shameless plug > If you are at all interested in luging, buy this book! < /shameless plug >
  • The Official Hot Heels Site Website of the annual Hot Heels Race in the Austrian Alps.

    Surfing

  • Severn Bore Page Contains details and times of all upcoming tidal bores.

    Parachuting

  • The skydive! archive
  • More Parachuting...
  • The Parachuting FAQ Everything you need to know. A good starting point for beginners.
  • The ESPN X Games Page.

    Skate Sailing!

    Anders Ansar's Skate Sailing Page. This is amazing. Skate sailing involves getting inside a large man sized aerofoil, and then being propelled across the ice at high speed whilst standing up on platform skates. An inspired effort. Full marks that man!

    Winter Sports

  • Shovel Racing Everything you need to know about this very silly hobby.

    Trebuchet

  • Two articles about Hew Kennedy's Trebuchet in (semi) respectable papers that should proabably know better.
    Washington Post (6/30/96)
    Wall Street Journal
  • The Grey Company Trebuchet Page. Everything you could want to know about construction, history, etc. has a load of links to other trebuchet sites too.
  • To Ride A Trebuchet! Nutter alert! This page documents Ron L. Toms valiant attempt to fire himself from a trebuchet.
  • Andrew Ryan's Trebuchet Page. Lots of links and more pictures of Hew Kennedy's mean, lean, throwing machine.

    Random Stuff

  • A Firewalking page. A big disappointment, due to the large volume of new age "vital energy" clap-trap. However, it's definitely a trick to try out at home once you've got the Firebreathing down to a fine art. Summer Barbeques (or your feet) will never be the same again.

  • Fire on the Net. Another page with fire-breathing and fire eating instructions.
  • A firebreathing FAQ c/o the Juggling Information service.
  • Flying Contraptions Home Page.
    Rocket packs, jet packs, gyrocopters and other foolhardy flying devices. I want one...
  • Eunuch 1, the Jet Powered Bicycle. What more can one say? The sound this beast makes as the turbine spins up is superb. The page even contains links to get plans to build your own jet engines.
  • Space diving Extreme sports for the extremely wealthy.


    "Educational" resources

    All to often we hear the media decrying the Internet as having a corrupting and malign influence on the young and impressionable. In order to disperse this myth, the OSF is proud to offer a series of web pages which show the true educational potential of the internet. The following links will keep youngsters occupied for many an hour.
  • SGI's Advanced Graphics Division This site contains a number of interesting projects, including a series of highly instructive experiments on the properties of expanding gasses, some novel applications of Hooke's Law, and an introduction to elementary optics.
  • Power by Design A number of High Power project here; bring the power of Big Science and Grand Challenge Problems to your basement. Includes an investigation into millimeter electromagnetic radiation and some interesting applications of Lenz's Law. The page also contains a large number of links to other sites offering projects of interest.
  • Backyard Ballistics Combustion and trajectory physics explained through a number of "hands on" experiments. Personally recommended.

    Utterly Puerile

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  • Roger's ProfanisaurusThe Web's top swearing resource, for those occasions when normal four letter words just won't do.

    Drink

  • UK Absinthe Suppliers Why not try some dangerous drinking to go with your dangerous sports? Buy it here.
    "One must be drunk always." CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. Poet (1821 - 1867)
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