extreme sports for etwinning

2. • Bungee jumping is a sport that consists in
launching from a high place after being
harnessed with a bungee cord. One end of the
rope is fixed to the body of the person who
launches and the other to the point from
which the launch takes place.

3. • The practice began as initiation ritual
on the island of Pentecost, being part
of the archipelago of New Islands off
the Pacific Ocean.

4. • The first jumps were made in the
seventies but they were illegal; they used
rubber cables, not very safe. Today, the
equipment consists of mountaineering
material and specific material approved
by bungee.

6. DOWNHILL is, generally speaking, riding mountan bikes
downhill, usually on extremely steep terrain, making it
one of the most extreme and dangerous type of
mountain biking
Obstacles
include
large
jumps (up
to 12
meters),
drops of
3+meters
and soil
roughness

7. The Red Bull Rampage is an invite-only, freeride
mountan bike competition held near Zion National Park
in Virginia, Utah, USA
It is a very risky competition,
where racers are judged by their
technical ability and the
complexity of tricks.

8. Zorbing
Zorbing is the sport of
rolling downhill inside an
orb, generally made of
transparent plastic.
The first zorbing site was
established Rotorua, New
Zealand, by David and
Andrew Akers